Dark Souls 3
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eXarc
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If I was forced to choose, I would probably go with Bloodborne just because it is such a different experience. I would watch a few videos (avoid bossfights for spoiler s) to get an idea of the pacing and style of both. If you want a traditional Souls experience, then DS3 is the way to go.
You can end up sinking a lot of time in both, but Bloodborne is ultimately probably the shorter game excluding the chalice dungeons.
Edit; Just saw that you never played DS1 or 2. Since that is the case, I actually might recommend DS3 first to get a fresh Souls experience. I highly recommend going back and playing DS1, at the very least. Games are hard, you will struggle, find the beauty in getting the shit kicked out of you until you drop a few bosses (and then some).
You can end up sinking a lot of time in both, but Bloodborne is ultimately probably the shorter game excluding the chalice dungeons.
Edit; Just saw that you never played DS1 or 2. Since that is the case, I actually might recommend DS3 first to get a fresh Souls experience. I highly recommend going back and playing DS1, at the very least. Games are hard, you will struggle, find the beauty in getting the shit kicked out of you until you drop a few bosses (and then some).
yimmien
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Go souls first. You can play them and then Bloodborne is different enough to be fresh still. The speed of the game and no blocking will take a little bit of learning.
If you play BB first then your souls experience will probably be different because you will be inclined to dodge/attack more and ignore shields or spells.
It is weird, you can go Souls -> BB, but you cant really go BB -> Souls without it probably changing how you experience the series.
If you play BB first then your souls experience will probably be different because you will be inclined to dodge/attack more and ignore shields or spells.
It is weird, you can go Souls -> BB, but you cant really go BB -> Souls without it probably changing how you experience the series.
Chanur
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Absolutely get both. Bloodborne is like 20 bucks. It's one of my all time favorite games.
I would probably do Dark Souls first though because its much easier than Bloodborne. Having finished Bloodborne and the DLC Dark Souls feels much easier in general.
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Phazael
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While I dont like BB on the same level as any of the souls games, its still an amazing game in its own right and has a much different look and feel to it thats worth experiencing. If you don't care for slow methodical combat and prefer furious twitch combat, you will like BB a lot more.
But BB is not harder than the Souls games, outside of making a couple early bosses rage inducing (which DS1 and DeS did more) to face. The truth is that once you unlock the Ludwig's Greatsword the game becomes a total face roll, outside of some chalice dungeon bosses who are one hit killers. Once I had some practice with that weapon, I pretty much one shotted every boss from there on out and using the gun counters became pointless. The only way BB is hard is if you relied too heavily on range gimping things in the Souls games, because the gun is garbage and there basically is none of that in BB.
But BB is not harder than the Souls games, outside of making a couple early bosses rage inducing (which DS1 and DeS did more) to face. The truth is that once you unlock the Ludwig's Greatsword the game becomes a total face roll, outside of some chalice dungeon bosses who are one hit killers. Once I had some practice with that weapon, I pretty much one shotted every boss from there on out and using the gun counters became pointless. The only way BB is hard is if you relied too heavily on range gimping things in the Souls games, because the gun is garbage and there basically is none of that in BB.
Lenas
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Yeah, I call bullshit on one shotting Ludwig, OoK, hell any of the DLC bosses outside of the Living Failures. Admittedly, the only normal bosses in vanilla BB that gave me tons of wipes were Gascoigne and Martyr. I think the trash is harder than the bosses so far in Dark Souls.
Chanur
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Gascoigne is a fucker. He took me about 10 attempts which I thought was a lot until I got to Ludwig and a couple other bosses. The hunter in Amelia's cathedral was a real fucker too. After the DLC the last couple bosses in the regular game were a joke by comparison.