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devtesla wrote

Reply to Help me appreciate Soulslikes by twovests

Something that kind of ruins my life to think about is that to young people a videogame is like, some random crap they downloaded to their phone covered in ads or sells gatcha rolls or something. Or like Fortnite? The people who buy games that cost between $20-$70 and provide a contained experience is shrinking population, and it's getting older and older. So the games are getting more niche, and people are seeking experiences where they feel challenged because they've played videogames for decades.

Dark Souls specifically pioneered a "tough but fair" feel, where the tension comes from the fact that you're scared to move forward, and the frustration is offset by the fact that you can retreat at any moment and level up. It makes you learn about the world as you move through it, and enemies have extremely well telegraphed moves that you can just roll through. It's a game about learning. It's less hard than it has a reputation for, you just have to slow down and accept failure sometimes, but if you aren't fucking with it than that's not really shameful. I've played enough of them, I think.

So yeah a lot of indie games copy those ideas because it makes players slow down and appreciate things they might blow through otherwise. A lot of them have accessibility options that Souls games don't have, like Tunic has something that makes the bosses easier, but they are meant to be hard. And often these games are not as good as From at realizing what players can take or not.

It used to be where games were going for flow above everything, where a game needed to be neither too hard or too easy, but that comes off as boring to a lot of players these days. Personally I'm less willing to deal with hard action combat because my reactions have gone to shit, but I want to have to think over long term. Love a turn based. And I want a story to think about. So yeah no souls likes for me, but I get the appeal for sure.

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cute_spider wrote

Reply to Metroid NES remake with legally-distinct protagonist, funniest possible Justin Bailey alternatives? Judith Butler? Joe Biden? Jack Black? by twovests

Justin Bailey was described to me as a weird old pun assuming Bailey actually was slang for "Bathing Suit" back in the day. So it needs to be a weird old pun.

More importantly, make sure that NARPAS SWORD has a similar parallel. narpas was my first real screenname so it is very very important to me that it's an even more powerful password cheat code

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rain wrote

Reply to the Genesis and the PS1 had very good libraries by cowloom

I love older game systems; I enjoyed more of the games and now that they are decades out date you can emulate them on just about anything.

And so many good games! My favorite lesser known ps1 game is probably Devil’s Dice, but there are near so many good ones to choose from…

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