I'll never played WoW, FFXI or FFIV because I really dislike the idea of paying a monthly fee for one game.

I really really really really tried to like Dark Souls, I love challenging games.

But that game (and I guess the entire series) isn't difficult because of good design. It's difficult because of poor design.

And I can't stand difficulty because you have to fight the game opposed because the game is designed to actually be hard.

Fighting animations take about an hour from the point you press the button until it's finished and there is no way do interrupt. And NO that is not good design and you have to know you are "dedicated yada yada" before you press the button is just utter bullshit. That is just poor design.

It's a game with intentional input lag and all games become difficult (in the wrong way) if you introduce 3 years of input lag in them.

Introduce the same amount of input lag to i e any Kirby game (that generally are fairly easy) and they will be as "challenging" as Dark Souls.

I'm a person who loves difficult games and consider most games to simple today. I love shoot em ups, I have no problems to replay each level multiple times just to learn the pattern. I applaud "NES" hard games that might require pixel perfect positioning or sometimes leaps of faith.

But Dark Souls simply isn't hard, it's annoying because of poor design.


I'm not sarcastic I truly feel that Dark Souls controls are actually really bad design.

Narrative-driven games.

All annualized released games, COD and sports games. Multiplayer games, Some games I've started and couldn't finish because they just didn't hook me over the years. Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy 15, Red Dead Redemption 2, Hell Blade, Sonic games.

When there is a long list of DLC that costs over several dozen pounds in total that's a major turn off. I want there to be just a single purchase and I get everything there is to offer. Stuff like ultimate editions or whatever can help alleviate it but it's not uncommon for even those to not give you everything.

Yeah, I despise when the dlc costs more than the game itself and you're waiting for a complete edition that may never even materialize.

Also thanks for reminding me. I stopped playing Sleeping Dogs, because I had originally bought all the DLC for it, and as a result, Square Enix likes to spam notifications as soon as I'm about to start the game, constantly one pop up after another, telling me what DLC I have access to, and since there was no way of me skipping the entire thing, I just ended up closing the game down entirely after a few playthroughs. Incredibly obnoxious and I'm sorta glad some games aren't doing that these days. 

That's me when I look at the recent rise of City/park builder games again. Planet coaster, Planet Animal, Two Point hospital, Cities Skylines, all of them have more DLC added over time, and none came with a full complete edition afaik (Also JPW is getting to their levels with segmenting Dino packs, instead of just including them as free updates, which is becoming a put off for me). 

At least when it's as absurd as Train Simulator it's kinda funny.

Pretty weird that it would do that more than once. It should be self evident that would piss people off.

I was referring to games that require an internet connection to function. But to answer your question, I would probably decline and ask said friend to come over to my house (or I'd ask to go over to his) so we could play together in the same room. It's more fun that way, imo.