Darksouls VS Diablo Best ARPG?

They are not even remotely the same genre as your title suggests......but I prefer DiabloII as a video game over Dark Souls.

Dark Souls is awesome. Never really got into Diablo.

@ConanTheStoner: loot games are usually shit but Diablo 3 is actually pretty great. It's a great podcast/music game.

Diablo by far

Why the heck are you calling Dark Souls ARPG? do you even know the genre?

Ok let me break it to you, Diablo is an over the top ARPG, Dark Souls is not, not the same genre and not even close in therm of gameplay, visuals, art style, world, etc.... nothing, none.... don't see a point in comparing these 2 games.

I'm right, I just won.

Which is great.

If it makes you sleep better at night, then great but stop making topics which makes no sense.

But Wikipedia says I'm right.

Don't imply you're smarter than wikipedia, that's just arrogance.

Do you mean top down? Isometric? What does that have to do with...

what the hell?

lol

Running away won't stop me being right.

Gonna have to with Dark Souls, despite both titles being ARPGs at their very hearts.

Diablo by a mile.

Kind of wildly different games, and impossible to compare, but okay. I prefer isometric ARPGs, in general, but if we're talking about the latest iterations of these particular franchises, I'll take Dark Souls over Diablo 3. But I'll take Diablo 1 or 2, or Path of Exile, over both.

Also, as a side note, I've been thinking since Diablo 2 came out that it would be really cool to see a Diablo game with a typical third person view, and the kind of more in depth and skill/timing based combat system that would come with such a game. When I first played Dark Souls, I thought that was about as close as I'd ever seen to that, and was part of the reason I love Dark Souls so much. Basically Dark Souls, but with a traditional skill tree, and randomized loot, in higher volume, like an iso-ARPG, would be exactly what I've had in mind for a decade and a half. Well, it would also have to be a remake of Diablo 1, story and setting-wise, to be exactly what I have in mind.

Dark Souls if you enjoy precise combat, intricate level design and tense online interaction.

Diablo if you enjoy mindless grinding and endless loot.

Dark Souls. For starters it's not nearly as mindless an experience as Diablo is.

Give this man a medal.

Chill out, and cut back on the personal attacks. I know it's rampant here, but it's not called for. Dark Souls is an action RPG. The fact that it isn't isometric is true, but it's an action RPG. It's not batshit crazy to ask people which brand of action RPG they prefer. Hell, the isometric vs traditional 3rd person view thing might even factor into that preference, as opposed to being a "NO YOU CAN'T COMPARE THEM!" point

2 Very different games in my eyes. The core gameplay is stronger in Dark Souls, but what attracts me far more to Diablo is all the skill synergies and different builds you can experiment with. Also love the top down view of Diablo. As much as I enjoy Dark Souls, I dont really like most of the platforming in the game.

Ultimately, I prefer Diablo, there is almost nothing I dislike about Diablo.

Dark Souls is better than Diablo.

But Dark Souls isnt the best ARPG around. Mount and Blade is better, as is Dark Messiah.

Diablo was only ever really worth playing back when it still took inspiration from roguelikes such as Nethack. The further away they moved from the source material. The more uninspired the games got. In Diablo 1 the itemization worked really well, and actually added to the core experience. In Diablo 2 it still worked fairly well after the LoD expansion hit, but due to the ability to grind forever the slight tactical element D1 had with its itemization was gone. And in Diablo 3... they took only the skinner box element out of the loot Pinata D2 had and forgot what made the system addicting in the first place.

Diablo.. Even after the intial massive flop of Diablo 3 release, they actually fixed it.. Dark Souls 3 is a broken train wreck of crap where half the game mechanics are either broken or half baked.. What makes this even funnier is how the Dark Souls community acts how "deep" the pvp is in the series to begin with..

Dark Souls by far is a better game. Diablo is a click adventure game with lots of grinding.

This is literally apples vs. oranges.

It isn't even worthy comparing the two.

Looks like Darksouls won (which is easily comparable), congratulations.

@uninspiredcup: For a few seconds at least

Dude, uninspiredcup is a troll, who pretty much begs for the personal attacks, by being completely impossible to have a real discussion with, and being deliberately annoying with his "nope. i'm right because I said so, and you're wrong because I said so. nope. nope. nope" style of "debate".

This particular thread isn't the most egregious example of this, but he has a reputation for a reason.

If those are the only two option then JUST SHOOT ME right now !!!

You gotta add more samples for us to choose from.

While the two are in fact hack and slash, Diablo series is a top down view, random loot game, that hardly has anything to do mechanics wise, compared to a fully 3d, one vs many fighting style that Dark Souls has going on.

Anyways I think that Dark Souls is better than time sink gameplay.

Haven't played too much from Diablo, but from what I know of it, it's an entirely different beast than Souls. Souls is honestly part survival horror in that you need to carefully choose your stats and how you play and death is knocking on your door at any given second. Diablo seems to be a loot fest. Nothing wrong with that, just saying that the two seem to be way too different to compare under the category of ARPG, but if I had to pick one I'd say Souls since it's the one I've played between the two.

They're not that similar. Gonna go with Diablo though. Easily.

Me, as a Souls fan, i feel insulted when my series is being compared to this garbage known as Diablo. Even DS2 is better than Diablo, Diablo 2 and 3.

Even on a bad day Diablo is better than the Souls games.

I haven't played Diablo, but I think I was going to truly say Dark Souls anyway, I adore this game.

Neither are the best.

Dark Souls. I can't stand Diablo or any ARPG's like it.

Diablo IMO, if you want to compare Dark Souls to anything it's Lords of the Fallen or Witcher series or even Mass Effect series, you can't compare eagle vision action RPG in hack and slash theme to Dark Souls third person action RPG

Borderlands has more in common with Diablo than Dark Souls.

Diablo is heaps better. Dark Souls is for people who have nothing else better to do with their time apart from replay the same level 10 times in a row. I don't have enough free time on my hands to replay the same level over and over due to stupidly high difficulty settings that are designed to make virgins feel proud of their "accomplishments".

I beat Demon's Souls back in 2010 - it was a good game and I enjoyed it, but I deeply regret the large amounts of time I spend on it. I could have used that time to play other games instead.

Dark Souls. You slowly start turning into a machine playing Diablo.

These aren't even comparable.....

I like Dark Souls over Diablo, but dude Diablo is nothing like Dark Souls.

I am biased when it comes to Diablo. Spent so much time playing D2 back in the day.

Umm, seriously?

You replay the same damn levels over and over again in Diablo. It's an incredibly short game, and it's a loot fest, so replaying levels is how you get more loot.

Also, it's not Dark Souls' fault you suck at it.