I think a single mandatory difficulty and sparse save points are perfectly defensible design decisions. It also seems to be "common knowledge" that DS2-3 are a step down from the original, so evidently they are not regarded as beyond criticism, but I don't have an opinion about that.
The extra quests/sidestory involving Hammerhead and Silver Sable (mostly), right?
Yeah, they constantly throw waves of enemies with mini guns and shit at you. I hope 2's DLC isn't nearly as pants on head retarded.
Having mulled it over a bit, I might consider getting 2, just because Kraven the Hunter's in it. Well, not just, but, er, you get the gist.
It really is worth trying out the old Spider-Man games even though they're a bit dated now. Black Cat was never hotter in a game than she was in Web of Shadows. And as for the original Spider-Man 2, nothing beats swinging around delivering pizzas.
People say this but DS2 did far more with it's NG+ and world than any of other DS games. It also had the best fashion and bonfire aesthetics should have been in 3
Except no.
the pasta strainer bandit set looks fucking stupid and you know it, stop trying to trick people
I really think this is the crux of your problem. Souls fans are the worst people in the entire world and they craft their personality around and derive their self-worth from being "gud" at these games.
I heard the opposite. That Elden Ring is mostly reused content from the other souls games, and it's trivial to make yourself OP with ashes and spells with even the slightest bit of sidequesting. Having been burned before with all their other games, I've let Elden Ring sit on the back burner.
thats not the original spiderman 2. The ps1 game was. Also the movie tie in for 3 sucks skip that one.
Yea its gimmick is that youre supposed to have a hoarde of helpers but as far as gimmicks go thats a pretty lame one. Its also a poorly designed boss, its one of those screen hogging monstrosities the camera cant deal with.
Yeah, as I said, Dark Souls fans are the worst people in the entire world. It's a bunch of nerds with no actual achievements to their names jerking themselves off because they beat a game.
I don't think summons are "forbidden", but I do think mano a mano duels with bosses are the highlight of the entire series and would be very disappointed if the difficulty is so extreme that I'm effectively required to play it like an MMO. Unlike most Souls faggots, I blame From Soft for a whole lot of things, rather than considering them infallible and blaming players for "playing it wrong".
Not even a hard game. I like souls games theyre great, theyve lost a lot a bit of their original charm over time and fail to carry over basic improvements between games but theyve maintained a good level of quality. That being said theyre not hard games, they were refreshingly punishing in an era of dumbed down garbage where game over meant respawning 10 seconds back with no concequence.
You're just doing the same thing as the Souls faggots in reverse. DAS FUCKIN EASY NOOB YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT'S REALLY HARD?
ER isn't so much reused content as there's a wealth of assets from a decade and a half of other titles to pull from. So some animations and models or even partial models might show up again. A lot of people will point to unfinished or cut content in older titles that are given new life in subsequent games. For example, I believe the ulcerated tree spirit boss was something cut from DS3 but was a fully realized, if reused several times boss in ER. ER reuses its own content tons and I wish the game was a more concentrated experience but it's almost entirely found in side dungeons that the player can easily ignore.
It's a spectacle fight. All of the games have at least one and in this case, ER has two, Radahn and Rykard. Both are beatable without using their gimmicks. Anyone complaining about summons in the Radahn right and not complaining about the serpent hunter in the Rykard fight is a faggot and their opinions can be discarded. I think the fight is cool but it has its issues.
The game has way more latitude in terms of when you tackle objectives that it's safe to say the game is as easy or as hard as you'd like it to be. There are very few bottlenecks for progression. While there isn't a "correct" way to play the game, if someone is rushing the main quest and ignoring the open world while complaining about getting filtered, you'd think they might try and explore the big ass map. This isn't really the case for other From titles where the experience is largely linear. The "git gud" mantra applies much less to ER where you can much more easily brute force objectives via simply exploring.
It sounds like you're a soulsfag in denial.
Nevermind, you're just a sperg.
No I'm pointing out the fallacy of the statement. All the games I listed have easy modes and are still a far better combat experience. The point of souls is their variety and the journey they put the player through, its only natural there's less depth to the combat when you have 500 weapons and youre only expected to have 1 at a time. But that journey has become weaker as the games focus more on combat.
Well I can explain my feelings on this one the summon mechanic is well known to be a handicap. As for the rykard/yorhm fights they're botched recreations of a gimmick from DeS, the storm king was out of range of most builds so paying attention to your enviornment (half the reason immersion is so important for putting you in the shoes of your adventurer) allowed you to find an alternate way to take on the boss.
"It's not an accomplishment to beat any video game and pissing matches about what games are really difficult are gay."
I forgot all about Web of Shadows. Wolverine's in it, too. I'll look for it sometime, I think.
I never said it didn't have flaws, just that it was more experimental than any of the other games. For better or worse.
It certainly was. I don't think I've ever seen a game that innovated a good concept to be worse in so many ways. They even managed to make it significantly uglier than its predecessor.