Game: What game are you currently playing??

[Animeniax]

Any plans on playing Dark Souls 2? It was a lot of fun. I spend 59 hours on 2 play throughs and they were well spent.

Was thinking about it, but from reading how difficult it is, I might pass just to save myself the aggravation and busted electronics. I've come close to throwing a controller at my TV, and DS2 sounds like it would put me over the edge.

Not that I really care but I guess difficulty should be measured by the game mechanics that take part for the greatest part of the game.

For example I remember that in one of CoD there was a mission where you must move through some trenches. Of all the possible moves you could make only the one scripted let you live. I remember that I died on purpose to that part of the game a couple dozen times just to see how limited the choices were. In this case it wasnt too difficult to find the "approved" path but I doubt that anyone would call CoD a difficult game if only they changed that scripted obligatory path in that mission to be a pretty awkard or complex one.

Personaly I use that kind of cheat/cheese scripted situations to see if a game is crap. The more of those the game uses, to put some "artificial" struggle to the player, worse the game actually is.

I agree, that kind of "difficulty" doesn't really test the player or provide a challenge. It's just a lazy way to extend the game time and feign difficulty.

Like in SHD, there are ladders you have to climb (the climbing is a cutscene to make matters worse), and most of the time just getting close to the ladder will force you to climb it. Other times, like when you're being chased by monsters, you can't get on the ladder unless you approach it from just the right angle. Also, throughout the game there are objects you interact with and you have to approach them in a certain direction and at a certain distance to get the "press X to use" prompt. One step off and you won't get the prompt. That's just shitty coding to me.