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Anon fixes Super Mario Bros (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You should! The game desperately wants you to! That's why stuff like the messaging system was created, to incentivize the player to player share of information. Yeah, all the messages left these days are going to be trolling, unfortunately, but there's still plenty of videos and info from the era it was released on the internet.

There's absolutely no shame in looking something up when you get stuck and can't progress further, or asking a friend where to go next. That's FromSoftware's intent.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but that's not interesting to me. i want immersion. that's also why their multiplayer aspect seems like such a weird idea.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then they might not be the games for you. Immersion is probably the last thing I'd really think of for Souls. They're very much a series of videogames that feel like videogames, especially when you realize how many of the assets and animations get re-used from game to game.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago

that's... the most concise way to explain it i've ever seen, and something that has never clicked for me until now. it's always looked to me like this lore-heavy dark RPG and i've never been able to square the gameplay with the feeling. hearing that it was never supposed to gel at all and it's all just background noise makes a lot of sense, and made all the remaining curiosity i had for the series disappear.

now if only other games could stop getting infected by the fromsoft bug...