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[multiple] I want that horse as a boss fight.
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Given Lemmy's size, the definition of soulslike may be treated relatively loosely. While games like the numerous FromSoft titles, the recent Star Wars Jedi games, Lies of P, Nioh and similar games should be the focus, games that incorporate soulslike elements - like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous, for example - may also be discussed here.
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Sekiro is like dance. Once it clicks it's deeply satisfying. Sometimes I just open it up and download the boss fights for fun (via the re-fight bosses option). There's really no filler or farting around. Amazing sword combat game.
Elden Ring is magnificent, but sort of counter intuitively I find replaying it less appealing. It's very big and once you know where some of the key things are, new games feel like that have chores to get startrd. "Ok, I gotta get the +5 stats thing from up there, then get the upgrade material thing from there...". The first time you play it blind, every nook and cave is mysterious. It's also harder at its baseline than the others. Using all the tools provided brings it to a more comparable level.
Dark souls 1 is a classic. Unparalleled atmosphere.
Dark Souls 2 is janky in parts but a good effort.
Dark Souls 3 is good, but at times feels old hat. Maybe if you've never played the others it would avoid that.
Bloodborne I only recently finished. When I tried it like 10 years ago it seemed super hard. After playing elden ring, it felt easy. Good atmosphere and gameplay, though.
One thing they all have in common is they don't really hold your hand. They don't assume you'll win. That throws people off. Like if you play fallout 4, it just assumes you're going to win every fight. It's not really challenging you.
Wow, we are polar opposites. I actually had more fun in a lot of ways on my many, many replays of Elden Ring, then I did on my first playthrough.
Out of pure interest, have you played Lies of P? If so, what are your thoughts on it? (I enjoyed your rapid-fire list of opinions above.)
I was the same way! The very large variety of weapons, combined with the ash of war system that allowed you to freely change affinities around, the talisman combos, and the crystal tears all came together to allow for a TON of different combat styles and builds. I have more time in elden ring than almost any other modern game
You didn't feel drained by "oh I have to go get the bell bearing. And I should go get the stats talisman"? Different strokes, I guess!
I did play Lies of P! It was pretty okay, but not quite as good as its inspirations. The parry system is not nearly as good as sekiro. The weapon modification system is interesting, but I found the slow weapons are too slow to be fun. There's no poise, and they don't do mega damage, so you whiff or get interrupted a lot. There's also next to no exploration, aside from the occasional short cut opening.
I'd recommend it to fans of the genre that have already played the main line games.
Nah, each new game start is different for me. I might just bum-rush Stormveil with a +0 weapon. Or when I’m playing "optimally" I might pick up the Soreseal and the medallion half, but I also might not. On an Int build I might just pick up the Gravity Staff and ignore that and then go through the Volcano Manor to Altus. I don’t need to pick up the Bell Bearing +3/+4 when using somber weapons and even if I pick this up, I can get the remaining stones from a variety of places. And this all ignores more things, which I would do for a specific weapon/build. Maybe rush Radahn and DLC or Radahn and underground. For none of these do I need upgrades, okay maybe for Mogh.
Sorry I’m rambling, but even the early game has so many split paths that I’m even now getting excited for my next playthrough ;)
Oh, didn’t make that quite clear: I have already played LoP. Thanks for your answer!
I for one really enjoyed the gameplay feel and the visual design of the game. The linearity of Lies of P put me of a bit (there’s only one real fork: the DLC), but for me on my playthrough it was almost always the right boss difficulty: challenging but I never got stuck. Deflecting was lots of fun and was always a nice rhythm, which brings me to my next point:
I bounce of hard of Sekiro, but that was a while a ago, long before I played LoP. I really should give Sekiro another serious try. Now that I like deflecting, which I feel is a bit different than Dark Souls like parry, quite a bit more.