Ranking EVERY Soulsborne Game WORST TO BEST (Dark Souls, Sekiro, Bloodbourne, Elden Ring)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- Hello everyone and today we got another long one, its another From Software ranking and its all the soulsborne games! From Demon Souls all the way to Elden Ring! Let me know your favorites!
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I think Sekiro is the closest Fromsoft ever came to perfection within a game. The combat system is the greatest in history. So well thought out and couldn’t have been executed any better
The combat system alone can't carry the game.
The world of Sekiro is just smaller and poorer than of Dark souls or Elden Ring. Including lore of course.
And then, there is a rpg element, progressing your character into different paths...
This is why, even having almost perfect combat system, Sekiro cannot be the best overall.
not even close to the best combat of all time and plenty of things on its combat can be improved, what is up with the bloodborne and sekiro fanboys deluding themselves with such hyperbolic statements XD?! it just makes u guys seem delusional and childish and cannot critique and point out flaws for the things u love, i swear only the elden and dark souls fanbase learned how to critique their favorite games, while the sekiborne fanbase are some of the worst, most bitter and jaded fanbases ive ever seen, calling every aspect of their games perfect for some thoughtless reason.
@@flamingmanure What a fucking weird and unhinged comment
@@flamingmanureYou're real weird kid
@@flamingmanure jesus man chill out
For me Sekiro, DS3 and BB - best games in the series
swap ER and Sekiro and I 100% agree
@@BlacklistedSoupelden ring kinda overrated
@@panditas7679 DS3 exists
@@BlacklistedSoup ds3 is the best souls type, sekiro is good but i wouldnt call it souls like
@@panditas7679 nah, overrated asf imo. No areas are that great, good at best, half the bosses suck, and the OSTs are very same-y. Don't get me wrong it is still amazing, just not as good as BB or ER.
There is something so special about the world in DS1. It has such an authentic feel to it that it almost feels real in a way. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is but the emotional connection you feel with the world is something they have not been able to replicate in their other games.
I haven't played it , but could it be the first soul experience that your talking about or is it really ds1?
@@papafouplays2991 I played Bloodborne DS3 before DS1 so it was not my first game
@@Luffa187thats called "liking the atmosphere more" its not that the other games dont replicate it, its just that they all go for different feels to their worlds, all of them have emotional connections, u just like the one ds1 made with u the most.
"emotional connection I feel with the world is something they have not been able to replicate in their other games FOR ME" ftfy. imo ds1 has a better atmosphere and vibe than bb, but ds3, and especially elden rings world is by far the most passionate and artistic world they created, its world is just a miracle, but i will say ds1 is the only other game that came close to making me feel like i was playing elden ring the first time, its world/feel and vibe + its exploration design is just far better than anything in bb and ds3 for example, but it still doesnt match ER, there are singular moments in ER that made me drop my jaw on the floor more than the entirety of ds3 and bloodborne combined, and elden ring is completely filled with moments like that from going to the underground the first time, entering stormveil or lyndell, fighting the spirit moose deer, going into lyndell sewers, getting to liurnia the first time etc etc it just doesnt end. its world and exploration design is just on another league compared to their older games imo. ffs u go underground, notice an underground city studded with star like stuff, u notice an upside down castle stuck to this giant caves ceiling, and after killing a certain boss, a meteor drops in the first area and u go down the meteor creator and end up in the same upside down castle u saw almost 50 hours ago XD
@@flamingmanure I don’t think it’s atmosphere either. Bloodborne is my favorite in almost every category, including atmosphere. I think it’s more about the journey as a whole, the layered history of the world and the way the game makes you feel small and insignificant.
I don’t have that much of an opinion on ER yet simply because I like to wait for the game to be completely finished with DLC before I give my thought on it. The DLC’s have a history of drastically changing my perception of the games.
Wanna know a fun fact? In my first playthrough of ER I finished the game without even knowing there was areas underground. You heard that right. I somehow was able to miss every single opportunity to discover any of those areas. It was before they patched in the marker on the map after defeating Radahn. Imagine my surprised face when I realized I missed like half the game. I had no idea at all that there were underground areas. I’m probably the only player this happened to😂
@@papafouplays2991depends ds1 is honestly really bland to me meh. It's personal preference. (Bland vs des bb ds3. Elden ring and ds2 are more bland to me.
I feel like I’m the only person who absolutely loves dark souls 2, I always find myself coming back to it.
yeah you prolly are ngl
@@BeautifulDuwang33bro 😂😂
Ds2 is great. My least favorite souls game but still amazing compared to most games from other developers.
I love dark souls 2, a truly underrated game
@@BeautifulDuwang33 I exist with him lol
Dark Souls III DLC’s are absolutely incredible. Best bosses. Insanely tough. “The Ringed City” is such a perfectly designed area. Absolutely, my favorite Soulsborne DLC.
I agree, but I hope that Shadow of Erdtree will topple it😊
@@AlexCatable I’m really looking forward to it also. I just wish we got a little something to look forward to. I hope we get something at the Game Awards.
yep, better than bbs imo.
im positive shadow will be the best fromsoft dlc they made, they worked on it for almost 2 years now, not just 8 months like the older games@@AlexCatable
@@flamingmanure I want AT LEAST two areas each with its legacy dungeon. I want new enemies and bosses.
And most of all I want lore giving us answers to oh too many questions the base game left hanging.
That was a very good ranking video with great explanations. Well done!
Can't stop won't stop the totally tubular grind 😎
This channel gonna blow up soon, you’ve been grinding
For DS1 pvp…I’ve been invaded every time I play, often several times a day. It’s awesome to see honestly
Great list! I mostly agree with these arguments and feel very well explained. Fromsoft have knocked it out of the park when it comes to this genre.
The second half of ds1 is ass so look forward to that
@@firstorderblade4432 Lost Izalith and Tomb of the Giants are my least favorite areas of the game, but Duke's Archive, New Londo Ruins and the whole Ooacile more than make up for the other two.
my god dude your grind is insane
Since I got laid off from Insomniac I have been knee deep in the trenches
I appreciate DS 3 more today. I know it has a lot of fanservice and when it came out I hated it but today knowing that it rly is the closure to the trilogy I see why they did that also knowing more about the lore rly helps since most of them make sense in the world.
Elden ring was my first fs game and I loved it so much I went back and played the old ones and I gotta say ds1 has become my personal favorite from just how charming it is. Ds1 truly made feel like I was the character exploring this broken world trying to figure it out and keep pushing forward each area took me so long to figure it out that by the time I finished the area I truly felt like I knew it. It’s hard to explain why ds1 has so much charm buts it’s probably everything combined from the music to the interconnected world to the simple weapons to the dragons to the npcs to the bosses to the story to the items everything is perfect and I don’t think any other fs has come close to it imo. In other games like elden ring ds3 bloodborne sekiro you see so many cool shit that you kinda get desaturated but in ds1 everything is so simple that seeing a dragon seems so amazing and huge and like your truly seeing and fighting a dragon.
I love how bro doesn’t even mention DS2 😭😂😂
The first half of ds1 has my favorite level design by far but as far as overall game it’s not on my top 3. Every game on this list is amazing tho
If Elden Ring is already number 1 on your list… imagine what it could be after the DLC! 😮
I'm not typically a DLC guy but shadow of the erdtree is a day one purchase for sure
I guess it could be number one again I suppose
Elden ring is not that good is like Skyrim 6
@@olivier4916it's the best
@@olivier4916just finished Elden Ring for the first time, you’re insane and the game is probably one of my favorites all time
This has to be the 800th souls video I have watched, and I probaly will watch 800 more.
Excellent. BB is a freaking masterpiece. All of them are worth playing. What a studio.
all of them are masterpieces!
ya breaking bad is masterpiece
I love Bloodborne so much. Only one that’s better is Elden Ring.
If you have a PS5 and don’t have Demon’s Souls you are doing yourself a tremendous disservice! Excellent video bro, earned another sub🤙
I gotta recommend the Ps3 version, it's an amazing experience
@@bihn I will have to take you up on that. I just did my first play through of Dark Souls remastered and it was insane. Time to dust off the PS3 and give it a shot! It’s crazy just based on what I’ve seen on TH-cam, how different the remake and original are aesthetically, I’m excited
Demons Souls is a good game but not nearly as good as the Dark Souls trilogy. You can tell it was a experimental project.
@@alexandrecl4331 I don’t think anyone can argue that Dark Souls 1 is the best of the OG games. I prefer demon’s souls to 2 & 3, but DS1 cannot be beaten.
Elden Ring is my favourite closely followed by Sekiro then ds3, (maybe because I can't play demon souls or bloodborne). Elden Ring with seamless co op is the best experience I have had in gaming by far. Every time I try some older souls I look immediately for a seamless co op.
Same here, I even considered buying a PS5 just für Bloodborne, but at the very moment, I was ready to do it, it was literally impossible to get one. Now I’m content with that, bought my a series X instead and just think to myself, if you Sony guys don’t want me as your customer, so be it.
Somehow it’s maybe their best AND messiest game which is a shame. In most other FromSoft games I look forward to the bosses. Elden Ring has some highlights but the combat system felt like a regression especially after Sekiro. The bullshit of many bosses can make the game feel like a drag compared to something like DS3 or Sekiro or Bloodborne where the bosses always feel challenging but fair. I look forward to the final battle with Isshin. I dread having to fight the Elden Beast.
@@chandler_martianyou are legit clueless af 😂 elden ring combat is the most fluid, dynamic, satisfying and skill-based combat out of ANY souls game. Sekiro is barely a souls game, but elden ring combat is way better than any of the others. To say it's a step back really just screams ignorance.
@@forwardmoving8252 It’s the only FromSoft game I’ve played where I dread the boss encounters. Pretty much any other entry I love the boss fights. Sekiro is VERY close to their other games so I still compare it to the others. Isshin took me days to beat and I still love it. Elden Beast makes me want to stop playing the game.
I like Dark Soul 1 more than 3. You need to play Bloodborne, it is so good. And yes, I love Sekiro too.
great video i have bloodborne which i plan on starting soon and it will be my first souls game and i plan to get elden ring soon as well since i love open world games and have heard a lot of praise for it
Been subbed for a while but after the GH ranking video, I’ve been solidified as a fan for sure! But I have to know… how the hell do you pump out so many of these videos so quickly?! Like there’s no way you’re replaying all these, recording the gameplay, scripting out your dialogue etc. I need to know your process! Haha
I really have a grind mindset, a grindset if you will. I have been on youtube for 13 years and work hard everyday. I was laid off from insomniac games last month, so this is what I am doing all day lol. If you want to know how I finish so many games a year I have 3 videos discussing my tactics on finishing games. And I plan to make a new one for next year.
Keep going strong mate!
Whoa you worked for Insomniac?!
@@4everhumbl36 in the credits for Spider-man 2... twice
My personal ranking based on several aspects would probably be:
1.Elden Ring
2.Bloodborne
3.DS3
4.Sekiro
5.DS1
6.DS2
7.DeS
The weakest being like 7/10 and the strongest maybe a bit above 9/10
swap Sekiro and DS1 and thats my ranking
That’s close! Although to be honest I think I had kind of a hard time with that due to how hard DS1 flops in the second half/last third, even though Sekiro’s only notable qualities are just bossfights, and not even all of them.
@@viss-kn4iu It's worth pointing out that Ooacile, the additional area for DS1, has the best bosses and environmental storytelling in the game. So that elevates the 2nd half quite a bit.
@@enman009 true, but that’s one area within a dlc. I love it, don’t get me wrong, but the rest is a dip in quality even bigger than Elden Ring after Leyndell
@@viss-kn4iuElden Ring has boring Mountain Tops ,sure, but then there are Haligtree and Farum Azula which are absolutely fantastic.
1: DS1
2: DS3
3. ER
4. BB
5. Sekiro
6. DS2
7. DES
This is my personal list in terms of my favorite first playthrough / hours played / overall fun.
For first playthrough ER is definitely my favorite but in terms of replay value I never feel the want to replay it, meanwhile I’m still starting new playthroughs on DS1 and DS3 just because I feel like it is equally as fun to replay as it was to play on my first playthrough. Something about being able to beat those games in one sitting within 3 or 4 hours is extremely satisfying considering it took me 50+ on my first playthroughs. I can only do that on elden ring is I run past 90% of the content which is sort of a buzzkill for me. The first playthrough exploration in ER was so good and will never be matched for me but the bosses aren’t good enough on that game to warrant me starting a new playthrough, that and the fact that I actively have to go way out of my way to fight some of the coolest ones.
I absolutely love all the Souls Games and so does my son. I have played with him for many years. Its really hard to rank them because they are all fantastic games and the best PVE Souls games has the least balanced PVP. If i had to choose 1 game for only playing PVP i would actually choose DS2 with Demon Souls remake on a close Second.
Ok you made me laugh, subbed
1. BB
2. DS3
3. DS1
4. ER
5. DS
I honestly dread 90% of elden ring
imo its the best
So you only like 3 souls games lol. Nothing wrong with that but you're definitely in a different boat than most others
@@dangerousfelon no, I like all of the souls games that I’ve personally played. In hindsight I should’ve specified I dread *replaying* 90% of elden ring. First play through was very fun all the way through. Some bosses are unfair and poorly designed but it’s not too much of an issue. It definitely could’ve been better though.
@@Frozenstone72 well yes that definitely changes the meaning quite a bit if you meant replaying it. I understand then
Elden Ring is the culmination of every Souls game ever made, into one game. Everything everyone wanted from previous games.
Whichever I'm playing at the moment it becomes my favourite soulsborne game
Where would you rank Lies of P?
I would have ordered these games slightly differently and showed both versions of Demons Souls as their own entries.
However, the fun of life is everyone has different opinions.
Really well made video, I enjoyed it lots!
You do know Demon Souls on PS5 is just a remaster right?
@@alumlovescakeno, it's a remake lol. Dark Souls 1 was remastered. Demon souls was remade entirely.
@@dangerousfelon Not it wasn't'
It is a remaster.
They remade the textures and models but its still the EXTACT same game
1. Demon's Souls (2009)
2. Bloodborne
3. Dark Souls
4. Elden Ring
5. Demon's Souls (2020)
6. Dark Souls 2
7. Dark Souls 3
@@alumlovescake no you dropout. It is a remake. Period. Are you trolling or just too brainless to do 5 seconds of research? You are objectively wrong. Stop liking your own comments. Demon Souls on the ps5 is a COMPLETE REMAKE by BLUEPOINT. It wasn't even made by fromsoft. They remade all of the assets lmao. It is NOT a remaster. Dark souls 1 and 2 were remastered. Demon souls wasn't.
Thank you for being honest and putting Elden Ring at the top instead of somehow justifying it being worse than dark souls 1
Love that you used the forest music from Sonic adventure 1 for sekiro.
Ds2 not being at the bottom made my nads pull up into my body.
Finally, a list that makes sense
I think my favorite souls like game is Dark Souls 1 (remastered version becouse 60fps) I just love the music, enemies, world, bosses and everything about it.
I’m going to say it. You can play BloodBorne 60fps on ps5 i think. But still bro fantastic video. You get a subscribe👍
You can’t play it on 60 FPS
@@WP_-bq3hs the remastered is 60fps on ps4/5, pc and xbox consoles
@@dr.games_4 was talking about BloodBorne brother bear
Bruh how have you not finished the DS3 DLCs?? You’re saying you never fought Gael or Midir??
1. Bloodborne [10/10]
2. Elden Ring [10/10]
3. Dark Souls 3 [9/10]
4. Dark Souls [9/10]
5. Demon's Souls [8/10]
6. Sekiro [8/10]
7. Dark Souls 2 [7/10]
For me Sekiro Bloodborne 9, DS1/3 8.5 ER .7.5 DS2/DeS 7
I just finished Bloodborne a couple of days ago. I got to Rom before when it came out and stopped playing then didn't go back.
It's great but people exaggerate it. But I think both Elden Ring and Sekiro are better games. I think I'd actually say Dark Souls 3 is better too.
I do like how unique its story and setting is. Not that many games nod to Lovecraft.
Hey, that's my story!
I started the game in the beginning of the year and dropped I after Rom.
The game was just too dark and bleak compared to ER. The bosses weren't challenging and not all of them were interesting design wise. And I couldn't get into lore. I think I'll give it another go, from the start and will try to focus more on the lore to keep me interested.
The only reason bloodbourne blew up and was so favoured was because it was just playstation stans being elitist and saying how their exclusive soulsbourne was the best ever etc etc. no doubt it isgood but the extra exaggeration and hype around it was a lot to do elitist stan ing. there is a lot of that type of discourse around souls bourne games. my personal favourite is dark souls as it was the first one i played and got me into the genre when it first came out. im sure that the first one someone plays and gets the whole learning through trial an error etc that whatever that title is will usually be their favourite. i get it. their is lot of playstation stan stuff attached to bloodbourn though that is for sure.
I’ve only played Sekiro and Bloodborne, and am currently playing Elden Ring. But with just BB and Sekiro alone I had some of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had. Sekiro will always be special to me though bc it was the first From Software game I ever played. I went straight into Bloodborne upon finishing Sekiro, so I was kinda breezing through most of it. It wasn’t until I got up to the DLC that I really started getting my ass kicked. Orphan of Kos took me longer to beat than any boss in Sekiro.
You should make a video with the best order to play soulsborne games
Go in order of release. Demon's Souls (PS3), Dark Souls 1, DS2, Bloodborne, DS3, Sekiro, Demon's Souls remake, Elden Ring. I don't recommend just playing the Demon's Souls remake.
Fun fact: In demon's souls, if you close the game as soon as you die and restart it, you get sent back before the encounter you died in and you'll still have all of your souls. It works on ps3 and ps5, and I cannot resist doing it everytime lol.
for me dark souls 3 will always be number 1 because no other game had this good bosses
both ER and sekiro had better bosses, hell i think elden rings mini bosses are better than half of ds3's main bosses, which are great, but frankly only about 5 or 6 of them truly left an impression, unlike ER which made me shit my pants with so many of its normal enemies and mini bosses, let alone the main bosses, which alot of them are as great as the older games dlc bosses if u ask me, mohg, maliketh, godfrey and morgot are as good as gale and ludwig to may, malekith mightve beat gale as my favorite boss in the entire freakin series! to each their own though.
@@flamingmanure you're delusional boy go play ds3
@@flamingmanureexactly. Elden ring main bosses are great, but people ignore the mini bosses for whatever reason, which are more complex and deep than DS3 bosses.
bloodborne bosses are not worse at all
I’m not gonna lie….you’re so spot on with Demon’s Souls!! Those Cthulhu mother fuckers made me smash my dual sense. I’d turn a corner and bam, they’d one shot me with a projectile spell running to fools idol. Infuriated me.
hey man, could you do a ranking on every soul calibur game, it'll be cool.
I think it would be cool too. Hopefully soon enough I do! I still am working on my Guilty Gear video but after that I think my next fighting game franchise to cover will be Soul Calibur
@@TotallyTubularJonathan since you did tekken, i was thinking about soul calibur.
Sekiro really isn’t close to the rest of these games at all, it’s a masterpiece, but it’s not a soulslike
My ranking is:
1. Elden Ring (best open world game ever made. Best exploration ever)
2. Sekiro (most rewarding combat ever)
3. Bloodborne (best atmosphere)
4. Dark Souls 1
5. Dark Souls 3
6. Demons Souls (still a top 20 game all time for me)
7. Dark Souls 2 (the only one I didn’t like)
Now i can learn EVERYTHING dark soul stuff😊
Yes Elden Ring is the best one I strongly agree with ya, Bloodborne right after it for me, and we still haven’t seen Shadow of the Erdtree DLC yet!!
35:56-36:06 You say “rewarding” 4 times in 10 seconds
36:18 rewarding x1
36:21 rewarding x1
6 times in 30 seconds
Hey guys I put about six hours in to demon souls a d whilst I loved the world and lore, I hated the stiff and bland combat and endless repetition. I love fair challenge and difficulty but alot of the time it just seemed a bit cheap. Will I enjoy Bloodborne or Elden Ring?
I really hope they bring back Otogi if you like the lore and demons in japan era
Sekiro, Elden Ring, and DS3 are my top 3
Demon's Souls on Ps3 is a completely different experience from the remake. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to play the intended and original version
Yeah it sucks that a lot of people will never play the original because they think the remake "has everything that the original had and more". That's not how it works.
The Remake of Demon Souls absolutely butchered the art direction of the original, and it's a shame because that one was one of my favorites for that reason.
The trifecta of Fromsoft games for me is Ds1, ER, and Sekiro.
Dark Souls 1 Had the Highest Highs. Elden ring had the most highs. Sekiro had the most Consistency.
Wow demon's souls really getting snubbed here. Amazing game that created its own genre, and From is still reusing areas/bosses/concepts from demon's in its newest games. What makes it even stranger that you ranked it so low is that you ranked Dark Souls 1 quite high, despite it being basically Demon's Souls 1.5
Nothing strange about the ranking at all 😂 your logic is weird. Nobody cares if Demon souls laid the ground work. That doesn't make it better than their other titles. Most people rate it lower than the rest of their souls games.
@@dangerousfelon The "strange" part was that they ranked demons souls so low and dark souls 1 so high, despite them being the most similar games in the series in terms of gameplay and level design. Dark Souls 1 doesn't do enough different from demons souls to warrant the massive gap on the tier list. My logic is not weird, it makes perfect sense.
@lloydirving6209 no your logic doesn't make sense at all. The bosses and world design are much better in dark souls 1.
@@dangerousfelon The fact that the areas are connected and loop back to firelink and stuff is really cool, and that aspect is done better in Dark Souls 1 than in any other From game. However, the individual levels themselves are much better in Demon's Souls.
The ds1 bosses are better but not by much, demons souls has a really great and creative set of bosses. The most creative in the series I would argue, as a lot of future bosses are just ripped and reskinned from demons souls. And the ones that aren't usually amount to a 1v1 in a big circle arena where you roll -> attack -> roll -> attack, which isn't very interesting. It's cool a couple times, but when 99% of the bosses are just that, it gets pretty tiresome.
Blighttown is just Valley of Defilement, Undead Burg, Undead Parish, and the drake that breathes fire on the bridge are all stuff lifted directly from demons souls Boletaria Palace and put into dark souls. Artorias' intro cutscene is just The Penetrator's intro cutscene, but it is way less impactful because the enemy that The Penetrator kills was actually important and relevant in the area leading up to him. In Dark Souls you encounter an NPC in a locked cell who uses a sickle in combat, in the area leading up to a boss that is a surprise gank fight on a platform you can fall off of, and if you rescue the NPC he ends up killing NPC in the hub zone. This whole plot thread is completely unoriginal, taken directly from demons souls, pretty much down to a T. I could go on and on; dark souls 3 is even worse about this, as most of that game's areas are straight up lifted from demons souls and dark souls 1. Completely unoriginal, been-there done-that stuff.
This the only thing thats gonna make me smile today after Bray Wyatt's passing
Glad someone else recognizes Dark Souls 1 as the Best of the Dark Souls. For me it's mesmerizing, the level design, the impact of routes and bosses design. The way the game set traps that you will almost always fall for it (which some don't like), the atmosphere of ringing the bells... Damn, there's so much to it... it's by far my favorite of the series.
Of what I’ve played so far(including other souls Bourne type games )
I loved ds1,2, just finished 3(my favorite ), I played bloodborne when it was released but at that time, wasn’t into souls games so I’d have to run that back again , lies of P has been wonderful , and code vein is pretty fun(not as hardcore) as the original souls games
1. Dark Souls (crazy bcos the second half is pretty bad but the first half was the best experience I’ve ever had in a game)
2. Bloodborne (go do the chalice dungeons - DLC amazing)
3. Dark Souls 3 (best bosses - lacklustre environments. Nearly makes #2 for best soundtracks and bosses alone, it’s that good.
4. Elden Ring (disappointing pacing both in story and feeling overpowered/underpowered). I’d have the best 1hr of gameplay. Then something boring or just slicing through stuff. Overrated but colossal and fun. Completed but haven’t played it again.
5. Dark Souls 2 sotfs
Notes: Elden Ring…balance feels bad. Didn’t feel that sense of magic and wonder like the others.
I’m putting DS2 last because of some abysmal sections and combat but it really has that feel. Couldn’t wait to mess around with different builds on subsequent playthroughs.
Didn’t click with Sekiro. I was trash at it. Not interested in the world. No build variety. I know it’s top for some.
Demon's Souls doesn't deserve to be last
The PS5 version isn’t the only way to play demons souls online- the emulated original ps3 version has popular fan servers where you can get the full original online experience. DeS is one of the smoothest running PS3 Roms so if even if you don’t have a great pc you can probably run it (runs fine on hardware as old as 10 series gpus)
Sekiro is interesting because it can be both the hardest and the easiest. If the mechanics ever "click" for you then it is unreal how much easier it can be. Love the game, but I don't consider it to be a "Soulsborne" game because it isn't an rpg. It stands alone, but it stands well.
Now, I’ve never played a Souls game before, but I’m pretty sure you can’t count Sekiro as a Souls game. From what I’ve seen, it’s super different from all of the other Souls games that I’m pretty sure the creator (don’t know his name, sorry) said that he wouldn’t say it’s a Souls game.
Ds3 has excellent bossfights and pretty good areas but the linearity in its levels knocks it down for some people
A Bioshock ranking would be awesome
Dark Souls 3 gets some flack for its fan service but it’s hard to deny the boss lineup is one of, if not the best and most consistent line up they’ve made so far.
I have to disagree on the DS3 callbacks. I think they did those perfectly. That's what a sequel should be, a faithful followup of the original. I hate the way DS2 did this in comparission, it sorta feels like a fangame.
A good example of this is Aldrich from DS3 and Old dragonslayer from DS2. Aldrich is an obvious callback to Gwyndolin, the area is the same, the place is the same, the guy is also the same, he uses the same magic/arrow attacks that you'll instantly recongise him from. But there are plenty of differences to distinguish the two, Anor Londo is obviously just a dead, broken place now that lost all its glory, Gwyndolin is a puppet controlled by a flesh-eating creature Aldrich, and he mixes up and adds some extra twists to the classic Gwyndolin attacks that it'll become a completely different fight. Also there's a good reason to reuse him for the story, makes perfect sense of Aldrich consuming the last living god.
And in DS2 we have Old Dragonslayer. An obvious callback to Ornstein... but he's dark. Why he's dark when dragons are weak to lightning instead? What's his connection to the story, the knights of Gwyn? Why does he reappear in a random spot, with a dragon outside his arena making his name a complete joke? Why's his moveset exactly the same as in DS1? Where's Smough? No one knows and probably the devs didn't really care. They just grabbed an iconic character from the first game, slapped a different color palette on him and stuffed him in a random room to fill space.
There are a couple more of these instances in both DS3 and DS2, and the pattern is always kind of the same. DS3 takes lots of callbacks but actually ties them into the lore, showing us how the things we knew well from 1 ended up in thousands of years. While DS2 took entire character concepts and just put them in the game because "if it worked the first time, it should now" (think about Najka, Gargoyles, Royal Rat,
Agreed with everything.
For me though, the flaw is that there's too much callbacks to DS1 but barebones to DS2 so it definitely felt playing favorites.
Not saying i'd reduce DS1, but i'd definitely add more from DS2.
Especially since DS3 is the sendoff.
Bro didn’t put armored core 6 on here I’m ded 💀
Great list, but not finishing the DS3 DLC is criminal. Ringed City is so good.
I think the problem with DS3 is that the best aspect of it, the bosses, has now been surpassed. Demons Souls still has the best characters, Dark Souls still has the best areas, Dark Souls II still has the best PVP, Bloodborne still has the best combat. But Dark Souls 3 was the one with the best bosses, and in my opinion Elden Ring has the best bosses now. So what is Dark Souls 3 the best at now?
Honestly if u don't agree that Sekiro is a souls-game u probably haven't played it.
To correct you : Elden ring doesnt contain 70 Bosses. It actually contains 238 bosses. Check on google
thats why it sucks
All of them are great
(Though I haven't played ds1&2 yet)
But for me.. :
Bb
Sekiro
Ds3
Demons souls/elden ring
1. Bloodborne
2. Dark Souls
3. Elden Ring
4. Dark Souls III
5. Dark Souls II
Have not played the remaining two
DS1, BB, and either demon souls or sekiro depending on my vibe are my top 3, i think elden ring is overrated as fuck even tho I love it and think it’s a solid 8/10, i just enjoy the carefully curated content of the more linear levels
DS1 Sekiro and BB best for real
Facts
Literally watching this while starting a new game in bloodborne 😂😂😂
100% agree with this list ❤😊💯😎👍🙏
I love all the souls series! I havent played sekiro and want to so bad! We need bloodborne 2!
I havent watched the video but here is my prediction from worst to best:
demon souls, ds2, ds1, ds3, sekiro, bloodborne, elden ring.
Lets see if i nail it
I see some people giving sekiro shit saying “it’s far from perfect. No rpg elements, and the world isn’t as deep as the DS trilogy.” Okay and? Sekiro is its own thing. From software built something different and new while still maintaining the souls-like genre. They created something for vets of the series to learn and something that new players could be interested in. Also have we forgot what won game of the year in 2019? I rest my case.
Great list. I would have swapped bb with er, and swapped ds2 with des
bb is overrated and carried by its DLC.
@shadysorkin9214 Not true, it has the most immersive world out of the souls games, incredible level design and the most interconnected map since DS1. It's bosses are also the 1st iteration of modern soulslike bosses and while some are mediocre, the majority while on the easier side offer a decent fight. The transformative weapons are all fun to use. It also has the toughest iteration of the trio class fight which was a tradition since demons souls though I don't think they did it in elden ring.... and well Sekiro which personally I don't consider a soulslike anyway. Also the art direction is amazing, the gritty gothic bloody cthulu inspired world is something quite beautiful to look at.
@@shadysorkin9214 I thought the same thing before I played it... But then I played Bloodborne.
-The combat and lore are arguably the best in the series.
-The atmosphere
-The uniqueness of the trick weapons
-The level design and interconnectedness of the world is 2nd only to DS1
-The cosmic horror plot twist
-With some great boss fights in the base game: Father Gascoigne, Gehrman, Shadows of Yharnam, Watchdog, Pthumerian Descendant... but yea without the dlc most of the boss fights aren't that good.
I thought I would be disappointed when I heard how much people praise it, but boy was I wrong. Then add on the dlc!
@@antviper135
- best combat: Sekiro
- best lore: I agree, it's bloodborne
- best atmosphere: Dark Souls
- best weapons: Elden Ring
- best world: Dark Souls > Elden Ring > Rest
Gherman is really the only great boss fight in the base game in my opinion. The DLC has all amazing bosses with maybe the exception of Laurence.
It's a great game for sure I love bloodborne, but it is overpraised to a large degree. Sekiro is really the only game they have made in my opinion that is pretty close to perfect.
@@shadysorkin9214 Well for combat I said, "Arguably." Up there with Sekiro though
Lore: Valid
Atmosphere: Valid. Got Bloodborne up there with Ds1
Weapons: Arguable between Elden Ring and Bloodborne
World: Bloodborne>= Elden Ring> Ds1. Probably the most subjective one
World Interconnectedness: Ds1>Bloodborne>>>>>>> The rest
They do have shields in bloodborne but i never see anyone use them. Myself included
Nioh 1 and 2 are missing also Wo Long
Dark Souls 1 is a good game but I would rank it pretty low on my list. The second half of the game sucks except for the dlc, the bosses are mid, the mechanics are janky, the lack of warping results in a lot of boring running around and backtracking. I honestly don’t think it aged very well. The only good bosses in the game are Kalameet and Artorias. Dark Souls 2 is pretty low on my list as well. I think DS3 is much better than DS1 because it actually has good mechanics and good bosses despite it being very linear and unoriginal at times. The atmosphere and interconnected level design is cool in DS1 but like I said I think the lack of warping resulted in a lot of downtime that I wasn’t a big fan of. DS1 also houses the worst boss of all time the bed of chaos
I think you could be a bit more specific about janky mechanics because I think DS1 has aged fine. I think that the world of the game and interconnected paths were laid out well enough that the travelling around on foot was fine because you were never too far from a bonfire or a blacksmith etc and the hub area wasn’t as important. I think it has some solid bosses and I can’t believe you didn’t mention O&S, but I agree that DS3 bosses were better.
As for the late game of DS1 I like the Duke’s Archives, Catacombs and New Londo, Tomb Of The Giants was kinda mid and I don’t like Demon Ruins or Lost Izalith. DS3’s early game is kinda boring for me, the High Wall, Road Of Sacrifices and and Undead Settlement are kinda tedious and feel the exact same every time due to the lack of exploration and weapon options at that point.
For me I would only move Sekiro to number 1 or 2. Otherwise I completely agree
mine are 3) sekiro 2) elden ring 1) ds3
I just bought a PS5 just so I could play Bloodborne, then I saw Demon’s Souls and now I’m just going to have to try them all. This video was perfect timing. 10 out of 10
Elden ring and Bloodborne are my favorites
this list is probably 90% similar to my ranking. Really enjoyed the longer format too instead of a quick 15 minute ranking
I really adored Demon's Souls remake for its beauty. Gameplay-wise it's not up to par but damn, those areas felt like I'm really there.
1-Elden Ring
2-Dark Souls 3
3-Sekiro
4-Dark Souls 2
5- Dark Souls 1 - this game sucks!
Waiting for pc port for bloodborne, I have it for playstation but I think the wait will be worth it. Also I cant do 30fps.
Ds1 - bb - elden ring/sekiro -ds2 (ds3 better critically but ds2 was more memorable) -ds3 - demon s
I have played sekiro, ds3 and elden ring so far and sekiro is by far the best
I play mainly for bosses and in both ds3 and elden ring so far it's so easy to accidentally make the game not all that hard and not get the feeling of mastering the boss because your weapon is just too strong/your level is too high
I had to just stop leveling at some point of my ds3 walkthrough since it didn't feel necessary to get some good challenge
Meanwhile sekiro all I needed to do to avoid breaking the game was not using the mortal blade
I do think the op stuff does add replay value and is fun to use after initial playthrough but for the first playthrough I want to struggle and ds3 definitely didn't give me that
Elden ring I am not sure about yet since I am not that far into it but so far just exploring sloppily feels like it already made margit and godrick extremely easy at least
i gave ds3 above 1, but other than that i agree with the order of this list
Sekiro's Soulsbourne Rings of Armored Core and Kings Field
I honestly find it surprising why so many people prefer ds1 to ds3
I thought I was the only one that thought this!
I’m the opposite. I vastly prefer ds1
Honestly ds3 is my least favorite in the series
@@CRydon200 Thats fine we all have our opinions. However objectively, enjoyment aside it is better than a lot of the entries
the second half is just so rough man :( I wish I could like it more@@louiemeister9646
Ds3 is the best in the series, best bosses, weapons, area design, enemies etc
ds3 has the best area design? are you smoking
ds3 area design single-handedly made it my least favorite souls game
The exact opposite is true. Ds3 is the weakest in the series
@@QuindariousGooch631 it comes down to personal opinion in the end, all I'm saying, in a non biased way since playing all soulsborne games, is ds3 has the most variety in terms of areas.
@@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725 for me
1 ds3
2 ds1
3 BB
4 ER
5 demon souls
6 ds2
7 sekiro
Best bosses? Maybe, it's at the same level of Sekiro and Elden Ring. Areas? Not even close to the best, since even DS1 surpasses this game. Weapons and enemies are much better done in other games, specially Elden Ring.
Ds3 my fav DS 2 is hard as shit for me 😂
For me Elden Ring would fall to third under Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3, the replayability compared to BB & DS3 is absurd, and personally I loved the bosses of DS3 far more than any game, especially in the DLC and base game like Nameless King and Lothric
Kind of stupid to compare the replayability when elden ring offers WAY more content to begin with. I put 300 hours into one elden ring playthrough. I would hope a much shorter game can be replayed more lmao. DS3 and bloodborne combined have a fraction of the content of elden ring.
@@dangerousfelon ER with DLC will be unreal. But as of now the quality of content in BB and DS3 are higher imho
@@TheHorusTapeslaughably disagreed with the quality argument there buddy, even elden rings mini bosses are better than half the main bosses of bb and ds3, let alone elden rings main bosses, which are far better than anything in ds3 and bbs main game imo, some of which are on par with the best of the dlc bosses like mohg, malekith and godfrey, elden rings level design is above both too, not a single area in bb and ds3 come even close to a single legacy dungeon in ER and when factoring in the best most handcrafted open world ive ever seen + underground, frankly i kinda laugh inside when the older fans say bb or ds3s level design is better, only ds1 is a match, but frankly considering elden rings size and just how well designed its levels are, i say it took astronomically more talent in that department to make compared to ds1, ive seen quite a few souls veterans use the word quality alot when critiquing ER in contrast to the older games but frankly i think its mostly just blind and thoughtless nostalgia to the older games with not much critical thought put into that statement.
nothing in bb and ds3 is higher quality than elden ring, hell i would easily argue the opposite, elden ring dropped my jaw on the floor in so many moments, so many bosses nd their design, so many enemies, so many vistas and secrets with secrets within secret areas, lyndell and the underground alone wowed me more than the entirety of ds3 and bb combined. the exploration in elden ring is just LAUGHABLY better than bb and ds3, no debate needed there. in what way are those 2 games even close to the quality of ER exactly? some of elden's normal enemies are harder and more fun and challenging to fight than many bb and ds3 bosses lol, which i view as kind of mediocre after learning how to deal with the deadlier sekiro and elden ring enemies and bosses, really the older games only have about 5 truly great and memorable bosses each, while the rest of the bosses are forgettable and mediocre at best or indifferent and bad at worst, bloodborne has the lowest quality and worst main boss stretch in the series by far, after vicar, its shadows into rom into one reborn into freakin micolash XD lol doesnt seem like a high quality game to me. ill take forskin duo over mico anyday, theres a million tools in ER to make duo fights fun, but mico? nope, not coop or anyother ingame tool will help him be a fun boss. the way i see it is, bb and ds3 are small but fantastic meals, while elden ring is an entire buffet, alot of parts of it are just much better than anything in the smaller meals, but some parts of it are worse.
and frankly, neither bb nor ds3 are the bastions of quality that their fanbase think they are, and i played both of those last to make sure i had no bias or nostalgia since after finishing sekiro, all i heard about was how good ds3 and bb are from many delusional and nostalgia infested souls veteran echochambers, i played the games in this order:
sekiro
elden ring
ds1
ds3
bb
and for the bb fanboys that constantly scream about its quality, maybe you guys should consider the chalice dungeons when weighing its quality, overall bb is one of the lowest quality souls games when viewed as a whole, and whether you like it not, chalices are apart of bb and will be judged along side it, the chalice dungeons make elden rings crappy trap crypts and caves look like peak fromsoft design XD and ds3 overall is pretty great, but frankly a little mediocre and forgettable when compared to ER imo. i will admit that those games have more CONSISTENT quality than ER though, as in the range between their bad and good parts isnt that wide, but when it comes to the purity and amount of quality as a whole, elden ring is several leagues above them.
@@flamingmanureYeah, a lot of older fans have nostalgia bias and some of them are also contrarians who will hate on Elden Ring just because it became mainstream. If we’re looking at things critically, BB and DS3 have plenty of flaws that detractors could point out but they won’t because they’d rather focus energy towards criticizing Elden Ring since it got popular lol. Once Elden Ring gets its DLC I honestly don’t even think it will be a debate. Look at BB without its DLC. That game loses almost every boss that people actually like. No Orphan, no Ludwig, no Maria. What’s left? Gehrman and Gascoigne? The lore and content also leave a lot to be desired if we’re excluding DLC. If we’re just comparing BB’s base game to Elden Ring, I think most people who are being honest with themselves will agree that Elden Ring blows it out of the water. Elden Ring is arguably better than BB with DLC, and Elden Ring hasn’t even gotten its DLC yet…
And I say this as someone who started with DS1. Love all of these games.
People somehow try to play ER like another souls game. Semi linear, not too long, self balanced.
So, they see open world and crazy variability of play styles - as drawbacks, not assets.
To each his own I guess, but I find this approach narrow-minded.
6. Dark Souls 2 (I didn't like this game very much).
5. Elden Ring (for me the Fromsoft formula and the open world don't fit together and I didn't like the whole art design)
4. Demons Souls Remake ( beautiful and linear game, great level design)
3. Dark Souls (my first Souls experience, maybe the deepest atmosphere and lore, beautiful dark medieval fantasy and monochrome art design)
2. Dark Souls 3 (better than Dark Souls in almost all aspects, except for the general atmosphere)
1. Bloodborne (for me the absolute Fromsoft masterpiece, dark, gritty horror, steampunk fantasy, very interesting story, and the atmosphere is almost physical)
never played Sekiro tho
I can't play BB as I'm on Xbox but for me it would go Elden Ring, DS3, DS1, DS2 and Sekiro for me is different enough to not be.