Namco on Dark Souls 2 marketing: "treating it as a massive AAA title, would be nice to attract Skyrim players"

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VXIII said:

Dark Souls changed me as a gamer. Now, no matter what game I play, I always set the difficulty on hard, hoping to get the same sense of caution and accomplishment that Dark Souls gave me.

It almost feels like that every game after Dark Souls is lacking.

Yeah especially in this Gen you have to do this to get some challenge in your games.
But soon Hardmode will probably be something like a standard DLC/PreOrder Bonus cause most people don't like Hardmodes anymore.