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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.

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[FS] God forbid you get clearer instructions for NPC questlines (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 months ago by v4ld1z@lemmy.zip to c/soulslike@lemmy.zip

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[+] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

I think playing too much King's Quest at an early age completely warped my sense of what makes a game enjoyable. I actually love this stuff, especially if the scene where you game over from not having the sandwich is funny.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've never understood the love for adventure games tbh

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 11 points 2 months ago

Not all adventure games are made by sadistic moon-logicians like the ones at Sierra.

LucasArts, for example, had a long-standing policy of designing their adventure games such that both death and soft-locks were impossible.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Or there is another earlier puzzle that can be solved with the sandwich or the balloon. If you solve it with the sandwich to bad you can't finish the game.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 months ago

To their credit, most of the quests in their games don't really matter. You get some story details or armor that's not mechanically that different from anything else. You can just stumble ahead murdering everything that you can target lock and have a great time. I have hundreds of hours in these games and I think there are some "quests" I don't even know I didn't do.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

That’s why the Three Clue Rule is so important in game design.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

The hint will be wrong. And then mistranslated.