Yeah I sadly have to agree with @hanselthecaretaker on this one. You've had a huge reputation for going "Lol souls are so easy because all you have to do is get gud at them" when it's clear you have no valid experience playing the games.
I've played Dark Souls and Bloodborne and like half of Sekiro (check my trophies if you want). I can tell by watching something if it's hard to do or not. All of those Souls no hit/no damage/no whatever challenge runs are the people playing as cautiously as possible, which doesn't take high skill to do. I've found out several simple exploits in Souls without even trying, using the bow and arrow itself is an exploit and it's just a normal item in the game. I wouldn't ever want to play a whole game like that because it's not fun. I've been sorta addicted to Ryukahr's Super Mario Maker videos recently and some of those levels require more skill than playing the entirety of an actual Super Mario game. I know the difference between looking easy and it actually being hard. Hitting a baseball looks easy. Can either of you say you couldn't get this Ornstein and Smough strat replicated in a couple hours of practice? I kinda did the same thing against Sif when I was completely undergeared/leveled and the only thing I had that did a good chunk of damage was the lightning spear magic that I only had enough to time use it after one of Sif's attack strings and I just dodged everything waiting for that attack string, then hit him with the lightning spear. Sure, figuring out the strats can take great knowledge of the game's systems and smarts but the execution skill required isn't very high. And, you don't even know if the guy doing the run found the strats himself or from someone else.
I did not even know achievements like that exsisted! That is a big new one for me!
I know a guy on YouTube called Seraphim17, that has done video guides for 2 out of the 3. The no upgrade and hardest difficulty. I did not try myself, but his guides were helpful when playing on Normal.
And before those young punks/older folk who never played difficult games before, or forgot the harder ones, there were plenty of others games that make Dark Souls look like a walk in the park. The entire PS2/XBOX/GC era for one. Before "git gud", it was all about "Keeping it stylish!", being a level of "Master Ninja", or just keep playing. I like to see these people who play nothing, but Souls games and not much else try any of the Ninja Gaiden games (NES trilogy or modern), DMC, or the first two Max Payne games. I would not wish Comix Zone on them though. That alone would drive them crazy.
Tell me about it, I grew up on NES/SNES. Try landing the fucking plane in Top Gun or play The Lion King, which wasn't one of the hardest ones by any stretch (I only didn't finish it because of the stupid cave-maze level). If people think Dark Souls requires memorization, play those things, plus you usually needed higher reaction skills too. I can't believe looking at gaming now that those NES/SNES games were made for kids. And, I had Battletoads and Bayou Billy for some reason, I doubt I would've asked for either honestly.
The only reason I knew about Battletoads was because of the arcade game. I found a cabinet while in Mississippi visting my grandma. The local mall had a theatre and an arcade right across from each other. I played arcade game in the summer of 95. I was turning 6 around the time.
I don't understand how my brother and I beat that game without cheats. Nowadays, neither of us can play that game unless save states are involved. It, and Aladdin were the only Disney games on our Genesis.
I don't remember Lion King being that hard. The only reason I didn't beat it was the stupid 2nd-to-last level with hyena cave-maze; you had to know which caves to go into to get through the level and if you messed up, you got sent back to an earlier spot and had to re-kill the hyenas again. I hated that those kinda of levels of just trail-and-error bullshit, it's why I never beat SMB1 as a kid as you had to know what pipes to go in on the last castle level.
I don't think I ever landed the plane in that game. I'm pretty sure it was a game I never asked my parents for so I didn't really play it much and probably was like "this is stupid" and played something else. I remember when AVGN landed the plane with the fucking power glove somehow.
Wait, what? Could you elaborate because I was not aware there were kickstarter only achievements?
I can't remember the fume knight so maybe you're right. I think My reflexes are okay, though they went to hell after I went on a big strategy game kick. But really I think at least its the goal of Dark Souls is to memorise patterns through repetition and exploit the pattern to win, maybe sometimes the design fall short in reality but I think that's the core idea.
On Steam, Pillars of Eternity has an achievement that requires being a kickstater backer to get. Not sure what to elaborate on.
Y'all aren't giving kids enough credit. The kids just out of elementary school are primed for playing tough games, because their minds are still like sponges and not clogged up and bogged down with life's bs yet. Plus their reaction times are about as good as they'll get at that age. I grew up with Colecovision, NES and SNES so am very familiar with stuff like Zaxxon, River Raid, Frogger, Pitfall, all the Nintendo classics, etc. But I don't think I ever beat Battletoads. I tried it IIRC but it's probably buried in my registry and something best not dug up lol.
I got the seriously equivalents for 2 and 3, though I 'boosted' those with farming techniques ('Brumak boosting' on 2, lots of AFK botmatches to get through certain game types) way faster than playing them 'properly', but then you had to play something like 3000 of each mulitplayer match).
It's not just reaction times but game design back then. The fucking monkeys on level 2 of The Lion King or adventure game logic. And the fact that you had to beat most of these things in one sitting.
I never implied that. All I'm saying is that I can't go through the bullshit in Lion King again. The last time I ever touched that game was at the age of 8. Give me games like Shinobi 3 or Revenge, Dynamite Headdy, Ristar, or Castlevania Bloodlines, and most of those would be a walk in the park by comparison for me. I've played them so many times, that nearly all of it is instinct.
