What's your favorite Fromsoftware

[TenKai]

My favorite game is Armoured core 3 portable, easy.

 

[moonbits]

Sekiro Shadows Die Twice

 

[LUNARMYTH]

My modern answer is Dark Souls 2: SotFS or Elden Ring. But for their older titles I have been playing the Echo Night series and Shadow Tower Abyss here and there.

 

[RustySK]

Sekiro Shadows Die Twice

Sekiro is almost a perfect game to me - everything is where it should be, all killer, no filler. Right there with you.

As for the older titles - the atmosphere in King's Field 4 is absolutely impeccable and the player character's movement feels way better than in its predecessors, so that would be up there for me.
Either that or Armored Core: Last Raven and its smooth as hell controls.

 

[tenkai star]

Enchanted Arms got overshadowed by some of the other RPGs released that generation. It has really low budget cutscenes, but the battle system is really fun and gets difficult. I love it

 

[Gorse]

Weird answer, but I really like Shadow Tower on the PS1. As the unofficial last PS1 King's Field game, I really feel like they applied a lot of the lessons they learned over the course of that series into making something tight, focused, and smooth, with great atmosphere and tone. I always hear Dark Souls fans banging on about how those games have strong world design in a singular, consistent location, and Shadow Tower is totally that to a T.

The combat is still a touch clunky and slow, but I really do enjoy weaving my way through dark, dusty catacombs and basements, battling creepy tentacle monsters and casting little spells. The King’s Field games were always a bit slow for my taste, but I think Shadow Tower struck a good balance between methodical, thoughtful dungeon-crawling and action-heavy battles.

I love how it’s a very “gothic” game, too — I’m no fantasy lover, but I do like gothic aesthetics and architecture, and the game has a wonderful atmosphere. (It reminds a me a lot of Deception, one of my all-time favourite franchises.) I believe it was meant to be a bit scarier than King’s Field, and I like that direction a LOT. Great, underrated game — if they ever made a modern Dark Souls-esque interpretation, I’d gobble it up.

 

[Keaso]

Elden Ring
Dark Souls
Shadow Tower: Abyss
King's Field 4

 

[moonbits]

Sekiro is almost a perfect game to me - everything is where it should be, all killer, no filler. Right there with you.

Precise, polished, every fight is a blood pumping rush. Miyazakis magnus opus and I'll die on this hill (unless he makes another pure action game)

 

[ATenderLad]

Armored Core 6, as my sainted aunt would say it's finer than frog fur.

 

[Inkingsama]

Weird answer, but I really like Shadow Tower on the PS1. As the unofficial last PS1 King's Field game, I really feel like they applied a lot of the lessons they learned over the course of that series into making something tight, focused, and smooth, with great atmosphere and tone. I always hear Dark Souls fans banging on about how those games have strong world design in a singular, consistent location, and Shadow Tower is totally that to a T.

The combat is still a touch clunky and slow, but I really do enjoy weaving my way through dark, dusty catacombs and basements, battling creepy tentacle monsters and casting little spells. The King’s Field games were always a bit slow for my taste, but I think Shadow Tower struck a good balance between methodical, thoughtful dungeon-crawling and action-heavy battles.

I love how it’s a very “gothic” game, too — I’m no fantasy lover, but I do like gothic aesthetics and architecture, and the game has a wonderful atmosphere. (It reminds a me a lot of Deception, one of my all-time favourite franchises.) I believe it was meant to be a bit scarier than King’s Field, and I like that direction a LOT. Great, underrated game — if they ever made a modern Dark Souls-esque interpretation, I’d gobble it up.

Nice argument right there buddy, too bad all of your equipment is about to break, care to hand over 90% of your HP to fix it?. I liked the game too and made it to the first boss but jumped ship shortly after because i got sick of not being able to see two feet ahead of me, the game is just too dark man. Maybe some day i will try again.

For me it's King's Field IV. At this point i think i will use a signature that says "my favorite game is king's field IV" because i mention KFIV very often.

 

[Noon]

FromSoftware is a Dev I pop in and out on, I love risky rough games, Evergrace 1 and 2, Rune I and 2 (called Lost Kingdoms in NA) are unique styles and have little game mechanic quirks that I love. Always an Armored Core Fan too. Ouu Enchanted Arms is really underrated too.

 

[What's His Face]

Enchanted Arms got overshadowed by some of the other RPGs released that generation. It has really low budget cutscenes, but the battle system is really fun and gets difficult. I love it

Oddly enough, Enchanted Arms is the only FromSoft game I enjoyed. I'm not big into mecha so Armored Core didn't do too much for me. The Dark Souls games were fine but massively overhyped imho. I really dug Kuon's atmosphere but holy HELL is it a slog to play, which describes a lot of their other games. EA, on the other hand, had genuinely good writing and fun gameplay. Sure, it was made on a budget and some of the character designs were woof, but it was fun.

 

[Gorse]

too bad all of your equipment is about to break, care to hand over 90% of your HP to fix it?

That's the really scary part of the game. Haven't you ever heard the term "ludonarrative dissonance?" ?

not being able to see two feet ahead of me, the game is just too dark man.

This is actually a huge thing I love about the game – you never know what's beyond your immediate FOV until you know the tower like the back of your hand. I get why people would hate it, and I imagined that's why they changed it for the second one, but... y'know... I just think it's neat, OK!?!?!?

 

[Somnia]

Modern answer is Bloodborne but classic answer would have to be Otogi 2 or Shadow Tower! It feels odd not choosing an Armored Core for either since that was the series I discovered them with alongside most others, but I struggle to go back to a lot of AC games. The original, AC4 and AC5 are the only ones that really keep me invested long term for whatever reason.

 

[Cu-Neo]

Easy Dark Souls 1, Armored core 3/ 4 for answer, Echo night 2 (I like the others too but 2 doesn't have that casino part like 1), Enchanted Arms, Shadow Tower Abyss and Evergrace plus Forever kingdom. I still need to try the king field games

 

[Comkill117]

Metal Wolf Chaos. Can't beat cheesy voice acting with rad mech combat.

 

[Kestrel]

A four-way tie between Bloodborne, Dark Souls, Armored Core 6 and Armored Core 4 Answer.

Really hope we're not stuck waiting a long time for the next good Armored Core game....

 

[ZEGA ZONIC]

Armored Core 4 & Elden Ring.

 

[vitad00d]

PS1 Armored Core trilogy
Dark Souls 1
Dark Souls 2
King's Field IV

(I would have included Bloodborne a few months ago, but after recently replaying it, I think it kind of loses steam after the Father Gascoigne fight due to a lack of tonal variety––that everything basically takes place in the same purple-glazed Hellworld makes it a harder sell for replays, at least for me.)

 

[Gorse]

Has anyone ever played the Echo Night games? Are those good? I'm somewhat intrigued by them, but they seem so far out of FromSoft's wheelhouse that I have no idea what their quality would be like.

 

[antii antii]

Sekiro, Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3

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Has anyone ever played the Echo Night games? Are those good? I'm somewhat intrigued by them, but they seem so far out of FromSoft's wheelhouse that I have no idea what their quality would be like.

Nah I never even heard of this series is it good i know from has alot of games under their belt

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Delirious, Echo Night and Armored Core series.

 

[antii antii]

Delirious, Echo Night and Armored Core series.

I have tried to get into Armored Core idk not really my thing im gonna try it again with 6 since i have it

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

I have tried to get into Armored Core idk not really my thing im gonna try it again with 6 since i have it

I’ve been playing AC series since the PS1 days you see I’m a bit of a Gundam anime back then there’s not much Gundam games that gives you the feeling of piloting a giant mech so that’s where it all starts.

 

[Patches]

Sekiro, though that may change when I get around to playing the AC, and KF titles.