What's the /v/erdict on Dark Souls 1?
>>743403278Second Game of the century
>>743403278Good for its time, but the genre has since been perfected.
>>743403550>BOTWjesus fucking christ
>>743403278>What's the /v/erdict on Dark Souls 1?Magnum Opus, definitely. Even after playing every other souls-fromsoftware. The only thing that comes close to it is Demon's Souls.
genuine 10/10 until lordvessel4/10 after that
>>743403278it's objectively the better game but I enjoyed my experience in Demon's Souls morethe original btw, not the shitty remake
>>743403278ps2 rock band guitar hero algorithm
>>743403278It's kino
>>743403716>a super popular, objectively good, subjectively amazing game from a beloved series>cheesus fuarking cwhist bro....At some point the contrarianism has to stop
>>743403716Name a better game that came out in the last decade.
>>743403278It’s good but I really have no desire to play it again
Uncslop, but some of the music is alright for how old it is and the world seems fairly intelligently made (for like the first 30 percent anyways). No point in playing if you aren't like 25 or older lol.
>>743405879>DID YOU JIST CRITICIZE ZELDA???? (Owned by Nintendo, master of /v/)Nu Zelda bad.
>>743403278You the 4K RPCS3 guy? Fuggin forgot how they utterly butchered the armor sets in the remastered as well as the backgrounds. The original game's armor sets have really detailed textures, showing little marks and scratches, and signs of decay. Remastered is just smooth textures.
>>743403278Good game but y'all are not tuff for sayin ts goated
>>743406237frfr? on god? say like bruh. baka...
>>743403656This
>>743403656>lies of twink
Reminder Sasha Grey makes these threads.
>>743407231Never played any "souls like" games apart from 2D ones, but this list seems like a troll. The terrible in the moment part can't be for real, invading in 3-3 on release makes it at least good in the moment.
>>743403716And not saying anything about the most overrated game of all time OoT. Nah let's gloss right over that and go right for BotW because we're a tendie whose mommy gave us great memories with our 64 in 1998.
>>743407231Elden Ring should be bottom left
>>743403550>3 fucking Zelda games and one of the weaker 3D Mario gamesKill all tendies.
>>743403656t. only played souls games for the raw combat instead of for the hybrid action-dungeon crawler experience.
>>743407231I'd put your list as Terrible in the moment and Terrible in retrospect.
>>743403278they should do a Demon Souls like remake of itits a clunky piece of shit
>>743403716>>743409947tendie boardseethecopedilatetotal tendie victory
>>743403656Pic unrelated
>>743410171I am hoping these posts are bait.
>>743405934>>743405879>>743410214It has recency bias, once people try to revisit the game for a second playthrough the tedious cracks will show. Almost all zelda games suffer from this but especially BOTW
>>743407231>DeS original terrible in retrospectwhy? I found it fun to replay and it holds up well since it's so simple
>>743410628i LITERALLY started replaying botw 4 days ago after 9 years of not touching it and its fucking amazing, totk is a better more refined game, but botw is still amazingalso i never owned a tendie console and am emulating on PC
>>743403278Best Souls game>>743403550>zelda botw>fallout trans vegas
>>743410704playing with mods doesn't count anon...
>>743410735only mod i have is FPS unlocker so that its not stuck on 30fps lol
>>743410667NTA but I played it for the first time recently and it immediately drops off in the second playthrough because despite letting you choose where you want to go, it's a very linear game and doesn't have a lot to offer on repeat playthroughs
Hey, V here, it's a good game.Hoeever as a contrarian I have to say Dark Souls 2 is better.And as a contrarining contrarian I also have to say Elden Ring is the best one in the series because it has the biggest map and a hecking horserino.
>>743403941Starting to get that impression too. I'm on New Londo Ruins, first playthrough. The combat was difficult and the world felt huge and dangerous before. Now it's very procedural. I shouldn't have made my character so OP I guess.
>>743403278Currently playing it for the first time and I'm enjoying it so far. Capra Demon was a funny boss.
>>743412728Same. Bell Gargoyle has been the hardest boss so far. Not trying to impress anyone but this game is way easier than people say.
>>743403278Still the greatest Soulslike Fromsoft ever made. And no other developer can even touch the worst Fromsoft game.
>>743403550>Zelda games>Mario 64>greatest games of all timelol, tendies are deranged
>>743403278i remember playing this game for the first time at release and being so afraid of anything. i never played it blind as intended and i kind of regret not doing so now(even though im still a big scaredy cat and wouldnt be able to play it blind anyway). i would watch so many lets plays of it and just mimic what they would do to a T so i wouldnt get surprised by any spooks and knew what was coming ahead of time. thinking of that big butcher character that drops down from the rafters above you near the other butcher that's cutting up meat still freaks me out thinking of it to this day.
>>743403656>no good world exploration, builds, boring enemies I'm not saying it's shit but shills are insane if they think spamming this loser dead board will elevate the reputation of LOP to touch DS. It's not even in the same category, it's a lesser Sekiro. With barebone simplist level layouts, pacing issues and arguably annoying or boring enemy types that instead of being used once in specific areas reused them until the player gets sick of it to lengthen the game. In sekiro either enemies die fast, are different enough to justify the fights or are used with expert parsimony.
>>743413287>i never played it blind as intendedPlaying it blind ruins the game. The concept of bonfires and shortcuts instead of checkpoints is neat but why do they fucking hide them? On my first attempt I got like halfway through Undead Burg and kept having to start over because I didn't know about the ladder you kick down. At the time all I knew about DS was that it was supposed to be hard, so I was like wow I guess this game's too difficult for me and just played something else. A decade later I gave it another shot but looked up tips online and finally got to enjoy it. Great game but it tries too hard to frustrate the player.
>>743403278I keep on playing with various builds.
>>743403278Aged like milk, but still has some very high and memorable moments throughout the game.>>743403656Casual garbage that bent the knee 2 years after launch by adding in an easy mode to appease to journos and people that hate playing video games.
>>743413194It heavily depends on whether you have any other "souls-like" experience beforehand and what build you are using.For example early game DEX is unfun assine garbage it's not even remotely funny how shit it is.
>>743414020a lot of the magic of dark souls for me at release was the community around it and how it felt like a collaborative effort putting everything together, sharing strats and piecing together lore and theories. it was a very magical and fun time and i look back on it fondly as probably one of the last times i enjoyed a video game bigly
>>743414624>early game DEX is unfun yep that's what I'm using. It made the early game too difficult and the midgame too easy. Sad because I thought this was the intended playstyle. Still fun but I should have leveled STR instead.>>743414637I wish I'd been more into video games back in the seventh console gen. In retrospect that was the golden age for playing and discussing games online. There will never be another experience like Xbox Live was back then. I feel bad for people who missed it.
>>743403278It's easily one of the best games in the history of vidya and it will never not be a good game. The people who say Downs Syndrome shit such as "aged like milk" are 100% wrong. Demonstrably wrong. It absolutely withstands the test of time and remains leagues ahead of 99.9% of the bullshit released since, let alone the mountain of garbage crowning the last decade. There are not many games from 2011 that someone unfamiliar with it can play in 2026 and come away after completion declaring that it is an amazing game.
i can exclusively play the ps3 original or the ps4 remaster. which one should i play?
>>743417280and yet it was a downgrade from des
>>743417352PS3 original. If you can't get remaster on PC to mod it then don't bother with it.
>>743417352The original version of Dark Souls looks nicer, but man that framerate on PS3 can be pretty rough at times. Remastered is iirc 120 fps on PC, so I assume it's hitting 60 on PS4. I'd recommend that version because of performance alone.
>>743417540i'm used to bloodborne's 30 so it's not really an issue. i would prefer to play the original if the remaster fucks up the light
>>743414020>why do they fucking hide them?Because it encourages exploration and makes the discovery of one that much more meaningful to the playthrough. I'll never forget getting to the top of Sen's Playhouse and thinking to myself, "There has got to be something up here...either a shortcut or a bonfire." Then manipulating the camera to take in the environment..maybe something over the ledge, and - "Holy fucking shit!" FromSoft did it because it is good video game design.>because I didn't know about the ladder you kick down.That's on you for not looking carefully enough. By that point in the game, it should be very obvious that caution and attention to detail pays itself back immensely and in multiple dimensions. If you had any wits or patience, you would have learned from that experience. Again, this is good video game design. Because even if a new player doesn't learn from their early game failures, at the least you are harvesting more souls and getting more powerful and better at combat across your long run backs. It is beyond me how people don't understand this aspect of DS. All of the enemies remain the same in starting position and in offensive/defensive power. The PC is the only entity consistently getting stronger and presumably less ignorant. And this making things much less frustrating than before. Again - This is good video game design and makes for unforgettable experiences.
>>743412728>Capra Demon was a funny boss.>first playthrough>tower knight drops his greatshield>get to capra>the dogs and the capra attacks bounce on the shieldeasiest playthrough of my life
>>743417419How exactly? It does literally everything that DeS established better.
>>743417813better movement for onenot falling off a cliff in the second half, only contrarians defend that nowadaysinterconnected level design is a meme that gets old quick, which is seen in how they never did it againboletaria alone mogs the entirety of ds1’s individual levels
>>743417419>>743417917I love DeS too but DaS is an upgrade. It's simply bigger and longer with more to do and see. The interconnected meme does pay off imo in terms of both atmosphere and replayability.>>743417813- Bigger levels- Some but not all of these levels are better than any in DaS- Scarier atmosphere, feels like a horror game- Moon grass feels more persistent than estus flasks
>>743417917>better movement for oneNGL kinda true. DS1 is really fucky at times when it comes to movement and rolling.
