rude

I thought I did not have the DLC on the base Dark Souls 2...

Level and gear does not matter when you have 6 immortal skeletons in YOUR hole

do not take that out of context

I decided to finally go back and do the chariot boss I forgot, for the first time.

SO, when the cutscene ended I immediately sprinted Riiiiight.

It was the best of mechanics, it was the worst of mechanics.

The subtitles are just following the horde shooter genre conventions.

The subtitle parsing? not so much,,

unrelated but also hey at least the culling works well

I just kinda assumed she would wear that fuck ass bob with pride.

But either way so often a lot of frustration over game failure comes through either having to repeat non-gratifying challenges or having to divine designer intent. Sometimes it comes off as punishing someone for being left-handed, but obviously everyone is different.

It's also probably a separate issue from things like adventure game softlocks. The random justifications for certain expectations that lead to a softlock are really just unintentional design mistakes. At least I assume most aren't trying to softlock the player...