Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software)

Logarius made me his bitch. Still makes me his bitch on replays. I just cannot get his patterns down to save my life. I struggled with all of the bosses until Rom (outside of the witches), and then for whatever reason the ones in the latter half of the game just were easier to me. I one shot many of them, but the ones I did die to, it was no more than 3 or 4 times.

Someone brought up dark souls III. I legit just struggled with that game period. I could not get the timing down in that one after playing bloodborne, until I figured out the art of turtling. Then they were all trivial until Nameless King. I will never get him, and I have no shame I summoned someone so I could beat him.

Soygen said:

I never really got good with parries. Sekiro is looking like I'm going to have to.

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I was never great at it either, but at least in Bloodborne you could do it from a distance so if you fucked it up you were just out a bullet, not 2/3 of your life bar.

TJT said:

I have Friday off and a 3 day weekend before starting my new job. Yay!

Anyone down for hanging out in discord and discussing secrets found and/or excessive raging?

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You can't handle this rage.

Black dragon Kalameet gave me some serious guff. He was super aggressive for it being DS1, had a huge hit range and it was dangerous to be near him for more than a couple seconds. I ended up just putting on Havels and tanking him.

9 long days to go

Needless said:

Dang y’all really liked nioh huh

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I don't dig it either. Paid full price for the game based on the overwhelmingly positive response here. Spent hours getting destroyed by the third boss. Bitch would one-shot me and then it took like 30 minutes just to get back to her. Fuck that noise. I'll probably never boot the game up again. Some of y'all are either epic gamers or extreme masochists.

Alex said:

I don't dig it either. Paid full price for the game based on the overwhelmingly positive response here. Spent hours getting destroyed by the third boss. Bitch would one-shot me and then it took like 30 minutes just to get back to her. Fuck that noise. I'll probably never boot the game up again. Some of y'all are either epic gamers or extreme masochists.

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Weird, I found nioh to be overall easier then dark souls for the most part with how much I've played of it. (past 10th boss, haven't had any time to get back onto it since its on my ps4)

Nioh has it's moments but other then that it is a easier Souls style game. I wasn't' overly impressed by it, as much as Souls but *shrug* it was fun.

Dark Souls 3 was the best soulsborne and probably my favorite game of all time.

The controls were the most responsive, the environments were beautiful, the bosses felt absolutely epic, and they seemed to get down the perfect ratio of level to bosses.

Ambiturner said:

Dark Souls 3 was the best soulsborne and probably my favorite game of all time.

The controls were the most responsive, the environments were beautiful, the bosses felt absolutely epic, and they seemed to get down the perfect ratio of level to bosses.

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I agree with controls and the environments were beautiful but felt the lore was weaker then DS1.

Also bosses looked epic, but gameplay wise most were not epic at all for me. One attempted WAY to many. (not including DLC, which were always amazing in every DS game)

Soygen said:

I felt like the first few hours of Nioh were pretty challenging, but as you leveled and geared up, it got much easier than Souls games. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but it wasn't as fun as BB or DS.

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As I said in the Nioh thread, Nioh was way more Diablo than it was Dark Souls. It shared some basic concepts of the stamina based combat and how you leveled up stats, and that was about it. How you approached battles and strategies were more akin to game that relied on special abilities than souls. Then, to top it off, a massive chunk of your power comes from your gear and the set bonueses from said gear. Souls, while it had gear, was very static in nature there and you either brute forced via leveling up or by fine tuning your skills or a mixture of both. Sekiro seems to be mostly fine tuning your skills with a little help from powering up (via skill trees and the limited ability to increase hp and attack power).