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

skrunch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All the souls games. I don’t get it

  They’re memorization timesinks

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  • Datz@szmer.info ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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• who@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• Leonyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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