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I’ve got a long week of internship behind me, so I’ll definitely be continuing my Dark Souls 3 playthrough. I just defeated Champion Gundyr (what a letdown, man) and have moved on to Dragonpeak Something (?) to go for NK - looking forward to that. Might go for the DLC next before finishing this playthrough, maybe I’ll go for a SL1 run - will have to see. :)
What about you? Please share your plans - eager to hear about it! :)
Soulslike and adjacent games are meditative for me, they require focus and adaptablity, but most of all, perseverance and patience. The payoff is so rewarding …Once the machanics fully click and you start to flow with what the game throws at you… Ah blissssss.
I was walking down a lonely road at midnight once and saw what I thought was a chicken riding a horse.
That is not as strange as finding out that people find Souls games meditative.
I’m doing several double takes right now.
I’m also drunk so please excuse my language.
Really? Hahaha well late cheers, I’m enjoying some cold ones right now. When I started playing I knew from the get go it was going to be hard and I was going to be shit, so I didn’t mind taking my time getting familiar with the mechanics… Also the lore was intriguing and the gameplay looked like a dance, I wanted to be able to do that. I enjoy being proficient at hard things so I guess I have the right mentality for them. But to each their own, definitely not for everyone.
My kid convinced me to check out Elden Ring. I beat every boss (including the hidden ones) up until the final.
It was then that I realized that I had had no fun and was just sloughing my way through. I quit and deleted the game.
I gave it a try and I’m familiar enough with it to know it’s not for me. I wish I could get into it like you.
Props to you for giving the genre a fair shot. What’s the point of playing a game if you are not enjoying yourself? You made the right call.
Once you get the rhythm of it, theyre much less stressful. I absolutely get how they feel meditative when playing, that’s the right frame of mind for me to play them “correctly” too. Same as Rocket League, you’ve got to kind of zone in to the game and let reflexes take over.
I’ve also been meditating my whole life (im 39 and learned as a teenager) so it comes very easily to me. It’s like anything else, practice makes better.
lol. Man, Souls gamers are like vegans. It’s hard for them to understand that the joy they get isn’t universal.
That is painful for others!
Thats fair, I don’t mean to imply that. I was just explaining how it felt to me. These things only clicked for me a few months ago so im a little fixated, sorry.