• Kaelygon@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I once made the mistake googling easy mode for Elden ring that someone gifted to me. Once I saw the gatekeeping on Reddit, I decided it’s not a game for me and uninstalled. I’m sorry that I suck at video games

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      2 days ago

      I bought Rain World recently, having heard a lot of good things about it, and I found it hard to get into because I didn’t really see a point to what I was doing, whether I was doing it right, etc, so I put “how to enjoy Rain World” into my search engine of choice and found an article with some beginner tips, one of which being that the bleak, helpless feel is intentional and part of the experience. I respect it as an artistic decision, but my private and work lives are stressful enough as it is, which is probably partly why I was bouncing off the game, so I just got a refund, and I’m fine with that decision.

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        2 days ago

        I loved every bit of Rain World! But I ended up quitting it mid play through when it became too hard. I found a way to gather stacks of berries to have enough reattempts for the hard parts, but then got lost where I was even supposed to go and gave up after ~25 hours playtime

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      3 days ago

      it gets much easier when you start treating it like a rhythm game where you get into dance offs with the enemies:)

      and no need to interact with a game’s community when it’s shite, it’s a single player game you can enjoy it however you want! (or don’t, i’m not pressuring you, just don’t want you to miss out on a good game because its fanbase is made of out assholes)

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        3 days ago

        I don’t want to redo the same thing a dozen times just to experience the story and world

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        3 days ago

        Whoop, I mixed up dark souls 3 with Elden ring. Though, the same applies. I did like the gritty atmosphere and lore. The main issue I had was the learning curve and when trying to playing co-op there was no way to turn off strangers joining what I recall. But I bet by now there’s mods for all of that like you said.

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        3 days ago

        I have gotten all achievements for the game and this is the way. I am not even particularly good, just determined. It is a very good game, just dont read the comments on fextralife.

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      3 days ago

      There are probably some mods that make it easier if you want to play.

      And yeah game communities suck sometimes.

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      3 days ago

      If you ever want to give it a shot, everything in the souls games can be trivialized if you just farm a little extra between the next fight.

      That’s not to say it won’t be difficult at times, but if you prepare yourself well enough you can take just about anything.

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        3 days ago

        Honestly just ignoring the YouTuber meme builds and pumping vitality to 40 right away makes all the souls games pretty approachable.