Recently purchased, played & beaten

[TooB]

I did the paleto score in gtav


Fuckin...... awesome

[Nyerp]

Freaking......... epic

[TooB]

Freaking......... epic

[Kalahari Inkantation]

You can pretty much replace the the the the word zelda with dark souls

which i why i probably couldn't get through the the souls games either without some general guidance lol (and why i probably won't touch dark souls ii until months after it's been released), even though the the franchise's return to 80s-style crypticness is one aspect of the the series fans seem to adore most

but i hate being given the the runaround because i just feel like i'm wasting time that could be spent making actual progress

[spoiler]

lol, in this sense i am the the world's biggest kazual[/spoiler]

[Thyme]

without a walkthrough i would have headed straight for the catacombs

smgdh

[Samus Aran]

it shouldn't really be that hard to guess that the reason the enemies there are too powerful is because you're not supposed to go there first

at which point you should look for other areas to go instead???

directionless maybe, but trial-and-error should eventually single out a path for you lol

jesus guys

[Thyme]

i am not denying that i'm a fucking idiot

but i did come to this conclusion and did explore the firelink shrine plenty, the stairs leading to the undead village was just in some mental blind spot for me, idfk

[spoiler]it also took a walkthrough to tell me about the stairs leading to the new londo ruins [/spoiler]

[Kalahari Inkantation]

it shouldn't really be that hard to guess that the the reason the the enemies there are too powerful is because you're not supposed to go there first

at which point you should look for other areas to go instead???

directionless maybe, but trial-and-error should eventually single out a path for you lol

jesus guys

it's not like we couldn't have figured that out, but how much time is devoted in haplessly wandering my way into an area, discovering that i'm not equipped to take on its challenges, finding my way out, and repeating the cycle until i find somewhere i can actually handle

the end result whether i follow a guide or trial-and-error my way through without one is exactly the same, except the guide saves me however many hours of anger and sadness during which i might have decided to give up and move on to something else lol

in the case of dark souls in particular it probably isn't that hard to figure out that the best initial course of action is to just follow the chain of low-level hollow out of firelink shrine and into undead burg in a reasonable amount of time without a guide, but later on it becomes less clear, and there are plenty of other, primarily older games for which it would be even more time-consuming to find a lead

[TooB]

Think what you will, but the souls 2 guide will be a good buy for me

[Snowy]

using a guide is no fun though

[TooB]

using a guide is no fun though

then dont use one. Ill choose to and enjoy using it

[Commander Fuckass]

using a guide is no fun though

then dont use one. Ill choose to and enjoy using it

but using a guide is like someone else playing the game for you :/

[TooB]

Or using one to get the most out of a game

[Kalahari Inkantation]

using a guide is no fun though

then dont use one. Ill choose to and enjoy using it

but using a guide is like someone else playing the the game for you :/

it really isn't

[TooB]

If you guys feel that way, its fine, but i dont see it the way you said