Honest thoughts on Dark Souls 3?

>>383153906
Worst soulsborne game

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>/v/
>honest

>>383153906
It's a good game, but it plays it very safe. Combine this with the formula becoming stale and you have yourself a game that has very divided opinions

Was the Dreg Heap and Ringed City content From planned for the vanilla DS3?

The Anor Londo moment?

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>>383153906
If you're playing for PVP you won't enjoy it as much unless you get creative with your invasions.
I liked the difficulty curve. Some of the area design kinda sucked. I also like how they made it a pain in the ass to infuse weapons and locked all the pvp "crucial" stuff behind optional bosses that made it a pain in the ass to do low level invasions.
The PVE is pretty good this time around mainly because of how bullshit ridiculous some bosses are.

It was fun, but i didnt feel like replaying it, which has always been part of the games.

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>>383153906
Worst in the series. A linear, boring mess with a few good bosses and a terrible color palate.

>>383154579
how does it feel to have absolutely retarded opinions?

Pretty hype the first run, then you get to Crucifixion Woods and Farron Keep on your second and realize you have no desire to continue.

Gael and TRC in general were a letdown, if I wanted to play Bloodborne, I'd go play Bloodborne. Midir was a good fight though.

>>383153906
Best gameplay in the DaS series (including DeS, excluding Bloodborne which I haven't played), can only complain about how poise is randomly handled (either none, either too much)
Relatively well polished, never felt there were shit segments besides obvious re-used areas (untended graves) unlike DaS II and late DaS I
Plays too safe for the level design and never tries something new; the game never takes risks, even in the DLCs which could have compensated
Lore-wise vanilla game is okay despite fanservice, DLCs rely too much on "le time and space are convoluted xD" to justify everything (though the end of Ringed City is a nice view)

>>383153906
One of the best Soulsborne games, only Bloodborne is better.

>>383153906
one of the best games i've ever played.
definitely better than the witchert 3, tbqh

>>383153906
Worst in the series by far.

Is DaSIII dlc good enough to warrant anothrt playthrough?

>>383154681
deep down you know it's true

Beat it once and have never had to urge to replay it.

>>383155183
>DLC 1 - Painted World bonus level
>DLC 2 - The last level we were supposed to get and was sold as DLC to make some extra cash from the fans who want the 'end of dark souls' and season passes for the publisher

Overall a great game. I felt the game was way too linear and reused too many assets from Bloodborne. The amount of bonfires was quite excessive and the Dark Souls 1 pandering shouldn't have been there. The removal of armor upgrading was dumb and so was the removal of features introduced in Dark Souls 2. Its DLCs were also underwhelming.

I feel this game was ruined because of Dark Souls 1 fanboys and that's why From pandered to them hard, which hindered the game's progression. I also feel Miyazaki was tired of Souls game and it came at a time when people were feeling fatigue from Souls-like games.

>>383155259
ds3 has no area that's as badly designed as lost izalith
deep down you know it's true

>>383153906
DS1=BB>DeS>DS3>>>>>DS2

>>383155473

That's a no then?

I really liked DaSIII, the main problem I had with it is there was not enough content

>>383155529
what are the worst designed areas of the series?

Dark Souls =/= Dark Souls III
Has a very different feel to it, feels more like BB in another dimension.
>More Bonfires
>Faster attack animations
>Traveling between bonfires from the start
>No significant alternate routes between huge areas
>Spontaneous Estus recharge now and then

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>>383155686
If you reversed this, it would be way better.

>>383155529
it also has no area even half as good as anor londo
deep down you know it's true

>>383155717
The DLC just adds 3 extra zones. Up to you if you want to pay money for it.

Personally I bought the fire fades edition and was disgusted that they sold the last area as downloadable content.

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>>383156032
>mfw it literally has anor londo in it

>>383154681
Hes right though

Never played ds1 so it was neat to see some locals from that in ds3.
Still played ds2 more than ds3 tho.

>>383155717
The ringed city is one of the best, if not the best group of area in the game in my opinion. It's just sad they sold it as a DLC, but it's great.
Ariandel is short and pretty ok, the boss is great though.

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>>383156197
mfw it's just a much shittier version used because they ran out of good ideas

it's a metaphor for all of DaS3

>>383154681
Nah, he's right.

>>383153906
Play it once, figure out there's no build variety. Don't play it again.

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Best bosses in the series, worst areas in the series.

I can't be the only one that was super dissapointed in almost every aspect of the game right?
Not as a "everything sucks" but actually just worse than it should be
the obvious complaint a lot of people have is how safe it is with how much is borrows from DaS1 but the issues I have with DaS3 is almost everything
One of the biggest are flurries. So many enemies had attacks that would just go on and on with no elegance to it and the most effective way to deal with it was to get away where in DaS1 you could sometimes just walk or run past attacks when you knew their hitboxes well enough, but both DaS2 and 3 have enemies homing into you more so you have to roll and congratulations you have now rolled through an 8 attack flurry with perfect timing and you're out of stamina so it will always be better off just rolling away to regain stamina and watch them go through their massively overdone attack patterns
And I was really just hoping that at some point a few areas would connect like in DaS1 but they just give you a semi-linear area to explore then funnel you through a door to the next area. Which isn't the worst they couldn't done but why are we regressing.

>>383154084
He said 3, not 2.

>>383157109
>2
>bad
You've got some viewing to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRTfcMeqhig

>>383153906
I fucking hate it. DS2 is better.

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>>383156587
>>383156401
about it being the worst in the series or about it being a linear boring mess with a terrible color palette? You can't honestly think the game is trash.

>>383157271
explain

>>383157109
honestly SotFS is better than 3, it has build variety, better PvP and some cool areas that actually brought new ideas to the table

>>383153906
More easy than Crash Bandicoot series.

>>383157215
>I get all my opinions from bad youtubers

DS2fags, everyone

>>383157403
>I honestly think a second try was better than 3
lol, yeah if were giving everyone second chances I'm sure all the games could be a ton better

>>383157283
>posts the 1 (one) good area in the entire game
wew

>>383157479
>I dislike 2 because matthewmathosis visit's /v/

>>383154084
bloodshit is pretty crappy too

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>>383157572
all the reasons I presented are in base DaS2 anon, SotFS just fixed annoying stuff like enemy placement

>>383157683
>matthewmathosis

Literally who.

>>383153906
its shit

>>383155686
Anyone who doesn't put DeS in last 2 spot should be ignored, cancerous nostalgia whores.

>>383156197
They have a generic castle level that with a few sections ripped straight from DS1 that just happens to have anor londo for a name, but yeah, literally anor londo.

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Lets go visit the flying lavacastle

>>383157479
>no argument
Not surprising, because that youtube video single-handedly destroys all anti-DaS2 complaints.

>>383157573
>ignores the question so that I have to waste more time getting baited
please anon

>>383158025
>>383156569
Guys I still don't think 3 was the worst game, that spot is reserved for 2, but obviously this was a joke. thanks for the (you)s

>too many enemies
>too many mimics
>too linear
>movesets became too anime
>too many iframes on the roll
>too many covenants
>bad item placement that punishes players for trying any other build besides strength and/or dex
>second boss phases get boring
>terrible pacing; the lords after Abyss Watchers are fought quickly one after the other
>Ariendel was terrible
>Ringed City was good
>they completely gave up on the story and threw in a bunch of random shit to laugh at lorefags, which I'm sort of okay with
>The game looks gross using BB's engine. Colors are bad.
>best gesture is missing (well, what is it)

I liked it

>>383155686
This is a pretty good ranking. I'm playing through bloodborne now and its solid so far.

>>383157215
That video is an admission of shitposting

Shitposting is against the rules senpai

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Honest opinion incoming. When I first heard about dark souls and all the good things it was supposed to have, I tried DS1, was very disappointed and looked at every soulsborne fan with utter disdain ever since. Then, a really good friend of mine told me to pick DS3 up on steam sale, since it's "the easiest, the best looking and overall the best game of the series", and if I had problems with it, he would beat it for me in coop and have fun together. However, from the very start it made a much better impression than DS1: locations are actually beautiful and not the same looking ugly brown corridors, character editor allows you to actually create human-looking characters, and overall it has a much better feel to it. First 10 hours were really hard for me as a souls virgin, but I really felt motivated to keep going. I finished the game a couple days back, and my opinion right now is that boss fights were amazing, but everything in between was kinda mediocre. Also, lore seems pretty nice, although I see no benefits in it being fed to the player by such indirect ways.

>>383154681
It does have terrible colors

>>383153906
Proof that listening to your fans too much and focusing on giving them nothing but what they ask for can be a terrible idea.

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>>383158825
Screw the rules, I have money.

>>383153906
Best bosses overall
Tied for best soundtrack with DaS1/BB
Worst Atmosphere
Worst world building
Okay level design
PVP is shit on alot but its decent in a good connection but otherwise shit and even when decent like 6-7/10 decent probably a 6
Invasions are fucking shit half the time since the netcode is shit and people walk around with Havel friends in groups of 3 usually and if you're lucky you get people alone or with 1 person making it possible.


Its a mediocre game with quality in some areas. The problem is even DaS2 had this empty atmosphere that made the world feel dead in a good way. But DaS3 feels populated despite having probably the same amount of NPCs because of the pace and scale of the bosses going full anime half the time.

Also it hardly feels like you're traversing or making it through levels since you can run past anything that isn't a boss with ease. And yeah you can do that in 1/2/BB but not in 1/2 the first time and BB had a different atmosphere it did right.

>>383159593
>Tied for best soundtrack
Eh
Bunch of generic bombastic songs. The only song I can remember is from the dragon fight in The Ringed City.

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very bad game

>>383161785
Let's see them screenies, boyo.

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>bonfire warping from the start
>external hub
>linear world
>spammy infinite stunlock-fest combat
>barely any stamina management
>non-existent weapon degradation
>casul-friendly invasion system
>gimmick/easy bosses
it's garbage.

>>383153906
it's a good game but a lot of things are not explained in the lore, like
>what do hollows gain from turning to angels / pilgrim butterflies?
>why do angels try to kill you even if you're with londor?
>why does the pilgrim butterfly try to kill you if you're with londor?
>why does londor use the same symbolism used in the ringed city?
>what is the dark sigil?
>why are hollows the "true form" of men if you hollow by losing your dark soul, the very thing that makes you human?
>will the fire burn out if you choose the usurpation of fire ending, eventually leading to an end of fire and a new first flame?
>why isn't the end of fire a new age of ancients?
>what is the profaned flame?
>why didn't they add new dialogue for yuria in the final dlc?
and not in a good way either
you could figure out more or less everything in DS1
you can't do that in this game because there are such huge fucking gaps everywhere and I know it's intentional but it's not done elegantly at all

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Finished ds1 and ds2 for the fist time last week started playing ds3 today and its diferente. graphic is nice and the whole setting but i hate it how easy it is to dodge everything. Its feels like i just roll and backstep every enemy because its super easy to do. Even the bosses are easy as fuck i just run into them and hit r1.
I still have fun with the game but its not like ds1 and if you think you gone get a ds1 with better graphic by playing it you gone hate it

>>383158146
what question? they agreed with him

Worst story of all 3
Worst world of all 3 (yes, worse than the slotted nonsense that was ds2)
Worst early game of all 3
Worst mid game of all 3
Best end game of all 3
Worst PvP of all 3
Worst enemies of all 3
Best music of all 3
Some good bosses
Overall a 5/10, was not the note the series should've ended on

Am I retarded?
I enjoyed every souls game that I played, don't really have a favourite and enjoy what every entry did to the series, all of them did something good and something awful.
I really don't get this elitism

>>383153906
It would be the best in the series if it wasn't so linear and the world was better connected.

>>383164059
This

>>383153906
better than 2

Most /v/ havent finished playing it. Heck, i doubt most have played the serial starting from Demon Souls, its all just bandwagon on the hype or hate.

>>383157573
>Cathedral of the Deep
>Irithyll Dungeon
>Profaned Capital
>Anor Londo
>Lothric Castle
>Dukes Archives
>Archdragon Peak
>Dreg Heap
>Ringed City

""""""""bad""""""""

blatant shitposting

>>383167783
Grand Archives* Whoops!

>>383157215
He's making some really great points but I'm really distracted by how bad he is at the game

>>383154579
This thread is about Dark Souls 3, not Bloodborne.

>>383153906
Second best soulsborne
Great bosses
Okay areas, mostly good level design
Good OST

>>383169247
this plus best dlcs.

>>383153906
Better than 2, but still a weaker game than the others. It was fun enough but i never finished a second playthrough.

I didn't like how the combat speed felt like a hybrid of DaS and BB. Heavy armor is pointless and roll spam was a problem. Only a handful of memorable bosses.

>>383167783
Grand archives was shit. Most of these were really bland and uninspired, and the ones that weren't were really short, like they were all either rejected levels or partially recycled from the previous games. It's insane.

>>383153906
It has the worst enemy variety in the soulsborne series.


>high wall
Generic boring zombies and knights.
>undead settlement
More zombies but with peasant clothing.
>road of sacrifices
Shittier stupid callback enemies to crow demons from DaS1, more boring zombies but now with sticks, and uhh giant crabs lol.
>farron keep
Shitty crawling slugs, rehashed enemies from previous games, and boring cliche goatmen.
>cathedral of the Deep
More zombies, more knights, and some gimmicky maggot retards. Oh and don't forget the rehashed slimes from DaS1!
>catacombs
Generic skeletons.
>smoldering lake
Rehashed enemies from previous areas and some cliche goat demons.
>irithyll
More zombies and knights.
>irithyll dungeon
Shittier mindflayers and some crawling shit mobs.
>Profaned capital
MEMBER GARGOYLES!!!?!!
>anor londo
Rehashed enemy from DaS1.
>lothric castle
Not a single new enemy introduced. All enemies are from high wall even though this area is majorly important.
>consumed garden
Literal poop monsters that you can only with fire.
>untended graves
Rehashed enemies from previous areas.
>grand archives
Reskinned Deacons but with candles on their heads.
>archdragon peak
Annoying shittier snakemen from DaS1.
>painted world
More knights, more shitty corvians aka demon crow ripoffs and some reskinned dog wolves.
>dreg heap
Shitty DaS2 tier crawling zombies and more tedious fat knight enemies.
>ringed city
More zombies and knights and some dumb grasshoppers at the end.

Story is tripe and the DLC is even worse.

Fucking fight me on this.

>>383169837
I went into Ringed city hoping for some closure on the series, i really didn't feel like i got it.

We saw a bit of "The Dark Soul," or its blood i guess, whatever the fuck Gael meant by it.
At least we saw the pygmies.

>>383169837
>Story is tripe
Literally every souls game, even Bloodborne
They don't have great stories because their storytelling is obnoxious as fuck. What they do well is background information and lore.

>>383170272
>At least we saw the pygmies.
As literal corpses and they only raised even more questions than answers.

This bullshit that the Souls series pulls with its half assed exposition can only excuse so much.

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>>383170503
Are these guys pygmies?

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I just don't care, I couldn't even muster the motivation to play the DLC. So it's literally worse than DS1, at least you can make fun of how shitty it is and how deluded its fanboys are.

Gameplay wise it's way too fast for a Souls game. The only Souls game in the series (excluding Bloodborne) that plays that fast, every other one had a similar tempo, including Demon's Souls.

Atmosphere wise, doesnt compete with Dark Souls 1. DS1's atmosphere is far more lush and diverse, it makes you want to actually be there and really gives an impression of emptiness. DS3's atmosphere is for the most part the same tired old brown and grey that we have been accustomed to for the past 2 decades of FPS games, and the beginning of the game is a complete bore to get through because of this.

It's a good game but DS1/DeS are far greater in every regard.

>>383157049
It's because those flurry attacks are designed for Bloodborne but they were copy/pasted into Dark Souls III. Bloodborne is designed to be really fast and aggressive, Dark Souls is designed more around tempo and proper sword swings (although you can make aggressive characters if you choose). Dark Souls III places a Dark Souls human into the Bloodborne universe.