I’ll start. pokemon. doesn’t matter if the game’s old or new I just can’t get into how it plays. idk the gameplay just gets old to me pretty quickly, palworld is an upgrade in every way tbh

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    Souls games.

    I really want to like them too, but they seemingly aren’t compatible with how I play games. I need to be able to put a game down for a couple of weeks and not feel like I’m back at square one because the specific muscle memory for that game has gone.

    Just kinda kills the fun when the game is effectively telling me to get good, when I don’t actually have the amount of free time IRL necessary to do that.

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      Try Jedi Fallen Order. It’s got a lot of the ingredients, but a lot shallower learning curve.

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      for me it feels like they don’t respect me as an adult. i need to be able to pause and save games. sometimes i get phone calls. sometimes the power goes out. sometimes i spill my drink. but no, it’s all just “get gud”.

      also i just can’t handle the aesthetics .

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        Could you talk a little more about the aesthetics thing? I have no intention to pick a fight with you or tell you that your opinion is wrong, I’m just curious because I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that about them before

        Also yes the no pausing thing is very frustrating

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          everything is dark and gray and meaty and slimy and gory and bloody and disgusting and sad and lonely and unpersonal and depressing and hopeless and evil and hateful and murderous and dead and off and…

          even screenshots fucking wreck my mental health.

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      Yeah. Heard so much about Elden Ring, and watched the kids play it, so I thought I’d give it a shot.

      After about 45 minutes of wandering aimlessly and nearly as many deaths, I decided I wasn’t having a good time.

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        The beauty of Elden ring is that you can explore without actually killing much. Eventually you’ll find some cool weapons or smithing stones to upgrade your current weapon and some runes to get a couple of levels (putting points on vigor helps a lot early on)

        And then the game starts feeling less rough.

        But I can definitely understand why it’s not for everyone.

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        I finally had the Get Good moment where everything clicks recently, its very real. Now im on Nightreign like its crack.

        Level your Vigor, people. Farm that little village with the soldiers and get a few levels into your health bar. And boom! Now you don’t die bc you missed a dodge. There’s good starting gear there too.

        Once you “get it”, suddenly Elden Ring becomes like the coolest DnD game ever from an old-school perspective. Honestly, its not much different from Zelda - if you can play that, you can play Elden Ring i think.