Why the fukk are the Dark Souls games so addicting?

[The Frozen One]

I can't wrap my head around it.

This quarantine got me playing Dark Souls 2/3 all over again and it's as addicting as I remember it. I beat the games when they were released and mainly played with strength builds. But now i'm playing it differently using more of a sorcerer and playing with different builds and I just don't remember it being this fun.

In its core gameplay, it's just mash r1, r1, r1 and dodge or put up shields and there is little to no story besides reading each individual item description, but god dammit is it fun.

I got a huge backlog of games that I need to play but yet Dark souls still calls for me. I might even go back to playing DS1 remastered.

 

[Mowgli]

Lore
Bosses
Challenge
Customization
Length
Rag doll physics
Scenery

 

[Ghost_In_A_Shell]

Lore and fighting mechanics. Dark souls was the best thing to come out of this gen.thst and zero dawn horizon.

 

[Anti-Anime]

Game got a lot of flexibility in how u wanna play. Keeping u coming back

 

[5n0man]

Dark souls was the best thing to come out of this gen.thst and zero dawn horizon.

Dark souls didnt come out this gen and you butchered the fukk outta horizon zero dawn.

 

[Kairi Irving]

never liked these types of games, it's like someone was inspired by RuneScape and WoW and decided to make a grindy combat RPG in the same vein.

 

[Cuban Pete]

When it clicks that shyt is amazing. Running souls 3 and bb with sekiro at the same damn time during quarantine after replaying witcher 3. I like sekiro the best but soulsborne is really fukking fun. The enemy design is GOAT

 

[YOGEBEAR09]

When it clicks that shyt is amazing. Running souls 3 and bb with sekiro at the same damn time during quarantine after replaying witcher 3. I like sekiro the best but soulsborne is really fukking fun. The enemy design is GOAT

Bloodborne is my favorite but they all fire

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

The souls games never grew on me, the whole timing your attacks and always dodging mechanics just don't really excite me. I got all the games for collection sake but you'll rarely ever see me start one up.


Dragon's Dogma on the other hand grabbed me instantly and was my game of the generation last year....Probably cause the combat was more combo and action game styled...the creator being Itsuno of DMC afterall

 

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the level design is

 

[Cuban Pete]

Bloodborne is my favorite but they all fire

Bloodborne is fire I cant explain how ill it felt to kill the bloodstarved beast for the first time that punk mutherfukker. Surprisngly im having a easier time playing a new game of sekiro than bb my parrying is nasty but some of these npc hunters in bloodborne still got me doing the

I had to cheese that fakkit with the gatling gun smdh

 

[TheGodling]

Every time I see people refer to the Dark Souls games I just feel about how time has seemingly forgotten Demon's Souls just because it was so new at the time.

I think that IP is officially still exclusive to Sony but they really should consider allowing a multi-platform remake of that game.

 

[Ghost_In_A_Shell]

Dark souls didnt come out this gen and you butchered the fukk outta horizon zero dawn.

Dont care. You know what meant. Fine, I still think dark souls three is the best thing to come out this console generation l. Along with hzd.

 

[kdslittlebro]

FS is overall challenging but fair. If you keep a level head, 9/10 times you can point out exactly why you died and how you can do better.

Add in the world building, and builds and you got a masterpiece if that’s your cup of tea.

 

[Kuwaiti_dude]

It's the combat that makes me come back to these games every time. Barring DS2 and demon's souls, they got the combat down to an art. Everything from attacking to rolling/dodging feels amazing. It's the reason I ignore most souls-like games, because they often fall short when it comes to gameplay, barring maybe nioh.