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I had given DS1 a try on PC back when I saw the game played by PewDiePie (jesus this was ages ago) and didn’t really get the game at all; keyboard controls prior to PTD edition probably didn’t help either lol
My first real venture into soulslikes was Bloodborne and it went horribly to say the least. I killed the Cleric Beast and Gascoigne the first evening I tried the game and put down the game afterwards but it was just too much for me. I was scared, didn’t know what I was doing, and it was just waay to hard for me.
Took me a couple of years to get back to it and give it another shot. One of my all-time favourite games today.
How about you guys?
I bounced off Bloodborne hard, about three times over the years. Same with Sekiro. I love these games conceptually, but there just isn’t enough bandwidth for me to engage with them on their level, and my fighting style has always been so painfully conservative and generally lackluster. I’ve only been able to finish DS1 and DS3.
Yea you do have to adapt to the games’ speed and play on their terms. Once you do, you’re having a great time, but you need to get there first. Bloodborne is definitely the more approachable of the two in terms of difficulty and actually shouldn’t be too far away from DS3 when it comes to speed and aggressiveness given that DS3 was inspired by BB’s design
…I had to mute the TV in order to beat Aldrich. Maybe my auditory processing issues were the problem with BB.
I kept getting flustered, but I never wanted to turn off the sound. I love the BB soundtrack so much. And yet…!
Wait, that’s interesting. What kind of auditory processing issues, if you don’t mind my asking?
It’s no bother. It’s been a long journey for me to figure out what’s the matter with me and I’ve only recently become self aware enough to talk about it and start looking after myself better.
There are a few ways it affects me. If I’m reading something and someone talks to me, I might completely not even hear them. Or I might only hear them and lose the ability to read. Also if there’s more than one person talking to me, I immediately begin to get overwhelmed.
In video games, sometimes I turn off the sound (or just deactivate the music) and this often helps if I’m stuck.
The weird thing is, if it’s my music then I seem to do even better sometimes. So it’s nice that I figured out how to make my game console mix in music from my NAS recently.
I’m still learning how to deal and how to communicate when I’m struggling. I used to be certain I was neurotypical, but looking back that’s kind of laughable.
I can imagine it’s tough dealing with this. How do you manage? And is this an official diagnosis or just something you’ve noticed over the years?
Like I said, it’s not life changing like some pathologies I just have to be mindful of what is difficult. Sometimes I mute the TV, sometimes I have to apologize very well and ask for people to repeat themselves - or ask them not to talk to me while I read. It’s a little friction but not insurmountable.
It’s not an official diagnosis, just a label I’ve found useful for dealing with shit I can’t handle