Any Souls veterans in here? Is Dark Souls II a decent starting point?
only follow my advice if you're on PC.
just go to DS2 SOTFS and if you like that a lot, go back to DS1 and get the dsfix so it doesn't look like crap. They're both great fun that way. But DS2 is more current and meatier, but if you love that, then DS1 will be like a fine dessert. You can play them in either order and they're so self-referential that its the same images and touchstones repeated in both, you end up with the same whole story either direction you go.
That's an interesting opinion. "Good time"
some people really enjoy the intense pain and suffering and fight or flight and repetitive masochistic deaths that are signature of the Souls games.