Andrew wrote:EDIT:
Sekiro does look rad, but I can't get into those games mechanically and the elitist gate keeping completely turns me off. I get that memes exist, but still.
Difficulty should be more than just memorizing enemy AI until you win.
Sekiro is entirely, 100% skill based and the combat is nothing at all like any other Soulsborne game. The story isn't as dense and heavy, much more of a fun romp through semi-fictional Japan while fighting things and following a simple plot. It isn't harder or easier, but in Dark Souls you can cheese and gank your way through things, min/max a character and weapon, figure out weaknesses/vulnerabilities of bosses to exploit, and the skills that got you through the first boss will carry you through to Slave Knight Gael. Sekiro is the total opposite. No consistent way to gank, some bosses need to be approached entirely differently and with a different mindset, and it's much more reliant on actually being good at the combat rather than min/maxing a char and getting good at one thing.
The movement is way, way more vertical and much more fluid, stealth is not only a viable option but sometimes an essential one, which is nice. No stats to worry about, no weapon choices or grinding (unless you want to for some additional items) and it might click for you a whole lot better than Dark Souls did.
Either way, it's a shame you've had such a shitty experience with the DS community, I've found them to be one of the nicest gaming communities I've dealt with and it's sad that it might have put you off because of a few dickheads. Those games took a really long time to click for me too, I used to think they were like Just Dance but with combat instead of arrows, decided to give it another crack in a pretty dark period of a particularly bad year and it was about the only thing that kept me going. I found them to be really valuable and know a fair few other people have also found them to be valuable in dark times (ironic lol) and hope if you ever give them another chance that you enjoy them more. Either way, try Sekiro, it's great and might tick the boxes of things you didn't like about Dark Souls.
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 10:57 am
