It’s gotten better for me, but I’ve had a long stretch of time where I essentially didn’t touch other games because they felt unfulfilling and boring after learning to love soulslikes.

Some games which I very likely would enjoy, like Horizon Forbidden West or Tears of the Kingdom, just don’t lure me in as much as they would have a couple years ago. The combat and open world felt so bland in comparison to a soulslike. Even though soulslike gameplay can be very dull depending on your build and good level design can make or break a soulslike.

Might also explain why I dislike Elden Ring - it carries over from other open world games.

I’ve gotten to a point where I’ve had my full of soulslikes for the most part, so my willingness to invest more time into them has waned over the past couple months. Khazan and DS3, as well as Lies of P, were a lot of fun, but it’s nowhere near as much of my main gaming focus as it was a few years ago.

Has something like that ever happened to you? What did you do to combat that?

  • Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    It certainly makes me realize how bullshit some games difficulty actually is. Went back to the Witcher 3 recently, and my God it’s difficult to see attacks coming sometimes.

  • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve been finding a lot of games incorporate similar soul-like elements. Space Marine 2 and Stellar Blade most recently and it scratched the same itch.

  • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Witcher 3. The combat made me miss soulslike combat. It’s not bad, but at a certain point you can pretty much auto attack and kill everything without thinking. Still a good game though.

  • M.int@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Nooooo…

    Definitely not me…

    Now, I must get back to my 5+ playthrough of Elden Ring in a row. My Sword of Night and Flame awaits!

  • rafoix@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    It’s hard for me to play action RPGs games after playing anything Fromsoft makes. There’s something about the combat that almost always feels off and hard to enjoy.

  • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Ugh, since Elden Ring dropped it has taken me over a year to finish playthroughs of anything that isn’t a soulslike ( with only like 2 or 3 exceptions. I have abandoned a bunch of games as well… )

    I currently have a subscription going on so I’ve been trying to take advantage of the games offrered that otherwise I 'd never play. I have been pushing through gameplay that does nothing for me to enjoy the stories, lower the difficulty to the min. so I can just get it done. Since they’ll eventually go away I feel the pressure of continuing… (But I also just got Nightreign, dammit)

    I still need to adress my backlog, I like a lot (almost) all of the games I have in there but I feel progression is too slow, and somes I freeze not wanting to fuck up the story… Idk I find them more emotionally draining, most other combat boring (again with a few exceptions). Most are RPGs, and I fire them up every few months, play 5 hours in one sitting and promptly forget for months again…

    When I played BB for the first time I realized that was a game made for me, everything clicked and I fell in love with the genre. Outside of it very few games have been able to capture me in a simmilar way, but every soulslike I have loved.

    Edited to properly answer the question

    • Druid@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I get that urge of wanting to min-max PS+. Honestly felt quite liberating to just ditch it altogether and not stay subscribed for the odd game every couple months I might be interested in. Saves me money and I actually get to keep games I play.

      It sounds like you’re subscribed to Extra? How do you like it overall? I felt like it wasn’t worth the money overall. Plus the price spikes in the past year or so made it even less appealing

      • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip
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        3 months ago

        I’m seriously going to schedule the remaining time to make sure I finish those games and get my money’s worth, ha!

        I’m on essential but the plan is to upgrade to extra to play demon souls , but only after finish at least a game besides lies of P ( for which I need to do a dlc replay as well for the sweet, complete trophy case :P ) DeS It’s been in the catalog since I’ve had the subscription, I’m not sure how often they change the list.

        It’s … Hum a bit ambitious now that I put it on writing…

        • Druid@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Demon’s Souls was fun overall. I feel like a month or two is worth it for that - especially if you play other games as well