I get that Dark Souls is supposed to be hard but damn….create a mode that is a little more forgiving and you’d have more people buying your game.

Can you escape, regroup and come back right away? Can you go an upgrade gear a bit and make the fight easier?

Because if the answer is just "run away and go do something else" that's not really a good answer, at least not to me. I want to experience the content, not avoid it.

Elden Ring is already 6 times more popular on Steam than any of their previous titles.

I can't think of a single sponge boss in the entirety of SoulsBorne. If it's taking you that long to kill a boss you're simply not ready for it. Level up, upgrade your weapon, find a new weapon with higher DPS to work with, etc.

Also, if you really want to git gud you need to learn minmaxing. Don't waste levels on attributes that are useless to you.

Is the point to just kill lower level enemies, not bosses, to level up?

Yes. Sometimes you need to grind to level up and get materials to upgrade

I couldn't beat the first boss in Dark Souls III. So leveling up, getting better gears, etc. wasn't even really an option yet. It was that hard for me.

I think that's where Bloodborne ****ed up. It requires some pretty intense grinding to even get a full set of blood vials, much less actually progress your character. That's too much to start.

Doesn't sound like this game has an old fart mode, either.

Well, you may have accidentally triggered a late game boss there. Vordt or Dancer?

I think there was that and Bloodborne was all close quarters combat. There were parts that you couldn’t get out of if you were ****ed health wise.

Are you replaying to me? If so, I mean first boss - the prologue or whatever the first scripted sequence was where you go through a canyon, fight a few skeletons, and end up in a round arena with a big dude.

I had trouble with the skeletons to be honest, at least at first, and after 90 minutes of dying on the boss, I gave up.

And this is coming from someone who beat The Witcher 3 on Death March or whatever it is.

Oooh you mean Gundyr

Hell, that can be beaten by spamming R1