Let's have a spicy Souls thread

I mean, it's shit and will always talk shit about it. But I still put over 1k hours into it.

I don't see how you can play a game for a thousand hours and dislike it. I only put about 800 hours into my favorite game ever (Dark Souls 1).

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>Dark souls 1
>Ornestein and smough
>One who craves souls
>Great club/black knight halberd
>STR

It's me or dark souls 3 feels like a complete stepdown from dark souls 1?
It's not 2 and it has all the things to be an improvement over the original (outside of magic) but it just feels colorless anfd bland, especially considering to overly linear early game.

Seriously dude, Shinobi Owl is an absolutely superb boss from his moveset to the frantic banjo in the second phase. To my dismay most soulsfags are difficulty-whores and like to rever the hardest as the best, although there are some genuinely good hard bosses like Orphan.

Shinobi Owl is the only reason I even bother replaying the game, and it's reason enough.

BB
-Dragonslayer Armour, Ludwig the Accursed, Sihn The Slumbering Dragon,
-Queen of Vilebloods, False King, Vordt of the Boreal Valley
-Mirdam Hammer, Lifehunt Scythe, Stone Twinblade, Loyce Greatsword, Velka's Rapier, Hollowslayer.
-DEX, but not a particular fan of curved sword or katanas

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Damn, I forgot to add the Church Pick and Burial Blade to favorite weapons.

That was probably series burnout. Same happened to me. Dropped without finishing it, came back to it recently and I've grown fond to it.

I just got a slim with 2 controllers and 17 games for 60 leafs. Are that poor?

As far as atmosphere, I don't think anything compares to Ds1. The horror-gothic medieval high fantasy setting was complimented by the lack of direct narrative to be revealed through seamless gameplay, and punishing but rewarding mechanics. Dark Souls was already a sequel, or at least a game within the same vein of another, in the sense that Demons Souls predeceased it, but wasn't nearly as highly acclaimed or well-selling, and was effectively a second attempt at a semi-unique for the time genre. The developers took extra care with some of: *cough*Izalith*cough* it knowing how much they'd be pushing for marketing. By the time FROM got around to counting to 3, they had their combat mechanics formula down, and only made slight adjustments to flow and pacing for "QoL" purposes. The world, although pretty, didn't carry that same charm of fantasy-plausible, and surely didn't have the same interconnectivity that was so awe-inspiring about Ds1 and Bloodborne. Looking at a 3 dimensional model of the Ds1 game world from a perspective of totality, you can see just how much time was taken to design the multiple areas to fit seamlessly together like pieces to a jigsaw puzzle and still retain narrative plausability in the areas positions relative to one another. Bloodborne made a couple cracks at the same concept, but fell a little shorter in the amount of wide hallways leading to dead-ends with boss fights (Hemwick charnel, bergenwerth, Old Yarnham, etc). Ds1 was well designed, felt satisfying to play and employed a setting with properly harrowing dialogue to accentuate the mechanics it was built around. The sequels are just variations of a masterpiece. They can be enjoyable in their own right, but will never stand up to the emotional expression the original did, like any form of art.

As much as I love the O&S visual aesthetic and music, the Adjudicator theme music is so fucking memorably. Shit sounds like one of Burzums prison records.

youtube.com/watch?v=NIAQY2xwXPc

I discovered Demon's last, at the beginning of this year, grabbed a used PS3. Really, really liked it and beat it a couple times, so it's still kind of got the "new toy syndrome" to me

>favorite game
Dark Souls
>favorite boss
Blue Smelter
>favorite OST
youtube.com/watch?v=gAsMkZrpoxY
>favorite weapon
Bastard Sword, in all the games
>DEX or STR
I guess more Str but I like some Dex weapons too

>tfw never got the Balder Side Sword
am I really missing out that much? It seems to be everybody's favorite sword.

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Bloodborne
Dragon God
Demons Souls
Spiked Mace
Strength

Demon's Souls music is really unique. As the series has progressed, the music has gotten a lot more fast-paced and orchestral - which isn't bad, but stuff like Old Hero, Idol, Adjudicator, Nito, Pinwheel, Chariot, Rotten, etc. will always be great. Sekiro had some stand-out music that was more melodic and less in-your-face, like Great Shinobi. We'll see how Elden Ring sounds.

Honestly you kind of are. It's a full blown dex weapon but hits like a str weapon.

>Bloodborne
>Kalameet
>Cleric Beast
>Ludwig's Holy Blade
>keep HP low and level up all the rest of my stats
I actually prefer most of the bosses in Bloodborne over Kalameet or at least the concept behind them. They all have their little quirks that i love but none of them are very interesting to fight.

>DS1
>Ludwig, The Accursed/Holy Blade
>BB OST
>Lothric Knight Sword
>Both

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> 3 because of playing it with my friends, 1 is generally better though
>Iudex
>Ludwig's Theme
>FUGS
>Strongth
I should play Demon's Souls, but I don't feel like going through the effort of installing it.

Definitely do it. Download that shit, post haste.