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[Discussion] Which Soulslike will you be playing this weekend and do you have any Soulslike-themed tattoos? (lemmy.zip)

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I was thinking about starting Dark Souls again since my last save got deleted. I'd probably play on PC this time around for convenience. Maybe I'll get to it this weekend. :)

I've got two tattoos and both are kinda related to soulslikes. The first one are two koi fish circling a sunflower against a backdrop of waves. While not originally intended as such, I do love Sekiro a lot, so the koi also represent the big carp in Sekiro who's just really cool.

My second tattoo is quite clearly inspired by soulslikes. It's a blue butterfly with two white lilies under and over it. The butterfly is in reference to the butterflies found in Lies of P as well as a direct nod to Sophia while the white lilies can be found in Gehrman's boss arena in Bloodborne. Love both games, so I was looking for a way to incorporate them both into one tattoo.

Do you have any Soulslike-inspired tattoos? Would you like to share if you do?

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[–] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, it would be nice if in ER when you beat a Boss or at least when you beat a Remembrance Boss the game would activate your Great Rune. That would be a small but nice change.

In DS2 you don’t lose immediately 30% of your health when you die and you can mitigate that further with the Ring of Binding. The finite amount of item pick ups is also a bit higher than in DS3 (at least I think so). Enemy drops of Human Effigies are also more common. Also there is another infinite source of Effigies: you can trade Prism Stones with the Birds for them. Tedious but infinite. (You can buy infinite Stones from the cat.)

Still, I stand by what I said initially, the feeling of losing the bonus of Embered is much less bad than slowly losing your max health in Dark Souls 2. Even though it’s nice story telling through game mechanics. The Cursed One losing themselves to the curse and slowly turning more and more hollow.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 5 days ago

I think your analysis is correct, and it's kind of just basic human psychology. Humans are extremely loss-averse and losing something you feel like you had the right to (HP bar) feels worse than something framed as a bonus (embered). There are tons of psychological experiments coming to similar conclusions using money for example, where the same end outcome ends up registering completely differently for people depending on how it's framed.

[–] urno@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I was wondering what you guys were on about until you mentioned the Ring of Binding! I’m finding that i have enough Human Effigies for the time being.