Thread: 5.3 Preliminary Patch Note

Originally Posted by JohnSpawnVFX

Dark Souls series has unfair deaths (attacks whose animation doesn't allow you to predict - cheese- them).

Also, DS has been debunked long ago as overhyping what "good gameplay and difficulty" is. No one serious nowadays tries to hold DS as the sole unique example of what gameplay and difficulty design is.

Dark Souls is a fine example of good gameplay and difficulty; the people who try to claim otherwise have usually never even played the games. Please elaborate on the non-reactable 1-hit kills Souls has; you can't just say that without giving an example.

Plenty of games have better gameplay than Souls, though; I think games like Sekiro and Nioh were substantial gameplay improvements. DMC's gameplay is also far more complex. Dark Souls is just the easiest for people to recognize and dissect for conversations like this.