I can't stop playing Dark Souls. I finally worked up the courage to tackle Blightown, and now I'm just completely sucked into this world/character. I'm still pretty bad, dying often and wasting a lot of materials, but I guess experimentation's part of the proccess. And I fucking love it.
Except when I get so frustrated on my main with the fat man sitting on me while his electric dildo buddy prods and jabs me with sharp lightning rods that I have to go play on a lowbie character, hoping for a new class and new mode of playing... only to revert to old shield tactics because, well, the game is fucking impossible without one. I am enjoying bashing baddies over the head with maces though, nice refresher from the Halberd's Only club.
But I just don't find thief characters with shields to be, well... right. Maybe all those years of playing WoW have taken a stupid toll on my fantasy ideals. I wanna dual wield, but parrying is hard and mobs of enemies absolutely gangbang me every time. Fuck.
But that's why I love this game. From where I'm sitting it looks like the learning, tinkering and mastering will never end. What a perfect formula. And I haven't even touched the online play. Oh man. I haven't been this thrilled and enthused by a game in a while.
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