Ironically this is why I have thousands of hours in just a few games. Sometimes I’ll get a bunch of time to play a game. Am I gonna spend that 12 hours fighting fucking Gorefist over and over and over and over and over again, before opening my game up to the internet, and having some random come beat him like I’m 9 years old handing the controller to my big brother? Hell no, I’m gonna continue my mission of landing a Kerbal on every rock in the kerbolar system. It may be just as repetitive, but the difference is a) I’m good at it, and b) I’m constantly working towards a goal in the game rather than bashing my head against a wall until my brains fall out.
Bloodborne was also frustrating. I played through most of it with my cousin who’s extremely good at FS games, so he was able to basically walk me through the entire thing, right up to the Orphan of Kos. He wanted me to beat it. After all the time I had spent playing, all the enemies I learned how to parry with the gun, all the reflexes I trained, I couldn’t take more than 10% of its health. Never beat it. Cousin got a new job. Never played Bloodborne again.
Ironically this is why I have thousands of hours in just a few games. Sometimes I’ll get a bunch of time to play a game. Am I gonna spend that 12 hours fighting fucking Gorefist over and over and over and over and over again, before opening my game up to the internet, and having some random come beat him like I’m 9 years old handing the controller to my big brother? Hell no, I’m gonna continue my mission of landing a Kerbal on every rock in the kerbolar system. It may be just as repetitive, but the difference is a) I’m good at it, and b) I’m constantly working towards a goal in the game rather than bashing my head against a wall until my brains fall out.
Bloodborne was also frustrating. I played through most of it with my cousin who’s extremely good at FS games, so he was able to basically walk me through the entire thing, right up to the Orphan of Kos. He wanted me to beat it. After all the time I had spent playing, all the enemies I learned how to parry with the gun, all the reflexes I trained, I couldn’t take more than 10% of its health. Never beat it. Cousin got a new job. Never played Bloodborne again.