Anyone who played any beloved third-party NES game:
Oh, that's cute! 😏
Edit: Just so we're clear, I'm poking fun here, I like Demon/Dark Souls just fine.
but waay too many games get compared to them as though they're the first game with ball-retracting difficulty, lmao.
Yeah, I remember ghosts n goblins and it's like sure. I don't need to shit on Souls games because of it though. Honestly dark souls greatest achievement isn't in making the most difficult games, it's in making a higher than average difficulty games that are far more satisfying and less frustrating than those old school platform hell games.
The dark souls hate is retarded. They are modern big budget games with almost no gay ass storytelling and very decent expectations for player competence. There are a lot of copycats because the formula is great.
I don't hate them, I'm just poking fun at the way any game with any kind of difficulty is automatically labeled as "the dark souls of " insert genre here, as if it's the first game with mainstream appeal that actually challenged players.
Hell, the NES Megaman games still rape my ass, and it took Years for me to beat Megaman X