It's the best one and I'm not even trying to be contrarian. (2024)

Dark Souls was good but a pretty big downgrade from Demon's

>Entire second half of game is borderline incomplete and is empty and sterile with terrible level design
>Level design in general is just a lot less consistent in terms of quality than Demon's Souls
>some of the worst environments of all the Souls games like Anor Londo castle, Tomb of the Giants, Ash Lake, and Lost Izalith
>godawful enemies like the bonewheel skeletons, Stray Demons, Anor Londo Archers, and Drakes
>many bosses are underwhelming or poorly designed, like O&S, Priscilla, Capra, Quelaag, Pinwheel, Seath, Taurus, Ceaseless Discharge, bed of chaos.
>bosses are already starting to focus primarily on action and rolling with less focus on original and puzzle bosses
>literally recycles the same boss three times
>Hitboxes and i-frames are more inconsistent
>moronic mechanics like curse and common consumables only sold by a select few merchants (I played 1.00)
>can't fast travel anywhere until over halfway into the game, constantly backtracking and running from one end of the world to the other just to buy an item from a shop or upgrade your equipment
>many of the key mechanics are poorly explained (lordvessel, upgrading estus, kindling bonfires, pardoning, etc)
>game world is a convoluted mess with necessary NPCs scattered into the far corners of the world (the interconnected world starts to become more contrived as the game goes on), again requiring a ton of constant backtracking
>dogsh*t platforming sections
>only basically one main path you can take that you find through trial and error and backtracking. Less flexibility in boss order
>Demon's had focus on invasions, mindgames, and power dynamics, with risk reward for human form and punishing players for soul form. Dark Souls is about "le honorable duel" and there is really no downside to hollow and you just summon at the boss door. Really just devalues the whole experience

>Dude, Prepare to Die
Cause it's so hard we cant make the game naturally difficulty so just spam enemies frick you. Demons Souls and DS2 SotFS aren't like this.

Dark Souls 1, Bloodborne and Sekiro are the peak for different reasons

They all have their flaws, mind you. Dark Souls 1 drops in quality in the second half, Bloodborne has the chalice dungeons and Sekiro doesn't have enough enemy variety

I love Dark Root so much.

>giant stone guys who cast their magic spell
>bizarre enemies like the two-headed lizard, the mushrooms, and the living trees.
>giant cat enemies out of nowhere that can two shot low leveled characters
>shortcut between Dark Root Basin and the Sif arena
>straight areas followed by the open areas
>Sif fight
>water puddles and ambient noises give it a completely unique appearance

There is so much character and creativity cramped into one area.

Very true op. Starting with dark souls 2 the series makes note of player's reception to dark souls and the game is made with those notes in mind. Dark souls does not suffer any mentacontextual understanding of itself, it simply is. None of the other games come close*

*if I don't count bloodborne or sekiro

Doing sl1 runs through the four kings so i could invade undead burg and throw prism stones at starting players and dance with them was more fun than I've had with most of these games since

Doing a 2h greatsword flip-off with artorias ruled too. I love dark souls so much

>unique game was fun and cherished on Ganker at the time for standing out in the era of bloom and gritty third person shooters.
>now that franchise is over bloated and mainstream, nu Ganker hates it because le popular
Why are you guys like this?
You do this with a different old game every week now.

It's one of the most overhyped games of all time, completely unpolished, buggy, random, cryptic and repetitive as sh*t. Literally the entire game is
>walk to mob/boss
>press R1 to hit mob
>press dodge button when mob attacks back or use shield
No gameplay variery, no items to interact with the world, no puzzle solving, no town exploration and decision making, can't even swim or climb a fence

OH HEY! Look at this totally organic topic. What's wrong, got tired of getting BTFO'd over here?

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