• @[email protected]
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    1310 months ago

    It’s one of the best games of the last decade. You’ll lose 150 hours to it easily. Don’t be discouraged by the difficulty, Souls games can be hard to get into at first. Once you understand it, it gets easier.

    There’s only a dozen or so mandatory bosses, the rest are optional. So if you decide you just want to wrap it up and finish you can, long before you explore everything.

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      610 months ago

      Difficulty is something that definitely discourage me and many people from playing any game. I rather have the sensation of the game getting easier being tied to the characters leveling up than to my horrible dexterity and hand eye coordination.

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        To each their own. Myself, and many people, grow tired and bored of a power fantasy any time you play a game with 0 skill involved.

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          310 months ago

          For me a game is mainly a story medium with a big focus on interactivity and world building. Playing a game you become part of that world. A character in the story.

          Narrative driven games use the challenge to simulate the characters struggle so advancing the story feels rewarding. Soul games needing you to reply the same boss for several hours to beat it doesn’t make narrative driven games less of a challenge because they don’t cater to the same public: one is casual and the other extreme and they don’t spend nearly as much the same amount of time playing games.

          Narrative driven games want to mainly tell a story and it’s ending is the main reward, soul games want you to suffer through each battle and beating them is the main reward.

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      10 months ago

      At the beginning of the game i can’t really tell what parts are supposed to be hard but fair at my current level and what parts are purposefully hard as to tell me to “come back later when you’re stronger” so to speak

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        If you’re not getting one shot very often and able to overcome challenges with ingenuity and grit, I’d say you’re doing it right.

        Once you start running into enemies/bosses that one shot you, that’s when you may want to consider going and farming and leveling up your Vigor until you can take a hit or two. Other than that just keep dumping points into skills you need for the weapon you want to use.

        Don’t worry about screwing up your talent points, you can unlock respect pretty early in the game (second great rune holding boss).

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          10 months ago

          What is the “rule” at the end of the sentence for? The best interpretation I have is: “The ‘this better be one damn good game’ rule”, i.e. this better be a damn good game, given its hype and how much it cost.

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            110 months ago

            cause rule has to be in the title so they just swapped game for rule

  • Peachy [they/them] M
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    810 months ago

    I really hope you enjoy, I love this game. Just need to finish the game normally and I’ll 100% it

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    710 months ago

    We’ll get ftth some day. Never stop believing.

    Also, nice taste in games. I’m still on the fence about Elden Ring though, since I know damn well how easily I’m frustrated. But even just exploring the world seems to be cool

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        210 months ago

        Now if only I had friends who played this game. Doesn’t matter, can’t afford to buy new games right now anyway

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      210 months ago

      I’ve got fibre broadband, it’s awesome. Gigabit down, 400 up, and that’s not even the fastest plan. 😎

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          210 months ago

          I only recently got fibre installed I was on VDSL before that. It’s a huge step up, and it’s also reliable, I don’t think we’ve ever had an outage.

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            Fiber is also lighting resistant. Every time a storm comes up, I unplug the damn router because I have to fear it being fried

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    310 months ago

    Two hours isn’t that bad, took a friend of mine nearly 2 days to download Genshin onto their new laptop

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    210 months ago

    this is one good damn console too, i could kilk for a stean deck, but it don’t sell here ;-;

  • Granixo
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    19 months ago

    The two below it are way better, if you must know.

  • lazyslacker
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    I’ve heard Starfield is supposed to be like 120GB!