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01/30/12(Mon)14:58 No.33792751>>33792275
It's just my personal interpretation of what a "hard" game is.
For example, Skyrim on the highest difficulty is a hard game in a way, but your skill at playing the game doesn't matter one bit, all it does is make the battles more tedious by bloating the shit out of enemy hp and damage. How you play the game is completely irrelevant, the battles will always be as tedious no matter how well you play.
Or the retarded highest difficulty in TW2 that deletes your save file if you die, that's certainly incredibly hard for the simple reason that you have to start over and play the same thing over and over again if you make a couple of mistakes.
Dark Souls is the, in my opinion, right kind of hard game. If you play poorly you get punished for it, which means that if you're new to the game you'll die a shitload right from the start, but after you've finished the game once you'll have gotten the hang of it. The game didn't get easier, you just got better at it, meaning that what you do actually has an effect. I mean, I don't think I've died more times in any game in the past 10-12 years, so it's probably one of the harder games out there.
But as I said, when I think of hard games, I think of artificial difficulty with hp and damage bloating, just making the game tedious. Dark Souls is the right kind of difficult where the game is hard as balls if you can't play it, but becomes manageable when you learn to play it.
But yeah, that's just my opinion, I understand why people say it's a hard game, I just have an entirely different PERSONAL interpretation of the term "hard game", so I prefer "punishing". |
