Dark Souls 1 vs Bloodborne vs Elden Ring

dark souls 1 vs bloodborne vs rlden Ring

  • dark souls 1

    Votes: 65 23.0%

  • bloodborne

    Votes: 135 47.7%

  • elden ring

    Votes: 83 29.3%
  • Total voters
    283
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I like the core design and overall mood of Dark Souls the most.
I like the more atypical setting/aesthetic of Bloodborne the most.
But in the end I like Elden Ring as game in its totality more than both the former.
 
Replay value:

Dark Souls

Everything else:

Bloodborne

Redditring is a boring game that goes against the core design philosophy of the series in exchange for endless options to level every enemy is like Rich Homie Quan and won't stop going in. I'm good.
 
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Dark Souls and Bloodborne are interchangeable depending on how I feel.

Elden Ring is great, but SOTE and some of the late-game bosses soured me on the experience. Too much bullshit.
 
Elden Ring might be a top 5 game ever made.

Dark Souls 1 is probably in the top 50.

Bloodborne might just squeak into the top 200.
 
If I for some reason was forced to choose one of those games to play for the rest of my life it would clearly be Elden Ring.
 
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I had Elden Ring just outside my top 10 prior to the DLC but after the DLC and the complete package, it's my personal favorite game of all time. They're all just so good that it's hard to keep a consistent "what's better" because it changes constantly.
 
Elden Ring is so overrated. It's just open world dark souls and the open world ain't even that good. Beautiful to look at but it's just all the same copy and pasted shit everywhere.

I want semi open world again like DS/Sekiro/Bloodborne. I love how areas connect to each other. You can still have amazing large environments but don't do it for the sake of being open world. Make it fun to explore and discover things. At first with Elden Ring i was in love with it but after like 30 hours you realise it's just more of the same. Towers with useless spells, large castles with a fucking chest that has a weapon I'll never use, the same catacombs with the same boss you've already fought 40 times before.

I'd rate the games in this order: Bloodborne > Sekiro > Dark Souls 1 > Dark Souls 2 > Dark Souls 3 > Elden Ring > Demon's Souls.
 
Based on release date, Dark Souls CRUSHES almost any game I can think of. Elden Ring is a better game but not for its time. So I picked Dark Souls. Bloodborne is amazing but is held back for me cause of build variety and less fashion souls.
 
Dark Souls no contest for me.
Love the atmosphere, unmatched level design of its world, NPC story... And despite the vast array of weapons, each feel unique to to their moveset. And love that you have to transform one of your weapons into a boss weapon.
Also the now lost "follow your choice" philosophy : no respec possible, if you kill a NPC /merchant they're staying dead and you can have access to their inventory to still buy stuff.

Just behind is Bloodborne. Unique aesthetic and weapons design. Lore is crazy. Music is incredible.

Then there is Sekiro, Dark Souls 3, Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 2.

Then comes Elden Ring for me. At first I was impressed but now it just feels empty. It's a "more is less" for me.
Too many repeated mediocre content bring down some incredible main level.
Tons of weapons but a lot are just duplicates. The fact you can change at will their weapon art makes them feel less unique.
I am a partizan of restriction in games. Restriction gives impact to your choice, you should not be able to have access to everything.
In Elden ring you can do everything pretty easily : you can switch from a heavy barbarian to a full mage.

And bosses, especially in the DLC, became annoyingly clones of each other. Crazy agressive with long combo. Again use a thing too much and it becomes boring. They would have been more unique if there was only few of them.


Still a great game in the industry but in regard to other From works, it's a big step down for me.
 
Elden Ring

Content. Content. Content.

I absolutely love Bloodborne and Dark Souls but Elden Rings wins it slightly
 
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Elden Ring for me.

Not a huge fan of senseless difficulty.

Finished Demons Souls on PS3. Loved it, but doing it once is enough. These days just cannot stick to games of these type.
 
Bloodborne is perfection.
Elden Ring should have ended at Morgot the Omen King.

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Everything after was unnecessary and dragged.

Dark Souls is below both because DS2 felt buggy with the health removal mechanic.
 
Haven't played DS1 but Elden Ring is better than both Bloodborne and Demon's Souls imo. Exploration and world building is better and it ends up less grindy since you always have alternatives instead of just increasing your level and "git good" to progress. I once sat down and did nothing but eat candy and kill blue knights at the start of an area a whole evening in Demon's Souls. After that I dropped it. No fun.
 
Demon's Souls. The OG, not the remake.

I like gimmick bosses, build type, and preparedness over rollspam, move baiting, and i-frame horseshit.

Out of those 3 though, Elden Ring for the sheer variety of builds and content.
 
Bloodborne first due it's good mix of gameplay and world lore due it's a world building to the max adding it's best music that leads epic and memorable adventure
Dark souls definitely second due cult classic that evolve well through time and it's gameplay but some ups and downs but still a game that so good to play
Elden Ring 3rd due it's gameplay is okay adding the lore is great but open world usage it's just losing it's feeling being a soul game it's trying to be Zelda game but on total hard mode with soul like experience

Demon's souls it's just best starting point if you playing a soul series of from soft games but still if you are really a masochist then try to survive playing king's field
 
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to play forever, probably er.
The best one? Bloodborne.
Must significant one ? DS.

Also dark souls might actually be the most repayable without the er fluff and I love its design. It's my choice
 
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Fess said:
Haven't played DS1 but Elden Ring is better than both Bloodborne and Demon's Souls imo. Exploration and world building is better and it ends up less grindy since you always have alternatives instead of just increasing your level and "git good" to progress. I once sat down and did nothing but eat candy and kill blue knights at the start of an area a whole evening in Demon's Souls. After that I dropped it. No fun.
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Funny because I find Elden Ring to be more grindy. Except if you do most of side cave/catacombs etc... And after my first run I didn't want to do these but you are quickly under leveled on main bosses.

On Dark Souls ou Bloodborne, you're usually at a decent level enough to be the next bosses. I never had to farm on these game to progress.
 
Dark Souls and Bloodborne are neck and neck for me, I absolutely love them both (alongside Sekiro).
Probably Bloodborne if I really had to pick.

Elden Ring on the other hand... similar to others in this thread, I thought that the first 40 hours or so was phenomenal, and then I gradually started remembering why I don't play open world games anymore. At about 100 hours in I was officially sick of it.

I despise the tendency for every series to migrate to the open world (Metal Gear Solid V...)
 
DS1 > Bloodborne > Elden Ring

However:

King's Field IV > King's Field II > Dark Souls > Bloodborne > Dark Souls III > OG Demon's Souls > King's Field > Elden Ring > King's Field III > Dark Souls II

Note: Sekiro is not a Soulslike. I have not played the Shadow Tower games (yet).
 
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I played DeS>ER>DS and currently playing DS2.

I think I enjoyed ER more than DS overall but the first half of DS is unmatched.

There's just a lot more options in ER for me that eases stuff a bit like respecs.

It's a bit easier to cheese stuff in earlier entries compared to the latter ones as I feel like they make enemies significantly more complicated just to shake up series vets.

My take is latter games are just generally better gameplay wise but there's a lot of stuff in between that are subjective.

Lorewise, I enjoy DS more than ER especially once you dive deep into it. I think I also prefer the music in DS but I admit that ER title screen hypes me up.
 
In my opinion Dark Soul 1 was perfect for what it was, and Elden Ring's additions made it worse (weapon arts, summons, too fast bosses).

Sekiro is the one that innovated, not Bloodborne or Elden Ring.
 
Dark Souls. One of the best gaming experiences ever. I lost count of how many times I restarted it just to redo everything up to O&S. Just magical.
I never played Bloodborne.
ER is just a glorified troll that too many people are desperate to pretend is fun.


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Elden Ring for me.

Not a huge fan of senseless difficulty.
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Elden Ring. Why?

- Dark Souls has aged quite a bit, you can't really entice new players to try it. Some of the areas are super bad (Blighttown, haha how fun).
- Bloodborne is excellent but unfortunately console locked which makes it impossible for so many gamers around the world to play. Purchasing a PS4/5 is a very difficult financial decision for many in developing countries as compared to a PC/laptop.

So? Elden Ring. Massive. Breathtaking art-style. All platforms. Moderate requirements to play it. +help from friends/much bigger, healthier player base. Culmination of all the effort, ideas of the souls franchise. Just damn near perfect.
 
Dark Souls 1 has the highest highs but Bloodborne is the most concise experience. Elden Ring is also GOAT tier material, but i think the overdid a bit with the scale of things and needed to fill the world with too much repeated content.
 
Dark Souls will forever be my favorite. The world design is unmatched to this day and it's the only game where I felt like I truly inhabited my character on their lonely journey. It may feel rough around the edges nowadays and I would certainly love to see some of the QoL improvements brought to later titles (imagine not having to turn in fifty Humanities to Queelag's sister one at a time), but it's still eminently playable.

Bloodborne is brilliant for many things, but it will forever be held back by its limited armory and roleplaying potential in comparison to Dark Souls.

Elden Ring has very polished combat and nice use of verticality in its open world. That's about all the praise I can afford it, the open world is far too large and dependent on recycled content. The game sits firmly in the middle of Souls rankings for me.
 
It's bloodborne, it's always bloodborne. In fact I don't think I've ever seen one of these polls where bloodborne didn't win and it's usually by a significant margin.
 
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Dark Souls. One of the best gaming experiences ever. I lost count of how many times I restarted it just to redo everything up to O&S. Just magical.
I never played Bloodborne.
ER is just a glorified troll that too many people are desperate to pretend is fun.



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Once I have spent 50 hrs killing random stuff and upgrading my gear, it becomes easy.
 
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