As a new souls player, you can try Bloodborne. Still looks and plays great.
This one, despite spending most amount of time in any souls game, and completing it, I did not like it that much.
I think the open world killed it. But that exact thing is what made people fall in love as well.
I have many reasons not to love it as much as other From titles, will explain later some time but primary reason was too much openness and uneven difficulty.
Oddly, I spent close to 90 hours and explored Almost all major areas.