Honest thoughts on Dark Souls 3, 9 years later?

>>715601568 (OP)
Second worst Souls game, behind DS1.

>>715601568 (OP)
best pvp of any video game ever
>but da latency
git gud

>>715601568 (OP)
It stinks.

>>715601568 (OP)
It did presentation very well. When entering new zones, and for boss fights cinematics.

>>715601568 (OP)
Best game of the Souls trilogy, the steeper evolution in mechanics and game design seen so far.
It also defined the RPG elements of future Souls games through how buffs and damage types work which was essentially coming from the insane DPS race and ridicolous stacking of DS2

>>715601568 (OP)
It was good but it's obsolete now

>>715601568 (OP)
It has always been my least favorite Souls game. It feels like a retread of everything before it, with Bloodborne’s fast paced combat shoved in.

In a word, the game felt uninspired to me. Like it was just created to satisfy a contractual agreement. Or souls slop that could be produced by AI.

>>715601568 (OP)
Great game. Its tied for best Souls with Ds2

>>715601568 (OP)
Despite issues, it's objectively the best souls games, by a mile

>>715601568 (OP)
I only played it a few years ago but I liked it. It's a good game.

>>715601568 (OP)
More like Dull Soulless Pee

>>715601568 (OP)
I liked 1 and 2, 1 for being awesome and 2 for running really well on my potato laptop but I only played the start of 3. Just fired up the ps4 and saw it was installed so I'll probably play it once I've gotten uncharted out of my system.

>>715601568 (OP)
Started out pretty good, got to bored to finished it. This is the only From game I haven't finished.
Also worst hub in the series.

>>715601568 (OP)
Overwhelmingly mid, for better or for worse. It doesn't really have any of the lows of the preceding ones, nor does it do anything particularly interesting to reach new highs. Exploration in it also feels much more linear than it does in the other 2. So it's probably the most technically sound, but I think its become my least favorite in the trilogy over the years.

>>715601568 (OP)
It was pretty fun generally and the PVP was the most fun I've had in years.

>>715601628
That's bait.

>>715601568 (OP)
It's the actual convergence (no pun intended) of the Souls genre.
It's where Fromsoftware finally decides the fundamental identity of the series and its any aspects
>larger dungeons around bonfires, with a stronger focus on the cinematic appeal of the setting than seen before. Almost any area starts with big views like Anor Londo and Dragon Shrine
>builds centered around stats that have multiple brackets of investment and that give access to multiple damage types
>stronger focus on asymmetric invasions and making 1vs1 much rarer
>an enemy design that is generally more mobile and reliant on area of effect, usually to enact some lingering hitbox
>a mix of Bloodborne systems based on hyperarmor and universal poise damage for enemies
I wouldn't be surprised if Fromsoftware keeps expanding vertically like Elden Ring but I doubt the genre would see such a massive shift in game design from Dark Souls 3

>>715601568 (OP)
>Dark Souls 3, 9 years later
No, that can't be true. It hasn't been that long.

Honestly felt like a downgrade from 2 with how much they removed
>powerstance
>poise
>hexes
>spell casts (fp sucks in ds3)
>armour upgrading
>boss weapons being viable and not joke weapons

And many more

>>715601568 (OP)
Most unfairly maligned game by people who didn't understand it, the same people who got filtered by Elden Ring.

Reminder that the same people who went on unhinged rant about how the game is not an RPG also complain that elemental weaknesses actually matter and you can't buffstack a split damage weapon and wipe anything like Dark Souls 2

I remember when they announced this game and my inerest plummeted when I heard they had fast travel from the beginning.
My personal no-hope-for-souls moment.

Looking back on what From did afterwards I think it's clear they do not intend to ever make something like the first half of DaS. This has gone on for so long the original community who despised this shit has almost completely fizzed away and the majority now considers it "tedious" to no be able to warp or change stats.

Given what Nightreign is it's clear From is headed the same path as all successfull studios. The next thing in line will be microtransactions and the community who started Souls at DaS3 or later will defend this.

Demon Prince is my favourite boss fight and I think it's still the best duo boss fight Fromsoftware has ever done.

>>715602497
You forgot to mention the best thing in Dark Souls II, Bonefire Ascetics.

>>715602497
>>powerstance
Powerstance was an awful mechanic that was always worse than 2 handing. Duel wielding was actually worth it in DS3
>>poise
Poise in Dark Souls 2 is nonexistant and even the most simple enemy will stagger and outdamage you. Dark Souls 3 makes poise matter
>>hexes
Dark Souls 3 rightfully split hexes into 3 categories to allow each caster type to get access to dark damage of some different form, but INT/FTH casters could cast them all with their dedicated dual scaling catalysts slightly more efficiently. It removed nothing from INT/FTH but opened up more options for everyone. People who hate this are retards that dont understand INT/FTH is now more flavourful and intended to wield multiple catalysts and Elden Ring doubled down by making INT/FTH a dedicated caster build only.
>>spell casts (fp sucks in ds3)
Nope, spell casts actually suck. With FPs you can take any kind of spell and pay what you actually use. Long gone are the times where taking Hidden Body meant sacrificing your ability to cast more Soul Spears, meaning you felt cucked for taking possible niche options. With FP there's a common resource shared by all builds that all builds will choose the level of investing to give into
>>armour upgrading
Wasting titanite on an armor you might or might not change depending on equip load was awful and raising flat damage reduction always meant that it was pointless against bosses. Even with Iron Flesh and heavy armor bosses in Dark Souls 2 could 2 shot you.
>>boss weapons being viable and not joke weapons
Some of the strongest weapons in Dark Souls 3 are boss weapons

>>715602608
>elemental weakness
go back to pokemon nerd.

>>715601628
Funny way of spelling ER

>>715601568 (OP)
1 > 3 > 2 > demon

>>715603043
There's no way you think Demon's Souls is worse than fucking 2

>>715602885
It has the Taurus Demon problem where gluing yourself to the boss makes it harmless.

>>715601568 (OP)
imo its the Fromsoftware sweet spot. It evolved out of DS1 and 2's clunky, pain in the ass nature, but it hasn't evolved too far into the anime bullshit that is Elden Ring.
Also very comfy map. High Wall of Lothic, Undead Settlement, Road of Sacrifices, Catacombs of Carthus, Irithyll, and Lothric Castle stick out to me as very fun stomping grounds

>>715603612
Yeah that's bullshit

>>715601568 (OP)
It's ER Nightreign v.5
Literally slop with reused assets and bossrush gameplay

>>715603137
it was just too primitive and easy. you can literally just walk away from the bosses mid fight to heal whenever you want. i ended the game with like 200 grasses in my inventory

>>715601568 (OP)
Unplayable. Exists solely to tempt niggers into buying the bloodbornestation.
I wish it never existed. Destroyed everything the series was renowned for.

>>715601568 (OP)
Based, it filtered niggers