Thoughts on Souls Likes?

[Chaosolous]

With the upcoming release of the Elden Ring DLC around the corner, I'm curious; what're your thoughts on the Souls Like genre?

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

It's alright I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Tom Macdonald]

all of them but fromsoft's lack soul.

[Jonathan Sensei]

It's not for me.

By the time I got to the Maliketh boss fight, I lost interest in Elden Ring. Played about the same amount of content with Nioh & Nioh 2. Tried to get into Dark Souls but wasn't feeling it.

They're well made video-games worth the praise, but it's a genre I most likely will never get good at. Not good enough to finish one playthrough's worth anyways.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Not good for my blood pressure.

[Mark S.]

It's great if you don't have a job or a life and want to play the same level 44,000 times

[Othobrithol]

One step removed from making crushed ice with my forehead.

[PurpleCreativeValiant]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Chaosolous:

Thoughts on Souls Likes?

There are a lot of people crying that Dark Souls series is very hard. I believed that until I played it myself

[Chaosolous]

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Thoughts on Souls Likes?

There are a lot of people crying that Dark Souls series is very hard. I believed that until I played it myself

I've always been of the opinion that they're not as much hard as they are methodical. The biggest thing is rarely do I find myself dying from something "unfair" in a FromSoft game. A lot of the time I'm like "Yeah, that's on me."

At least FromSofts' are. The lesser developers without as much pedigree may be a different story depending.

[LexAnimex]

I have the feeling depressed people can appreciate it the most.

Honesty masterpieces

[76561199675916033]

I like them, in principle. But most of them don't know how to do it right.

Lies of P, for example. It's pretty close but it blatantly copies so much from From, making it feel uninspired. And they do the "ambush" thing waaaay too much. It's fun when enemies suddenly jump out of the trees, but it starts getting simply annoying when that happens ALL OF THE DAMN TIME. There's more but I don't feel like writing it all down, what it comes down to is, I got bored and quit.

From games also have the "Zaki touch" which those other games just don't. I guess trying to copy a formula isn't a great design choice generally. However, there are some who do get it right. Hollow Knight for example.

[vkobe]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Chaosolous:

With the upcoming release of the Elden Ring DLC around the corner, I'm curious; what're your thoughts on the Souls Like genre?

only dark soul and code vein, after i dont care so much

[D. Flame]

I love the genre, but Elden Ring ain't it. Elden Ring is just pandering to the lowest common denominator.

[Devsman]

Too hard. Never played Souls itself, but I couldn't get past literally level 2 of Nioh and while I did suffer all the way through Death's Gambit, I hated just about every second of it.

[Jonathan Sensei]

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I love the genre, but Elden Ring ain't it. Elden Ring is just pandering to the lowest common denominator.

That'd be me and they're not pandering. I had to fight Radahn THEN(!) I got the fancy blades. I wanted the fancy blades at the start of my game. Give me my drip devs - don't make me work for it.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

I quite like them. They are hard but fair, but not as hard as most people think. The bosses just take time to learn, but most people could learn them and beat them if they wanted to enough.