#Dark souls too much of a time sink software#
#Dark souls too much of a time sink Ps4#
#Dark souls too much of a time sink series#

Players can choose between classes, including knights, barbarians, thieves, and mages. The protagonist of each Dark Souls game can have a varying gender, appearance, name, and starting class via character creation. Players battle bosses to progress through the story, while interacting with non-playable characters.

#Dark souls too much of a time sink series#

It might be my favorite game in the series but it has only made me more interested in revisiting the older games to enjoy the boss fights more at the same time.The Dark Souls games are played in a third-person perspective, and focus on exploring interconnected environments while fighting enemies with weapons and magic. Too often I don’t get that feeling of overcoming a challenge and instead feel more like I stole a win because I generated a shitload of bleed before the boss dropped a long combo on me. The satisfaction of beating bosses is still there but it’s maybe the worst it has been in the series. And all this is made up for by having a few wildly OP builds that output so much damage that you can melt many bosses instead of worrying about learning their move set. The input buffer feels wrong compared to previous games, and I swear there is not a little outright input lag.īosses are designed with a LOT of moves and timing mixups, and they brought in some Bloodborne logic to them in a game where you move and attack like a slower Souls game. The giant dungeons inside it often turn it into a full-blown Souls game anyway, so you’re not losing much.īut the mechanics are very strange, too. The open world is incredibly fun, a pure joy to explore. Nothing rewards a large time-sink of bloated exploration like getting 9 pieces of equipment you'll never use for every 1 piece that you might, I guess. Those legacy dungeons are top-tier, but there aren't enough of them to outweigh how uninspiring hero's graves, ruins, and catacombs are. It's a time sink filled with copy-paste elements while you yearn for the good content (legacy dungeons).

#Dark souls too much of a time sink software#

My complaint is that the open world for Elden Ring fell into the exact same open world problems everyone complains about when it doesn't have From Software written on the box. Because I loved the massive difficulty spike of the endgame, and I wish there was more like it. I have a different set of complaints than seemingly everyone else regarding Elden Ring.

#Dark souls too much of a time sink Ps4#

Haven't been able to play much of BB (don't have my own PS4 or PS5), it's not in the list.ĭS2 (the DLC takes it to the top for me, base game would be lower) Juuuuust at the end of Elden Ring now (unlocked the final boss, and just got the that M boss area, gonna do M boss before final boss next time I have time to play the game). If I was going to include Bloodborne I might put that at 2 instead of DS1.

I haven't finished Bloodborne (and likely won't) but I've played all I care to of it. I didn't get into Demon Souls (sold that fool after a week) and Sekiro (which I also didn't care for) feels like a different thing so I'm not going to count that. So just basing it purely on the positive aspects of those 4 games and not counting the DLCs, I would say. Talking about small areas with huge mobs of enemies with high aggro range, arrows/magic flying in from everywhere and a significant amount of larger tanky enemies shoved in to the same space.

In this, the low points, for me, are worse than similar sections in Dark Souls 1 and Dark Souls 2. Talkign about an area with several bullshit enemies/ status effect/ poor safe area placement, stuff like that. Each game has them and there are more with each release. Things flow a little better, shortcuts are more common, the slight improvement in manouverability on the map/dungeon adds to the experience.īut I reckon that has some of worst 'low points' of all of the games. When it's fun, it's more enjoyable than 3. Personally, I would put it maybe around the same mark as Dark Souls 3.