2014-05-21, 03:53 PM
CarrionCrow Wrote:The younger players have no idea how personal satisfaction and longer lasting games are linked together, and unless we enter a new gaming paradigm soon, they'll never get the chance.
At least the Souls series is still popular-ish, though it's been getting easier with each new installment unfortunately, not harder. Before it was "learn complex patterns or lose, sometimes hours of progress at a time", now it's "get a stronger weapon and you can power through" or "learn cheap gimmick and the entire area is suddenly simple". It's still fun, but DaSI-II are nowhere near as satisfying as DeS, particularly on NG+. DeS NG+ was like first playthrough amplified by multiple orders of difficulty, DaS was barely harder and DaS II is almost EASIER on higher difficulties aside from a small handful of bosses (Flexile Demon because of his two ninja adds that use Toxic, and spider queen because her new AI in higher modes is flat bullshit for any melee class, it leaves no openings at all even using an NPC summon).