Imo souls games are more like action games with stats than they are RPGs
RunEffective3479
Yeah those soulslike battles are so tedious
National-Animator994
I used to LOVE the genre but now that work is pretty stressful I just want to come home and chill man, not die to one boss 20 times.
Don’t get me wrong, I respect the genre. But if I’m gonna work that hard, pay me lmao
ozen919
OMG YESSS. Never felt a meme more than this one.
azaghal1502
You’re not alone. There are dozens of us.
MercenaryBat
Me with deck builders
VerledenVale
Depends… I don’t mind the difficulty, but I don’t like the fact that most Soulslike don’t really have a good character cast with character growth, etc.
Very shallow stories most times. Not for me. I need a good story to push me forward. That’s why I can’t get into Elden Ring, Dark Souls, Wukong, etc.
Something like Lies of P though is great. It has a proper story with actual characters.
nefD
Couldn’t agree more, it reminds me of the battle royale craze, and the military shooter craze, etc etc etc. It’s a fad, and I’m looking forward to it going away.
SilkyZ
Nah, I’m right there with you. Though I do need to point out that gaming always does these trends of popular game types. After PUBG, you had so many different Battle Royal games. Overwatch brought back the hero shooter genre for a bit. Even games like Star Citizen pushed a revival in the SpaceSim genre.
Game development studios are companies and companies make money, they also just so happen to also make games. The lower the risk, the easier the investment. So putting your game into the souls-like genre makes it so your RPG a bit easier to sell now than it did before.
adkenna
Massive souls player and yes, most souls likes are pretty poor
def_tom
I love Souls games, but have yet to play a souls like that I enjoy. So no you’re not the only one haha.
siktz
Other developers just don’t seem to pull it off as well as from software. That’s the only reason I avoid them.
thisistherevolt
Nope, can’t stand the genre. I work in a kitchen for 12 hours a shift and don’t want to come home to work some more.
Maximum-Ad879
You’re not. I get the appeal; I’m just not willing to invest the time to try again and again. If there’s no save point just before the boss, then I’m out. I have so many options for entertainment, I don’t want to spend time on something that frustrates me.
GrandJuif
Yeah, gameplay wise I have no issues with soulslike, but the ole necessity of a guide to not miss something or the shitty ng+ lazy higher health bar with increase damage is just too much for me.
Can’t stand survivals either since they’re all the same, roguelikes because I hate rng and multyplayers because 4ever alone.
I also have a big black list of all the companies that I do not trust.
Same.. I don’t have time for that grind. Instant skip.
So, it’s a good thing they label them like souls-like, so the people that like those games can find them easily and those that don’t can skip them easily.
A game made for everyone is a game made for no one. Respect other genres even if you don’t like them.
pobox1663
I feel like everything’s called souls like when it actually isn’t though. Not a fan of dark souls, but I think I’ve liked a couple supposedly souls like games.
Mayion
Cheat engine: let me introduce myself
man. games became so much more fun after i realized i could just.. remove the stressful parts from them using mods or cheats. quick traveling, unlimited inventory, removing pointless grinding quests etc.
even in expedition 33, using a mod to increase the window for a parry/dodge made the combat much more fun.
SvLyfe
for me its gacha genre
Boogertwilliams
Yeah. I never got into souls itself. Seems the poster child of “artificially increased difficulty” with awful controls.
NeverNotOnceEver
Me with roguelites/roguelikes
rumSaint
It’s just genre fatigue. Depressing dying world and rolling simulator. Yawn, get better material.
I didn’t even bothered with Elden Ring, even tho whole internet was jerking to it furiously.
Same goes to deck builders and Battle Royale.
S1imeTim3
My friend convinced me to get elden ring and I didn’t like it. Doing the same thing over and over again until something different happens? I’m good
Barachan_Isles
For me, frustration is not entertainment.
I get enough of that at work.
iRyan_9
The overabundance of souls is really annoying, so many cool concepts get turned into a soulslike game
BreakAccording8426
It’s a genre I WANT to like. But honestly I play games to have fun and unwind. Not my thing at all. I played Elden ring for a couple of hours til I got to that cave with the wolves and I knew it wasn’t for me. Skyrim, The Witcher, and mass effect trilogy are more my speed. The combat and gameplay is too clunky and slow for me
Reyno59
You are not.
Got so many souls-like enjoyer friends and they all try to sell me the games by “it’s not a real souls-like as there is more to it than just beeing hard.”
Beeing hard is a byproduct of why I don’t like these games.
But 40 hours story (don’t quote me on that, it’s just made up for a baseline) which contains 25 hours of repeating the same encounters over and over again? That’s not gameplay to me, it’s torture.
“But there are easy modes, just for you.”
NO! It’s like “hey, you only have to do the fights 30, instead of 50 times is still to much…
hellothisismadlad
I can’t even fathom the joy of dying over and over again just for internet flex. My real life is already stressing enough, I don’t need games I play adds up to that lmao.
DerangedGinger
I quit playing hard games as an adult. I just want to chill and enjoy the story. Even if I cheated at Elden Ring the lack of map and everything makes it ludicrously hard to play in small bites. Like I’ll forget what I was doing by next weekend.
KoldPurchase
Ah, no, u/SadMassStab , you’re not the only one 😁
I often see someone on my Steam friend’s list playing some cool looking game, then I look more closely at the reviews and it shows this “Soulslike”. Nah. Tried that once, pass. 😂
Unhappy-Midnight5469
Don’t feel like breaking my controller the first boss fight
sabin1981
Nope, me too. There’s no other subgenres I despise more than MOBA, Battle Royale, and Souls-likes 🙁
stingertc
Me all day hate souls like let’s make a game that makes you want to rage and break shit
soulwolf1
I’m so fucking tired of souls like games. Just like those boring hide n seek horror walking sim games…there’s so much of those pumping out and none of them are good or have any real replay value.
Appropriate_train841
every. single. time.
The41stPrecinct
Yeah fuck souls like games, I can respect what they do but I really don’t like to play games just to hate my time with them.
Ozy-91
Ugh I hate, literally HATE every new rpg that tries to lick soulsballs.
You enjoy combat? Well, try rolling forever.
You enjoy story? Well, go ahead and make up the story from tidbits here and there.
You enjoy mechanics and interactions? No, all u get is more of the same.
As I get older, I get less time play and “git gud”. To the people who enjoy them, more power to you.
deadfishlog
Every time. I hate this genre.
Gulaschkanonenboot
Yup, I see it the same way. The game concept appeals to me almost zero.
Cyberjerk2077
If the game has “-like” in the descriptor it’s a no-go.
EchoWar
100% feel the same about this. It’s a shame we don’t get more nonsouls action games.
Derpy_EGG1025
I’d want to play even more
TheEmperorMk3
Oh. So you are just bad at games lol
Cakers44
I feel ya man. The only souls-like games I’ve beaten are the Jedi games
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Imo souls games are more like action games with stats than they are RPGs
Yeah those soulslike battles are so tedious
I used to LOVE the genre but now that work is pretty stressful I just want to come home and chill man, not die to one boss 20 times.
Don’t get me wrong, I respect the genre. But if I’m gonna work that hard, pay me lmao
OMG YESSS. Never felt a meme more than this one.
You’re not alone. There are dozens of us.
Me with deck builders
Depends… I don’t mind the difficulty, but I don’t like the fact that most Soulslike don’t really have a good character cast with character growth, etc.
Very shallow stories most times. Not for me. I need a good story to push me forward. That’s why I can’t get into Elden Ring, Dark Souls, Wukong, etc.
Something like Lies of P though is great. It has a proper story with actual characters.
Couldn’t agree more, it reminds me of the battle royale craze, and the military shooter craze, etc etc etc. It’s a fad, and I’m looking forward to it going away.
Nah, I’m right there with you. Though I do need to point out that gaming always does these trends of popular game types. After PUBG, you had so many different Battle Royal games. Overwatch brought back the hero shooter genre for a bit. Even games like Star Citizen pushed a revival in the SpaceSim genre.
Game development studios are companies and companies make money, they also just so happen to also make games. The lower the risk, the easier the investment. So putting your game into the souls-like genre makes it so your RPG a bit easier to sell now than it did before.
Massive souls player and yes, most souls likes are pretty poor
I love Souls games, but have yet to play a souls like that I enjoy. So no you’re not the only one haha.
Other developers just don’t seem to pull it off as well as from software. That’s the only reason I avoid them.
Nope, can’t stand the genre. I work in a kitchen for 12 hours a shift and don’t want to come home to work some more.
You’re not. I get the appeal; I’m just not willing to invest the time to try again and again. If there’s no save point just before the boss, then I’m out. I have so many options for entertainment, I don’t want to spend time on something that frustrates me.
Yeah, gameplay wise I have no issues with soulslike, but the ole necessity of a guide to not miss something or the shitty ng+ lazy higher health bar with increase damage is just too much for me.
Can’t stand survivals either since they’re all the same, roguelikes because I hate rng and multyplayers because 4ever alone.
I also have a big black list of all the companies that I do not trust.
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literally me
Same.. I don’t have time for that grind. Instant skip.
So, it’s a good thing they label them like souls-like, so the people that like those games can find them easily and those that don’t can skip them easily.
A game made for everyone is a game made for no one. Respect other genres even if you don’t like them.
I feel like everything’s called souls like when it actually isn’t though. Not a fan of dark souls, but I think I’ve liked a couple supposedly souls like games.
Cheat engine: let me introduce myself
man. games became so much more fun after i realized i could just.. remove the stressful parts from them using mods or cheats. quick traveling, unlimited inventory, removing pointless grinding quests etc.
even in expedition 33, using a mod to increase the window for a parry/dodge made the combat much more fun.
for me its gacha genre
Yeah. I never got into souls itself. Seems the poster child of “artificially increased difficulty” with awful controls.
Me with roguelites/roguelikes
It’s just genre fatigue. Depressing dying world and rolling simulator. Yawn, get better material.
I didn’t even bothered with Elden Ring, even tho whole internet was jerking to it furiously.
Same goes to deck builders and Battle Royale.
My friend convinced me to get elden ring and I didn’t like it. Doing the same thing over and over again until something different happens? I’m good
For me, frustration is not entertainment.
I get enough of that at work.
The overabundance of souls is really annoying, so many cool concepts get turned into a soulslike game
It’s a genre I WANT to like. But honestly I play games to have fun and unwind. Not my thing at all. I played Elden ring for a couple of hours til I got to that cave with the wolves and I knew it wasn’t for me. Skyrim, The Witcher, and mass effect trilogy are more my speed. The combat and gameplay is too clunky and slow for me
You are not.
Got so many souls-like enjoyer friends and they all try to sell me the games by “it’s not a real souls-like as there is more to it than just beeing hard.”
Beeing hard is a byproduct of why I don’t like these games.
But 40 hours story (don’t quote me on that, it’s just made up for a baseline) which contains 25 hours of repeating the same encounters over and over again? That’s not gameplay to me, it’s torture.
“But there are easy modes, just for you.”
NO! It’s like “hey, you only have to do the fights 30, instead of 50 times is still to much…
I can’t even fathom the joy of dying over and over again just for internet flex. My real life is already stressing enough, I don’t need games I play adds up to that lmao.
I quit playing hard games as an adult. I just want to chill and enjoy the story. Even if I cheated at Elden Ring the lack of map and everything makes it ludicrously hard to play in small bites. Like I’ll forget what I was doing by next weekend.
Ah, no, u/SadMassStab , you’re not the only one 😁
I often see someone on my Steam friend’s list playing some cool looking game, then I look more closely at the reviews and it shows this “Soulslike”. Nah. Tried that once, pass. 😂
Don’t feel like breaking my controller the first boss fight
Nope, me too. There’s no other subgenres I despise more than MOBA, Battle Royale, and Souls-likes 🙁
Me all day hate souls like let’s make a game that makes you want to rage and break shit
I’m so fucking tired of souls like games. Just like those boring hide n seek horror walking sim games…there’s so much of those pumping out and none of them are good or have any real replay value.
every. single. time.
Yeah fuck souls like games, I can respect what they do but I really don’t like to play games just to hate my time with them.
Ugh I hate, literally HATE every new rpg that tries to lick soulsballs.
You enjoy combat? Well, try rolling forever.
You enjoy story? Well, go ahead and make up the story from tidbits here and there.
You enjoy mechanics and interactions? No, all u get is more of the same.
As I get older, I get less time play and “git gud”. To the people who enjoy them, more power to you.
Every time. I hate this genre.
Yup, I see it the same way. The game concept appeals to me almost zero.
If the game has “-like” in the descriptor it’s a no-go.
100% feel the same about this. It’s a shame we don’t get more nonsouls action games.
I’d want to play even more
Oh. So you are just bad at games lol
I feel ya man. The only souls-like games I’ve beaten are the Jedi games
I like souls-likes. Turn-based on the other hand…
Me with games that end up not being SoulsLikes.