Quote Originally Posted by Forsaken Lover View Post
I like to think I can enjoy and appreciate anything but I was recently considering playing the Souls games and a guy elsewhere told me to just not even bother. They are not my taste in terms of gameplay or storytelling.

From what I hear from people - that the games don't even have a story (this was mainly something I recall hearing a lot when Demon's Souls came out) - he's probably right. I mean, even Elder Scrolls games noticeably have stories. I can't imagine how "understated" the Souls' games plots have to be to be barely visible.

I like big cutscenes and character arcs.
While I will not disagree with the idea that the Souls series may not be your thing from a narrative standpoint, I'll point out the series does have plots, it's just that for all of the games, all of the big stuff happened years if not centuries before the game started, so most of the story is trying to uncover "what the hell happened?" instead of your character actually being important. In fact the very idea of your character's insignificance is kind of played with in all of the entries.

There are character arcs, but they are for NPC characters and are largely subdued. Not to mention they are less about typical manga shenanigans of "growing as a person" and more about watching characters succumb to a certain fate.

Example:






and if you really need to know about plot...


As tongue and cheek this video is, this is basically the backstory of Dark Souls in a nutshell.