Why do many people hate this game?

For DS3 fans, yes. For the fans of the series, no.

>Unlike its predecessors, this game is not about exploring and role playing
>Unlike its predecessors

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You started playing Souls since DS2 at best, faggot

difference is elden ring in genuinely subpar and deserves the ridicule while DS3 is unironically the best of the 3 dark souls.

Bland uninspired watered-down rehash containing none of what made the series good. Thankfully Elden Ring was much better and filtered out all the DS3 zoomers.

Still living rent free in your head, I see.
Thank God I didn't start with DS3, it would be my first and last DS game.

It's utterly soulless and showed From had no ideas left about where to take Souls games. Thank fuck for Sekiro.

Only someone who started the series with Dark Souls 3 could ever come close to saying something so retarded. Boss rush, fucking disgusting.

at lest it's better than elden cringe

I can see why. You can't top perfection.

only DS2fags hate DS3

Damn, it was easy outing the DS2 zoomie
When you hear buzzwords like "exploration" and "muh boss rush", especially from shills defending this garbage level design, you always know who is the retard behind the keyboard

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Funny guy. :)

But seriously, don't be like that. You will end up being like Diablo 2 fans. You don't want that.

I started with ds1, faggot.

it really could have used bonfire ascetics

The game is plagued by a complete lack of choice.
Every weapon is an r1 spam stick, armor is 100% cosmetic, magic is a waste of soul levels and ring slots, shields are borderline worthless, and the game itself is a linear hallway that can only be completed in one order.
3 is also the game that made every enemy a screeching, flailing fuckbeast, every encounter a gank or an ambush, and every boss a giant knight that flips around nonstop.
Basically, it's streamlined in a bad way. It also has a lot of annoying and out of place references to the first game, which just serves to highlight to fans of the first game that they're not playing it.
It's not a terrible game, but it's easily the worst Souls game.

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>it really could have used world tendency and ceremonies
FTFY

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Lmao, this retard is so ruined by starting the series with DS3 he can't even play the actual good games that are higher rated because they aren't casualized and watered down for smooth brains.

>Don't copy all kouryakubo's maps
I'm not gonna take your obvious bait, I just want an explanation about this part lol

zoom zoom

Haha, no, you didn't.

>Every weapon is an r1 spam stick, armor is 100% cosmetic, magic is a waste of soul levels and ring slots, shields are borderline worthless, and the game itself is a linear hallway that can only be completed in one order.
That sounds based.
t. Zweihander main

Learn to play issue lol

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I don't hate it, but if you played Dark Souls beforehand you'll notice a lot of things were simply reused. Including plot points.

>it's bait because... it just is
Dilate

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Explain why you can't copy all maps.

>Shields are so ruined in this game that you had to make a webm of one of the heaviest greatshields just to prove that they can actually block a single attack

Damn, Fromsoft fucking lost it.

why is DaS 3 so good bros

>block a single attack
The highest poise damage attack of any non boss enemy in game, including dlcs
You have been filtered, sorry

iirc that shield requires like 38 strength to one hand.
I'm going to guess the player in that webm is significantly overleveled for Cathedral of the Deep.
He's also only fighting one enemy at a time (a rarity in DaS3, in that area in particular you'd also be dealing with two deacons, a spear hollow, and possibly another cathedral knight if you didn't come at it from the deacons of the deep bonfire), fighting an enemy at the edge of his leash range causing the enemy to stop attacking to step back into his home area, and he STILL gets guard broken.

It was fun for a little while but pvpfags are the only ones who truly enjoyed it because it catered to their minmaxing autism

>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T BE LEVEL 237 YOU NEED TO HAVE A SPECIFIC "BUILD" LOCKED AT 120

It was actually really well crafted both in mechanics (like weapon arts where 20% of them like Stomp and Perseverance is useful and augments the gameplay without making it worse vs Ashes where 20% is meta shit breaking the game) and enemy and boss design, without falling for DS2 and ER traps of meme large world and recycled bosses out of their asses

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When you think about it, the souls era was probably the worst era of action mechanics ever, only somewhat ameliorated by dmcv, Dd, and Nioh

Cope

>iirc that shield requires like 38 strength to one hand.
>OH NO I HAVE TO INVEST IN STR.. TO BE STRONG
>I'm going to guess the player in that webm is significantly overleveled for Cathedral of the Deep.
No, nice cope, a single look at the stamina reveals that character is indeed low SL
>He's also only fighting one enemy at a time (a rarity in DaS3, in that area in particular you'd also be dealing with two deacons, a spear hollow, and possibly another cathedral knight if you didn't come at it from the deacons of the deep bonfire)
Yeah if you trigger the whole Cathedral like a retard
Otherwise no, you can fight them alone