Controversial opinion, but I’d probably pick Dark Souls 1. It’s the one I’m most disinterested to play. DS2 is the outsider and has earned its accolades via that alone, plus it’s the most experimental DS game, which is cool. DS3 has fun world building and good combat, or rather my preferred speed, so it beats DS1 in that regard too. DS1 wasn’t particularly fun to play for me in comparison.

The others are one-ofs and have all brought something truly unique to their catalogue, culminating in ER which is arguably, next to DS1 maybe, the most influential Soulslike in existence.

What’s your take?

  • Platypus@sh.itjust.works
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    I’d delete Bloodborne so Sony can’t hostage the IP to sell underpowered hardware any more.

    (Also I just… didn’t enjoy playing it. Go figure.)

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      Sony wants to remake/remaster/do something with Bloodborne. They’re not holding it hostage, in fact they were ready to approve a Bluepoint remake. It’s Miyazaki who refuses to let it happen. Bloodborne is dear to him and he doesn’t want anyone else to touch it. But he also doesn’t want to do anything with it himself at the moment. And so the status quo just keeps on.

      For once, this is a point where corpo greed is not to be blamed. Which is odd, I know.