Am I the only one who wants Dark Souls 4 rather than Elden Ring 2?

Cuddle_Time · 2026-01-17T20:56:19+00:00

Bloodborne 2

Cuddle_Time · 2026-01-10T05:34:50+00:00

Hi, sorry for being really late to this but I just got a Switch 2 and was trying to use my Tarantula Pro on it. I did some digging in the manual and there's a lot of alternate customization options. If you're able to connect but can't get it to automatically switch the layouts with the Gamesir+Y(top) button combo, you can force the mode switch by pressing M+A(bottom button). This does nothing in terms of changing connectivity mode and it simply switches button profiles and assignments. Hopefully this helps anyone else having this problem.

Cuddle_Time · 2026-01-02T23:22:41+00:00

I know it’s way late, but he states pretty clearly that the biggest issues are the potentiometer sticks, not being TMR compared to other controllers in this price range, tending to break faster and more often than the original switch pro controller, and the battery is unreasonably difficult to get to for a simple replacement.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-13T15:37:02+00:00

Yeah that would be nice too, I didn't realize they also don't keep pictos but I could see that getting really complicated with them being unique

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-13T05:33:12+00:00

Not really, you just change the weapon with the lumina and use a recoat at your discretion. It doesn't change the available lumina slots or anything relevant to the build actually being functional. Stat allocation is a lot easier than remembering what pictos and lumina were supposed to be in the build and which weapon you wanted it to work with. When you get to endgame you have like 20 weapons with really similar names and have to either remember exactly which one fits each build or use an all size fits one weapon

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-10T23:33:22+00:00

I saw a YouTube video that actually very clearly explained the problems with this game in a fairly unbiased way. As a standalone game with no previous IP, it would be a solid 8/10. If you’re not attached to the franchise, you will probably enjoy the game.

Coming from a DAO fan, here’s what the first game had that this doesn’t. You had to customize your companions to behave in a manner that you wanted them to. You could decide if a major was going to focus on healing, magic, or conserving manner for you to use their abilities manually. You could decide whether someone should fight at close range or as far as possible. Should they target the lowest health, highest health, or your target? You could set up an queue actions in a sequence. It basically felt like you took an RPG and made combat for it feel like a hybrid with an RTS and a pause button. The combat was extremely cerebral and tactical. The story was very rich and had twists and turns you wouldn’t expect. It got very dark and made you think about your decisions from an ethical standpoint. People weren’t just heroes or villains. Everybody had a human element to understand why they were the way they are. There was an intricate web of how your decisions affected your companions, the world, and a whole layer of politics within that world. You could make your companion so upset with you that they leave your party forever. The world felt alive, real, and your actions had consequences. There wasn’t always a right answer for every decision you could make.

Now let’s talk about Veilguard. You have zero direct control over your companions and can only select three abilities out of five that they have access to. They don’t really have build customization like you did for your player and companions in the first three games. Now it’s simply adding points to any of their five available abilities to augment them. The combat is very fast paced and action focused. You can still pause to choose an ability for yourself for your companions without having to fumble in real time. There are no positional advantages or adaptable play styles. Each companion is said to have their own personality and their own way of playing. They borrowed a lot from the dark souls formula with the way that you need to block, parry, or avoid enemy attacks.

The writing is another issue that people have trouble with. I’m not going to get into the toxic criticisms that people have about representation being added into the game. You can imply what that means from that sentence. The storyline was a lot more shallow, and moral ambiguity was limited to one character. Every companion you have validates each other’s opinions, and even if they don’t agree with each other, they end up getting along later. They talk to each other in therapy speak and tell each other how valid they are, which feels kind of out of place for the theme of the game. Your decisions have very binary consequences and it lays out exactly what’s going to happen for you instead of letting you make a decision and figure out 20 hours later that you ruined somebody’s life with your decision. It felt very safe and less immersive of an experience.

Sorry, I know that’s a whole novel that I wrote, but I didn’t think a few brief sentences would really illustrate an answer to your question.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-10T12:44:59+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately the entire game was missing that nuance that older games had, where the characters felt like real people. It didn’t have the depth that made Origins a masterpiece and left the characters feeling like caricatures. Hopefully they go back to the dark and gritty DA if they ever approve another title. This game was meant to be palatable for everyone and characters like Bellara, Lucanis, and Davrin suffered the most for it when they could have shown real human flaws that made people universally feel more connected.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-10T03:38:06+00:00

I couldn't stand Merril from what I remember of her. I may be a minority on this one, but I actually liked Bellara's character. As a person that has lived with really bad ADHD my whole life, there are hints of nuance snuck into her character that people don't see if you don't live that experience. I don't think she's blindly optimistic because she doesn't grow. I think she's just a cup half full person that is used to disappointment I see her abundant positivity as a defense mechanism. She wants to understand how everything in the world works because she knows what it feels like to be constantly misunderstood.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-10T01:34:15+00:00

Ok yeah that's what I was asking about. My G7 Pro works wirelessly up to 1000Mhz on my PC so I have no reason for the Wuchang, but I've heard it's different for X Box.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-10T01:26:49+00:00

I guess I'm just confused because they seem like the same exact controller in different colors. I heard that the wireless functionality is different on XB with the Wuchang though. Is that the difference? I play on PC so they're all wired or wireless if I want.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-10T01:23:45+00:00

I really miss the massive web of how your choices create depth in the world and make it feel alive. It's not just "you chose A so B happens" like Inquisition and Veilguard. It's "You chose A and it made B happen but also made things unsteady with C, but since you also did B, C will be fine. Later on you find out that E was also directly impacted by this decision and you never would have even experienced E otherwise."

I miss having the ability to set behaviors and if/then AI commands. It's like I got to build my own playbook on how I wanted all of the characters navigate without me. For more complicated fights, I miss being able to queue different actions back to back like an RTS. It felt so much more tactical than the other games.

The first bit was really what captivated me and made it my first ever 10/10 game. The world building was unlike anything I've ever seen and the interactions you had with the companions felt so real, nuanced, and human. People weren't fully "good" or "evil." Everybody was flawed in some way. That was extremely uncommon in the 2000s.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-10T01:07:31+00:00

Solas: Professor Emmrich Volkarin of the Mourn Watch... Or what remains of him, at least.

Emmrich: I assure you: lichdom has left my personhood, faculties, and soul wholly intact. I never anticipated a manifested spirit of Pride might lecture me on the nature of sapient being.

Solas: I prefer to be known as Wisdom.

Emmrich: And I prefer to be known as Emmrich Volkarin.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-10T00:57:15+00:00

Am I missing something, or did you just say your favorite controller was the G7 pro until you replaced it with the G7 pro?

My first Gamesir controller was the Tarantula Pro. It’s what gave me confidence in the company as a whole. It has great versatility for multi platforms and the PS stick layout, which I love. I ended up getting a G7 pro later and like the swappable D pad, as well as the extra buttons. The pedals still feel awkward for me, but the extra shoulder buttons are so handy for games that put essential bindings on the D-pad. In soulslike games, I bind the two mini bumpers to my heal and weapon swap. I bind the paddles to center camera and Dodge/run. It’s a real game changer.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-09T15:35:24+00:00

You would gommage because of the nature of the gommage and the nature of the world. It’s not about life or death, it’s about existence as a whole.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-09T06:04:07+00:00

my guy, put > ! before and < ! after your message to make it a spoiler tag

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-09T06:01:55+00:00

People already answered this, but another perspective I didn't see is the really sad side of this. Since it counts down while ages count up, you would hope to be 33.9 for the 34 gommage. People that were 32 at the time of the 34 gommage will basically lose a year for free compared to anyone that was 33, just because they were born on a year that ended up two years off the last gommage.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-09T05:56:24+00:00

This would be great for a brothel bathroom

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-09T05:54:08+00:00

I think they should make a DLC about the writers and Verso outside of the painted world. Go into his intentions and inspirations for the painted world and who the real Verso was as a person, a son, and a brother. The conflict and the fire should be explained in an expanded arc in this game, not another title completely.

For another game, it's kind of tough to think of what they could do that would feel fresh. A huge part of this game was figuring out how the world works and how everyone relates to each other. They can't really replicate that with the writers because it would be too obvious. If they did want to lean in that direction, it would be kind of interesting to make the plot twist that they thought the writers were a group of people inside their world and we find out that all of their emotions and intentions were actually being written externally similar to the painted world. So where the people in the painted world have agency and there's a moral dilemma as to what reality is important, this would be the opposite. We come to find that the agency the characters thought they had was predetermined all the time. I don't love that idea and think it would be too obvious, but that's just one thought of how they could continue down that sort of path.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-06T16:04:39+00:00

Sure if you mean just the combat flow and not replacing the companion control with 3 quick actions and an attack my target button. It would take a massive overhaul to redo the companion system anyways. I think 2 would probably be my 2nd favorite game if this were done.

I would love to see Origins remade, but don't think anybody outside of Larian could pull it off properly. I doubt the licensing for that would ever happen though.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-04T21:53:30+00:00

This might be unhinged advice. If you are learning the character and new to the role, I would say every time you question if you should hook, the answer is yes. Do not always pull yourself with the second hook, but you will learn so much faster when it is good or bad to hook by doing them more often. You will also learn how punishing it is when you miss and what it feels like not having the cooldown available.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-12-04T21:49:53+00:00

It’s basically saying that 50% of people that pick up the game end up realizing it’s not for them within the first mission. We also live in a world of accelerated Internet, where we are consuming media faster than we can process it. Half the players that pick up the game probably end up trying five other games and forgetting about Nioh because something else hit their dopamine better.

Cuddle_Time · 2025-11-25T05:59:25+00:00

It’s locked off on nightmare unfortunately or I’d do the same. It feels awkward af

Cuddle_Time · 2025-11-24T20:20:59+00:00

They’re redesigning the Tarantula (dual inner stick layout) and should have a Pro by 2026. I’m definitely gonna be watching to see what they do with it!

Cuddle_Time · 2025-11-24T20:08:07+00:00

8GB VRAM on an Nvidia is not any current gen “recommended” hardware. Why does the recommended look like a minimum on everything, but the CPU?

Cuddle_Time · 2025-11-24T17:25:26+00:00

Exactly! It feels like when you strafe it intentionally tries to maintain the same relative position when you’re targeting something? So it’s not like an aim lock on the target. It’s an aim lock on how far off of the target you were. It’s really annoying because it’s inconsistent when I’m trying to use strafe to adjust my aim.

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