should I play the previous Dark Souls before I get into this one?

[RationalBeast]

can I get caught up in the story with Dark Souls 3 or should I play the others?

[tairabull]

no this one is the best imho

[Sabaithal]

You're probably going be lost regardless of which game you start with. So that's not really a huge factor.

Though I would still play the games in order if nothing else just to see all this series has to offer. By starting off with Ds3, if you ever want to see what the other two games are like you're going to just see gameplay downgrades effectively.

[Dao Fei Xiao]

No, not really. Unless you personally feeling like it. Just grab this one and enjoy your ride. If you want a friend to co-op, I can help out.

If you still want to know what is happening in story and whatnot, check on YouTube, some YouTubers have a really good content that covers everything with actual facts in-game and some solid theories to back them all up.

[GarbageCollector]

DS2 is the best game, hands down.

But no, it won't really matter which one you start with story-wise. Mechanic-wise you might have complaints going from new to old, if you're one of those people that finds that very grating (some of DS1's mechanics feel like complete junk after you play 2 or 3).

Most of the story is very arcane. It's not really narrative-driven, and you pick up most pieces of it through like item descriptions and stuff.

[Sabaithal]

The story isn't really a narrative. A narrative implies it is directed toward the player in some way, even in an abstract way that's hard to decipher. The story is present in this game, but it give no ♥♥♥♥♥ to the player's presence. If you want to know what happened, you will have to look and figure out, and of course interpret everything as more symbolic than literal in some cases. Its complicated, and this world doesn't care if you know or not.

[knoife]

Originally posted by Mike the Truther:

can I get caught up in the story with Dark Souls 3 or should I play the others?

Start with Ds1 then play through it in the order of the trilogy. Ignore what people try to tell you about the games. Just make your own opinion of them and decide which games are your favorite. I personally love Ds1 & Ds2 over Ds3. Doesn't mean you will as well.

[Ambugaton]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

The story isn't really a narrative. A narrative implies it is directed toward the player in some way, even in an abstract way that's hard to decipher. The story is present in this game, but it give no ♥♥♥♥♥ to the player's presence. If you want to know what happened, you will have to look and figure out, and of course interpret everything as more symbolic than literal in some cases. Its complicated, and this world doesn't care if you know or not.

THis. Even the idea of calling certain things "quests" bugs me. Most aren't quests, you haven't been asked to do anything in regards to them, it's just events turning out one way or another based on what you do. Why it bugs me when people complain about things like "There was nothing telling me that was a quest, why did (insert person here) die?" Well, that's because it wasn't a quest, it's just the largely arbitrary results of your choices. Didn't happen to stumble across the guy in the well because, well, why would you? Turns out that can end up leading to someone's death but there's nothing like a narrative line behind it.

[76561198857536115]

If you want to get into the lore. Start with 1, sad to say you can skip 2, though you don't have to obviously, 2 doesn't have as much overall impact on the overall lore. But 1 is heavily impactfull to 3, and some real big things will be lost to you if you play 3 first.

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by Rosario Crimson:

If you want to get into the lore. Start with 1, sad to say you can skip 2, though you don't have to obviously, 2 doesn't have as much overall impact on the overall lore. But 1 is heavily impactfull to 3, and some real big things will be lost to you if you play 3 first.

Yeah, Ds3 is the only one that has those huge copy-pasted callback areas to the first game that makes all the people not paying attention go "wtf anoor londa is hear toooo?"

Either way, what is there is kind of a running storyline. While Ds3 is much more heavily dependant on Ds1 knowledge, you still need some knowledge of events to even understand what's going on in Ds2 (the abyssal queens like Nashandra, the great souls. the throne of want/kiln, ect).

[Spitshine]

I started with ds 3 and fell in love with this game. I bought ds 2 got halfway through before uninstalling it. I bought a ps 4 just for bloodborne. I dont know if I should try ds remastered because it was the gameplay of ds 2 that didnt appeal to me after ds 3. But bloodborne was awesome

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by 123:

I started with ds 3 and fell in love with this game. I bought ds 2 got halfway through before uninstalling it. I bought a ps 4 just for bloodborne. I dont know if I should try ds remastered because it was the gameplay of ds 2 that didnt appeal to me after ds 3. But bloodborne was awesome

DS remastered is just Ds1 with broken PvP mechanics and a very slight graphical upgrade. It has nothing to do with Ds2.

[76561198857536115]

Originally posted by 123:

I started with ds 3 and fell in love with this game. I bought ds 2 got halfway through before uninstalling it. I bought a ps 4 just for bloodborne. I dont know if I should try ds remastered because it was the gameplay of ds 2 that didnt appeal to me after ds 3. But bloodborne was awesome

1 does a little bit better than 2 logistically, in 1 and 3 you can move in any direction, but 2 feels a bit more stiff since you're limited to basically north, east, south, west, northwest, south east, etc. So only 8 directions. Though if you're locked on in 1 you can only really roll in 1 of the 4 main directions, don't remember if movement while locked on was the same.

[Spitshine]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Originally posted by 123:

I started with ds 3 and fell in love with this game. I bought ds 2 got halfway through before uninstalling it. I bought a ps 4 just for bloodborne. I dont know if I should try ds remastered because it was the gameplay of ds 2 that didnt appeal to me after ds 3. But bloodborne was awesome

DS remastered is just Ds1 with broken PvP mechanics and a very slight graphical upgrade. It has nothing to do with Ds2.

Ok so the gameplay is similar to ds 3 ? Doesnt look like it from what I have seen. I have seen multiple playthroughs of it so I got the lore from it that way,

[Pla]

Nope, thats not necessary. All Dark Souls game can be played any time and sequence.

[Ambugaton]

Originally posted by 123:

I started with ds 3 and fell in love with this game. I bought ds 2 got halfway through before uninstalling it. I bought a ps 4 just for bloodborne. I dont know if I should try ds remastered because it was the gameplay of ds 2 that didnt appeal to me after ds 3. But bloodborne was awesome

I started with DS1 and fell in love with it. I tried tolike ds2 but something was just missing. The intensity wasn't there, level design wasn;t there, played about 1/3 of the way through and uninstalled. Picked up DS3 and loved it.

Having said that, I'm not sure I would love DS1 as much if I started with DS3. It was released in what, 2011? And its age shows. Went back when remastered came out, and after the fluidity of the mechanics in DS3 it felt clunky.

I do wish they had resolved the poise issue better tho... sure it was too much in DS1, but in DS3 it's the opposite problem: a guy in full plate armor gets stumbled by a whip, seriously?