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What video game did you not expect to like as much as you did? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Hollow Knight and by extension, Elden Ring.

I was always rather nervous to play Souls games, and these games are challenging as hell.

I’m not very far in either game — having just beaten the first boss in HK and I just beat Margit in Elden Ring.

But god, that rush when you beat a boss in either game is amazing. Took me about 8 tries to beat Margit and I was so excited when I won.

I can see why people love this genre now.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    Hehe yeah, I was always put off on souls games because people described them as being hard, then when there wasn't alot of choice early on in VR games, I picked up a souls-like since it was the closest I could get to a long-form rpg at the time. And it wasn't that hard at all, but people were still complaining about how hard it was all the time... so I tried other souls games on desktop, and they were fine too. So I picked up the actual dark souls... this is what people were complaining about? It's like, not even megaman difficulty?

    That was when I learned that it's a good thing there wasn't much internet yet back when I was playing megaman games, or I might have never tried them either. And also it turns out I like "hard" games, to me that is like the whole point of games. If you finish something first try, then you didn't get better at anything.

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