1) if a mcguffin is needed to proceed, then that information should be repeated always at the same place

2) obscure information or non-repeated dialogue should only lead you to bonus items or things that are helpful but not necessary/required to progress

I actually like FromSoft approach to story/lore... It's just sometimes it depends on the player doing trial and error trying to find out which item is required in which section

always important to ask, imo. There's a whole spectrum between "I don't want to know ANYTHING" and "please tell me exactly where to go for an easy time because I'm done with this faffing about". Your mileage WILL vary with where you land there at any particular time if you keep playing FromSoft stuff XD

Also, yeah, these games have a weird relationship to information. They like being obtuse and cryptic with a lot of stuff. I enjoy playing mostly blind at first but these games really assume a community to figure them out and share info in many ways so they CAN be frustrating with many things

I think I am one boss away from opening the door that the snake warps you to.

But I think that boss, which has clones, I have to have the curse so I can damage it (like the ghosts).

Honestly, I think DS is fun to play. What I dislike, since I dont know it by heart, is when you need some item, and the game maybe tells you once.

That game has some spots i dread returning to even as someone who's finished it 2 or 3 times

Funny enough, Microsoft uses the same button placement as Sega's consoles did, in part cause the original XBox took a lot of design cues from the Dreamcast

I'm about to buy a Playstation controller cuz fuck all that AB nonsense.

And it's really hard to remember controls for games like Red Dead.

Bethesda games are pretty much engraved in my brain though.

though it looks like XBox’s version is becoming the defacto standard. disappointing that ms is winning at anything but i don’t care really who wins as long as it’s someone