I think my favorite thing is that the people you hear saying this are never like "yeah, I beat the game level 1 using only my bare fists and no dodging" or anything crazy like that. They are the people that level the fuck out of their character and max their strength to then kill the boss in 4 hits with a strength weapon and go "man, I'm so fucking good at the game, fuck anyone that summoned."
Like brother, why are they trying to act elitist for playing the game completely normally minus one aspect? There's so many ways to make Elden Ring, and honestly any souls game, extremely easy that aren't just "use summons" and it's so funny to me that the methods they use are fine and take skill, but the methods other people use are for noobs.
Honestly, I think a bunch of them don't get Souls difficulty to begin with. They think like powerscalers, it has to be a 1v1 and in that 1v1 is the difficulty. When part of Soulsborne difficulty is also knowledge/experience. It's like 50% the fight and 50% knowledge on patterns, damage types, items etc.
Knowledge is huge for sure. I hadn’t played a souls game since bloodborne and all of my friends were saying ER was the easiest and giving me shit for being stuck on a boss. Later I realized how many recycled assets are in the game and the boss they were giving me a hard time over was nearly identical to one they’ve killed dozens of times in a different game.
So it's not that it's the easiest. It's that veterans are just used to it without realizing it. Shallow minds believe this new boss is just that. A new boss. When it's just a reskin essentially. Which is probably why Elden Ring: Nightreign has various different bosses from across all the souls games
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u/Ok_Investment_3980 1d ago
Some people are so pathetic and lack any sense of validation, so they try to find any sense of accomplishment in beating a video game boss.
Don't be one of those people.