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I like from software, I’ve beaten ds3 a dozen times (best time now is under 4 hours for base game), and elden ring a few times as faith + melee, and strength only build (strength only was way harder).
But, I will say that from software would be a lot better with a pause button and without the corpse run. I will say that makes the game a lot less fun.
one of the downsides of a lot of games being “Soulslike” today but not made by from software, is that they seem to not care about quality control. They make their games hard and unfair without good level design and diverse enemy design. I’ve played almost all souls like, but the only ones I will replay specifically are the from software ones because they tough but fair. The other ones just aren’t very fair, but instead of fixing that, they just say “it’s soulslike, get gud.”
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When did they remove corpse runs? I replayed it this summer and it was still there at that time.
Corpse run is where you have to go back to collect your souls/runes dropped at the place you died, right?
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I've been working my way through Black Mesa the Half-Life 1 remaster this week as I've never played the first game, and I've been thinking that this would make for a good TV series. The story is very good I feel and having each chapter as an episode would work. A movie wouldn't do it justice.
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Corpse runs as in you die to a boss you rez 10mins away and have to run back all the way to the boss room. Still have to grab runes but that's not as much of a concern. Also it's not everywhere, if you die to a boss in the overworld you'll still get put into the nearest spot, but most story bosses and all the mini dungeon bosses have a... Marika statue? I forgot what it is but the checkpoint thing in front of the boss room, so when you die you can just go again right away. Still a few didn't have it, like the dog monster boss shithead had to take the elevator and run past the big knight mob before getting back to it and such. Death runs just add a ton of tedious pointless timewasting when you're banging your head against a boss.
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Oh for sure. I always referred to those as boss runs, and corpse runs were just running back to get your runes/souls. But I agree they resolved that in ER.
The worst boss run was in DS3 when you had to run pretty much through an entire catacomb network to get to Wolnir. Or Maybe in DS1 when you had to run past the all the poison frogs in the sewers to get to Gaping Dragon. Oh man, that one made me rage quit and uninstall a few times.
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Fuck From Soft games and the shitty story, grindfest they road in on!
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without the corpse run?!
EQ plane corpse run anyone? Remember when you wiped in the base game planes (hate/fear/etc) right at the 12 hour pop? Yeah from soft needs a pause button. Perhaps I need to do a faith + melee because my hulk fucking SMASH str run was easy as hell.
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If you're grinding in a fromsoft game you definitely need to git gud
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The whole game feels like a grind. "See that hall over there that you have to run through 100 times, well those 8 skeletons will be respawned EVERY SINGLE TIME you want to run though it." Fucking busy work that's not fun. "Want to know anything about the characters in the game? Well read this fucking scroll because we don't want to tell you about it though the actual story that you play."
I learned to kite in EQ, so it wasn't hard, just MMO tedium in a single player game.
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Fond memories of getting Desert Strike for my 10th birthday, couldn't finish my enchiladas fast enough.
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You uncultured swine, Drive Angry was directed by the highly esteemed Patrick Lussier who brought us such masterpieces as Dracula 2000, White Noise 2, and Terminator Genisys.
Drive Angry is fucking great though.
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Depends on the game.
if I play strength melee only with DS3, my best time is 12 hours for base game. But dexterity build starting with mercenary class, I’ve gotten that under 4 hours more than once
ER strength faith is OP. Especially with blasphemous blade