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Dark Souls (and everything it influences) Sucks

Zed Duke of Banville

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Sir, it's our fault that people are calling 2D metroidvanias soulslikes.
Most purist FromSoftware fans detest the term "soulslike" more than you can ever fathom
Salt & Sanctuary is a well-conceived conversion of the Demon's/Dark Souls formula to a 2D environment, with a bit of "Metroidvania" introduced in the form of extra movement abilities. Baffling that someone would expose his own poor taste by claiming Salt & Sanctuary as justification for detesting all games similar to the Demon's/Dark Souls.

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Drakortha

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5 pages. Embarassing. You should all feel embarassed for giving OP what she wants. Clowns.
Sorry to break it to you but this thread is going to be around for a long time. After all the Dark Souls fanboys are done seething and coping and the dust settles, this will be the go-to thread on Codex for discussing how overrated these games are.

Best part is they all outed themselves in the first few pages for the whole internet to see.
 

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And by extension, everything that is 'Soulslike' sucks too.

Every time I look into a new game that falls under this description it ends up looking like the most uninspired, soulless shit I've ever seen. It's almost like if a game is to qualify it needs to be devoid of anything good and be a soulless husk of an experience for the player.

These games are just ugly throughout. And I don't just mean graphically - I mean artistically as well. Just look at this shit. Is this an inside joke? Why does everything in these games look so shitty?

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You smash everything, the game is already difficult so the things you need to smash look shitty to encourage you to smash them without hesitation. Not everyone are oogabooga, even in game they struggle to destroy the beauty.
 

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Salt & Sanctuary is a well-conceived conversion of the Demon's/Dark Souls formula to a 2D environment, with a bit of "Metroidvania" introduced in the form of extra movement abilities. Baffling that someone would expose his own poor taste by claiming Salt & Sanctuary as justification for detesting all games similar to the Demon's/Dark Souls.

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Look at that dialogue and that character model. Epitome of edgy gay emo syndrome. Weakling arms and a faggot haircut. And what's with the hat? Is that how you fantasize yourself? And you say I have poor taste.

That screenshot makes the game look even more gay than the ones I posted myself, lol. Nice job!
 

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Salt & Sanctuary is a well-conceived conversion of the Demon's/Dark Souls formula to a 2D environment, with a bit of "Metroidvania" introduced in the form of extra movement abilities. Baffling that someone would expose his own poor taste by claiming Salt & Sanctuary as justification for detesting all games similar to the Demon's/Dark Souls.
Play this you'll like it
 

Skinwalker

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Salt & Sanctuary is a well-conceived conversion of the Demon's/Dark Souls formula to a 2D environment, with a bit of "Metroidvania" introduced in the form of extra movement abilities. Baffling that someone would expose his own poor taste by claiming Salt & Sanctuary as justification for detesting all games similar to the Demon's/Dark Souls.
Yes, it's one of the few soulslikes that take the Dark Souls formula and apply it to a different core gameplay mechanic, as opposed to most soulslike that are just blatant rip0offs, like Lies of Poo blatantly ripping off Bloodborne without even trying to do anything new or interesting.
 

H. P. Lovecraft's Cat

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The idiot claims Dark Souls sucks and you dipshits are defending the ripoffs. Priorities people. Fix your shit and also delete this thread off the face of our world.
 

H. P. Lovecraft's Cat

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The idiot claims Dark Souls sucks and you dipshits are defending the ripoffs. Priorities people. Fix your shit and also delete this thread off the face of our world.
You smell.
You're a petty little bitch boy throwing petty ass insults at more mature members. GTFO my face bitch and go do something productive. I will burn this useless thread to the ground.
 

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The idiot claims Dark Souls sucks and you dipshits are defending the ripoffs. Priorities people. Fix your shit and also delete this thread off the face of our world.
You smell.
You're a petty little bitch boy throwing petty ass insults at more mature members. GTFO my face bitch and go do something productive. I will burn this useless thread to the ground.
I have no problems with you burning this thread to the ground, but you don't need to be such an overly dramatic attention-whore.
 

H. P. Lovecraft's Cat

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I didn't make the thread. I'm not attention whoring. I would like all false information spreaders and their content to be thrown in the fire. That is what I'm advocating for.
 

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Someone tell H. P. Lovecraft's Cat that Skyrim is a better walking simulator than Dark Souls.

At least Skyrim has writing. What story is there in Dark Souls? You walk around an empty as shit world and pretend LARP that your character is doing something important.

All that grandeur that you think encompasses Souls games is all in your head. Go read a book.
 
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Odoryuk

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You walk around an empty as shit world and pretend LARPing that your character is doing something important.

All that grandeur that you think encompasses Souls games is all in your head. Go read a book.

There's no grandeur in FS games. I don't imagine shitty power fantasy stories like in Skyrim or other games, it's all pure melancholy and sense of uncovering old places no one visited in hundreds of years. No other games like this. Feels like you're the one that needs an epic adventure where your character is a Chosen one and everyone love him
 

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You walk around an empty as shit world and pretend LARPing that your character is doing something important.

All that grandeur that you think encompasses Souls games is all in your head. Go read a book.

There's no grandeur in FS games. I don't imagine shitty power fantasy stories like in Skyrim or other games, it's all pure melancholy and sense of uncovering old places no one visited in hundreds of years. No other games like this. Feels like you're the one that needs an epic adventure where your character is a Chosen one and everyone love him
There's more melancholy to be found walking around an abandoned Minecraft server. The ruins you find there had actual purpose once upon a time because players actually lived there and left behind true stories from a bygone era. The old places you find in Dark Souls by comparison are FAKE AND GAY and their history only exists in your head.
 
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I'll say it just once, so, kindly pay attention: "It is not graphics within which the gameplay lie, and with strange subjectiveness, even AAA may die."
 

Lyric Suite

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There's no such thing as Souls-likes. There are Souls-clones, an handful, mostly from small ghetto studios, and then there's the overuse of the term by the gayming media which however applies to nothing from what i've seen. OP had to link to ER because there's literally nothing much out there that fits this description (and him picking ER as an example of shit art design shows OP has ho clue WTF he is talking about). People complaining about everything out there being a Souls-like are fighting a mirage, literally railing at windmills of their own making.

You want to know a genre that's actually being abused? Try Rogue-like for size. But Souls-like? I dare OP to name five right now that aren't FromSoft without googling. Go ahead.
 

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You want to know a genre that's actually being abused? Try Rogue-like for size. But Souls-like? I dare OP to name five right now that aren't FromSoft without googling. Go ahead.
Retarded question, because "Souls-like" isn't a real genre. Someone hasn't been paying attention.

Watch any review for a new game that has action combat (and I mean a review for ANY game) and you'll see the term "Souls-like" thrown around like it's going out of fashion.
 

Lyric Suite

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You won't be able to derail this thread so long as I'm here to keep the discussion on topic. But keep trying as much as you like.
Didn't you recently posted that, contrary to the thread's title, Dark Souls does not suck?
This thread is about Dark Souls Sucking. It's not about sucking off Dark Souls like every other corner of the internet out there.

He says, while praising dog shit Bethesda manure.
 

Lyric Suite

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You want to know a genre that's actually being abused? Try Rogue-like for size. But Souls-like? I dare OP to name five right now that aren't FromSoft without googling. Go ahead.
Retarded question, because "Souls-like" isn't a real genre. Someone hasn't been paying attention.

Watch any review for a new game that has action combat (and I mean a review for ANY game) and you'll see the term "Souls-like" thrown around like it's going out of fashion.

So what is there to complain about?
 

Lyric Suite

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So what is there to complain about?
Dark Souls games are just trash action RPG games that are way over-hyped and I'm tired of seeing it's influence everywhere I go?

Dark Souls games are the greatest action RPGs made this past 15 years and their influence is nill aside for the aformentioned ghetto studios who by virtue of not being mainstream refute your second point.
 

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