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Were the Souls games the first truly difficult video games? Were
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Were the Souls games the first truly difficult video games? Were any games before DeS even remotely difficult, or something that would pose a challenge to a top tier expert Souls player?
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>>337100359
Can't decide if trolling or just stupid.
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LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE
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>>337100359
Souls ripped off Castlevania
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>>337100359
DOLL IS CUTE
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>>337100359
Other FromSoft games feature similar aspects as in the Souls series, such as fast paced combat etc.

A good example for that is the Armored Core series, which is quite good in terms of difficulty.
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>>337100454
Oh my god I actually got stuck there when I played through that earlier this year. Falling in the water is auto death....
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>>337100359
Go play Blade of Darkness or something.
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>>337101694
This. Armored Core Last Raven is like impossible. Much harder than the Souls games imo.
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>>337100359

I hope for your sake you're "trolling"
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>>337100359
ITT thread niggers forgot where the term roguelike came from

ROGUE

the game was odd to the commercial market and thus a gem, because it took sadder, softer versions of harder game mechanics, and sold it to children and gave out stream copies to streamers before review embargo

so we have people pvp speccing day 1 now, we got the hex builds, we get 1 new mechanic and they expect us to feel the same mystery

they had lightning in a bottle, and they poured it into some common ass spag
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I'M GOING TO FUCK THAT DOLL
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>>337100359
Loooool
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Kings Field
Punchout
Castlevania
Phantasy Star
Metal Gear Solid 2 on hardest setting
Point Blank quest mode
Twisted Metal 2 on hardest setting
Bionic Commando Rearmed on hardest setting
Splosion Man
Ikaruga
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>>337100359
Why are soulsfags so autistic?
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>>337102537
Battletoads on snes
Super mario world 2 famicom
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Souls series to me is kind of like the modern Legacy of Kain
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>>337100454
Fuck I replayed this a few months ago after feeling nostalgic and had no idea how I managed to beat that shit as a kid.
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>>337100359
Please be a fucking troll.
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>>337100359
Solid bait but it lost some of its subtlety at the end.
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>>337101715
artificial difficulty
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>>337100359
Do it you fuck.
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>>337100359
Not sure if troll or underage...
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