Come to think of it, I eventually did get past that annoying Taurus Demon. However, there was a fire-breathing dragon sitting above an arched gateway that barbequed me into oblivion over and over, and trying to evade it via a route below resulted in getting repeatedly knocked off a narrow walkway by giant plague rats. Eventually it all became too frustrating for me, and I returned the game to the rental store.stringtheory said:
I realize some people appreciate that kind of ridiculous level of difficulty, but that's what's fun, not the death. Think about it; the only reason those close fights are so tense is because you want to avoid the punishment of death. Therefore Dark Souls isn't popular because death is fun, but rather because death *isn't* fun and players strive to avoid that.Adeptus Aspartem said:
In fact, this type of "into the darkness" RPG exist in Japan for some time before Demon's Souls. Is more a quest of made to western shores and be successful.Warachia said:
You character in Monster Hunter moves the same and has the same kind of animation style, as in the weapons have the actual weight and your character isn't some sort of superhuman who can do 20 foot leaps, they're both focussed on making your character feel like a person (Monster Hunter's large weapons notwithstanding, though Dark Souls 2 does this as well). Your character is also only less agile if you're using the larger weapons, with the smaller weapons it's easy to outrun and dodge the enemies. I found it was the opposite in the Souls series, it's only the early monsters you're faster than, the majority of later enemies and bosses are faster than you are.Azure23 said:
He liked Dark Souls so by extension, likes Lords of the Fallen. Thats the thing I do at the end of every review, I go "yeah.. but did he like it?", to which I answer, does the game do well what the game he really liked did well? If yes, then yes. Its a all a matter of seeing the details and asking the simplest question.geldonyetich said:
This. Dark Souls was a pain in the ass to get the controls feeling right, Lords of the Fallen doesn't even run on common system set ups. Been waiting 3 months, probably would need to wait another month.JUMBO PALACE said:
I just re-watched it wondering how you could get this interpretation. He spends over half the video explaining how attempting to clone an original, good game will end up unoriginal by nature of this being a derivative. Then he goes into several ways of how Lords of the Fallen does not improve in a single aspect of Dark Souls. Then he goes into how Lords of the Fallen introduces a number of ill-designed flaws of its own. So he has basically explained in painstaking details how Lords of the Fallen is not only unoriginal by trying so hard to ape Dark Souls, it's also inferior in virtually every way unless maybe over-the-top character design is a plus in your book.TheUnbeholden said:
Inferior but not by much, I think thats what I'm seeing. I know that its quite stupid to try and clone Dark Souls because its got such a rabid fanbase that require a very high standard of map design & making hard games isn't the specialty of triple A. But here its done fairly competently. But not being original is I think quite a big flaw, makes it more difficult to defend against critique (can't argue with that). Particularly when the developer has enlisted the help of popular Youtubers to pretend to like the game, gaining a legion of fanboys to pre-order the game and defend it to unreasonable lengths (buyers remorse, trying to justify purchase is strong with them). Sad but its happening more and more, attempts to try and corrupt a free source of critique, but we can usually see whats legit and whats not just by the Youtubers reactions not being 1:1 with whats happening on screen. We got physical evidence to compare what the Youtuber is saying. The devs of H1Z1 employed this tactic, also Warner Brothers did in the most brazen way with the contract outlining how NICE you must towards the game while playing it. No doubt we'll be seeing more of this shit.geldonyetich said:
Just throwing this out there, I though he liked the Persona Series, I feel like I remember him doing an article about the characters. However it could have been another contributer, just felt like it was another exception to the Rules of Yatzee. He also liked a gmeboy JRPG if Im not mistaken, forgot what it is called.shrekfan246 said:
I don't recall him ever talking about Persona in any sort of detail, but I could just be forgetting. As for the other one, you might be thinking of The World Ends With You for the DS, which he apparently found pretty tolerable and with moderately interesting characters (high praise from him as far as JRPGs are concerned).Dansen said:
If that ever happens (it has happened to me once over the entire series) you just switch to one of your secondary weapons and finish the fight.RejjeN said:
