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I kinda want to try a souls game again
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I'm on the fence about it
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like I tried Dark Souls Remastered and I found it incredibly hard to focus on
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But every time I'm watching someone else play it I'm like "Oh yeah I GET IT"
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Then I try to go back and don't like it anymore
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bloodborne might be more your speed, but it's also front-loaded difficultywise
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And I think the key is that if you're watching like a stream of it
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There's a social element
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Someone is cheering you on/making fun of you
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that does affect things
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I'm also considering making an Easy Souls mod but it sounds like the difficulty wasn't really the problem
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No not really
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I was making progress I was just like
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"Eh"
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No Bloodborne for PC, it looks like
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Darksouls is, though
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yeah bloodborne is ps4 only
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Bloodborne will live and die on Playstation, which is too bad because it is the best of the entire collection
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Mainly I've been watching Reggie vs Demon's Souls
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And the interplay between the two of them makes it INFINITELY more fun than just
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watching raw gameplay footgae
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I can see souls as something that's more fun to stream than to play solo
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footage*
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my first exposure to dark souls was a 2-person LP where the couch host was on a skype call with long video delay
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so A would run into a trap and die, then B would go "so there's a trap up ahead"
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ahaha
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I love it with or without an audience but a social component is baked into Dark Souls conceptually
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a lot of the deliberately obtuse stuff is there because you're expected to talk to other people about it while playing
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one of the inspirations Miyazaki has talked about is this time he was driving home during a snowstorm
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and a bunch of cars got stuck on a hill
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and the only way out was to very slowly push each other
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but if they'd gotten out or stopped to communicate directly, they would have just gotten restuck
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....not the ghibli guy
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no yeah, Hidetaka Miyazaki
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no a different miyazaki
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the From guy
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but like that's why Souls multiplayer works the way it does
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you interact with strangers sporadically and indirectly and there's not much you can do to thank them
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but you still help each other in little ways
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Death Stranding had this feel to it
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the optimal stance for a spectator to take on a newbie's souls run is
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helpful, sometimes
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and sometimes just letting the player run into an unfortunate surprise
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That's what Woolie's doing
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But like I don't even feel like I particularly needed HELP, per se
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I just needed like
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Someone to help me engage with the game more
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there's a couple delightfully nasty surprises in ds1 that I never warn people about
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no yeah it's also a comedy routine
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So like
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IF you were, hypothetically, going to get a Dark Souls game
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Which one?
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ds1
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I understand Not Two is important
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no contest
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Remastered is better but Prepare to Die Edition is cheap as hell
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what's the difference?
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(slightly) better graphics, more active multiplayer, some menu QoL
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remastered looks better and runs better and people are actually around in the multiplayer
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There's no buy button for Prepare to Die Edition
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that's odd
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Yeah, you can't buy Prepare to Die anymore, it was delisted when Remastered came out (at least on Steam)
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oh balls
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fucked up
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Remastered is $40
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....I'll think about it
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you do have a PS4 so Bloodborne is an option
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I can't stream that, though
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ps4 has built-in streaming
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Oh it does?
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yup
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HUH
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hit the share button
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hook it up to twitch
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and go
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yeah you just have to log into Twitch from it with the button
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it does make it hard to have your voice be on the stream if that's a priority
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This would be a Friend Circle type of things
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so I'd probably just do voice on Discord
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Bloodborne is $15 on PS4 right now
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do that one
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bloodborne is fucking phenomenal
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one of the best games ever
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fuck it
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I have exactly one urgent piece of early-game bloodborne gamer advice
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I want the best experience
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Not the most successful experience
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So tell me things that will make the game better
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the threaded cane looks awesome but don't get it, you'll be stuck with it for ages and it fucking sucks
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okay that was the same thing I was gonna say
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Okay
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Well like
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The next few days are going to be nightmarishly busy for me
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right
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I might make this a Wednesday night hting
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I usually have Wednesday nights free
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I could make that
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me too!
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Cool
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I guess this is happening