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.
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.