once I’ve mastered how to dodge everything on the way and if it’s not too far of a distance.

It certainly was fun to perfect the sprint to the boss in a few Souls games.

I guess it just grew old with every Souls like doing it. Some games do it quite well but most are just annoying.

Demon’s Souls was probably the worst culprit for brutal runbacks of all the souls games I’ve played.

Even Dark Souls 1 is pretty bad by today's standards. Luckily it has gotten better with each release, with Elden Ring essentially spawning you right back in the fight.

Definitely a pure souls like, a pretty polished one as well. Trailer makes it look pretty epic but it's generally fairly slow and methodical, stamina management is key.

In addition to the normal souls gameplay, it also has 3 stances you can switch between depending on if you want to play offensive/defensive or if you want to dodge or parry.

It also has "Ki", which you can use to regenerate a part of your stamina after each hit. Essentially after an attack you can either attack again or time a Ki pulse. If your timing is right, you get back some stamina. Pretty neat system actually.

There's also quite some inventory and skill management. It's overdoing it a little bit in that department but I have seen worse.

The running back to the boss is my biggest gripe with souls games, just let me try the boss on repeat. I get 0 enjoyment out of running the same route over and over again, so I'm happy when games skip it entirely.

Finished the Lies of P DLC, it was great. Started Nioh 1 now since it was on sale for a few bucks.

I sort of ignored Nioh up until now but Iron Pineapple keeps raving about it so I thought I should check it out. So far I really like it, aged surprisingly well.

Once again, the music goes hard in this show.

Didn't quite warm up to the new voice actors yet, especially Panty.

Intel has already deployed a fix for this in the 13th and 14th gen by permanently damaging the chip and crashing. Checkmate hackers.

Reminder that Blender is struggling with funding right now. https://topicroomsvfx.com/news/the-price-of-free-blenders-funding-crisis/

Make sure to leave it a few bucks if you use it. https://fund.blender.org/

I hope they will switch their registrar. That's just unprofessional.

Shoutout to Frictional Games (known for Penumbra, Amnesia, Soma) who publish many of their older (commercially successfully) games on their GitHub: https://github.com/FrictionalGames

I'm going to put Capcom on the same list EA and Ubisoft already are on. If the pirate has the better experience than the customer I see no reason to buy their games.

Plex has been hostile towards self-hosting since the very beginning. They have been asked to add local authentication for more than 10 years.