Controversial opinion, but I’d probably pick Dark Souls 1. It’s the one I’m most disinterested to play. DS2 is the outsider and has earned its accolades via that alone, plus it’s the most experimental DS game, which is cool. DS3 has fun world building and good combat, or rather my preferred speed, so it beats DS1 in that regard too. DS1 wasn’t particularly fun to play for me in comparison.

The others are one-ofs and have all brought something truly unique to their catalogue, culminating in ER which is arguably, next to DS1 maybe, the most influential Soulslike in existence.

What’s your take?

  • fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    13 days ago

    nightreign, anyone play? hmu if you wanna run some depth (or normal/everdark is fine too)

    i’d delete elden ring bc i hated the open world addition lmaoooo suck it haters (jk you can be valid if you like elden ring. i guess.)

    • vyitnoomyr@lemmygrad.mlBannedEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      I like the open world addition because I never use guides/wiki, gets a lot more out of slow replays. PvP is still very active. Plenty of variety in invasions. Seeing my spouse play thru is interesting, even early on there is a lot of shit I completely missed. It seems there are a lot of spells in the game

      From is pissing everyone off they should listen to me and make a Bloodborne sequel that has an open world looking like Half Life Xen with sad aliens in it. Then add Bloodtinge to Elden Ring 2. Then completely stop making Soulslikes & focus on Armored Core. I digress but give it another go because the online is very much alive 🤺🔫🧙‍♂️

      This is kind of a spoiler but they brought the Catalyst of the Beast back in a new form

    • Druid@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      If I didn’t delete DS1, I’d go for ER next personally too. The open world was cool for a first playthrough, but after that it’s just a slog to navigate through in my experience.

      Also, feel free to make a separate post to ask for players for Nightreign or check out our Discord/Matrix channels to find people to play with. The communities aren’t huge, but there’s a couple people playing on different platforms - maybe you’ll find someone to play. :)

      • fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        rip to those poor bastards on console

        i might check for people, but i was mostly throwing it out there for anyone who was looking. i have some homies i run it up with pretty regularly