Was in a comment section about designing games to respect the player’s time and mentioned I never finished Hollow Knight because it makes you fight the final boss again each time you want to give the secret boss another shot.
Someone jumped in literally telling me “GET GOOD” and when I told them there were other things I’d rather be doing, they followed up with “so don’t get hard games just to complain about.” They never responded when I asked them how I was supposed to know exactly how hard everything in the game would be before I ever played it.
Every fucking time. I swear I can set my watch by it. The Dark Souls series has earned my undying enmity for what it has done to gaming discourse.
Ironically, Hollow Knight was the first soulslike game I played and it made me realize I enjoyed a very difficult challenge from time to time, so immediately after playing it I started doing some Path of Exile 2 speedruns (never got good at it because the tech got changed in the last patch). Maybe your argument is correct but it doesn’t necessarily work on everyone!