So, difficulty in games
You guessed it, this is going to be centered on Dark Souls. But not in the way you probably think. I've struggled with this a lot over the past few years. Passively, slowly. And I realized that going around the topic is a way to get lost in words, rather than getting into the topic itself. So I am going to state it outright: I don't think that Dark Souls are hard games. No I have not beaten them. No I have not gotten through the "Git gud" stage. And yes, I have mostly gotten stuck near the beginnings in all of them. This is the part where more words and side stepping comes in. When I think about "hard" games, I think about games that I cannot possibly ever learn or beat. I think of games like Osu and Dance Dance Revolution, on the former of which I spent a few dozen hours and didn't get past the easy difficulties. I think of games like Touhou and other similar bullet hell games. Even of fighting games and I know that no matter how much time I...