Is DS1 the easiest From Software game?

[SpeV|BJHook]

Look, I admit it: I suck at From Software games. Yet I still love them!

In DS3 and in Sekiro, I get my backside kicked up and down the areas and then handed to me without the enemies and the bosses even breaking a sweat. But in Dark Souls 1, this does not happen to me often, and please note: I am not complaining.

The boss Pinwheel was less dangerous to me than two skeletons, I could whack the giant rat miniboss from above, Assassin's Creed style, and I eviscerated the Gaping Maw crocodile-thingy in the sewers at my second attempt.

And no: I did not "git gud". Can it be that the worst is still to come? Haven't been to Blighttown yet ...

[Innos]

You see Dark Souls Remastered from a false perspective, my dear sun follower.

Back in the days where most games are hard/easy, Dark Souls got praised to be one of the hardest (other ones are still harder back in days on hardest difficulty) but since Dark Souls don't have the difficult setting it got praised by it's difficult.
Dark Souls 1 is a older game, so it is more slower as you see then BB, DS3 or Sekiro (:

[Innos]

and Blighttown isn't hard... it was known for "being hard" because of the low fps (fps drops) of the area so it is harder to dodge and all other things. Still you can go past blighttown in 3 minutes by rolling down to bonfire and to the boss

[Tyrux]

I'd say some of its levels can be just as nasty as the rest of the series, but boss battles and straight, no-bamboozle combat tends to be a lot easier because of the speed (and ease of acquiring something like a Black Knight weapon). That being said, just wait for Anor Londo and Oolacile :)

[Dikshit Koomar]

dark souls 3 was way easier

[Caboose]

imo the first dark soul is the most balanced. it have the dangerous ennemies without playing the numbers game like ds2, don't give us the same ♥♥♥♥ as ultra lock seen in ds3. my only issue is the fact they didn't kept the estus system of the original, where healing your phantom was also part of the deicsion you would make during fights/invasions.

[SpeV|BJHook]

Okay, thank you for your comments! I shall wait until I finished the game, then ;-). If I ever will be able to. So far, I could only finish The Surge (also a software from From Software ;-)).

What an awesome game, though! :-D

[Fishercat]

Typically your first Souls game is your hardest

[JeakJaykJonk]

Originally posted by Fishercat:

Typically your first Souls game is your hardest

This is right

also the slow elegant ballet of ds1 can make things hard or easy when compared to fast more agile gameplay of Ds3 and Sekiro

[Abystoma]

It's interesting how the experience varies by person, as Sekiro was the easiest one for me while DS1 was the hardest, at least for the start.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Fishercat:

Typically your first Souls game is your hardest

This!

I know DS3 is generally harder but I never struggled much with it compared to the first few weeks with Dark Souls.

I should also consider that every time I make a new character I know exactly what to level up, which items to pick up, what and how to upgrade and where to go. That makes things too easy, honestly. I think we often forget the struggles of unupgraded armor and weapons, few and unupgraded estus flasks... and so on.

PS. The downside of mastering a Souls-game is that most other games generally becomes far too easy. Those (RPG-like games) who offer difficulty settings mostly just increase health and damage which just makes the fights last longer and gives less room for mistakes, something Dark Souls makes you an expert in handling.

[Phibbus]

I'm finally playing through this thing after having it on my list for ages. I think the difficulty arises almost solely from the bad movement/camera controls and target lock system. If you could simply strafe and backpedal as in most other 3rd-person games without having to resort to that maddening lock-on, 90% of the "hard" would evaporate, and it would be equivalent to a medium-difficulty setting.

Still, I'm enjoying it tremendously.

[Dreadnaught]

I've played all the DS games and I think 1 is the hardest, especially for first playthroughs (not being prepared for catacombs, new londo, etc.)

[Metric Guard]

Originally posted by David Duke:

dark souls 3 was way easier

*roll spam intensifies*

[Eternal President Uncle Slam]

Dark souls 1 is comically easy playing it again after dark souls 3. Most bosses have barely any moves, making them extremely predictable. They are also much easier to make stagger. Wear +5 giants armor and just out trade Artorias with a demon axe, gg. Most of my deaths came not from bosses or challenging enemies, but from falling off cliffs. You don't really even have to roll in ds1 once you become tanky enough. I can really appreciate that though, the other souls games don't give the tank archetype much chance and fat rolls get you killed really fast. POISE!!!!

[Alex]

Straight Sword and a good shield practically makes DS3 far too easy as well, though. So there's that...