Do you feel as if them not having a difficulty option is bad, or are you merely stating that you won't in fact buy one because of the lack of a difficulty option?

The two things are not mutually exclusive, which is why I ask.

I haven't played Dark Souls, but the N-Sane trilogy ain't that difficult, and I hear that they are similar

It is bad for them for not having it, they lose so many potential buyer, me included... I had my time with hard games in the 90's when I had all the time in the world but now I'm 37 years old... no matter how much I want to play these games I can't any longer.

Sounds like a you problem.

I fully agree with you. 

That's also the reason why I bought the Fire Emblem games, because the added an easy mode. If dark souls would have an optioal easy mode of some sort, I would buy their games and so would a lot of other people. 

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I was about to reply, than I saw your post and I think it's a good starting point for my argument.

The matter is that Demon and Dark Souls (the first ones) were not about repeating the same area again and again until you didn't have super refelexes to avoid attacks at the last moment. If you found yourself doing those things in meant you didn't understand how to play the game. The frist solus games are (yes) difficult games that don't point you where you should go next or what you should do kill enemis, on the contrary it's a game that rewards you for being carefull in exploration and in developing your build, so that you can find items that can help you survive and so that you adapt your tactics depending on the bossfight.

That said, you're also right. After Dark Souls 1 (I'd say starting from Prepare To Die edition) they started to market the game as the impossible hard game made only for the real hardcore gamers. Of course that is a much easier message to market rather than gameplay and level design depth. Unfortunaly, for this reason I assume, later titles became much more like you describe (expecially Bloodborne), if fact imo these later titles are much worse than Demon and Dark Souls 1.

As for your point about difficulty I can't agree. If you toned the difficulty you would lose a lot of depth, the games would just become an hack and slash where you could just brute force your way until the end.

To everyone repeating "hurr durr hard", I will say what I have been saying since Demon's Souls came out:

The games are not hard. They are challenging, and even points that are nigh-on impossible sometimes (hi there, Orphan of Kos!), can be beat down with confidence using your head and skill. And the satisfaction - for me at least, is real, far beyond what press X to win games offer.
Come at me.

I hate when people say Dark Souls is not really hard, or that is a fair game. Is very hard and very unfair. I finished Dark Souls 1 and I liked it, but it was too stressful and most people play to keep the stress out and not the other way around.

There are hard parts but there are also a lot of easy parts to balance it out. And since its an RPG you can pretty much outlevel or outgear something, I dont find it any harder then many other RPGs without grinding as I often would do first playthrough.

Heck I found some levels of Super Mario 3D world too be much more challenging and difficult then most Souls bosses.