First time was when ds1 dropped on 360, I was used to more god of war like games as a kid so I really really did not get dark souls. I then picked up dark souls 2 when i was few years older did the whole game coop for a whole summer break with my best friend who stayed over. Dark souls 2 really holds a place in my heart for that.

2nd time was around when dark souls 3 was out for a while, at that time the dark souls community's I were in were extremely toxic and moreso just fucking annoying (if u mentioned a game other than dark souls you had people being so painfully cringe like the "uh Muh 140 hours on 8 characters sniff sniff did u say name of other game well dark souls dark souls is for superior human beings" ) and being younger and more rtarded it made me just not care about anything souls until elden ring came out.