It's not that it's "too hard" or that I "don't get it", it's just that this is a terribly designed game

It's not that it's "too hard" or that I "don't get it", it's just that this is a terribly designed game

When you play videogames, you want a fun challenge, entertainment, discovery
What you don't want is having to scour wikis or guides to figure out a bunch of bullshit mechanics the game never bothers to explain to you

This is dishonest game design and artificial difficulty at its worst
The challenge in Dark Souls doesn't come from it requiring actual skill or difficult player input, like real action games (like DMC or Bayonetta), it's just from forcing the player to figure out a bunch of cryptic crap they were too lazy to teach you

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>R1/Circle
That's all you will ever need. Please remap all your buttons to these if you have the option because you won't need anything else especially confirmation button. Only thing you need to confirm is your kill.

>Dodging and attacking while maintaining your stamina is "cryptic crap"

0/10

What are you on about, the game is easy as fuck. It's a bit slower paced and methodical than your average action game but it is really fucking easy.

>Bayonetta
Funny thing is in both Bayo and DaS all you do is attack and dodge. Bayo having animation cancel option even makes it easier. Unless you are not going for pure platinum ranks it's most dumbed down action game you can play.

It's fucking 2020 and people still complain about Dodge and Stab: The Game.

The point is that the playerbase will randomly find out secrets they weren't even looking for and share it with other players. You don't have to like the fact that trading things with the bird requires you to drop an item it likes, ext the game and then load back in to get the item you're trading for, but that's their vision with their limitations. Discovery is its own reward.

give me one example of a mechanic that you needed a guide to figure out
odds are either the game tells you about it, or it's completely obvious

Kindling bonfires is probably the easiest thing to miss that makes the game unbelievably easier.

I never kindled any bonfires in any of the games and didn;t have much trouble.
What does it do? Is it like a super easy mode?

Kindling is a permanant upgrade to a specific bonfire which gives you 10 flasks instead of 5. After you get the rite from pinwheel you can double kindle for 15 flasks.

i think it gives you 15 or 20 estus flask

>10 estus
That sounds like basically cheating.

Kindling is not required, first of all.
Secondly the item description tells you it can boost bonfires. When you rest, it shows a kindling option. Its following instructions on the screen from there.

>it shows kindling as an option
It never once explains what it does

I think it's great. Allows new players to artificially select their own difficulty options and, since new players likely wont have tonnes of humanity, theres a resource management element there too.

>Kindle bonfire.
>Get 10 flasks from bonfire.
It's notthe games fault that you missed this.

Then choose the fucking option and see what it does. Why the fuck would that require checking a wiki?

>What you don't want is having to scour wikis or guides to figure out a bunch of bullshit mechanics the game never bothers to explain to you

What mechanics? The game couldn’t be more simple.

>be good at the game
>start with 10 flasks from Firelink
>clear your way into undead burg
>reach drake tower bonfire
>rest, still with 10 flasks
>kindle bonfire "I wonder what this does?"
>no visible change to anything
>"huh guess I just wasted 10 humanity"
>never kindle again

I think the whole point is the game wants you explore and try shit out and find out for yourself what you can or cant do.

you never use till you reach drake tower bonfire ?

Imagine being filtered by Dark Souls because of its opacity and then whining about it. You are unironically the most pathetic faggot to ever post here.

Sounds like you don't even need kindling since you're so good at the game. Perfect game design, allowing the player to set their own level of challenge.

Or maybe you're just confused by numbers since you managed to pay 10 humanity for kindling somehow.

>What you don't want is having to scour wikis or guides to figure out a bunch of bullshit mechanics the game never bothers to explain to you
Never played terraria?

I've watched a lot of people play Dark Souls blind and it's more common than you'd think, people use flasks a lot when they're learning the path, but usually by the time they're ready to push right through, they've got the zombies patterns down, it's really easy to not use any flasks in that stretch, it won't happen to anyone but it happens to enough people that I'd consider zero explanation of kindling to be a flaw.
Oh and I fucking love Dark Souls, and I think OP is a fag, but his point isn't wrong. The game does have some flaws. It's still a masterpiece though.

Yeah sorry, I meant 2, I've been awake for 36 hours.

beat it without looking anything up. get good fucken shitter

You need to go to sleep, this is not worth discussing.
You're a dumb moron for thinking this is an issue with Dark Souls but we can have this shit flinging literally any other day, but getting permanent damage to your brain over this is not worth it. Go to sleep my dude.

>odds are either the game tells you about it, or it's completely obvious
If you couldn't figure out how to kindle when the option is there everytime you rest at a bonfire then you're functionally retarded.

Also the Rite of Kindling explains exactly what kindling does. Granted it's obtained from fucking Pinwheel which might be too late in the game to matter since Catacombs is usually one of the later places you visit, but it's explained for sure.

I'm saying that people can do it and still not have any idea what it does because they had 10 flasks when they did it.

Like I said, I've seen plenty of people do this and miss it. Somebody asked for an example of something that wasn't explained very well and I'm just providing one. I'm not saying that you need to kindle or that the game sucks. I'm saying that it doesn't explain what kindling does.

Yeah I read your post a bit too fast and thought you were, OP, my bad. I guess it's explained after pinwheel which COULD be your first boss, but I'll agree that it's likely only until later you would find out about kindling through killing him.

>Thos game is artificially difficult because it doesnt explain vital mechanics!
>Uuuh... I'm so good at the game that I didnt even know about kindling!
Bro.

Fuck off faggot, stop looking for problems that need to be fixed in everything like some dumb liberal woman.

There are some cryptic things...shame you couldn't finish it blind. Your criticisms are definitely right but I think we would come to different conclusions. I like the jank, the oldschool cryptic secret shit, the unforgiving challenge. Pretty satsifying mastering everything.