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[–] 41 points 1 month ago

Youtube red me a video recently, forget what it was about, but the guy mentioned 'Rogue, one the first rogue-likes' and that caught me off guard a bit.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    And than there’s Demon’s Souls just sitting in the corner I guess.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    That's the price it pays for having a title that's so clumsy to pronounce

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Meanwhile nobody even talks about kings field, which is basically the same game but it predates thumb-sticks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    I’ve heard it described as being quite different. There’s no builds, and there’s more exploration than combat. It’s more a traditional RPG than a soulsbourne. If you’re going into looking for deep combat or learning enemy moves or behaviors you’ll be disappointed.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago

    Same thing with Rogue.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    gets out his cane

    You whipper snappers don’t know or remember King’s Field.

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

    One of these days I'm going to play that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If you're a fan of early first-person dungeon crawler RPGs, very much in the vein of Ultima Underworld (or maybe a Morrowind demake, with extra jank) then it might be worth taking for a spin. It has a lot of the 'early gaming' foibles, like having puzzles that are unfair, and killing you on a whim. The controls, mmm, give you a lot of thinking time, let's say. It's also derivative, "follow the leader, but on the PSX" stuff. But you can see that some love went into it.

    "From magic" starts with Demon's Souls. Don't be expecting a bold experiment that defines a new genre with the KF games.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    It's technically correct. The best kind of correct!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    I always thought old Ben was a little too dismissive here. "Well of course I know him--" Oh, well excuse me Mr. Jedi-pants!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I mean, in logic any predicate A implies A. If we consider Souls Like to be some arbitrary subset of Dark Souls properties, then yes, Dark Souls contains them all.

    But also, just because it’s a Souls game doesn’t mean it’s Souls Like, like DS3.

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