SMOUGHTOWN!!! Love your stuff man!

I feel the same about the princes. They aren't even hard or challenging, but there's just something about that fight that I Iove

@@KonnyKhaos Thanks Konny!

@@loladas9 Yeh exactly, it's just a good bit of storytellng and epic as hell

The lore god has also incredibly based opinions on bosses, to the surprise of no one. Twin princes is amazing, OST too! I've been loving your long form lore videos on ER, keep up the great work man

Yeah its much better than ds1 or ds2 imo.

There’s definitely a bias of liking your first souls game most. It’s like that for everyone I’ve talked to. It explains DS2 fans

@@LeUberTroll I suppose but dark souls 3 does something for me I can’t explain

@@LeUberTroll yep. Everyone that praises ds2 always has some kind of story where their older brother gave them the playstation and then they fell in love with the game

@@ihateallthethings2683 Gael is my favorite boss in the whole series, I totally get it.

Cathedral of the Deep could have been one of the best areas in the game if it didn’t end with the lamest boss in the entire game.

@@theshekellord Oh yeah, it doesn't help that it culminates into a really bad gimmick boss. I almost forgot about the Deacons, they're such a non-entity XD

Very frustrating to go through sometimes for me

@@skinless5136 Yeah, the roster of enemies in that area and where they've been put makes it hard to admire the layout.

Stuck there for 3 days now, love it. That first real shortcut after the bonfire at the doors is a real grinder, in like 40 attemps only managed to break through twice.

Holy shit how do you have so much free time

@@internetinternet9610 no idea 😂 I work full time but I've played DS3 for years

I agree , the bosses in ds3 are my favorite. Except for the nameless king , he is the worst boss every created. Zulie the witch proved his fight all comes down to RNG. He has several moves that can miss your hit box but you still take damage. On my last couple of play throughs , I just cheesed with the crossbow so he couldn't hit me with his dash or swipe attacks.

@@JusticeforLiberty does he really? Are you talking about phase 1 or 2? Cause the second phase is a really smooth fight. The first phase is dogshit though. Edit: and Fire Giant or placidusax are easily worse imo

@@JusticeforLiberty I’m not sure that’s entirely true. I always have trouble with nameless, but when I finally get my head in the game, and I dodge through all his attacks, it’s really not hard

I’ve put a lot of thought into this same thing, and for me I think it’s because I prefer the semi linear style.

@@KonnyKhaos same. Something about being able to run through the game with minimal time between bosses and not a ton of open nothingness just feels better.

ER is the worst of the souls games because it has eliminated the prospect of being invaded, removed tension like trying to get to the next bonfire, destroyed the threat of losing your souls. I played Elden Ring half asleep most of the time. I never ever did that with previous souls games. ER may look spectacular but it is a borefest

No Elden Ring is vastly superior to ds3. DS3 is extremely uninspired, borrowing a lot from ds1 and Bloodborne in references and concepts, making it not as distinct as even ds2, and not as good as the games it takes inspiration from. The flaws go from the linear world design which makes following playthroughs repetitive, to nearly all enemies in the last part of the game being recycled, to mediocre areas especially in the first half, to half the bosses being either not good, giant guys in armors with similar features (flaming swords, magic arrows), to a more generic soundtrack than other games. There's other things to say about it, but the matter is ds3 is still an excellent game, but better than Elden Ring ? Absolutely no chance.

@@lahunica2726 You’re arguing something that is completely subjective.

Probably because it was 130 hours.

I did play Elden Ring again. With a complete other character. Certain areas that were easy at first are now hard.

@@KeimpeJ it’s so weird how much more I struggled on my second elden ring run than my first

@@ddipster9342 Same here. I played a magical character the second time. Lucardia was hell. :D

elden ring is definitely a flawed masterpiece....hate that oxymoron but its the best way ive heard it described. I have 6 toons and 2 are on ng+. ds3 was def one of my faves though....fucking beautiful.

Plin plin plon😭😭😭

Well, that's just another callback to vets from DS1 the final boss of DS3 is Gael at the end of time, as it s the thematic culmination of what the overarching conflict of all 3 games, as well as the conflict of DS3.

final boss as in gael or soul of cinder? in my opinion, gael is the best video game boss fight of all time. great a e s t h e t i c s, incredible lore, good mechanics, just everything. not sure if gael could ever be topped, honestly.

​@@Xenotypicdont forget his soundtrack. ABSOLUTE PERFECT to play alongside the last fight between the last 2 humans.

Twin princes fight definitely one of the best in the series. That and gael are probably my favorites in DS3

There are some great mods that expand the game even more.

Dancer was such a good boss fight, i felt like i was dancing with it as i was dodging

its a perfect game

The best bosses of the series indeed

@@templarkid. I wouldn’t say that

Hey there is someone using your name for a PC give away thing and I was wondering if that is actually you or is it a scam

bo9 me.

@@poreba1153 black ops 9

Not sure how you didn't get better when replaying the previous souls games, I've had a much different experience than you

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Was ds3 your first souls game?

I only got this game a few weeks ago, but I’ve already put over 70 hours into it across multiple characters, and am currently looking for new challenge runs to do

@@jingle_boy I've never had the urge to immediately replay a game as much as with ds3, it's insane lmao. I'm currently on my 5th playthrough and doing sl1 and at the twin princes on it. I literally beat the game twice with the dlc within like 3 days, I'm absolutely hooked.

100 times? wtf you are missing out on a world of amazing games. I hope that 87th time beating deacons was worth it.

@@DietBajaBlast I’ve played about everything I’ve ever wanted to, ds3 is my 2nd favorite game ever made and I was playing it like 3 days ago

Im sorry did u Just Said that ds3 have a good replayability and also good builds?

truly. mid level PvP encourage a far more diverse build compare to meta one.

@@AtreyusNinja Elden Ring's replayability is horrible because of the boss design. They barely allow the player to use their build since bosses are so fast and aggressive the overwhelming majority of the fight will be nothing but roll spam.

@@scotaloo77g73 yes i'm totally fine with what have u just said, is the same thing i noticed since my first experience, but as well cuz the massive open world, i enjoy trying to do much as i can, take it slowly, trying to find every "secrets" around, is what i did from my first experience and i would never repeat something like that, instead, i can do that in theyr old games

@@scotaloo77g73 that's a you problem chief

Yeah I love this aspect of Souls too. I'm a huge RE fan so I love that semi linear progression, not a fan of true open worlds

thats what i think is disappointing about elden ring. everyone always gets annoyed at swamps and too open areas, but this is liek 90% of elden rings map. the only areas in true soulslike style are stormveil, raya lucaria,mount gelmir, lyendell castle, the dragon place (cant remember the name rn) and the haligtree. and at least imo only stormveil comes close to the better ones of ds3. lothric castle, cathedral of the deep, irithil, grand archives + dlc locations all overshadow the ones in er. and these areas arent even really connected to the open world. stormveil can only be entered from margit boss fight, raya can only be entered from the elevator, mount gelmir can only be entered through a hidden wall and by using the abductor and cheesing your way into the actual area, lyendell can only be entered from the bossfight with the weird cavalry boss, the dragon area can only be entered by teleport and the haligtree can also only be entered by teleport. its not like they made an openworld envirement that has the same feeling as the old soulslike areas, theyve jsut done an old soulslike area and put it into the open world without connecting it more than necessary.

Right. Just because you can't play the levels in any order doesnt mean the levels themselves are linear. I like that it maintains the difficulty curve The swamp is a giant loop and in the center in an optional mini-boss that if you break his tail he has an optional animation and its hilarious.

Yeah, DS3 has the best world in the series. People who say it has the worst world are either parrots or don't know what they're talking about.

@@the4given196 it’s almost like… it’s an open. world. game?? You just hate ER, and that’s fair but to say the level design of the legacy dungeons are worse than DS3? You sound delusional 😂

Awe did you end up marrying your bf?

Did you end up meeting yout bf?

Did u kiss

Same. I did 100% Elden, twice actually, but it gets old before you even beat the first playthru. At one point I literally just rode with the horse collecting items not fighting anything because I couldn't be bothered to

Really exhausted with the amount of Open world games since GTA 5. Linear games are so good & much more story focused.

Sounds like a you problem. Not to hate on you, but criticizing Fromsoft for doing something new with their formula and call the linear approach refreshing is a little bit strange in my eyes. Like they have made 6 linear games before this one.

@@hodir1914 because elden rings design for story and sidequests function like linear dark souls quests, but they are in an open world Elden ring as a first entry into open world for fromsoft is poor, everything it does right, dark souls 3 or prior games did first, and everything unique about it is done poorly or done better by other games.

@@TC70 tf you mean poorly done

Yes dude. There’s just something about Ds3, including all that you listed, that remains untouched and intoxicating. Something so special there.

Agreed! The boss fights in this game are my favourite boss fights in any game ever made.

Although bosses you named are great, there are things I don't like about ds3 bosses. Half of them are bad or mediocre, especially in the first half of the game so half the bosses. The popular bosses are pretty much giant guys in armors, using at some point a fire sword and magic arrows, obviously referencing ds1 bosses (Priscilla, Gwyn, Seath, Gwyndolin) and using for most of them epic soundtracks with some of them being as generic as possible. It's like the game can't live outside ds1's shadow. Ds3 doesn't have as much variety in boss encounters that ds1 brought, even if it wasn't always well executed but at least there was variation and surprises. Not even mentionning that Bloodborne already did better bosses before and Sekiro and Elden Ring did better bosses after.

@@lahunica2726 elden ring didnt do better bosses tho (cant talk about sekiro and bloodborne havent played them). a fight like malenia will never be as fun as something liek gael or twin princes, because the lategame bosses in elden ring feel overpowered. in ds 3 i want to play through the game with different builds jsut to fight gael again. in elden ring i see myself going back to the meta after i fight morgott (the last truly good fight in er imo), because i dont feel like the bosses are rewarding with themed builds.

@@the4given196 I find Placidusax, Godfrey, Maliketh, Morgott, Radahn, Godrick, Mohg better to fight than Gael and Twin princes.

@Boulderbruh323 lmao exactly

@Boulderbruh323 Dark souls III has the best bosses of the series by far. And I don't mean individual bosses, but bosses as a whole. Ds3 has way less gimmicky fights than the previous games, and the fights are always fair no matter what unlike in ER. The average boss fight quality is highest in Ds3 by far.

@Boulderbruh323 I said the older games are more gimmicky, and Elden Ring is more unfair. Read my comment again if you're having trouble.

@Boulderbruh323 crystal sage isn't gimmicky its a gank fight. Yhorim, wholnir and deacons were the only 3 fight in the entire game that were gimmics. 3/24 bosses being gimmicks imo makes a ton of sense. That being said I can say i only really loved roughly 15-20 fights in elden ring out of 100+. The ratio in ds3 is by far the best.

I think this means you started playing Soulsborne with DSIII. DSIII was my second Soulsborne game, and Iudex Gundyr was already down in the first ten minutes on my first try, not really a remarkable experience at all for me. I defeated most of the bosses in the game in my second or third tries, I even defeated some of them on my first like Gundyr. If you are talking about bosses in general, there were some standing out yes. Abyss Watchers, Pontiff Sulyvahn, Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Twin Princes, Nameless King, most of the DLC bosses were good fights. But I wouldn't say the same for Curse-Rotted Greatwood, Crystal Sage, Deacons of the Deep, High King Wolnir, Old Demon King, Yhorm the Giant, etc. I think half the bosses in DSIII is boring and forgettable.

That's dlc dude, that's not an optional path, lol. It's an npc interaction that opens up additional content that you paid for that wasn't part of the base game, it hardly qualifies.

@@devindalton4688 In my opinion this game review was still biased for the simple fact it's not ds1

@@kylemalone1263I don't get what ur saying.

I liked Ranni and sellen personnaly, Ranni quest was super interesting, learning the lore around the eternal cities and rannis motivations for wanting to destroy the golden order (she wants to have free will) Sellen quest was great because of the lore, a lot of lovecraftian vibes, she becomes an abomination in search for knowledge

I do think that Ranni's, Fia's and the Volcano Manor's questlines deserve to be on that list. There's just so much content in them and it's great to explore more of the factions and their motives. I do agree with your statement on DS3 characters and questlines. Hawkwood is probably one of my favourite characters in the trilogy. A problem I have with Elden Ring's questlines is how it doesn't give you any direction. The system works in DS3 because the game is much smaller and linear. FromSoft already have markers in the game for NPCs and important locations so why not give them to every questlines? They also used a genius idea in the form of glowing messages (with Varre) but never used it again. I think that could be a substitude for any markers because it tells you where to go but you still need to explore and find the place.

Thinking about it Sigward and Alexander characters are very similar

u forgeting ranni, millecent , and many more

ds3 questlines are just reskin ds1 questlines you probably played ds3 before ds1

Let me guess All miracles trophy is missing?

@@weaponizedautism3269 Nope, I’m missing the ‘Master of Rings’ Trophy. I haven’t grabbed the NG++ only rings yet.

Use Heavy Armor, use Vordt's Great Hammer. Use Fap ring,Wolf Ring, estus ring, Havel's ring. Level up - strength,vigor, vitality, endurance Look up a checklist for 107 rings Play till grand archives ng++

Haven’t got platinum either because I need like 30 proof of a concord kept

I don't really get the idea that DS3 is somehow NOT the best Souls game. It clearly is in pretty much every single way. DS1 is awesome but DS3 BLOWS it out of the water. How is any other opinion real? DS3 is a near flawless masterpiece.

Underrated comment

Sure people can see those themes but it doesn’t make it any less redundant considering the first game (and second to a degree) already said all of that. Like when you get that deep you can make anything sound purposeful. “The lack of poise in DS3 supports the idea that our hero is weaker now than the heroes that have come before, but they must do what is right for the world no matter how difficult.” just a quick example. Throw in “the lands are converging” and bam they got their out to make any convoluted plot point “make sense” for the narrative and throw in as much fanservice as they want. Don’t take this as me coming at you or anything, I just see a lot of people waxing lyrically about the themes not like fans aren’t getting it.. it just isn’t that resonant after hearing it again.

@ThaEarthquake Well, you know, when people get emotional like that when talking about a thing, they're generally not doing it as a debate tactic. It may or may not help with that, but the main reason is that they seek some way to externalise their feelings and experience with said thing. I can assure you, my maudlin overblown writings are 100% genuine. And it is true what you say, a keen enough writer could potentially make a convincing argument about anything by tugging on people's heartstrings. That's just how art works; You win if you make the other guy care, no matter how you do it. But then again... I'm not a skilled writer. I'm not even halfway decent in prose, and poetry is just out of the question. So if my piece were to resonate with someone, I can tell it would not be because I used some writing magic to change their mind and confuse their heart. It would have to be that they had a similar experience, and can rejoice in it being expressed, no matter how abhorrently, or in what crooked prose. I've noticed people do tend to appeal to emotion more often when talking about Dark Souls than other games. To my mind, that is more a signifier of the series' quality rather than of its absence in its' fans' arguments. And yes, like I said, the first game and the second already do this. In fact, if you think about it, almost every game does this. But choosing to enforce the idea and make the game aggressively linear in spite of established formula is a conscious choice, and I can trust FromSoft's level designers of all people wouldn't just go with it because they're lazy or incompetent. Sometimes a good artistic choice requires you to expose yourself to technical criticism and to be accused of "taking the easy way out". Generally, a series' first installment (book, game, anything) is made to be self-sufficient with simple but powerful writing, and because of that it often outshines its descendants. But I played ds3 first, and on my first playthrough, as a complete newcomer to the series and completely unaware of the lore, that ending still hit me like a ton of bricks. Redundancy is kind of the point in a finale, innit? I mean, if you actually believe in your statement, you're gonna have to affirm it in the end. Sure, it opens you to being called a predictable hack, but that is the price of having an earnest opinion. Of course, being redundant without being boring is a challenge, but it's not impossible. In the end, most people do prefer the first game, and I can't deny its technical superiority, but niches can nest. Even as a fan of the series in general, each game is its own acquired taste. In ds1 you have to put up with lots of jank and with cumbersome and nonflowing combat. In ds2 you have to put up with the fact you're playing ds2. And in ds3 you have to put up with the linear design, dumbed down combat (that feels better though) and the straightforward nature of the story. In any case, if you can put up with these things, it is absolutely worth it. I did not write my comment as an intellectual thinkpiece, it's an opinion in which I truly believe and reflects my true feelings on ds3. It's fine to disagree with it or not see where it's coming from though.

Ds3’s level design is very tight it’s just that the world itself is very linear but in my opinion that’s not an issue because the levels themselves are quite well thought out and still have very good shortcuts, for example the cathedral of the deep and it’s looping shortcuts or how the path from the corvian village links back to friede’s church through the basement.

I thought people said DS2 has the best replayability and DS3 was so linear.

@@smoker5989 the linearity is what makes it so replayable for me. The best thing about open world games is the exploration but when you already know where everything is it just feels like the world is really littered.

@@t0q14s9 same I love how linear it is and you just make your way to the next boss no fucking around do or die. Elden ring was great but I love ds3

Yeah. I think nostalgia is a very potent factor. I also don’t have that nostalgia factor as DS3 was the first soulsborne game I played; then BB, followed by Sekiro. DS3 is the one I love most, and I think this is because of 2 reasons: DS3 made me fall in love with FromSoft games, and it helped me get through a very difficult phase of my life. I actually tried playing DS1 and 2 and just couldn’t get into them. I think I am just gonna have to wait till they remake the game like they did Demon Souls.

I don't have nostalgia for DkS1 either because my first Souls was Demon's. To me DkS1 never felt like discovering fire (pun not intended), because I already found it with Demon's. DkS3 on the other hand, is still my fav FromSoft game to this day. My most played by far.

Yeah I played 3 before 1 and it feels absolutely ancient. Without nostalgia it's hard to ignore.

I mean it had more time to get refined.

i played ds3 first and then ds1, and ds1 is still my favorite of all their games

"Linearity is not inherently bad" Finally a sane Person

Premise is true, but it doesn't apply to an RPG such as this. Even BB had a more linear progression than FROM's previous titles, yet didn't sink as low as barely having any optional content. Even Sekiro could have gone fully linear and still decided to offer an entirely optional Hirata Estate and three post-Blazing Bull branching paths.

@@c.l.a.u.d.e the optional content in DS3 is far more extensive than BB. Archdragon Peak, Smoldering Lake, and Untended Graves all have decent to amazing bosses, and offer great exploration. Yes one is a copy paste of the starting area, but it serves to tell the story of the best opening boss in the series. As for choice in progression, you have options, just not ones that are as impactful. You could go beat Wolnir first and save a bit of time, or go to the Cathedral and get the doll first. You can choose to take down Yhorm first for an easier start to get the ball rolling, or take down Aldrich to get him out of the way. You could even clear out Lothric before Farron Woods. I don't know why people don't realize you can do Lothric Castle first.

You can go up until Grand Archives, at least.

@@Rivr_Shen Both Smouldering Lake and Untended Graves are mediocre at best: the former is a large empty field with some extension of the catacombs you've already gone through underneath, it presents the great number of exactly 1 (ONE) new enemy, the Demon Cleric, and its related machine gun-like gimmicks; while the latter is simply the tutorial with some new additions, none of which you haven't seen before, and a completely pointless invasion that awards no drop at all. Archdragon Peak is ok, but they had to throw a bad gimmick into the mix, otherwise it wouldn't be a DS3 area. ALL and I mean ALL early game choices are an illusion: it doesn't matter if you clear Lothric Castle first or/and the Cathedral of the Deep first, you HAVE to go through these areas anyway and the same applies to going first to Anor Londo or to the Profaned Capital. Doing Lothric Castle as early as possible is also entirely pointless, as you won't find the 6 Titanite Shards needed to get your weapon to +3, making all successive rewards useless until the Undead Settlement is cleared, and both the Miracle Tomes and Boss Souls require the exploration of said area to be put to use. And the best part is that you can't even complete the castle itself, because entering the Royal Archives requires all the other Lords of Cinders to be defeated for a key to appear out of the blue.

Only real problem with the Watchers fight imo are the three or so darkwraiths fighting the ugly Farron monstrosities right in front of the boss door, not a huge problem but they will clip you easily if you try to run through

But apart from that yeah the best early game fight in DS3 no doubt

@@Bolt2049you can run to the right side of the way up to the boss and there are only two poisonous enemies there that you can easily run by and get to the arena with no trouble

@@masson5775 tysm for replying dude, I already know that since I've beaten the game 3 times so far in the year or so since I first played it. I just mentioned that comment from a new player's perspective, the runback is just a slight annoyance of course, nothing serious.

Sister Fredie, Nameless king and slave knight Gael bosses are also close to bonfire 🔥

Dark Souls 1 and 2 have the best worlds and they don't feel linear. DS1 is especially not linear.

Just run to the main dungeons then

Enjoy brother

ER is a spectacular looking borefest

@@BBQcheese minutes is an exaggeration but for me bosses like margit are kind of bullshit with his 10+ hit combos and input reading

@@BBQcheese even if you think Margit is easy and provides plenty of consistent openings (fair I guess), it's a lot harder to extend that courtesy to Morgott, Malekith, radagon (to a lesser extent maybe) and especially Malenia with her bullshit waterfowl dance and 20 second clone move in phase two. Not only do they go on forever in some cases, the windows for getting in damage are inconsistent since the recovery time from an attack is so high and the bosses have optional extensions for some combos that can't reasonably be predicted. It seems like a lot of the late game bosses in particular are just built around summoning becasuse they're unreasonably hard if you choose to fight them one on one. Getting hits in for ds3 feels so much more consistent, even with an ultra. I love ER but it's bosses are a huge step down from ds3 and Sekiro. The exploration and visuals are the parts that stand out much more.

@@BBQcheese maliketh, malenia, hoarax lux, dragonlord, even margit, I recommend you to watch joseph anderson review on elden ring

As another og Demon's Souls player, I loved DkS3. I prefer the pacing and the gameplay is so tight and smooth, music so cool, bosses so fun... DkS1 is a good game but I never found it to be legendary. I still think Demon's Souls was the better experience, even if DkS1 is the better game with more content and mechanics/polish

Genuine question, what colour, that’s my biggest problem with the game is how the areas all blend together, in all the other games, you can show my like a random zoomed in part of an area I can instantly tell where I am on colour palette alone. Without that brilliant vibrance the games areas all blended together, and the game generally lacked the stunning vistas of say, Shulva, Demon ruins and Heide’s tower of flame. DLC 2 showing you the beautifully twisted and warped ringed city was the closest it came. While I do love all 3 equally for different reasons the areas of DS3 have always held the game back for me, I can see merits in all of Miyazaki’s games to the point that I can’t pick a favourite tbh

DS2 for its complexity, creativity, replayability and 3 good DLCs

@@cosmiclikesminecraft I mean DS2 is defs the most colourful, I guess I mean the colour shading, I don’t know I’m talking with my emotions there’s no logic to it 😂 but ya I’ve always felt an emotional connection to the areas in DS3. Might also be the excellent ambiences in the sound design that imprinted themselves on the environments for me. Spent hours just standing around the Road of Sacrifices with my headphones on listening to those ambiences

@@cosmiclikesminecraft when I say colour I don’t mean to imply colourful. Just that the colours and colour shades used evoke a coldness for me that I resonate with. A game could have a limited colour pallet and still be visually engaging I think at least. I mean look at Bloodborne, that games got like 2 colours lol but they’re well used.

@@the.bloodless.one1312 you know what fair enough. I’ve spent a lot of time jsut vibin with the fair lady/the bottom of blight town

that's your problem, not the game's. lmao

Sounds like a “you” issue

I felt the same about elden ring except on first playthrough, still haven't completed the game just because I lost interest after spending probably 60 hours riding a horse around in empty places or fighting overworld enemies, 5 hours on weak catacombs and maybe 7 on actual dungeons that were good. Wanting to explore every corner but every corner being empty or having one of those shitty dungeons and not getting real souls areas was exhausting. Have at least a thousand hours in every other souls game, elden ring is just a diff type of game and has a ton of padding

Nah if it's polish then Sekiro is king hands down. It presents the clearest narrative, tells a fairly intimate story, showcases a beautiful setting and has by far the cleanest gameplay of their output, and I say this as a Bloodborne and Elden Ring junkie.

Malnourished Moose made laugh

"GNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" - dark souls 3 dragon form

Open world isn’t getting boring just over saturated,

dude yes

i love elden ring so fucking much but there is nothing i love more than having the option of exploration, whilst still progressing linearly and not being worried if i’m missing anything or going out of order. i’m my own worst enemy in these games and linear-ness help a lot for my personal enjoyment. fucking absolutely love elden ring tho, it’s what got me back into gaming 2 years ago

Nah that's a brainless take.

Disagree. It just has to be done right.

I had to look for a tutorial

Yes, it should be more obvious

No it has not, the early game bosses of DS3 suck in comparison to BB and ER

Sekiro

@@hodir1914 no they do not ?

@@hodir1914 lol and ER late game bosses fail in comparison to DS3. A point made even stronger now by DLC comparisons.

Is this a scam or no because I got it to

@@kendrickleibenguth1154 Im gonna let you figure this one on your own :D

Liking something more doesn't make it better. You like sequential games, good for you. 🤓☝️

I don't really have an urge to replay ER like DS3. I think it's because DS3, as noted, feels like you can level up along with the game. Elden Ring is long- for me. I HAVE to go through every dungeon and every nook and cranny. DS3 feels small in comparison, to its benefit. As it is, DS2 has the most replayability, albeit with less enjoyable gameplay.

Bloodborne is the souls combat refined to perfection and its a shame that later games abandoned what made it work, I cant believe Rally is not a mandatory staple mechanic of the subgenre at this point, you should atleast be able to get a ring(Talisman = Elden Ring) that enables the function as a starting gift, and locking the feature behind end game progression merely exasperates the issue instead of solving it. Also not having the ability to swap spells out of your inventory freely like your weapons is so asinine. And I have still yet to see a souls magic meter that is superior to the "Quicksilver Bullets" system.

Bloodborne was my least favorite souls game personally. Ds3 /DS1 tied for best games of all time.

I'm not trying to be smelly, I finished bloodborne yesterday, and to be honest, hand on heart, I don't understand the hype. The game is good when it comes to the uniqueness of the world setting, design and character speed. Especially tricky weapons. But the bosses weren't nearly as good, except for the DLC. In some cases, if you're a Lovecraft fan, you should really like it, but for me it's still below DS1/3 and Sekiro, ahead of games like DS2/ER/DeS

@@LuM4rex To each there own, just like I think Sekiro is the worst out of all of them. Just personal opinions I guess. which is fair

I used to have BB at the top but in time its flaws just brought it down to around 3rd spot (prob tied with Elden). DkS3 and Sekiro are just super consistent quality wise, whereas BB has some questionable bosses and mechanics. That said, BB DLC is still my fav and Ludwig probably my favourite boss ever in any game.

You don't actually need to go through the depths. With the master key or going through Valley of Drakes you can enter blighttown through a path that skips the depths.

fromsoft need to stop tying the dodge and sprint in the same button, thats whats messing up the dodge que the most. because of this dumb design decision, u dodge when u let go of the dodge button, and not when u actually press it. cancerous design that needs to die off! sekiro killed it but ER brought it back and its complete ass.

Is this a scam

@@kendrickleibenguth1154 nah man. I love the game.

@@KonnyKhaos no someone replied to one of comments saying I won something that's what I was asking was a scam or not

Every other game is "one of the best of all time" nowadays lol saying a game is great is not enough anymore apparently smh

@@jihigh482 not true really. nowadays most companies shit out unfinished products and say deal with it. I would never give this title to a game that didn't deserve it but DS3 certainly does. and yeah there is not definitively THE BEST game of all time. if you're a hardcore gamer, taking another gamer's recommendation of 'one of the best of all time' is enough for me. anyone that doesn't like this game is probably not good enough at playing to complete it lol go play roblox

Why do you watch at 1.75x

@@adeptusmechanicus1029 Because I have other things to do. 🤔👍

i think sekiro did it best. best combat in the series (if you count it as a souls game anyways, might as well if elden is), best map in the series, a good mix of linearity and openness, and the best story and characters...

I prefer Dark Souls 3 over Elden ring also, DS3 has such a lonelier, sad feel to the game and the environments unlike Elden Ring, ER feels livelier colour wise and not as atmospheric. I felt alone in DS3 but ER felt like it was holding your hand through the game, ER was much easier with the spells/ashes of war and weapons were way over powerd. I was hoping in ER that they was going to be a boss that would give me more of a challenge than the Namless King and Darkeater Midir as these two are unforgettable for myself, but I flew past the bosses in ER, the game feels empty.

@@TheDifferentJay I usually play games for boss fights so ds3 is just better for me than ER just because it's shorter. But the balance in ER is also straight up atrocious because it's too easy with summons and OP weapons but gets frustratingly difficult without them. In ds3 I never felt like a death wasn't my fault (except for some wonky camera shenanigans lmao) but ER bosses that extend or shorten their combos because they read your inputs just doesn't feel good. The extensive delayed attacks also get old fast and the lack of consistent openings on some bosses makes the game less fun too. It still has some fun bosses but none of them hold a candle against the greats of ds3 imo.

@Jinouga with chocolate I've replayed DS3 just to fight The Nameless King, I enjoyed that boss so much. There isn't a single boss in ER that I would play the game again just for the challenge or enjoyment.

@@TheDifferentJay For me those bosses are midir and gael. Just fighting them again is worth a playthrough. I do like mohg and malenia but I would never play the entire game again just for them.

@@jinougawithchocolate9329 Elden Ring is very vast, just to fight malenia would take quiet the journey to reach unless there is a shortcut to reach her, Mohg on the other hand can be reached relatively quickly. I have to admit though, Mohg did give me a challenge compared to other bosses in the game.

Yeah I think it's FromSofts magnum opus.