Is Dark Souls 3's story connected to 1 and 2

[Unsuitablefire]

I am not a total new comer to the series, i own dark souls 1 and have played like 6 hours of it (Got to undead parish) but the controls are a bit hard to use. I really enjoyed those hours tho and plan on still playing, but dark souls 3 looks AMAZING and i want to buy it on release. So does anyone know if the story is connected to 1 and 2, like will i not be able to understand anything going on. Also is dark souls 3 open world?

[Ravagexe]

Story goes full DS1, however you can see some good old friends from Dark Souls 2.
Bloodborne? Not sure if anyone come across anything related so far. Mostly due to "Sony" label on it.

[dogecoin assassin]

It took you six hours to get to undead parish? LMFAO

[Unsuitablefire]

Originally posted by progerian babel:

It took you six hours to get to undead parish? LMFAO

Lol, i spent like 3 hours leveling before even trying the boss for the first time

[Unsuitablefire]

Originally posted by Ravagex:

Story goes full DS1, however you can see some good old friends from Dark Souls 2.
Bloodborne? Not sure if anyone come across anything related so far. Mostly due to "Sony" label on it.

What do u mean by goes full DS1?

[Ravagexe]

Originally posted by Unsuitablefire:

Originally posted by Ravagex:

Story goes full DS1, however you can see some good old friends from Dark Souls 2.
Bloodborne? Not sure if anyone come across anything related so far. Mostly due to "Sony" label on it.

What do u mean by goes full DS1?

It focuses A LOT on DS1 lore. In fact it completes the story.
However, Dark Soul2....Think of Silent Hill 2 pitted against Silent Hill 1 and 3 storywise. You can only see particular characters and read stuff from that lore but they dont effect story a lot.

[Sand]

There is no story in Dark Souls

[Unsuitablefire]

Originally posted by Ravagex:

Originally posted by Unsuitablefire:

What do u mean by goes full DS1?

It focuses A LOT on DS1 lore. In fact it completes the story.
However, Dark Soul2....Think of Silent Hill 2 pitted against Silent Hill 1 and 3 storywise. You can only see particular characters and read stuff from that lore but they dont effect story a lot.

So would u say i could still enjoy the story and the game? Even if i dont finish dark souls 1 by then (Which i wont)?

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

Originally posted by LS:

There is no story in Dark Souls

Never made it out of the asylum, eh?

[Z-hog]

Originally posted by LS:

There is no story in Dark Souls

There is no story in dark souls

[Ravagexe]

Originally posted by Unsuitablefire:

Originally posted by Ravagex:

It focuses A LOT on DS1 lore. In fact it completes the story.
However, Dark Soul2....Think of Silent Hill 2 pitted against Silent Hill 1 and 3 storywise. You can only see particular characters and read stuff from that lore but they dont effect story a lot.

So would u say i could still enjoy the story and the game? Even if i dont finish dark souls 1 by then (Which i wont)?

If you dont have the time, you can always speed-run Dark Souls 1 lore over youtube. Some people upload it like a movie without boring gameplay scenes.

You dont have to finish DS1 to enjoy DS3 story, however you will definitely miss the joy of meeting old characters from Dark Souls1.

[PsychoDino]

Originally posted by Unsuitablefire:

I am not a total new comer to the series, i own dark souls 1 and have played like 6 hours of it (Got to undead parish) but the controls are a bit hard to use. I really enjoyed those hours tho and plan on still playing, but dark souls 3 looks AMAZING and i want to buy it on release. So does anyone know if the story is connected to 1 and 2, like will i not be able to understand anything going on. Also is dark souls 3 open world?

Seems like there are lots of DS1 and 2 references in Dark Souls 3. As far as understanding the story, i would suggest going on Vatti's channel and watching his longer videos to get a idea of the story.

[Unsuitablefire]

Originally posted by Ravagex:

Originally posted by Unsuitablefire:

So would u say i could still enjoy the story and the game? Even if i dont finish dark souls 1 by then (Which i wont)?

If you dont have the time, you can always speed-run Dark Souls 1 lore over youtube. Some people upload it like a movie without boring gameplay scenes.

You dont have to finish DS1 to enjoy DS3 story, however you will definitely miss the joy of meeting old characters from Dark Souls1.

K i will, thanks

[Madhouse]

There is no story, just vague comments that people then make theories for that the internet has taken as fact.

[gamertaboo]

There's a very deep story, actually. Yes, DS3 relies heavily on DS1's lore for it's story.

[Iron Breaker]

Originally posted by Unsuitablefire:

I am not a total new comer to the series, i own dark souls 1 and have played like 6 hours of it (Got to undead parish) but the controls are a bit hard to use. I really enjoyed those hours tho and plan on still playing, but dark souls 3 looks AMAZING and i want to buy it on release. So does anyone know if the story is connected to 1 and 2, like will i not be able to understand anything going on. Also is dark souls 3 open world?

yes its directly tied to both games but heavily so ds1 involding characters from ds1
which gets awkward because ds1 takes place were time is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kinda like that dr who episode were all time collapsed onto on point (which is the reason you can summon people) yet at the same time in ds1 with the dlc you can time travel to ages past and at the same time in ds2 the game itself is the past (opening cinematic you enter the same type of magic used in ds1 to go back in time)

so ds1's world is gobbuldy goop with 0 genuine continuity due to wish woshy timey wimeyness
and ds2's world takes place in an awkward tim were memories are real and what you percieve is just a shadow of its reality (see giants but hole faces yes same giants as ds1 pointed out by the giant kings aparel being that of Gwyns)
best gues ds2 is an illusion in and of itself a living painting an interpretation of the past rather than the past

but anyway ds2 takes place after ds1 ds3 takes place after ds2 (see fume sword) so
logicaly looking at ds 1 and ds2 story their same world but diff lands, similar butt diff, ds3 takes place AFTER ds2 but in the country of ds1