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Post by Ex on Aug 2, 2023 12:05:05 GMT -5
I can't think of a single time that I YOU DIED in DeS or DS1 where I felt either game cheated me. The key is to be patient and strategic, blind rushing is guaranteed death. I think toei would either strongly love or super hate Dark Souls. It's not a game that evokes indifferent emotions.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 2, 2023 12:58:39 GMT -5
Capra Demon, tight room, terrible camera. That is the most unfair I feel the game got.
(Build has a lot to do with this, too. The camera is less an issue if you can just block his initial hit without getting staggered. That was assuredly not my build...)
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Post by anayo on Aug 2, 2023 15:50:18 GMT -5
I dreamed of a game that was either a spin-off or homage of FromSoftware's SoulsBorne games. It was in first-person, however, and very combat-oriented. This being a dream, I was both playing and living it at different moments. I was in a room about the size of an average city apartment, and it was just filled with monsters. Combat felt much more tactile than it normally does in a first-person game, and had a kind of brawler flow to it where I was just constantly moving and hitting, eliminating enemies one after the other. I knew that each room in the game was supposed to correspond to a specific game, and this was Dark Souls 1. I wondered why Demon's Souls wasn't included. Movement and environments were 3D, but the enemies were huge, deliberately pixelated sprites that looked zoomed-in, like in a superscaler game, always facing the player even if you circled them, with thick black outlines giving them a bit of a sketch look (in a good way). The most impressive enemies, which I thought of as iconic to Dark Souls in the dreams, were these enormous armed guards dressed in all black that were so tall that you couldn't see their heads without stepping back a bit. They were really imposing and felt great to fight - I knew they'd kill me if they hit me, but they were still made of flesh and blood. I don't think the game was meant to be a stand-alone commercial release - it was a gift for fans or some kind of bonus, and might have been an early demo. This sounds like a good game.
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Post by Xeogred on Aug 2, 2023 18:14:24 GMT -5
Nah, I insisted on the tactile and fun aspect of combat to make it clear it felt nothing like King's Field, a series that barely even wants you to know when your weapon actually hits an enemy. I played the first for a few hours and dabbled with the second. I can see how the series could be appealing, particularly in the sequels that have more expansive and interesting worlds rather than just a dungeon. I can accept the idea that combat is meant to be sort of half turn-based, hence why it's slow; it's fine. But they made zero effort to make it *feel* good. And I already don't like first-person in general, so I don't see myself putting in the time it would take to potentially get into those games. Now go play Morrowind and Oblivion, you'll be begging for King's Field 1. Nothing worse than dice rolls behind real time weapon swings. See this giant 200lb rat in front of your face? Maybe you'll hit it once after 20 tries. I fell off those games after a few hours. I can see how older ES fans think Skyrim dumbed things down a lot but when it comes to the combat... at least when you clearly swing at something in your face, you hit the SOB. And yeah, Vagrant Story is one of the best comparisons to Souls in a way. While I loved Vagrant Story, I'd take the real time combat of Souls over it anyday though. It would of course be great if you played Demon's Souls first but since Dark Souls 1 is on everything, I wouldn't fret if you gave that one a shot first instead. "Your first Souls game" will probably be the hardest either way for a few entries, until you get to the later stuff when the combat gets more advanced and faster.
Ex : Still going to play Dark Souls 2 this year?
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Post by Ex on Aug 2, 2023 18:23:52 GMT -5
Now go play Morrowind and Oblivion, you'll be begging for King's Field 1. That is a good point. I forgot about standing 1 inch from an enemy in Morrowind, obviously hitting them, and yet not hitting them at all due to the flubbed die rolls. Very dumb idea for an action-RPG. If you hit the enemy it should do a random amount of damage perhaps, but not make the action itself just be window dressing entirely. Yes but not until late fall or winter.
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Post by Xeogred on Aug 3, 2023 8:34:59 GMT -5
I finally had a weird and visual dream I have to jot down here. Doesn't entail a specific game or anything, but it's hardware. We were at one of my grandma's places that only looked like 20% of the home layout I remember. I never actually saw her in my dream (this is a grandma still around but due to family deaths we haven't seen her in awhile), and there were dozens of random people over there like it was some strange party. Moving in or out.
There were a few rooms with CRT's and old consoles hooked up, like a Genesis. But one TV stood out to me that was this weird contraption of a few devices in one and the TV stand itself could extend up and down to adjust the height of the whole setup. It was all silver and pretty slick. At the top of the whole thing was a US NES but maybe bigger than normal, since it laid flatly on top of the TV itself. The TV from behind looked more like an old monitor and in my dream, I made sure it had the legendary S-video connection among other things. Moving down more it had a very tiny DVD player at some point, that looked way too high tech for what seemed to be a 90's TV Frankenstein tower haha. Then there was a big VHS player and some other cool knobs. It seemed like it was on wheels and off them at times in my dream, but it all moved up and down nicely.
I asked my dad if I could take it and he said yes right away. Then we had to find the remote mixed in with a bunch of others. But from there, the room it was in was suddenly populated by dozens of people. Even like two couches worth in some corner and a bunch of kids playing around. I felt reluctant to take the TV out in front of everyone, even though some other random guy was taking stuff out of the house.
I then got distracted by my nephew playing with Lego's, action figures, or something. There were these weird toys that were balloon-like in texture, but rubbing them would make them explode and multiply into 50 more of them. So I was holding a string of like 50 small Army guys or something.
In the middle of this dream I had to run through 2-3 dark dank rooms that had a giant bug in the middle or something. Was very Resident Evil. I bumped into my mom and sister escaping the last one, then was determined to get some bug spray and go back. lol
I think during this horror section, was also when I went down to this weird dark basement hallway that is like 100 feet long. While it's a cramped hallway with storage and old cob webbed up stuff, one side of it just had some railing you can step over and it was like some evil underground garden or pitch blackness. I've weirdly seen this dark basement hallway in a few other dreams before.
It was one of those times with the TV where I knew I was dreaming, but I still woke up disappointed it wasn't real and I didn't have that thing haha.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 3, 2023 10:49:30 GMT -5
Man, I hate that feeling. I've dreamed many times that I found an amazing retro store with great prices, or hardware that I wish I could get my hands on, and am always bummed it wasn't real when I wake up.
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Post by toei on Aug 3, 2023 11:10:08 GMT -5
I've had the opposite happen more often, where I'm dealing with some difficult problem and I'm glad to wake up. Most extreme example: many years ago I dreamed that my middle school science teacher started insulting me in front of the whole class, so I walked up to her and just smacked her in the face (something I wouldn't have done in real life, obviously). But I smacked her so hard that her head came off. I don't think there was any blood or anything, it just went flying, lol. The other kids started telling me to run away through the window, which led to a rooftop. Next time you know I'm running in the middle of the street, being chased by a tank. I was quite relieved to wake up and realize I wasn't wanted for murder. Nowadays the situations aren't as crazy.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 3, 2023 11:31:48 GMT -5
Haha, those happen, too. Although I don't know that I've slapped a teacher's head off!
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Post by Xeogred on Aug 3, 2023 18:07:26 GMT -5
That sounds more like 80% of my dreams. They're usually pretty dark and weird, things are trying to kill me, etc. In recent years, there seems to be a pattern with dreams about labyrinthine huge apartment-like buildings, either cyberpunk or post-apocalyptic. Like those huge empty cities China has built in some fields. I remember one time to get to a friend or family, the normal route was going down a floor through some collapsed opening... hardly safe. And then yeah, weird claustrophobic stairs leading to some basements or something... As I've mentioned in the past, if I truly want some night terrors (that could shock me awake) I could just pop some magnesium supplements. Which apparently helps normal people sleep... but nah not me, just gives me serious visual nightmares.
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