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Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 5, 2026

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What are you buying during the Steam summer sale? I picked up Persona 4, Noita, Witcher 3, Halo 3 collection, and the Prey Mooncrash DLC.

It's ending in a couple days so I'm considering picking up another couple games on sale like God of War, Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, or Into the Breach.

Tell me what you're buying, or try to convince me to buy one of the games on my list!

I'm considering getting the Skitarii DLC for Darktide, but I think I'll be able to restrain myself by focusing on completing some challenges with the vanilla characters instead.

My brother strongly recommended Elden Ring, but it's damn expensive. Doesn't look like it'll be any cheaper anytime soon, but here my strategy will be to instead focus on completing Dark Souls 1 instead. I have the Prepare To Die Edition, which I need to mod with DSFix to make it playable with KBM, and even then it'll be a rough ride, but the easier-to-play Remastered edition is, again, damn expensive.

And then I got Lords of the Fallen (2023), which only cost around 9€. I don't get to play much, so I suppose it'll last me long enough for me to not need to torture myself with Dark Souls after all.

I would recommend trying Dark Souls with controller. All the souls games are beatable with M&B, but sometimes you just gotta use the right tool for the job.

The main advice for the series is to not worry about dying. It's not a skill check as much as a knowledge check.

Yeah, my last attempt to play DS1 in the absence of a controller led to me trying to play it with a joystick. It went about as well as could be expected. Still, I won't buy a gamepad. KBM or bust. Don't want another device cluttering up the place.

And I'm fine with the gameplay. Well, mostly anyways. I made it about halfway through the game so far; I think I ended up stumbling into Artorius, and that was sufficiently little fun for me to put it down. I always preferred the exploration and smaller fights, anyways - the bossfights in soulslikes are more of an annoyance to me.

Lords of the Fallen (2023) has surprisingly easy bossfights, by comparison. I ended up beating most bosses on the first try, and feeling like I cheated. That's now supposed to be how soulslike bosses work! They're meant to be annoying-to-frustrating!

Yeah, my last attempt to play DS1 in the absence of a controller led to me trying to play it with a joystick.

Don't think this would have occurred to me. Don't think it should have occurred to you. ;)

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