I replay the Souls trilogy at the end of each year and this year I'm skipping DaS3, fuck that linear piece of shit
>>728972040I feel ya, but DS3 is the one I replay the least so I thought I'd give it another go this end of year.
It’s insane how prepare to die edition is essentially a ghost town now. I’ve been replaying it recently on pc. It paints a different feeling knowing there’s nobody coming to help. At 10 humanity, no messages, no blood stains, no invaders, no signs. Everyone’s upgraded to remastered. It makes me wanna mod dark souls and make a fan game but zero in on this weird feeling I get during my play through
>>728974337dude they shut down the online for that version, dummy.
>>728974701PS3 still online dipshit
>>728975025THIS NIGGA STILL PLAYING ON THEY PS3!!! GET YO WHACK ASS OUTTA THERE!!!
>>728972040I have still only played the DS1, am I missing much?
>>728972040whenever i replay one of the games, i usually replay them all (demons, dark trilogy, BB, ER). but the last couple of times i thought about dropping ds2 and 3 because this list is becoming too big and i don't like those two as much as the others. but i always end up playing them anyway lol.
>>728972040I only replay DaS 1, BB, and Elden Shart cause I'm a man of taste
>>728975309Bloodborne is excellent2 is a fucked to death pile of burning caca3 is linear and boring, unmemorableElden Ring is so bloated and contrived it will make you never want to play these games againSo no, not really
>>728975309At least play Demon's Souls and Bloodborne, the other two games directed by Miyazaki
>>728975287i'm still playing PS3, it's a good console, especially with custom firmware
I'll stick to replaying 3 only as 1 has become rather annoying over time and 2 is a turd
>>728975309Yeah play DeS (ps3 or rpcs3). DS2 Scholar or OG. 3 and BB if you really have to....................................
>>728972040I've probably replayed DaS3 more than any other souls game despite it not being my favorite. Not sure what's wrong with me.Also never got it's bizarre difficulty curve of being a ballbuster until just before Vordt, then piss easy until Irithyll, and then getting piss easy again.
>>728975417This except add in Sekiro and remove the foot fetish
>>728972040I'd like to replay 2 more often but coop is kind of a big deal for me and it's pretty dead there, souls memory doesn't help things. 3 still has lots of players though so despite it being one of my lesser liked entries I get more consistent coop with strangers. Also funnily enough it's linier nature lets me just drop my sign pretty much anywhere and I'll get summoned, unlike 1 and 2 where I have to put it near a bonfire usually for any luck.
I really like the slow pace of 1
>>728975626>It's a good console To blightown with you
>>728975774DaS3 has the fastest pacing compared to the others, love how easy it is to pick it up and start pushing through the bosses, Elden Ring feels like a chore, DS and DaS1 feel slow
>>728975876Take your ritalin Brayden
>>728976045But Bloodborne has an even faster pace than DaS3 and is better for it.
>>728972040hating linear games is the most brainlet opinion imaginable. dark souls 3 is the best because its the closest dark souls to demons souls and demons souls was kino. dark souls 1 made tons of retarded design choices and is a huge downgrade from demons in so many ways but people will just ignore that to jerk off le nonlinear world
>>728976157>dark souls 3 is the best because its the closest dark souls to demons soulsimagine thinking this
I've played 1, 2 and now got to the first DLC of 3. And it's just not fun anymore. It's worse than the Ivory King DLC, how tf did they managed to do that?
>>728976267now play the Ringed Shitty
>>728974337It doesn't help that once the remakes of these games are announced/released the companies go out of their way to make it harder to find the originals.
>>728976334The autism forces me to complete this one first, can't disobey it.
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>>728975309if you liked ds1 you will likely be able to derive some entertainment out of the others. how much so will just depend on you. opinions are so varied for all the games, you're not going to get a clear answer without playing them yourself. that said 2 and 3 are whack imo. i don't hate them but the non-numbered souls games are better experiences. but if you really liked ds1 in particular, you'd probably like demons souls since they're the most like each other. but actually being able to play that one's a bit tricky these days. if you have access to a ps3 or can emulate it, that's the best way to do it but not everyone can. the ps5 remake is a downgrade but the gameplay is the same so if it's you're only option, then it is what it is. >>728976267ds3's dlcs are awful imo. the only thing i really like about it is the gael fight in ringed city and that's potentially the last thing you do.
>>728972040I just started my DS3 replay yesterday and I’m having fun. It feels nicer to play than DS2, looks a lot better too
>>728975556I wanna play these two but I don’t wanna buy a PS4. Wat do?
I replay all of them at least once a yearJust got invaded by this dude on archstones and we played through the whole level togetherSOVL overload
>if you invade as a purple phantom you can't kill enemies you have to be summoned as a purple phantom but who the hell is gonna do that?What the fuck I thought that was the whole point of purples. Thought it'd be fun to mess around in the covenant for the first time recently what the fuck From christ I hate you guys sometimes.
>>728976154People really overhype how aggressive Bloodborne is, Elden Ring is kinda what everybody pretends Bloodborne and DS3's bosses are like
>>728977976That looks real fun. I'm jealous. Are ps3's hard to aquire these days?
>>728978006Fair enough. Bloodborne is more aggressive than DaS3. Elden Ring is more aggressive than Bloodborne.
>>728978112If you have a somewhat decent pc it emulates really well, you can bump the framerate up too
>>728978205I have a 3070 with Ryzen 5 3600, 16gb ddr4, you think I could do it? Can you emulate demon souls too?
>>728978205Can you play online? I just assumed if you emulated you were relegated to single player only. Anon way up above in the thread said the PS3 version is still online though which is surprising as hell to hear.
>>728978163>Bloodborne is more aggressive than DaS3.I don't think so is the thing, I think they're both about as aggressive as eachother and DS3 gives you the ability to actually block stuff while Bloodborne gives you such a good roll/dash you literally do not need to level stamina regardless of your starting classI also find both games' boss aggression to be more similar to DS1's than to ER's, what really kicked off is just the propensity for bosses to do combos
>>728978563https://thearchstones.com/
>>728978652That's awesome. Thank you.
>>728978112PS3s are cheap bro, you can easily get a slim or a super slim PS3 (they are the most reliable), or go for a later version phat for Custom Firmware, there's a strong modding community, even the slims can be modded with Hybrid Firmware, I've got a modded phat that runs CFW, been playing all the classics again, can easily FTP into my PS3 from my PC and upload ROMs/hacks etc...
>>728979442NTA, but the problem for me is that I already emulate everything that I want and would basically only get a PS3 to crack it open and play extremely niche shit Shadow Tower Abyss or that jp votoms game. Plus the consoles arent so cheap here and I am too afraid of getting one only for it to croak in a week
>>728977976could red phantoms kill enemies? i forget. iirc, you could at least go through or move them. good times though. i think i liked invasions the most in that game. it never seemed as fun afterwards.
>>728972040I do the same thing but with the spyro trilogy
>>728979442Why would you get a PS3 over a PS4?
>>728979657all valid reasons, if you're enjoying the games fine with emulation no need to buy a system, there is a certain charm to having the hardware but it's basically a /vr/ hobby even though those schizos don't consider PS3 retro, i bought my phat in 2010 used and it's held up well, so i like to keep it going, some enjoy playing on OFW with the original disc games, at the end of the day as long as you're enjoying the game, you're doing alright, also the YLOD reliability issue is basically fixed with the later PS3s, PSUs can always fail but that's true for your brand new 5080 PC also
>>728979794i have phat versions of both and enjoy both equally, had a launch PS5 but sold that pos, i'm mainly a PC gamer with a 9070XT but grew up on consoles so have some attachment to them, you will see in a few years that the PS3 and PS4 will go through a retro revival, there are many excellent original games on PS3, many of which can be had for cheap or emulated, PS3 graphics are hit and miss, many have that gray washed out low fps feel, that can become an acquired aesthetic if you're a nostalgia fag but if the gameplay is good it's largely ignorable, i'm playing through GTAIV on PS3 and it's good
>>728978446Anyone? Is rsps3 the one to use?
>>728980141RSPS3 is really your only option unless I'm out of the loop. I have a worse graphics card, same CPU, and way, way more RAM and can run it. Just try it and see.
>>728980740Ok thanks anon I’ll check it out. Also please give me some RAM
If I had the funds to splurge right now, I would genuinely go all out and build a full on retro gaming room with some bigass high quality crt, bunch of consoles and rare game boxes. Some day.
>>728980864*burns it down*heh.. nothing personnel kid
>>728980842I got lucky by making a drunk impulse buy one night a year ago so I could tell my tabletop group I have a comically large amount of RAM, sorry.
why are the dlcs in all these games so fucking tedious, nigger i pay money for more of the same not for some stupid ass puzzles that require 90 iq
>>728980141should be able to emulate either game, yeah. >>728978446
>>728979875I certainly know the joy anon. I recently bought the collectors edition of dark messiah and built a little acrylic box for it. Game is a pain in the ass to run on my pc so I am emulating xp to play it and using a portable cd drive to run it. There is a certain satisfaction to it and also being back on xp after so long has me nostalgic.
I randomly decided to replay DS2 (not SotFS) and I am already experiencing that patented DS2 friction. The animations are just so bad, and I'm not talking about superficial ones. I'm talking about the attack animations for enemies and bosses. First of all, every enemy has their signature>swing>swing>pause>swingcombo, and in any multi-enemy combat encounter the enemies always clump up and spam it. The game doesn't have the more sophisticated AI that Bloodborne, DS3, and Elden Ring have, which results in enemies performing more nuanced behaviors like strafing, circling, or more readily switching to ranged equipment. In DS2, most enemies will only try to move directly at the player as fast as their janky animations allow, with a few exceptions like ranged and scripted enemies.But more annoying is that the attacks themselves are just jank. Most basic enemy types have at least one jank move in their moveset, like the spear hollows' triple thrust with perfect 360 degree tracking. Multiple enemies have some sort of annoying little slash or thrust that's effectively unreactable. Both variants of Varangians do this shit, as do the Heide knights. And this is to say nothing of the hitboxes.I'm having a good time, but DS2 is just so painfully unpolished in so many different areas. It's a constant struggle to ignore the jank.
>>728977982Purple phantoms had their gimmick cut so the way they're implemented doesn't make sense anymore. Whenever I wanted to get Warmth I'd just invade in the CotD and hide, 9/10 times the host would get themselves killed even with a cop.
>>728981203The jank of DS2 becomes more palatable on subsequent playthroughs and the depth and difficulty make it rewarding to try out a new character build or explore covenants and weapons you never used before.
>>728975309not really
>>728981203>ds2 enemy has their shield up>do guard break push>animation is so slow they stop blocking and hit meevery fucking time.
>>728977909bb emulation will be ready soon i hear its already playable ish and demon souls has been gtg for a while ive only played demons with emulation because i didnt have a ps3
>>728982358>difficultyThat's the thing, it's not difficult at all. The levels are only difficult if you go full retard and aggro 10 enemies so you can record a bait WebM, at least until some of the fucked up enemies begin appearing in the DLCs. But because of the way the AI works, the objectively correct solution to every combat encounter is to simply back up to a choke point where you don't have to dive head first into the death ball, as doing so feels neither fun nor fair. It's a bit boring.I'm playing vanilla because I'm more familiar with SotFS despite not liking its changes very much. I wanted to remember how the combat encounters were originally designed to play out (on average, better than SotFS). I can clearly see the design of each combat encounter, but the almost all of the multi-enemy ones completely collapse in on themselves between the simplistic AI and jank animations.
>>728975489thats pretty good sum up, agree
>>728972040Agreed 3 is shit and not dark souls at all
>>728975309Every game is worth playing and it just depends on what you like about the series mostds3 to me is the worst game and is made entirely irrelevant in all ways, every single way, by elden ring existing now.Da1, bb, sekiro, elden ring are fantasticds2 is greatDs3 sucks to me it's rollspam short sword only on you're just playing wrong
>>728975309Elden Ring is the best in the series and it will actually make DS1 feel lame when you go back to replay it.
>>728976157Why would anyone who isn't a larper give a shit about Demons Souls?
>>728972040DS3's linear design and gameplay is much better than Dark "the vibes and storynotice how it's never the gameplay were immaculate, but yeah it becomes literal dogshit at the latter half of the game".............(sorry it's just that the game is really fucking slow and boring, we'll fix it later)..........................Souls 1
>>728975309If you like what you played, play Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 2If you wished it was more like a gay shitty action game the whole time and hated how "janky" it was, play Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3
>>728975309if you liked ds1 play the other ones, demons souls, ds2, ds3 and bloodborne, dont listen to the retards saying to skip something, all those games are a little divisive with autists and they try to push their opinions on others
>start with DS2 because retards on here told me is the best one>literal dogshit gameplay while looking even worse>drop the entire genre until someone convinced me to play DS1>fell in love with itfuck you faggots
>>7289874972 is the contrarian pick. so it's perfect here. don't ever follow /v/'s advice seriously.
I've only ever played the first two Dark Souls games. Why does every one hate 3? I thought 2 was the blacksheep. Apart from the mana system (like DeS) it doesnt look that different from DS1.
>>728972040Yeah. DS3 is fine for one playthrough, but fuck doing it more than once. Same thing for Elden Ring post Capital. DS1, DS2, and DeS aged like fine wine in terms of replayability.
>>728972040I replay 3 once a year because the Twin Prince boss is kino.
I played all three back to back for the first time maybe 2 years ago even though I'm pretty old. Just never got around to it. I went 1-3-2, because I was most excited for 3, but I ended up liking it least of all. 2 is flawed in how minimum stat buffing builds are clearly the best for everything, but I really loved the world and exploration a ton.That being said, Sister Friede was a really good fight and so far only ED Balancers in Night Reign matches it for me
>>7289876402 was most definitely the blacksheep for the longest time. but time has made it age better i think. because as it stands now, despite its flaws, it has more in common with demons and ds1 than those three have in common with everything that came after. and tons of people like that kind of souls game more than the current kind. it also did a lot of cool stuff the other games did not have. 3 has not aged well. you see a lot of people say one of 3's biggest problems is it is boring. and it is. it is a serviceable game but it doesn't really do anything that makes it stand out. anyone who has played bloodborne will also tell you it just feels like leftovers from bloodborne since it is a much more faster paced game than des/ds1/2 and more like that game. in other words, it's the game that really solidified the rollspam meme people mock this series for. too many bosses are dealt with literally mashing roll. the thing you'll see people praise about ds3 the most are the boss fights. i've even some people call it a boss fight simulator or boss gauntlet game because they're way more interesting than the world they take place in. and i don't even think a lot of them are that great anyway. evidently, most don't either. it also doesn't help that elden ring took everything ds3 did and improved it in all ways so it is a direct upgrade from that game. so now ds3 is in this weird middle ground where it's bloodborne leftovers and a proto-elden ring. those two games just do what it does better. meanwhile ds2 sort of does it's own thing. half of which is god fucking awful but the other half of what it does is great.
I miss launch DS2 PvP so fucking much bros.
>>728987640Don't take the contrarians seriously. DS3 is almost universally liked more than 2
if you're still hating on dark souls 2 and not on dark souls 3 then you have dogshit taste2 isn't perfect or even the best but a lot of staple mechanics have their roots in ds2ds3 has>worst areas>worst enemy placements>worst visual style>worst build balance>worst bosses>second worst PvPthe ringed city is the only good thing about ds3
>>728989307i hate both but i still hate 2 more
>>728989559dogshit taste
>>728989307>>worst areas>>worst enemy placements>>worst visual stylecmon anon ive grown to like dark souls 2 as well but you cant deny dark souls 2 visually looks like dog shit
>>728989605graphics is not the same as style
>>728989592you are defending dark souls 2, your opinion could not possibly mean less
>>728972040Based that's why I play 2 so I can freely experience garbage in any order I want
>>728989667praising 3 over any other souls game is far worse
>>728975309Bloodborne and DS3 are kinda short even with the DLC, especially the former so if you ever wanna give one a go, try those. DS2 is a long game with all three DLCs/Scholar, but it pales in comparison to Elden Ring which was huge by itself, but then they gave it an expansion that is about the size and length of Demon’s Souls.
I don't like most of From Software's games, but I genuinely despise Dark Souls 3 and it also has the only boss I just refused to try to beat after a few tries. Darkeater Midir. The only thing Dark Souls 3 has going for it are the aesthetics.
>>728989874I always thought Midir was easier than Demon Duo and Gael, but then again I never fought the laser version of Demon Prince cause I never remember which is which and I don’t really care.
>>728989874>and it also has the only boss I just refused to try to beat after a few tries. Darkeater Midir.That's just a skill issue
>>7289898063 may be a linear, boring, uninspired piece of shit, but that the end of the day at least it feels like a souls game. the core gameplay of 2 is fundamentally dogshit and the game is totally unsalvageable. dark souls 2 has more in common with shitty, jank souls clones like OG lords of the fallen than other souls games. one of these things is not like the other, faggot.
>>728977982same. i was massively disappointed when i learned i couldn't just invade, kill everything for the host and dip
>>728989959No. I had a build around fire/dark (I think that's what it was called) and he's the only enemy in the game who's either highly resistant or immune to both elements and I wasn't going to bother on top of the extremely poor camera in the fight. I played it on PS4 so maybe I would give it another go on a framerate higher than 30 fps, but I really don't care.Gael was an excellent fight and one of the few positives about Dark Souls 3.
>>728990442Ah yeah, they really fucked over those builds in the dlc
>>728987497>Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3>"which one do I start with guyz???"These people vote.
>>7289876403 is probably the second worst fromsoft souls game. 2fags are desperate to not be in dead last so they do everything they can to try to drag perception of it down. 3 definitely has issues but 2 is an abomination that plays like shit from the get go and no amount of revisionism can change that.
>>728990442You can always exploit the pale tongue refund glitch to respec infinitely. That's how I get around a build making certain areas/bosses impossible.
>still no sekiro sequel or even dlc
>>728989667yeah you tell him bro my favorite youtuber also told me that dark souls 2 is the worst one that everyone hated
>>728975025based slideshow enjoyer
>>728979715Man getting invaded on 1-4 always made me fucking sweat
>>728972040linear is one of the best things a game can be
>>728982610Should've leveled ADP, scrub
>>728992315I hope they make another story centric game next.
>>728976157>dark souls 3 is the best because its the closest dark souls to demons souls
>>728979657Pretty sure ps3 online store (at least backend) is still available, meaning once cracked you can just straight install games from the official source hassle-free
>>728989179Man that was bomb. Got stuck at belfries for like 3 days because I didn't want to stop.
>>728990113>feels like a souls gameDs2 is the essence of a souls game, which is sequence breaking towards whatever your build requires instead of>lol just play the game you'll get your high level spell eventually
>>728992768Belfry Luna.. Home..
>>728975309DS2 is a very janky game but it has a lot of soul, a lot of really great ideas that they should have kept, and is worth playing just to be able to talk aboutDS3 is good. It is more linear than the others but has good combat and gameplay. It has fun weapons and spells. Definitely worth it.Elden Ring is legitimately a 10/10 on your first playthrough and probably like an 8/10 on any subsequent. Just play it if you somehow have not already.
Bros I can't keep replaying DS1 forever wtf are these stupid devs doing how hard it is to just make a slow exploration-based adventure game instead of just more flashy rollslop for adhd kids? The Surge 1 is closest thing I found but even that got boring after only a couple of playthoughts due to lack build variety.Props to DS2, as awful as it is at least that game kept the soul of the original, we just didn't know how good we've had it back then.
>>728975309Demon's Souls (the PS3 version) is excellent. Bloodborne is also good. Vanilla DS2 has it's moments sometimes but it's still a mixed bag. DS3 and Elden Ring are horrible
>>728976157>dark souls 3>closest dark souls to demons souls
>>728972040How did you get this video of me
>>728993368The Souls games are just going to get worse and worse because Miyazki or whoever else is making decisions on these games just wants to pander to the normalfags that only value the flashy bullshit and pressing r1/circle over and over
>>728972040>LinearIt's not Linear if you don't suck
>>728994006>not Linearwhat's your fastest runtime to soul stream?
>>728993368I'm 5 hours into Lords of the Fallen for the first time and after a very rough first 30 minutes where I barely made it through I'm liking the game more and more because I've just realised it's the only soulslike that's copying the part that made From Software's games good (for me). Figuring out where to go. Exploring for items. I like the Umbral mechanic. I might end up hating the game. I don't know. But for now I literally can't think of another game that feels like this.
>>7289942402014 or 2023 one?
>>728994240>I'm 5 hours into Lords of the FallenYou've seen 90% of the enemies by now.
>>7289943082023. I've heard nothing but terrible things about the THE Lords of the Fallen. It doesn't even look interesting aesthetically. There's probably a very good reason they didn't just make a direct sequel to it.
>>728994473I've just looked it up and it turns out the 2023 one was supposed to have "The" in its name but instead it has literally the same name as the 2014 game lmao.
3 is pretty fun when you play it like an arcade game and come up with some 1CC rules
>>728993368The unfortunate reality is that making a well-connected exploration driven game like Dark Souls is dozen times harder than making some disconnected boss duel rooms with the in-between filled in afterwards. A company's only directive is to keep increasing its profits so there's no reason for them to ever go back to their old ways. (unless some new blood in the company gets put in the director position for some reason, which ironically is what happened with Miyazaki and Demon Souls)
>Dragon>Dude in dragon armor>Starving goat man (doesn't even have a dragon covenant because...?)What the fuck were they thinking?
>>728994837>What the fuck were they thinking?kino, as far as ds2 was concerned (it wasn't just a cash in on ds1)
ds3 is the most consistent in quality compared to the sudden drop in the second half of 1 and the lack of quality in 2
>>728994837>(doesn't even have a dragon covenant because...?)I was under the impression that it was a bad thing when DS3 included stuff that was also in DS1. Is it also a bad thing when they leave stuff out?
>>728996225>let's do a halfass implementation of a favored part of ds1>but leave out the covenant just because we don't want ds2 fans to have too much ammo-Miyazaki, probably
>>728972040This but 2
>>728994240>I've just realised it's the only soulslike that's copying the part that made From Software's games good (for me)Literally me, and LOTF2023 is better than some actual From Software souls games imo (namely DS3 and ER)Very hyped for LOTF2 and Timmy has already bought me a copy, too
Dark Souls 2 will always be the retarded black sheep of the series
>>728989656Yeah because the generic green zombie hollows were so stylistically rich lol>>728990976trvke
>>728996709>>7289970142 isnt linear, its actually the most non-linear out of the trilogy
>>728997128>the most non-linear out of the trilogyIt's the most non-linear From game post-KF period
>>728975025Lmfao
>>728975309The answer is yes but were on vee so no ds2 sucks ds3 is gay and elden ring is le bloated or whatever
>>728975309>am I missing much?regardless of how some youtuber fans exaggerate how bad 2 is, its dlc with the three crowns are the best content in the series
>>7289876403 is the best selling and most active online in the series. Only on /v/ will you find a couple of schizos trying to push the narrative that people don't like it
I always replay ds1 and bb, i liked elden ring but the game is way too big for replay imo i dont like how the cool weapons are all locked after 70% of the story too; i have nostalgia for ds2 and it was probably one the souls i played the most cause back then my shit pc could only run that and ds3 is the only one i never replayed
>>728990976>filtered by ADP>nooo I need to level realistic skills like luck, not skills that determine how fast I can raise my shield
>>728990839i was told ds3 was bad and 1 was incomplete, so again, fuck you faggots
>>728997484>taking /v/'s advicekek
