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jfc this is the most boring fucking game I've ever played in my life. It's not fun getting one-shotted by something that you don't know about until after its killed you at least once. There's nothing interesting about worldbuilding that's all made up of intentionally vague YoU hAvE tO fIlL iN tHe BlAnKs YoUrSeLf nonsense. There's nothing noteworthy about weapon upgrades that require you to look up a guide to see what's worth investing materials in and what's not.

And already some of you have doubtlessly gone down to comment "lmao git gud". Motherfucker it's not about difficulty. You know what was a difficult fucking game? Sekiro. That game is hard as balls and I absolutely love it, precisely because its designed in a such a way that it fixes everything about Dark Souls that sucks.

In Dark Souls, every single time you rock up to an enemy, you know exactly how you're going to defeat it. You're going to learn the patterns of its attacks, dodge at the appropriate time, and hit it in the intervals between. This is interesting once, but doing it over and over again for fifteen bosses is boring, repetitive bullshit.

In Sekiro they fixed this. Instead of literally just dodging every single attack, you have a dozen different defensive options that you have to learn and apply to different attacks. Instead of knowing how every single enemy encounter is going to go down, you have a bunch of different ninja tools that have different effects that you can experiment with.

And yet the geniuses of the gaming sphere all bashed their head cavities together and decided that SEKIRO was the bad one. The best game in the whole fucking genre, now sidelined because these morons confused a repetitive grind for difficulty. And as a result Elden Ring, which was supposed to be the masterpiece of the whole thing, is just another bland endurance test.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

A friend gifted me Dark Souls: Prepare To Die edition on Steam

I gave up after about 5 minutes because the controls felt weird

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I gave up after about 5 minutes because the controls felt weird

I mean there's a term for that, it's called "Not even trying."

:shrug-outta-hecks:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nah, "not even trying" would've been never playing the game at all. This was "trying and not liking"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All I'm gonna say is, it is perfectly valid to reject a dish by appearance alone, but I don't really believe you can say that you've actually tried it if all you did was prod at it with a fork & sniff it.

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