This is the first comic that expresses why I rage quit so many games with overly difficult boss fights ( if there's any delay measured in more than microseconds between retries ).
I played (and still do) the original one hit kill arcade bullshit. Hell, I beat Alladin on SNES. I'm not allergic to a challenge.
But, today, I have no time to repeat anything that isn't fun in a video game. I could be filling out tax forms with that time.
This is a big reason I farmed hard in Elden Ring and have 356 hours. I spent a lot of that time leveling my health up so I can take more damage. Level 156 and my health bar is like half the width of my TV lmao.
I beat the original Ducktales and Battletoads back in the day. But, back then I had the luxury of time. Ain't nobody got time for this shit!
Man, I recently introduced my kid to both the NES Battletoads and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
I beat that one Battletoads stage (you know the one) on the third try. And Mr Sandman on the fourth try (did not play against Mike).
I was super stoked. Third try! I'm old now. Apparently my time put into it as a kid stuck with me.
Doesn't really relate to anything in this thread, I just needed to brag to someone because my kid and couple of friends totally did not get it.
It's lazy game design to make a fight "harder" by just adding increasingly long periods where all you can do is dodge.
The soulslike genre is simply bullet hell where you don't always get to see the bullets before they hit you, stuck inside a metroidvania.
Learn to parry
Delayed attacks as a form of increasing difficult are just extremely unfun. Yeah, you made the boss harder, you also made it extremely frustrating, congratz.
It's literally helping you actually learn to dodge perfectly instead of just spamming it and getting lucky. Like instead of rolling when they do the back swing, you now have to actually wait for them to swing their attack.
If this was the first game like this you played, it wouldn't even be that much harder to learn. It's actually harder having played all the games prior to Elden Ring that conditioned you to dodge on the back swing.
In Elden Ring you can often attack during the windup and then dodge. Creating a posture break during those delays can be quite a fun experience.
Plus you can do things like jumping attacks to dodge and duck a lot more of those spinning combos than you'd expect.
The ascetic with the hoops at the very start whiffs most of his chained attacks without you even having to dodge once you figure it out.
FromSoft games are fun to learn, and that frustration is often the appeal as the tricks are discovered.
The delays in Elden Ring are fine, they all have some clear visual or audio cue to help dodge them.
Sekiro had way worse delays but people don't want to talk about that
Because Sekiro is based and killing bosses is insanely satisfying (we do not talk about demon of hatred)
That's my biggest problem with FromSoft games. They are not challenging, they're just slow HP sponges that can one-shot you. That is not challenging, it's just unfair, and frankly boring.
I think the game would be funner even with the simple tweak of making the animations faster. No fighter EVER wins IRL by telegraphing their attacks for three seconds.
The base game was way more accessible than any other Soulslike which pulled in way more players than any other soulslike and now all the players that got used to the base game are mad that the DLC is as hard as any soulslike ever has been.
I think it's hilarious seeing all the players half the item descriptions in the game make fun of.
All the souls dlcs have been much harder than the base games. Artorias, fume knight, ludwig and gael all stomped me until i changed up tactics. The dlcs have always been aimed at late/post game characters.
Boiling down the descriptor to one word - “hard” - really doesn’t serve the discussion well.
Someday, I want to make “The hardest game ever made”, just to show raw inability to win is not fun on its own.
You should play I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game.
That makes sense to me. DLCs come after you finished the rest so of course difficulty has to rise. It's the same in all games with an escalating difficulty and force balance I would think. Doom Eternal does the same.
Meanwhile streamers are beating the dlc just throwing roundrocks.
Wish cheat codes were still a thing. Sometimes I just need a little help getting past one part but don't have time to grind it out like I would have before.
You mean like mods that are easily accessible? God i wish.
Or trainers, equally ready to access. There's even tools like wemod that offer trainers for all your games at a convenient single click.
Based middle-aged lady Elden Ring player.
The comic author did not in fact play the DLC
I do not remember one boss having a slow wind up. Erratic and confusing timings sure
If you dont like it, dont play it. 🤷♂️
yeah guys, never criticize or review any work of art!
People refuse to collect fragments, refuse to use better weapons they refuse to buff or use summons AND then act like little bitchbabies. Nooo i want to beat it MY way. And by my way they mean naked with a stick, because they see streamers do it. This literally doesn't happen in any other game. Factorio is way too hard, and no, i won't use conveyor belts. Destiny 2 is IMPOSSIBLE to beat with my 600 light level, what a bad game. DOOM is way too hard, why is everything such a bullet sponge, they need to buff the starter pistol. Ugh, this 6 man wow raid is too hard to do by myself, i think i'll sue blizzard.
Incoming flood of posts about Assassin’s Creed, Redfall, Gollum, and Skull and Bones. Remember what you said - if you don’t like the game, stay silent!
