I don't like a lot of things, but I don't go around making threads about them. And then trying to criticize those that do.
Damn guys...not OPs fault if he doesn't like the game, leave it at that. He tried it and didn't liked it, simple as that.
Reminds me when I say to my Xbox fanboy friend that I didn't got into Mass Effect. Wow the rant can go on and on and on.
Anyways, humans gotta be humans.
I don't like a lot of things, but I don't go around making threads about them. And then trying to criticize those that do.
Why would he keep playing, even though it's obviously not fun for him?
Why would he insist on bashing the game after he finally couldn't take it anymore and stop?
The answer is clear in my story:
With Grimbones childhood dream shattered, he fell into morose. In that state of sadness, he rationalized that he didn't fail as a gamer, it was the game that failed in its design. Desperately, he tried to convince others to also see the game as a failure. It was simply him trying to reinforce the rationalization of his failure.
Ironically, he also failed in that task. Shamed by failure, his despair masked as anger, he stormed out of the thread.
Why would he keep playing, even though it's obviously not fun for him?
Why would he insist on bashing the game after he finally couldn't take it anymore and stop?
The answer is clear in my story:
With Grimbones childhood dream shattered, he fell into morose. In that state of sadness, he rationalized that he didn't fail as a gamer, it was the game that failed in its design. Desperately, he tried to convince others to also see the game as a failure. It was simply him trying to reinforce the rationalization of his failure.
Ironically, he also failed in that task. Shamed by failure, his despair masked as anger, he stormed out of the thread.
Not to get involved with the drama here. My 2 cents:
I played Dark Souls, didnt like it. Quit. Gave it to my brother. Since he lived with me and he had a bunch of freetime he got pretty far. He was doing awesome, killing all the bosses easily, stacking his char. I think he had a really good mage build that seemed to kill everything.
It burned my ego a little bit because he could get that far and I couldn't.
At one point I was in-between jobs, so I played Dark Souls again. This time I played it with an open mind and I looked up the strategy guides.
I really got into it finally getting to Anor Londo before I got a job and didnt have time to play it.
It's a GREAT game. It looks good, game design, gameplay the animations and time put into it make a technically outstanding game.
It's a game you have to put non-casual amount of investment in otherwise it's no fun. That's not for everyone nowadays, including OP.
When I played DS, a lot of the deaths were because of cheap mechanics put into the game. Platforming with bad jump controls, walking up an edge when someone is shooting arrows at you that knock you back, griefers invading you just to do the backstab dance while you were fighting something else. I even saw enemies hit me through the wall and knock me off a platform.
I also expected more story. There was some lore and hidden message type stuff but I really wanted more direction to it. I suppose after playing Skyrim, Mass Effect, and Fallout I expected games with a more or less open world to be like that.
This game to me felt like getting dental work done...Now if you floss regularly you can avoid this terrible terrible pain in the future. Thank you sir, i will remember that. In the meantime you're causing me incredible pain and suffering. The difference between Dark Souls and a root canal, dental work is not a form of entertainment. I guess some people just really enjoy planning stuff out and thinking about every possibility before they round a corner, i don't. If that's the appeal of the game, then okay, you got me, i get it. I just can't have fun creeping gently through a game with no story, poor gameplay mechanics, and constant grief.
You're kind of a jerk for a christian. Like, what you're doing is publicly shaming me. It's literally hurtful, and stressful to read that. As a christian i would hope you would rethink your actions in the future. Is a game really important enough to you to want to hurt people over? I dunno man.
Putting it that way sounds condescending. I can have plenty of patience and observation skills; I just don't enjoy applying those skills in the way Dark Souls demands of me.
This video explains the game best:
Overrated?: Dark Souls
When I played DS, a lot of the deaths were because of cheap mechanics put into the game. Platforming with bad jump controls
Throughout the entire thread, nobody really mentioned how sloppy the combat feels in regard to another legendarily difficult game--ninja gaiden.
One of my favorite MMO's ever was EQ, it was considered a hardcore MMO, and still is considered to be such.
I just can't have fun creeping gently through a game with no story, poor gameplay mechanics
It's more of a test of patience than a game of skill imo.
Throughout the entire thread, nobody really mentioned how sloppy the combat feels in regard to another legendarily difficult game--ninja gaiden.
Other guy was right, people go onto forums to post their distaste for stuff as a form of empathy...the problem is on the internet people like to insult and make themselves out to be clever by posting humorous and derogatory stuff about others.
Edit: Also, continuing to lambast someone after they admitted defeat and left the thread is tantamount to kicking someone when they are down. Pretty low.
The game has a story, if you pay attention.
It also has amazing gameplay mechanics. The online mechanics of the Souls series are extremely innovative, and the combat extraordinary deliberate, varied, and deep.
To me, it's just not worth the stress, and pain involved in dying over and over.
Even when i managed to make headway i would be blindsided by a new threat and die, and have to repreat a lot of frustration to get back to where i was.
The game is cruel in that respect. It seems to invent ways to grief the player at every turn. I will never understand how people can argue otherwise, and that's just the way it is, so i guess this thread is moot.
The story is extraordinarily cryptic at best. I'm certainly not going to sit there and write down the two sentences of nonsensical dialogue so that i can make sense of it later. It just doesn't interest me.
I mentioned Ninja Gaiden because they are similar, no matter how you may trick yourself, they are both action games. Ninja Gaiden had slow ponderous weapons also, but they felt very good when you were to swing them.
Most of the weapons in DS felt ponderous and inaccurate and you were unable to adjust if you committed to a gesture. I really like the fact that the game had unique animations for each weapon...that's cool.
Honestly, I would love it if a MODERATOR WOULD LOCK THIS THREAD.
Patience (and caution) are skills. But it tests more than patience - it also test you ability to make a decent build, your ability to dodge/block/parry on time, your ability to observe, and you ability to stay calm in the face of suprises and seemingly overwhelming obstacles.
That is false as well. The combat is very precise and deliberate, just simply slower paced than Ninja Gaiden. The game's combat is meant to be somewhat more realistic, so you can't fly through the air spamming atacks with your katana.
That isn't even the problem. The problem is that you came in mouthing off like 'oh man Dark Souls sucks, who could like that crappy game?'. If you had approached in a different, non-hostile tone I am sure this thread would have went differently.
Lol stop being so dramatic.