Flight_Harbinger

joined 1 year ago
[–] Flight_Harbinger@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Unpopular opinion these days but basically any Fromsoft game. They're often praised/derided for their difficulty, but that's honestly not what's so enjoyable about them. Beating hard bosses is one thing, but finding new shortcuts, new weapons or armor, discovering NPCs or quest lines, or entire areas is way more rewarding. You can never really recapture that feeling of a blind playthrough, finding all those things on your own. Looking up mechanics/controls and stuff is okay, because honestly the tutorials are not great for those games, and if you truly think you've exhausted every option to progress forward and can't, as a last resort I'd suggest looking things up. But in general yeah, Fromsoft games are an absolute treat to play blind and it's just a shame the community since Elden Ring came out has reflexively derided the "git gud" culture and has encouraged new players to look up basically anything they want because doing it blind is for try hards. It's not, you're just missing out on arguably the best part of the games.

Edit: to clarify, first playthroughs only. Looking stuff up you missed or doing guided runs after an initial blind playthrough is peak entertainment IMO. But to each their own. I'll never tell anyone they are playing the game wrong for doing guides on their first run, only that they are missing out.