In (your) opinion, what order should a someone new to the series play souls games?

I think

Dark souls
Dark souls 2
Dark souls 3
Demons souls
Bloodborne
Sekiro
Elden Ring

ER last because it’s objectively the longest title

None since it's all the same shitty game since Demon's Souls. Play Nioh or anything from Team Ninja instead of this slop.

in order of release, just like you should everything else

>>714338117 (OP)
DESU you can play them in any order you want. I think Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 should be played earlier on because their bosses are easier compared to the rest of the series where shit can get crazy.

I'm a pyscho and did it Dark Souls 1 OG Demon's Souls Elden Ring Bloodborne Elden Ring Dark Souls 2 Sekiro Dark Souls 3.

Demon's Souls has some piss easy bosses, save for the boss that can literally level you down. I'd suggest Dark Souls 1 and than Demon's Souls. Dark Souls 1 I think is the better game compared to Demon's Souls but Demon's Souls is more beginner friendly due to how extremely easy the bosses are. A few bosses put up a good fight for sure and it is still a hard game, I think Dark Souls 1 is far more perfected and balanced however and also more iconic.

>>714338476
fpbp

>>714338117 (OP)
Sekiro low key clears the rest of them

>>714338718
It's the worst action game ever.

>>714338476
>Don't play The Legend of Zelda, play Bayonetta
>Don't play Red Dead Redemption, play Celeste instead
>Don't play Resident Evil, play Minecraft instead
At least when you compared Nioh and Ninja Gaiden to to DMC and Metal Gear Rising it was the same genre.
I swear you people say the most nonsensical stuff on here.

>>714338684
I mean yeah I know, I just want to know what people thought a good recommendation would be, to an individual that would listen to what they say


I don’t think your order is that weird aside from playing bb and er between dark souls 2. At least you played the souls games in order, which I think was probably a unique experience in itself. I played it like

Ds2 (I struggled like a motherfucker it was crazy. Even the goddamn last giant gave me hell. I still remember how happy I was to beat him)
Ds1
Bloodborne
Dark souls 3
Sekiro
Demons souls
Elden Ring

This is just like playing FIFA. You play one game you played them all. No need to dabble in a shit series.

>>714339096
>t. hasn’t touched a souls game in his life

Nioh
Nioh 2
Wo Long
WuKong
Nine Sols
Lies of P
Rise of Ronin
I suggest you take that Fromslop cock out of your mouth.

>>714338117 (OP)
I don't understand why retards keep putting Sekiro in the same category as Souls, Bloodborne and Elden Ring.
Sekiro is not even the same genre.
It's like saying Armored Core is part of the Souls games.

>>714339734
>grounded third person gameplay
>mechanic similar to bonfires
>extravagant boss fights l
>RPG like elements
>Ability to make the game more difficult per player’s desire *cough* dark souls 2 *cough*
>Dodge mechanic

Hmm, I wonder why people put it in the same category.

>>714340034
You believe every modern Team Ninja game is also a souls game, don't you?

>>714340481
Fuck no, because they’re not even from games. You’re acting like people including Sekiro in the category is so insane, like there’s obviously a clear reason for it.

>>714338117 (OP)
Play half an hour of Elden Ring, realize they’re all that bad and stop.

>>714338117 (OP)
I never got into these games, but I acknowledge their popularity.
What makes them click for people? Is it the combat? The character building?

>>714338117 (OP)
Order release and you should emulate demon's souls first before anything else.

DS3, ER, and possibly Bloodborne will turn you into an absolute faggot if you play them first because you'll go into the older games thinking it's about LE COMBAT and then be disappointed when the bosses are easy or "weird"

You can only truly appreciate the games if you play them in release order, or at the least, a mix of DS2/DS1/DeS in any order

They're all shit games. It's the same slop quality as gacha maybe lower. Don't bother if your IQ is above a 90.

>bloodborne
>elden ring
>bloodbrone 2nd playthrough
>dont bother with the others
>maybe dark souls 3
>elden ring again

>>714340630
It’s the first and last time some people will experience the feeling of overcoming a seemingly difficult obstacle through miserable repetition in their lives.
If you do well in real life it feels like working retail.

>>714340630
For me, it’s the difficulty, the combat,lore, the rpg mechanics and the world exploration element that I find most intriguing

>>714340557
It is clearly insane because it's a statement made by people that either didn't play the game or are smooth brained enough to see a grounded action game and immediately think of Dark Souls.
The only thing Sekiro shares with the Soulsborne games is the "bonfire" because it's honestly just a really good mechanic when it's well implemented.
You cannot play Sekiro the same way you play Dark Souls, that's exactly what happened when the game released and why so many people got filtered.

I can't see anyone past the age of 19 enjoying this slop. It's the equivalent of those repetitive AI brainrot videos targeted towards toddlers. No functioning adult would find fun in this.

>>714340676
I wholeheartedly agree on the point about those games making you think it’s about combat. My friends actually haven’t played ds1/ds2 and have played the games you mentioned first. I don’t think they’ll ever be able to truly enjoy ds1 and ds2 because the series was in such a completely different place at that point. Bosses weren’t as difficult, the games weren’t as long, and combat wasn’t as complex. Still great games but very different. I hope they make a true return to form one day because it has felt too combat focused recently

Play Nioh 2 instead. You'll thank me later.

>>714341057
That’s not the only thing that it shares in common with the soulsborne games. The bosses, world exploration, combat, and rpg/leveling system are all akin games. It has nothing to do with if you play one like the other, it’s about what you see in one game that’s clearly present in the other. Given that they’re from the same developer, why wouldn’t people categorize them together?

>>714341313
Akin to the souls/bloodborne games *

Anyone that includes Sekiro in a list of Souls games is retarded.

>>714338942
all japanese action games are just legend of zelda ripoffs

>>714339084
I got into the Souls series later and was on the Elden Ring hype. I also bought a PS4 to play Ghost of Tsushima during lockdown so I thought I might as well play the shit out of Bloodborne next. After Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 I played them based on how cool I thought they were going to be.

>>714339734
It's not but Sekiro is made by the same company and has a lot of the same design philosophy and themes of the other games. It's kind of like Hollow Knight that while a metrovania has a lot of elements of the souls games, even if it was by complete accident.

>>714340630
i always loved an adventure and exploration. it had decent combat that wasn't as janky as others, and a well designed world even if it was linear. ds1 wasn't as interesting to me as des was because it was kinda re-treading the same things. since i'm so used to jank, ds2 didn't feel as bad and it ended up being my favourite of the bunch. The difficulty has never mattered to me at all and I cant think of a boss or encounter that ever gave me much trouble. But it was the fact it could lead to trouble is what I enjoyed.
All I want is a game with a proper world, like the Elder Scrolls, Gothic, or Divinity. But have the combat a lot more personal, similar to the early entries in the series. It's no surprise that Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen is one of my absolute favourite games.

>>714340676
This

The only time I ever cried about difficulty in Souls Games was the fucking Bloodborne Chalice Dungeons. Some of the bosses and enemies in there are some of Fromsoftware's most evil work. And by bosses and enemies I mean the chalice dungeon rom and the red version of her spiders that the bell maidens endless fucking spawn in those tight ass corridors. Holy fucking shit that shit was brutal for often awful rewards. Beating Queen Yharnam felt so good I got a raging boner from it.

>>714341553
Don't torture yourself in slogging through these games and instead focus on playing the millions of better RPGs out there.

>>714341862
I do play RPGs, but a lot dont have the combat I'm looking for
then again, I havent kept up with recent RPGs. anything interesting released in the past 2 - 3 years?

>>714341937
Don’t listen to that anon, these games are great

>>714341937
rpgs are dead, this is the age of rollslop

>>714341313
>The bosses, combat
Sekiro demands the player to approach combat and bosses in a very aggressive and proactive way. The resurrection mechanic is a consequence of this to give the player more margin of error because the player will have to act more aggressive in combat. The flow and tempo of boss fights is completely different and feels nothing like any Souls game.
>World exploration
The method that you traverse the world, your mobility and the way the levels are designed is also very distinct. There's a lot of emphasis in swinging with your grapple hook, sneaking and verticality.
>rpg/leveling system
Sekiro isn't an rpg. You can't upgrade or customize your stats. The only stats you can enhance are your vitality/posture and your damage and these aren't enhanced by leveling up, but by defeating bosses.
The only "rpg element" in Sekiro is the skill trees which is also absolutely nothing like Dark Souls' rpg elements because Souls ganes don't have skill trees. You don't even have different weapons or armor to get. You only have your sword and your shinobi tools.
Wolf at the start of the game and Wolf at the end of the game are very similar characters, the biggest difference in strength comes more from the player being better at the game than the character leveling up.

>>714342395
I’m not saying that they’re 1:1 alike. You’re correct in that Sekiro is very different from the Souls games in those ways, however, you can’t ignore that the clear presence of these mechanics can be used as an argument for the games to be categorized together. The bosses are approached differently yes, but you have boss rooms that you run back to from the bonfire, same way that you do in the souls games. The combat is extremely different, 100%, but like I said, it’s grounded third person combat, just like the souls games. You’re right, it’s not an RPG. However, It’s not in the specifics thats why people compare them, it’s in the more broad similarities in terms of overall gameplay as well as game structure. I understand if you disagree with people doing it but it shouldn’t be that hard to see why.

If you just want mindless combat without the hassle of a minimalistic shit story then play ZZZ which is free. No. Souls games aren't RPGs either.

Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring, in that order.

Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 add nothing.

>>714338117 (OP)
Release order. Maybe save Sekiro for last to see how much better it is than all others.

>>714342395
they play completely different but
>Sekiro demands the player to approach combat and bosses in a very aggressive and proactive way.
this is a part that i disagree with when seeing sekiro being discussed
I only played DS1/DS2 but it really felt like the bosses really rewarded you for finding an agressive way to land a lot of hits in, my first time around bell gargoyles i wasnt good at attacking and it felt bloody hard to land many successive hits with something like a longsword, the game isnt meant to be easy to just try to hammer the enemies as its not made for that but rewards you a ton whenever you can land it
As opposed to
>sekiro
which instead just makes it consistently easy to be aggressive and go forward with the ways enemies behave
>ds3
enemies are on such a level of rollslop that either you memorize a way to sidestep some key attacks, or everyones' playstyle defaults to reactive rolling -> counter attacking in between enemy attacks in the most generic way possible

If you wanna say the games' combat is different, just say "clashing blades is totally different from souls combat" and leave it at that, but then the other anon is right about a similarity that sekiro has with souls: deliberate combat, weighty/impactful moves, much better sense of poise and damage numbers and shit than its competitors. Which is precisely why souls combat is popular in the first place. Same for the interesting world/map

>>714340034
>sekiro
>dodge

>>714338117 (OP)
>Demon's after DS3
Why would you do that to yourself?

>>714340034
TIL Demon's Souls invented save points, third person cameras, boss fights, RPG elements, difficulty choices, and dodging.

>>714340034
>Dodge mechanic
>sekiro
Uhh...

>>714340630
For me it's one of those if it clicks it clicks things. If you can get into the mindset it's great. I understand why it's off-putting to many for various reasons, but a lot of those aspects are what I enjoy. I enjoy the feel of adventure and intrigue, and the difficulty adds to that.

>>714348221
>>714348457
It’s been a while since I’ve played it lol

>>714338476
lol
LMAO