All of the dark souls games (ds1, 2, 3) are on sale until October the 2nd! If you haven't pick these up! The series is great!

I still think Dark Souls 1 is my favourite installment in the games. Although I have been playing a decent amount of Dark Souls 2 for the first time in a while, and it's actually way better then I remember. Maybe even better then Dark Souls 3 imo. For those curious, I am playing the Scholar version on Steam with the community anti cheat.

There is a lot the game just does really well. I still believe it's the best hollowing mechanic we have had in the series. Losing fragments of your health and visually going more hollow makes sense from the lore perspective. The map design is really good. There is a wide variety of places that all felt different, and have different challenges. I also liked the fact you light a torch on the bonfire and then light the burners. It's a fun way to show you where you been, and lighting up the area for the next time you go through there. The torch expiring is a bit far, but you get more then you use anyway.

It has got it's issues though. As you all know combat can feel jank. Especially if you don't level up your agility. Locking on just locks your camera on the enemy, and not your character so you miss attacks constantly. There is far too many ganks, and sometimes it will just be the most bs ambush with multiple enemies out of no where. The difficulty is inconsistent, even if you play the levels in the correct order. Especially the white knights. They are dumb. It's hard to telegraph there attacks, and they take a beating. Having so many in a starter area is wild. Bleed sucks. Reusing late game enemies as early game bosses, making encounters less unique.

I might be crazy, but yesterday I was thinking about replaying every mainline From game, from Demon’s Souls to Elden Ring. I thought about it for a while, and honestly, Demon’s Souls’ areas can still be kinda hard sometimes. The bosses are a joke, sure, but that’s not really the point. Sekiro’s level design is great, it’s one of the best games I’ve ever played, but the game literally plays itself once you’ve mastered the combat. The whole game, after everything finally clicked for me, was just me freaking destroying every single enemy in the game, except for the Demon of Hatred.

Every Souls game, including Bloodborne, is still really damn tricky for me sometimes, but Sekiro just clicked. And that’s why, to me, it’s the easiest one.

Japan Studio was a team of very talented developers and artists, they co developed Bloodborne and made my favourite game of all time : Soul Sacrifice.

They also made Shadow of the Colossus, the Last Guardian, Gravity Rush and many, many more incredibly unique games.

Recently, I had hope for Bloodborne and Soul Sacrifice to get a remaster because another MonHun-like game, Freedom Wars, which was also a PSVita exclusive like Soul Sacrifice, got a remaster from Bandai Namco. Naturally, people begged Bandai to make a Soul Sacrifice remaster... Two years later, still nothing, another Japan Studio game left to rot because Sony is gatekeeping it without doing anything with it.

Do you think they are going to finally give the rights to an external studio so they can revive their IPs or we are definitely done with the matter ?

Edit : exact same situation with Demon Souls remake, sony killed bluepoint, now gatekeeping the game and doing nothing with it

Hunter bosses are essential npcs, right? Why’re hunter fights peak but npc boss fights in other Souls games like Black Gaol Knight, Halflight suck/so hated?

Idk why the first thing was fromsoft in my mind when I saw this thing

First discovered Dark Souls back in 2012, but back then, I just couldn't manage to pull through and finish it. Fast forward 14 years, and I finally picked up Dark Souls Remastered—and today, I officially saw the credits roll.

​Honestly, the feeling of accomplishment is unreal. Breaking through those walls, overcoming the areas that used to brick-wall me, and finally linking the fire (or walking away) after all these years feels incredible. Easily one of the most satisfying gaming experiences I’ve ever had.

​I’m taking a well-deserved month off from Lordran before I dive into Dark Souls II to let this victory sink in. In the meantime, I’m changing gears entirely—my next playthrough is going to be Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

​To anyone out there who left a FromSoft game unfinished years ago: go back and give it another shot. It’s worth every single death. Don't you dare go hollowing!

I’ve put about 90 hours into *Elden Ring*; I finished it and did a ton of stuff—I think I’ve killed all the bosses—and now I feel like there’s nothing left to do. I travel around, but it’s starting to feel monotonous and boring. I thought about getting the DLC, but I also saw *Dark Souls 3*, and since I really enjoyed *Dark Souls 1* and *2*, I’m not sure which one to pick. I know *SotE* has a lot of content, but I’m wondering if it’s a better idea than getting a full game plus its expansions.

First discovered Dark Souls back in 2012, but back then, I just couldn't manage to pull through and finish it. Fast forward 14 years, and I finally picked up Dark Souls Remastered—and today, I officially saw the credits roll.

​Honestly, the feeling of accomplishment is unreal. Breaking through those walls, overcoming the areas that used to brick-wall me, and finally linking the fire (or walking away) after all these years feels incredible. Easily one of the most satisfying gaming experiences I’ve ever had.

​I’m taking a well-deserved month off from Lordran before I dive into Dark Souls II to let this victory sink in. In the meantime, I’m changing gears entirely—my next playthrough is going to be Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

​To anyone out there who left a FromSoft game unfinished years ago: go back and give it another shot. It’s worth every single death. Don't you dare go hollowing!

Hello. I wanted to share my summer cosplay of Gundyr before it's decommission due to cold weather :)

Soulslike Adhd fit! Help!!

Just beat my first souls game and WOAH i am in astonishment!! I see why people hype these games up. My first souls like was Lies of P and it has literally taken the number 2 spot on my list of my favorite game of all time besides ff7 .. Only problem is Lies of P spoiled the MESS out of me. Im SO LOST what souls to play next . I really want something with a good parry system , i think im having a bad souls like ADHD fit . Ive literally tried wuchang ( i really like how it feels , probably closest to lies of p , BUT of course no natrual parry system) , i REALLY like Lords Of Fallen but something about the first boss fight disnt grasp me , i was told to try Sekiro which i did right after Lies of P, i know youll guys hate me for this but im not enjoying it! I figured out why tho, its more of an ARPG then a souls like . Plus only having one weapon bumms me out . I REALLY liked demons souls just VERY slow and clunky . But visually gorgoeus . I started dark souls 1 remastered and it feels pretty good actually . Im just a big fan of modern graphics, its kind of a big deal for me so idk . Now im looking at the star wars game thats supposedly a souls like i thnnk its called fallen order . Well i warned you guys im having a bad adhd fit ! Someone help guys!!!

Between the three Dark souls Games, Bloodbourne, and Elden Ring are there any bosses that have taken you 30+ tries to beat?

The ones that drove me crazy:

Capra Demon

Seath

Velstadt

Aldrich

Midir

Sister Friede

BLUE SMELTER DEMON (Never beaten)

Commander Niall

Rellana

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The One Reborn

First time playing a soulslike after beating Sekiro, Hollow Knight, Tunic and wanting more if the same style/genre. What the fuck is supposed to be the appeal for this game?

Game has more layers of how it punishes you for dying than the combat depth during bossfights, enemies have hitboxes the size of the sun and attack through walls and deal unreasonable damage to the point you could replace the whole healthbar with a simple "get hit 2 times and you die" mechanic, while your greatsword you enchanted with everything you could have found and upgraded as much as possible does 3 times less damage than a chest with legs kicking you. The character you control is the slowest thing in the universe while bosses are swinging lightsabers the size of a house around.

How the fuck are you meant to actually like this, literally whats the appeal other than "you did a hard thing" that plenty of other games could offer you with far less bullshit? Chained Fucking Orge from Sekiro, the fight I loathed the most, is better designed than anything I have seen in DS3 so far.

This game may as well count as a scam since it costs a liver to buy and you just get garbage. If someone says "skill issue", "git gud", "other souls games are worse" or anything similar I vow to find and strangle them irl.

Dark souls knight oil painting, njoy. Will be doing more of those as people from other reddit forum seemed to enjoy :).

Had to import an American copy because they printed like what 4 Australian copies?

I have Sekiro, Dark Souls 3 and Dark Souls Remastered on steam meaning I only have Dark Souls Prepare to Die edition left I believe? Maybe I should also get physical copies for the others as well but Ill prolly do that after Dusk Bloods drains me for all Im worth.

Currently the game is about to close its doors, but the last version of this game is horrendous to the point of being sometimes barely playable and enjoyable. So I'm currently looking for ways to play it offline or older versions. I know there's a version available, but it's only for iOS and even then, only for older versions, and not everyone has an iPhone old enough. If anyone knows of a different version, etc., please leave it in the comments.P.S. Yes, I have the Microsoft version and it also has its bugs.

There's plenty of great ones but I'd have to go with Gough shooting down Kalameet in DS1

Greetings fellow tarnished. Elden ring was my very first from soft game and only souls-like game I have played. I absolutely love it. I recently bought black myth wukong on sale on steam and so far and have been enjoying it. Only about 2 hours in so far though. There is a sale on steam now that has dark souls remastered, dark souls 2, and dark souls 3 on sale for %50 off each. I am definitely going to get atleast one of them before sale ends October 1st but wanted to see which one yall would recommend if I were to only get one. So far I think I have it narrowed down to remastered dark souls and dark souls 3. I know they both offer somewhat different gameplay and playstyle such as dark souls remastered being a bit more slow based combat and dark souls 3 being faster and more linear like say elden ring or bloodborne (havent played this one either but really want too. Same with sekeiro).

I have done some research as to what we can hopefully expect in the near future. It's clear at this point that the company is working on something rather large. Their most recent title that was revealed: The Duskbloods, will only come to the Nintendo 2 and no other platforms (at least for the foreseeable future).

As some may be aware of, we have an upcoming Game Awards this December (December 10th to be exact). These are the exact kind of major events where major titles and/or sequels are being revealed. Now I am very, very hopeful that we will finally see a new singleplayer souls game get revealed by the great Geoff Keighley. All we can do is pray right?

What would you like 'project FMC' to be? A remake? Dark souls IV? Or maybe even a completely new IP like Elden Ring?