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?

  • Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It would be Dark Souls 2 for me. Dark Souls 1 has an excellent map, Dark Souls 3 I felt the combat system got a lot better with. Elden Ring was okay and quite fun to explore with it’s open world. While not exactly a souls game, Sekiro is still FromSofts best game however. Bloodborne I have just never played, it couldn’t maintain even 30 FPS on my ps4 and it was nothing but a headache inducing mess.

    • M.int@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      [delete] Dark Souls 2

      Headshake

      Bloodborne I have just never played, it couldn’t maintain even 30 FPS on my ps4

      Did play close to launch? On the current patch the fps is pretty stable (at 30 FPS); some area transitions tank FPS, but in areas and in boss fights the fps is stable.

      • Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I played it around the time the edition with DLC included came out. Though I was definitely on an old patch I think, I rarely connected my ps4 to my network unless I knew there was a patch or update I needed for something. I sold the ps4 and the games I had awhile ago however. I may give it a go on shadps4 eventually instead, I really do want to play it at some point.