TotalPlayStation: If you're like me, that is to say... a more experienced gamer, then you've probably noticed that video games have gotten decidedly easier and more forgiving over the last decade or so. I suppose it was inevitable as video games expanded to a greater audience and core gamers got older and had less time and patience for them. They've also tended to get shorter (which goes hand in hand with them getting easier, since you don't replay the same parts over and over), with most AAA action titles checking in under fifteen or even ten hours on a regular basis.
"Dark Souls: Archthrones is like playing a brand new FromSoftware game, and that speaks volumes about just how much good modding can do," says Hanzala from eXputer.
Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way. Why?
i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)
I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.
TheGamer writes, "Some weapons resist the test of time."
I just platted it today! :D
"this is one of the best games ever made." Definitely agree. Good review.
Still fighting through it , nothing else like it.