Souls games peaked with Demon's Souls

I borrowed my brother's PS3 to play demon's souls because I kept seeing the general threads on /v/ and I fucking loved it, and then got to buy dark souls on the midnight release.


I love all the games but the music is absolutely getting worse the longer it goes on though. Dark Souls had such a better soundtrack vs 2, 3, or Elden Ring

>>715981030 (OP)
(PS5 version)

>>715981030 (OP)
demons souls isnt really that good desu

>>715981179
Reddit spacing is a bannable offense btw

>>715981179
You don't like 90% silence, 10% orchestral score with the one note from higher up being 'make this epic'?

>>715981179
caligo is the best boss song they've ever made thoughbeit

>>715981030 (OP)
I never get the Demon's Souls praise... it just screams '35 year old nostalgiafag boomercope' to me, like how millennials think Brosnan is the best Bond because they simply grew up with him in the role.
>Worst boss fights in the series
>Worst level design in the series (archstones are a lazy and boring concept)
>Least amount of content in the series, there are like 8 zones total in the game.
>The original has aged the worst in the series (besides DS2).

It's still a 7/10 game, but I don't get the hype.
DS1>BB>DS3>Sekiro>ER>DS2>DeS

>>715981896
It's literally people that don't actually like souls games and contrarian Shazamtrannies
They complain that the games have become flanderized or somehow lost their 'purpose' as the developers succumbed to diabolical gaming trends, but will never actually justify just what makes a game that is so inherently similar to its successors so incomparably superior beyond whiffy dogshit arguments like it has soul or atmosphere

ER>Sekiro>BB>DS1>DS3>DeS>DS2

>>715981030 (OP)
This was debunked

>>715981896
Demon's Souls is the most unique and immersive one.

>>715983194
Arcane Kinship is that you?

>>715983479
it really isn't... Sekiro, BB, and even DS2 are more "unique" than Demon's Souls...
Immersive? You literally teleport from level to level, there is no fluidity in the gameplay loop, unlike any of the other games.
And don't say some bullshit like 'but it's the most grounded and RAW experience' when DS1 does all of that but better.

>>715983702
>Arcane Kinship is that you?
Probably not because he made actually good points, not that half assed "defense"

>>715983865
>Sekiro, BB, and even DS2 are more "unique" than Demon's Souls...
No they are not. DS2 and BB are using Demon's as a base and just focus on combat just like all the other action games.
Sekiro is just a Tenchu game.
>You literally teleport from level to level, there is no fluidity in the gameplay loop, unlike any of the other games.
This is a problem with all Souls games as they all have fast travel. At least the DeS levels are immersive.
>when DS1 does all of that but better
DS1 is way less grounded and high fantasy. DeS on the other hand is focused on making its world feel believable which also makes its fantastical parts like the Nexus stand out more.

>>715984129
>he made actually good points

>>715984960
Yes
>>715984620
>No they are not. DS2 and BB are using Demon's as a base and just focus on combat just like all the other action games.
??? No they don't. Whatever arbitrary made up bullshit you decided that constitutes "focus on combat", it's a fallacious argument

>Demon souls
amazing aura, music,world but game play is ass and rough

>Dark souls
Everything almost as good as demon souls with the whole "Bed of chaos" area being rushed lowering the score on aura but the game play was way better.

>Dark souls 2
Very interesting concept but it was lacking in pretty much every area poor execution

>Bloodborne
The real 3rd souls game amazing world amazing combat great lore a return to horror roots just a great time all around the dlc made it 100x better real issues with the pvp and bell maiden bullshit though

>Dark souls 3
Its good and has its on unique aura but is also straight up nostalgia bait it has the most polished combat of the dark souls games but don't expect to see much here in terms of "New"

>eldenring
Has a lot of problems present in open world games a lot of the world is emptiness and when you are making multiple builds its gets really annoying collecting shit with hours upon hours lost to long horse rides. But if you only have one file this is less of an issue also when you have a big open world like this and the only way you can interact with things is through violence it becomes less interesting like why even do open world?
Combat is polished but we never really get to the level of bloodborne again the dlc is a huge power creep with weird as shit scaling.


Good series one of the best ever made but i miss bloodborne alot.

>>715985136
Longer movesets for enemies and bosses constitutes "focus on combat"

>>715985164
>>715981402

>>715985164
>but is also straight up nostalgia bait
It isn't
>but don't expect to see much here in terms of "New"
Like what?
>>715985913
No it doesn't

>>715986105
>No it doesn't
how

>>715984960
why did you just repeat his post but with maymay arrows

>>715981030 (OP)
change that to dark souls 1 and I'd agree. invasions and covenants were better.

>>715981030 (OP)
Agreed.

>>715987059
>posts the demake
>thinks his opinion matters