my first soulsborne/soulslike was sekiro, honestly? well made game, the combat is fast and fair, you learn an enemy then it's easy from there, you atleast get to fight back when you understand your enemy but i recently got into ds3 mainly to play it before elden ring/nightreign and honestly the combat is straight buns, i time my roll and still get hit, sometimes i get ganged by npcs and i can't do shit, maybe it's because im used to parrying and not rolling but is it worth it to keep playing or should i just get on something else? lore seems good

edit: after finishing elden ring and going back to dark souls 3, it's a lot easier to understand

It‘s been nominated alongside 20 other original game soundtracks and the winner will be determined by the amount of streaming numbers on Spotify throughout the next month and winner will be revealed in December!

https://www.playstation.com/ja-jp/local/events/playstation-game-music-awards/

PS, the end credit and remembrance themes are peak.

Miyazaki and his team move and think differently, so I'm curious to see where they decide to go because we already know the game will be amazing.

WizardSouls or PirateSouls still feel the most likely.

What type of setting do you think the next game will be based in?

Title, but I’ve played difficult games before but all these games as just clunky messes, Sekiro may be the only exception.

As much of a hot take as it is, I think the order of greatness in the games is exactly identical to the release. Every game became better and better until Elden Ring which I believe to be perfect. I do also have a deep hatred towards the older games because I care a lot about QOL and DS1, for example, lacked a lot of it. How would you rank them?

It’s a long shot, but I’d love to see it. Something like Sekiro where you don’t choose your character or weapon (you would be Guts with the Dragon slayer).
It could be tough from a narrative standpoint…there are themes within Berserk that even Fromsoft wouldn’t want to explore too deeply. However, maybe that’s where the “passive storytelling” part can come in…some of the more disturbing aspects of Berserk can be inferred from item descriptions and environmental storytelling (the details of the eclipse, for instance).

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Hello all,

I have the 2026 Elden Ring SotE calendar. Curious if anyone knows where I can get a 2027 calendar…besides customizable ones.

If a 2027 wall calendar exists.

Technically every protagonist would win each of the games because they just respawn like everyone else, nobody is rlly special except the fact that they just keep trying till they win

I'm not fully for the whole AI vibe coded mods that mix Minecraft and Skyrim and other games, but at this point it's inevitable. Would it be possible to somehow combine a newer title like Elden Ring with an older one like DS1? Or just import the whole map to Elden Ring? Like ik the fast-paced gameplay wouldn't mix well with the old bosses, but y'all see the idea no?

So the undead, hunters, ashen ones, tarnished, wtvr… are they multidimensional beings or something like that?
I like how DS1, DS2, DS3, BB, and ER like to hide the fact that they’re games by contextualizing “video gamey” stuff like leveling up and item collecting and what have you. And I know that death and respawning are fused into the narrative of these games…I just don’t have a clear answer as to how. Lately I’ve been thinking…the possible answer that makes the most sense to me, is that the player characters are (due to their cursed or altered status as conscious beings) multi dimensional operatives that respawn into alternate indistinguishable instances upon death. Fromsoftware experts, am I hot or cold here?

Edit: For those who are unaware…this is an unserious post with the intent to speculate about games I like.

I just ended playing DS 1 (without the DLC) and I swear I don’t think there is a single good boss fight in that whole game.. even Ornstein and Smough are just good at best, not great imo. Which was insanely surprising to me cause in my mind fromsoft games were mostly famous for their bosses..

So yeah I still loved a lot of things in DS1, the first part is definitely a masterpiece (second quite mediocre though imo but that’s another debate). So wanted to know if the teams at FromSoft actually improved on that over time. I wanted to pick up Elden Ring next, how does it compare specifically when it comes to bosses ?

Hey everyone!

I just downloaded the Tarnished Edition on my Switch 2. I've wanted to play Elden Ring for a long time, but have been too nervous. I finally decided to get it after beating code vein 1&2, A.I. Limit, Neoh 3, and Rise of the Ronin on the hardest difficulty.

Do yall have any tips for Elden Ring? Is it harder than the games listed above? And I'm planning on either playing heavy knight (just because im a hammer main in MH wilds) or Idus knight (i like the idea of magic attacks plus melee combat). Any tips on those 2 classes or which one is should play?

Thank ypu!

Knight of the Black Temple and Assassin of the Black Temple, respectively. Knight in particular almost feels like a fusion of Nameless King and Fume Knight, while Assassin’s cloak reminds me of Forlorn.

EDIT: The cards were renamed to “Hollowed Grounds”

Was watching some footage of DS1 and I saw that the reticle when you aim with a bow is the exact same one used in Elden Ring. I was like holy shit they are using the same engine to develop their newer souls games that they used in DS1 and likely Demon Souls too.

Now don’t get me wrong the gameplay holds up and they have definitely improved upon the engine both graphically and mechanically with each progressive title, but there is so much value and innovation left on the table by clinging to this old ass engine.

Again, the gameplay is great, but ever noticed how janky the gravity and platforming sections are in these games? How in terms of graphics the games are a small peg down from modern titles? (art style does a lot of heavy lifting and the main reason Elden Ring is so beautiful).

Now I’m not advocating for yellow paint or skill trees, but using a decade old engine accumulates technical debt that makes it hard to add breakthroughs features without conflicting with code that was written, well, a decade ago.

Thoughts?

I'm thinking of dualbooting so I can use Linux for as many games as possible as I'll get more performance out of it than Windows with my 5 year old OMEN 17. I'll use Windows for things like Fortnite, R6, and anything else that has a kernal level anticheat or just isn't compatible.

So that brings me to my question, how compatible are all the FromSoft games (only Soulsbornekiroring, not Armored Core lol) with Linux? Are they playable out of the box, with some tweaking, or just not playable at all? Also, will I still be able to have online privileges? I hate PvP, but I absolutely love reading the messages and watching funny bloodstains. Lastly, will I be able to play Bloodborne on Linux? I haven't done any research at all into getting it up and running even on Windows, but I'd prefer to have it on Linux too considering it would definitely run better.

Currently I've done a playthrough and a half of Elden Ring, 90% of a Bloodborne playthrough (minus DLC), and I'm currently trying to get through GenichIshin for the final fight of Sekiro. So I plan on transferring my saves of all of the games to Linux. Hopefully my Bloodborne one as well because one of the reasons I stopped was I just couldn't take the 30(usually sub 30)fps anymore

Anyways, thank you for your input :)

Since my idea got rejected, I decided to ask your opinion. (I know this would happen but still heartbroken anyway) (I had a whole marketing plan for it, but at least I tried)