Yeesh, some people really can't handle trivial failure.

bunkhead said:

Yeesh, some people really can't handle trivial failure.

People who do have an intimate relationship with that top screen as they see it so very often.

Oh "You Died" you're my only true constant.

"Hello darkness, my old friend..."

bunkhead said:

Yeesh, some people really can't handle trivial failure.

I think that it's more become a meme that people want to Flanderize about the game. (The same way Dwarf Fortress is supposedly so hard to learn...) Strictly speaking, if you define "hard" by "how often you die," then stuff like Hotline Miami, I Wanna Be The Guy, or Super Meat Boy are much, much harder games. But death in those games truly is utterly trivial to the point of only losing seconds of progress. I generally agree with the argument I've seen that Souls games aren't so much "hard" as "tense". They punish recklessness, but aren't that hard if you use patience and caution.

NWSiaCB said:

I think that it's more become a meme that people want to Flanderize about the game. (The same way Dwarf Fortress is supposedly so hard to learn...) Strictly speaking, if you define "hard" by "how often you die," then stuff like Hotline Miami, I Wanna Be The Guy, or Super Meat Boy are much, much harder games. But death in those games truly is utterly trivial to the point of only losing seconds of progress. I generally agree with the argument I've seen that Souls games aren't so much "hard" as "tense". They punish recklessness, but aren't that hard if you use patience and caution.

Remember Armored Core V for X360? Not even 10 minutes in and you're faced with a Freddie Krueger wannabe bot with beam chainsaws (that ofc, ohko if hits).

Demon's Souls is way more punishing mainly because of world tendency. Sometimes all you can do is die and try again.

Rathurue said:

Remember Armored Core V for X360? Not even 10 minutes in and you're faced with a Freddie Krueger wannabe bot with beam chainsaws (that ofc, ohko if hits).

Thermal, not beam. That glow, is the teeth glowing red-hot, not projecting beams. The Grind Blade shunts all the thermal build-up from your reactor into the chainsaws, while disabling your radiators. And I've taken a glance from it and lived, with the stock AC. You just need to be on max HP, and dodge while shooting, along with luck. You stay still, you're dead.

That looks like Blighttown...I absolutely understand her frustration at this death.

BurningPenguin6 said:

That looks like Blighttown...I absolutely understand her frustration at this death.

No one likes Blighttown. No one. It's dark and irritating, and the poison gets everywhere.