this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2022
0 points (NaN% liked)

games

20966 readers
197 users here now

Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.

Rules

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

souls games are horrible and everyone who likes them either has a terrible taste or is desperately attempting to overcompensate their irl failures by succeeding in "hard" videogame challenges

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

Some people just like complicated rule sets that allow for complex character builds.

Plus the atmosphere design is top notch. Video game writing is usually shit, so instead of that the souls games just go with an immersive vibe instead of getting bogged down into specifics.

Think of it as a video game version of a tabletop campaign. Youre given a weird fantasy world, a bunch of rules to experiment and make a character to with, and some really good monsters to use your build against.

Idk it's just fun to me and nothing really scratches that itch except ARPGs, but those are usually more RNG focused with randomized loot while souls game let's you hyperfocus on an exact build.

desperately attempting to overcompensate their irl failures by succeeding in “hard” videogame challenges

Also lol. Same bullshit people say about TTRPG fans. "Oh you failed at real life so you need escapism." What a chuddy thing to say.

The world's a fuck. Let me get immersed in something instead of thinking about plague and Nazis constantly.

load more comments (1 replies)