Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-25825126-20150729214135

Oh glorious day, i have finally finished Bloodborne, and it was amazing. Such a masterful and fresh game, i love it! Reminds me of my days playing Demon's Souls for the first time. Now that I have finished all souls games i wanted to make a rank of the hardest, and easiest, souls games from easiest to hardest. For me it has to go:

DS1-DS2-BB-DeS

You might be asking yourselves "How on earth is dark souls 1 the easiest?". Well, I played them all in order, and demons souls was a gloriously difficult game. It was even more open than dark souls one (you could go to any stage of the game at any time, where dark souls, in reality, only gave you 3 options at the star, and only one you could realistically accomplish. 5 is greater than 1). When you died, you died hard. Not only was your health HALVED (sure you could get another quarter of it back, but at the cost of one of the two ring slots), but the worlds actually got harder with the enemies getting more health and a higher attack.

Dark souls 2 would have definitely been number one if it wasn't for one thing. Dark Souls 1 has no consequence for death. Sure, you loose your souls and the baddies come back, but thats it. If anything your better off being hollow because you gain certain resistances. The enemies stay the same, you keep all your health, and you just restart at the nearest bonfire, which was usually very close. You could always just go back in, do what you did before, and be prepared for whatever killed you, however, in demons souls (and i guess even Ds2), the path back to your souls was made even that much harder, meaning you have far less of a chance of ever even getting those souls back in the first place.

I dont want to spoil BB, but 2 words come to mind. No. Shield.

So what do you guys think? 