Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?

skrunch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Leonyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love the fuck out of dark fantasy. The problem is that while souls-games and Elden Ring, are drenched with dark fantasy elements, the game execution itself just didn't appeal to me at all. I just don't like the idea of tediousness mixed with a scale of difficulty where all and any progress of mine are just dashed because a slight misstep.

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• who@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My first attempt was Dark Souls 3. I went in expecting challenging but rewarding battles, and a mysterious world to explore. Unfortunately, I found myself bored within an hour every time I played, and gave up on it after maybe a dozen sessions.

  I tried Elden Ring maybe a year or two later. I stuck with it for longer, but the experience was roughly the same. The combat felt tedious. The art and animation didn’t appeal to my tastes. The world seemed big, but desolate. The controls somehow made me feel awkwardly disconnected from my character. Nothing about the game made me care about it at all. The biggest challenge was in keeping my eyelids open.

  I wonder if I would find soulslikes more appealing if I had grown up on console games. They’re clearly popular, but it seems they just aren’t for me.

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  • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I actually bought DS3 twice, For the PS4 the first time, and couldn’t do anything. I’m not a console person by nature. Then I found out it was on PC, my jam, got it and OMG is that port shitty

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All the souls games. I don’t get it

  They’re memorization timesinks

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  • Datz@szmer.info ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It depends on person and skill, a lot of people manage to beat a majority of bosses 1st try.

    Also, personally, I just like using magic which makes some parts easier.

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    • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly I think a lot of people miss that these games are full of soft difficulty options. Magic, in particular pyromancy, summons, there are lots of ways to make the game easier, and that’s a good thing!

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      • Datz@szmer.info ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I recently replayed Dark Souls 1 and tried a Strength build to see how it goes.

        Full Havel’s straight up lets you face tank Artorias, and you’re taking almost a 1/15th of his health with just a hit.

        Armor was nerfed after that, but still, it was rather hilarious. Magic was nerfed too by the virtue of bosses getting more gap closers and ranged attacks - by Elden Ring, magic is far from the boring “stay back and just spam attack” idea, but on the contrary, the cheesiest tactics I used when needed were Greatshields or dual jump attacks for stunning bosses. It’s crazy to me how most people just grab a greatsword and only use that the whole game, then say the game’s shallow or too hard.

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve enjoyed a lot of Soulslikes, but none of the ones made by FromSoft. Their style of providing poor explanations of mechanisms just makes no sense to me, even if you want to give players those moments of self-driven discovery.

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  • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now I’m wondering, which non-From Soulslikes did you enjoy?

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Another Crab’s Treasure, Stellar Blade, Jedi: FO and Survivor, Hollow Knight, Tunic, and lately Steelrising.

      Some of those games are a bit easier but also have harder moments. To me, it’s about having a better-structured difficult curve.

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There was a time when I could not have imagined liking those kinds of games. My partner got me Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition and I hated it. Hate may be too kind a word for how I felt. I’ve always loved metroidvanias and the style seemed right up my gothy, witchy alley, but I couldn’t get past the first basic zombie.

  Then we watched a bunch of videos and realized that the game was designed to be played slowly and deliberately. There were no “junk” enemies and paying careful attention at all times was the game. When it clicked, it clicked, and now From Software games are my favorite.

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  • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had a similar experience. Went the wrong way in DS1, headed straight for the catacombs, went “oh. This isn’t hard. This is punishing.” And dropped off. Later a friend gave me some guidance and some pointers on what the game did/didn’t expect of me and I’ve been a giant fan ever since.

    Sekiro took me a little time to figure out what it expected from me, too, but now I absolutely adore that game. That’s more of a mechanical “what should I be doing in combat” statement of the fact that the game expects you to act aggressively while focusing on defense. Though

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Souls games didn’t make sense to me until I saw Giant Bomb play through Demon’s Souls. Mechanics that I didn’t know were there were explained in plain English, and then I could better understand where I went wrong when I died.

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