You’ve heard it a million times, games these days are easy. This is said often, also mocked, parodied, and cited. Is it even true? I don’t think it is at all. I think there are other underlying factors to this.
Some gamers use the term “gritty” to describe the likes of Dark Souls, or Mount & Blade, games that are often packed with a high degree of difficulty or take a long time to get anywhere. Though I like some realism in my games, there are …
Diablo has traditionally had three difficulties, Normal, Nightmare, and Hell. One of the few online games I can name with fully instanced game rooms with multiple difficulties, but as the metagame grows, even Hell Mode doesn’t provide a suitable challenge. Blizzard has responded to this with …
Etrian Odyssey, Rondo of Swords, and Dark Souls, all of them games notorious for their difficulty. What other games are popular and notoriously hard? I Wanna Be The Guy, Super Meat Boy, Touhou, La Mulana, Battletoads, and maybe Final Fantasy 12 and the Devil May Cry …
