These games are only fun when you can blast through everything with ease with a broken build

Why is this praised as a masterpiece? Half of the locations are unfinished and most bosses are nothing special or gimmick fights.

>Ruins action game combat design for the next decade and a half

How retarded do you have to be to enjoy this genre

>durrr roll and mash one button

Can a game become bad retroactively, without being changed?

I liked Dark Souls on release based on some qualities I believed it had, but then they pumped out so many games like it that I realized those qualities have mostly been my projection, and the feelings the game caused were mostly a fluke rather than something intentionally intended

"Dark Souls prepares you for life"
>You lose all your money when you fail
>You lose all your consumables when you fail
>You are all alone
>Attacks are telegraphed counter-intuitively
>You aren't told anything

If you're that alone, unstable, unlikable, and retarded for this to be your life; playing more Dark Souls isn't gonna help.

What are some 3D games that did a Souls type interconnected world before the Souls games? All I can think of is Vagrant Story.

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The obvious one. I was one of those "it's just bullshit on purpose?" retards. Turns out there's always a strategy to a given encounter, even if it takes a bit of trial and error to figure it out.