The solution is to make a better combat system kek
I would say its because DS2 is the best one mechanically
If I beat the game then I got it. You might enjoy bosses reading your inputs and holding attacks to punish you for not standing idle for 5 seconds. Others do not. You also ignore that Maliketh can jump around the arena, break your camera lock on and then shoot a ranged attack at you that passes through terrain and deletes a chunk of your health bar. Just because you don't need a guide doesn't mean it's fair for game breaking problems to exist. How many times did you stand behind a pillar and Maliketh dashed/swung right through it and hit you on the other side because enemies ignore terrain? It happened to me several times and I don't think any one should find that acceptable. It's not Tough but fair, it's broken game mechanics.
Yes, but are also a sign of the problem. The increased shounen anime style of the games has pushed the feel of the games past breaking point. If a player needs an exact clone of themselves and both are firing lasers from their dick while Goku spirit bombs the boss there is a serious problem with your combat system. It becomes less about player skill and more about broken builds. If you don't enjoy summoning an army and using weapon arts you're in for a seriously rough time from basically the capital on wards.
All of this is not necessary to beat any of the bosses in Elden Ring. People killed Malenia without leveling up, or without using any weapons, and some years later someone will beat her without upgrading and without using any weapons at all, it's all possible. There's no problem with their combat systems, it's very versatile. You can go on about roll spam and how it is impossible to beat the game otherwise, but their games were bitten with fat rolling characters just fine. You can use whatever the game gives you and it will affect your experience. If you're not that skillful, you can use Mimic Tear and have fun with that. It's fun.
I've done RL1 Elden Ring runs. I still think the system is broken and needs fixing. Being able to throw yourself at the game until it doesn't fuck you doesn't mean it's not wearing a 5 foot dog dildo and coming for you while you sleep. You shouldn't have to dodge a sword phasing through a giant pillar because any one not retarded can understand swords don't phase through pillars.
You should learn that large-ass enemies or enemies with long weaponry can get you and just evade these attacks just in case pretty quick.
Give enemy weapon collision and improve the AI/movesets so they can't be abused to bounce off walls.
Wait, I came up with an algorythm. So, instead of using large capsules for hitboxes, you use tenths if not hundreds of small spheres that act as hitboxes. If any of this hitboxes collide with a terrain or non-character object, you disable them for the rest of the attack animation. So, if the attack goes through a wall a little, the hitboxes on the tip of the sword will be disabled. But, again, this will feel weird when the blade touches your character and doesn't hit even if you're not rolling.
There's so many situations where this can break, that changing it so some people would stop complaining about penetrating hitboxes is not viable at all.
It's also possible to jump a car over a huge gap in a bridge by using a ramp. Doesn't mean that's an acceptable way for a bridge to be built.
Play some Flatout maybe. It's also fun.
There was nothing unfair in the game. You're fighting ghosts.
There have been countless examples of why it's so beloved. It evolutionized the Souls-style combat in the best way and imo, they never got back there. Bloodborne did it's own thing which is fine. Sekiro also but it's the worst of the bunch for being so one-note and having tons of awful forced stealth mechanics. DkS3 stripped away everything good that 2 introduced so fuck that game. Elden Ring brought back some stuff from 2 but it was watered down. 2 remains the best.
I only remember people praising its approach to NG+ (a lot of random red phantoms everywhere, the only good thing is the Freja encounter, which actually would made the base NG way better and there's no sense locking it behind NG+, clearly shows their lack of time when redeveloping the game), PvP (I can understand people liking a lot of variations of equipment they can use, even though it's mostly visual stuff and I find DS2's visual style very weak) and DLCs (DLC content is actually very good, I agree here, they made the game way better).
It is actually the autists who want to have a perfect puzzle. Normal people just play the game and have fun.
That's a whole lot of words coming out of a tiny turtled penis. If you don't like the GOAT it's fine but don't personally attack it's fans. You may as well dive into a den of Lions, son.
That's what I meant, yeah.
I can also eat a pile of horse shit, but it doesn't mean I want to does it? There is a sweet spot where difficulty and predictable game mechanics cross over. Elden Ring literally breaks half of it's own rules with no warning. Maliketh's projectile penetrate terrain when none of the previous ones do. How is a player reasonably supposed to expect they're going to get nuked if they take cover? If you take him out of his arena and fight him else where he's a pretty fair boss, but the pillars have specific problems with his moveset and him mounting the walls. A competent developer would have said the pillars need removing or they need to control the AI to prevent his attacks clipping or the camera breaking. From said ship it and 2 years later (more like 15 years later) the issue hasn't been patched. He still noclips through terrain, his attacks still hit you through pillars and he still breaks the camera when he jumps around and 1-2 shots you from angles it's difficult to predict with a broken camera. And manual camera control requires the same finger you use to roll which means you have to pick between seeing the boss or rolling as quickly as possible, which is essential with a boss as fast as him.
How can you be so right about DkS2 and 3 and at the same time be so wrong about Sekiro? Huh? How can 2 personalities coexist with one another?
Us cultured folks like to call that Choice & Consequence
The build possibilities are versatile, the combat system itself not so much
The build possibilities are versatile, the combat system itself not so much
