Disregarding lack of time, that is. Is there any particular mechanic you were not fond of? Was a game too difficult for you? Was it the overall enjoyment of the game?
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Lords of the Fallen (remake) just felt a little too floaty to me. I might have ended up liking the game if I gave it more of a shot, but the very first boss was enough for me already. Maybe I’ll get back to it at some point, but I doubt it
Right now, DS1. With the fucking Four Kings of all things. My save corrupted at Blighttown twice, and I kept going. I ran through Ornstein and Smough first try. My patience and my build are pretty good, I’d say. But I just cannot beat these fucking guys. To the point where I’ve just had to focus on other games for a little bit.
That fucking runback is so atrocious it deals psychic damage irl.
Was thinking about it backwards and at first I was like “eh, not that bad after the ghost room elevator.” Then I remembered you had to run all the fuck way from the very first bonfire in the game! Get lucky one of the ghost drops a couple transient curses too otherwise you only got like 4 tries unless you wanted to try the four kings with half HP.
Did you find the short route? You don’t have to fight anything.
Down the stairs, over the bridge, run past the ghosts. Jump off the ledge. Run forward a bit and drop down, and you’re outside the boss room. There might be a ladder you have to kick down first. It’s been a while.
I hope this works because you just stopped me from going hollow if so
It does, yes. It’s not a super obvious one to find, on your own, and it still takes almost a minute. But it’s much better. Here: video guide.
Oh, that’s a longer route than I did. The one I did, you don’t have to fight anything. Let me see if I have a DS1 save with that area cleared…
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I don’t know where’s a good place to upload anonymous video for free, but here’s the route I usually take: https://www.viddler.com/UFko4q . Looks like they added some AI slop to the caption, heh.
It’s a little sloppy because I haven’t played in a few years, but thanks to steam’s cloud saves I had this character ready to go.
You take a little falling damage, but I think there’s a ring for that. You don’t have to fight anything so long as you run past the ghosts.
Yes, but the fact that you have to go down from the firelink shrine, take the elevator… Aah makes it feel so long.
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Yeah, it’s way more sluggish than some of the newer games’ respawn.
Praise Marika and her stakes.
That’s really what’s been getting me. And now the Undead Merchant has stopped carrying Transient Curse so idk what I’m going to do lol
There’s an npc in new londo ruins that sells unlimited transient curses. You have to reach the top of the buiding that’s across the second bridge, before you unlock the elevator to lower new londo ruins.
(If I also recall correctly the ghosts also drop a dagger or sword that can damage them without the need of a curse)
My instructions are shit sorry :P I’ll try to get you a screenshot something.
How are you routing to the boss right from firelink? If you opened the large gate to the valley of the drakes in New Londo, I recommend entering that way. You just run past Blighttown’s exit. It really minimizes how much you have to interact with the ghosts.
The lazy way to beat them is to pile on the armor until you can barely roll, stack any stat buffs you can, buff your weapons, tank most of the damage, and heal when you need to.
Havel’s armor has heavy poise and you can take some good hits without staggering.
If you have pyromancy, Power Within is a good attack and stamina buff.
The four kings are, unintuitively, a DPS check. Make sure your weapon is upgraded as much as possible, and play aggressively and you’ll have more success. The real problems come when you can’t kill them fast enough before a new one spawns in. Either way, good luck! It’s a tough fight but if you beat O&S you can take these guys too.
I stopped playing DS3 because Silksong came out… I resumed last weekend – after recently beating Silksong – and while it took me a bit to remember what the hell I was doing and how to control my character, I managed to defeat a demon and stumble my way through most of Smouldering Lake (to the point that I found the boss, at least) so I guess I haven’t forgotten everything in the interim.
Yes, all those I tried. I mean isn’t it the whole concept of this type of games?
Waaaa it’s too hard
– me
Same. I have a bunch of them, have tried most of what I have, and really want to play through them cuz they sound really rewarding. Instead I find them rage-inducingly, frustratingly difficult and I’m just not that into being frustrated and mad for hours at a time. If I was, there’s some humans I could talk to for similar effect…
You’re basicslly the Crestfallen Warrior at this point, muh dude.
Sekiro: I guess it’s unfair to say that I started, it wouldn’t run on my video card beyond the intro.
DS3: I beat it but I had just run through DS1 and 2 and was too burnt out by the time I got to the DLC.
Elden Ring: multiple save file corruptions. Probably would have pushed through anyway but my video card took the whole rig down and now it feels too daunting to start over from scratch.
Bloodborne: Rom, the Vacuous Spider. Enough said.Oh, there’s another:
Ashen: stopped being able to schedule game times with my co-op partner.
Sekiro. Between the insane difficulty and me not knowing where to go or what to do next I just kinda stopped bothering
I so recommend you give it another shake. Everyone said it, but until like 2 years ago I didn’t understand what everyone was saying. It truly is a rhythm game. Even the big gate keeper genechiro (? Dunno how to spell it) really only boils down to like 5-6 easily recognizable patterns. It took me 3 days of hours after work grinding, with YouTube’s help. But I’m kinda into the banging of head against brick wall until it cracks.
But once it clicked, it really clicked.
After you beat him, you get a memory you can use to re fight him. I didn’t even use one gourd. After that the game became so much easier!
The “parry” window is so much more forgiving than you’re used to, you just got tap it kinda quick. Shit, you could probably spam it fast enough for most fights. But it’s such a beautiful game!
Like I know all souls games are pretty in a dark way, but sekiro hits different with the actual foliage, wilting cherry blossom trees, non human skeleton like mountain sides. I beg everyone to try your best to get through at least to that boss, cause he really is a teacher more than a roadblock. You’ve surmounted seemingly impossible challenges before and came out victorious. You can do it again, it’s so rewarding!
Genichiro Ashina I think the bastard’s name is.
I think I’m going at him too soon, like I think the game expects me to go do other stuff first, but I can’t resist the temptation to try anyways.
I’ve gotten to his lightning phase a few times but I can never stay alive more than a few seconds at that point.
I may go back to it yet. I do generally enjoy the challenge. But between him and the butterfly person boss, honestly more frustration with unfair bullshit than genuine enjoyment.
Do you want me to tell a little advantage move that helps a little with that right?
Yes please!
Tho honestly it’s been so long since I last played I’ve forgotten some of the mechanics anyways, but I’ll still take it!
Get mikiri counter and the moment lightning phase starts, take a drink. He will try to charge stab and is just far away for you to finish one drink and stomp on his blade. And if you didn’t already know, jump for any lightning attack and you can send it back. Other than that he’s almost the exact same as he was before lighting infusion.
I barely started Nioh and I was struggling, I got preoccupied with other things, next thing I know, its been years
I loved Nioh. When Nioh 2 went on sale, I picked it up cheap, and played about an hour.
Ni-oh I totally gave up on. The discrete levels just don’t hit the same as a connected world, and I hate being forced to manage randomly generated loot.
DS1: Really enjoyed it until the pitch-black area. People convinced me to go back to it, and I eventually made it to the bottom of the pit… but I hadn’t rung the second bell, so the path was closed. (There’s no fast travel in DS1, so I would have to climb all the way back out).
Sekiro: Grapling hook is fun, stealth is fun, thought the combat was dumb and too clunky. Gave up at the first fire troll or whatever it was. Absoluetly loved Nine Sols though.
In general I have no tolerance for “just git gud” as an excuse for bad game design. If it’s not fun, then I don’t play it.
Flaming giant guy being so early in Sekiro is actually a totally fair reason to drop it. I STILL cheese him years later because his grab hitboxes are so shit, he is one of the only enemies in the game I feel are indefensible garbage.
I think I tried Dark Souls 2 for half an hour before I realised I’m too dopamine-deprived and not patient enough by far for this type of game. I admire anyone who makes it through even one souls-like.
It’s an unpopular opinion in the community, but I like ds2. I dunno what order I put in it with the all the others from fromsoft, they all got their own charm to me. DS2 's main one is it’s the only one that’s optimized to any degree! That souls is as about as resource intensive as portal 2! The igpus I’ve seen it getting 60 fps on are fucking crazy!
I think DS2 has been getting more appreciation in recent years, it got slandered hard by a content hate train back in the 2010s with people like Mauler and in the early 2020s by FeebleKing. I think most people now acknowledge that its a good game, just not most people’s favorite.
It is my personal favorite tho. Way more chill than 3 or Elden Ring imo.
I might just start a new playthrough once my finger heals. Either that or sekiro.
I have played only demon souls which I did stop after the second world because I could not understand how to approach a soulslike. But I completed it later after reading a few guides. Also I don’t have experience of playing a 2nd soulslike so I cant say why would one stop playing but my best guess would be that when one understands the flow of the game he may choose to not continue with it.
Demon’s Souls is one of the more tedious games of the genre. Healing items being consumable means that if you struggle with the game, you’ll oftem have to go grinding for items.
The World Tendency stuff was so opaque that I had to go look up how it worked and how it affected the game, and once I understood it, I didn’t want to have to deal with it. Fortunately it doesn’t matter much for most players and can safely be ignored unless you already know what you’re trying to do.
I had to take a break the first time I got to O&S in ds1. I hadn’t yet accepted that being defeated is okay, so I just got really frustrated.
Twice, actually. First time was the Ringed City DLC for DS3. I was already kind of burnt out after the first DLC, Sister Friede was really challenging for me and I hated how long phase 1 and 2 was, only to get one shot instantly at the start of phase three. Took me a really long time to beat her. Then in the Ringed City for some reason I struggled with the Demon Prince even more. And it had all the same things I hated: a gank fight (I struggle with tracking multiple objects so any gank fight feels almost impossible) and a super long phase 1 that just feels boring and like it deliberately wastes your time. And I don’t know. Eventually I just realised I wasn’t having any fun. Didn’t keep going past Demon Prince, and then Elden Ring came out and I just never went back to the DS3 DLC after, and after ER I kinda moved on to other things.
And then recently it was GRIME. I was already kind of feeling Soulslike fatigue I think, and I think the game was just a bit more difficult than I was expecting. Got to the first major boss and it was a 2v1 gank fight. Eventually got through it - only to find out it had a second healthbar and then get instantly one-shot. And I just kinda realised maybe I just need a break from feeling like I suck at everything for a while. Or maybe I’ve finally gotten too old for Soulslikes and really difficult games. I didn’t really feel that fire or that need to overcome the challenge that I used to feel that would lead me to spend days working on a boss until I beat it. I just felt tired.
GRIME looks interesting. I’m book marking it.
It’s a really good game, don’t let my experience with it scare you off. The world building is awesome, the graphics are beautiful and the art style is gorgeous and very unique. It also has a very interesting character customisation system where you absorb aspects of enemies.
I still half-plan (or at least hope) to return some day, I think I just need a long break.
The Friede fight was also my first biggest souls like fatigue moment. Such a long boss fight and I didn’t really enjoy…any of it. I know she is probably a good boss by from soft standards but damn if I don’t find her 3-phases exhausting. She made me take a month break til I came back and beat her.
I feel like Gael, the final boss of The Ringed City, is absolutely NOT exhausting because he isn’t visually phased into 3 healthbars. He just has 1 fucking huge one and awesome in combat phase changes and settings. They are a good comparison cause I still hate Friede to this day, but like Gael.
Orphan Of Kos, because I knew it was going to take a few attempts and then Silksong came out.
Lady Maria about six years ago because I was just chewing through my vials and needed a more chill game for a while. I started from scratch when I came back this year and beat her fairly easily.
Dark Souls when I got my ass handed to me repeatedly in Blightown. Came back a couple of months later and started over.
I have not… Yet. But I have an addictive/ hyper focus type of personality and the gameplay loop of soulslikes has me all fucked up. Even when I’m being shit I keep coming back for more, I can’t help it.
My tolerance for the more character and story driven rpgs has decreased significantly because of this. So I’m currently on a quest to play other types of games again and ENJOY them. Sometimes it feels like a chore tbh.
I haven’t played through all the FS catalog so maybe my nemesis is out there still, (sekiro still scares me a bit) but we’ll see.
Bloodborne :(
motion sickness… really need a proper 60fps remaster some day
Now that’s a QoL change then. Never heard of people getting motion sick from a lack of FPS. Fortunately, I’ve not experienced that ever even though I’m prone to getting motion sick quite easily… Brains are weird
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