I don't rly agree about the Dark Souls example, a lot of the strongest weapons you can get fairly early on and boss weapons are usually either meh or just suck real bad.
A handful of weapons tend to be rly OP and most of everything is kinda just meh.
There were so many cool weapons in DS3 I wanted to use that just sucked really bad...

Quote Originally Posted by BrokentoothMarch View Post
How to tell me you haven't played dark souls without telling me you haven't played dark souls.
Wat.
Are you talking about NG+ because NG+ is horribly balanced in Souls games and way too easy.
The only new stuff in NG+ really are stuff like +1 etc rings and talismans.

Armor has been downplayed since DS1 too, it doesn't make much of a difference at all anymore.