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Just wondering, what’s the most souls you’ve lost in a run? Please specify if those were important, like the one that you need for leveling maybe at early/mid game and you’ve spent hours gathering or the less important one like NG+4 1.000.000 souls. You can count any From game. I think I could say Bloodborne 700/800k echoes farmed at Mensis’s Nightmare

I recently have been attempting to replay Elden Ring after playing through it twice upon launch. I enjoyed it a lot and still am amazed by how much content they were able to put into one game, especially the fact that it’s playable on last generation hardware. That being said, I think there being so much content takes away from its replay value- I don’t want to go into the random mines and caves for mini bosses and rewards that don’t upgrade my character in a meaningful way. I find myself going to YouTube and looking for upgrade materials guides so that I can get to the fun bosses. This is just my opinion- I feel like the other souls games being more concise and focused allow for better replay value. ER gave me one of the best first time blind experiences I’ve had in a video game and I’m grateful for that- my opinion is that the sheer amount of content (materials items equipment crafting spells ashes of war mini-bosses that aren’t fun etc) lessens its replay value. What do yall think ? This idea isn’t entirely original btw I’ve watched a lot of ER review videos on YouTube

For me it would be:

1. Elden Ring
2. Dark Souls 3
3. Bloodborne
4. Dark Souls
5. Demon Souls
6. Dark Souls 2

I haven’t played Sikero.

I personally love the lore, level designs and overall vibe of Bloodborne the most. I feel like if they made a sequel with updated graphics, gameplay, and a larger world to explore it could easily sneak to the top of my list.

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Hello.

I'm playing DS2 for the first time. My first Souls game was DS1, which was spectacular. At the same time, I was playing Elden Ring: Nightreign, without having played any of Elden Ring, and I still loved it. With DS1, I experienced the Souls game at its finest: dungeons, shortcuts, strategy for dealing with carefully positioned enemies, dying many times and learning from each experience, etc. And with ER: Nightreign, I learned how to fight. I honed my combat skills, which served me well for DS1, even considering its age.

DS2 has been a mixed bag. I love all the new mechanics, except for two: healing and the loss of the health bar. It's been very tedious, but interesting. And something I find peculiar is the broken heatboxes, as seen in the video. Against a boss that I could practically beat without hitting, I take two free hits because of the broken heatboxes, which is unfair. If it weren't for these minor issues, it would be an exceptional game. But I haven't really seen much of it, to be honest. I've only played two bosses, the Flexile Sentinel and the Dragon Rider. Incredible designs, but the experience is awful because of the heatbox. But so far, the pros are very interesting too, as is the torch system, the dual-wielding, and the few curious environments I've seen, which I've loved. It has a lot of potential. I'll see how it goes. Since I haven't played much, I can't give a general opinion on DS2, but it's certainly intriguing. Tell me you get more healing items throughout the game at least, haha ​​;=). I'm reading your advice. Thanks.

I played Dark Souls 1 for the first time when I was 13yo or something. Before that I was a pretty "cowardly" kid, in many senses, but in this case I refer to being easily disencouraged when facing resistance.

Never really wanted to accept hard challenges or anything like that, low tolerance to frustration, etc.

But for some reason, DS1 was so captivating that I kept trying again and again, and eventually beat the game. Then I went for DS2 when it was released, and so on.

My approach to things outside of gaming didn't change much. But eventually, as I grew older and started learning a bit more about life, I decided that I needed to get out of my comfort zone, and I truly believe that the thing that made me confident enough to do things like volunteer to military service, choose a career path that was challenging to me, and face my issues with social anxiety, was my experience with From Software games.

And as a psychologist, with what I know about human behavior, I have pretty good reasons to believe that these games do, indeed, offer a safe and controlled environment to deal with frustration and learning how to overcome resistance. Because of their trial and error learning mechanics, alongside the philosophical messages.

Some bosses feel quite literally impossible on your first try, specially when you're unable to even touch them or make any noticeble progress.

But after, 10, 20, 30, or however many tries, we all eventually adapt and GIT GUD at the game.

The difference is that, often, in real life, each try takes longer, so to most people it is very hard to know if you would succeed after trying again and again, or if you should just give up.

But I feel like having repeatedly failed, in the controlled environment of videogames, and eventually succeding, built in me this certainty that I can do pretty much anything (within reason) as long as I try for enough times (of course, in real life you have to consider your natural talents and your access to resources in order to decide what you're gonna dedicate yourself to).

Anyways, I'll be forever grateful to these games (specially DS1, which has a special place in my heart) for positively impacting me like that.

And I believe that this is a lesson that everyone should have the opportunity to learn.

Anyways, enough of this motivational speech lol. I'd love to hear you guys's experiences.

Don't you dare go hollow.

Now that Elden Ring: Nightreign has been out for close to a year and it's unlikely we'll be getting any new content, I wanna say...

I'm disappointed

Or maybe dissatisfied is the word, part of the big appeal of Nightreign (which I'll refer to as NR from now on) is that it was a Dark Souls meets Elden ring in a souls rogue-lite package, and don't get me wrong, the game feels great to play, I have a bit over 200 hours into it, but it feels incomplete.

While yes, we did get Dark Souls content in the game, it didn't even feel secondary and more so as a way to bring in older fans.

What we do have feels bare bones, obviously NR was never gonna be a full on rogue-like, but rather a rogue-lite, yet I can't help but feel as though there isn't enough content (even including the DLC)

It really feels like a huge missed opportunity that they didn't add these things:

. DS weapons

. One or two new maps based on Caelid or Luirnia

. More bosses (especially DS bosses)

. More random events

. DS locations as shifting earths

. More skins for the characters

I know, so far this has been pretty negative, but I do like NR, it's been a blast to play with friends and even solo sometimes. I love the character variety with their abilities and move sets, I enjoy the movement.

It just feels like wasted potential, and I don't think it has a big enough modding community to keep it afloat for even the next 5, let alone 2 years.