LGarth wrote:
Bah. Dark Souls wasn't that hard to be honest. It required a bit of dedication and getting used to the mechanics, but after that ... I'd say NG 1&2 on hardest mode are both more fun and unforgiving than Dark Souls. And some old SNES/Megadrive games were downright painful back in the day in that you had 3 lives, that's it to clear the game.
You'll have to tell me what NG is, as I'm not able to quite figure out what you're referring to. However, comparing any game nowadays to the old school games really isn't fair. Many of those were ports from the arcade, where the game was literally trying to kill you as often as possible in order to make you spend more quarters.
In a day where games have autosaves every thirty seconds, where the penalties for death are rarely more than a couple minutes progress, where everyone and their brother now gets epics just for signing on(
), it's a legitimately challenging game.
I Wanna be the Guy and the other games that followed are just ridiculous. As are most Bullet Hell games.