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Given Lemmy's size, the definition of soulslike may be treated relatively loosely. While games like the numerous FromSoft titles, the recent Star Wars Jedi games, Lies of P, Nioh and similar games should be the focus, games that incorporate soulslike elements - like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous, for example - may also be discussed here.

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[ER] Get used to it, game (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by PDFuego@aussie.zone to c/soulslike@lemmy.zip

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It's been years with 99% of sessions ending with a tantrum and an abrupt Alt+F4, you can stop telling me this now

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[–] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

It would make sense to disallow it just for parity with console players.

Souls speedrunners aren't really interested in parity with console players. Most (95%) don't run on console. For some games "Console" is a different category like with Elden Ring or there are only 3 runs on console in place 100+ like with DS1.

Also you can force close on console. For Playstation it's PS-Button + "Close Application".

For most categories it's disallowed (I think) because it's an out of game action, it's not using the game mechanics, but the operating system. That's at least the reason stated for Elden Ring speedruns. I couldn't quickly find a stated reason on the Souls speedrun wiki for the other games.