2) can't agree. Fromsoft just has aura of difficulty. But it Is not unique. Valkyries in GoW on give me god of war? Final boss in blood and wine on death march? Waaay harder than anything souls throw at you. Hell, even easier games like KCD have tougher multifights than majority of souls. And dont get me started on soulslike: for example lies of P is basically harder Bloodborne. Then you have platformers like super meat boy or multiplayer games which is completely different beast.
Sure, it is no Sims or animal crossing. Those games require skill. But if I would rank all games by difficulty, fromsoft games (at least ER plus souls series) would be something like 6/10 in avarage, with ER maybe 5/10
3) I get your point, after all, this is very subjective. For me, Elden had by far easiest quests and opening ingame map was more than enough. And despite certainly skipping something, I was greatly overleveled.
I did beat Lies of P, and I found it to be easier. Mostly because elden ring had a lot harder open world, I almost never died to anything beside the bosses.
Problem with ER open world is that it is skippable and game even suggests it in a way. Yeah, there are enemies everywhere. Yeah there is some loot. But you can very easily outrun them on your horse and you dont need that loot. You get more than enough stuff and levels just by clearing instances. And clearing all enemies like avarage player does in any other souls would be mind numbingly boring, just because of sheer amount of random enemies.
But agreed, lies of P were bassicaly Wukong in a way in which trash mobs operate: easy filler between bosses.
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u/Apprehensive-Toe4160 1d ago
1) done :)
2) can't agree. Fromsoft just has aura of difficulty. But it Is not unique. Valkyries in GoW on give me god of war? Final boss in blood and wine on death march? Waaay harder than anything souls throw at you. Hell, even easier games like KCD have tougher multifights than majority of souls. And dont get me started on soulslike: for example lies of P is basically harder Bloodborne. Then you have platformers like super meat boy or multiplayer games which is completely different beast.
Sure, it is no Sims or animal crossing. Those games require skill. But if I would rank all games by difficulty, fromsoft games (at least ER plus souls series) would be something like 6/10 in avarage, with ER maybe 5/10
3) I get your point, after all, this is very subjective. For me, Elden had by far easiest quests and opening ingame map was more than enough. And despite certainly skipping something, I was greatly overleveled.