[QUOTE="AWolfoftheCalla"][QUOTE="Essian"]Sigh... it breaks my heart to see this. I've been watching the 24 hour Dark Souls livestream with IGN.com, and just read their review of the game, and it saddens me to say that the devs have finally broken the golden rule of tough games, and made their adventure cheap. Now to be fair, it's not ALWAYS cheap. There are just two specific instances where I feel the game is just plain broken.
1. Curses - in the game, a frog enemy can curse you, cutting your overall HP by HALF. This is familiar to demon's souls players, as it was the same consequence of dying in the first game. But the debuff stacks. So you can actually be so far limited by your max health that EVERY enemy can kill you in just 1 hit. And the curse does not fade upon dying, and can only be healed by an NPC in a few specific areas of the world. This can effectively break your game save, and one of the IGN editors says that he must not restart his character because of this game mechanic.
2. One of the boss fights features an enemy that shoots a corrosive bile that can degrade armor quickly. The problem is that once armor has been broken, it's gone forever, and you can't repair it or get it back. This means that the one boss can destroy your entire arsenal of weapons. That's not fair, and that is NOT fun.
I think we all knew in our hearts that in order to make a game harder than Demon's Souls, they were going to cross the line into cheap land, but it's just really sad that they've done it. Not sure I'm even going to be picking up the game anymore. Having to retry a boss 17 times for 4 hours because he's hard, I can handle. Having to restart my entire game save because of a game breaking mechanic. That is just NOT fair.
Essian
and yet he scored the game a 9.5.... meaning CLEARLY it is not a huge issue, and will not effect the majority of players. in a few, small instances, this may happen to someone, but it will not be par for the course and therefore should not be a huge concern. fair pointhonestly, with how hard demons souls was and dark souls supposedly being harder, i would not have put it past the devs to have had a boss that in rare cases used a special attack that caused perma death of your character if caught in it. Im a LITTLE shocked there isnt something like this in the game.
yeah, i mean, if i end up being that one player in maybe 1000 that ends up getting cursed to oblivion and has to restart, i will probably yell and scream, gnash my teeth and swear off the game... i agree it will TOTALLY SUCK for that one player. meanwhile thousands of others will be playing the game and it will not happen to them, and they will complete it as normal.
i really feel sorry for the one player out there who will inevitably get cursed to hell and back, finally get cured after tens of hours of trying to get to the witch, and then get all of their best gear destroyed by the bile spitting dragon shortly after. we all know it is going to happen to a handful of us, and i preemptively apologize and give my deepest sympathies. then again, it is hard to feel sympathy for someone who ALLOWED these things to happen to them. let us not forget that the frogs can be dodged and/or killed... and the bile can be avoided. The game is brutally fair. if it happens to you, it is your fault, not the games.
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