Everyone loves this game, and while I agree that its incredible and probably FromSoft's best game objectively, its hard for me to call it my favorite. It's good, but that's kinda all there is to it for me. Maybe it's because I prefer the build variety of the soulsborne games, despite the combat in Sekiro feeling much more crisp and engaging. I think I also just appreciate the worlds and map design in the other games more than in this one. Again, this game is definitely amazing and definitely worth playing, I just can't see myself replaying it or calling it my favorite.

This was my game before Elden Ring came out. I sunk easily 600 or so hours in this game, either going up to NG+30 or something with various weapons or just having fun with the multiplayer (before the servers went down).

There was just something about this game that I really loved. At first, I thought it was just because the combat felt much more fluid than Dark Souls I and II, but it must have been more than that. I loved the setting, the progression, the boss fights, and the music. Some people may say that a bunch of the callbacks to the previous games may feel cheap or fanservice-y, but I don't care. Seeing Anor Londo again or fighting the Soul of Cinder was incredibly satisfying and felt nostalgic, even though I had just played Dark Souls I for the first time not too long before Dark Souls III.

As much as I love Elden Ring, a bunch of my key memories with Soulsborne have been from this game. To me, Dark Souls III has some of the most iconic Fromsoftware fights, such as Soul of Cinder, Nameless King, Sister Friede, Darkeater Midir, and—one of my favorite videogame bosses of all time—Slave Knight Gael.