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ViewtifulJoe posted...

Do they really want to get into it though? It always sounds more like they want to curbstomp a version that can't fight back and then judge the game based on its story.
It's some sort of noob revolt.

I have more of a nuanced view on this part. Certainly when I first played Dark Souls I thought "this shit is just more hard than it is fun". And it frustrated me because the world looked interesting and yet I couldn't be bothered to beat down the same 3 fucking draugrs in the Undead Burg for another 3 hours. Then as I started to git gud at the game I realised that that is the entire point of the thing, and you either like that or you don't. And sure, it's very rewarding. I don't think these games need an easy mode. I think they might be worse off for it, in fact.

That said, the games are definitely difficult! I don't know why they say it is not. How else do you define difficult.

I think every person who says DS isn't difficult needs to post how many hours they logged on their first playthrough, or especially how many hours it took them to get up to say, beating capra demon.