• teft@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’d like more games to be like FromSoft games. The difficulty is adjusted by what gear you have and what spells you use. None of that turning bosses into bullet sponges nonsense.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, Sekiro has a pretty adaptive way of making the game harder, if you start a replay and get rid of the charm item, you can’t almost parry, it has to be precise, and if you ring the demon bell everything gets higher life and damage, but drops much better loot.

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      2 months ago

      Just going to ignore the hundreds of levels most players need to accumulate?

      Sekiro was the only one that actually respected players time. Players bitched endlessly it was too hard.

      If fromsoft actually gave a shit they’d add in adjustable parry windows and iframes and that works cover 90% of the people who weren’t good enough from sekiro. They won’t because they love to be gatekeepers.

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        2 months ago

        Leveling is a normal thing in any game. You level up in most games.

        Also you don’t need to level up in most FromSoft games. The bosses usually have a gimmick or movement patterns that are easy to learn.

        Sounds like you just suck at the games. No shame in that but don’t say something is harder than it is.

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          2 months ago

          I’ve beaten every day since 2 in addition to sekiro, the actual hard game. We’re talking about easing the game for the average population. So yeah if you are in the top .5% of players fromsoft gives a fuck about your time.

          For everyone else your talking somewhere between 50 and 200. I mean for fucks sake for years the advice for hitting a wall in DS was explore and come back at a higher level.

          Modern world of Warcraft has less leveling these days 🤦‍♂️

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            2 months ago

            Yeah, but the point is that you aren’t just grinding levels. You literally said it yourself, you go explore a different area, you play more of the game (not just grind the same part of the game)

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            2 months ago

            I mean for fucks sake for years the advice for hitting a wall in DS was explore and come back at a higher level.

            Kind of like when you’re lower level in other games and have to level up to beat the boss? Do level 1 gnomes go straight to killing The Lich King in world of warcraft?

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      2 months ago

      A lot of people say this and I don’t get it. What would be lost by having each playstyle be balanced properly and then adding difficulty scaling on top of that?