Hey, melee players, fuck you. I’m kidding, of course, but you’ll pardon me from being a little salty at how much shit casters get, especially from the Souls community. I would like to say up front that I know the Souls games are made to be played as a melee character, and I’ve bitched more than once about how casters are treated like second-class citizens. Obviously, I don’t give a fuck because I keep playing as a caster whenever I can. The problem is, I like to watch other people play Souls games* and most of them play as melee characters. That doesn’t bother me in and of itself because as I said, the game is meant to be played bashing the enemies with a sword, mace, halberd, axe, etc. It’s also more fun to watch someone bash his/her head against an enemy in hand-to-hand combat, so I’m not mad about the lack of casters Let’s Plays. I find them fun to watch because I’m a caster, but even I can say that there’s something missing in watching someone torch an enemy from afar. The community takes it too far, however, even stating that to get the real Souls experience, you have to play as a melee character the first time through.
I went on a mini-Tiwtter rant earlier today because I’m watching the Super Best Friends play Demon’s Souls in which they were talking about all the ways you can cheese the Souls games. A German Spy (a guest YouTuber who’s very knowledgeable about Souls games) asked Pat if he ever used the Firestorm glitch, and Pat said in a disgusted voice, “No. I never use magic.” To underscore his point, he said he hated magic. He jokes a lot, but he sounded deadly serious. In addition, I watched him and Woolie play Dark Souls 2. Rather, Woolie was playing it for the first time, and Pat was ‘coaching’** Woolie through it. Woolie had played about half the game before as a sorcerer, but Pat wouldn’t let him be one. Pat made Woolie be a cleric,*** and Pat spent the rest of the playthrough denigrating magic users.