Soulslike - Discussion, News, Memes
This is a community for discussion, news, and memes pertaining to the video game sub-genre "soulslike".
Given Lemmy's size, the definition of soulslike may be treated relatively loosely. While games like the numerous FromSoft titles, the recent Star Wars Jedi games, Lies of P, Nioh and similar games should be the focus, games that incorporate soulslike elements - like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous, for example - may also be discussed here.
Basic Lemmy-quette applies. Additionally, since flairs don't exist yet, please do make sure to include a marker to denote what game your post is about in square brackets for clarity's sake. An example could be:
[BB] This enemy is so difficult!
or
[DS1] Anyone struggling with the gargoyles?
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Hard disagree. I play single player games wrong all the time! The secret is to make up arbitrary rules the game didn't tell you, and convince yourself these are "the way the game is meant to be played" or "in keeping with the spirit of the game". Then, and this step is very important, you don't enjoy playing the game by these arbitrary rules. Then quit or otherwise lose interest, because breaking your made-up bullshit rules would be akin to hacking the game and cheating at the same time.
Maybe a short example would help: "I have to look in every chest, in every room, and every body. What if one of them contains something special I wouldn't want to have missed", but then that gets old real quick. So I never play it again. It may seem like I exchanged missing one small thing with missing 95% of the game's content, and that may seem like a really dumb thing to do, but in fact I didn't miss that content, it's just on pause in the netherspace, and probably someday maybe I'll return to it.
And on that day I won't have missed a thing. And what a glorious day someday will be...