Dark
Dark 3
Demon
Blood despite never playing it






Dark 2 hated it


Dark 2 with the rearranged enemies. They made a bad Souls even worse.

Dark Souls is the one.
Then Bloodborne and Demon's.

I don't care all the much for DS2 or 3, or Sekiro if we're including that. I mean, they're still good, but not right up there.

If we're widening it a bit to include other Soulslike games, I'd stick Nioh 2 in just behind BB and Demon's. And Vigil: The Longest Night for a top 2D effort.

Oh yeah, should add that in somewhere. Need more time to decide where it sits

Might put Armoured Core down

Read page 1 ya momos

I’ve played the first hour of Dark Souls which was better than the first hour of Bloodborne.

Yeah, if we're doing riffs from other devs, remnant would defo get a shout.

Rev wants to include Sekiro, so mine is now:

Bloodborne
Sekiro
Demon’s
Dark 1
Dark 3
Dark 2

Eeeesh - tough one. I reckon my order is going to be different to most people's

Dark Souls 3
Sekiro
Dark Souls
Bloodborne
Dark Souls 2

I haven't played Demons Souls, but otherwise DS2 is the only one I haven't platinumed. Souls 3 wins because of how consistent it was throughout, and how good it was even when running through at SL1. 

Sekiro had the best combat and setting, but lost out on a bit of the variety that DS3 had. 

Bloodborne loses out because I didn't really enjoy the chalice dungeons. Still an amazing game and one of my all time favourites.

Best Paul Raymond publications.

(4, 2, 1, 3)

hylian_elf wrote:

Hmm why not something different, like... Uncharted?!

hylian_elf wrote:

(4, 2, 1, 3)

Correct.

Late, but wtf. Also, haven't played Sekiro because I hate parrying.

1. Bloodborne - By this point From had perfected the genre. BB was stripped down to the esentials - no more feature creep of masses of weapons and spells, classes and builds reduced to essentials, and a no nonsense upgrade system. Weapons are a mix of sensible and batshit, brilliantly atmospheric, great enemies and level design. Sound and art are amazing. Difficulty pitched perfect.

2. Dark Souls - Excellent level design throughout, wonderfully atmospheric, an uninspired last act, but still gripping. Loses out due to some weapon upgrade and spell/ miracle bloat - I preferred more of a distinction between miracles (buffs/ support) and spells (offensive) that was in Demons.

3. Demons Souls - Almost joint 2nd. Only loses out because overall Dark Souls ironed out some of the half-baked elements such as the ott weapon upgrade system with too many variations of materials, the opaque tendency system, cheap enemy design (plus infinite recovery BP Satsuki - the c**t).

4. Dark Souls 2 - I'm only putting this above 3 because at least I was inspired to actually finish the damn game. Felt like overbaked fan service that was a frankengame of Dark and Demons - hence it's insistence of cramming in features from both games that didn't work together, e.g. estus & recovery items, and a seamless world that had Demons Souls dead ends requiing portals back to the hub.
Game was clearly originally built around a de-emphasis on shields (so few characters start with one, plus there are torches and dual-wielding, plus there are so many mobs of enemies spamming you) and yet when you play, the combat can't cope with this, leading to you using really cheesy tactics. Plus the whole torch system is basically abandoned after the tutorial. Felt as though the B team were working on this and pinching ideas from the team making Bloodborne.

5. Dark Souls 3 - a better game than 2, but I've never felt compelled to complete it. It's another frankengame, this time of Dark Souls and Bloodborne, but I feel it desperately needed the rally system of BB. Plus it tried to add stealth (influence of Sekiro creeping in bo doubt) I just found it almost utterly unplayable.

Yakuza let's go.

Missed Forza, but mine was:

4. despite its issues, it’s the only driving game I’ve ever loved.

Definite gap here.

5.
Dunno really between 2 and 3. Not a massive fan of either TBH.