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A_A_Battery posted...

Definitely though the fact that they are difficult is the real draw. In fact, their difficulty has changed the culture of gaming such that there is an entire genre now called "difficult" that people actively seek out and ask for. Game developers notice this at conventions, people straight up say "give me something hard to play".

Its weird, because games used to just be inherently challenging, with many of the same "git gud" approaches. And nowadays those games are labelled as uniquely "hardcore" or something else to that effect.