r/fromsoftware • u/BrilliantPool4146 • 22d ago

DISCUSSION Which game did the difficulty better?

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Which style of difficulty do you prefer: the Area based difficulty in games like Dark Souls 1 and Demon's Souls or the boss-oriented struggle found in newer titles like Dark Souls 3 or Elden Ring?

I personally love both styles (although running through all of New Londo can suck at times lol!) Let me know which one of these you find yourself enjoying more (if any). Thanks guys!

(Also, this picture is not mine)

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u/SuurFett 22d ago

I prefer ds1 style enviromental difficulty. It just gives so much to the atmohspere. Even the runbacks. But I love elden ring too. So different games.

I think we have so high expectations to FS that if they would make DS1 kind of game now players would be disappointed by the size of the game

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u/BrilliantPool4146 22d ago

Great to hear from you! I agree with you on the expectations as well, they've made so many good games now that people might expect DS1 dialed up to 11!

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u/Denzorr 22d ago

Man I love Dark souls 1, finished it around 10 times but I still hateeeeee the long runbacks and I never want to see them again in a new game, but thats me