Your most conflicting game design choices

[Chazore]

spemanig said:

I think those people just can't put into words what I just did. They don't like it because it's hard. They like it because it's nuanced. Nobody likes an "impossible" challenge, but none of the challenges in the types of games you're referring to, the Bloodborne's and Super Meat Boys, are "impossibly" challenging. They are 100% the opposite.

Learning how a game works is easy. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about becoming intimate with a game's mechanics. Becoming so in-sync with your toolset and having a complete understanding of the rules of the word and the limitations between you and your opponents, and then performing extremely intricate feats based on that intimacy.

That's why so many people who actually like Souls games say Souls games aren't hard. Most "hard" games aren't actually hard themselves. At least not unbearably hard. People just think it's hard because these games take longer and are more difficult to become completely intimate and in sync with the nuances of their mechanic and they aren't patient enough to put in the time. The better you are at video games, the less time this process takes.

I need to get in bed with my games more to notice those sublte differences and better learn to control them in future. (really trying hard not to be sarcy but that's what I'm getting from overuse of "intemacy" and "nuances")