I don't want to lose all the messages tho :(
I felt the same way, but quite frankly, the messages this time around are really souring my experience.
I enter a cave with a woman on her knees with both hands nailed into a wall. She speaks out in agony and screams in pain about the people who hurt her.
The closest message is a message about using her mouth for a hole with a thrust motion phantom that plays in perpetuity.
Another nearby message is the classic "try finger, but hole."
A third measage states, "opportunity ahead," which I assume is also about rape.
And a fourth and final message in the room is another overt rape joke.
I'm now playing offline and loving it. Fuck these rape jokes and stupid, degrading humor bullshit. It just isn't funny. It's savage.
Unlike the other Souls games, this world feels so alive, and I don't feel the need to see white phantoms, blood stains, and messages everywhere for the world to have more "life." Especially if the added flair consists of rape jokes, toilet humor, and bullshit.
I do miss helping people defeat bosses, but fuck it.
I love my no-compass mod as well as unlocking the framerate and extending the LODs.