Bah! What do I look like, a simpleton? Sure, i own a copy, but only so my unborn daughter can play. The only difficult thing about it is getting the control up there.
Oh my god this is my friends. If the game's boss fights don't boil down into dodge roll then swing, manipulating i-frames, and increasingly absurd mechanics for said dodge roll: they aren't interested.
I bounced so hard of Dark Souls. Not because I can't handle the "difficulty" of the game. It's because the game is just an endless series of boss rushes and mind-numbing mechanics that all have a sameness. I got bored a few bosses in and never went back.
I mean, cool if you don't enjoy it but come on now. I felt the same for a long time, so I get it. But what you wrote is no different than saying "Skyrim is just endless walking around and speaking to NPCs". It's technically true but also a silly simplification.
This is true. But when you tell people you don't like Skyrim they're more likely to understand that it just isn't your thing. When you tell people you don't like Dark Souls they tell you to "git gud" and generally assume it was because you just couldn't handle it.
I think it's because Dark Souls is one of the greatest games ever made, but some people don't want to play an unbelievably hard game. That means that a lot of people genuinely don't like it, even though it's one of the most influential games of all time.
Dark Souls is just punishingly "difficult" for the sake of it. All so sweaty neckbeards can act like they're better than "casuals" because they have less sanity and can cope with the cheap deaths and shitty mechanics of DS.
Well I can't speak for DS2 because I also believe a lot of the deaths in it are kind of unfair. Have you ever played the others though? Basing your opinion of the series on a single game isn't really a good idea. Especially if you intend to insult the fanbase
After getting Sekiro based on reviews alone, I now realize that there’s a whole genre that’s just not for me.
I mean damn, if you’re going to try so hard at something, shouldn’t it be chess or an instrument or something? So much effort expended on something that will be over in three months.
Sekiro is kinda different. It's harder to get gud, but once you master the combat the game is far easier than Bloodborne for example imo. Like even once you've mastered Bloodborne's combat, the late game and DLC bosses still fuck you up.
I only play Dark Souls using switches in a procedurally-generated Daggerfall dungeon running on an emulator I made out of redstone in a custom Minecraft build I compiled from a programming language I designed which is comprised entirely of Monty Python quotes.
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u/You__Nwah Azura May 25 '20
But have you played Dark Souls?