>I dropped Dark Souls because I couldn't beat Ornstein & Smough

who are you quoting

There are people who got that far but then got filtered?

parroted youtuber opinion

>>716077431
Yes but they also dodged a shit-bullet

>>716077202 (OP)
How do outhouses even work, you just wait until it gets too full then pick it up and move it somewhere else?

I dropped it because it was staminashit

>finally have your setup and gear nearing completion, higher chance you will be using some cool unique gear or trick, or a bigger variety of cool spells
>much more cool armors
>starting to feel like youve gotten good at the world and pressing buttons
>revisiting early areas during your first playthrough and finding stuff you missed before with much more ease
>firelink shrine has probably grown a lot into you
>a bunch of cool more 'action-ey' or 'deadly enemy' bosses like four kings
>painted world
>new londo ruins
>catacombs
>the DLC
>the comfort of knowing you just finished the archives area and will never have to unwillingly enter there again
>the area has issues and BoC sucks, but demon ruins/lost izalith is the most over-hated shit ever
>npc quest conclusions
>the pauses in firelink shrine become less about thinking of the future and more about all the shit youve been through, and then the final moment there right after you get the last lord soul
>kiln of the first flame
The second half of DS1 is kino, that claim always came across as someone who gets their opinions from parroting internet bandwagonning, rather than playing the game blindly and having their own unique experience with it
Its like getting stuck on half-truths like "It drops the interconnection and world design" (which has some degree of truth, but not only it literally starts at anor londo, it also does not apply for a huge chunk of the first half which is the very beginning of the game if you dont have the master key) and being too dull to see everything else, quite possibly because they completely robbed themselves out of playing the experience, be it by knowing everything that was about to come up, or just not coming to the game with an unbiased POV and just actively trying to see whatever they were told to see on the internet~

i dropped sekiro because i couldn't beat the first mob

>>716077837
yes

>>716077837
you grab a shovel and a bucket and go empty it

>>716078432
>Surrounding your house with shit pockets
Could be worse I suppose

>>716077202 (OP)
I'm a firm believer that the only bad area in dark souls 1 is izalith, and even then there's still some cool stuff there like the weird eyeball monsters.

>>716077202 (OP)
For me it was bed of chaos.

>>716077837
You call over the Bioware fanboys to clean it out

>>716079005
i don't like izalith and tomb just because running past everything is by far the best option because the lava and darkness are just that tedious to deal with. duke's archive on the other hand is great and makes you want to explore the place

Demon's Souls was awesome because it was a brand new thing. I played it on a CRT while I was in college. SOUL.

Played Dark Souls for maybe 3 hours and skipped all the crap middle games.

Elden Ring is by far the best game in the series, and I put over 300 hours into it. SOUL.

>>716078916
Shit is biodegradable. The only real problem is if it's NOT buried. See: literally any place in India where there are Indians.

>>716079450
you think indians should be buried? i suppose that is one way to solve the problem

>>716079357
>Calls the copy paste area asset game peak
Normies are retarded.

>>716077431
ornstein and smough were THE filter back when the game came out

>>716077202 (OP)
Its an easy fight lol.
Normies are so crap which is why ev3ry game is easy nowadays.

>>716079683
I beat them the first try (long distance magic)

>>716077202 (OP)
Only Lost Izalith and the areas following the Duke's Archives are bad.

>>716079682
No, it's just that souls games have shit mechanics.
>le trial and error boss battle game with time wasting run-past-everyone mechanics
Yeah, I took a 10 year break and then enjoyed Elden Ring.
Keep telling yourself playing the same game every year isn't the exact same as sports games.

>>716079903
>>le trial and error boss battle game with time wasting run-past-everyone mechanics
just beat them in 1-2 tries retard, how is it trial and error

1, 2 and 3 feel so completely different to play

>>716077837
Yeah that's how Omori was made

>>716079761
No you didn’t.
>it’s easy when..
No you didn’t

>>716078190
It’s really just lost izalith is so bad it taints the entire second half

>>716081241
>just beat them in 1-2 tries
You play way too many video games. I prefer to play sports.
Don't give me that fake ass bullshit "I don't play a lot". You are a manchild that needs to get off the computer.
You claim to be better than even the best souls streamers on Earth. Good luck arguing on the internet.

>>716081241
Bro check a filename before you reply especially with a gif, gifs are a huge bot red flag because it’s easy to scrape from other sites. It’s also why the gif isn’t fitting the post at all

>>716081995
youre genuinely coping over
>'first 3 hours'
somehow dying repeatedly to asylum demon and capra demon in a way that made you somehow think its trial and error even though almost everyone killed that shit in 1-2 tries before they got to the spots where youre more likely to get your shit kicked in

>>716077837
Who cares, poop go underground. Out of sight, out of mind

>>716082171
Learn to indentify engagement bots

>>716077202 (OP)
I enabled cheats at them and then lost interest some time after, because the bosses were not really hard, it's the shitty 3 minute run to their door every time I died to them was hard
>a punishment for failure is game becoming more boring
just a poor game design

>>716082448
>i cheated and got bored
lol what a shitter. couldnt even do the boss run

>>716077202 (OP)
It's not all shit, the DLC can be done after getting the lord vessel, but outside of that yeah, it's garbo

>>716077431
Yeah me, it's the hardest part of the game. Ended my first playthrough there and finished it on a revisit

>>716082525
>I'm proud I did the boring thing in a video game

>>716078190
It was nice on the 1st playthrough but when trying out new builds I realised I was always dropping the run shortly after O&S, maybe Seath, because I had the best of the game behind me already.
>>716081959
New Londo is a slog too.
The archives are the only proper post O&S area. Catacombs are cool the first time around but once you know the path, you just go the fastest route to just fight Nito and get out of there.

>>716078190
This entire post is a whole lot of nothing to defend a portion of the game that is verifiably rushed and unfinished. Yes, your first playthrough, you're going to be taking in the experience more and enjoying it for what it is--but you don't need to watch a bunch of gay analysis Youtube videos in order to notice the sharp dip in quality after Anor Londo.

>>716077279
>the meme arrows are for quoting am I right?
gtfo back nigga

>>716083229
Who are you quoting?

The only bad part of DS1 is New Izalith, and it's not even that bad. The entire rest of the game is kino.

>>716083094
>that is verifiably rushed and unfinished.
that doesnt inherently make it worse, and its honestly retarded to worry so much about DS1's 2nd half being unfinished when it unironically feels more finished and successful at all its goals than any game of a similar scope
>muh sharp dip in quality after anor londo
Painted World was great, New Londo is one of the most interesting areas in the game too, specifically on the second half the game finally starts having lots of interesting/different weapons, its very well set up for spending a lot of time doing covenant/multiplayer shit and catacombs is fantastic
>b-but what about all these (silly criticisms about unfinished-ness and reused content and poorly realized whatever)
you do realise you can apply a huge portion of these on the first half of the game, right?