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foolm0r0n posted...

They always take the best of the previous and try some new things. That's what makes the series so good. Everyone has their favorite for whatever reason, but you can't deny they're all great.

Yeah it's an incredible franchise and I agree that all of the games are pretty great in their own way. Even my least favorite one, which is pretty clear to me, I have played it plenty just because it has a really well designed online experience.

Some of the features I don't enjoy about Dark Souls 3 were "needed" to attract a casual fan base who would continue to play the game over a long period of time. Now the launch of Elden Ring might have killed the player base, I'm not sure, I haven't personally checked yet. But the fact that even very recently you could still easily, and almost INSTANTLY get invasions in Dark Souls 3 kinda spoke for itself. I was willing to accept the bad things just for the fact that it was still possible to play the game with other people after so long.

As much as I love Bloodborne, and I wouldn't change Bloodborne, the reality is that you can't find any kind of invasions or online play without going to a dedicated message board like the tomb prospectors or the hunter's bell and finding people to play with.

And even if I don't like many of the bosses in Dark Souls 3, they are still sitting in a league of their own, an order of magnitude above some of the crap you find in other games where you just spam the square button until the enemy HP Sponge finally dies.

Anyway that's a bit of a ramble but I think at this point finding a topic where I can vomit a wall of text about Bloodborne (or the Souls games) is one of the few ways to draw me anywhere near the Post New Message button....