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[Discussion] What's your Soulslike origin story? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by v4ld1z@lemmy.zip to c/soulslike@lemmy.zip

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One way or another, we've all found our way to this truly magnificent genre of video games. We've all had our humble beginnings and first trial runs of games the genre has to offer. But how did we get here? Who introduced us to the genre? That's what I want to know from you!

My very first introduction to the genre was via PewDiePie (yuck) from like 2013 or so when he first played it on his channel. Didn't know the next thing about the genre or the game at all but wanted to give it a try since it looked fun and I was an impressionable teen. I remember bearing Taurus Demon and then getting stuck on Undead Burg, so I didn't really play a lot.

The other person that influenced me in giving the genre a try was probably my former breakdance teacher who's a huge fan of Bloodborne. I had a digital copy off PS+ and got some encouragement from him to give the game a try. It didn't click with until a couple years later, or rather I was too scared to progress because I knew of an upcoming jumpscare that I didn't want to experience (that doesn't exist btw), but yea, those were my two first instances of being introduced to the genre.

Were you introduced to the genre by someone in particular? How did you get to give it a try?

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[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I came to the series probably around the release of DS3, or slightly before. I'd heard that they were supposed to be super hard but excellent games and wanted to see what the fuss was all about.

I got a copy of Demon's Souls from GameStop for probably like $14, but didn't start it for probably another few months to a year.

When I finally did start it, I started as a knight and ragequit pretty early into it as many of us probably did - maybe not even past Boletaria 1-1 - and told myself that I'd never play the game again.

A month or so later, however, the game wouldn't get out of my head. I just kept thinking, "What could I do to do better?" and before I knew it, I had started another character.

I remember that my wife came downstairs and said "Isn't that that game you got mad at and quit playing like a month ago?" And I was like "yeah, but I think I can do better this time".

I played as a sorcerer because that's what all of the websites said was the strongest class, and I played through the game constantly terrified. I remember that I got the Lava Bow to cheese as many regular enemies and bosses as I could, and I inched my way through the game super slowly and carefully.

I used Flame Pillar cheese to beat Allant because I was so terrified of him.

I moved on to Dark Souls, becoming more and more confident and aggressive the more I played. Ten-ish years later I've beaten every modern game From has made, SL1'd multiple games, and even gone back to play King's Field. As many others have said, Fromsoft has basically ruined all other video games for me save a few similar experiences like older Monster Hunter.

Unfortunately I think the FromSoft games are also slowly losing what drew me to them in the first place, but they're still amazing games, and I always look forward to seeing what From comes out with next.

Overall ranking for anyone interested: DeS > Sekiro > DS1 > BB > ER > DS2 > DS3