Dark Souls 3 Is the Hardest Dark Souls Yet

IGN:
Dark Souls 3 might be the hardest Souls game ever made. Even after literally hundreds of hours spent playing Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, and Bloodborne, the latest installment of From Software’s infamously challenging series is about as tough as these games get. And I love it.

Maybe I’m just saying that because it’s a new experience. I’ve gone through Lordran more times than I can count, navigating its winding world by way of mental maps, burned into my brain over many playthroughs. It’s familiar enough that I can find three Fire Keeper Souls within the first few minutes and ring the second bell before the first. Fighting Havel with no armor and no shield is the only way to make that encounter exciting again. These are common things for someone who's just played a lot of Dark Souls. The first game is still fun, but you get used to it.

[ShadowKnight]

The way I like it!!!

[xkarxfreddy]

Im about 10 or more bosses in and i disagree while im loving the game iv yet to face a hard boss

[ShadowKnight]

So its easier?

[Savsky]

in my experience, the more souls games you play, the easier the sequels are.

[reaperofsouls]

Ur 10 bosses into a game which is not yet released

[LG_Fox_Brazil]

To be fair, a few people here in Brazil already got the game and are playing. Bloodborne leaked 4 days before the official realease date and I got it. I didn't have the same luck with Dark Souls 3 though.

[magiciandude]

This really made my day. Dark Souls III will really boost controller sales. So hyped up!!

[C-H-E-F]

Call me a bum... but I never even beat Bloodborne in its entirety yet, cause I sucked haha great game... I just suck. and other easier great games came out haha. I still have it though, but I definitely need to use co-op to beat this gem.

Edit: And I was told that game was easy compared to the Dark Souls Series so yeah... I will need to step my game up haha. literally.

[Back-to-Back]

Well seeing as Dark Souls III doesnt have a death penalty, I highly doubt this is the case.

[RAM0N]

Now im super omega shenron hype

[KingKelloggTheWH]

People say that about EVERY single one -_-

[ziggurcat]

i am really looking forward to this, but not looking forward to having my butt handed to me on a silver platter, though D:

[TwilightSparkle]

It doesnt look hard. Anyways im grinding till im god mode.

[zidane1341]

Have fun. It's almost impossible to grind until later on in the games. Unless you want a few souls per kill.

[Vegamyster]

I found DS2 fairly easy so that's good to hear, everything so far looks great.

[Savsky]

DS2 wasnt made by the same people and is hands down the worst Souls game.

[Vegamyster]

I know, so many of the enemies & bosses had so many move sets copied from DS1 that it made it pretty predicable.

[majedx9]

with the DLC it's good

[Hoffmann]

They always say its so hard..and 3 days later someone posts a video of beating all bosses with a dance dance revolution dance mat ;)

If you want to experience hard games, try the classic MegaMan games and Super Ghost N Ghouls

[Paytaa]

I'll still never understand how someone beat Dark Souls with a Rock Band drum set lol

Then again, some dude beat Doom 1 with an actual toaster

[Hoffmann]

That toaster should be a special weapon in the new Doom!

[Goldby]

DDR mat. i like you thinking.

ill be impressed when someone manages to convert a BRother PRinter into the controls for the DS series lol

[Get_A_Job_Foxtrot]

Damn I laughed so hard I almost woke up the whole apartment lol

[SpinalRemains138]

That's so funny. I never watched any of those, but I'm not surprised in the least. There are some creative secret geniuses out there. A dance dance mat. Hahaha

[SpinalRemains138]

Mega Man games are for sure hard, but Super Ghouls N Ghosts isn't.

The initial aracade Ghost N Goblins is much harder than the sequels.

Ninja Gaiden NES was probably the game I remember most as being extremely hard.

[zidane1341]

Not even. It took several years in the minimum for people to beat ONE with the Matt.

[StrawberryDiesel420]

Tomb of the Giants in Dark Souls was extremely hard. I don't think anything can surprise me from this franchise after playing through that.

[Grave]

I'll never forget the my first time in that darkness. So brutal and actually really frightening as well.

[sullynathan]

Tomb of the giants is easy. Just don't get ganked in that one specific spot.

[Goldby]

i was almost expecting, Tomb of the Giants is easy, just git gud

[SpinalRemains138]

Haha. Hell yes. I had to invest in the skull lamp so I would have some semblance of direction.

The enemies down there were very strong too initially. Giant boney guys with lots of HP and strength. That was so much fun.

[esmittystud101]

DAY ONE PATCH: The game has a day one update that has fixes with it. Atleast they warned people.

http://m.ign.com/articles/2...

[kurochi]

Two words: Blight Town.

[sullynathan]

blighttown is easy.

[nix]

Blight Town really tested you. It was dark. It was slimy. You got poisoned almost all the time. You didn't know where to go. It was one huge swamp area. You could barely run or dodge. You were alone. And more you die stronger the enemies became. Plus to top it all others invaded you. Even the dev said that they might have overdone that part. But i finished it. I survived, died million times but still survived from giving up. And I'm f*king proud.

[nix]

Whoops.. I thought you were talking about Valley of Defilement from Demon's Souls. My brain cross wired.

Now that I'm looking at Blight Town videos, i suddenly realise I've played that too but always thought it was part of Demon's Souls. I really have to watch the Valley of Defilement videos too to see how different those two places are. My brain is mixing scenes from both the games right now and can't decide which is which.

[BiggerBoss]

I always thought of Blighttown as a rip off of Valley of Defilement. The valley was definitely the harder of the two

[nix]

you're right boss.

apart from the seemingly weak bosses, the Valley of Defilement is an irritating huge pile of slush. i now recall having spent hours and hours running haplessly around the poisonous swamp. and of course chased by the black phantom.

i watched both the videos of VoD and BT. i now see why my brain was confused. the starting point is pretty much the same - vertical walk down via bleak wooden planks. mosquitoes look pretty much the same. and as we descend we both reach the similar surroundings - poisonous swamp.

[StrawberryDiesel420]

@ above

The only way Tomb of the Giants is easy(if you can even use that word) is if you watched a walkthrough on the internet or used a strategy guide. Going into that blind was tough, I have beaten Demon's Souls 5-6 times, Dark Souls 5-6 times, and Bloodborne 4 times and I think Tomb of the Giants was one of the toughest areas out of all those games. The enemies are brutal and it's basically pitch black. The first time I wandered into that area I was just like, W...T...F are they for real with this?

[mobilegamehacker]

Man this is the hardest game ever...can't wait to play the third!

[shadowknight203]

Dark souls 2 claimed to be the hardest yet i thought it was the easiest

[remixx116]

Yeah they always claim the next iteration is the hardest.....we'll see.

[sullynathan]

that's a lie. DS2 was more difficult than ds1. play both again.

[Back-to-Back]

Four Kings and Orstein & Smough alone makes your argument invalid.

[sullynathan]

@BacktoBack Fume Knight alone makes your comment invalid.
Four Kings is easy.

[Chaos_Order]

I honestly couldn't disagree more. I found Dark Souls 2 to be by far the easiest of the series.

However, I'm aware that the re-release (Scholar of The First Sin) made the game way, way harder than the initial release, so maybe you're talking about that.

[SpinalRemains138]

It was. The trio early on were hard. Ruin Sentinel. After that it became so easy.

I really didn't care for DS 2 and all the areas where u get invaded spammed. It made the game trivial after a while.

[Donnywho]

Gotta stay away from N4G for a while now. I hate to comment on an article I didn't read, but I don't want to know anything more about this game. There will be headlines with spoilers very soon, and this article serves as my fair warning... to stay away.

[c31647]

Just because one person says its hard does not mean its going to be hard for others. If you take someone who has never played a Souls game or played very little they may find this game hard or the hardest one they played. Now if you take someone you plays the Dark Souls games often they may find DS3 a lot easier.

[BLKxSEPTEMBER]

BB was the easiest imo followed by DS2. DS3 looks pretty easy so far based on what I've seen.

[SpinalRemains138]

Bloodborne was hard, man. For me it was. I'm speaking solely of the initial playthrough.

Nothing was as hard as Demons Souls though, before the Wikis. When we were Guinea pigs for the series it was so unbelievable. We all had to figure every litte aspect out like world tendancy and never killing an NPC and to make wise decisions.

It was that lack of anything and challenge that made me fall in love with the series.

Dozer Axe, baby!

[nix]

Demon's Souls really gripped me. it was running in my veins. i would constantly think about it at work, while going to work. i stopped calling my friends to my place to "shareplay" because i was afraid that they will carelessly kill my character again and again making the enemies stronger. lol.

my only access to net at the point was my tiny screened phone and PS3. my PC probably was infested by all the viruses in the world... it died a slow death. so, i would run to the safe place in the game, shut down the game, open browser and read what weapons to collect, close the browser, start the game and play the level. wiki was my best friend at that moment. hahaha..

i died many times. many times. so i adapted and started playing stealthily. i killed one of the twin gargoyles from behind the gate of smog. i literally killed the False King with thousand arrows i had purchased. he didn't even move from where he was standing. he was killed that cowardly in my world.

hey everything is fair in love and war... good days.

coming to Bloodborne, it was fresh. it was quick. but as usual, it killed me. a lot. i could only do it because of the cheat found in the game. i levelled up and went on war. but that didn't stop me from getting scared. i was goosebumping every second. i had my fridge filled with cococola to keep me alert. i was consuming that much. i'm glad i finished it somehow considering how busy i am nowadays compared to my Demon's Souls days. also i don't think i'm ever finishing the Bloodborne DLC.

i could never get deep into the Dark Souls 1 and 2 though. Those games just couldn't hold me. i don't think i'm getting Dark Souls 3. it's just too much time consuming. i'll just play Salt n Sanctuary, which i have yet to start.

[meganick]

My penis is ready.

[user6666047]

Hard things are the best.

[DashArrivals]

WHY is the release date for this game APRIL 12th in Australia? It's f*cking bullshit

[WellyUK]

it is in Western countries as well. It's only out in Japan. People are just downloading it off the Japan stores.

[DashArrivals]

Really? Shiiiieeeeeeett

[feraldrgn]

Well I hope it's not hard like DS2.
Also I hope they allow the option to shrink the 4 slots in the bottom left.

[DashArrivals]

DS2 was easy as anything

[nix]

the only reason i felt the DS2 was easy because after multiple reruns of the same level (thanks to multiple deaths), the monsters start to disappear. that made my run to the boss very easy. i "emptied" lots of levels like that. i used to kill all the enemies all the way to the boss' door and run back to the fire and restart the level. rinse and repeat. sadly, the game just couldn't hold me. sad i'll never finish that game... ever.

[cyber_daemonx]

@Dash, its 12th April in UK as well. Be here before you know it.

[DashArrivals]

There are a minefield of spoilers on the net lol. I've still got both my legs and I have survived. Can't wait till the 12th :D

[Tobsesan]

Playing it right now and i must say WOOOW the graphics are awesome and I love the gameplay so far. Im the first 20 min in with a mage and its pretty easy so far (for a tutorial ^^).
Need to wait untill my game is 100% complete installed to teleport to the next map. But so far the game looks, sounds and plays 10/10

[Chaos_Order]

I honestly hope this article is right. I want Dark Souls 3 to violate me and make me beg for mercy, and never let up.