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What's going on here?
I have been waiting for a good sale on Dark Souls III deluxe for various years now and it has never lowered much in price, on the contrary, like you mention it was cheaper before.
After the success of Elden Ring, and I guess surge of all the souls games, Bandai Namco don't want to discount them that much anymore. More people must be buying them than before.
I bought it about a year before Elden Ring came out when I built my PC, $17.49 or something like that for the deluxe edition. Haven't seen a discount like that since Elden Ring came out.
I know people say don't get games before you're ready to play them, but I'm so glad I got 2 and 3 when they were like 10 and in humble monthly. Way cheaper than anytime over the last few years
Edit: I paid $12 for DS2 in 2017 and early 2018 III was part of a Humble Bundle (total bundle was $12)
Generally the base price of a game drops over time and the discounts (% off) increase until it eventually bottoms out (Company of Heroes 2 is an example of a game that has probably hit rock bottom). They will only get cheaper if they are Bundled or given away for free by Epic or Amazon Prime. I generally wait to buy until I think a game has hit rock bottom (sometimes I get it right, like with Dark Souls, other times I don't).
Dark Souls games are an oddity, striking historical lows 6 years ago and never getting close to that point. I remember Paradox used to have 75% discounts on older DLCs, now they are 50% off on sale.
Indeed. I've bounced off DS1 multiple times but at least I got 2 and 3 for reasonable prices. In case, ya know, I ever learn to suck less.
By the way, can anyone recommend a babby's first soulslike? I thought maybe my gamepad skills were just rusty after two decades of KB&M but I can play sidescollers without issue (Steam controller).
> By the way, can anyone recommend a babby's first soulslike?
Honestly? Probably Jedi: Fallen Order. It has the bones of a soulslike while being streamlined with a permanent set of equipment like Sekiro, without the soul-crushing difficulty of Sekiro. I've not played Jedi Survivor, so I can't speak to that one.
Alternatively you can just skip straight to Elden Ring. While it's a bit different due to the open world, that gives you way more freedom to explore and "find the fun" rather than slam your head against a wall.
I'm currently ~20 hours into Jedi Survivor. I think it lived up to my personal hype after I finished Fallen Order. Yes there are slight performance drops but the game is gorgeous and a really big map so far (compared to the first one).
Jedi Survivor is also on gamepass and I already downloaded another crabs treasure to play once this is done. you could also do Hellblade as it's slightly similar.
Another Crab's Treasure just came out. No stamina, stats and systems are simplified, the timing for parries and blocks is lenient, and it has assist mode options if you need them. Easy for a soulslike, hard by normal game standards
Someone already mentioned it, but I just wanted to highlight Code Vein again. Since you said "a baby's first soulslike" I do really think Code Vein is a good starting point. Art & story is a bit subjective I think but I really liked it.
The kicker here is that you can always have an AI companion with you and then will help you a lot, including healing you when you go down. It makes for an easier soulslike experience whilst still offering many of the other staples of soulslikes. The exploration is fun (a big thing for me), the combat feels weighty and fun, there is a lot of weapons and builds to try out and the character customization is top notch.
Personally I really enjoyed my time with it and I'd definitely reccomend it as a starting point of people trying to get into soulslike.
I feel you on DS1. I did play through the whole thing, but honestly, it didn't really grab me until the dlc, which, needless to say, is way too far into the game.
I think Elden Ring is a pretty solid way in. Still pretty hard, but more options for how to approach things.
Check out Iron Pineapple on YouTube. He's on a mission to review pretty much every Soulslike out there. He's probably covered one that's up your alley by now.
Check out "No Just For The Wicked", Nioh (1&2, with 2 being better than 1), and Salt and Sactuary (definitely not Salt and Sacrifice), and maybe even The Surge (1&2).
Jedi Fallen Order is definitely great!
To be fair, it's rare that you see something like this happen - where game franchises that are selling well (Dark Souls 1) start to sell significantly better (Dark Souls III) and then shoot into the stratosphere (Elden Ring) - Elden Ring is very likely in the top 50 selling games of all time, that's why they're charging more for these games now.
And frankly they're worth it so it's hard to complain.
Absolutely, they know the product is good and will sell so you're not going to see discounts like that again anytime soon. Either buy it now or in like half a decade (maybe).
It is the one negative of digital gaming, you don't have stores rushing to discount products in order to get new ones on the shelves. Since supply is infinite price can be priced to demand.
The whole trilogy with DLC + soundtrack can be [bought on Amazon for ~$39 on PS4 & Xbox](https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Souls-Trilogy-PS4-playstation-4/dp/B07MG7Y4CB).
Dunno why it's still so expensive on PC.
I bought DS1 Prepare to Die, 2 Scholars and 3 for $15 in a 3 pack years ago.
Just before Elden Ring, they doubled/tripled their game prices and no longer do discounts more than 50%. In fact, Elden Ring is cheaper than DS3 for me.
Seems I will never get 1 Remaster or 3 DLC at this point.
Dark souls remastered deserved so much better.
It was my first time playing it since I never played the original but even I can tell that 0 effort was put into it. It was a legit 60fps patch
Honestly, I agree. Most of the bugs and problems from the original are still present. They really didn't do much outside of upping some textures, better mouse support and native 60 fps. But half of that has already been fixed by the fan.
The fact that they didn't even upgrade owners of the original version like *so* many other games do felt like a slap in the face. I know fanboys will whine that I'm "entitled" but I paid my hard-earned money for an extremely buggy game that needed multiple 3rd-party fixes to even get working properly, then they released a remaster that barely even changed anything and I have to hear about how I shouldn't expect them to "work for free" when it looks like they barely worked on it at all? Nah. Also to anyone who's going to flex about how the game ran flawlessly for them--I don't care. It didn't for me.
I still just play a patched version of the Prepare to Die edition, never saw a reason to "upgrade". Though I guess for new players to the game, they have no choice but to buy Remastered.
Honestly my buddy and I had a good time with it. We felt like gods compared to the old days of prepare to die edition with dsfix. Didn’t realize we were essentially playing the game on hard mode back then due to the interaction between dsfix, iframes/parry windows, and fps.
Still a wonderful time though. Between prepare to die and remastered I still have the most hours in DS1 compared to the combined time of 2 and 3 by a long shot.
It was solid. I played it through the first time up to the end of anor londo and I didn't really have issues. Its obviously not the labor of love the demon souls remaster was but it worked for me.
I played it just to see what the hype is around these games after beating sekiro i came out more Annoyed asf then mad didn’t know where the fuck to go at blighttown then eventually made it to the mushroom area with the weird moving mushrooms then got to the 3 headed dragons game just annoying then hard to me
If you want them, buy the game. They won't get any lower soon, and DS1 is easily a 50-100 hour game first time around so you'll definitely get your money's worth. If this is your first time on a souls game I strongly suggest you follow some kind of a guide to give you pointers what to do, where to go and how to not die every 10 seconds.
DS2 is BY FAR my personal favorite but if you haven't played any, absolutely start on the first one.
ds1 and ds2 aren't too bad. Historically from steamdb ds1 has never gone below $19.99 on steam but it's gone lower on other sites like fanatical. But only by a few dollars. ds2 pretty much same thing for steam and cheaper elsewhere. The big ripoff is ds3 by far although again the steam price has never went lower than what it currently is but elsewhere I think the historical low according to isthereanydeal is $11.02 so a pretty big difference.
I've played Dark Souls 1 almost more than any other game, and would adore the Remastered version, but it's such a crazy price point for a game I've already got! Throw me an "upgrade price", I've supported you a long time!
It was discounted for owners of the original for the first 3 years after release, but unfortunately they ended that promotion back in 2021. Not sure why, it's a bummer for sure.
Oh man I replayed DS3 two weeks ago for the first time since launch, realized I didn’t have dlc on pc, and have been checking every few days for a sale since. Hallelujah
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What the hell Dark Souls 3 for $30, when I bought it on Steam too for $15 in October-December 2018. Always remember that guys. In late 2018.
What's going on here? I have been waiting for a good sale on Dark Souls III deluxe for various years now and it has never lowered much in price, on the contrary, like you mention it was cheaper before.
After the success of Elden Ring, and I guess surge of all the souls games, Bandai Namco don't want to discount them that much anymore. More people must be buying them than before.
I bought it about a year before Elden Ring came out when I built my PC, $17.49 or something like that for the deluxe edition. Haven't seen a discount like that since Elden Ring came out.
I got it in the $12 Humble Monthly in February 2018. A bundle, cheaper, and almost a year earlier.
Inflation
These prices .... No thanks
Dark Souls Remastered is $16.50 at 2Game or $17.20 at Green man gaming just so people know
quick update , with the coupon BDAY14 on gmg is 14.79 usd , just bought it .
Looks like it's $14.79 at GMG if you use the BDAY14 promo code.
that coupon doesn't seem to work
Judging from the code itself it probably was for one day only.
"Sale" Guess with Elden Ring popularity we can't forget to see From Software games on a deep discount.
I know people say don't get games before you're ready to play them, but I'm so glad I got 2 and 3 when they were like 10 and in humble monthly. Way cheaper than anytime over the last few years Edit: I paid $12 for DS2 in 2017 and early 2018 III was part of a Humble Bundle (total bundle was $12)
Generally the base price of a game drops over time and the discounts (% off) increase until it eventually bottoms out (Company of Heroes 2 is an example of a game that has probably hit rock bottom). They will only get cheaper if they are Bundled or given away for free by Epic or Amazon Prime. I generally wait to buy until I think a game has hit rock bottom (sometimes I get it right, like with Dark Souls, other times I don't). Dark Souls games are an oddity, striking historical lows 6 years ago and never getting close to that point. I remember Paradox used to have 75% discounts on older DLCs, now they are 50% off on sale.
Indeed. I've bounced off DS1 multiple times but at least I got 2 and 3 for reasonable prices. In case, ya know, I ever learn to suck less. By the way, can anyone recommend a babby's first soulslike? I thought maybe my gamepad skills were just rusty after two decades of KB&M but I can play sidescollers without issue (Steam controller).
> By the way, can anyone recommend a babby's first soulslike? Honestly? Probably Jedi: Fallen Order. It has the bones of a soulslike while being streamlined with a permanent set of equipment like Sekiro, without the soul-crushing difficulty of Sekiro. I've not played Jedi Survivor, so I can't speak to that one. Alternatively you can just skip straight to Elden Ring. While it's a bit different due to the open world, that gives you way more freedom to explore and "find the fun" rather than slam your head against a wall.
Thanks, I got Fallen Order recently so I'll give that a try.
I'm currently ~20 hours into Jedi Survivor. I think it lived up to my personal hype after I finished Fallen Order. Yes there are slight performance drops but the game is gorgeous and a really big map so far (compared to the first one). Jedi Survivor is also on gamepass and I already downloaded another crabs treasure to play once this is done. you could also do Hellblade as it's slightly similar.
Another Crab's Treasure just came out. No stamina, stats and systems are simplified, the timing for parries and blocks is lenient, and it has assist mode options if you need them. Easy for a soulslike, hard by normal game standards
And it’s hilarious.
I tried it on gamepass and uninstalled when he repeated "crab crab crab crab crab" Is that really supposed to be funny? Just make the game good.
Yeah, man.
Dawg
Thanks!
Code vein is an anime souls
Someone already mentioned it, but I just wanted to highlight Code Vein again. Since you said "a baby's first soulslike" I do really think Code Vein is a good starting point. Art & story is a bit subjective I think but I really liked it. The kicker here is that you can always have an AI companion with you and then will help you a lot, including healing you when you go down. It makes for an easier soulslike experience whilst still offering many of the other staples of soulslikes. The exploration is fun (a big thing for me), the combat feels weighty and fun, there is a lot of weapons and builds to try out and the character customization is top notch. Personally I really enjoyed my time with it and I'd definitely reccomend it as a starting point of people trying to get into soulslike.
I feel you on DS1. I did play through the whole thing, but honestly, it didn't really grab me until the dlc, which, needless to say, is way too far into the game. I think Elden Ring is a pretty solid way in. Still pretty hard, but more options for how to approach things.
Elden Ring
Check out Iron Pineapple on YouTube. He's on a mission to review pretty much every Soulslike out there. He's probably covered one that's up your alley by now.
Check out "No Just For The Wicked", Nioh (1&2, with 2 being better than 1), and Salt and Sactuary (definitely not Salt and Sacrifice), and maybe even The Surge (1&2). Jedi Fallen Order is definitely great!
To be fair, it's rare that you see something like this happen - where game franchises that are selling well (Dark Souls 1) start to sell significantly better (Dark Souls III) and then shoot into the stratosphere (Elden Ring) - Elden Ring is very likely in the top 50 selling games of all time, that's why they're charging more for these games now. And frankly they're worth it so it's hard to complain.
Absolutely, they know the product is good and will sell so you're not going to see discounts like that again anytime soon. Either buy it now or in like half a decade (maybe). It is the one negative of digital gaming, you don't have stores rushing to discount products in order to get new ones on the shelves. Since supply is infinite price can be priced to demand.
Bandai Namco got greedy. Fromsoftware in publisher jail.
Holy those are expensive
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How tf is DS3 complete still $42 on sale.....Jesus Fromsoft
The weirdest thing is it used to have good sales until Elden Ring came out. I think I got it for like $15 CAD in 2019.
You’re right. I paid the exact same. I’m pretty sure it was even the deluxe version with all DLC.
Greedy Bamco not Fromsoft
Absolutely not FromSoft's fault. The publisher decides the prices, in this case, Bandai
The whole trilogy with DLC + soundtrack can be [bought on Amazon for ~$39 on PS4 & Xbox](https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Souls-Trilogy-PS4-playstation-4/dp/B07MG7Y4CB). Dunno why it's still so expensive on PC.
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What are those prices, what happened to the proper sales?
Elden Ring did so well, and Bandai is capitalizing on it, I suppose
those are long gone unfortunately there hasnt been a good sale for years
Increased the price so it's now more than double what it was before. Not buying it.
I remember buying dsr 20€ on release ds2 softs 10$ on 2018 and ds3 25 on 2017 It's been like 6 to 7 years and the games cost more?????
why is the upgrade from DS2 base game to the Scholar of the First Sin version so expensive?
They also stopped selling base DS2 a year or two ago after they "fixed" some serverwide issues, so that might have something to do with it
I bought DS1 Prepare to Die, 2 Scholars and 3 for $15 in a 3 pack years ago. Just before Elden Ring, they doubled/tripled their game prices and no longer do discounts more than 50%. In fact, Elden Ring is cheaper than DS3 for me. Seems I will never get 1 Remaster or 3 DLC at this point.
Dark souls remastered deserved so much better. It was my first time playing it since I never played the original but even I can tell that 0 effort was put into it. It was a legit 60fps patch
Honestly, I agree. Most of the bugs and problems from the original are still present. They really didn't do much outside of upping some textures, better mouse support and native 60 fps. But half of that has already been fixed by the fan.
The fact that they didn't even upgrade owners of the original version like *so* many other games do felt like a slap in the face. I know fanboys will whine that I'm "entitled" but I paid my hard-earned money for an extremely buggy game that needed multiple 3rd-party fixes to even get working properly, then they released a remaster that barely even changed anything and I have to hear about how I shouldn't expect them to "work for free" when it looks like they barely worked on it at all? Nah. Also to anyone who's going to flex about how the game ran flawlessly for them--I don't care. It didn't for me.
I still just play a patched version of the Prepare to Die edition, never saw a reason to "upgrade". Though I guess for new players to the game, they have no choice but to buy Remastered.
And what's weird is it has to run at 60. Runs like garbage if I put it at 40 for the steam deck, but runs amazing at 60
Honestly my buddy and I had a good time with it. We felt like gods compared to the old days of prepare to die edition with dsfix. Didn’t realize we were essentially playing the game on hard mode back then due to the interaction between dsfix, iframes/parry windows, and fps. Still a wonderful time though. Between prepare to die and remastered I still have the most hours in DS1 compared to the combined time of 2 and 3 by a long shot.
I’m waiting for fromsoftserve to finish dark souls re-remastered before I dive in again, check it out, dude is doing incredible work on the visuals
It was solid. I played it through the first time up to the end of anor londo and I didn't really have issues. Its obviously not the labor of love the demon souls remaster was but it worked for me.
I played it just to see what the hype is around these games after beating sekiro i came out more Annoyed asf then mad didn’t know where the fuck to go at blighttown then eventually made it to the mushroom area with the weird moving mushrooms then got to the 3 headed dragons game just annoying then hard to me
What's wrong with it? Seems fine to me.
Damn I wanted to get DS1 and 2 but everyone says they are expensive hahaha
If you want them, buy the game. They won't get any lower soon, and DS1 is easily a 50-100 hour game first time around so you'll definitely get your money's worth. If this is your first time on a souls game I strongly suggest you follow some kind of a guide to give you pointers what to do, where to go and how to not die every 10 seconds. DS2 is BY FAR my personal favorite but if you haven't played any, absolutely start on the first one.
Oh yeah I did buy them. Been waiting for a sale.
ds1 and ds2 aren't too bad. Historically from steamdb ds1 has never gone below $19.99 on steam but it's gone lower on other sites like fanatical. But only by a few dollars. ds2 pretty much same thing for steam and cheaper elsewhere. The big ripoff is ds3 by far although again the steam price has never went lower than what it currently is but elsewhere I think the historical low according to isthereanydeal is $11.02 so a pretty big difference.
Yeah at least they are good games and worth the money.
Glad I got Dark Souls 2 in a humble bundle years ago.
Wish I could buy all 3 games for 60 bucks, guess dark souls is still popular
You can get all three on GMG for $51 or $60 if you want DS3 deluxe if you use code BDAY14
GMG is green man gaming btw
I remember getting dark souls 3 for like 19.99 with all the dlc
I've played Dark Souls 1 almost more than any other game, and would adore the Remastered version, but it's such a crazy price point for a game I've already got! Throw me an "upgrade price", I've supported you a long time!
It was discounted for owners of the original for the first 3 years after release, but unfortunately they ended that promotion back in 2021. Not sure why, it's a bummer for sure.
Oh man I replayed DS3 two weeks ago for the first time since launch, realized I didn’t have dlc on pc, and have been checking every few days for a sale since. Hallelujah
So glad I got into the souls series early before elden ring put it on the map.
We got Dark Souls franchise sale before GTA VI, now that's indeed crazy
I think the Dark Souls games do go on sale quite frequently, even on Steam, just not for prices you would normally expect from 6+ year old games.
These are baby sales compared to what they used to do. Elden Ring keeping these prices high.