I fucking hate games that demand my entire attention for a long period of time with 0 breaks. Like yea I used to love competitive fps games as a kid but I don't have the ability to just commit to not doing anything at all for the next half an hour. And I've just grown more and more hateful of competitive games in general as I've gotten older. So many of them only feel good to win, not to play.
Ds1 has aged pretty badly imo. DeS has also aged badly and it's even worse because you either need to deal with the original pretty bad graphics or even worse buy a ps5. Ds2 aged pretty good but no one liked it in the first place, it's gotten better with age because the main reason why people didn't like it was because it was only a 6/10 in their series that at the time was two 8/10s or so. Ds3 is the best by far. It's still a solid 8/10 but it's one of those things that you kinda need someone to give you a brief run down of what the game expects from you, not to walk you through but to explain the mechanics because the game does quite honestly an unforgivably bad job of explaining it on it's own. Bb is ps exclusive so no one cares. Sekiro is actually really fun and probably my favourite but that's an entirely different game, it's literally a rhythm game with a really elaborate weeb skin, completely different genre. And er everyone complains about being bloated and feature crept. If you took the stereotype of a souls game and then slapped it into le ubislop open world map.
Basically play ds3 and get someone to explain the mechanics for you. If you like it play the others. Or just fucking suck some cock if you want.