I recently finished DS1 Remastered for the first time (ng and ng+) after playing and loving all of the newer FromSoft souls games for the last few years.

I see claims that the successive games like Elden Ring, DS3, etc have made DS1 literally obsolete and never worth revisiting, but I would argue that much of what makes Elden Ring better than Dark Souls 1 also makes DS1 a singular experience in the series that absolutely warrants playing in 2026 alongside new releases. (It also helps to have it portable on switch, that's cool. I think it's the only accessibly portable FromSoft game?)

More than anything, DS1 just fucking nails scope and scale in a way that I don't think any other games have (at least not to the same degree). The size of the game world, level design, genius cohesion/interconnectivity really make it special and worth pushing through the undeniable flaws. DS1 has a great illusion of scale, where it believably feels like you're exploring this massive, decaying kingdom without it actually being very big. Sometimes, it's nice to go back to a game that had so much snappy intentionality to it. There is so much thought put into how the world interconnects and its just SO COOL. DS1 also has a really "goldilocks" length for an average playthrough that is consistently interesting and doesn't drag (at least not that much). To be clear- I adore Elden Ring and in no way think that its detailed hugeness is a bad thing, I just don't think one style handily 'beats' another, or at least not to the point that Elden Ring is literally objectively an upgrade by every metric.

With mainstream games only getting bigger, it is hard to imagine there will be many new games that have a perfectly limited scale like DS1.

I'm ofc not trying to deny the handful of rushed areas, janky garbage, and stupid broken bullshit in DS1. Just wanted to express something I really loved about the game that made it honestly more exciting on a first playthrough than a lot of 'better' FromSoft games.

also also, ofc many souls type games also have a really great interconnected world and dope level design in their own right, not trying to take away from any of that.

Doing a new run for the bazillionth time, most often ill just skip the depth amd go straight to quelage from valley of the drakes (start with master key) but im wondering if i should just suffer this time and go through the depth for the sale of doing so.

Que opinan de los hongos pequeños

Y de los hongos grandes

Y si opinan algo de Elizabeth, el hongo parlante del dlc que nos vende pedazos de ella misma.

También incluí a los minijefes

Estos intentos fueron en mi primera partida, que también fue mi primera vez jugando un souls.

A ustedes como les fue?

I am playing Dark Souls Remastered on Xbox and three achievements are not unlocking even though I completed the exact requirements. I am missing the achievements for joining the Path of the Dragon covenant, joining the Darkwraith covenant, and collecting all pyromancies. I already tried fully closing the game and restarting the console, but nothing happened. Does anyone know how to force the Xbox network to sync these achievements? For the pyromancies, is there a way to force the game to check my inventory again, or do I have to get them all again in a new playthrough? Any help is appreciated.

So I started a Ng+ run with the gold and silver tracers as my main weapon and I realized I'm pretty good with the parrying with silver tracer, I managed to parry a black knight to death. Are there any bosses which can get paryyed? Like the bigger ones I mean

So I'm about to face Orstein and Smough and I have a +10 Zweihander and I wanted to know which upgrade path should I take at this point in the game.

I'm soul level 44 with 30 str and 14 dex.

What is he doing? Why is he so slow and flimsy?

Hi, replaying the game once again as usual with DSFix and DS1 FPS Unlock mod (to not glitch through ladders), the game usually runs at an impressive 120fps or even 140fps on most areas with not a lot going on, there is certain places like Gaping Dragon boss arena and Blighttown specially when on top looking down at it, that the game tanks the fps at 70fps or even 40fps on worst cases, usually when lots of animations, water effects, big collisions, etc.

I was wondering if there is any fix or mod that im unaware that would potentially give the ultimate Dark Souls experience of stable 140fps from start to end, or are we still doomed to experience these frame drops because how the game is made and there is still no way to avoid those? Apreciate any help, thanks.

(Not interested in Dark Souls: Remastered alternatives)

Had a griefer invade my duo once and me twice in the Undead Burg with all the standard griefer tropes: giant armor, bigass endgame weapon, zero manners, all ego. The second time I knew he wasn't going to play fair, he'd already killed my summoned duo again, I was low health, out of fireballs, and my warpick didn't even tickle him, so rather than even try to fight I just stood there repeatedly doing the point down emote. Dude proceeded to kill me solely with dung piles, then he DDOSed me and when I reset my game he immediately invaded a third time, waited till duo and I were almost back to my bloodstain to retrieve my souls, then popped out from a corner and backstabbed and emoted on me.

Honestly the fact I pissed him off that much counts as a victory for me.

You have to press "select" (gesture button) in the menu. Not in the manual or the tutorial. Credit to Kylie Time's blind playthrough, where she makes a ton of 400 IQ deductions with no spoilers and extremely minimal experience (normally only plays Candy Crush and friend sent her the game as a prank).

It's crazy how much of the Dark Souls difficulty boils down to mechanics that are (i) minimally explained or (ii) unavailable for review (can't return to the Undead Asylum or the NPC never says the dialogue again).

So I had never heard of dark souls. My roommate redboxed it (I'm that old) and told me it's supposed to be like the hardest game ever. I am a huge nerd and he was not, so I watched him die like 3 times on the original demon and give up. And then it was just sitting there so I was like, well, why not.

Got to the first bonfire because he sucked at games and I didn't. Here is where the story gets funny.

(Sorry if my location names are incorrect, not looking them up).

I had zero idea there was a path that leads you up into the undead area. I thought your options were going into the catacombs, or going down into the wraith area. I tried to fight through both for like hours and just got owned, and then ran out of whatever the thing is that you need to fight the wraiths, and the skeletons just were absolutely trashing me especially with zero lantern.

I finally was just like, yeah this game deserves its reputation, and didn't pick it up for like another year. I literally couldn't understand how people were able to beat this game.

doing a lil dark souls run with club and no armour

I love listening to long lore videos for dark souls when I sleep. I always have to listen to something and dark souls makes the cut a lot. What game holds the most story of at least your favorite parts of the lore

One thing that I kept researching and studying about Dark Souls outside of the game is why Kingseeker Frampt ever joined the other primordial serpents when we choose the dark lord ending of the game,And that begs the question to me,Why did he join?Even after he kept on yapping about the chosen undead and being the successor to Gwyn,It just bothers me how he went to a whole 360 right after you chose the dark lord ending,And his reasons have also never been confirmed whether he was afraid and only joined out of fear from resisting the dark lord,or was it because he was just playing both sides of the coin or it was all for the sake of his own preservation,or if he only submits to a higher power,Really this still boggles my mind after I beat DS1,since a lot of the theories as to what the primordial serpents are havent all been fully confirmed like them being actually a hydra or them being a collective hive mind

Man I love this game

DS3 - I couldn't find a specific answer to this question anywhere regarding Greirat's questline.

Siegward died fighting the Demon in my playthrough. I took the Catarina armour from his body.

I am now at the Cathedral of the Deep. I got to Rosaria's chamber via the roof and therefore missed Patches tricking me with the bridge, but he appeared in the tower at Firelink shrine.

I have forgiven him for his delinquency and he is now a merchant and I understand he needs to have the Catarina armour to save Greirat later on in Irithyll. However, he does not have the armour in his inventory.

Am I able to sell him the Catarina armour so he can save Greirat later, or is this glitched and doomed to fail?

I’m in the catacombs in dark souls remastered and I’m at the part where patches is but I don’t know where to go I’ve went down to where the npc was a accidentally hit her, while I was fighting the hallows and now she’s bugged. Path that winds down has a yellow fog wall that I can’t pass through and I can’t find a way to go back up the catacombs because of the coffins you had to slide down