Various Soulslikes and ‘hard games’

Dark Souls and even Elden Ring. I’ll get a few bosses in and go, “okay, so it’s going to be how many more hours of memorizing moves of boss #28 until I kill it and restart the process with boss #29, and then on forever?” Like, one kid has a karate match; the other wants help with homework; I’ve got to make dinner and if I’m only gaming for a couple of hours a week, I want to enjoy the experience more. — Belaam

I don’t play games to lose repeatedly. I don’t really get (nor understand) the “I gave myself a completely arbitrary and unimportant task that required me to beat my head against a wall for hundreds of hours before completing it, I am now a better gamer than you” thing. If you put a wall in my way that I find too irritating, I have a stack of some serious GOTY contenders that I’m still working my way through that I can gladly go play instead of your wall.

More power to those that like them. Less power to those who somehow feel their personal ability to complete a video game is a moral choice that awards them with some form of superiority. — Lurch of the SoCal

I’ve never understood the idea that you get satisfaction out of failing and eventually succeeding. All I ever get is frustration followed by relief that I’m done with a tedious task. Maybe it’s just my ADHD brain, but I cannot fathom the idea of just wasting hours of my time beating my head against a wall just because the developers decided to make the game hard. — archronos

Anything “hard” like the Dark Souls games. I think I could “git gud,” but I don’t have the patience to “git gud.” In fact, I play just about everything on easy these days because there is too much stuff out there to waste time trying to master any one particular thing. — Pandalulz