i will be your obsession
Here's my unpopular Dark Souls opinion: the game isn't hard, it's gimmicky.
It plays pretty much like any other game, and it's the gimmicky nonsense that makes it "hard". Also that whole "oooh if you die versus even a normal enemy it's because you made a mistake!" makes me mad.
And it's not like I haven't played difficult games before. I like Megaten games, ffs! And they are difficult, or hard, but they feel WAY fairer than Dark Souls does. (Don't come at me with your "hard but fair" nonsense in defence. Because nope. I'm not having it).
(I honestly think the vocal part of the fandom being really shitty about the game to other people is what annoys me the most. Related: oh jeez am I glad I'm playing in offline mode).
Anyway, I beat the Taurus Demon and now I'm at the Bell Gargoyles and I must be doing okay, because I can get the first one down to half health a lot of the time. Then I die, because I forgot that what you need to do is circle strafe it in order to get hits in and kill it. (According to people online, the Bell Gargoyles are your test to see whether you're "good enough". Welp, me and my Scimitar +4 must be doing something right then :d )
I also got the Drake Sword, which is "cheating", if you believe some people online, but then again, I think breathing is cheating according to some sections of the fandom*. (I jest, but also: this has to be one of the most toxic fandoms I've ever poked my head into).
Relatedly, I started watching Aoife and Zoe on Eurogamer playing Dark Souls II, but it's possible that that might not continue as Eurogamer go off video views - anything that gets less than 10K views isn't considered productive, so is put aside. A good example of this is Ian's Demon's Souls playthrough, which I also started watching** - I'd been stacking up the videos so I could binge them and...there's only three on the channel because the third one (from two weeks ago) only has 8K views (at the time of writing). Luckily, Ian's decided to stream it on his personal channel, which he was doing last night, so at least I might get to see all of that?
(A second hand copy of Demon's Souls verges from "okay?" (£15) to "patently ridiculous" (nearly £1K) in price, and I don't have a PS5 or the money to play the remaster, so a Let's Play will have to suffice!)
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*Ugh, gods, I've just remembered the comments on Luke's Bloodborne streams where he'd said he'd done some farming and levelling offline, and they accused him of cheating! Like, how is doing an incredibly dull and boring to watch task cheating?? I...I don't understand! (I also don't think the person who said it was even joking, which...yuck).
**I said to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lassarina in a comment on her most recent What Are You Playing Wednesday post that Dark Souls, at least, is my new obsession, and I was kind of joking, but also I think I am kind of not now! And it's all that Luke Westaway's fault! If he hadn't streamed Bloodborne, I wouldn't even be here!
It plays pretty much like any other game, and it's the gimmicky nonsense that makes it "hard". Also that whole "oooh if you die versus even a normal enemy it's because you made a mistake!" makes me mad.
And it's not like I haven't played difficult games before. I like Megaten games, ffs! And they are difficult, or hard, but they feel WAY fairer than Dark Souls does. (Don't come at me with your "hard but fair" nonsense in defence. Because nope. I'm not having it).
(I honestly think the vocal part of the fandom being really shitty about the game to other people is what annoys me the most. Related: oh jeez am I glad I'm playing in offline mode).
Anyway, I beat the Taurus Demon and now I'm at the Bell Gargoyles and I must be doing okay, because I can get the first one down to half health a lot of the time. Then I die, because I forgot that what you need to do is circle strafe it in order to get hits in and kill it. (According to people online, the Bell Gargoyles are your test to see whether you're "good enough". Welp, me and my Scimitar +4 must be doing something right then :d )
I also got the Drake Sword, which is "cheating", if you believe some people online, but then again, I think breathing is cheating according to some sections of the fandom*. (I jest, but also: this has to be one of the most toxic fandoms I've ever poked my head into).
Relatedly, I started watching Aoife and Zoe on Eurogamer playing Dark Souls II, but it's possible that that might not continue as Eurogamer go off video views - anything that gets less than 10K views isn't considered productive, so is put aside. A good example of this is Ian's Demon's Souls playthrough, which I also started watching** - I'd been stacking up the videos so I could binge them and...there's only three on the channel because the third one (from two weeks ago) only has 8K views (at the time of writing). Luckily, Ian's decided to stream it on his personal channel, which he was doing last night, so at least I might get to see all of that?
(A second hand copy of Demon's Souls verges from "okay?" (£15) to "patently ridiculous" (nearly £1K) in price, and I don't have a PS5 or the money to play the remaster, so a Let's Play will have to suffice!)
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*Ugh, gods, I've just remembered the comments on Luke's Bloodborne streams where he'd said he'd done some farming and levelling offline, and they accused him of cheating! Like, how is doing an incredibly dull and boring to watch task cheating?? I...I don't understand! (I also don't think the person who said it was even joking, which...yuck).
**I said to
lassarina in a comment on her most recent What Are You Playing Wednesday post that Dark Souls, at least, is my new obsession, and I was kind of joking, but also I think I am kind of not now! And it's all that Luke Westaway's fault! If he hadn't streamed Bloodborne, I wouldn't even be here!