Overrated. Boring. Soulless. Trite. Need I say more?

it has soul in the title tho

do you fags ever not get tired of doing this every single day

no you dont need to go on. you can shut the fuck up and try and formulate actual criticism than the bored old "soulless" argument which is as empty as your fucking skull

>Overrated. Boring. Soulless. Trite.
So its just like all the other souls games

of course not, they need something to get angry at

>Implying DaS3 had soul

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I didn't know how much I hated walking on foot everywhere until I played DS3. I literally cannot play DS1 anymore because of that.

>makes perfect sense for him to be around
i don't see the problem.

>So its just like all the other dark souls games
ftfy

It's a great game though.

Demon Souls, too
And Bloodborne
And Sekiro

its one of the best games i have played. Fuck you op

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Guys, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Dark Souls III is a piece of shit. I know this isn't what you wanted to hear but it's the truth. None of the Dark Souls games are particularly "good" but Dark Souls III takes the cake in how poorly it is executed. The developers literally deleted half of the game mid-way through production and scrambled to pull the rest of the game out of their ass. I understand that this is a tough pill to swallow but it's the truth and you will feel a lot better once you learn to let go. I'm sorry it had to be this way.

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>DARK SOULS 1 CAN DO NO WRONG
not him, but backtracking is a valid criticism
especially when the backtracking doesn't even reward you with new weapons or enemies

Play more games, you fucking 12 year old.

Epic reply, my reddit friend :)

I am 29 fuckface and i have played more then you i am sure. DaS3 is fucking great. You are just a noob who has no father figure in his life.

Name some better games then

>DARK SOULS 1 CAN DO NO WRONG
This but unironically.

>Souls threads

>all the matthewmatosis drone coming out of the woodwork as always

MatthewMatosis ruined Souls discussion forever

Dark Souls and Bloodborne

Literal who?
What the fuck are you on about?

Dark Souls is better than Dark Souls?

>backtracking is a valid criticism

>game has an intricately designed interconnected world
>but it's a bad thing because "I have to spend three seconds running through an area I already went through ;_;"

>i have played more then you
You haven't and you have shit taste, retard.

Demon's Souls, the game that started the entire fad or whatever you want to call it, will always be better than any of the Dark souls games.

NO U

It's better than Dark Souls 3, which is the game you said to name better games than.

>The developers literally deleted half of the game mid-way through production and scrambled to pull the rest of the game out of their ass
Didn't that happen with II, not III

>zoomie brings up random eceleb out of nowhere

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Dark Souls 3 is better than 1, though.
Name some other games that are better than Dark Souls 3 for me, thanks :)

Might've happened to 2, I know for certain it happened with 3.

You are baiting if you think that old croc of shit is better. Both of you are Sony shills.

Armored core is on a shelf somewhere

>Dark Souls 3 is better than 1, though.

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>I like pointlessly wasting my time by backtracking through multiple locations just to upgrade my wooden stick to +4
I want to be done with shit like this as fast as possible and get back to the game. It's literally just a stupid chore.

>Demon's Souls
>Fast weapons are the best in the game

>Dark Souls
>Doesn't matter, backstab with anything

>Dark Souls 2
>Fast weapons are the best in the game

>Dark Souls 3
>Fast weapons are the best in the game

>Bloodborne
>Saw cleaver/saw spear, the fastest weapons in the game that deal great damage are the best

Why are they incapable of breaking this cycle?

shut up and go workout fatass
sorry i meant get good

>I have played this game more than you
>also I hate it
why do you do this to yourself tell me

I imagine you are afraid to give me some other games because you actually dont have any. You just shitpost here all day.
Don't you have something to do with your time?

spbp

see
Boredom mostly.

I bought it recently, it's really good. I don't know if it can surpass DKS1 but I like the NPCs and many weapon arts are fun (The Abyss Watcher's sword is amazingly satisfying to use). My main gripe would be the shit PvP but I don't summon/invade too often so that's probably a non-issue

Not a response.

Wait until you beat Pontiff. The entire game afterwards will reflect the game's horrible development cycle.

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>player freedom bad
If it's too easy using a fast weapon, use a slower one. Also, (ultra)greatswords literally rape everything in DaS3. Straight swords are unironically pretty shit in comparison.

DS3 "feels" good to play, because it has the most polished/smoothest animations, graphics and gameplay, and arguably the best OST in the series. But all that shit is just superficial surface level crap.
>Levels are boring and the most linear in the series, so many sections feel completely pointless and unfinished.
>Combat forgoes stamina management entirely for roll spam.
>Magic is blatantly nerfed and shit.
>PvP is as deep as a puddle relative to DS1 & 2 and the worse in the series bar BB.
>Equipment and build variety is the worse in the series unless you count Sekiro.
>Mobs are by in large shit and nonthreatening.
>Invasions where ruined.
>3/4 of the bosses where the shittiest in the franchise, which the 1/4 good booses hardly make up for.
>The aesthetics where boring and unoriginal as it was mostly just ripping straight from DS1, atleast every other game felt fresh, and not like a blatant cash grab, yes even 2.

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>>PvP is as deep as a puddle relative to DS1
Ah yes, abusing backstab techs and dark bead twinking. Now that was some deep gameplay.

Keep outing yourself as an underage newfag. Enjoy your ban.

The list is endless, just some examples:
>Dark Souls
>Bloodborne
>Fallout 1/2
>Thief I/II
>Morrowind
>Resident Evil Remake, 2, 4
>Baldur's Gate II
>Super Mario 64
>LoZ: ALttP, OoT, MM
>Deus Ex
>Heroes of Might and Magic III
>DOOM
>Blood
>GTA: San Andreas, Vice City
>Gothic I/II
>God Hand
>Ninja Gaiden Black
>Super Metroid

>Iudex Grundyr
Big humanoid in armor swinging a sword at you.
>Abyss Watchers
Big humanoid in armor swinging a sword at you.
>Pontiff Sulyvahn
Big humanoid in armor swinging TWO swords at you.
>Yhorm the Giant
Big humanoid in armor swinging a sword at you.
>Dragonslayer Armour
Big ___________ armor swinging a sword at you.
>Champion Gundyr
Big humanoid in armor swinging a sword at you.
>Lothric, Younger Prince
Big humanoid in armor swinging a sword at you.
>Nameless King
Big humanoid in armor swinging a sword at you.
>Soul of Cinder
Big humanoid in armor swinging a sword at you AND sometimes uses the magic attack from the Crystal Mage.

Very cool gameplay.

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Reminder: There are people who unironically think that 3 has the best bosses in the series.

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>bought the remake
>if they remake Dark Souls 3 I'll buy it again too

*guffaws*
Oh, so you are baiting!
*looks around at the thread*
Anyone else?

>cherry picking Yea Forums approved games
I'm sure your list of actual games played is as vast as the cavern inside your head where your brain should be

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Stop posting your gay opinion Bloodbrony

Yes, atleast DS1 had tech which raised the skill ceiling, actual poise, and more viable builds and was fun to invade even when not twinking. DS3 is literally just spacing and R1 with a Straight Sword or Curved Sword where poise is just useless hyper armor frames, oh and the unpunishable healing.

>remake

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>tech which raised the skill ceiling
Like what?
>DS3 is literally just
No, it isn't. You can win with any build. It just takes actual skill instead of teleport backstabbing.

Some guy a while ago said it's literally impossible to beat the final boss if you're a heavy build with fat rolling.

>Levels are boring and the most linear in the series, so many sections feel completely pointless and unfinished.
Individual level design and layout is very well made. Undead Settlement, Cathedral of the Deep, Ariandel, and Lothric Castle are all intricately made. Exploring them are also rewards you with weapons, gems, and estus shards.
>Combat forgoes stamina management entirely for roll spam.
Stamina still regenerates rather slowly and compliments enemy aggression. Many bosses even punish excessive roll spam, like Dancer and NK.
>Magic is blatantly nerfed and shit.
I don't remember magic being great in DaS2 either. At least the game has the best pyromancies in the series.
>PvP is as deep as a puddle relative to DS1 & 2 and the worse in the series bar BB.
Actually it's bearable this time around. Netcoding is far superior. Also, this is blatantly false if you've played a little more than a dozen hours.
>Equipment and build variety is the worse in the series unless you count Sekiro.
There's actually a lot more variety than DaS1 or DeS.
>Mobs are by in large shit and nonthreatening.
Sure, but so are most souls mobs in general.
>Invasions where ruined.
You need to adapt.
>3/4 of the bosses where the shittiest in the franchise, which the 1/4 good booses hardly make up for.
I mean that's purely subjective, but most people agree that it has the best bosses in the series, barring BB.
>The aesthetics where boring and unoriginal as it was mostly just ripping straight from DS1, atleast every other game felt fresh, and not like a blatant cash grab, yes even 2.
The art direction felt very inspired though. DaS2's art direction however, is very unoriginal and doesn't even belong in the type of fantasy setting Miyazaki established. It's typical MMO tier fantasy.
>anthropomorphic lion with braids wielding an axe
>ice tiger
>elephant knights
>dwarves
>generic looking fiery demon that looks like it belongs in DMC

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>it's impossible to win if you fuck up your character's build or armor set
Isn't punishing retards a good thing?

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>Many bosses even punish excessive roll spam
Refer to

He said you can win with any build.

Wow, he SAID that? Cool!!!

> atleast DS1 had tech which raised the skill ceiling
Skill cieling in DS1 is literally the lowest in the entire series.
>poise
A TERRIBLY thought out mechanic. They ditched the hyperarmor system from DeS to this garbage. The absolutely bumblefuck retarded DaS1 poise system destroys pve and pvp alike and promotes poise minmaxing which is made worse by how badly the armour pieces are balanced in poise aspect
>DS3 is literally just spacing and R1 with a Straight Sword or Curved Sword where poise is just useless hyper armor frames, oh and the unpunishable healing.
None of this is true if you got gud, like the rest of us. Straight or curved swords can punished by a multitude of weapons, including (ultra)greatswords which can hyperarmor right through it. Heals can also be punished very easily.

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Don't deflect.

>almost half his health is gone
>down to one flask (+10 tier)
Is this trying to prove anything at all?

I don't give a fuck what some random retard said on Yea Forums.

Who overrates it? Everybody shits on 3 even more than on 2.

Literally the best game From ever made
the hugest and most varied selection of armor, weapons, spells and other items
the best bosses in the series
the best designed areas
the best dlcs
the best pvp/pve with the most active playerbase
praised by both fans and critics as the perfect end to the series

it's been 3 years and Yea Forums is still mad about how popular the series became, this thread is proof alongside all the ones before it
just let it go, no amount of whining and flailing around will change the truth

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>Who overrates it?
DaS3 zoomers.

>Dancer and NK.
You've picked the wrong examples to show that off, Dancer is a barely agressive boss that dies easily and NK doesn't actually punish roll spam, he even encourages it with his long combos. Shoud've mentioned Lorian or Friede's delayed attacks instead.

Dark Souls 2 faggots underrate it.

Dark Souls is an action-adventure game. If you remove the adventuring aspects, then you just have an action game. You might as well just make it completely linear, by the way you talk.

Besides, you never need to run back through multiple locations in order to level up your weapon, if you know what the fuck you're doing.
It sounds like you never bought the weapon smithbox off the blacksmith before. You're probably too ADHD to learn any of the fucking mechanics, and then you blame the game for why you toil away.

You know what's funny? Dark Souls is inherently a zoomer series. That extends to Bloodborne, DeS and Sekiro as well.

Oh wow.
Look at this bad boy, he's so intellectual.

>Reuse a shitload of material.
>"uhhh, everything repeats. yeah, it all comes back because uh, ages and shit."

first half of ds1>bb>ds3>des>ds2>second half of ds1

ds3 is overall the best souls game

It makes perfect sense for him to be around. Do you actually not get it LMAO

The man starts rolling well before attacks are even close to him, and stopps rolling well after attacks have finished. It just goes to show that you can get by if you spam roll.

>Dark Souls is an action-adventure game
So are the other soulsborne games.

Do you not get that lore is meaningless?
Hell, with as much as they changed during the game's development, half of lore got rewritten anyway. They were just like "oh shit, we have to move everything around. Oh fuck, now the lore doesn't make any sense, ok let's patch this up."
What matters is the actual content, and not the cheap context it's wrapped in.

Thing is, Gael has other attacks that can slip you up if you don't time your rolls. That webm is only showcasing a tiny portion of his moveset. That fancy overhead slam with his greatsword is just an opening.

That's cool. Not what I responded to you about.

Bros should I get picrelated? I only played Sekiro, DS3 and a bit of Bloodborne. Got a 4K tv and xbonex
Also is magic built viable? I played a sorcerer in DS3 and thought it was bad (thr class, not the game)

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Not Dark Souls 3. Everything has been streamlined so much, that it might as well be a Megaman game.

Is intentionally crippling yourself really a "build"?

The adventure bit comes when you visit a new location. Might as well skip through it after you clear it once, since you're likely to just run through it at top speed anyway. I don't need to go on an epic quest every time I decide to visit Andre or Firelink.

If it's the only way you can play the game, then go for it. The first Dark Souls is an essential game for anyone.

>soulless
>literally has "SOUL" in its title

Dark Souls 3 was ok, but both of the dlcs were lazy and mediocre.

Any playstyle can be considered a build if it is consistent.

Well then I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about then. Why don't you state it plainly.

Don't be so harsh on yourself OP.

>The DLCs were absolute shi-

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The same shitpost thread every fucking day, oh boy
BB>DS1>DS3>DES>SEK>SOTFS>DS2

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They have the best bosses of the entire franchise

SPBP

It the other game, if you tried to roll in quick success SEVEN times, then you wouldn't have enough stamina to attack afterward. They would have been at a stalemate, since the player dodged inefficiently.

In other games, the guy would have gotten caught on the 4th or 6th roll. depending on his stamina.

DkS1 is not even good

Entire second half of the game after Pontiff was a shitty boss-rush with no sense of subtlety.

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>The adventure bit comes when you visit a new location
HA! What?! Nigga, WHAT?! No, adventure isn't merely getting to the next level. If that were the case, then EVERY game would be an adventure game. Since every game sends you to the next level after you beat the last.

I got tired of the souls formula after bloodborne, would it be worth trying this game?

Souls "fans" are such faggots, they're all great games except Ds2

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No, it takes the worst aspects of Dark Souls and Bloodborne and makes an entire game out of them.

Only if you enjoy fighting the same boss over and over.

/thread

>They're all great games, except for DaS2 and 3
Fixed.

go for it
i'd recommend sekiro over ds3 though

Fuck off retart

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nah, ds2 fag, you can't bring ds3 down with you
it is immeasurably better

This but swap bloodborne and DS2

wrong thread bro

Ds3 felt weird, like it was made cynically. I actually felt exhausted of souls gameplay by the time i finished 3. I never want to lock onto something, watch a telegraphed attack, and i frame roll out of the way and punish ever again

Why try another souls game if you’re tired of souls? If you like the formula then you should like DS3, otherwise no

this, i bought DS2 full price after i finished DS1 because i liked it so much, but it was total aids.

What adventure is there in revisiting an already cleared location? There's no loot, you've already beaten all the enemies, seen the landscape and the boss is dead and buried. I'd much rather go someplace I haven't seen before. I don't know, maybe the game's just not made for me.

>Implying I like DS2

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Can we stop having these threads every fucking day? What is up with the hate boner for 3? And DS2 is always defended with "Soul vs Soulless" meme or this shit

The beginning of the game was very strong and invested me into it deeply. The second half is where everything falls apart and they fucking throw a bunch of exhausting shit at you in a relatively short time-span. See . Seven(7) of the bosses on that list are fought in the second half of the game nearly one after another.

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old good new bad

>old good new bad
This but unironically.

>dark souls 4 comes out
>Souls contrarians will flock to that game to shit on and say dark souls 3 was an underrated patrician classic
It'll happen any day now

4 will never release. They know how badly they fucked up with 3.

Dark Souls 3 sold the best out of the trilogy

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Dark Souls is confirmed to be over with.

salty pc fat

a couple of 2fags got eternally asshurt about their game being the black sheep of the series so they decided to try and gaslight Yea Forums into thinking everyone hates 3 even more

You're delusional.

Adventure games are all about *how* you advance. Not the fact that you have advanced per se. Travelling on foot gives you the sensation that you're enroute to do what you have to do. That act in of itself is satisfying. It's a different sensation than just beating up bad guys. Hell even people who enjoy adventure games might sigh when they need to travel. But if you asked them about the experience in retrospect they will tell you it's a good one. Because there is satisfaction in toiling. It's hard to explain to someone who doesn't know the feeling. But just travelling everywhere by warp is cheap. You don't get the chance to meditate on your actions. You don't appreciate the journey.

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Souls series is so good it will still generate discussion for decades.

Monkeys flinging shit isn't discussion it's disgusting

i wonder how Elden Ring will be though

There were daily DaS2 hate threads on release and still are to this day, why are you so asspained about DaS3 hate threads?

Not saying DS3 doesn't have its own flaws since pretty much every souls game does but DaS2 had genuine problems and the was quality control all over the place so it's hard to take posts that says DaS 2 being the all time greatest Souls game while 3 is the absolute worst.

Because DaS2 and DaS3 are different games down to their core. DaS2 is a proper adventure game, despite its flaws. It still captures the feeling of adventure. DaS3 is a mere adventure game. And not even a very good one. Oh sure, all the mechanics are clean, but at what cost? The game is almost completely linear, and iframes are so generous that you don't need to perform very well anyway. Plus the weapon balance is so whack, that it all boils down to comboing basic attacks as the most efficient manner to dispatch enemies. DaS3 is not made for those that loved the series. It's made for those that loved what the series was memed to be.