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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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My mantra is, if the game allows then it’s fair.
“I’d like to watch Miyazaki do this!” is something I find myself thinking (or shouting) during frustrating enemy move sets. Oleg, Ornis, Tiche…help! :)
My mantra is: it’s a game and its only purpose is to be fun. So have fun however the fuck you want, as long as you’re not spoiling someone else’s fun (eg. cheating in multiplayer).
Or in other words: there cannot exist a wrong way to play a single player game.
Hard disagree. I play single player games wrong all the time! The secret is to make up arbitrary rules the game didn't tell you, and convince yourself these are "the way the game is meant to be played" or "in keeping with the spirit of the game". Then, and this step is very important, you don't enjoy playing the game by these arbitrary rules. Then quit or otherwise lose interest, because breaking your made-up bullshit rules would be akin to hacking the game and cheating at the same time.
Maybe a short example would help: "I have to look in every chest, in every room, and every body. What if one of them contains something special I wouldn't want to have missed", but then that gets old real quick. So I never play it again. It may seem like I exchanged missing one small thing with missing 95% of the game's content, and that may seem like a really dumb thing to do, but in fact I didn't miss that content, it's just on pause in the netherspace, and probably someday maybe I'll return to it.
And on that day I won't have missed a thing. And what a glorious day someday will be...
my position is that if you're looking up the strongest strats and op builds, then working through a grocery list, you are seriously harming your ability to enjoy soulslikes.
exploring, experimenting, and adapting is like half the fun of the game.
Good points and I agree.
A suggestion for any new player is to stay away from walkthroughs or meta builds. Even if you think you’ll only do one playthrough making it your own offers more fun and satisfaction in my experience.
My position is that anyone using handicaps is a scrub that can't handle the raw power of a true build. Not my fault your crappy build needs 90 minutes and hundreds of attempts to figure out every boss pattern, while my chad optimized summoner doesn't need to waste time on pointless endeavors.
I agree except DS2 adp. People need to know about that shit lol
Miyazaki has admitted that he uses every possible tool in the game because the game is balanced around using those tools.
Souls games are harder than most video games, but they're also not nearly as hard as doing anything in real life. People shitting on players using tools instead of the level 1 no-weapons no-hit sweat runs are losers through and through that think doing something intentionally difficult in the video game is greater than any particular real world endeavour.