In that case you are either not telling the truth, or there was something very wrong with your game. I just played through that part of the game again to be sure, and the only message there is the one telling you that tapping the B button makes you backstep.

You don't remember the staircase, and then the message telling you to go up it. And then a boulder falls on you. I don't know, I can't really make something like that up. It's too stupid and unnecessary.

What's interesting here is that when writing down messages, you can only pick from very specific sets of words, none of which including any swears or anything hostile and condescending. There is absolutely no way that anyone called you a faggot or any other insult through an Orange Soapstone Message.

oh my god

do you honestly expect me to remember exactly what the message said

i embellished the message for comedic effect

jesus fucking christ

Quote from: Verbatim on December 06, 2014, 01:31:16 PM

What I've gathered from this is that you're all just a bunch of mad fanboys who are upset that someone doesn't like your little game. Aww. I remembered when I cared that much about people's opinions over games...

Not at all. Just correcting you.

You're not convincing.

Well, that really comes down to opinion. If the challenge of other players randomly popping into your world is what you think is the best part of the game, then yes it would ruin the fun. However, that really doesn't sound like what you'd like about it.

So what would I like about it, then? That's really the ultimate question that everyone's refusing to answer, isn't it?

I'm just trying to clear up issues you seem to have with the game. Sorry. :/

No, you're mostly okay. You're the only person who appears to be capable of any rational discussion here. Everyone else is just like, "DERP GET A SENSE OF HUMOR LOL". "THIS GAME IS OBVIOUSLY TOO HARDCORE FOR YOU."

You do realise you can turn off messages and invasions, right?

Yes. But then what left of the game is there?

Stay Hollow and stop bitching.

But then I lose what makes the game SOOO fun. durrr

Also, it's a game about being in a dark, dying world void of hope, and where even the NPC's can betray for their own reasons. Having online players 'betray' you by coming in at random and trying to fuck shit up adds to that if you ask me. Although, the NPC invasions are in the game even if you're offline.

How is that fun?

Seriously.

How is that fun.

Verby, the key thing to the PvP/invasions is that you need to have restored your humanity at a bonfire for them to invade. If you don't, then you don't lose much, you look like a zombie, and you can't summon players/NPCs to help you. That's really it.

That's too much.

Having online players 'betray' you by coming in at random and trying to fuck shit up adds to that if you ask me.

So that IS a thing?

Hey challengerX, you're a liar.

Yes it does. I just said, there have been a ton of helpful messages.

I don't fucking care. There should be ZERO misleading messages at all. If I can't trust one, I can't trust ANY of them.

Honestly I think you're just making assumptions and being childish about this. Play the game more or even watch some PvP videos. Dark Souls is known for its fun duels. You can summon multiple people and people will wait while you duel the other person or you can just walk around with weapons so people know you're hosting duels. You make money off whoever dies and watch people fight, and I'd even give people prizes for winning duels.

That doesn't sound fun at all.

Really, it's a very community oriented game and it's seriously one of the funnest games I've ever played. You need to give it another chance.

Well, you're doing an awful job of selling it to me.

No, I won't.

Gonna be honest though, this really doesn't seem like a game for you. Too challenging.

Yeah, "too challenging," even though my main gripes have nothing to do with the challenge and all to do with the cheap tricks. Being tricked into doing something isn't a challenge. At all.

I play games in my spare time so I don't have to deal with fucking idiots.

And?

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LMAO you tried jumping didn't you?

You know, I was wondering when someone was going to accuse me of being the victim of an invasion, or of being gullible enough to give any credence to the hint things.

No, I looked the game up on YouTube before playing and found out about it that way. My first reaction was, "Wow, that's really dumb." Years later, when I finally played the game, I forgot all about that shit until I came across one on the very first room you get to after the tutorial parts. There was a staircase, and a hint thing that read something along the lines of "Go up there, faggot, there's treasure."

And I was like... HMM. THIS IS A LITTLE SUSPICIOUS. DIDN'T I READ ABOUT THIS SOMEWHERE OR SOMETHING? I knew something bad was gonna happen, but I went up the stairs anyway just to humor myself, and lo and behold, a boulder comes careening down, and it knocks me off the staircase, and I land almost in a strategically placed bottomless pit that probably would've killed me had I landed in it.

My reaction was basically, "Yep, worst game ever, 0/10, anyone who likes this is a dumb cunt."

TL;DR
No, I'm less mad that it happened, and more upset that it's a convention of the game at all.
I've never been invaded upon, and I purposely set a trap on myself just to see if people were that evil.

I would never invade another player, and I would never set a misleading hint thing. Ever. I would never, ever do it. And if it's something that the game and the community are going to encourage me to do, expect me to do, how the fuck am I ever gonna have fun playing a game like that.

so you're just asexual

that doesnt mean we're insane for accepting and fulfilling our libidos, it just means it isnt the right choice for you, and thats completely fine

I'm not asexual. I just wish I was. Because it's... rational.

I'm able to recognize that sexuality is just nature's way of essentially getting me to reproduce.

There is nothing intrinsically pleasurable about pornography.
There is no intrinsic value to masturbation.

Acting like there is is insanity.

You are insane.

I believe "delude" means to mislead, so I do not see how that makes sense.

I'm implying that you don't actually like to masturbate; you just have a sex drive that compels you to do so against your will. That's basically how sexuality works.

Look at the front page of this forum. Look at all the bullshit.

This place has some of the worst night activity I've ever seen.

If only we made shitposting against the rules!...