/v/ - HAPPY E3 EVERYONE

>>14937626

>Why is this considered hard again? It's just trial and error. Fighting a human in any PvP game is more difficult than this

Dark Souls was never that good to be honest, DaS was superior but it had a much smaller playerbase so nobody ever heard about it.

>>14937659

I didn't ask if it was good I asked why it was considered hard.

>>14937682

to answer your question, yeah the game really isnt that good, just a bunch of neckbeards who desperately needs a sense of accomplishment in life, if even just in a video game

>>14937706

So difficulty was being built up to make finishing it more of an achievement?

>>14937626

>die because you're bad to blatantly telegraphed moves

>forced to learn moveset

>overcome enemy with newfound skill

If it wasn't hard (for you), you wouldn't have died and been forced to learn the moveset, so the real question is, why are you pretending it's not hard when you obviously had a hard time and died like a shitter?

>>14937659

>Dark Souls was never that good to be honest

This. Fortnite, CS:GO, Overwatch, PUBG and League are for Real Gamers.

>>14937715

thats my guess. i bet you the fans would rage if there was an added easy mode, cause theyd feel like it takes away from their perceived achivement

>>14937723

> Fortnite, CS:GO, Overwatch, PUBG and League are for Real Gamers

all those games are shit too

>>14937723

>If it wasn't hard (for you), you wouldn't have died and been forced to learn the moveset, so the real question is, why are you pretending it's not hard when you obviously had a hard time and died like a shitter?

The game poorly communicating itself isn't difficulty that's just bad design. It's not a consistent trend obviously since often you can just dispatch basic enemies but it happens often enough.

>>14937728

Makes sense.

>>14937723

>This. Fortnite, CS:GO, Overwatch, PUBG and League are for Real Gamers.

Nice strawman faggot. Why so defensive when someone disagrees with you?

>>14937682

You as well. You asked a question and you got an answer.

something something no invisible walls to protect you

there's no legitimate reason to call the game's combat hard but since journos hyped it up as hard, it's become low hanging "gamer cred" so it will retain its title as "a hard game".

>>14937626

normalfags are braindead and usually children who want a movie that they feel like they're partaking in

>>14937782

>i just played need for speed and the cops can catch you, its just like dark souls

>encounter shit thread

>posting poor bait gets you no (you)s

>shitpost with extreme prejudice, racking up the (you) count

>thread destroyed

>repeat for entire year

Why is it so easy to get dubs?

>>14937749

>i had a difficult time with X but that difficulty isn't real difficulty because it doesn't fit my highly specific definition of difficulty!

Heh. Anything to avoid admitting you were wrong, right?

>>14937758

What's wrong little fella? Bad at video games?

>>14937849

you are doing a very good job of proving their point

>encounter enemy

>badly telegraphed move incoming

>dodge

>still die in one shot anyway due to horrible GOTCHA hitboxes

it's considered hard because (((journos))) everywhere told people it was to cover for their lack of gaming skill. they also presumed people would not believe that it was awful because the art is actually pretty fucking good.

Why is this thread bumplocked already? We got a soulsfag vol or something?

Guys what if I think Fortnite is fun? I was bad at it at first, but now winning has become easy. It's a fun way to blow off some steam.

>>14937916

>Why is this thread bumplocked already? We got a soulsfag vol or something?

That's what you get for going against the consensus opinion on /v/.

>>14937849

>>14937723

Back to >>>/cuckchan/

>>14937849

>What's wrong little fella? Bad at video games?

Projecting much?

>>14937916

Journalists are another factor actually.

>>14937849

>Heh. Anything to avoid admitting you were wrong, right?

I've explained to you what the difference is. If you're too retarded to understand it that's on you.

>>14937782

>>14937916

I'm seeing that in this very thread. Some people are apparently obsessed with defending its reputation for being hard so completing it counts as an achievement.

>>14937916

Also it's probably bumplocked because it triggered a vol yes. /v/ is quickly becoming /a/ 2.0 where stepping out of line or upsetting a vol gets your thread removed and usually you banned as well. That's why /animus/ showed up.

>>14938039

>f-fugging triggered vol how dare he bumplock my dirt-tier template thread!

Yikes.

>>14937849

Get a load of this faggot

>>14938145

>the gameplay is one of the least important parts of the game

Pottery

>>14938192

RPGs are the only genre for which pure gameplay isn't the main concern.

>>14937723

Now this, this is bait.

>>14938197

And that's why most RPG's are shit.

Moves are pretty well telegraphed in Dark Souls. And if you're blaming hitboxes, then you're not rolling in the right direction or you're timing your rolls badly.

This game can easily be cheesed, you're just not good enough to know how to cheese it.

>>14938213

Most RPGs have bad gameplay and bad writing/atmosphere/characters/roleplaying so I'd agree with you. That doesn't change the fact that what really makes a good RPG isn't the gameplay outside of the hardcore number-crunching dungeon crawlers.

>>14938145

>the combat is one of the least important bits

But that's what you spend most of your time doing in the game.

>>14938239

>what really makes a good ROLE PLAYING game isn't the roleplaying

>>14938235

Still isn't what makes the game great.

>>14938145

Ah, so that's why it was successful.

>>14938245

If the main part of a game isn't great, the game isn't great.

Also, atmosphere isn't roleplaying.

>>14938245

>The game is the least important part of a game

Choose your own adventure books are top tier games.

>>14937956

>>14938039

It's been fixed now so you can calm your tits. Sometimes mistakes are made what's important is that they get fixed.

>>14938219

I've never understood the hitbox complaint either at least not for DS1. I still think DaS is a better game but not because of that.

>>14938245

I agree. Video games don't need good gameplay. Where is that a rule? You just need a virtual choose your own adventure book.

>>14938245

Role Playing is a descriptor for the type of game

>>14938266

Atmosphere comes under the general heading of worldbuilding which is essential to the roleplaying portion of the game.

>>14938268

>>14938299

CYOA books are bad roleplaying games because they're extremely linear.

>>14938310

It's a meaningful descriptor though same as first person shooter or racing game.

I like it.

>>14938347

>goodat

Fuck you Mark, you anti-art kike.

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>>14938358

u gai

>>14938347

>Miyazaki must be a major fucking failure to have his game become popular for the exact opposite reason he wanted.

Developers often have games success in ways they don't expect. That's not a failure that's just the team they've put together being so good they managed to excel at something unintentionally.

>>14938338

If you blur your eyes and stand far enough away, atmosphere looks like it might be part of something that sort of contributes to roleplaying.

I guess that's good enough for an entire RPG to stand on.

>>14938381

Again specific to the RPG genre linearity is generally harmful.

>>14938379

If financial success is considered success then yeah sure, but look at Kojima, the man could make billions off his Reddit milk farm (and he does) but he still looks like he's on the constant verge of suicide because he forced himself to make games instead of movies for money just to buy food.

>>14938408

>If financial success is considered success then yeah sure, but look at Kojima, the man could make billions off his Reddit milk farm (and he does) but he still looks like he's on the constant verge of suicide because he forced himself to make games instead of movies for money just to buy food.

No I mean they were successful in making a good RPG even if they set out to focus on combat instead. Kojima is different where it's not clear he was ever that into making games instead of films.

>>14938429

Dark Souls has good architecture and design

Beyond that the gameplay is shit and the story is shit, it failed in everything else

Git GUd.

>>14937626

It and Demon's Souls came out during a period where most high-profile games were braindead easy, so the fact that they were both actually willing to meaningfully punish you for dying was a breath of fresh air and made them relatively difficult compared to most stuff at the time. It's worth noting that difficulty wasn't really a focal point of Demon's and Dark Souls, though, at least not to the extent of Prepare To Die Edition and everything afterwards. It was definitely part of the appeal but for the most part they were just good, well-designed games that also happened to be relatively challenging.

>>14938219

The actual direction of swing is not well telegraphed in most instances.

>badly telegraphed moves kill you

Lol you are retarded

>>14937626

If you can't at least in theory complete the entire game without dying it's artificially difficult. Dark Souls fails that test.

>>14938763

There is one actual forced death: the first fight against Seath in the Duke's Archive. Unless you count glitches. If you use the Duke Skip it is possible to avoid any deaths.

It's just punishing for mistakes. It's a game with a lot to lose on failure. That's why it's considered hard. Not hard to figure out, not hard to figure out that we don't need the thousandth thread on this same subject.

The difficulty is overstated. I found that when I started playing was not knowing the game mechanics and the game doesn't tell you a fucking thing about them.

When you first get to Andre, raw infusions give the most damage. But they fuck your scaling, which means once you get higher strength or dex, every other type of infusion outdamages raw.

The game doesn't fucking tell you this, and calling this a weakness in the game is responded to with a "git gud"

You pretty much have to have to look up help online just to learn how to play.

Once you know how the game works, the actual combat is pretty simple. Get as much poise as you can while being under 50% load, dodge attacks and counter

You can technically complete the game glitch-free without being hit once, and the only unavoidable death is the scripted one against Seath

>>14938795

even then it's still possible to regain any losses from that fight. Or lose nothing at all with a ring of sacrifice. It's not hard to realize the game is pushing you to die when you can't even hurt the boss.

>>14938831

>The game doesn't fucking tell you this

it has an icon on the weapon stats page

>>14937626

>Why is this considered hard again?

Have you ever seen those videos where someone completes a call of duty mission by doing nothing? They literally just stand there and let the teammates do everything for them?

When the average gamer's metric of difficulty is marginally interactive movies where you have to take active measures to lose, Dark Souls' demand that you learn how to play a video game is the hardest shit ever. Real fun game, though. Relies on cheap bullshit too much but it's a blast once you're past that.

>>14938849

The game doesn't tell you a fucking thing about how scaling works or iframes/fat rolling, diminishing returns on stats, shield stability, how the staves calculate damage or pretty much anything considered essential to anyone who plays properly.

It throws a thousand stats with poorly translated descriptions and tells you to figure out shit yourself

>>14937626

Don't forget:

>At least twice as many iframes on dodge as any other action game.

>>14938900

>The game doesn't tell you a fucking thing about how scaling works

yes it does, inspect the weapon stats screen better. You don't need to know about it to beat the game.

> or iframes

you figure it out by playing it

>fat rolling

see above

>diminishing returns on stats

see above

>shield stability

see above

pretty much everything that any normal person can pick up on by just playing the game. Sounds like you might be shit, or just retarded.

>>14938959

Bro the game outright lies to you about spell tool scaling. The pyroglove says it has int scaling and doesn't.

>>14938882

It's worth considering that by the time Dark Souls was ported to PC it had already had it's notoriety of being "super hard", to the extent that they decided to name the port the Prepare to Die Edition, so the influx of new people were playing it because of the popularity and didn't care about dying because "LOL DATS DRK SOOLS!" versus the original console launch where the players were primarily Demon Souls fans and genre fans, thus more experienced towards a game of that type and showing greater competency.

A better comparison to see the difference between player bases would be the death rates of Dark Souls 2 or 3, as they'd both share audiences on all platforms within the same contextual time frame.

>>14938959

>complaint is that game poorly conveys important information

>response is "just figure it out lol"

>>14938456

DeS was a lot easier than the ones that came later. You could take a lot more damage than in DaS.

>>14937743

Being baited this hard

>>14938959

>The game doesn't fucking tell you this, and calling this a weakness in the game is responded to with a "git gud"

>>14939112

>The game doesn't fucking tell you this, and calling this a weakness in the game is responded to with a "git gud"

Can someone post the webm of that stupid pink hair bitch complaining about how hard BoTW is because it also doesn't hold your hand from beginning to end?

>>14938992

>The pyroglove

pyromancy flame

>says it has int scaling and doesn't.

yep, the whole game is shit as a result. What were they thinking?

>>14939045

how do you suggest conveying fat rolling to the player?

>>14939112

if you're gonna make criticism of the game at least make good ones, not ones that make you out to be a bad player. Point out how the roll through hitboxes for numerous bosses aren't very consistent, or how bosses past a certain size are camera eating monstrosities that aren't very interesting to fight and result in cheap deaths because you can't see shit. I'm sure even shitty players like you can point out basic bitch shit like how lost izalith and the bed of chaos.

>>14939149

or more appropriately of the guy crying about dark souls for 5 minutes and how it doesn't give you certain information while zooming in on the square button for "more information."

>>14939177

As I said, the game is pretty fucking easy once you know how it works.

If you think the bosses are too big, you just need to not lock on like a bitch and learn to use the manual camera. DWGR or being under 25% will roll you through pretty much everything, and it's essential once you get to higher NG+ levels where everything one hits you

>HERP ITS JUST TRIAL AND ERROR

everything in life is trial and error, your ability to perform perfectly at every encounter is the point of all video games fucking stupid nigger faggot kike

>>14939228

>As I said, the game is pretty fucking easy once you know how it works.

yep, just punishes mistakes harder than other games. that's where the hard meme comes from. also advertising.

>>14939291

In the future just reply with "non sequitur" or ignore.

>>14937626

It wasn't as hard as everyone made it out to be, just trial and error like you said, but it's a good game. People hate on it because it's popular, as they will with anything, but it's got great atmosphere, cool art, interesting gameplay, and replayability.

To answer your question, though:

The only reason it seems hard to some people is that most mainstream and commercial games are ludicrously easy, so anything with mild difficulty is considered "hard".

Dark Souls is a bad game that people like for its unique design concepts.

The whole humanity and hollowed health loss system is retarded and provides a negative feedback loop for players who are struggling. Bloodborne mostly fixes this issue but doesn't punish players holding onto insight enough.

Summoning flat out ruins boss fights, your weapons bounce off walls too easily (while enemies aren't affected by this) and PvP flat out devolves into backstab to win or spam cheap magic with terrible netcode that will have you lagstabbed (or lagstabbing). Heavy builds in PvP are flat out unviable, and the game design encourages you to rely on shields which is flat out unfun.

People say it has excellent level design, but it doesn't. It has excellent world design, and the variety of places you'll explore can honestly mesmerise you at times… But level design? Each area has a unique gimmick that isn't fun, it's frustrating.

>Hey this level is full of enemies you can't actually damage unless you use a specific item

>Hey this level is full of sludge that slows and poisons you and also has endless enemies

>Hey this level has a load of invisible bridges

>Hey this level is pitch black you can't see anything that's not directly in front of you and there's enemies/cliffs everywhere

>Hey we're demon ruins and lost izalith we're the worst areas in the entire genre

There's a ton of mechanical depth to the game, but the game barely explains any of it to you. This wouldn't be a problem if you didn't need some of these flat out necessary skills like parrying to fight the final boss, or unique attacks like a rolling R1 attack to be viable in PvP.

And the secrets the game hides is flat out bullshit, the two invisible walls to get to ash lake? There is zero indication nor is it even common sense to try both of them.

Not that you'd need to go to ash lake, outside the covenant it's the most pointless area in the game.

I love soulsborne in spite of its flaws, but these games are pretty much 6/10 games and the fanbase are too quick to jump to the defence of bad game design.

>>14939212

>block

No, playing with a shield is the wrong way to play this series. From have even admitted shields were a mistake.

Break away from shields and learn to dodge.

>>14939472

the cosmetics are real red flags but you can't seriously believe in the sanpaku eyes thing

>>14939177

>yep, the whole game is shit as a result. What were they thinking?

The absurd ultimatum is the final attempt to save face when someone realizes they're wrong.

>>14939493

Call it whatever Nip phrase you want, them's psycho eyes

>>14939493

>you can't seriously believe in the sanpaku eyes thing

Yes we can, rabbi crazy/jew eyes.

>>14937626

Well the head developer did say that he never had intended it to be hard

>HEY EVERYONE LOOK AT THE FAGGOT THAT DOESN'T MIMIC CHECK ALL CHESTS SO HE DIDN'T FIND SUPER OBVIOUS "SECRETS"

You're wrong in most of your arguments but in this one you're very wrong. First off as far as I'm aware the only invisible wall behind a chest is to Ash Lake. However the invisible wall to get to that invisible wall is in a small secluded area of blighttown with no chests. It's a small area with a corpse and an item, no indication whatsoever that there's invisible walls anywhere.

Furthermore you can mimic check that chest without triggering the second invisible wall provided the reach of your mimic check method isn't far enough.

>>14938795

I'm sure he was referring to the kind of trial-and-error memorization IWBTG demands where almost none of the traps can be avoided without dying to them at least once. The death in Duke's Archive isn't something you're meant to avoid since it's necessary to progress the game, so it wouldn't count by those conditions.

>>14939630

you can even just attack regular chests if you're uncertain. And if a mimic grabs you button mash and you won't die.

>>14939607

>You're wrong in most of your arguments but in this one you're very wrong.

No yuo. When you go up the ramp into the tree you hit a fucking "dead end" with a stupid corpse with a fucking plank shield. Getting such a shit-tier item at the bottom-back end of Blighttown should have been a huge fucking tip-off something better was in there. Hit the wall open the secret to reveal a chest. Which you should have attacked even if you couldn't see the unlinked chain.

>>14939538

>spoiled

Not in the ways that matter. I'll bet your life has been easier than mine.

>>14939657

>>14939630

The camera doesn't bump against the mimic because it's a mob and not an object, just try to look behind the chest and if you can do that it's a mimic.

>>14939739

so many ways to detect mimics. The only one I can think of that's difficult is the chest in the middle of oolacile township because it's not placed on the geometry correctly so the chain isn't visible. It's still in a conspicuous spot, still can be seen breathing, still can be checked a number of other ways.

>>14939677

>Getting such a shit-tier item at the bottom-back end of Blighttown should have been a huge fucking tip-off something better was in there.

You mean like the rubbish in the burg? Or the Effigy Shield in the Tomb? Or the long-ass dead end in Blighttown with 3 toxic moss clumps?

>>14937626

>trial and error

Nah, it's more like trying to balance a book on your head while crossing a gorge on a tight rope. You try your best to keep your balance but if you drop the book, you get automatically knocked off the tight rope. If you get knocked off the tight rope, the book goes with you. It's not trial and error because the player can see the majority of ambushes and traps coming if he's not a totally brain dead retard. Even if you get caught by them, most of the time you can survive if you react accordingly.

Minesweeper is trial and error. This is not that. This is, "your character is a fragile as glass and can be destroyed relatively quickly, so learn to preserve yourself by avoiding damage all together and dealing damage only when it is advantageous to do so." Maybe you can come up with some kind of catch phrase to describe that, but it ain't "trial and error"

>>14939374

>The whole humanity and hollowed health loss system

This doesn't happen in the DaS1 though.

>>14939786

>Minesweeper is trial and error.

What?

>>14939803

Alright, maybe not Minesweeper. Instead, I'll just say that, "walking through a minefield without any sort of device that will allow you to detect the mines" is trial and error.

>>14939739

Or you could look at the tail like a normal person.

>>14939677

Speaking like a true autist after already knowing everything.

The game has tons of dead ends with no rewards. Why is this one any different? You're saying the very first time you played the game you instantly knew there was something special about that area?

>>14939839

>Giantdad

>Viable

Enjoy getting parried by having the most predictable weapon in the game. That's honestly the biggest meme build and it only works against new players.

>>14939860

Meme though it may be, it is a fairly decent build. Not spectacular but certainly doable.

The low level version for Undead Parish invasions is much better than the meta level version though

>>14939760

I'm pretty sure the nerves in my hand just all died and it doesn't matter anymore.

No, I thought you knew who I am and were talking subliminally about something other than Dark Souls; I might just be schizophrenic, in which case I apologize.

On the off-chance that you were talking about what I though you were, my life has been a series of locked facilities, deaths, disappearances, and occasionally violence/murder/literal torture. I got a cool thing or two as well, and a nice white suburban household, but I wasn't allowed outside of it except to go to school, and I went to school in the most violent gang-infested shithole behavioral school in the entire state, so I don't know if that counts as much.

That's also been hard on the mind, and so I am schizo sometimes. My apologies if that's what's going on right now. No, I'm not retarded, just borderline schizophrenic; the difference is that we are more intelligent and make better art.

I agree with you on the Dark Souls thing; in fact, I was pretty much thinking the same thing.

>>14939541

>>14939543

it's a term coined by japs who all have squinty eyes, i'm gonna pass on their superstitions on that one

>>14939860

Heavy builds can be decent on smaller pvp areas like township and berg where theres areas to escape. Unless your enemy is a parry god who can cuck roll attacks you should be able to poise lock people and win from there with high end.

Dex will still be objectively better most of the time though

>>14940111

go shill your crazy jew eyes somewhere else dumbfuck

>>14940128

i'm not shilling anything but try to get more buzzwords into the reply box to prove how much you wanna fit in here you slackjawed retard. You are buying into a superstition made by people with naturally squinty eyes. you wouldn't know a goddamn shill if they bit your foreskin off

>He doesn't know that jews attempted to genetically insert themselves into every nation so as to become harder to detect

Why, do you think it is, that circumcision caught on?

>>14940208

>my father is irish and my mom was a hippy so they didn't have me snipped, thank jebus

>unluckily for me I live in burgerstan where not being circumcised is considered weird and and now i'm too afraid to be intimate with women

thy had a contingency plan for people who didn't take the snips

Because it's good you fucking obnoxious nigger.

Fuck off and go deconstruct a game that's actually bad.

it's hard for the first time because it throws tricks at you sometimes. and because a lot of people are used to stupidly mashing buttons without consequence

because PC users have been hardwired to use trainers to cheat through challenge or difficulty at all and DS launched without easy cheats and bamco capitalised on it as a meme.

>>14952823

DD is hard in some places if you are not a magicfaggot, you nigger

>>14952823

Shmups with RNG elements?

>encounter enemy

>dodge obviously telegraphed move

>attack clips through a wall or some other piece of obstructing geometry and kills you

Every single fucking entry in this series has this, which makes me think it's actually on purpose.

>>14945809

Probably typo.

>>14953213

You missed the "clipping through geometry" part didn't you

>badly telegraphed

>trial and error

The only one that this might be a valid complaint toward is Artorias, where all his attacks have a slight "delay" compared to other enemies so you just need to adjust. DaS1 has probably the most telegraphed attacks of any game in the series.

Dark Souls 2 and 3, on the other hand… hope you enjoy "shockwaves"

How are people still making this same fucking OP so many years later?

>>14953494

>roll into attack, land behind Boreal Outrider knight

>roll happens to land me behind pillar

>Boreal Outrider knight lunge attacks through pillar and kills you

another example

>Deacons of the Deep charges Deep ball

>Go behind massive fucking pillar in the middle of the room clearly meant for crowd/projectile control

>Deep ball goes through pillar anyway

Have some more

>Walk through fog door to Abyss Watchers while Dark Wraiths fight the enemies guarding the place

>Spear clips through fog wall and tickles your prostate

Bonus round

>Climb down bridge in Catacombs of Carthus to fight the demon

>Demon aggros, axe clips through wall, sometimes clips through staircase and hits you

There is never an excuse for letting enemy attacks ignore geometry and hit you.

>>14938039

The board name is "/animu/"; "/animus/" is a self-declared tripfag circlejerk board with an unfortunately similar name.

>>14938675

Shame we don't have a working archive that goes that far back and covers everything. Used to be fun way back when to see how many times cuck/v/ had been hit with "ITT: Worst Castlemania Ever" copypasta threads.

>>14954000

>How are people still making this same fucking OP so many years later?

Easy to reheat copypasta you've stored in the back of the fridge. Doesn't mean anyone's going to find it tasty, especially if it's just plain (You)bait. Also, checked.

>>14938456

>at the time

You act like there are high profile AAA games that punish you significantly for dying or offer even a modicum of challenge today.

protip, there aren't any. Also, Souls games were never "high profile". There were niche games that unexpectedly caught on.

>>14938831

It's harder than Cuphead, and people bitched about Cuphead being too hard. Go figure.

>>14937626

At no point on /v/ was Dark Souls ever considered remotely challenging and not once has anyone not visiting from reddit considered above mediocre.

The consensus has always been that it's a piss easy piece of garbage that casuals pretend to like because (((games journalists))) sold it to them as a game that makes them hardcore. In reality it's easier than a modern Telltale game

I'm playing DS 1 for the first time and while I was suspicious about the plank shield reward at the bottom of Blightown, so I checked the walls, after finding the "real" treasure there was literally no way to find there's actually a second secret wall there. It isn't even obvious, like the one under Queelag's Lair.

>>14956714

>In reality it's easier than a modern Telltale game

That obviously can't be true. If you mashed buttons at complete random you would beat a Telltale "game" in a matter of hours while never getting through the Undead Burg in a lifetime. Any souls game requires a vastly more specific user input in order to succeed than the average game (which isn't saying much), as the lamentations of thousands of redditors can attest.

>>14960038

>after finding the "real" treasure there was literally no way to find there's actually a second secret wall there.

there is at least one mimic encounter before you get there. you find that second secret behind the chest by doing a mimic-check. to be fair there should never have been a linked/unlinked chain graphical difference to visually determine between the two to encourage more mimic-checking.

anyway, my point being that the first mimic encounter should be something the player remembers vividly enough to be wary of all future chests. the same with slimes. they repeat the slime-chest gimmick throughout the series. you should be slime-checking and mimic-checking all chests on a blind first run. it's not a perfect game.

>>14939860

>implying this video is bad

>>14956714

>At no point on /v/ was Dark Souls ever considered remotely challenging and not once has anyone not visiting from reddit considered above mediocre.

>

>The consensus has always been that it's a piss easy piece of garbage that casuals pretend to like because (((games journalists))) sold it to them as a game that makes them hardcore. In reality it's easier than a modern Telltale game

</v/ is one person

</v/ is one thread

Nigger shut the fuck up

>>14960885

I do mimic checking by looking closely at the chest if it breathes or not, not by smashing the chest with my sword like a fucking neanderthal. For example, if I'm low on HP and don't want to die (which will likely be the case because of the poison), I want to have a choice if I want to engage the mimic or not, so I just fucking look at the chest.

>>14939860

but he's so cute

>>14956714

>and not once has anyone not visiting from reddit considered above mediocre.

>and that's why we have a thread up on it almost constantly in the general

Holy fuck you revisionist faggot stop breathing.

>>14937833

nice