"Dark Souls is Not Hard"

[AngryLittleAlchemist]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

I don't get how you got that from the video ... like I said the video is titled terribly and the Haedox didn't do the best job of connecting his two points, but he's just saying that the games are about more than just difficulty, and that the difficulty is used to communicate that fact. You're not actually saying anything against him, you're agreeing with him. It's just an awfully titled video. 

If someone said Dark Souls is not hard I wouldn't think that's elitist

If someone said Dark Souls is not hard LOL, in like a forum environment where someone is talking about the difficulty, probably elitist yeah. 

He explained why the media stigma of a game being hard is like dark souls. Its probably indicitive that the gaming industry is ready to return to a formof difficulty that existed in before the turn of the century. Sure, the title might have gone overboard to you, but in reality he actually attempted to bolster his point in the video. He does make some good points, but I merely found a problem with him saying the game isnt hard. For some of us on this forum, hard difficulty is standard difficulty for most of us, but I would not say its not hard. Personally, I just so happen to like to be challenged to take myself out a mental comfort zone. Gamespot was having a conversation about this during the week where they questioned whether games like Cuphead or Darksouls would be as intended artistically if you toned down the difficulty. For both...I would say no. They wouldnt be as intended. Those games are for niche audiences, but because we've grown up with gaming those audiences who can take in harder games are actually growning rather than shrinking, hence why we have reached a Dark Souls 3.

Honestly you're going off in so many directions I don't understand what you are even talking about anymore in relation to my original comment. Was just asking how it sounds elitist. I mean, I guess in the most general sense naming a video "x is not hard" when most people think it is may sound elitist. But I don't think it actually is. Like you said, it's just an opinion over anything.