>"Hard game for hardcore players"
>It's just tedious trial and error dogshit
What game does difficulty better than Halo games?
>>345305246
That's typically how you learn. These "hardcore" games you are referring to, I am guessing, have a steep learning curve to them because of multiple systems in place that you have to learn to manage. I doubt anyone became a Grandmaster of chess by playing one game...
>>345305509
Souls games "learning curve" comes from cheap instant death though. Nothing difficult about that. Just dumb game design.
>Hardest difficulty just makes you take more damage and gives enemies more health
>>345305416
Killzone 2 is a great example of good adjustable difficultly with AI getting smarter
Only PvP games can be hard, playing against the AI is braindead.
>>345305618
Did you not learn anything from those deaths? There is a reason why people consider Dark Souls 1 and Demon Souls to be the most difficult in the series and it's not because of cheap deaths. It's because most fans got good....
>>345305509
Furi has you learning all of the mechanics in the first fight
That doesn't make the bullshit of perrying assholes with inconsistent attack patterns, auto blocking your attacks and the sniper fight not shit
>>345305416
contra games
out of continues? back to the start noob
Dodge until you die IRL or ingame
>RTS Game
>Raising difficulty makes the CPU cheat and get free resources
>>345305796
It's because it's the same tactics: hit and roll away. Not very hard. I remember people went on about the series being hard and frankly it's not. Maybe at the beginning but that's it.
>>345305845
>inconsistent attack patterns
you have to wait for the white flash
>autoblocking
you missed the timing to attack it. you can parry that too and give yourself another chance to hit
>sniper fight
it really only gets incredibly hard in the last stage
>>345306142
>you have to wait for the white flash
Not him but Jesus fuck
>Hand has you having to wait half a sec before the perry
>Burst will fucking attack multiple times in one flash
Shit gets kind of unfair in the second half of health bars when I'm low on health and I just have to get lucky with parries
>>345305246
>friend rants how insanely hard dark souls is
>do a completely blind playthrough with him
>zero deaths
>zero fucks
>his face when
>still hasn't spoken to me yet
Trial and error is for pussies if you can't master a game's mechanics within five minutes of playing, you're a skrub. And may or may not need to git gud.
>>345306420
You forgot to add "and everyone on the bus got up and clapped" to your story
>>345306104
Oh we are on the same side then. I should have elaborated when I said steep learning curve. It's subjective and some people have more trouble learning then others. No, Dark Souls is not a hardcore game, but that doesn't keep people from thinking it is. I was talking about "tedious trial and error dogshit" in the op and how it relates to learning a game. If anything, only the tedious part applies to Dark Souls if that was what OP was referring to.
>>345306483
Oh shit you're right I did forget that part.
And everyone on the bus got up and clapped.
>>345306342
after a few tries i didn't have any problems with her except in the last stage.
i just parried and attacked on the first chance
kind of a shitty battle anyway
>>345306013
>total war games
>only one region remaining, destroyed all his farms, my spies destroyed everything withing the city
>wiped every single one of his units on the map
>spawn 10 advanced units inside his fort every turn
>>345306013
Now this is something to complain about. Slight cheating is fine but not when they start with triple resources and have their income and production accelerated. You have to turtle and play catch up the entire match.
>>345306420
>zero deaths
That's a shame, you might have really liked the Archives
>>345306420
>Zero deaths
This is probably bait, but yeah.
Confirmed for having not actually played the game.There is a point in the game where you literally cannot avoid dying, unless you use an extremely difficult to execute glitch which blind players could not possibly know about.
>>345306420
Great! Now do a no death run of pic related....
>>345306809
>counting the obligatory death
Is this how desperate Soulsdrones are? "W-Well the game outright kills you at one point with no way out, so it's still hardcore! Prepare to die!"
You fags are pathetic.
>>345305618
This.
Then later in the game it's curses, weapon breaking, and long trudging walks to the actual interesting point you were at.
All Dark Souls has going for it is the art style, everything else about it is boring as fuck.
>>345306990
Let's also not forget the constant possibility of being invaded by someone who has spent much more time with the game and has better equipment
Let's also not forget the boss that doesn't reset progress when you die because it's contingent on a jumping mechanic that from knew was shit
Dark Souls isn't hard but achieving zero non-essential deaths is dependent on more than just skill.
>>345306895
>implying ghosts n goblins isn't my jam
>try harder fella
I've yet to play a game that has actually been hard
>>345307012
(you)
>>345307245
>"hardcore gamer" finds out others play better than him
>it takes more than skill guys!
>implying luck
Okay buddy
>>345307293
What is your definition of hard and what game, if any, has come close to being hard?
>>345305246
Dark Souls
>Game has an entire difficulty slider dedicated to puzzles
>There still hasn't been a game with a better difficuly setting than God Hand
It's such a simple concept, why can't anyone try it again
>>345305246
>game is hardcore
>its just grind
dumb
Reminder that you're too much of a pussy to handle REAL difficulty.
>>345305246
>trial and error
Name any activity with a learning curve that doesn't involve trial and error.
>>345310047
Arcade shoot em ups have had adaptive difficulty for ages, and have incorporated it far better than God Hand did. Battle Garegga is the obvious example.
>>345310198
>dude vanilla wow, ffxi, and everquest was so hardcore back then!!!
>it was just grinding mobs and trying to find people with the same raid schedule as you
>>345310201
Is this porn?
>>345305416
Everything, Halo is nothing more than memorising where snipers are so you can pop out and shoot them in the 1 second window you have before they instant kill you
>>345310429
The nostalgia is because friends played with you, and now they have entered the workforce. There is no point chasing that dragon.
>>345310520
Yes.
