The Souls games are honestly not that bad. It's basically like playing an old school arcade beat em up/platformer with infinite continues. The bosses and finding all of the items in the game are often the more challenging parts, except when you get invaded...
I'm still a bit worried about jumping into the Souls series. I'm worried I'll suck. And I'm not sure my pride can take it.
That does sound pretty interesting! Will make sure to check it out once I get the game
We'll see how I feel about it when the time comes. In Bloodborne news, DLC has been really interesting so far with a really strange quirk that caught me off guard. The DLC takes place in a location called the Hunter's Nightmare, a type of ironic hell which is a curse placed on the Hunters to punish them for various story related things that would take too long to explain, but one such crime is when the Hunter's become too blood thirsty and simply kill for the sake of the kill. So the starting area is filled with hunter enemies and basic werewolf monsters you've fought before but the hunters will attack the werewolves but they won't attack you or the other hunters, they will actually cower and back away from you if you approach, and the other hunter enemies will actively seek them out to kill them. It's such a neat element to really show you how messed up this world can be.
Well then the books should come first for you
I'm an "original source" first kind of guy. I like to experience the raw and first version before seeing a revision or new version.
That's why they made it not required I'm more of a book-first kinda guy, so I appreciate the things that they did
Well if I like the games, I may read the books, but it tend to avoid required reading before diving into a game/film.
The books themselves were also pretty heavy on the deconstruction of fantasy tropes. Actually, Is probably recommend reading them before the games, since the games take place after the books. The first game is made pretty accessible to newcomers since they give Geralt amnesia, but then I heard that over the course of games 2 and 3 he gets his memories back, and then the Witcher 3 starts with a big exposition dump with the stuff from the books. They're still perfectly playable without reading the books, but there's a lot of cool little nods you won't notice otherwise
Hey, I like Slavic lore, and it would explain the cynicism.
