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Favourite From Software Souls-like?

Demon's Souls 141 11.16%
 
Dark Souls/Remastered 121 9.58%
 
Dark Souls II/Scholar of the First Sin 37 2.93%
 
Dark Souls III 81 6.41%
 
Bloodborne 493 39.03%
 
None - I don't like any of them 138 10.93%
 
None - I haven't played any of them 213 16.86%
 
I can't decide between them! 39 3.09%
 
Total:1,263
omarct said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:
The 3 Dark Souls games are all very close in quality to me. Demon's Souls is good too, but not quite as good as the Dark Souls games. I really hated Bloodborne. I don't think of the Souls games as action games, and the attempt to make them into an action game was just a terrible move.

I see this argument a lot from BB haters. I started playing souls games the first day Demon Souls came out back in 2009 and ever since then my playstyle has always been 2 handing a weapon and using Invincibilty frames and rolling to dodge and position myself to attack. In Demon Souls it was the Meat Cleaver, in Dark souls the Zweihander, in Dark Souls 2 the Mastodon Greatsword, etc.... although I had very little problems with this style i cant help but admit that it was somewhat clumsy and awkward looking. The only thing bloodborne did was make it look cool as shit and flow much better. I also know others who would use a 1handed weapon and parry dagger just for riposting very similarly to bloodbornes gun. So although I understand the people who always relied on shields to breeze through the games( i was forced to use them once or twice for certain difficult fights aka Magnus), I dont like it when they try to throw shit at bloodborne for not beings"souls like" enough when the reality is that the playstyle of bloodborne has always been around since Demon's Souls.

It's true that this playstyle has been around since the beginning.  What I don't like about Bloodborne is that they basically force you into this playstyle.  My favorite thing about the Souls games is that you can play them how you want.  The idea being that there is a bunch of challenging stuff out there that is really going to try to kill you.  Get through it however you want.  Tank up or go light armor, fast melee or slow heavy melee, or cast or use bows or use shield or parry or whatever. 

Bloodborne takes away a lot of that freedom.  Shields gone, magic gone, decent ranged weapons are gone, armor gone.  You MUST play dodge, melee.  The devs were saying, "we are trying to make an action game you have to play it the way we want you to".  Good games give the player freedom.  The other Souls games have a lot more freedom than Bloodborne does.



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Still Dark Souls for me, i do like all of them but Dark souls has a special place of rage and wonder in my heart :p



The_Liquid_Laser said:

It's true that this playstyle has been around since the beginning.  What I don't like about Bloodborne is that they basically force you into this playstyle.  My favorite thing about the Souls games is that you can play them how you want.  The idea being that there is a bunch of challenging stuff out there that is really going to try to kill you.  Get through it however you want.  Tank up or go light armor, fast melee or slow heavy melee, or cast or use bows or use shield or parry or whatever. 

Bloodborne takes away a lot of that freedom.  Shields gone, magic gone, decent ranged weapons are gone, armor gone.  You MUST play dodge, melee.  The devs were saying, "we are trying to make an action game you have to play it the way we want you to".  Good games give the player freedom.  The other Souls games have a lot more freedom than Bloodborne does.

There is a lot of variety in BB, it is just different from the previous games. Each weapon has  different play styles, there is magic although more difficult to use and find, ranged weapons are a thing with the Evelyn and Simon's Bow. 

Well I personally loved it. And if From Soft one day decides to make some sort of Souls like wizard game, where you are forced to mainly use magic, I will be the first one to buy it and jump straight in.

Last edited by omarct - on 25 May 2018

I am honestly very surprised by the results of the Poll, and i dont mean that im surprised at Bloodborne winning but rather the HUGE amount its winning with, i expected Dark Souls (the original) to be a serious competitor but even if you sum up all the trilogy its still not even close to beating Bloodborne, and dont get me wrong i agree with the notion that the results are likely skewed due to the fanbases on the site (Playstation having probably the second biggest one), BUT even with that i never expected Bloodborne to win by that much.



omarct said:

There is a lot of variety in BB, it is just different from the previous games. Each weapon has  different play styles, there is magic although more difficult to use and find, ranged weapons are a thing with the Evelyn and Simon's Bow. 

Well I personally loved it. And if From Soft one day decides to make some sort of Souls like wizard game, where you are forced to mainly use magic, I will be the first one to buy it and jump straight in.

Kuon was exactly that (a From Soft game focused mostly on magic) with a Japanese horror theme.

Here is a video if you wanna check it out.



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Played all souls games and i choose Bloodborne, why?

Gameplay and setting.

Gameplay > bloodborne is the fastest and most aggressive souls game. Some will say that bloodborne is just "mindless button mash" and "abuse Rally for life regen", and that is correct if you go for a overpower build and overlevel character, the games just becomes too easy. That said, what happens if you "play fair"? The answer is one of the most exciting gameplays you will ever see! It's faster and more thrilling than darksouls and challenging is on very similar level.

The setting. > i started the game thinking about castlevania and finished it in lovecraft wetdream! Instead of the old and good medieval setting you are put in a amazing Victorian age cosmic horror that can only be described as one of the most "original and unique" scenarios to ever be presented in a videogame. For this point Bloodborne is not only the best Soulsbornes, but one of the best games ever created.



Manlytears said:
Played all souls games and i choose Bloodborne, why?

Gameplay and setting.

Gameplay > bloodborne is the fastest and most aggressive souls game. Some will say that bloodborne is just "mindless button mash" and "abuse Rally for life regen", and that is correct if you go for a overpower build and overlevel character, the games just becomes too easy. That said, what happens if you "play fair"? The answer is one of the most exciting gameplays you will ever see! It's faster and more thrilling than darksouls and challenging is on very similar level.

The setting. > i started the game thinking about castlevania and finished it in lovecraft wetdream! Instead of the old and good medieval setting you are put in a amazing Victorian age cosmic horror that can only be described as one of the most "original and unique" scenarios to ever be presented in a videogame. For this point Bloodborne is not only the best Soulsbornes, but one of the best games ever created.

Yeah pretty much agree and about all of that, honestly everything about BB is just badass, the soundtrack, the setting, the bosses, the NPCs etc.

Even the figures are just... my god...

 



Bloodborne, hands down. The atmosphere, the lore, the monsters, the faster pace, it feels more like a horror game than the others.



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