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[Discussion] Which Soulslike will you be playing this weekend and do you ever play Soulslikes with mouse & keyboard? (lemmy.zip)
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The first Dark Souls PC port is notorious for being borderline unplayable with a mouse and keyboard unless you tweak the settings or use plug ins, most just used controllers for ease of use. With later versions of the game, m&k controls seem to have gotten better. Fast forward to today, most PC versions of modern soulslikes allow for both control configurations while still usually suggesting a controller.

Which do you prefer? Have you tried playing with m&k?

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[–] nouseforaname@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Kbm soulsers are a different breed... lmao. Probably playing Nioh 3 demo, and Code Vein II! And not a soulslike but probably some Returnal... really getting in to that now that I'm making some progress... was playing wrong for a roguelike, once I realized how to better play I finally beat the first boss, Phrike, after about 50 tries.. second boss I was on a tear of a run and beat him on the 2nd try!

But yeah soulslikes... if Nioh 3 isn't on your radar, get on that free to play demo, it's absolutely mindblowingly good. As someone who dabbled in the first two but never beat them, this is pinnacle Nioh, and if the rest of the game follows the demo's quality (no idea why it wouldn't) is a 10/10 game, period.

Code Vein II otoh needs some time to bake... performance is rrrrough and lacking any co-op like the first is a big ding to my friend that introduced me to it and myself... super fun so far, though.