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I played all the Souls games but wasn't very interested in Bloodborne because I didn't want a PS4 or PS5 to play it on.

Then I found out you could run it in a PC emulator and played it and it was awesome. It's like turbo Dark Souls with a lot of werewolves.

Then I went back to Elden Ring and figured out how to play Bloodborne style and got even better at ER. I customized my character to use left hand Smithscript Dagger and Uchigatana with Bloodhound's Step AOW added for Elden-Borne mode. Elden Ring enemies are not fast enough to deal with Bloodhound/borne zip dodging. The throwing daggers (upgraded) also make a lot of the bullshit mobs less of a hassle to deal with.

I hate ADP, Soul Memory, and the Netcode in DS2. But after playing it, I love it all the same.

After years of attempting Souls games, Elden Ring finally clicked for me and im having a blast. Tryna push past the Fire Giant on my first runthrough now.

So once im good and satisfied with this and the DLC im going back to the rest. I know I've at least got Dark Souls 1 and 2 and Bloodborne on various platforms.

I started playing soulslike games when Dark Souls was still new-ish, and I'll be honest. I really didn't like it very much. But the thing was that even though I didn't really get it, I kept going back and trying it again shortly here and there. Finally something clicked and I loved it, so I continued my journey of masochism for the entire series lmao

Dark Souls Remastered was the first souls game I’ve played. The online talk of difficulty put me off from trying for a while. Then I was gifted DS 1 Remastered and gave it a shot.

I fell in love with the world design and the supporting characters. The way most areas connect was unexpected and fun to discover. Difficulty is high for a game of this era. I started playing video games in the Atari 2600/NES days so having little health and few or no checkpoints isn’t foreign to me. Still DS was a strong reminder to being a more thoughtful player. To better choose when and how to attack or defend. Maybe sneak or just flat out run by and hope at times.

I’m not saying that playing older games made things easier or better, just that I wasn’t put off by dying a lot and some of the long run backs.

Then I jumped to DS 3 as I didn’t care for the gameplay mechanics made in DS 2. I’ll give it a chance someday. DS 3 didn’t have the same magic as the first but technical gameplay (movement, fighting, jumping) were all improved.

After that on to Elden Ring. Wow! By the time I got to the base game the DLC had been out for several months. My method was to complete the main game in its entirety before starting DLC. The open world and exploration is really great. I took my time and thoroughly enjoyed playing.

When it was time for Shadow of the Erdtree I thought I’d be plenty leveled and ready. I was wrong. My character was around level 140 (possibly higher) going into the DLC and I was getting handled like a new player. The story, not as good as the main game. Still, something new, interesting and connected to a part of history in the base game. I do wish the map had more points of interest. DLC map size is plenty large but too many big empty spaces.

Old news for many but to anyone struggling with the DLC be sure to find those Scadutree fragments and spirit ashes. Or don’t and get good I guess.

I may have strayed a bit off topic and made a longer post than intended. :)

I originally hated Elden Ring because of how they made the boss fights. Delayed attacks, way too many successive attacks, etc.

I completely dropped it for over a year after getting it. But then I tried it again and now it's my favorite.

Still hate their design choices, but it's nothing cheesing/overpowering the boss can't fix, lol.