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4/5/2016 10:13:31 PM
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Do People Oversell Dark Souls' Difficulty?
Dark Souls is made out to be this ridiculously difficult game with bosses that will annihilate you again and again.
[spoiler]I've been playing Dark Souls for the past week or so, and I've come to the conclusion that the majority of players are simply overselling the whole thing to make it seem like it's nearly impossible to play.
The only reason I can imagine this game being nearly as difficult as everyone claims it to be is if someone isn't at all noticing and adapting to enemy attack patterns, or if they're taking on areas or enemies that they're entirely unprepared for.
New Game+ and beyond, however, may be different, but I've yet to experience that for myself.[/spoiler]
What are your thoughts? Is it as hard as people say, or is it all just a huge over-exaggeration?
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2 RepliesEdited by Sapid: 4/7/2016 1:22:24 PMNo, it's as hard as people say IF you don't cheat and go in completely blind with no outside help. Now, I consider the game an open world. IMO asking for help, reading player notes, sharing secrets is part of the game. But obviously once you've played the game enough you can get through it much easier. Most of the people who say the game is easy 1) Summoned 2) Used outside help 3) Have played a souls game before +some luck (Even if they won't admit it) Not saying there is anything wrong with the above, when you've tried a boss 50 times at some point it's not cheesy to summon Solaire or ask for help. Although I'm not a fan of the franchise going all "haha you gonna die over and over our game is really hard!!!". Then they focus too much on killing you and you get things like Anor Londo Archers, then actually mechanically difficult things. And I'd say the game is more [i]punishing[/i] and complex, than just "hard".
