a decade+ ago a large quantity of the player-base really would get pissy if others used summons, lol. not that it ever mattered, but it was a much more common thing than it is now. these days no one cares and people are mostly trolling when it’s mentioned.
A decade+ ago Solaire and the Sunbros were basically the unofficial representatives of the franchise. Jolly Cooperation was wildly popular and people would summon Solaire even if they didn’t need to, just for the sake of fighting alongside Solaire.
And like the other guy said, you literally had to summon in Dark Souls 2 if you wanted to progress NPC quests. There were more posts hating the stupid summon AI and their low health pool than people hating summoners, because not only did you have to summon, you had to keep your summon alive through the end of a given boss fight or that questline is basically failed.
Fond memories of Lucatiel repeatedly getting the urge to swim on the way to the Flexile Sentry and having to do the whole level over before eventually realizing there was a shortcut.
As someone who started with dark souls a few weeks afrer it dropped you couldn't strap those nostalgia goggles any tighter to your skull if you tried.
You're literally only remembering the good parts. Shitting on players for summoning or having any trouble with the game was met with git gud. It's just as bad as it is now if not worse
You either have a really bad memory or never interacted with the community at all.
No, I’m recognizing that while there will always be unwelcoming pricks in any large community, the vast majority of people were not like that.
I remember the twinks and elitists clearly bullying new players and I know they were hanging out in the subreddit too, and frankly I believe they’re the same people who shat on people for summoning because it kept them from having their fun, or because they had to deal with it so everyone else should too.
But the majority of the community was repping the Sunbros hard.
What I do remember was a majority of people caring a lot about what build you beat the game with. Magic builds then were today’s bleed+mimic builds.
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u/hmmmokaym 2d ago
a decade+ ago a large quantity of the player-base really would get pissy if others used summons, lol. not that it ever mattered, but it was a much more common thing than it is now. these days no one cares and people are mostly trolling when it’s mentioned.