Convince me that people aren't gaslighting themselves into thinking Fromsoft games are fun. (2024)

DS1 is an entirely different beast from modern Souls games and is actually fun.

>I don't like a thing
good for you, what the frick do you want a medal?
you Black folk are so insecure you need to feel validated not only on your likes but also your dislikes

>Do Not Recommend
>900 hours in-game
Every time

What I like about DS and such is the exploration, the trill to see if I'm going to make it to the next checkpoint on a single try after exploring every single dead end, the bosses are just walls to break in order to explore further.

I don't find them fun at all, and I can recognize that even though it does take lots of practice and skill to complete these games, it's more frustrating and tedious than fun. Video games are not an outlet to prove how cool you are. Nobody will give you any respect for beating a video game, it's total delusion. If you find something fun, play it. I don't touch these games and even my friends that enjoy them don't give me any sh*t for it, cause we have different tastes. Mine just happens to be good

Going from the DeS remake to Elden Ring was horrible whiplash.
Open World is the cancer killing games.

It's sunk cost fallacy. I just spent 2 hours straight farming one of the worst most annoying c**t enemies in the game for the armor set with a silver foot and 58 arcane. Whoever decided an action adventure game needed korean grinding should commit suicide.

Literally nobody likes the DLC because once both sides realized the skibiditree was the root (heh) cause of the artificial difficulty a collective groan echoed across the entire Internet.

Are his swords any good? The ash of war on the light one sounds neat

Why do I always say sh*t like this when stuck on a boss but go back to liking the game after beating it?
Is this what an abusive relationship is like?

I ain't reading that. Sote is GOTY

You did all that without enjoying it? Get a new hobby, man. Don't waste away doing what you don't enjoy.

Souls is fun to varying degrees across the games where they peaked at Sekiro and suddenly took a nosedive to rock bottom in ER with the worst level and encounter design. Although, it isnt an accident, and is intentionally designed to cater to low attention span facetank casuals, Armored Core on the other hand has almost always been a consistently addictive blast throughout the decades, save for AC6 which suffers from the very same philosophy as ER does relative to previous titles. Soulsbabbies ruined their own franchise and potentially all of From with the "hurr difficult and BRUTAL git gud" meme, meanwhile souls difficulty has always equal to average PS2 game difficulty.

Sounds like a you problem anon, next time play games you enjoy instead of doing it for validation.

I don't care to convince you of anything. Just know you're a colossal gaylord for playing any game just to prove something to other people.

It's funny but this DLC might actually be the awakening for many people to the fact that Souls games were mostly about the bragging rights and actual moment-to-moment gameplay was only really enjoyable in the earlier titles

>I just wanted to prove I was a true hardcore gamer who could handle the challenge.
Okay? Btw, you just contracted yourself because a TRUE HARDCORE GAMER would enjoy the challenge.

Dumb Black person even though this is bait. Play the way you actually enjoy. I've aggressively turtled since MonHun and it's still just as fun.

I do enjoy it, enjoyed it all.

Not try'em with friends having a good time and don't being a tryhard moron

>I just wanted to prove I was a true hardcore gamer
Then you were never going to like it you moron

>I've played through all of the souls games, solo'd orphan of kos and malenia, and I realized I never actually had fun with any of it, it was a completely miserable experience aside from a few cool bosses.
Reevaluate your life anon

DS3 was okay, ER just has the moronic unbalanced sh*t of solo melee rolling has to deal with moronic sh*t, or trivialize it with OP builds or summons

>board dedicated to discussing video games
>99% of its users are complete dogsh*t at video games, unironically worse than the gaming journalists they make fun of
How did things end up this way?

>Convince me
Nah, you're not worth the time.

You sound like one of those weak looking gays that hate the taste of beer

I like their level design. The fact that there's so much unique loot makes exploration rewarding. But ER's boss design is just straight ass. may have pushed it a bit but none of them are near the sheer nonsense of ER's endgame or DLC.
>sh*tty input reading.
>Bosses dodging away from your attacks to the other side of the arena so you can't punish them
>attacking or healing when an enemy isn't doing anything will often result in them starting a new move and hitting you before you even regain control of your character
>bosses having ridiculous combos to the point where it's even hard to find an opening where you aren't trading if you're using a greatsword
>pretty much any boss will two-shot you.

filtered soulless foul tarnished

I beat elden ring because i have stockholm syndrome, not because i enjoyed it

I liked them because they're dark and edgy
I do think they went too far since old hunters

i like raging, raging is fun, they're the only games where i rage like this, im physically tensed up and start sweating and shaking when i play these garbage bosses and i love it, i love smashing the controller, it is fun yes, i am a masoch*st, please punish me even more miyazaki san

I only like DS1
but I haven't played Demon Souls

>I've played through the entirety of these series of of games I don't even find fun
convince me you're not mentally unwell

they are fun but only in coop

i'd only ever replay DS1, every other game in the series is just kind of sh*t and only gave me the feeling of 'i'm just glad it's done and over' not many games play like fromsoft but none of their games after DS1 have hit the same

i only had fun with demons souls and dark souls. and i followed the guides and cheased whatever i could.

I vastly prefer Dragon's Dogma and MH because you're actually allowed to play aggressively.

Old games were just better. SOTE is the sloppiest of slop.

What should be my next Elden Ring character
Fist Weapons, switching to Martial Arts later
Claw Weapons Switching to Beast Claws later
Dragon Communion Build getting the Heart
Or Dex based, thrusting sword Holy Knight switch to Light Greatswords later

Was malenia nerfed? I just watched my brother one shot her blind (with mimic). She seemed way slower, and only waterfowl danced once. I don't see anything in the patch notes, but maybe?

How does one spend so much time on a leisure activity and then decide after the fact it wasn't fun to them? How braindead do you seriously have to be to not realize it wasn't for them during say blight town and instead play through every single one and then say they didn't actually have fun as soon as it became fashionable on a Vietnamese basket weaving bbs?

So we're done with Souls games after this right?

Now that the DLC is out, I honestly didn’t have that much fun with ER. The bosses are ok, but the open world was what made me dislike it. I love souls/bb/Sekiro though. I’ve done multiple playthroughs of all of these with ds1 and ds3 both being 30+ each. Elden ring, I did my first playthrough, then another two, one of which included the dlc. I think that’ll do it for me. Elden ring has the best levels in regards to the legacy dungeons but that’s it. They’ve done bosses better, they’ve made better soundtracks and they’ve made better spectacle moments. The only spectacle in the DLC for me was bayle and messmer was the best fight. Radahn was such an odd choice for the final boss. The cutscenes were sh*t, his ost was sh*t and the fact that you can parry him made the fight incredibly boring. Overall, I think it was a bit of a letdown

The part where you finally beat the boss that was giving you trouble and you did it while avoiding their moves and getting in your own, That's what everyone finds fun. I suppose if you autopilot the fights and just melt the bosses without learning them it won't feel like an achievement to beat them though.

i liked radahn. felt like a badass blocking all his bullsh*t. it was still engaging because you have to manage health from the holy attacks and your stamina gets depleted fast. the small openings between his combos arent enough time for meaningful counter attacks but theyre just enough time to regain stamina and brace for next combo. it's like he was designed for shield users. thematically sh*t boss though. very anti climatic end to the dlc.

Player dies a lot gets frustrated banging head against wall until it collapses from an aching skull. In this moment joy is found and the player brain is happy obstacle is gone for a few moments. Rinse and repeat.

>try to lightning bolt dodge around black knight garrew
>tongue attack turns 180 degrees in one frame and kills me
I
Love
This
Game

They're not fun. They're lazy as frick and massively overrated.

I genuinely enjoyed exploration in Elden Ring and in Sekiro I really enjoyed the combat and bosses.
I kinda felt what you described with ds3 when I played it though.

I might be a minority here but I enjoy these games for the journey, I don't care for bosses and see them as roadblocks on my journey through the game, if it were up to me then these game should have max 4 bosses

I enjoy everything in Elden Ring but the ridiculous bosses so I just cheese them, the game would be better without them

Nah I have fun with it. The only fight I didn't have fun with is your pic related and I've beaten about half the souls games and every boss in them at this point.

It was an ok dlc. Finished it yesterday. Back to osrs for me

It was like that with the last third of ER. The only boss that I enjoyed fighting was Platypussnacks.

no really I don't really care about what you think about a game
congrats for wasting so much of your time following trends with something you didn't enjoy I guess. personally I enjoyed playing them a lot

> I just wanted to prove I was a true hardcore gamer who could handle the challenge.
Seems like you correctly identified what is wrong with you. Thanks for sharing, anon.
I enjoy these games myself, so I can’t relate to your mental illness.

>Orphan
>But with ER delayed attacks
The only reason these bosses take so many attempts is because you need to learn the stupid delay on everything instead of just being able to dodge when they wind up.

You probably didn't experimenter and use a lot of the mechanics.

>it was a completely miserable experience aside from a few cool bosses
this is bait