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?
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.