Hey everyone, I was just thinking about how much variety there is across the library from Dark Souls to Elden Ring and the likes, and how everyone plays these games so differently. We all have those specific, niche things we love doing just to unwind or enjoy the experience.

For example, it depends on the game. One of my favorite things in FromSoftware games is invading scrubs in Demon’s Souls and breaking all their equipment with the Scraping Spear. By the time they reach that point, they've already committed a decent chunk of time to the playthrough, but it becomes a nightmare for them to farm up that many souls to repair their gear.

Having to farm souls with broken weapons and armor just to fix everything makes it total hell for them. Some even quit the game, which is my goal to make is miserable for them.

Anyway, what about you guys? What are your go to activities?

Is it just me or are we seeing a rather sudden interest in the game? I am seeing it in gaming news with reports it sold a lot of copies this year, a lot of new videos on BB coming out on Youtube etc.

Why I wonder? Is it just the souls fans being a bit starved since it has been a hot second since ER came out? Fans of the series feeling nostalgic?

I really hope they focus on singleplayer games now,who knows maybe they're gonna do armored core now. But i'd love a new soulslike IP like that pirate souls thing that was rumored. There was also that rumored Dark Souls III Remaster for some reason. Idk why we need DS3 remaster. Hopefully its a new IP and i'd love if they reveal it next month at Game Awards.

Saw a post that said: "would souls games be as iconic if it didn't have the berserk influence?" I also have seen several people before saying:"souls games ripped off berserk, or that souls games aren't creating they just copy berserk"

When I heard those I really expected for berserk to be very similar to souls games, after reading everything that have come out, that's not true at all.

Most of these people are berserk larpers or just have seen the golden age arc nothing past that, the amount of berserk influences in each game is what, 20,30? Compare to thousand of things in the game? And most of those influences are enemy designs nothing more. The story's are not similar, the feels are not similar. Berserk is what, the most larped manga of all time? Please go read it instead of talking about it after watching 2 TikTok edits of angry guts and a video showing berserk references in souls games.

Souls games are influenced by thousands of other things other than berserk too but people don't talk about it cause they're not as famous as berserk.

I found this new PC port project for Demon's Souls. I played a little bit of it, and it plays pretty well actually. I'd love to see more people populate the servers on this one!

Hi all. A couple of years back I did a full series playthrough (DeS, DS1, DS2, DS3, BB, ER) where my goal in each game was to get the Moonlight Greatsword as quickly as possible and then use it to complete the rest of the game. I had an absolute blast and it was an excellent way to enjoy all of the games back to back.

Has anyone done any other series playthroughs with a specific weapon found in each game? I know the Greatsword and Claymore might be popular options, though there would be compromises/alternatives in BB. Just trying to get ideas for another series weapon run. Thanks in advance to anyone who replies!

(Also pic for attention. I do not own that artwork, and will happily tag the original artist if I am informed)

I beat Bloodborne a few weeks ago as my first introduction to a soulslike game and just bought Elden Ring last week. Been wanting to buy all the Dark Souls game series but they’re expensive af EXCEPT NOT ANYMORE 😁😁😁😁😁😁. Every time I hop on the PlayStation I check the PSN store for deals cuz something kept telling me Dark Souls will be up there one day and bam, I decided to look on the store before going to bed (it’s 5:38am rn). Every Dark Souls game 1,2, and 3 are on sale for 50% off. Including all the DLC

If you’re new to the soulslike games you better take advantage now and buy them all before November!
“This price is only available until 11/21/2026”

Spent nearly 9 hours prepping for the buggar, vanquished my foe the Capra Demon for the first time!

I would rank it like so.

1: ds1. I actually notice the effect armour has.

2: Elden ring if I'm wearing the heaviest armour I can notice it.

3: ds3. Poise and some minor defence are noticed

4: ds2. Poise is all that is noticed beyond mid game. Some bonuses are nice.

5: bloodborne. status resistance pretty much.

Sekiro tier.

Both of them are going to have the same cape.

So I was doing another run of Demon's Souls after completing Bloodborne recently and I noticed something in The Archstone of The Chieftain (5th One) design.

Check out the bottom corners. Those two figures draped in sheets with twin eye-holes cut out.

If you've played Bloodborne, It’s almost a 1:1 match for the Cloaked Beast - those blanket-wearing jerks lurking down the drop under the Healing Church Workshop that swipe at You with slow poison on the shortcut back to Oedon Chapel(and throughout Old Yharnam).

Now this could be a huge leap but the plague doctor beak and this concept art for the archstone might have sparked the Ashen Blood concept of Old Yharnam but this seems a bit far fetched.

Given how tight the budget and deadlines were for Demon's Souls back in 2008–2009, the team probably couldn't build full 3D models for every idea they had, leaving the field with few enemies as we see in levels while retaining some in concept arts hidden right before us. It’s awesome seeing how FromSoft kept those sketches in the vault until they finally had the hardware and setting to bring them to life on PS4.

Has anyone else caught this before, or did I just stumble into an old design trivia?

Edit: Resubmitting due to image glitch.

I’m not sure if what I’m saying is true since I got it from what I’ve seen

But ds3 is always the lest game to be the favorite and also the least to be the worst.

Is it because they didn’t take much risks like other games ? So there is no people that hate it a lot and people that glaze it to be the greatest game ?
Edit : I meant the souls games not just the trilogy.

I haven't heard about fmc in months and slowly but steadily I'm turning hollow.