hanselthecaretaker said:
Silentpony said:
ReservoirAngel said:
I am on record
HATING Souls games. I mean so much Jim Sterling refers to me in his podcast as that guy who really hates Souls games. By name. He had opened the cast telling me, SilentPony, to stop listening because its all Dark Souls all the time this week.
Anyway, cards on the table, I've played Souls, Souls 2 and Bloodborne. And Bloodborne is without a doubt an easier, more forgiving game. If you're going to continue any of the series, choose that one. Its a radically different game design built around dodging and quick attacks rather than turtling up and heavy attacks. And the 'shoot em in the face' parry ability is way easier to get right than blocking in normal Souls games.
As far as the witches, I'm not going to tell you how long it took me to beat them, or how to do so. Because I refuse to be one of
them. So I'll simply say keep at it. Fight the executioners. Remember the tower? The two story tower before the graveyard area with the two executioners? They can't get through the door. But can be hit through the door. Their attacks can still carry through, so watch it, but you can lure them and take your time, figure out what works, what doesn't. Learn the timing of their attacks and yours.
They're beatable. And so are the Bitches of Hemwick.
That's the opposite experience I've had. Demon's and the original Dark for me were far more forgiving due to shields, ranged attack options, etc. They still have their difficult segments, but so far in Bloodborne my death count has to be at least double or triple whatever it was much farther along in either of my first two Souls games.
Interesting. Different strokes I guess? I seriously couldn't get past the first boss in Souls. It took far too long to get to it, first off, no quick shortcuts, terrible controls, unforgiving basic enemies, and very little direction. I mean the first real level has like 4 different paths to choose from, 6 of which are the wrong path, and the right path isn't any different except...well no, its not different.
Bloodborne starts you clearly on a street with 1 way forward. So that alone was simpler for me. Took way way
way less time to get to the first boss. For me because I couldn't beat those two werewolves on the bridge, it was Father Greg. Who took about 3 attempts. He's fast, but I found a glitch that let me attack him from behind grave markers, but he couldn't hit me, and wasn't fast enough even in his final form to chase me.
I clicked with Bloodborne. It still took me like 9 hours and two rage deletes of the entire game to get to Greg, but I got there damn it! Felt no relief or sense of accomplishment, but I was able to continue the game.
And I will admit I
hate boss fights. Hate them. Spent 3 weeks, no joke, and from my estimate nearly 200,000 lost souls(at about 3000 souls a life) fighting the Blood Starved Beast. Every video I watched, guide I read, everything had it acting completely different. Some said fire worked, others throwing smelly blood lures it away, others shooting it, others hit its butt, etc. None of which worked. It never acted the same one attempt to another. Sometimes it'd chase the smelly blood, others it'd one shot me the very first swing. When I did beat it, after leveling up until about lvl47-50, after killing a bunch of other bosses, I felt nothing. Completely cold and emotionless. No relief. Nothing.
So I resolved to never ever spend more than 2 attempts on a boss. So I'll summon an NPC and 1 player to help the first time when I'm about to fight a boss. And up to 2 players if I die. I refuse to grind bosses. And I've one-shot many of them and don't feel bad one way or the other.
And to be honest I'm a sucker for lovecraftian shit. Just wish someone would have told me the silver lake slug spider ruins the world if you kill it. Had shit to do, but nope, someone spilled strawberry jam on the sky and everything sucks.
once it clicks? well, Yahtzee puts it best:
