Yes, that is why I made the post, because I heard from several places that is should be like super punishing and one of the most difficult souls like - which isn’t why I wanted to try it, I just really loved the setting and atmosphere - but I just don’t find it super difficult.
And it’s not like I’m trying to humble brag, I got my ass handed to me in Elden Ring, Sekiro and Demons Souls. So I by no means consider myself a good player at all. Maybe there is just something with the combat that clicks with me in this one.
But I’m not complaining! I am super stoked that I am on the verge of actually finishing a soulslike. I had completely written off the genre.
Well you could argue that you should spend LR (or first play through in the case of LoP) to learn the mechanics and then utilize those skills in HR (or in new game), but I see your point. And I do enjoy my big ass glaive, but as mentioned I will look into the other weapons in my next play through. There are some pretty nifty looking ones I must admit.
And fought the green swamp monster boss. Loved the design, but first time around I didn't keep an eye on my durability, so my weapon broke mid second phase. I didn't carry a secondary weapon so it impaled me and did unspeakable things to me :( Second time around I got it though!
Well I think it is too strong for a beginner weapon. It should have been a reward for something imo, not just a choice of starter weapon.
But okay, when/if I start a new game, I will put it aside and start experimenting with other weapons.
It’s the same problem I have with Monster Hunter expansion gifts. Playing through Worlds with the gifted armor set for the most part trivialise a lot of monsters, doesn’t encourage forging new armor or upgrading - because why would I? I already have the best low rank armor and it is basically a tool to rush to the game to get to late game content. You know what I mean ? It’s the same feel I get with the azure crescent thingy.
No it’s the AZURE DRAGON CRESCENT GLAIVE - sorry for the caps, it was a copy paste from a wiki :p I use it because it was given to me at start and it’s good, but it is so good that it keeps you from actually engaging with the weapons system until … well I haven’t used any other weapon yet.
Well I would never tell anyone that they are playing it the wrong way. People can do whatever they want with the game that they play, so it is solely for myself that I feel that I wouldn’t beat the game if I did.
That being said I use the summons in every boss fight, because the game obviously wants me to do so. And according to YouTube Elden Rings wants you to too. So for me that is playing the game as intended. And again if people wants to not use them, I won’t patronise them for doing so.
And thank for the tip! And I will just stick with the broken collab halbard thing for now. Which I have a lot of opinions on!
I stayed on the default difficulty. I know it is allowed to turn down the difficulty, but then it feels like I didn’t actually beat the boss/game.
And yeah I am excited to see how I do as well, because I just found the saintess statue and was able to respec and not have a stupidly none focused build. So I went down in technique by like 10 levels, undid my motivity and whatever the one for carrying capacity is called and got some more health and stamina in return.
Yeah she is definitely the hardest I encountered so far. Just beat that big steroid guy and going to the marshes now. I must say I am enjoying and it might be the first Soulslike I actually finish.
I totally agree with the Gemini voice breaking the atmosphere, but zomg I love the setting. This postapocalyptic modernist high society victorian age… mmmh it just makes me drool.
lol okay, that is really cheesy. Just tried it out on the white lady and the few throwables I had on me took the quarter of health I needed to take her out. In the last couple of attempts I managed to get her down to 25% before dying.
Cool trick, but I don’t think I will be using it. It does seem like real cheese.
Yes, I totally agree in that specific use case it is really great. As written in a different comment, my mom has been running Linux Mint for 9 years with absolutely no problem, because she doesn't use it for other things than email and browsing. She never had to touch the terminal and everything just works.
On the other hand I have a friend who was sick of Windows and I convinced him to start using linux and of course nvidia didn't work out of the box. Then there are some compatibility issues with x11 and certain nvidia gpus and with wayland for other gpus - I didn't know this before installing. So after installing and leaving I basically left him with a laggy mess. So we had to figure out how to fix that. He also have very few ram and during the install we only setup 1gb og swap - which was what the setup recommended. Then after I went home we had to figure out how to increase his swap size. Again this was my bad.
But what I am trying to say is that as a normal person going blind into linux, they would experience the same hurdles and not knowing where to start looking for solutions. So I really don't think it is ready for mainstream use - unless we as friends and relatives are willing to act as tech support for whoever wants to transision.
This is the answer imho. If you really think people should transition to Linux, then you also really need to accept being tech support for those people you recommend it to - depending on how tech literate and tinker adverse they are.
I agree. My mom has been running Mint for 9 years with no problems. My tech illiterate friend who has an nvidia gpu on the other hand needs a lot of handholding. He would never be able to make a transition on his own.
Yes, that is why I made the post, because I heard from several places that is should be like super punishing and one of the most difficult souls like - which isn’t why I wanted to try it, I just really loved the setting and atmosphere - but I just don’t find it super difficult.
And it’s not like I’m trying to humble brag, I got my ass handed to me in Elden Ring, Sekiro and Demons Souls. So I by no means consider myself a good player at all. Maybe there is just something with the combat that clicks with me in this one.
But I’m not complaining! I am super stoked that I am on the verge of actually finishing a soulslike. I had completely written off the genre.