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This is a community for discussion, news, and memes pertaining to the video game sub-genre "soulslike".
Given Lemmy's size, the definition of soulslike may be treated relatively loosely. While games like the numerous FromSoft titles, the recent Star Wars Jedi games, Lies of P, Nioh and similar games should be the focus, games that incorporate soulslike elements - like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous, for example - may also be discussed here.
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Most people active here probably know of the FS catalogue. Given Lemmy's population, the term soulslike may be applied to games quite liberally, so games like Hollow Knight, Nine Sols, Blasphemous and similar games, which incorporate soulslike elements, would all fall under the same umbrella term.
What are your must-plays? What surprised you? What is a sleeper hit you feel like people don't talk about enough?
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Edit: I do know that the games in the thumbnail aren't soulslikes in the traditional sense; however, they show some elements that are often associated with soulslikes, so they serve more as a conversation starter to think outside the box and the rigid ideas of what a soulslike truly is and can be
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This type of thing is funny for me because I have only played elden ring and right off the bat the way it played I thought I would get no where and then set it down. I do not like super hard games and I don't like to play melee fighting things or things where you have to have good timing or things with jumping (elden ring literally triggers my agrophobia at times). Somehow though elden ring ended up keeping me to the point were I finished the game but because I don't actually like the gameplay in a way I have no desire to play anything soulslike. I dunno it could be the difficulty. There was an mmo I learned to like called shadowbane and it was a griefers paradise. I think in both occasions I learned to ignore death and look at it as more an exploratory game.
What was it about Elden Ring that kept you wanting to play? The story, the world, the atmosphere? And did you manage its difficult alright?
I think it was the breathtaking nature of the story and world. I mean the way the heights triggered agrophobia is a nod to how incredible it is. What kept me playing is also why I could handle the difficulty which was there is a lot of resources to play the game. There is only one difficulty but I sorta think they don't fix some things to enable an easy mode. My method of play was sorcery to start, with combined sorcery and incantation just abut where I maxed sorcery. So respected it down which was a loss for sorcery but you were able to do incantations at that point at top level and the sorcery drop was not huge. Then with bosses it was searching youtube for cheese X boss combined with overleveling.
Cool! I like that most soulslikes allow for really custom builds - you make the game yours and play how it suits you.
Never heard of agrophobia actually? Do you mean agoraphobia? Interesting read!
yeah I spelt that wrong. I mean it triggers my fear of heights. I could barely get through so many places like the towers and the frenzy flame place. Like even places with ledges I hated having combat on. Like the regular rampart areas with heights where you can't see the bottom. oof or the invisible bridges but I did learn the lava and bloodflame are great for those if you don't want to use a stone.