I have played pretty much all the Fromsoftware games, and this is the one I most regularly come back to, not because it's the best or even stellar, but because of its build diversity and out of this world fashion souls. Disregard the naysayers and give it a go, but if you do so, avoid the garbage PS4/Xbox One port. It ruins dodging and changes up enemy placement to a perplexing degree. The PS3/Xbox 360 versions are the way to go because they're just the launch version with the DLC included.