>what if the world was ending and there was nothing you could do to stop it

I really liked this game but the story is rather shit. Why are Japs such doomers?

>>714046870 (OP)
I think you missed the point.

>>714046994
What's the point?

>>714047045
That you should never give up.

>>714046870 (OP)
It'll happen irl too. Only christfags will make it.

>>714047045
The world is going to come back again & you can't stop it.

>>714046870 (OP)
probably because their society is nightmare mode. Zero free time, wageslavemaxxing, mind breaking shit.

>>714047093
your jew linked the fire and isn't coming back lmao

>>714047093
Yeah but what if Christ wasn't coming back, what if the word just descended into darkness, chaos and madness? That's the world of Dark Souls.
>>714047110
But it didn't. Dark Souls is over, that's why they moved on to Elden Ring.
>>714047282
Also, what's up with their obsession with cuckoldry?

>>714046870 (OP)
The game's about how you can't have highs without lows. The world, and everything in it, is in a constant state of decay, so it takes effort to fix or replace what doesn't work anymore. At the end you're given the choice to light the fire or not, which is to answer the question, "Was it the Fire that's flawed or was it Gwyn?" You could say the same thing about our own world: was the collapse of the Soviet Union due to Stalin being shit or communism being shit? Is it the dude in charge or the policies they claim to enforce?

>>714047595
>Also, what's up with their obsession with cuckoldry?
Lots of reasons for it. Similar to the reasons behind 4chan's obsession with cuckoldry.
>break taboos
>acceptance of hierarchy (I'm an inferior male, a superior male fucks and impregnates my gf/wife)
>society is more important than the individual (if the bull's genes are of higher quality he must breed my woman)
>rejection of sexuality and a regression to childhood, high school, isekai type shit
>rejection of adulthood and responsibilities (society asks you to breed a woman and raise the offspring and train the babies to become salarymen that will replace you in the workforce) at least temporarily by letting another dude pork her
>itsover.jpg basically society sucks so bad shit (getting cheated on) must happen

>>714047553
what came after the rise of Christianity is literally the Dark Ages
the Age of Dark

>DS1: Stagnation is bad and resisting the flow of nature instead of adapting to it can have horrible consequences. Also obsession is self-destructive.
>DS2:
jk lol that one doesn't get anything. It was a mess on launch and is still a mess after SotFS. More of a mess even.
>DS3: No, REALLY, stop resisting the flow of nature and stop doing the same thing for the rest of your life. Do new things, but use the experiences you gained in the thing you've been doing to help guide your way.

>>714048558
What happens when people embrace the dark? Just look at Oolacile, it's not good.

>>714047595
>that's why they moved on to Elden Ring.
Thats the new world nigga.

>>714048886
The Abyss is not the Dark. The Abyss is a more feral thing. It spawned from a Dark lord or sorcerer or some other powerful primeval man because he was literally being picked at, tortured, and experimented on by the Oolicilians sorcerers seeking his power after they literally exhumed the poor bastard. That's the heads of their statues have been torn off. The Abyss is basically the Dark, driven mad with rage or sorrow or some other negative emotion.

>>714048935
Yeah, becasue the old one shriveled up and died.
>>714049241
Then why are all the people trying to bring about the age of dark chilling in the abyss? It seems like the same thing to me, and if it isn't what does it look like? And don't just tell me what Kaathe says, I don't trust that snake.

>>714049241
>The Abyss is not the Dark
>The Abyss is basically the Dark...

souls lorefags are the biggest pseuds in all of vidya.

>>714049935
I am literally gonna pull out a food analogy and you're gonna deal with it. Ketchup isn't tomatoes. Yes. It is made of tomatoes, but it isn't tomatoes. It has been twisted and changed into something different but similar.

>>714049586
Who is "all the people?"
Kaathe can show up in the abyss created by the Four Kings because he's a fuckin' Primordial Serpent and can go where he pleases. The Four Kings were supposed to bring about an age of Dark at his direction. Instead, the power hungry retards opened an Abyss, were twisted by it, and brought down the sealing wrath of the gods. So when some human shows up and nukes his prior attempt at starting an Age of Dark, you can bet your ass he's going to have a chat with this new potential Lord.

>>714050514
Nigga we only see him in the abyss. All these are of dark people are chilling in the abyss or in areas associated with it.

>>714050645
*age of dark

>>714050645
>Guy shows up at the place he was last trying to hire a Dark Lord
Like really man, from a narrative and mechanical perspective, in a world rule by light and fire, where do YOU think he should have shown up?

>>714051060
Idk, ash lake, the tomb of the giants. Not the abyss.

>>714046870 (OP)
That's not what happens in game at all

>>714051060
ALSO Chester says (or at least implies) that Kaathe was the one that told the humans in Oolacile to start fucking with the abyss.

See this video for reference:
https://youtu.be/M9x_koRZ2bA?si=7GeB1N_QYWGGuZk7&t=171

>>714046870 (OP)
Retard

>>714046870 (OP)
The point is the passing of an Era, not the end of the world

>>714046870 (OP)
It is not the end of the world it is a cycle of renovation, the age of fire had to end, but you artificially extend it instead of letting nature run its course.

If let alone, it will end and eventually come back to it's prime, instead of everyone being zombie retards in a fucked world.

>>714051537
That's what the lore seems to suggest.

>>714048475
>dark ages
>life got way better for most people
Huh?

>>714049241
wow so like madness in elden ring
miyazaki is a hack

>>714054372
Frenzy is totally different.

>>714046870 (OP)
The world isn't ending, Gwyn's kingdom is ending. Just like how the real world didn't end when the dinosaurs were wiped out.

>>714054168
Wrong

>>714054228
how so

>>714046870 (OP)
Second Law Of Thermal Dynamics, nigga. Humanity is royally fucked

>>714046870 (OP)
Are we pretending that the overwhelming majority of Japanese media is not the party of heroes kills the demon lord through the power of friendship and saves the world type stuff? Are you retarded?

>>714047045
smash shit with the Zweihander
t. Zweihander pro

>>714048558
>No, REALLY, stop resisting the flow of nature and stop doing the same thing for the rest of your life. Do new things
thats literally the good end of SOTFS you moron
i swear you ds3 zoomers...

>>714046870 (OP)
Retard

>>714047093
not following the last installment aka the light aka islam

>>714048558
Ironic

>>714056459
I've been using it on my second run, it's rater fun. I want to do magic next or maybe a paladin thing.

>>714046870 (OP)
You just got to accept that civilization needs to be on a cyclical process of collapse and reconstruction otherwise stagnancy that comes from clinging to it will just make things harder when it does collapse.

>>714059064
Civilizational collapse doesn't usually involve everyone turning into mindless zombies. Actually it's usually the opposite, civilization breeds mindless zombies (due to IQ shredders) and then high IQ barbarians come in and fuck shit up.