To me right now is the first Red Dead Redemption. Finally I’m able to play it, I’ve wait for over a decade. No spoilers, zero youtube gameplay videos, zero questions about the game to my friends. It gotta be me, and the game, it happened, and I think it sucks.
Maybe you thinking in “well, you shouldn’t play the second first”. I did not. My first Red Dead game was Red Dead Revolver, I was able to play it a few years ago when I could buy a PS2, but I couldn’t get a PS3 nor a Xbox 360 to play RDR1. It grinded my gears because we got the prequel in PC. When RDR1 came to PC it was so freaking expensive, yet today, I think it is expensive. I was able to buy the game some weeks ago while there was a Steam Sale, and well, I regreat it now.
I don’t like its exploration, its missions, its characters, its world, its secondary missions. its wanted system, and nothing but less important: has a lot of bugs.
That’s my experience in a few words.
What’s the game that you wanted to play but it was a total mess?
Silksong it’s a great game but way too hard for me. :(
I don’t know where you stopped, but I can assure you it got way harder after that.
I am up to LJ, and honestly it was not like I rq the boss. It was reasonably slow and I felt like I could learn it. I just put it down at the end of a session, never picked it back up, and never wanted to pick it back up.
Biggest reason I can’t generally recommend my favorite game of the last decade. Shit’s tuffer than elden ring
To be fair, Elden Ring is pretty damn easy. Sure, it requires you to pay attention some, but all of the main bosses don’t put up that much of a fight, and traversing the world is trivial compared to earlier games.
Try fighting Malaketh with strength/faith. I’ve hit a solid wall. It takes forever to get through the first phase, to the point that it’s become boring - and then I last about six seconds in the second phase because I can’t actually learn it when I have to slog through the first phase for so long.
He’s one of the harder non-optional bosses, but it shouldn’t be too bad. One thing about FS games is you should almost never feel like you’re hitting a wall. It’s antithetical to the design of the game. When you feel stuck you’re supposed to go somewhere else, find more equipment, level up, upgrade your gear, etc.
People play other games where they are forced to slam their head against a boss until they win, then they hear that FS games are hard, and then they expect that FS expects you to do the same thing. Yeah, the games are hard if you play them wrong. They’re pretty easy if you don’t (not including some optional content). You’re supposed to go explore and come back stronger. You’re also supposed to pay attention to the weaknesses of the boss and adapt. For example, Maliketh can be stunned by using the Blasphemous Claw, which is found nearby.
One additional option is summoning help. This is in the game for a reason. Sure, some players say you didn’t actually defeat the boss if you summoned, but that’s dumb. Why would they include a feature in the game if they didn’t want you to use it? They’ve been including this since Demon’s Souls, and they don’t think it ruins the game. Why should you?
I’ve exhausted other avenues of exploration. I’ve long ago hit the point of diminishing returns on my important stats. Upgrading my primary loadout is prohibitively expensive at this point, and switching weapons isn’t helping my damage output.
I have the Claw, but it only lets me parry specific attacks - if I can remember to use it at the right time, and time it just right. Which I need to learn, which is difficult when phase 1 is such a slog.
Usually I can power through and rely on gradually gaining muscle memory against the bosses, but for whatever reason Malaketh is the exception. He’s my kryptonite, and I really, really, REALLY hate that first phase (and the fact that it doesn’t teach me anything about how to fight phase 2).
I wanted to beat him myself. I’m starting to think that summoning may be my only solution.
I just finished it today and it truly is a grind. I’m a middling gamer at best, but that series has held my attention in a way few have in over 15 years. Persevere and it’s worth it, but you’ll absolutely throw down your controller in frustration more than once. Reminds me of the old Mario games for difficulty at times. Happy struggles!
i literally gave up on the last boss after 100%ing the rest of the game. just a brutal experience and there’s no carrot left to make me grind it out for a couple hours.