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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I played Dark Souls 3 in 2018. I spent over an hour trying to beat the first boss, and then asked my friend for help.

He told me it’s not the first boss, just a tutorial. I had never played one of those games before or since then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Besides what cod already said there's also a pretty big shift from slow and methodical gameplay of the first game towards fast and furious one in the third entry.

I like the first two games for example but the third one never really clicked with me, partially because of the fast and spammy enemies that became common in DS3. If you still want to try the series but don't mesh well with DS3 I'd suggest checking out the first game if you get a chance - you might end up like me.

The second one is also good but it has its own problems that are pretty contentious among DS players so I'd stick with the release order to be safe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

My first souls game was DS3 too. The tutorial boss probably killed me more than any other boss in that game, with one exception near the end. I really struggled with it. I finally did see that game to the end though, and eventually got really into the rest of the FromSoftware games too. When I revisited DS3 a few years ago and did a new playthrough, I was amazed how easy the tutorial boss felt. It was crazy. That’s the fun part of Dark Souls, you get so much better at the game by the end and when you go back to replay you realize just how far you came. Old challenges are like a walk in the park.