My SO hates it when I play dark souls. She says it increases the stress levels in our home.
She didn’t say you create a stressful situation. She said “it” increases stress levels. It’s US against the problem.
That’s a keeper right there.
My wife and i do a lot of game-cussin-at but if we start yelling at each other instead of the game we gotta do a kissin break
Well then your Superior Officer should send you away from the frontlines for some R&R.
I’m just gonna put this anecdote out there:
When I first started dating my ex, I wanted him to play through some Dark Souls to see if he had any determination. He failed completely and whined a lot, but I kept dating him anyway. Nearly 5 years later, I ended up leaving him, and a big part of it was his defeatist outlook and complete lack of willpower.
I’m not saying being bad at Dark Souls is a red flag, but I think girlie would be justified in getting out now.
I’ve 100%'d all 3 souls games.
Can we date (As an experiment)? I suspect dating someone with the obsessive qualities to do this is also frustrating.
I’ve only 100%'d DS1, so I’m pretty impressed by your ability. I’m not obsessive enough over most of the franchise to get 100%, namely because there’s sections of DS2 and DS3 I don’t love replaying, but I love DS1 to death so I wanted to have the Dark Soul achievement.
Anyway, if you wanna shoot your shot dm me, just know you gotta be cool with bussy.
Bitch, I don’t care what colour your snatch is, but you better be stacked like the Asylum Demon.
Lay down some soapstone for me and I’ll drop into your ass like I start that fight.
When I’m done with you, you’ll be begging for NG+
4 real people read that and thought “great!”
Five!
This would never happen on Reddit.
Did he try finger but hole?
Y’know it was another one of his failings, not really? He was very big on railing me, but not super big on lubing me up properly with his fingers first.
Sounds like a selfish dick, glad you kicked him to the curb.
Though 5 years? That’s a long time to put up with that nonsense, you must have a very strong sense of loyalty.
But here’s the thing - I didn’t enjoy dark souls when I tried, but I do enjoy other games that are very difficult for me and where I need to be determined to win
That’s fair, and that’s why I stayed with him for 5 years after watching him ragequit after losing 15 times to Asylum Demon. I was hopeful that it was just him bouncing off the game, and I also assumed he’d have other moments where he could show me what he was worth under stress. He never did, and eventually I became fully responsible for the both of us.
Like I said, being bad at DS isn’t a red flag. Having no determination and constantly giving up at the first sign of adversity is a red flag. There’s a very faint correlation between the two, but that’s all.
It’s probably more seeing how he reacts when frustrated that’s the red flag.
If he kept his composure until he eventually stopped playing and said “I don’t think this is my type of game”, that would have been a more mature approach to the issue than whining.
Playing games in relationships to the next level!
Just gotta git gud. Maybe he needed to level ADP.
I’m not a monster, I’d never start a man off on DS2.
Sounds like he dodged a bullet
I don’t think he dodged much, that was the issue.
He did the most important dodge of all, dodging the gf playing weird games with their relationship. What a nutcase lol
This guy gave up at Sens Fortress.
I’ve never played the souls games for the same reason I generally don’t play horror games, I just don’t think I’d enjoy it so I just watch people play games like that on twitch.
Wow, way to assume. You also missed the point, I didn’t play any weird games with him and regret it, because it would’ve ended a bad relationship much sooner.
You are a walking red flag lol
Hmm, I rage quit when the game crashed right as I was about to accomplish something I had been failing at for hours, and I haven’t touched the game since. I have finished similarly difficult games though.
Am I salvageable?
Were you playing Remastered or Prepare to Die? If it was the OG Prepare to Die release…yeah that thing is a buggy mess and you’d probably have further frustrations with it later on. Remastered doesn’t crash very often though, and the game is pretty good about saving progress, you could’ve hopped back on!
You also probably didn’t have a cute boy cheering you on and trying to motivate you to improve either, which I really think would improve the experience of failing to kill Asylum Demon, but I don’t think my ex agreed.
I think it was Prepare to Die on XBox 360. My XBox also had trouble reading disks, so it could also be the disk drive.
I have since purchased on PC and will give it another shot at some point, I think my anger has subsided over the past 10 years.
And not sure a cute boy would help, I’m more into women 😜
But either my SO or one of my kids cheering me on would certainly help. I did crush the Asylum Demon, I rage quit somewhere on the tower. I’ve since played several difficult-ish games (Ys series esp Ys1 and Ys Origin, Furi, Titan Souls), I just haven’t gotten back to DS.
Grimes is on 4chan?!
tbf if there’s one woman I expect to encounter on 4chan it’s her
No, if this were her then her bf would have paid someone else to play the game for him.
They’re not dating anymore afaik
They were when this was posted.
Fake: dating someone
Gay: having a boyfriend
Writes itself.
Fake. Only neckbeards use 4chan
Anon never mentioned their gender, so it can also be real and gay.
I knew a girl that went on 4chan.
She didn’t seem to understand that trolling doesn’t work IRL and that was kind of her entire persona, It was like babysitting an adult. You’d hang out with her for her own good, so the world wouldn’t attack her. Then one day my friend and her broke up and that was that. NFI. Don’t even remember her name, just how weird she was.
I knew a girl
Waaaa? 🤯
a girl
WTAF
girl
Is this real guys?
Only neckbeards on 4chan, it’s obviously a troll post, newf…
Nah, who would date a neckbeard? They could absolutely be gay, but a relationship?
Be me, playing STALKER 2
Spouse hates it
That’s the whole story.
Something changed in my SO and now they love watching me play scary games and watch scary movies (they watch from the safety of their desk while playing games, not on the couch w/ me).
Nah, they love scary games, they just think STALKER sucks. Hits different when the NPCs call me “loner”.
her boyfriend? bold assumption
No, her boyfriend would be a bold assumption, her boyfriend is an italic assumption
On 4chan? Not really.
I feel like you and I have very different understandings of the 4chan userbase demographics
I don’t use 4chan and associate Pepe with far-right homophobia, so I’m likely out of touch.
Pfft, sometimes you just want wreck shit all casual. Ain’t no shame in it as long as you aren’t trying to pretend you’re uber 1337, or fucking someone over.
I always say “there’s no such thing as cheating in a single player game” and it’s interesting seeing the varrying reactions. Some people take a minute and see the wisdom, others say “but…but…you’re using cheats…that’s cheating!”
Yup, I’m with you.
Mind you, if it was an all the time thing, it seems kinda boring, but as an occasional thing, it’s fun. It extends replay value, and sometimes lets you see things in the game you don’t have time for normally.
My mind always goes to my long running Sims 4 save file that’s somehow lasted about 3 years despite the hundreds of mods (many of which are abandoned and a couple by a mod author who sadly passed away) and countless game updates in that time.
I’ve mostly played with mechanics as they exist in the game and mods but I’ve gone to cheats when it better helps the overall story I’m going for, or just I’m getting bored with a given branch of the family tree and want to move it along.
Sometimes that means I’m skipped some annoying grinding, sometimes that means I’m exploiting unpatched exploits, and sometimes that means I’m using cheats because a mod broke something, or even just trying to make something look better. It enhances my play and I’d probably have less fun without it
I just don’t understand it for games where the primary draw is difficulty. Like, if you take the difficulty out of a game like Dark Souls…it’s not really all that good? The game has good atmosphere and an interesting story if you’re willing to engage it, but both of those are inherently tied to the difficulty of the game. The idea is that you’re struggling to succeed in the face of a dying world, and it all falls apart without the struggle.
Whereas if you’re playing something like the Sims 4 or like GTA where the point is just to screw around, totally understand why you wanna add cheats or mods. It’s your power fantasy, tune it how you like. But if you just want to turn a game like Dark Souls into a power fantasy, IMO there’s so many better games out there for you to play that will give you a better experience.
I suppose you might be right. I’ve never tried a souls-like because they don’t seem like my cup of tea but for a game where the point is specifically difficulty that would take most of the enjoyment out to remove all difficulty
There are games for that (GTA, Just Cause, any RPG ever), don’t play a game that’s intended to be challenging on god mode, because that kills the entire point of the game.
Nah, it doesn’t.
The entire point of any game is to have fun while killing time.
sometimes that means just going ham. Sometimes it means jacking up the difficulty setting, or nerfing yourself, or speedrunning, or wandering around and doing nothing at all except look at the.graphics.
Maybe, for you the only point of a game is to fuck around on.whatever the max difficulty is, and I genuinely hope that you always have games that can give you that.
But, my gaming homie, there’s no single point to gaming.
And, can we be real for a minute? Most games, the skill involved is hand-eye coordination combined with reflexes. Which is fine for what it is, but it isn’t like the challenges involved are.something special.
I haven’t played all the Dark Souls games, but at least on DS1, the enemies are relatively few and far between, so “going ham” isn’t really a thing. The difficulty of DS is in where the enemies are, move sets, etc, not in how many there are or the specific weapons they have. Putting on cheats on something like DS is like having a tool to cut through a puzzle and get to the end w/o interacting with the puzzle in any meaningful sense.
That’s fine if that’s what you’re into, but I highly doubt you’ll get as much enjoyment from it vs playing a game with a lot more interesting set pieces, like the ones I mentioned, or really anything with a sandboxy feel.
You do you, of course, I’m just pointing out that if you’re looking for a casual slasher session or whatever, there are games designed for that, which would probably give you a lot more satisfaction.
If it’s a single player game, who cares?
If you have fun playing the game then congrats! The point is a game is to have fun.
I honestly don’t, I just think they’d get more enjoyment from games designed for having fun on god mode.
If you beat a challenging game w/ cheats, did you really beat the game, or just roll credits? Where’s the satisfaction of bypassing the entire point behind the game?
If you like god mode, play games that cater to that. They exist, and they’re fantastic.
Nah, it doesn’t.
The entire point of any game is to have fun while killing time.
sometimes that means just going ham. Sometimes it means jacking up the difficulty setting, or nerfing yourself, or speedrunning, or wandering around and doing nothing at all except look at the.graphics.
Maybe, for you the only point of a game is to fuck around on.whatever the max difficulty is, and I genuinely hope that you always have games that can give you that.
But, my gaming homie, there’s no single point to gaming.
And, can we be real for a minute? Most games, the skill involved is hand-eye coordination combined with reflexes. Which is fine for what it is, but it isn’t like the challenges involved are.something special.
