I kinda half agree with you. I agree that the overall difficulty of Dark Souls is often overblown (sometimes by people that I suspect haven't even played the game), but there are a small number of instances where they crank the sadism up to eleven. These being the Capra Demon, the Anor Londo archers and O&S.

If you're still interested I'd recommend giving Dark Souls a shot. I think it's actually a significantly more player friendly game than Demons Souls, with many of the more frustrating elements, such as the obtuse weapon upgrade system and the lack of checkpoints changed for the better.

While Demon's Souls was certainly a breath of fresh air when it came out I'd say that I vastly prefer Dark Souls. The complaints that people often level against DkS, the obtuseness, the unforgiving difficulty, the ease of losing progress, they're all worse in DeS. DkS is a significantly more player friendly game.

"But these people would say, “Yeah, it makes no sense, and there’s no story…"

Hmm, yeah, I'm not sure if I'd call any part of Millennium good, but the first 2 seasons are definitely interesting and IMO worth watching.

Okay, but then how do you explain the crystal skull vodka bottles?

I really was quite surprised at how good season 3 and parts of season 4 were. I'd say that they're both better than any individual season in Voyager, for example.

I've recently started watching Enterprise in reverse chronological order of season. I was surprised by two things: that seasons 3 and 4 are watchable to good, and that I enjoyed season 3 more than season 4.

Exactly. The Borgtech was stuff they didn't fully understand and had less than total control over. And, IIRC at this time 7of9 wasn't yet integrated into the crew, so they didn't know that they might've been able to rely on her knowledge. Cleansing the ship of it is entirely appropriate.

Glad you brought up Enterprise. I recently watched Ent seasons 3 and 4. The Xindi arc in S3 comes fairly close to a well executed Year of Hell type scenario, especially in the later half of the season. The ship gets the shit knocked out of it and doesn't get fully repaired until they get back to Earth.

I don't really remember if Voyager did anything as offensive as P&L but "Threshold" is easily the stupidest thing in all of Trek.

Agreed, this really is a mediocre-to-horrible run of episodes. I also find the S6 finale to be pretty meh.

I'm all for mods that fix basic technical issues, but I don't think "runs at a now outdated resolution" counts as a technical issue. Many older games were designed to run at a specific resolution, both in terms of art style and in terms of game mechanics. The high-res mods for the original Fallout games and the…

"I mean i don't see how an x86 device can't support emulation."

For a self-consciously "progressive" sci-fi show Star Trek (all of them) can also be pretty regressive towards sci-fi ideas like AI and genetic engineering. Yes, people can point to "Measure of a Man", but I'd then point to "The Ultimate Computer" in TOS and the Voyager episodes where the Doctor wants to be legally…

If BSG had actually committed to a consistent view of the logistics of the fleets survival then it would have been much better. The problem is that after the midpoint of season 1 the show promptly forgot about it, and then only remembered it for the algae episodes. Sometime early on Baltar gives a report that the…

I honestly don't think clip shows even count as episodes. Besides, TNG has plenty of other contenders for awful Trek.

No episode with big floppy unexplained elephant ears can be bad!

I put the copy editing errors down to Profit and Lace having broken Zack's brain.

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