I want to get into souls-games. Is DS3 a good start?

>>715545971 (OP)
No, start with the first game like you would with any other series.

>>715546093
I don't care about lore i only want gameplay and i've heard 3 is the most noob-friendly

>>715545971 (OP)
You're ten years later to the party so don't bother.

>>715546602
I don't care about FOMO either

>>715545971 (OP)
I am one of the biggest DaS3 defenders on Earth but no. DaS3 is very specifically designed to conclude DaS1 and 2's narrative throughline, and DaS1 specifically is the only "must play" between the 3.

>>715545971 (OP)
Play DS1 first.

>>715546659
>>715546301
>Arrogantly postuing about how you're a badass independent soul
>Still ask /v/ for permission to play game
Ahahahahahahahahaha

>>715546301
all souls are fucking easy, just throw a dice. u can play half the game with the fire dagger gift without putting a single stat into str or dex

>>715545971 (OP)
>Is DS3 a good start?
Yes. It's the best-selling one in the series for a reason and was a lot of people's introduction to the games.

>>715546936
I never said any of those things, quit projecting your insecurities schizo

>>715546876
Also >>715546301
It's not. It's the DaS with the best quality of life and fewest bullshit esoteric design choices, but it's generally harder than 1 or 2. 1 is the most noob friendly and the most fun on an initial playthrough.

>>715546301
What do you mean by "noob friendly"? Dark Souls 3 assumes you've played 1 already for the new versions of older zones, characters, etc (and the DLC assumes 2 as well). And it is a harder game than either.

>>715545971 (OP)
contrarians on this board will tell you that the game sucks because it's the most popular one, but it's a great game. It doesn't matter which game you start with, the difficulty of these games is overblown

Play GOD souls 2 instead
Play them in chronological order you fucking retard nigger

>>715547060
You're the insecure one, needing /v/ to justify your actions rather than just picking up what you want to play.

>>715545971 (OP)
Start with the first game, its a classic.
and playing DS3 makes me want to play DS1 again

>>715546301
Most noob friendly is Demon's Souls, and it's the best starting point, and best game in the series.

2009 on PS3 or emulate, only remake if you really have no other option.

>>715547380
i will do that

>>715545971 (OP)
>>715547251
>Play them in chronological order you fucking retard nigger
This except skip 2. It's the worst one and not canon anyway so save yourself the trouble

>>715545971 (OP)
Its rollspam dogshit and the death of old fromsoft game design.
Fromsoft threw away most of their weird obtuse mechanics to HARD focus on an objectively 1 dimensional combat system where the roll is everything. Its downright PARODY what this game thinks enemy movesets should be. For 100% of your playtime you will be watching armored knights do flips and spins into 7 hit combos. While your only interaction with this is roll and r1. Real action games give your character the cool spins too, so DS3 utterly fails at its entire focus. DS3 is what a 0/10 triple A game looks like
Shadow tower Kingsfield 4 and Dark souls 1 are the most proper Fromsoft games. DS3 is the anti Fromsoft game.
>>715546659
Then start with Kingsfield 1994 and quit after Dark souls 2. Everything Past that is irredeemable dogshit

>>715545971 (OP)
Start with the first you mongol
Then 2
Then maybe 3, but only if you're really craving for more.

>>715547896
2 is good. You dont understand Fromsofts appeal, i do.

>>715547896
DS2 is the only entry with a story worth a dime.

>>715548015
You're mixing up 3 and ER. 3 still has pretty grounded bosses with few exceptions and the best animation work of the Souls games

I will play with you regardless of which one you choose, OP.

>>715548378
cute :3

If you care about armour and shields and poise play 1 and don't bother with 3 unless all you want to do is roll

>>715546301
3 has the worst gameplay, worst aesthetics, worst world and the least interesting bosses overall. It was made from low-effort assets slapped together in a hurry and it shows.
DaS3 is punching in the same weight class as DaS2, which was stapled together from salvaged, practically placeholder assets with a lot of ambitious featurecreep.
If you're playing souls, then you're playing it because you want some decently competent Japanese eurojank-like dungeoncrawler gameplay and only DaS1 delivers on that (DeS does as well, but that's a PS3 title with dead online).

Do not listen to retards shitting on 2. Play them all. They are shitters.

You can start with 3, sure. But why would you when you can easily start with 1? The only one that takes additional effort to play is Demons Souls.

>>715545971 (OP)
Yeah. You might find it a little hard to adjust to the previous games after starting with 3, but it's overstated. Have fun.

They're all the same shit
But there are some more shit than others

>>715548421
You're cute too! :3

>>715547896
>not canon

>>715545971 (OP)
i started with 3 and my favorite is 1
they all play just different enough that they all feel fresh in my opinion
story absolutely does not matter btw

This fag >>715548682 isn't me.
I will play with you if you want, as long as you're on PC.

>>715545971 (OP)
That's where I began and I enjoyed every game except dark souls 2.

>>715548741
Of course we're not the same person, you butt hurt chump!

You're not even good at playing video games anyway!

>>715548628
1 and 2 are the same
3 is faggot rollspam retardation

>>715547896
Kek 2 is the only one after 1 with original good ideas before they nust sucked iff normies with fanservice like in 3.

People who didnt enjoy ds2 where made cause rolling isnt a get oht of jail card anymore.
Game filtered the weak normies and whats left are true gamingGODS who truly wanted to master a game

>>715545971 (OP)
Start with Demon’s Souls and work your way up

>>715546301
whoever told you that is trolling, DS1 is the most noob friendly

>>715545971 (OP)
its a shit game, ds1 only one worth playing

Kingsfield and Shadow tower are better games than the souls series. Theres 5 great Kingsfield and shadow tower games. Meanwhile theres 1.5 good souls games
Boomers won, zoomers lost and all is right in the world. Fromsoft lost their way, just like Bethesda, just like Capcom

>>715547896
2 is the best one because its different.

>>715550024
This. In 2 you had some control over the difficulty. If you wanted to roll like the first game you need adaptability, if you were having trouble getting to a boss killing enemies several times will make them de-spawn them you can burn a bonfire ascetic that make the enemies come back but they're stronger.

>>715545971 (OP)
3 is the worst in the series

>>715550783
NO RETARD, YOU NEED AGILITY. WHICH IS FROM ADP ANNNNNNND ATTUNEMENT

Dark Souls 2 is the only souls game you should be playing

All the Dark Souls games are great; never understood the hate towards 2 and 3 (and 1 as of late).
In my opinion 1 is the best of the three due to being the most "balanced" when it came to the sum of its parts.
2 was uneven, full of great peaks and low valleys, and 3 was the most polished but at the same time it was too straightforward.

>>715551317
I'm going to play the original Dark Souls 2 next time so I can see for myself how much of the discourse surrounding it is bullshit.

Fromdrones should be lined up against the wall and shot

>>715545971 (OP)
I did, and it was an interesting enough experience. It sort of shows you all the best and worst tropes of the genre so you can decide if you like it or not. The visual design is excellent, the music is solid, a cohesive story is basically nonexistent, the gameplay is fun but tedious at times, and I avoided the multiplayer like the plague, so I wouldn't know what to tell you about that other than the coop system is really shit.

>>715550468
Based

>>715545971 (OP)
>ewwww le clunky!!!
You don't actually enjoy videogames. You want to be in the souls club, be part of its community, and nothing more.
Normies like you killed this medium

>>715555012
You say this but Kingsfield hard filtered you

>>715555137
If I don't play a game it's exclusively because I'm not interested in the game itself.
If you don't play a game it's because it won't get you to be a part of an online community and/or it's not a FOTM shilled game with HOYYYPE.

We are not the same

>>715555821
Ooof, I think he's taking it hard.
Not that DS3 is FoTM anymore anyway.
But you are saying this to the wrong person. Games im playing now include Rance9, TRAG, Might and magic 6, Fortune summoners and Dead or school. Fortune summoners in particular is so good but so underdiscussed that its anti FoTM. I may make a thread on it but like most of my threads it will probably die due to not being FoTM, slop, news, or ragebait.

We are not the same. I am your superior

>>715555012
who are you quoting?

>>715557113
Then why are you so fucking scared of playing DaS1 faggot

>>715557284
I did multiple times. But replaying Kingsfield and Shadow tower are just better experiences. Nice assumptions assuuuuuuuumer

I out autismed the most autistic person in the room and the thread dies.
*sigh* Story of my life

>>715546301
Play DeS, its the most noob friendly without having to minmax it, every later entry gets harder but is given a disproportionate amount of cheese to compensate. People like to rag on DS1 for poise which is literally not even that egregious of a crutch but then pretend that faggot tier buff stacking and weapon art abuse isnt present in DaS3 and that mimic tear, status effect, and ash of war abuse isn't present in Elden Ring. Basically: DeS = easiest base game, not many crutches, Elden Ring = hardest base game but it turns into the easiest if you use every crutch possible

Bait is so weak it’s crazy

Play in this order:

er -> ds2 -> des -> ds3 -> ds1 -> ds2 sotfs

>>715557420
So then you're not OP and therefore not the recipient of my message, dumb fuck

>>715547094
>And it is a harder game than either.
>ds3 babies actually believe this

>ds3 is now considard hard and complex
Did i enter bizzaro /v/ or is the contrarian pendulum swinging back

>>715545971 (OP)
Start with 1 then 3
Skip 2

>>715548697
>Le token of barely canon acknowledgment
We already talked about this

>>715545971 (OP)
>>715546301
Please kill yourself and stay away from any fromsoftware game

>>715560641
>>715560780
Its harder entirely because roll timings is 100% of the game. DS1 never made you roll the 8 hit combos

>>715561637
Neither does Dark Souls 3

>>715545971 (OP)
kys

>>715561856
>straight up lying
DS3 rollslopers have found a new low

>>715561965
>>715561576
You say this but Kingsfield filtered you

>>715547896
https://youtu.be/RzKBTYCaLkM?feature=shared
Watch the movie instead, quite enjoyable desu.

>>715562060
It didn't. King's Field IV is my favorite after Demon's Souls. Hang yourself retard nobody likes you

>>715562060
yeah, what a loss

>>715562494
Finally, somebody with taste

>>715562747
Thank you bro

>>715561464
I didn't know it was possible to this wrong.
>Vendrick's tale is about greed
no it's not
>Obtain power = became super ruler
literally how gods in DS1's opening cinematic work
>fire generates souls
citation needed
>muh multiple souls
as if DS3 didn't canonize reusing everything out the ass
>muh canon, muh shards of Manus
le blood... of le dark soul...
>thinking it's Vendrick who was shipping the undead away to Lost Bastille and Huntsman's Copse when the latter is connected to Old Iron King and the Bastille is older than many kingdoms
Dismantles the whole "Vendrick is evil" argument.
>the entire paragraph about the curse
Nowhere does DS2 imply that curse is the same as petrification, it's even 2 different status effects. NPC in DS1 die for good even when not hollow so again his core argument is worthless. Hollowing also IS inherent state of humanity, it's there in the opening cinematic of DS1.
>canonizing fucking dragon butts
tl;dr DS2 good, you a shit, don't pretend you didn't write this screencap yourself you dunce

Play whatever you want.

But you're a fucking moron casual retard if you don't play a series in release order.

>>715561992
nta, but a lot of DS3 spergout boss attacks can be stopped by a good shield, and attacks that can't are almost never spergouts.

>>715563016
>as if DS3 didn't canonize reusing everything out the ass
None of the unique Boss Souls of DS3 ever existed in DS1 and 2
>le blood... of le dark soul...
Your Souls and Humanity were always left on the ground in a bloodstain.

I would also like to add (not contest) that you do meet sane (if a bit loony) Hollows in DS1, with the Hollow Merchants of Undead Burg.

>>715550024
All DS2 did to rolling was buff it compared to DS1 so not sure wtf you're on

>>715551317
Play Demon's Souls, realize that is shares a lot of DS1's strengths that aren't present in the latter games and you better understand some of the dislike of DS2 and DS3

>>715549923
DS3 fanservice:
>Anor Londo still standing but with a whole new city built around it
>some of the last black knights still around killing whatever is left of demonkind
>fair lady's corpse
>The undead legion formed after being inspired by artorias' myth
Meanwhile in DS2:
>hey here's ornstein thrown in randomly

>>715563508
>None of the unique Boss Souls of DS3 ever existed in DS1 and 2
So what? If NPC can be reused (and presumably they have their own souls, just not in gameplay terms), then why not bosses?
>Your Souls and Humanity were always left on the ground in a bloodstain.
Which apparently is this super important plot point that crowns the game, much more important than a final boss of a DLC.
> Hollow Merchants of Undead Burg
Just because they're raisin men doesn't mean they're hollow, just like the MC.

>>715548015
Manus slapping me 10 times into the ground and then hitting me with an abyss wall twice before I had the frame time to react is not an obtuse game mechanic.

DaS3 gets too much hate on /v/ for some reason.

>>715545971 (OP)
3 is the most normie. I prefer the aesthetic and gameplay of 1 and 2 far more. If you want the better noob friendly experience play eldenring

>>715548697
Don't forget to mention one of the DLC zones is literally earthenpeak in the future

>>715566206
>tumblerbrina
>defending rollslop

Best game in the trilogy and better than Bloodborne

>>715545971 (OP)
3 has almost zero fun levels. It's literally all downhill after undead settlement and cathedral. 1 is worth playing first, if not only for the fact that it will be easy as fuck for you if you play any other souls game before it.

>>715564012
>NPC can be reused
No NPCs that died in the previous games are reused, only Andre and he's Undead with a singular purpose, unlikely to go crazy.
>Which apparently is this super important plot point that crowns the game, much more important than a final boss of a DLC.
No, it's a worlbuilding detail that's always been there and never used like that.
>Merchants
The raisin form of the player is called "Hollow Form". This is true in the later games as well.