April 25, 2016 11:42 AM EDT
Well i have quite a few souls games , enough to know that they rarely 'hold' my attention for too long, though i do like to dig one out to do drinking games with my mate occasionally.
as for it being the best game...that is a hugely subjective thing but i can tell you why i disagree, the story and narrative of the games is almost non existent 'ingame' , if you weren't to look up a wiki or something you would be completely lost and that for a narrative obsessed gamer is just no bueno, The artstyle, while a compelling japanese neo-gothic experience is a deeply subjective part of souls games.
gameplay while challenging actually suffers from to many overhauls game to game, for instance my knight character in ds3 can parry almost anything..but the same character in ds2 barely gets a parry out .
They have a huge fan base and i certainly don't hate them , i can appreciate what people like in them but the lack of compelling story experience ingame is just not enough for me personally anyway.