wow you're so grimdark, cool story gamer 
i get it i'm bad at them too
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Anything anyone likes is bad
Pretty sure you meant to put this in bad posting. There there, you'll git gud eventually.
I love nearly all the games. I hate every one of the players
Melina, is that you?
I don't like any souls game including Elden Ring, but I LOVE sekiro
I am a souls fan in general but Sekiro is GOAT. Takes me back to the old classic Tenchu games
Sekiro pissed me off because I thought it was going to be a Tenchu game when they first showed it lol
Yeah, it got marketed as a spiritual successor to tenchu but it's not at all.
I think the flashback area (where you fight lady butterfly and owl father) is kind of reminiscent of tenchu because it's just a Japanese town that you can stealth around and navigate at your discretion. But that's really it.
Ever play Otogi?
No. Wuzzat?
Otogi and Otogi 2 are Fromsoft's Xbox proto-Sekiro-likes, hack n slashy ancient Japan type beat games. Sekiro is secretly Otogi 3 :>
Cool!
They playable these days without an Xbox?
Based on the screenshots, it really looks a lot more like onimusha
Dunno offhand, there is both CXBX-R (easy to setup) and XEmu, (harder to set up) I have had luck running Jet Set Radio Future myself so maybe?
haha ah classic, the good old badposting channel. always good for a hearty friggin laugh XD
Soulsborne games clarify to me how much of my ability to enjoy stuff is tied to mental association.
I have never been able to give the genre a fair shake because I will forever associate it in my brain with annoying internet freaks being needlessly and aggressively elitist about them. I feel like I would probably like them a lot if I didn't associate the very concept of them with types of people I dislike.
At least I already liked Armored Core and Tenchu before anybody could fuck it up for me.
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Maybe give Sekiro a try? It's not not ac6's frantic flying around combined with Tenchu's fun ninja toys. I
I was the same way. I fucking despise the "git gud" attitude and decided that I would never be able to enjoy the genre that gave rise to that phrase. But I ended up playing a game I didn't even realize was a soulslike until after I became addicted to it. Ever since I've been fascinated by the way that kind of game with that set of mechanics can really hook a person in to the world and into learning and developing the strategy needed to further uncover it.
Cool bait
Yet baiting attacks is a core tactic in soulslikes. Curious...
:curious
I only ever played the first Dark Souls and it was so ass I legitimately thought I had been sold the wrong game for the first like 2 hours, then I never tried any other soulslike games. I love challenging games, even unfair ones, but that shit was just boring as hell. I assume they're not all bad though.
The first soulslike I played was Salt and Sacrifice and it won me over to the genre which beforehand I had decided would be too frustrating. Unlike most soulslikes, Salt & Sanctuary is 2D, so maybe consider giving that one a try if 2D games tend to be more along the lines of what you like. I'm guessing that might be the case considering you made one! Also for that reason, it might be worth noting that Salt & Sanctuary was a labor of love made entirely by only 2 people. Make sure it's Salt & Sanctuary you're getting because they did end up putting out a sequel, which I haven't played yet but understand it to be more like Monster Hunter than a soulslike, called Salt & Sacrifice.
Counterpoint: no
Yeah, I don't get the appeal
Can we get a moratorium on these bait posts? They're boring and repetitive
They're boring and repetitive
Kinda like something else mentioned in the post 
See, this is what I'm talking about; people who are still upset about "git gud" memes from 2011 don't actually want to play Elden ring or engage with the games on their own terms. They're arguing with teenagers from more than a decade ago about a genre manyf them have never played, with core game mechanics they seem to greatly dislike.
I personally find them boring but I can still recognize them as good games
The souls games are actually just fun games with lots of fun and wholesome characters
Yeah, too fussy and repetitive. Why would I want to spent a couple of hours trying to beat the same boss fight over and over? The whole process of getting gud is dreadfully dull.
At least most of them suffer from the fact that the gameplay is built on dodging attacks and then retaliating, with basically no variety. And this also severely restricts the design space, unless the designers decide to actually introduce other mechanics for interacting with enemies.
Wrong, memorizing sequences of janky hitboxes to dodge with i-frames is the peak of gaming.
I would love to be able to just walk around and enjoy all the environments without dying.
They could add a tourism mode. You can just walk around the environments. You see ghostly images of other players getting killed while you stroll around taking in the sights.
Literally never played one of these games lmao
To everyone replying with seething tears, shouldn't you be busy intently pressing the dodge button for two hours while some fat, slow, slimy eldritch horror tries to hit you with the world's biggest and clunkiest sword? And surely there's another one to kill in the next room, so how do you have time to post here?
Armoured core cool tho
To everyone replying with seething tears
this place becomes more and more like reddit every day
Appropriate I guess, given the wave of defence for Reddit: The Game
I like them, but I don't like sharing my pop culture interests with people. So I get mad when other people like what I like.
(I'm never serious people)
Dakr souls 1 and 2 are good. the rest suck, elden ring most of all. Sekiro is separate, and is the best one tho
i fucking suck at those games, but i wouldn't say they're bad.. I'm just bad
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This belongs in c/badpost