Dark Souls III

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  1. HaemanJones
    Dec 22, 2020
    10
    Why dark souls 3 is important? Well i'm going to tell you. Dark souls 3 is the perfect souls experience, it doesn't have the gimmicky boss fights and lackluster world of demon's souls, it doesn't have the imperfect difficulty of dark souls 2,it doesn't have the repetitive aspect of bloodborne' s Visuals but what is has is the best aspects of all the souls games.
  2. Daz26
    Dec 20, 2020
    10
    The masterpiece of the decade and the definitive single player experience is what you get when you polish the souls formula into Dark Souls 3.
  3. mythiiix
    Dec 17, 2020
    10
    FromSoftware are masterminds for making this game, Thank You Hidetaka Miyazaki for this masterpiece! a must play for sure!!
  4. sebasra
    Dec 16, 2020
    10
    My first Souls game and I am pleasured by how amazing and beautiful this game is! May the flames guide thee!
  5. VinylSS
    Dec 12, 2020
    10
    fun game, better with friends. pvp can be painful as most players are just there to gank you from maxstats. bosses are interesting all with their own abilities and stages, could take a long time to learn how to beat the tutorial boss if you are new.
  6. Iuppiter_
    Dec 11, 2020
    10
    This game is a masterpiece. I'd recommend it, but I will say its hard, like it can be discouraging at times. Spent a few hours on this game, I like it. Maybe you will as well!
  7. Intenselime
    Dec 11, 2020
    9
    There is not a lot to be said about DS3 that hasn't been said already. The game is a visual masterpiece and the gameplay is intense. It also features some of the most grandiose boss fights you can get in modern AAA gaming.

    I do feel as though some of the level designs and areas are a bit less inspired than previous entries (DS1 & BB still being the better contenders for 10/10, "best in    There is not a lot to be said about DS3 that hasn't been said already. The game is a visual masterpiece and the gameplay is intense. It also features some of the most grandiose boss fights you can get in modern AAA gaming.

    I do feel as though some of the level designs and areas are a bit less inspired than previous entries (DS1 & BB still being the better contenders for 10/10, "best in the series" spots) and the frame pacing issues are still somewhat present on console (though not as bad as bloodborne) but once you get used to it, the game's performance is serviceable and runs well.

    I actually found many of the areas in-between boss fights to be more challenging than the bosses themselves which was the opposite of my experience in DS1 (the only other souls game I had played prior to DS3). Having played BB since, I can see why some may have felt as though there were too many similarities between the two, but to be honest I think DS3 does a fantastic job at remain true to the soul "spirit" in its art direction, character cameos and gameplay to be an amazing game in its own right.

    If you are a fan of fast-paced, challenging yet rewarding gameplay and somehow have still not yet played the Sekiro/Soulsborne series, DS3 is simply put an absolute must buy!    … Expand
  8. ezioadamdir
    Dec 9, 2020
    10
    Best souls game,best fromsoft game,best game in 2016,best game ever.This game has best bosses,best mechanics,best NPC's,best soundtracks.
  9. banhammerzzzz
    Dec 8, 2020
    7
    Awesome game, 60 fps patch was awesome, yet ps4 pro cant give 60 fps all the time ;(
    Peer to peer system killing online play for everyone. Pvp transformed into lag fest where winner is the one with worst connection. From software just spit on players 5 games in a row with it, yet continues to do that.
  10. mollycoddle
    Dec 8, 2020
    9
    Мне почему-то хочется постоянно возвращаться в эту игру заново и заново
  11. Golovachlena
    Dec 7, 2020
    10
    Топ игра на много часов , особенно красные крабочелы на болотах и в подземелье, клас
  12. Yus1f
    Nov 29, 2020
    10
    That was my first Souls-Like game And i love it!Every one say this game is very hard,but İ dont think like that.Yes this game is hard but if you learn patterns And make up your mind to game.İts not hard
  13. MarcinhX
    Nov 26, 2020
    10
    I don't understand at all why bloodBorne has the same rating, because when I played both bloodBorne and Dark souls 3. The first one seemed like just a raw and unfinished version of Dark souls 3. What is better in bloodBorne is the atmosphere, the end .. In dark souls 3 are excellent bosses, unlike bloodBorne. The armor in BloodBorne is somewhat the same, but in ds 3 everyone will findI don't understand at all why bloodBorne has the same rating, because when I played both bloodBorne and Dark souls 3. The first one seemed like just a raw and unfinished version of Dark souls 3. What is better in bloodBorne is the atmosphere, the end .. In dark souls 3 are excellent bosses, unlike bloodBorne. The armor in BloodBorne is somewhat the same, but in ds 3 everyone will find their own suitable one. In general, ds 3 is a MASTERPIECE, unlike BloodBorne.… Expand
  14. AllanWake
    Nov 26, 2020
    8
    Mesmas qualidades e defeitos que seus antecessores, com uma gameplay mais no estilo de Bloodborne e mais divertida que os títulos anteriores, porém o mundo e a história não são tão mágicos como os demais títulos
  15. UmCarinha
    Nov 23, 2020
    8
    Dark souls 3 é a minha quarta experiência em jogos da From software depois de Demon's souls, Dark souls 1 e 2 e está é minha análise:
    Gráficos: Graficamente o jogo deixa a desejar, especialmente pelo ano em que o jogo foi lançado (2016). Veja, o jogo não é feio, no entanto ele é inferior graficamente a Bloodborne que foi lançado 1 ano antes e mais ainda a outros jogos triple A da época e a    Dark souls 3 é a minha quarta experiência em jogos da From software depois de Demon's souls, Dark souls 1 e 2 e está é minha análise:
    Gráficos: Graficamente o jogo deixa a desejar, especialmente pelo ano em que o jogo foi lançado (2016). Veja, o jogo não é feio, no entanto ele é inferior graficamente a Bloodborne que foi lançado 1 ano antes e mais ainda a outros jogos triple A da época e a desculpa de que bloodborne é somente de uma plataforma enquanto DS3 está em 3, não é aceitável, visto que tem muito jogo multiplataforma bastante bonito. Além disso no PS4, o jogo está lotado de Pop In e o cenário as vezes demora para carregar. Nota 7 para os gráficos
    Ambientação: A ambientação é bastante interessante com bastante variação de cenário, nisso eu não tenho a reclamar, a from foi bem nessa parte, nota 9.
    Gameplay: A gameplay é a mesma velha gameplay de DS1 e isso é bom, com a adição de movimentos especiais de cada arma a gameplay no modo offline ficou mais interessante, no entanto no modo online esses movimentos especiais tirou muita habilidade dos jogadores, basta apenas escolher uma arma com um especial forte, apertar L2 e pronto, vc venceu o PvP... O pior de tudo são os malditos lags, o ataque de seu oponente passa a 4 metros de distância e mesmo assim você sofre o dano, isso é ridículo, além disso o jogo está lotado de Glitch e a desenvolvedora parece não se importar com isso. Por conta do modo online eu terei que dá somente nota 6,5 para a gameplay.
    Bossfighter: DS3 tem as melhores bossfighter da franquia e são bastante divertidos os Boss tem uma grande variedade de movimento o que me trouxe bastante diversão e rage rsrsrs. Nota 8.5
    Trilha sonora: Acho que o DS3 tem a melhor trilha sonora da franquia, o que deixa ainda mais divertido a luta contra os bosses, realmente acertaram nesse quesito. Nota 8.8
    Conclusão: É um bom jogo e bem divertido, apesar dos problemas ele agradará a maioria dos fãs de Dark souls, nota 8 para o jogo.    … Expand
  16. Skook12
    Nov 21, 2020
    0
    Esse jogo é um lixo, mal feito , o hit box dos inimigos é ridículo os inimigos atravessam paredes de acertando através delas, o jogo possui um caminho extremamente confuso de vc saber pra aonde você, história contada em forma de lore em itens, assim vc entra no jogo sem saber o pq vc tá jogando e termina da msm forma.
  17. Thaksin
    Nov 18, 2020
    10
    Великая игра!
    Спасибо всем кто участвовал в разработке и тем кто помогал мне пройти боссов )
  18. Vikingatheart
    Nov 16, 2020
    9
    This game is a masterpiece design for the hardcore gamer. Graphics are great and the gameplay is perfect. The difficulty is hard but fair. The story isnt the most obvious nor is it that great otherwise Id probably give a perfect score.
  19. Dezzieboy
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    Combat is challenging but rewarding and enjoyable. Building youre perfect play style takes time to master
  20. Smashg
    Nov 5, 2020
    8
    Es un muy buen juego solo que nunca supe como era la historia (Lore) y me aburría buscarlo pero lo recomiendo mucho.
  21. ByMarcs
    Oct 22, 2020
    9
    Juego con el que descubrí la saga Souls. El juego es increíble, tiene una de las mejores bandas sonoras (junto a BloodBorne) de toda la saga, tiene una jugabilidad heredara de BloodBorne (lo que quiere decir que tira más por los reflejos [rotar] que por usar el escudo), unos jefes bastante buenos (hay excepciones, si, pero siguen siendo buenos, aunque no tanto como los demás), unaJuego con el que descubrí la saga Souls. El juego es increíble, tiene una de las mejores bandas sonoras (junto a BloodBorne) de toda la saga, tiene una jugabilidad heredara de BloodBorne (lo que quiere decir que tira más por los reflejos [rotar] que por usar el escudo), unos jefes bastante buenos (hay excepciones, si, pero siguen siendo buenos, aunque no tanto como los demás), una jugabilidad y una rejugabilidad increíble, ya que puedes jugar como quieras, lo que le da una alta rejugabilidad. El diseño de mazmorras sigue siendo bueno pero no tanto como el del primer Dark Souls.… Expand
  22. DKR
    Oct 22, 2020
    3
    I loved, loved, LOVED DS1. After several ragequits, something about it settled into my heart as a flawed masterpiece....eventually. No matter my hatred for its excessively punishing respawns, DS1 had a great charm to it from its lore, fantasy world, and OUTSTANDING level design. It was dark, somber, but somehow, beautiful, like its ending theme song (youtube Nameless Song ost). Seriously,I loved, loved, LOVED DS1. After several ragequits, something about it settled into my heart as a flawed masterpiece....eventually. No matter my hatred for its excessively punishing respawns, DS1 had a great charm to it from its lore, fantasy world, and OUTSTANDING level design. It was dark, somber, but somehow, beautiful, like its ending theme song (youtube Nameless Song ost). Seriously, this team has some amazing imagination.

    It earned the name "genre-defining".

    DS3 had big shoes to fill, and missed it. The one thing that immediately turned me off was the input delay. C'mon, folks: it's 2020, this shouldn't be an issue anymore. From swinging your weapon, to casting a spell, to most unforgivable of all: DODGE ROLLING. When you press O to dodge, there's a .5s delay until you roll. That alone broke the game for me and made it unplayable. In DS1, my style THRIVED off of wearing minimal gear, but out-maneuvering my target. The enemy attacks are sometimes super fast, so it rewarded reflexive dodging. I could beat most bosses naked! DS3, you wear heavy equipment in every slot, bc nothing else is viable. There's also no 3 levels to movement speed. You're either under-weight, or overweight. There's also some research that suggests leaving a single slot open largely increases the damage you take.

    The death system also feels dated. Dying, respawning, and running to where you were gets obnoxiously tedious. Combine that with the numerous OHK's plastering the world or losing your precious currency AGAIN, and you often feel more like you're running on a treadmill. 75% of your game time will be fighting the same enemies over the same stretch of land again and again and again and again bc your roll delays, you're stunlocked, and back to spawn. Worse yet is this punishes you for exploring. Why wander off the path just to be OHK then lose everything? Eventually, you'll just run straight for bonfires bc the combat isn't fun anymore.

    What's supposed to make this better is summoning others into coop, but they STILL haven't fixed another issue: invasions. Look, if I want to fight a no-life 16 yr old thats spend 1,000 hours perfecting his toon's stats, gear, spells, and every cheap kill on the map, I would say so, but I don't. I want to play COOP: THAT MEANS ME, WITH ONE PERSON ON MY TEAM, VS THE GAME. There's no option to tell these no-lifers to f*** off and LET ME PLAY THE GAME. Once you're invaded, you might as well just turn off your console, bc you won't have a prayer against the no-lifers. Even if you've done all you can to empower your toon, the invader is at least 5x stronger than you in every way, and has about 30 hp potions to your 5 or so. Even if you DO get the upper hand with some outplays, they'll just roll, roll, roll, roll, drink a pot to full hp, then come back, rinse and repeat as necessary until they exhaust all your options. WORST OF ALL, all these ppl do with their lives is sit here, afk in a video game, waiting to invade someone, so you'll find that same kid again and again and again until you burn out your resource used to summon help. Don't EVEN get me started on how buggy, laggy, and sloppy the pvp is, which means even pvp is....you guessed it: a huge waste of time.

    Another beef I have is how DS3 is sooo cryptic, that unless you have the wiki open next to you, you're going to miss 90% of the content. Getting NPC's to join you is waaaay too complicated, the weapon upgrade system isn't explained, the backstabs system is WHOOOOOOO wtffffffff? NOTHING is explained to you. AT. ALL. You have to do so much research, it feels more like school homework. So much time is wasted researching and reading. The game is way too meaty with you chewing and chewing and chewing, through meaty layer after meaty layer of research, respawning, dying, getting invaded, researching, dying, (ofc most of those deaths being the controls or glitches) and never ever getting anywhere. Before you know it, you've spent 10hrs dying, researching, and fighting off an invader b4 you've even seen the 2nd boss, not enjoy a moment of it, and eventually conclude: you'd rather be playing something else.

    DS3 is nothing but a huge, empty, waste of time.

    If you have absolutely nothing to do, if you are obsessively competitive, unemployed, or if you can't function w/o bragging and mocking someone, if you get off on tormenting ppl that can't defend themselves and cuss you out, or any of the above, this is your game. I'll leave you with a conversation I had with a DS fanboy that couldn't let criticism of his golden cow go unshamed:

    "I have np with the game. You're just bad. Gid gud. I got all the achievements."

    "I got a job."    … Expand
  23. JACOENIL
    Oct 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Podría decir que mi juego favorito por mucho, los jefes y su lore, la banda sonora, los escenarios, los personajes, aunque a diferencia del primero no eres "tan" libre de ir a donde quieras exceptuando algunas zonas, es básicamente una maravilla de juego de todas formas… Expand
  24. Unicron35
    Oct 14, 2020
    7
    Dark Souls 3 feels like a step back for the series after playing DS2. I do not like the faster combat and gameplay. It feels too much like Bloodborne. Everything just moves too damn fast to my liking.

    The co-op is okay. It feels really difficult to find embers in DS3 which allows you to summon other players. The atmosphere is okay and the voice acting is decent. The character    Dark Souls 3 feels like a step back for the series after playing DS2. I do not like the faster combat and gameplay. It feels too much like Bloodborne. Everything just moves too damn fast to my liking.

    The co-op is okay. It feels really difficult to find embers in DS3 which allows you to summon other players. The atmosphere is okay and the voice acting is decent. The character customization feels like an afterthought. Overall, DS3 feels lacking of any of the charm or depth that DS2 has.    … Expand
  25. Simpson_761
    Oct 8, 2020
    10
    I've played through multiple times and still love this game. I wouldn't even say I'm good at this game. It doesn't even matter. It's just enjoyable to play as each encounter is fair. If you die you did something wrong. I never feel "cheated" in this game. If you haven't tried it then give it a go. If you hate being invaded just play offline.
  26. Red-Eyes
    Oct 7, 2020
    10
    In an industry plagued with microtransactions, mediocre open-world games and bribed critic reviewers commanded by the likes of EA, Activision and the likes I feel FROM Software is some sort of Batman to give us at least some hope, and again they deliver the goods with Dark Souls 3.
    The combat is the absolute best, you can't ask for something better than this. Attacking, managing stamina    In an industry plagued with microtransactions, mediocre open-world games and bribed critic reviewers commanded by the likes of EA, Activision and the likes I feel FROM Software is some sort of Batman to give us at least some hope, and again they deliver the goods with Dark Souls 3.
    The combat is the absolute best, you can't ask for something better than this. Attacking, managing stamina and dodging at the precise time are a gaming art as the punishment for being overconfident is right around the corner. Bosses aren't as memorable as in Souls 1 but they are still good (my highlight is the Nameless King, visually, lorewise and the fight itself) in the main game and astronomically awesome in the DLCs (Midir, Friede and Gael).
    Changing builds add a lot of replayability because a section that is easy for a caster maybe harder for a melee and vice-versa. You can respec your status 5 times per playthrough so if you don't feel like going to NG+ with the same guy, just change your build before going.
    The online system is the same from other games however now you can summon 3 guys to co-op. Being ganked by 4 dudes when invading is not the greatest thing in the world and if you don't have an insane ability (mastering spacing and parrying to the fullest besides pivot and rolling back-stabbing) and patience you're gonna die and get frustrted. But you can always play at certain soul levels to avoid ganks (they are rarer at SL60 for example and it is a popular level for PvP) or just jump straight into the arena for a one-on-one honorable duel.
    Anyway, this is just what you would expect form a Dark Souls game and although some might say it doesn't reinvent the wheel, I'd argue that the execution is so perfect that they don't have to push boundaries (besides you can always check Sekiro or Bloodborne for a "different Dark Souls tone"). Beating a hard boss after trying for hours by memorizing their combos and exploring their weaknesses it is still the best thing one can experience in a video game; the feeling of getting better and overcoming a hard obstacle not because your character is stronger but because you, the player, became stronger is still done perfectly    … Expand
  27. cursedsvyt
    Oct 5, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Thais is the perfect rpg and the BEST of miyazaki thanks and make more ganes please… Expand
  28. Amir2001
    Oct 5, 2020
    10
    The game has a great graphic and it is a just game for those who have played and loved dragon age sereis ,skyrim,the wiycher ,great battle system.
  29. kacper14
    Sep 28, 2020
    10
    Masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  30. RoninNinjaXL
    Sep 18, 2020
    10
    GREAT GAME WITH A YOU DIED BADASS SLAP CERTIFIED

    Story: 10
    Gameplay: 20
    ost: 10
    Characters: 11
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Awards & Rankings

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#7 Best PS4 Game of 2016
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#4 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2016
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#14 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2016

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 69 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 69
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 69
  3. Negative: 0 out of 69
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Jun 13, 2016
    90
    Dark Souls III rarely innovates, but it experiments within the Souls parameters to grotesque and glorious effect. Another Game of The Year contender, then. [June 2016, p.81]
  2. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    May 18, 2016
    90
    Dark Souls III is all-consuming, it’ll drive you up the wall, and the sense of accomplishment you’ll get when everything clicks and you go on to finish that final boss... well, it’s simply beyond compare [June 2016, p70]
  3. Games Master UK
    May 18, 2016
    95
    The best Dark Souls game to pick up right now, and a fitting finale for the series. [May 2016, p.58]
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