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KajeI posted...

Difficulty is relative, so I can't say what's "hard" or not, hence why I used those for comparison. Anyone who can beat one of those games can beat a Souls game.

When I first played WoW I thought it was easy. When I tried to get my mom to play WoW she couldn't complete a single quest because she didn't understand how to control her character even when I told and showed her, and she was unwilling to learn further.

I never managed to beat a single level in any of the Halo games on Legendary. But there are people who can do them no problem (or at least minimal problems, I hear those are brutal and given my experiences with Jackal snipers I can see exactly why).

I think it's reasonable to conclude that in relative difficulty terms dark souls is more punishing than games in a similar space (at the time). It required more precision, more practise, more repetition. And even once you git gud and finish the game and have maxed out gear you can still get completely ganked by a low level enemy.

People with a lot of gaming experience had to unlearn a lot of habits and repeat tasks more times than they would have done in other games, with greater care, with more chance of failure, with more demand on doing it precisely.

So yeah, its a hard game. Not the hardest game ever, but hard. Especially hard in the action RPG space of the late 2000s.