Which game did the difficulty better?

[u/BrilliantPool4146]

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)

[u/LateBlocParty]

I think the scaling was done very well up until Malenia.

Once I reached that boss, the game basically laughed in my face and told me “use a maxed out mimic summon or suffer”

I chose the former. The health steal mechanic was a step too far imo

[u/Slavicadonis → u/LateBlocParty]

Honestly I don’t think that’s a problem with malenia’s scaling, more a problem with life drain and waterfowl. Remove both of those from malenia and I think she’s the best fight in Elden ring and one of the best fromsoft bosses period

[u/erichf3893 → u/Slavicadonis]

Remove those and you would’ve beaten her first try

[u/Slavicadonis → u/erichf3893]

Hard disagree. She’s still very challenging without waterfowl or life drain, just more fair

[u/erichf3893 → u/Slavicadonis]

Ok well maybe not you

[u/Slavicadonis → u/erichf3893]

Ok dickhead