Tfw you are so old that "hard" games don't even feel hard anymore...

>tfw combat is tedious, you just want a good story and a few puzzles

When the prepare-to-die meme started I didn't really know what the fuss was about.

I love the Souls games but they really aren't any harder than your average hack&slay from the 90s.
Stuff like Severance, Rune, Die by the Sword or Enclave.

God, you faggots are depressing. Low test.

OP is getting played by his games. Play is almost a lost art.

Are you retarded enough to think that video games are high test in the first place?

They're hard compared to the average "story-centric" theme park movie schlock that most games are today

Some of the best marketing is a little bit wrong, because it encourages people to engage with it by virtue of them wanting to correct it. See what you are doing for an example. That Prepare-to-Die campaign is still talked about, and you can't get anyone to play your game if they don't know what it is, half of all persuasion (marketing) is getting your attention accuracy be damned.

This honestly, most games are just boring as shit now. Doesn't help that most modern fps are fucking retarded.

That literally goes for any real life skill or anything with any kind of learning curve for that matter. Glad you finally reached age 13 for the realization that not quitting makes achieving possible.

play la mulana

... You mean adult. Only kids whine about things being hard?

Looks like someone here isn’t a smooth brain.

>.t non-stop coomer
Go 2 weeks without jacking off and your dick will be diamonds

Weyes Blood

Fuck off back to your shithole, zoomer plebbitfag.
Am 36, can confirm that changes in gaming interest do occurr with age. I used to play a dozen plus games non-stop, down to just a couple core games now. Hell I started the campaign of Warcraft 3 Reforged and am only about half way through the TFT missions. Getting older sucks.

You should only play games if you're having fun doing it. If it feels like a chore then you've got a problem.

You just (you)’d a 31-year-old. People don’t age the same. If I thought I’d be talking like you sad fucks in my thirties I would’ve killed myself in 2007. I feel the same as I did about games when I was 15, but I also take care of myself unlike most of you mongoloids.

I'm old and hard doesn't feel either "hard" or like "a war of attrition", it feels like I'm reverse-engineering the design. Like "if I stand at this distance about 45 degrees from forward, it does these three moves. I can't really react to one of them, so better not stand there. Next, blah blah blah"

It's still kind of fun but I don't get much emotion out of it, no matter how many times I die.

Just like when the sugar industry systematically made actual medical studies look fishy by releasing countless fake studies with vastly differing results.
And now way too much sugar is in everything even though it's the cause for most of our modern health issues.

They are not harder, it's just that the tricks get older. Back in the day I would usually grind until the end and didn't think about enemy move patterns or understand how it works under the hood like these days. When you see the literal code behind the Matrix, everything makes sense.

Souls games are extremely hard if you don't quite get the mechanics of the game right. Especially with the 1st one, it's very easy to not realize which stats are important to emphasize, and how they interact with your gear to make you stronger. There are lots of weapons, that without the right stats, you'll be doing TINY little chips of damage. If you don't know what you're doing, you can dive into an area way out of your depth, like immediately going deep into the crypt without even a holy weapon. If you don't realize how to upgrade weapons properly/miss obscure upgrade stones, you will get weaker and weaker as the enemies get stronger. As soon as you start playing out of a wiki, watching youtube videos, learn souls formula, realize how broken range is, or even just learn how to "get drake sword", the magic of souls difficulty dispels. When I first played dark souls 1 I had a really frustrating time, but as soon as I learned formula I just had a few bad bosses, like fume knight and Zelvan and Lud tigers or whatever.

>Tfw you set the difficulty up so high, traditional approaches become unfeasible and it's just about figuring out all the hidden mechanics and janky interactions to get past the brokenly difficult areas.

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I hate women

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>from the 90s
>Rune(2000), Severance: Blade of Darkness(2001), Enclave(2002)
Die by the Sword(1998) is the only 90s game you named. That said they're still all great games, especially Severance.

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This is how I feel about Doom Eternal.
>play one hour
>exhausted like I just pulled a 12 hour session

>Went to Weyes Blood concert
>Stood elevated, somewhere she could clearly see me
>Noone infront, too dark behind me
>Had direct eye contact with me many, many times for extended periods of times
Felt like heaven

28 years old boomer here, I'm not even THAT old, I just noticed a slight change in taste in recent years.
I'm having way more fun sitting on the coach nowadays, playing RDR2/Witcher 3/Uncharted/Ladt of Us, etc "movie" games that Yas Forums hates, rather than my "childhood" "hardcore" competitive games that I've played all through my kid and teen years on PC like DOTA/WoW/Warcraft/Stsrcraft/Counter Strike/etc
The only 'hard" games that I've really enjoyed recently were Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series cos I finally got into those like half a year ago.

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>tfw no weyes blood gf to sing to me

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how do you get a gf that looks like this bros?

I'm from europe.
The 90s lasted a bit longer here.

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Happy 18th birthday OP

post her feet

I think this is the biggest change as you get older. You stop accepting the thing at face value and start wondering about how it was made and look at it more in a "where would I put it if I made this" sort of way. Tearing into credits and arguing about who did what in the dev team for years gets apparently more enjoyable than the game (or movie or whatever else) itself judging by the conversations surrounding just about everything. "DKC has great music" turns into "David Wise is amazing" over time, most seem to become far more interested in people than the images over time.

>how do you get a gf that looks like this bros?
be this guy

This thread = people realizing they are casual gamers.

I NEED A LOVE EVERYDAY

>pick hard mode

>it's really increased damage taken with less health packs/similar

>you have to cheese the game to win

29 and that's how i feel

This is my experience as well. I kind of with the game were actually 'properly hard' and not so hugely knowledge dependent.

is she an elf?

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tfw no gf but I must coom

I dunno, but she would hate all the premature boomers in this thread.

You can always crank the difficulty up for yourself somehow OP. I'm 30 and I used to just beat games on normal. Now I start off on higher difficulties and try to go for the most ridiculous challenges. For example last year I went and got the Royal Attire on Super Mario Maker 2 (which requires you to be #1 on a global leaderboard) and beat the X Challenges on the Mega Man X Legacy Collections on Hard mode. Both of those took days of planning and weeks of execution. And I could've made them even harder for myself, for example in Mario Maker some leaderboards are tougher than others and for the X Challenge you can actually do all of them using only the X Buster and you get a little icon on the stage if you do.

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I used to play FPS's almost exclusively when I was a kind and through my teens. Then for most of my 20s I stopped playing vidya altogether.

At age 28 I started to play again, but I played and finished every single game in the the Dark Souls series, Bloodborne, and Sekiro. Played those pretty much exclusively until now that I'm 32 a couple of weeks ago it just hit me: I didn't wanna play anything like that anymore and just wanna play relaxing shit that's less about reflexes or your aim and more about strategy, so for the first time I've been playing XCOM: EW, Into The Breach, Fallout 1-2, and Divinity: Original Sin 2.

Kid and Teenage me avoided turn-based games like they were the plague (I seriously thought: "Fallout looks like ass. What is this boring turn-based shit. I'll just stick with Diablo" when I was a kid), and now I can't get enough of them.

This is how i legitimately feel about Sekiro. The basis of the game is that you die in pretty much 2 hits no matter what throughout the entire game so the point of the game is to dodge and parry everything and never take damage. This requires you to take the time to learn every single enemies attack patterns, and bosses especially it expects you to die numerous times until you've got it down pat.

I mean yeah i guess that makes the game hard or difficult but to me that's just more boring and annoying than anything else. I could take the time to learn every enemy and practice until i can parry and dodge everything very well, i've done this type of shit in other video games before so i know i can do it it's not a challenge. With so many other video games these days though i just don't want to, that's not fun or enjoyable to me anymore.

Similar path to this user. nearing my 30's and play only puzzle and indie games lately. Twitch reflex games and soulslikes are mostly ignored. Unless monster hunter counts or we get another sekiro.

I do the same thing now. I used to just get really stoned, play JRPGs and mindlessly grind in LOL. I've just randomly decided to go full autismo on everything I play. I think this is due to external factors though.

30yo boomer here, used to secretly hate hard games and did everything to make them easier like reading walkthroughs and cheese bosses. I enjoy challenge now, especially in games where you can permanently fuck yourself over. Playing Code Veronica was really the turning point for me.

>I used to play a dozen plus games non-stop, down to just a couple core games now.
This is how I've always been.

I'd play one main game, a couple side games (usually, though not always, puzzles and the like that could be played regularly like some form of Tetris) regularly, and then other more time intensive ones infrequently (4 - 6 times) throughout the year which would temporarily replace the main game.

Has nothing to do with age, just my autism showing.

Rune was based as fuck. Too bad Rune 2 sucks balls.