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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

How bullet spongey are enemies? One of the reasons I have avoided eldenring is because it looks that every mob has a million HP.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

    I haven’t found the enemies to be bullet spongey in Elden Ring either as long as you’re sufficiently levelling and upgrading your weapons so I’m not sure I know what you mean.

    But in Sekiro you don’t really damage health but rather build a stance meter, which once you fill all the way allow you to deal a death blow, but if you stop attacking or deflecting for more than a moment the meter starts to go back down. You can do health damage but it doesn’t usually make sense to do so.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    so I’m not sure I know what you mean.

    I was mostly basing it on videos I've watched. I haven't actually played it. I'd kind of consider any fight that lasts more than 10 minutes to be well into bullet sponge territory though.

    Having a stance meter instead of healthbars sounds pretty interesting though, I think I'll check it out.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I’m not sure I’ve had any boss fight last 10 minutes in Elden Ring and I’ve played through the game 20+ times. Unless you’re doing challenge runs, that could obviously take way longer depending on the challenge run. But a normal playthrough? I’d be surprised to see any boss take 10 minutes to kill. One of you would be dead long before then I think.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Have you ever played nuclear throne? That's kinda my preferred pacing in a game, but there aren't many. I'd love a soulslike where combat was that fast and frantic, and bosses are really difficult but also die really fast if you play it right.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago

    No, I’ve never even heard of it before. I looked it up, it does look interesting but I think it would be too frantic for me. While I do appreciate a game that is quick, since I don’t really have any time for video games these days, something that requires me to have lightning fast reflexes seems a bit too much for me at this point. On the rare occasion I get to sit down and play a game I want it to be something I don’t have to stress over too much. I happen to be pretty good at souls games so I don’t find them stressful, and otherwise I tend to play slower paced RPGs and stuff.

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