Are Gamers Too Spoiled these Days with Easy Difficulties?

[LMU Uncle Alfred]

VXIII said:

LMU Uncle Alfred said:

For the first DS game that wasn't the case for several bosses.  In order to survive against one of Seth's area attacks for instance you had to stay completely close to him, but the natural instinct is to move or stay as far away as possible.  Why would you even consider this option in the first place?  You'd have to get lucky and think "Eh, I don't care let me just restart..oh what!?  I'm alive!"  This was a simpler instance of logic in this game too compared to the two below.

There was this one boss, the bed of chaos.  He would swipe his hands across this area just fast enough that you needed to jump off the cliff and into this small narrow path to get to the area needed to kill him, but the thing is there's no indication that you would even need to go jump into this pit.  You can't see how it would be important until you actually jumped into it, so why would you consider it?    Ceaseless Discharge also had this weird method of killing him, for some reason he dies if you get him just close enough to the entrance, attack him once at a specific moment and he...falls even though he's standing.  Wut?

I honestly don't see how is that different from what I'm trying to say. There is always a way to avoid the attacks, you just have to figure it out as you try any fail because it is not always obvious. Like in Seth's battle. It is a design choice to let's the player die, but learn by trying something different in the process.

Ceaseless Discharge fight had a "cheap kill" that is true, but it is optional, hidden, and makes sense if you paid attention to who the level was designed. I don't think anyone would figure it out without watching a guide or something. However it is not how it is supposed to be. He fell in a very deep valley of lava (1:45) btw. He was not standing after he made the jump.

Agreed to the Bed of Chaos though. It is unconventional platformer kind of fight, like Dragon God from Demou's souls. I personally hated those. Nothing against platformer kind of fight, but I think it doesn't fit skill based game like Souls.

The problem is that for DS1 the logic is disjointed in those fights.  It's not about learning enemy movement patterns in those cases above.  It's about having much needed knowledge that require great leaps of logic.  I'd be very suprised if anybody beat Seth or bed of chaos on their first try.  I'd have to call shenanigans.