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[-] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years 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.

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years 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.

[-] Hathaway@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years 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.

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years 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.

[-] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You really couldn't be more wrong. Especially since ER has the clearest narrative of all the Souls games.

[-] nebula42@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[-] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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).

[-] Tatters@feddit.uk 13 points 2 years ago

“this better one damn good game rule” - what are you trying to say?

[-] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

this better be one damn good game

[-] eluvatar@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Is r/titlegore a thing here?

[-] nebula42@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I spent a lot of money on it so I hope it's good

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 2 years ago

Elden Ring is awesome. You're gonna love it. And hate it. Especially the godskin duo.

[-] PeachyMcPeachface 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years 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

[-] PeachyMcPeachface 4 points 2 years ago

Playing with friends using the co op mod is much more enjoyable

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] HunkyBrewster@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

After breaking two controllers beating this I’d be afraid to play on a steam deck

[-] Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.tf 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] nebula42@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It's not about the time to download, but the price of the game.

[-] Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.tf 4 points 2 years ago

Should've been a bit more specific ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ you showed downloads and not price

[-] nebula42@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yea that's my bad

[-] BigWumbo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It’s actually literally the best game

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] lazyslacker@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I've heard Starfield is supposed to be like 120GB!

[-] spader312@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Baldurs gate 3 is 134gb

[-] Granixo@feddit.cl 1 points 2 years ago

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

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