There’s this:

https://edward-la-barbera.itch.io/frasier-fantasy

I’ve posted things like that before and it seems to make some people mad, lol

It’s the healing potion, for sure.

It’s way more fun to make up your own build as you go, based on how you want to play anyway. Just be warned that the upgrade materials are really stingy after a certain point, so be a little selective with how many weapons you commit to.

…and you’ll know you’re in this swamp when you find it. Good luck!

I love reading people’s first time experience with these games.

Demon’s Souls was the last of the Souls games I played, and I thought it was hard still. The bosses aren’t as frenetic and complex as later titles, but the levels and the navigation is brutal. I still remember running back in that swamp over and over and over.

I also remember grinding out weapon upgrade materials in a cave for literal hours, because I didn’t see any other way to get enough.

Nobody knew any better at the time, lol

It was so much slower than fps games are now. Dual joysticks would have been overwhelming at the time when people were still getting used to 3D.

I’m all 3 here.

My collection isn’t huge either. I still have my original from the 90s, but I haven’t added much to my library since then.

Here’s one article about it.

https://macleans.ca/society/tiny-homes-fredericton/

I don’t remember where I saw this the first time, but it did mention that this had become a thing in a few American cities too (this story was from Fredericton, Canada)

People like you are why we have good things.

I bought Sim City for PC at a used bookstore, and it didn’t come with the reference page for a code it would ask you for after playing a certain amount of time.

Without this code, the game would turn on all hazards (tornados, fires, flooding, Godzilla, etc) and make itself unplayable.

This must have been a common thing, because you’re the 2nd person in the comments to mention this!

It’s funny now to think that if you couldn’t figure out a game pre-internet, you just didn’t get to play it. I know that happened to me plenty.

(edit: curse you, Batman on Sega Genesis!)

Oh yeah, that makes sense.

Honestly, I do enjoy that though.

I’m interested in your take on what Blue Prince and Dark Souls are echoing, if I’m reading this right.

No, just sharing stuff that I like.

Wow, I’ve been meaning to get around to watching it for that long?

It was the first time I remember people struggling to mentally map the controls.

Your grandma or little sibling could understand how to move NES Mario around (not necessarily being good at it, of course), but 3D was too intimidating for a lot of people to even try.

I remember everyone gathering around the TV to see this because it was so unbelievable.

Still seems to have lots of energy in him too!

Here he is dancing on the red carpet.

That’s a huge parenting win right there.