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Best Soulslike game for beginners? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve never played a soulslike games because they are a bit intimidating to me. Amy recommendations for soulslikes games to start on or for beginners to the genre?

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[–] squirrelwithnut 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Elden Ring is the best one for beginners, because if you get stuck at a boss you can just leave that area and go somewhere else. You are very rarely ever "stuck". That is not the case with any of the other Soulsborne games.

In addition, it has spirit summons which make the game significantly easier.

And since it's the newest one AND has a DLC coming out soon, it's also the most played one right now. So finding other players for co-op is easy.

I also consider the bosses, on the whole, to be the easiest of all of the FROM Software games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I second this, one of my good friends only started gaming over covid. We were all hardcore souls players and helped her get through bloodborne and ds3 but she was basically just letting us handle most of the fighting. But when ER came out she got really into it and has played through solo several times. From Software took a lot of the pain points out of the format while keeping it challenging and fresh. Elden ring also has great online, I wasn't a huge fan of the game (I prefer Bloodborne, Sekiro and AC 6) just I spent hundreds of hours just running around the Lands Between with my friends during covid.

[–] squirrelwithnut 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah you're right. I forgot to mention that with Elden Ring, FROM smoothed away a lot of the rough edges of the older games. And because of that it is much easier to get into for newer players. I'm glad your friend enjoyed it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Also the biggest positive is the capability of fast traveling from your map from anywhere as long as you aren't in combat.

It removes the hesitation to explore areas from which you can't return easily.

That's the biggest thing that made Elden Ring significantly less stressful for me.

Plus you don't have to worry about weapon durability.