Which is harder?

[PunK]

guys, i just bought the game, is this harder than DS3/sekiro?

[Kashra Fall]

Erm, hm. Well between the options vs player response time? Sekiro is harder out of the three. Elden ring would be after that and DkS3 can be completely run through with a sword you get at the start of the game known as astora's straight sword with literal ease.

[Dragonirian]

In terms of pve: ER>sekiro>ds3
But in terms of actual difficulty overall: ds3>er>sekiro

Ds3 you can be invaded solo
Er you can only be invaded in coop and you have stamina to worry about
Sekiro is just spam l1 to block and you can never be invaded

[BloodSport]

Would say as difficult as DS3 but definitely not as difficult as Sekiro.

[spreyz]

sekiro is the hardest, ds3 is a joke

[nomorevideos]

Sekiro is by far the hardest, since you're forced to play a glass cannon build for the entire game. Sekiro is a bad game, don't bother with it. It could've been a great game if they didn't try to push Dark Souls into it or vice versa if they just had it made Asian Dark Souls. Instead it's a confused mess, where at best you'll enjoy the one on one duels.


If I had to rank the three I'd say Sekiro > DS3 > ER. ER is by far the easiest game with how many tools you get, it's like comparing OG zombies to BO4/CW zombies. Game gives you tons of tools and safety nets.

[urabe mikoto]

Originally posted by nomorevideos:

Sekiro is by far the hardest

[TyresTyco]

Difficulty surely is subjective. The only hard thing in sekiro are the last 2 bosses imho. My vote goes for ER. Playing pure melee can be super hard.

[Katelyn K.]

never played sekiro but in my opinion DS3 is way easier than ER.

[Amene]

Originally posted by PunK:

guys, i just bought the game, is this harder than DS3/sekiro?

Depends on which parts of those games (which bosses/enemies) and when. Sekiro with no-charm/bell in later NGs (in particular doing full 17 boss gauntlet in that context) subjectively fells notably harder I think.

DS1/2/3/ER can (and unfortunately often are) cheesed - giving far too many far too strong non-melee options, not mentioning coop. ER compared to my adventures in underworld depths (extra 30 floors) in nioh2 feels like a relaxing game for kindergarten (from melee perspective, as I only play melee in games like that).

[Raptor85]

This is by FAR the easiest souls/bourne game in the series, the bosses are on average a bit more agressive which i think is catching some players off guard who rely on shield blocking but for some reason they let you stagger or bleed pretty much every boss, so they die VERY quickly, and you get a bell item early on that just trivializes everything.

[WhiteLezard]

Originally posted by spreyz:

sekiro is the hardest

This.

That said, I think this game is easier than DaS3.

[ZTL-Altima]

All games more or less same level of difficulty.

[◢Damania◣]

Originally posted by PunK:

guys, i just bought the game, is this harder than DS3/sekiro?

Easier than both DS3 and Sekiro, since you can summon players here just like in DS3 to help you contrary to Sekiro, but here you also only get invaded when you have a gank squad ready to take on the massively disadvantaged invader.

[socially ept outcel]

It depends on what type of build you use and whether or not you do cheese on the bosses. Most of the optional bosses and dungeons are real easy but some story bosses have more aggressive and unpredictable patterns than any DS3 or Sekiro boss. If you use heavy weapons you are going to have a really rough time. Lighter weapons, light roll and magic will make the game much easier. And as others have said, many bosses are vulnerable to status ailments so the opportunity for cheese is there, if you're a fake gamer.

[LordKman]

it really depends. me personally i struggled alot with sekiro. but ive beaten ds1 2 and 3 also recently platinumed bloodborne before elden ring release. id say ds3 is somewhat easier then elden ring. of course ds3 has unforgiving bosses as well. but even the regular enemies in elden ring hit super hard. thats a good thing though cause ds3 felt super easy after leveling up past 150