![]() ![]() These paragons of peerless punishment are a breed all their own. the bloody-mouthed champions of combat who see a 12-foot tall minotaur and say, “hell, that looks like dinner”. It’s for the people who relish being ground into paste over and over. Eldest Souls is made for the game player I’m not. I gracefully slipped out of that 18-24 age group and saw myself staring down the barrel of not being able to beat Cuphead. It’s made for the quickscoping-gunnar-optics-mtn-dew-young-people of the world. Will I go back? Probably not.ĬoD is no longer made for me. Does that make CoD a bad series? Absolutely not. The scene passed me by, and I was happy about it. At some point, I realized that there was nothing to gain, grinding out kills and being called unholy names by tweens. I’d get off of work (I was delivering pizzas at the time) and then slam down on my couch and play 10+ hours of CoD. Instead of tearing down something because you don’t understand it, or are bad at it, I encourage you to instead focus your effort on another game.įun story: I used to be a competitive Call of Duty player back when we were all excited about Modern Warfare 3. Not every game is going to be made for you. Do the kids still play the Call of Duty? The fact of the matter is not every game is going to be made for me. I will happily meet any of you in the field of digital combat. ![]() I’m not bad at games, regardless of what you think. Ever since I became a video games journalist people have said, “well now you’re required to be bad at games hyuck hyuck”, and I’ll be damned but they’re right. I fully expect to be dragged for this opinion. I may just be tilting at windmills, whining about being 200 years old. If you like difficult combat, gorgeous pixel art, and a neat RPG system, then you’ll love Eldest Souls, if it doesn’t crush you. When push comes to shove, I’m more than happy to send the potential fun down the river to the next player. I can’t say this enough: Eldest Souls is not a bad game. Kidding aside, I think what Eldest Souls does is great. Those people are demi-gods among us, and we should be terrified that they’re out there. I know that some people easily bested the game in 3.5 hours or less. When a game becomes more like a job than a game, it’s time to step back. It’s physically impossible to lift your body via bootstraps, and 2. I’m not going to give you a feel good story about me pulling myself up by the bootstraps to go back and beat Eldest Souls. Those of you who would get mad that people aren’t being challenged, I ask you this: Since when was it your business? There’s room at the table for easy mode and nightmare-mega-turbo-village-of-shadows-death-EX-mode that you like. I think difficulty options are great, and allow people to experience a story at their own pace at their own challenge level. There was a bit of a scuttlebutt around people asking for an easy mode in souls-like games. It’s a fine inspiration to take, but Dark Souls and its ilk are so much more than combat.ĭark fantasy vistas, environmental storytelling, excellent map design these are the things that make Dark Souls good *along* with the combat. Is this games now? It seems that a lot of newer souls-likes took their inspiration from the punishing combat in the Souls series. ![]() I’m not looking to justify myself, just understand. I could list off all of the games I’m playing that are difficult but I won’t. I don’t think my reflexes are failing me. “Get good!” you shout from your secure ivory tower atop the castle of “being good”. When you stall out at the 4th boss, there’s not a lot you can do. ![]() There are upgrades, but you get them for beating bosses. You can’t grind them out for experience to get stronger. There are no cannon fodder enemies in Eldest Souls. It takes the isometric action-RPG combat of something I love like Death’s Door, and adds in a dash of breakneck speed and punishing bosses. I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever go back to continue it. I’ve never turned down a challenging experience.Įldest Souls broke me. The Dark Souls series, Bloodborne, Sekiro, I Wanna be the Guy: The Movie: The Game. I have beaten the games that everyone considers hard. It led me to a strange conclusion: Either I’m getting old, or games are getting harder. I then spent almost 2 hours on the second boss. The game was challenging, but not too bad. I was hacking and/or slashing through a beautiful dark fantasy pixel world. I recently sat down to play new, boss-rush-souls-inspired-pixel-game Eldest Souls. Eldest Souls is too Hard, says Man Bad at Games ![]()
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