@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Thanks! As for my favorite part, it’s hard to say. I have some favorite aspects of the game, like the bonfire fast travel system, the element infusion for weapons, and the despawning of enemies after killing them a certain number of times.
A lot of my favorite moments were in the DLC, even though the bosses there were quite tough. I enjoyed a lot of other levels too like Lost Bastille, Shrine of Amana, Doors of Pharos. Also, I thought Aldia was a brilliant character and there’s some really good lore in the game. Majula is really a great home hub also -The best in the series so far for me. I liked it better than Firelink, the Nexus, and Hunter’s Dream.
As for what’s next, I think it will be Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core or Resident Evil 4 Remake, or a combination of the two. That’s what I’m leaning towards.
@colonelkilgore@JohnnyShoulder There’s a lot of recency bias for me, I’m sure. 😄
Whichever game is in my most recent memory is my favorite at the time.
So actually, I don’t know. I need to let it digest and settle in my mind for a little while before I make a final judgment on it’s placement in the gaming annals.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@HallowMoonshadow Yeah, I somehow messed up Lucariel’s questline. I think I must have missed one of the required summonings for a boss fight, so I didn’t get to see her last conversation. But she did seem like a cool NPC. And yes.. Galvan wheel, Galvan deal. 👍🏼
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@Hapless I remember that boss fight, (the pic in your last post) that, Sen's Fortress and Anor Londo were the banes of my existence for that game. The level design for the first half of the game remains unparalleled, though.
@Hapless Oh god the flashbacks that image brought on to that terrible fight.
In my own souls journey, this last weekend i finally got the DS3 platinum after much raging at the NG++ incarnation of The Nameless King! Typically it was a fairly sloppy attempt that ended up being the winning one! This from a person who never believed the souls games would be my thing, and now i've got the platinum on Demons Souls and Dark Souls 1-3. Slightly out of order but it'll be Bloodborne up next later in the year!
I bought Dark Souls after hearing vague rumours of how good it was. I spent weeks playing the first area around Firelink Shrine and dropped it. Picked the game up again 18 months later and had another go and realised how much more game there was!
It took serious retraining of my gaming habits to adjust to its combat system. You cannot mash attack and dodge like the other fantasy RPG/combat games (I'd come from games like Genji and Tenchu) so I think those habits were really hard to break.
My experience was similar. I’ve told this anecdote before, but back in the PS3 days, I had just finished Skyrim and absolutely loved it. I spent countless hours with the game and after finally beating it I tried a few other games, but I really hungered for another RPG game like Skyrim with a large open fantasy world of magic and dragons. So while I was browsing at GameStop one day looking for something of interest I mentioned that to one of the workers, that is that I was hoping to find something to scratch the fantasy RPG itch that Skyrim left behind. The worker pointed me toward Dark Souls and told me how great it was and so I bought it at his recommendation and took it home expecting another Skyrim. Of course it’s nothing like Skyrim and so after a couple play sessions of a few hours of not really understanding the game I eventually just shelved it. I went on to play Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and then a little later Dragon’s Dogma, and both of those were much better gratifiers for my fantasy RPG appetite.
In retrospect, it wasn’t just that Dark Souls was too difficult, although it is a hard game, rather I fell off of it because I didn’t really understand what the game was all about and what it required of me. So just like you said, my expectations were not appropriately calibrated and I was approaching the game all wrong.
Much more than 18 months would go by for me, more like 5 and a half years, before I would eventually be convinced to try Bloodborne when a bunch of users here on the Push Square forums decided to play it simultaneously back in 2018. I joined in, and with the help, advice, and support of some great folks here I learned how to approach the FromSoft games. I ended up absolutely loving Bloodborne. But it wouldn’t be for another 5 years until after also playing Demon’s Souls Remake that I would finally make my way back to Dark Souls Remastered which I beat about 10 years after that initial attempt on PS3.
A little over a year ago I completed Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin as you can see on some of these recent posts in this thread. Next up, Dark Souls 3, which I hope to get to in coming months.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution ok then... it was in response to someone else mentioning Dark Souls in the horror game thread so sure but I don't understand how that will flow with the conversation. You do you I guess.
I didn't like Bloodborne. Didn't get very far into it because it was so different from Dark Souls and I just couldn't get into it.
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@DemonStar89 Oh, sorry mate, I think I must not have been clear— I should have said “I’m replying to you here rather than over on the horror thread” and I can see how you thought I was being a d-bag by moving your post. Apologies as that’s not what I meant. I had written my reply over there but instead “moved it” (mentally) here since it’s my long-winded response expanding on the souls aspect of the discussion rather than the horror aspect of the discussion. I didn’t mean to imply your post was ill-placed. It was more about me trying not to derail the horror thread with my long diatribe about my first experience with Dark Souls. I included a quote of your post just for reference so you’d know what I was talking about, rather than randomly tag you with my story about buying Dark Souls based on a GameStop employee’s recommendation. Sorry for the confusion. 😄
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution sorry I was half asleep and probably came off more irritated than I wanted. I saw the post was duplicated as well so no worries. I see how it could have turned into a derailment of the thread though so that's fair.
'It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life." - Captain Picard
@DemonStar89 It’s all good 👍🏼
Some of us old timers are still stuck in the days of the old forum moderator (was’sup @Tasuki 😄) who trained us to keep the threads very organized. Derailments still happen though and we mix in a little chaos from time to time.
Anyway… Dark Souls is awesome. 😜
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