Best Souls-Likes?

I love Dead Cells, but it's not very soulslike, apart maybe from the fact that it does have combat. Combat is very fast and fluid, whereupon to me soulslike often feel slower and more weighty. Also for comparion's sake I found Salt and Soul harder in the beginning but far easier the further you got. Dead Cells is the reverse, easy beginning but gets progressively harder (but depending on your path through the game a lot of difficulty can be mitigated, which souslike have, but then so do a lot of other games). That said, if you don't activate any of the boss cells, once you've learned your way around its not that hard, like most roguelikes/roguelites

 

Dark Souls 3 is also shit.

 

Lords of The Fallen

Way easier than Dark Souls, but just as much fun with some fucking cracking armour sets.





Incredible it hasn't been mentioned yet. It's WAY closer to a Souls experience compared to the likes of Sekiro.

 

I feel you, but Bloodborne is a masterpiece that nobody should ignore, especially souls fans. Regarding the single player experience, no other souls-like can even hope to compete with it, except maybe DS1. Probably Sekiro is just as polished, but it doesn't stand a chance against Bloodborne atmosphere.

If you are literally allergic to consoles and risk dieing by touching one, okay, avoid putting your life in danger. But there are no other good reasons to miss out on Bloodborne.

 

As one of the Codex's most frontrunning consoletards, I totally disagree.

I fucking hated Bloodborne. Atmosphere was great, but gameplay and level design were way too fluffy, weak & light compared to the more weighty feel I prefer, which you get in the likes of Dark Souls.

Don't get me wrong, I can see why people enjoyed it, but I spent WAY more time on a mate's PC finishing Lords of The Fallen than on my PS4 with Bloodborne.

If Dark-Souls like gameplay is the primary focus, i'd avoid both Bloodborne (reasons above) & Sekiro (too much Stealth, one weapon is dull) & opt for Lords of The Fallen instead. Just depends how you're wired.

 

I try to respect almost any opinion, but this is too much. Lords of the Fallen has nothing to do with Bloodborne and Sekiro, they are in two completely differente leagues. Lords of the Fallen is a child's attempt at making another Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro are two masterpieces of the genre.
I understand your point: combat in Bloodborne and Sekiro is way different from the DS1 experience, because it clearly lacks the "weight" you are referring to (while Lords of the Fallen revolves all around that weight). However, Bloodborne and Sekiro are almost perfect games (to me they are a 9/10 and an 8/10), while Lords of the Fallen struggles to reach a passing grade.

Given Juan_Carlo ratings and preferences (5/5 to Sekiro and Nioh, while he finds The Surge too clunky and slow), I think Bloodborne is still better suited to his needs. I mean, Lords of the Fallen is the slowest and the clunkiest of them all.

 

Starts with saying how he respects almost all opinions, then goes on to disrespect someones opinion. Nicely done

 

Well, that was my point and the point of the "almost".
But I'm sorry if I sounded disrespectful towards him, it wasn't my intent. I can understand what he means, Bloodborne completely ditched that weight that was pivotal in previous souls' combat systems.

 

That's the thing though aint it, it's down to personal preference.

I thrived on Lords of The Fallen. Yeah it's "Dark Souls Lite" when it comes to difficulty, but it has all the elements I enjoy from a DS games - meaty, satisfying combat, great atmosphere, superb armour & weapon sets, good level design, some groovy bosses.

Basically, if you want an easy Dark Souls go for Lords of The Fallen, but if you want a tough challenge, but which plays differently Sekiro & Bloodborne are the way to go.

But outright dismissing LOTF is just daft.

 

Another vote for Bloodborne. It's worth getting a PS4 just for this game.