The souls series is coming to an end in the final piece of content to Dark Souls 3, in just 17 days.
The series has spanned 8 years, 5 games, 7 DLCs and has been playable on 5 different platforms. The series in total has (without the final DLC) 135 boss fights. It has affected and influenced numerous different games or series, from difficulty design to gameplay mechanics.
Lets have a nostalgia filled discussion about the series as a whole
How long have you been playing the series? All time favorite boss? All time favorite weapon? All time favorite song? All time favorite level? All time favorite NPC? All time favorite moment/memory? All time favorite game?
6 years/3000 hours Ludwig the Holy Blade Chikage Cleric Beast Central Yharnam Stockpile Thomas/Siegmeyer of Catarina Beating Ludwig at NG+6 LVL4, or completing SL1 NG+7 in DaS Bloodborne
Ethan Sanchez
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Hudson Davis
4 years Moonlight Butterfly. I like butterflies and the music is really nice Black Knight Halberd or Ludwigs Holy Blade Moonlight Butterfly or Witch of Hemwick Hemwick Charnel Lane Eileen Discovering ash lake on accident Probably DS1
Thomas Phillips
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Levi Adams
>All time favorite boss Manus >Favorite weapon Moonlight greatsword (BB) >Song Firelink shrine >Level Tower of latria >Npc Pyromancer bro or Maiden in Black >Memory Coming back to firelink after Blightown or beating the hydra >Game Dark souls I got into the series two years ago. Played Bloodborne first
Hunter Price
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Dominic Cook
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Samuel Wood
>How long have you been playing the series ? I started on April 2012 with Dark Souls one, so I'm approaching 5 years >All time favorite boss I would say Gherman, such a well-made boss. I also like Sir Alonne a lot >All time favorite weapon Bone Fist. Hopefully they will add it in the last DLC >All time favorite song Gherman's theme >All time favorite level Too hard to choose, my favorites are the Shunken City and the Nightmare of Mensis. Archdragon peak is also great. >Favorite NPC Solaire probably. I still think DaS1's npcs are the best. >All time favorite moment Defeating Gwyn and finishing DaS1 for the first time. Didn't know you could parry him so it took me hours to beat him. >All time favorite game Dark Souls 1
Brody Gomez
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Bentley Phillips
That's nice.
I really want Souls manga desu
Gavin Cooper
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Aaron Martin
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Wyatt Taylor
>2 years starting with bloodborne >Amelia Bedelia >Kirk Hammer >Hypogean gaol theme can't spell it >central Yharnam >doll >didn't know what the fuck I was doing when I first started playing Bloodborne and didn't know how Soul's games really progressed and all I knew was that I could collect blood echoes from killing enemies and use then to level only STR because I wanted to do more damage cause I thought it was hard to kill enemies at first. So all I did is go through central Yharnam over and over again amassing a huge amount of blood echoes and leveling over and over again until I finally figures things out and started to find new areas and by the time I got to father gascoigne I was way over leveled and I could kill bosses very easily which practically made it so I cheesed the game because I would keep getting lost in a few areas again and I would go around and level until I figured out what to do making me hilariously overpowered by the time I got to new bosses. >Bloodborne
John Gutierrez
>How long have you been playing the series? Since DS 1 >All time favorite boss? Nameless king >All time favorite weapon? Original crystal ring shield (before nerf) >All time favorite song? Skeleton kings song >All time favorite level? Andor lando >All time favorite NPC? Siegward >All time favorite moment/memory? Fighting the four kings the first time bc I had Azeri clue what to expect >All time favorite game? Dark souls 3
Josiah Walker
Fume Knight Claymore O&S song, I heard it a lot Tie between Shulva and Oolacile Siegmeyer Finishing DS2+DLC at SL1, really fun run to do in DS2 because of all the gear and rings that raise stats so you can change your weapon/build if you need for certain bosses DS1
Owen Murphy
>How long have you been playing the series? 3 years. >All time favorite boss? Artorias >All time favorite weapon? Greatsword of Artorias >All time favorite song? One Who Craves Souls >All time favorite level? Undead Burg >All time favorite NPC? Hawkeye Gough >All time favorite moment/memory? Seeing the game in the store >All time favorite game? Dark Souls
Jaxon Johnson
3 years Ornstein and Smough Roaring Halberd Abyss Watchers theme Iron Keep Patches Beating the Flamelurker Dark Souls 1
Christopher Collins
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Jordan Reyes
Fuck off.
Christian Lee
Nioh is pretty boring. Combat is good but the world is empty and there's no reason to explore, which is the most important aspect of Souls types
Ryder Torres
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Benjamin Wood
I'm glad this series is coming to an end. Let it go on a good note before it gets driven into the mud.
Nolan Morris
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Nathaniel White
>but fancier You mean downgraded and shit on
Angel Anderson
I've only played one game - Bloodborne.
Platinumed it in 10 days.
Such an easy game, don't know why people think it's hard.
Charles Sanders
Priceless.
Julian Jackson
Is this the new DmC? Why is Dante's hair back to white and in a ponytail?
Andrew Reyes
What better way to start this thread than with the autists and memers flinging shit at eachother
Alexander Fisher
Caught me off guard.
Parker Garcia
Am I meant to be autistic or a memer?
I genuinely did platinum it in 10 days, the games not hard. It's mundane, repetitive and not challenging.
Christopher Jackson
>How long have you been playing the series? Since Prepare to Die >All time favorite boss? Manus >All time favorite weapon? Bastard Sword from Demon's >All time favorite song? Gwyn's >All time favorite level? Latria, Sen's Fortress, Fishing Hamlet >All time favorite NPC? Domhnall of Zena, Boldwin >All time favorite moment/memory? Taking 10 steps out of the cell in Tower of Latria and immediately leaving because I was spooked. >All time favorite game? Demon's Souls
Carson Cox
Trust me, you are.
Christian Hill
How long have you been playing the series? 5 years All time favorite boss? Ludwig All time favorite weapon? Ludwig sword All time favorite song? Ludwig battle bgm, Ancient Dragon (DS2), Dragon Armour (DS3) All time favorite level? 1st Nightmare in BB All time favorite NPC? I dunno, don't care about npcs All time favorite moment/memory? dat moment when you ring the bell in DS3 before Nameless All time favorite game? BB
Nathaniel King
I am what? I asked an either/or question.
Matthew Young
>all time favorite boss Ludwig the Holy Blade >all time favorite weapon Dragon Tooth from Dark Souls 2 >all time favorite song Ivory King >favorite level Fishing Hamlet >all time favorite NPC Solaire because memes >favorite moment Going to catacomb right after fire link shrine and get spooked >all time favorite game Bloodborne
Evan Collins
An autist
Eli Stewart
>How long have you been playing the series? 8 years, early importer of DeS and one of the first people to post here about it >All time favorite boss? Artorias or Ludwig >All time favorite weapon? Holy Moonlight Sword(BB) >All time favorite song? Living Failures >All time favorite level? Ashlake sea or Research Hall >All time favorite NPC? Maiden in Black >All time favorite moment/memory? Ludwig getting his sanity back/finding back to firelink shrine after what felt like an endless journey with 0 estus >All time favorite game? Bloodborne
Adrian Thompson
>How long have you been playing the series? When Demon's Souls was hot shit on Sup Forums and before DaS1 came out, but not early enough that I had to import it >All time favorite boss? Manus >All time favorite weapon? Kellogg's Furysword >All time favorite song? Ludwig's theme >All time favorite level? Tower of Latria >All time favorite NPC? Maiden in Black >All time favorite moment/memory? Sif recognizing you when you fight him after saving him in the DLC as for memory, pic related even if I wasn't directly involved >All time favorite game? DeS
Nathan Morales
> Boss Vicar Amelia - 60k echoes each time when paired with NG+ gamers = stupidly fast levelling up.
> weapon Ludwig Holy Blade. Didn't bother to use any other weapon in the whole 10 days I played it and managed to beat everything.
> song Haven't played any others but not aware of any music in Bloodborne and aside from boss fights. All of which are just your cliche, orchestral, crescendo style music.
> level Chalice dungeons. Easy levelling up.
> NPC None I can really remember aside from that guy close to the grand cathedral who eventually kills himself.
> moment/memory Platinuming the game in 10 days despite having read how hard it is on Sup Forums.
> favourite game Final Fantasy 7.
Jaxson Foster
>beat Spongebob and Patrick on my second try >mfw people called this the hardest fight in the game
Camden Allen
Not that I'm aware of. What are you basing your opinion on?
Parker Gomez
>How long have you been playing the series? About a year and a half ago, started with 1 >All time favorite boss? Manus >All time favorite weapon? Silver Knight Straight Sword >All time favorite song? Dragonslayer Armour >All time favorite level? Oolacile >All time favorite NPC? Siegward >All time favorite moment/memory? The moment that I realized that AotA was taking place in the Dark Forest area, but in the past >All time favorite game? Probably one, but three does come close with the boss battles.
Juan Butler
>not beating them your first try without using any estus or weapons get a load of this scrub
Jose Williams
What game are you going to blogpost about next ?
Kayden Carter
When's Bloodborne 2?
Ethan Parker
>Since Demon's Souls (miss the old, non-shitty fanbase), no idea how many hours I have in them. >probably Fume Knight, Sir Alonne or Artorias >Black Knight Greataxe >Gwyn's theme/Aldia's theme/the character creation themes of DeS and DaS >Brume Tower >Laurentius, Lucatiel and Straid >beating Sir Alonne flawless on and getting the suicide animation >I have a soft spot for Dark Souls 2
Jaxson Collins
>Beat Snorlax and Pikachu on my first try with the broken sword >mfw
Git gud fuckin scrub
Colton Powell
You've been blogposting on Sup Forums for over a month
William Lewis
Souls might end but FromSoft already announced that they are working on 3 new games. >dark fantasy rpg >old IP with influence from the souls games >new crazy game people wouldn't expect from them
Blake Smith
It might be the last Dark Souls entry, but I suspect that there will be other soul games down the line that do their own thing rather than be sequels ( along the line of Bloodborne)
Jaxon Allen
Too late, DS3 was already released.
Jayden Perry
I also felt like DS3 was forced.
Can't help but agree.
Camden Ramirez
I'm playing DS1 for the first time right now
I like the freedom of choice in where to go next, but I feel like I might be fucking up the difficulty curve by not going to the right places
Like for example I just killed the Firesage Demon and Sif on my first try without effort, I can't tell if I'm overleveled for them or if I was supposed to go there earlier or what. I haven't grinded at all.
Colton Cruz
>implying there will not be another Bloodborne game, this time focussing on aztecs
Nathan Fisher
BB was honestly too easy to 100% They needed a no death run secret achievenent
Daniel Evans
Look at all the salary PC fags not listing anything from Demons souls or BB in their answers. These posts should be disregarded for objectively being wrong. How can you call yourself a fan of a series of you've only played 60% of it? Would you call yourself a diehard star trek fan of you've only seen 60% of the original series episodes? Pathetic.
Matthew Gonzalez
>Low tier game series finally coming to an end.
That's nice. Will they actually make a new ip that won't bore me to death with its bland combat mechanics? The world may never know. N:A here we go
Nicholas Cooper
>Dragonslayer Armour Oceiros theme is great too, isn't it?
Dylan Gutierrez
>How long have you been playing the series? Since Demon's Souls. I've been in it for the long haul, for better or worse. Easily have 2000 hours across the entire series. >All time favorite boss? Gherman. >All time favorite weapon? The Gold and Silver tracers from the first Dark Souls. >All time favorite song? Maiden Astrea's theme. Incredibly simple, incredibly effective. youtube.com/watch?v=9piElENpvmM >All time favorite level? Shulva. Wonderfully creative. >All time favorite NPC? Probably Eileen the Crow. >All time favorite moment/memory? Going through the Tower of Latria for the first time. >All time favorite game? Bloodborne.
I've watched as this series went from being a very niche game that earned a huge popularity boost with the release of the first Dark Souls on PC, and from there its fans and reception have sadly gotten more and more bitter and fractured as time has gone on. I truly do love each and every one of the games, and they each have something special about them that I cherish. I'm ok with the series ending, but I would be lying if I said it didn't feel like an old friend moving away from home. I'll still miss it quite a bit, as it really was something special to me.
Aaron Cooper
here's the reply
Juan Howard
BB2 was confirmed a while ago, cahmann
Hudson Hill
Here's the goodbye to a shit series.
>not harder than a fighting game >not harder than DMC >not harder than ninja Gaiden
Jonathan Thomas
Demon's has nothing good compared to the others. I guess Latria has good atmosphere but the DS3 dungeon that copies it is way bigger. BB is fucking great though, Ludwig is easily the best boss in the franchise.
Brandon Phillips
here's another
Joshua Gonzalez
It's not even a series now, it's a genre. Tons of more souls inspired games are going to get made and there's nothing you can do about it.
And FROM just said DS is over, they're still gonna make games like this in a new universe.
Bentley Stewart
>5 years >Burnt Ivory King >Astora's Straight Sword It's just so simple and pretty, and the moveset is good too. >Majula >Catacombs >Benhart >First time fighting Ivory King Dropping down with the knights, fighting back against their Charred/Hollowed former comrades, sacrificing themselves to seal the portals, it was all so good. I always do my first runs on my sword and board faithshitter, so my damage was much too low to handle the enemies quickly and it made it really hectic. When the last portal was sealed and I dropped the last knight just to turn around and see that chaos doorway pop up and open, just for the King to walk out and Lightsaber my ass to the shadow realm, I think it was some sort of love at first fight deal. And I've always liked those fights that AREN'T super hard, but aren't super easy either. A nice middle ground fight with a few deaths before winning, like Alonne or Cleric Beast. >3 I feel like 3 is just the most well-rounded of them. Though I'e always been more into Jolly Co-Op and PvP, so I gravitated towards 2 when it came out since it didn't suffer from the problems I had with DaS at the time, spending ten to twenty minutes trying to invade a world just for the connection to fuck up. I really just enjoy how 3 feels and how responsive it is, while also being the more traditional medieval swords and sorcery world. Bloodborne's more gothic/eldritch style was a nice switch up, but it's just really not my style.
Brody White
>How long have you been playing the series? 10 days >All time favorite boss? the bosses were all so easy I can't differentiate them from regular enemies >All time favorite weapon? All of them. Mastered every single one of them >All time favorite song? The one from the final boss on 3 >All time favorite level? The one where you ride a tower up to a volcano >All time favorite NPC? patches but ofc >All time favorite moment/memory? being able to platinum all games in 9 days >All time favorite game? Battleborn
Matthew Jones
I loved Dark Souls 1, but after playing 2 and 3, I tought maybe i was just getting tired of the series. After recently playing Bloodborne, tho, I think is just that the "newness" in Souls vanished after all the sequels. Sure, DkS3 still have bretty gud level design and bosses, but I think they are too straightforward, even kinda predictable. I just hope From avoid making endless spoilers
Ian Murphy
>but the DS3 dungeon that copies it is way bigger Not as good level design either. Way too tryhard and the jumpscare is embarrassing.
Nathan Ortiz
pcbro?
Michael Barnes
Sorry, most likely not.
Logan Gomez
how could anyone have possibly known how to save Solaire without a guide?
Dylan Anderson
> 10 days gtfo, newfag
Ryder James
They ran out of tricks after DaS1. That's why they completely gave up with 3 and made every other chest a mimic.
Ayden Myers
>How long have you been playing the series? 2013, started with DaS >All time favorite boss? Lady Maria >All time favorite weapon? Blades of Mercy probably >All time favorite song? Soul of Cinder's theme >All time favorite level? Cathedral of the Deep/Research hall >All time favorite NPC? DaS3's onionbro (Siegward?) >All time favorite moment/memory? Bloodborne's lovecraftian switch really caught me off guard. Either that or Soul of Cinder's second phase >All time favorite game? BB, but I think they're all wonderful
Evan Evans
They waifu'd a spider
Ryder Russell
I know you're baiting, but the difficulty has always been something of a misnomer with this series. It's absolutely a group of games that punishes you for your mistakes, but they certainly aren't hard in the way that Ninja Gaiden is. Combat will take a bit of getting used to, but after that it's pretty smooth sailing outside of some pitfalls intended to screw you over the first time or two. The first Dark Souls managed to get that reputation for its "insane" difficulty, but I would certainly say that it wasn't much deserved.
James Ross
Stop trying to start consolewar threads.
Jackson Hernandez
Can I play all 5 games on a PS4? I assume I would need a digital copy of Demon though, right? Do they sell that on PSN?
>How long have you been playing the series? 2009, since Demon's came out >All time favorite boss? Lore-wise, Sulyvahn. I liked Raime a lot though >All time favorite weapon? Tough to say, but I Whirligig was sick >All time favorite song? I really love the Abyss Watchers/Twin Princes >All time favorite level? Latria or the Research Hall. >All time favorite NPC? I appreciate how Navlaan has unique casting animations as well as unique spells >All time favorite moment/memory? Walking into Tower Knight's boss fight when I thought I'd get a shortcut >All time favorite game? Overall Bloodborne because they gave me the post-game playground as Chalice Dungeons
Logan Sanders
>Played Demons for the first time about 2 months after US release >Dragon Bone Smasher x2 >Gehrman Theme >tie between DeS 1-1 and the entirety of BB >Stockpile Thomas >Entire first playthrough of Demons and the threads here. What a time >BB
I know I sound like a Demons fag but good god BB takes the cake overall. I've loved all the games, even 2 is pretty fun. Great series. Where my dragon bone smasher bros at???
Been playing since Demon's so 8 years >All time favorite boss Gwyn >Favorite weapon Blueblood sword >Favorite song Gwyn lord of Cinder >Level Boletaria >NPC Stockpile thomas >Memory Doing a mage rapier run in Dark souls 1 >Game Dark souls 1
Jackson Hall
Nothing really compares to the first time you play through Demon's Souls. The magic unfortunately really fades after the first time though.
Jaxson Myers
Which is why I've waited like 3 years since my last playthrough. I still love it, but nostalgia helps
Justin Myers
Bloodborne is not Souls. Stop memeing
Jonathan Stewart
You stop memeing.
Adrian Green
Someone replace that Bloodborne image with the version in this one.
And switch the picture for 3 with the close-up of the SoC, like the one in the regular cover.
Jack Rivera
This is my favorite wallpaper
Michael Carter
>How long have you been playing the series? 8 years, ~400 hours >All time favorite boss? Ludwig the Accursed/Ludwig the Holy Blade >All time favorite weapon? The Meat Cleaver >All time favorite song? One who Craves Souls >All time favorite level? Boletaria, I like castle settings and love King's Field 1-4 >All time favorite NPC? Stockpile Thomas, he has a heart of gold >All time favorite moment/memory? The transition in the Ludwig fight >All time favorite game? I'd have to go with Demon's Souls though I really like them all
Samuel Barnes
>How long have you been playing the series? 8 years. Since Demon's Souls. >All time favorite boss? Ornstein & Smough >All time favorite weapon? Beast Cutter >All time favorite song? O&S soundtrack. >All time favorite level? Ash Lake or Boletarian Palace, both for the atmosphere. >All time favorite NPC? The Fair Lady >All time favorite moment/memory? Finding out Kaathe probably. >All time favorite game? Tie between Bloodborne and Dark Souls with Dark Souls edging out a little bit.
