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?

  • @umbraroze
    2•17 hours ago

    I got Dark Souls for free on the Games with Gold on Xbox 360.

    Was like “hey, this seems pretty nice, love the art style and music.”

    Only months later I heard this was supposed to be this notoriously hard and frustrating game for real pros.

    I was then like “Well it did seem a little bit unforgiving, yes. Maybe I should leave this for later. You know, after I’ve 100%d Metroid Prime 2.”

    (Metroid Prime 2: Echoes on GameCube is balls hard. I beat the last major area boss. Then my Mad Catz memory card died. Did the whole game again. Beat it. Didn’t get 100% because I missed one scan. I will do it again, probably soonish now that I’ve dumped the disc for Dolphin, but I’ll wait a moment if there’s a Switch rerelease.)

    I have enjoyed some other Soulslikes - Elden Ring is great fun even though my tangible progress is quite slow.

    • DruidOPMEnglish
      1•11 hours ago

      Wow that’s brutal. Hope you do get around to finish Metroid sometime!