Bob Mackey writes: As you may have read in the past, I am no stranger to the world of intimidating From Software RPGs. That said, I'm quite accustomed to being murdered over and over again, and the advertising campaign for Dark Souls promises this in spades. Gentle gamers, this is no lie; I started a new game last night, and my first few hours had me buying the farm so often I actually started studying agriculture later that night. If you'd like to know more about my many failures, please check out the following account of my first shaky missteps into the world of Dark Souls.
"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."
