Why do people keep doing this?

>>382734878
They're the dark souls of online discussions

>>382734878
it's the Crash Bandicoot of opinion pieces.

Gets clicks and enrages autists.

>>382735498
Its rubbing my austism the wrong way i tell ya. Its with any game remotely challenging

>>382734878
People are bad at games.

4chan is the darksouls of online discussion boards of all sorts.

is reddit the dark souls of websites?

It's a good Crash game just not a good Bandicoot game.

Most game "journalists" have never played Dark Souls and the only thing they know about it is the "DUDE DARK SOULS IS LE HARDEST GAME EVER LMAO" meme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3d1nvKeTnU

SMT4 is the Dark Souls of the Persona series.

>>382737428
kek

>>382734878
dark souls invented video games
dark souls invented difficuly

just like how ff7 invented jrpgs and ff or how halo invented fps.

normies, modern kids, and people in general are retarded, uncultured, tasteless swine.

>>382734878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3d1nvKeTnU

Cause normies are morons.

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>>382734878
Because modern gaming journalsim lacks creativity and often good grammar whatsoever and they take the easy route by saying everything is DS

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...dude, have you even PLAYED dark souls

>>382737559
Jesus Christ, next I'm going to hear that Breath of the Wild invented open world games.

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>Dark Souls
>hard
when will this meme end?

>>382734878

because people today suck at video games.

a game I beat 100% when I was fucking 8 years old is now difficult as fuck for Generation Z retards. loving every laugh.

>>382738039
Nah dude, Skyrim invented open-world games

>>382738132
kek

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>>382737787
>dark souls of persona games
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>382738102
saying dark souls is hard is just quicker than saying "boring and shallow game for memesters"

>>382738386
Oh. I just thought it meant "tedious".

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>its too difficult
>people just have rose tinted goggles
>6/10 ;)

Literally should be shot.

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https://youtu.be/KklID4fRV0c

It's a kiddie platformer so everybody who whos never played crash before thought it'd be incredibly easy and only bought into it to jump on the bandwagon and have something to talk about in the internet.

Crash was never really that hard it's just that everything is so fucking easy these days and when people hear naughty dog they think they're getting modern naughty dog

>>382737787
>Dragon's Dogma Dark Souls of Fantasy RPGs
Then what the fuck is dark souls if it isn't a fantasy rpg?

>>382738132
You have no fucking idea how many times I've heard my younger cousin refer to an open world game as "like Skyrim"

>>382738102
>a game that is focused on being patient and knowing when to back off or swing in a fight
>being hard to a generation raised on instant gratification mobile games and safe spaces

really gets my brain to undrain

>>382738806
It's a souls-like

Don't also forget Cave Story being compared to Dark Souls recently too

Which Crash is this? I don't remember it being hard besides Boss battles that you had to figure out first.

>>382739048
First one gets pretty brutal dude. Fucking Road to Nowhere kicked my ass

What's the Dark Souls of retro gaming?

>>382734878
Dark Souls was the first game you could die in. That's why the tagline was "Prepare to Die". It makes sense that comparisons would arise when other games started copying its mechanics.

>>382739969
demon's souls

>>382739969
Super Mario

>>382739969
Ghost 'n Goblins

>>382739969
Battletoads

>>382734878
Because the modern casuals have never played a game with any sort of challenge to it but dark souls so they can only compare games with even the slightest bit of dicciculty because that is all they know.

>>382734878
Because Dark Souls is the Dark Souls of Dark Souls games

>>382738806
Souls is it's own genre now silly!

>>382738102
When casuals stop being faggots, which is never.

>>382738567

Their point isn't that it's "too hard" only that it has abrupt spikes in difficulty, which Crash 1 definitely has.

Has /v/ finally realized that hating dark souls fans is 100% justified?

>>382734878
and you fags bitch about Sonic/Mario/Sony fanbase to be the most annoying fags ever

>>382739754

>Road to Nowhere kicked my ass

I have some bad news for you...

Journalists are inept to the point that thinking there's any learning curve makes a game extremely hard.

>>382734878
There has never been a game that's been as hard as Dark Souls.

It makes sense to compare it to modern games that are trying to copy it in it's challenge.

>>382742930
I refuse to believe this, and I haven't even played Dark Souls.

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Truly the dark souls of human teeth

>>382742357
Nobody says Sonic is the most annoying fans ever. No, pointing out their autism isn't calling them annoying.
Nobody says that about Mario fans either outside of consolefags.

>>382743381
>I love the N.Sane Trilogy in its new roguelite form
What did she mean by this?

>>382742930
Ninja Gaiden says hello

>>382734878
Because they think its hard and Dark Souls is a barometer of difficulty.

It's a game from 3gens ago that had to stretch playing time on a rather limited scale by making it stubborn and difficult in ways to as depth and longevity. It worked fine back then and its unfair to compare it to modern games on that basis because it is what it is; Crash Bandicoot.

>>382738039
No, that would be the first Zelda.

>>382738954

Cave Story's hidden endings are the Dark Souls of Sierra Online Metroidvanuses.

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>>382734878
Because dark souls is a good game contrarian shitposting aside

And it sets a good standard that all games should strive for

No tutorials
No hand holding
No waypoints
Challenging
Little to no story
No cinematic crap
And
Gameplay focused


These are they keys that old games had, and Dark souls just happened to bring it back.

Is peoples inability to play this proof games were dumbed down?
Games used to be so much more challenging and they were for kids and up lmao.
Millenials born post 90s are rerards.

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>>382734878
There is actually a good time and place to compare things to Dark Souls, I find that it's an easy way to explain "this game has its own very specific ruleset and you can't approach it the same way you do other games."

Where it doesn't fucking belong is "THIS GAME IS SO LE HARD JUST LIKE DARK SOULS, HAHA CORPSE RUNS WERE INVENTED BY DARK SOULS DUDE"

I'm an amateur reviewer myself and sometimes it's hard to resist the temptation, believe me. Dark Souls has been very influential and is a good example of certain ideas. But I fucking refuse to namedrop it.

When did people get this bad at video games?

>>382744570
2007

>>382744389
To be fair, the way Crash jumps in the remakes is a bit different from the original games. It's just that little bit off that makes things harder sometimes.
But yeah, modern game journos can go fuck themselves, they have no clue how to play games anymore and they blame games for being "too videogamey."

>Go on youtube
>Type into the search bar "Crash Bandicoot Dark Souls"
>Press enter if you dare

Its bad guys....its really really bad, don't do it.

>>382744728
Its not just the jumping i saw people have trouble with. Lots of players didnt notice their lives and were stunned to see a game over screen.
Whats even more funny is the game has a progress save state so its not even that harsh. platformers before crash made you start from the beginning.

>>382737867
This might've been slightly funny if not for that last line.

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>>382745534

It's a hard, checkpoint-based game. And Dark Souls is the only hard game normies have played, so yeah. Not hard to see why it's being compared.

>>382742062
And they gave it a 6 because of it as if that's a bad thing.

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>>382737787
>doesn't play online
>"Dark Souls truly withstands the test of time."

>>382745740
fuck Bandai and their definitive editions
I should learn how to wait instead of wasting cash

>>382745796
>Lord of the Rings is the Star Wars of medieval fantasy.

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>>382745394
https://youtu.be/twXeBaqPPBY
>Being a massive shitter
>It's Dark Souls!

>>382734878

Because the Souls series is the only game series in recent memory that doesn't care about player complaints. All other developers "nerf" things to please players, while FromSoft takes a year to fix basic shit like infusion systems on weapons.

Say whatever you want, but no other game does this, and I mean modern games. Crash Bandicoot was pretty difficult at later stages, but the kids of that era beat it with just their skill, no bitching or waiting for nerfs. So that's why normies regard it as "THE HARDEST GAEMS EVAAAR OMG!". Though honestly, the games that give no fucks are Demon's Souls, Bloodborne and Dark Souls 1.

Souls 2 and 3 make it too easy for all players.

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>>382743381

>Rougelite
>Darksouls comparison
>Can't even handle the first island

This review is trash. Fire this woman.

>>382738607

gg no re

wait, I said no re

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>>382745394

"Crash Bandicoot Dark Souls Episode 7: Anor Londo"

WHY DID I GOOGLE IT

I DIDN'T LISTEN

WHY DIDN'T I LISTEN

>>382734878
Because of Bamco marketing Dark Souls as a hard game for hardcore gamers such as myself. It was so successful that now the series is synonymous with difficulty.

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>>382745394
> this can't be THAT bad
> it was that bad

>>382738567
Gamespot gave tropical freeze a 6/10. They're retards, ignore em.

Comparing Dark souls to Crash Bandicoot is the Dark Souls of comparisons.

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>>382750318

>>382750146
NEO-NEW YORK CHAOS DUNK ADVISORY WARNING! A MEASURED 19.7 MEGAJOULE OF NEGATIVE BBALL PROTONS HAVE BEEN DETECTED. A CHAOS DUNK IS IMMINENT. FIND UNDERGROUND SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS NOT A TEST.

>>382738102
I hate this meme. It's a hard game. Not impossible. Not even that intimidating. But hard. It is far easier to be penalized in that game than most

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>>382737787
>SMTIV doesn't have a crazy story
>it is only there if you dig deeper
What the flying fucking holy hell am I reading?

>>382746574
>Say whatever you want, but no other game does this, and I mean modern games.

Serious Sam 3 just got updated yet again and that update included shit to make it harder like new attacks for the enemies.

>>382737375
Reddit is the Skyrim of websites.

>>382739969
This guy knows his video games and is absolutely correct >>382741113

Because you keep clicking the articles.

>>382739969
Halo

>wow this game is hard it's just like dark souls because there are no other games that exist that are difficult and it has nothing to do with how shit i am at playing video games in general

World War III when?

>>382738102
People confuse the bad combat and physics engine as intentional difficulty.

>>382737163
I am the Dark Souls of Faggot OPs

>>382744570
When game review companies stopped hiring people that can actually play video games

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>>382745394
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgWzeB5-0vA

>>382753376
kek i like it

>>382737516
I get their point but loud and angry is the opposite of a souls game aesthetic.

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>>382738102
>a game with balanced difficulty is considered hard by today's standards

>>382753696

>a game that punishes mistakes heavily is considered hard

makes you activate your almonds

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>>382738102
It appeals to the common masses, so a lot of people play Dark Souls even if they don't necessarily enjoy it to seem like they're better than the average gamer. This brings in a bunch of wannabes to play a game that is more driven by the lore and atmosphere instead of merely how "hard" it is. People like this completely miss the point and will continue to do so as long as they keep pretending they need to like Dark Souls for superficial reasons.

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>>382755389
>ass isn't blue

>>382737867
This souls video genuinly amuses me. I wish there were more for video games like this

https://youtu.be/2kr7KDCsIws

>>382755589

That would be a mighty spanked ass.

>roommate got the crash remaster
>offered to let them play my trilogy to see if they liked it before dumping money on it
>they didnt want to because of the ""shitty"" graphics
>they are so terribad at it they took like 2 hours to get past 4th or 5th area before ragequitting after accidently loading a save a few levels back when trying to save

No clue how you can be that terrible at it and have a drivers license

>>382734878
Unoriginal pieces of shit trying to be funny.
It lies within nearly everyone.

>Nintendo Xbox
Banned

>>382738903
I used to think it would be amazing if other games would try out the phantom and invasions system.
Now I have this strange feeling of dread about the idea.

>>382751938
So really enjoyable but /v/ pretends to hate it anyway?

>people were calling Nioh a souls like game
Am I really an old fart for remembering what Onimusha is?

Fuck me

>>382738683
Crash 1 is legitimately a challenging game though, it's certainly no Rayman 1 but I would lean it more on the 'hard' side of the scale

>>382755389
>no "prepare to WOAH! edition"

>>382756058

But Nioh is 100% a souls like

>>382755993
Watch dog's invasion system was neat and fucking intense when trying to hide.

The game presents you with a series of segmented challenges to accomplish with a high rate of failure, and it is satisfying to accomplish your goal.

Crash is actually a better game than Dark Souls by this definition and I am fine with this.

>>382756068
no its not i finished it when i was a child, i even 100%ed it
fuck rayman on the other hand that shit was impossible

>>382742930
>What is La-Mulana
>What is Ninja Gaiden
>What is Contra

>>382734878
https://youtu.be/f3d1nvKeTnU

>>382756324

>segmented challenges with a high rate of failure

Objective

>it is satisfying to accomplish your goal

Opinion

Crash series is very good, but I think Souls is a much better series by your criteria.

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>>382755705
There's just something very genuine about that video.

>>382743681
since roguelike is now considered literally anything with random level generation and permadeath,
roguelite turned into anything where you die a lot

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Why are things like this? Where did it all go so wrong?

People are often accused of being nostalgiafags when they talk about "back in the day" and such, but I sure as shit know it wasn't nearly as bad as this in the past.
It's especially embarrassing as a guy who's been with the series since Demon's Souls. How can a fanbase degrade so badly? Are the people responsible for this even fans at all?

>>382738102
Watch this and tell me the game isn't hard: https://youtu.be/HHzFuwLvF_4

>>382734878
I still remember when /v/ used to say "this is the IWBTG of X"

>>382757236

The person who wrote this review is not a fan of the series. She probably barely played any games before becoming a reviewer and has no real idea what makes a good game or what defines a genre. The fact she called it a roguelite and then compared to Souls is a clear indicator.

The biggest problem is all the beta faggots in charge of these websites. Absolutely nothing will improve as long as those people are making hiring decisions.

>>382751608
I mean it's true in a literal sense when you think about it.

>>382757236
Wasn't /v/ like this when the first ds came out?

>>382757794

I don't think anyone said that with any sort of seriousness

>>382734878
Pretty sure a few weeks ago it was decided that /v/ would intentionally force a comparison between Crash and Dark Souls so that Crash would make a come back and we'd get new games

>>382738834
If he's really young that's not weird. Problem comes when instead of a 12 years old kid, it's a 34 years old guy who gets paid to review videogames.

>>382738806
My favorite is "the Dark Souls of Action RPGs" as if Dark Souls isn't an ARPG, and then they list a diablo clone and not an ARPG.

>tfw you haven't started 2 or 3 yet because you're too busy getting the platinum trophy for 1

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>>382737787
Im gonna get an ulcer from this.

>>382757236
internet culture nowadays is just a special brew of jenkem. Probably because it's more accesible to retards.

>>382757815
Eh.
Population was much lower, though we never thought it was a small board.
Far less e-celebs and politics.
Far more pure off-topic posting and a handful of infamous triptrolls.
Dubs were one of the biggest menaces in general and capable of derailing threads.
/v/ actually had new memes from time to time instead of endlessly reposting console war Wojack variants.
/b/ was the boogeyboard.
Less paranoia and accusations of off-siter immigrants. Don't mistake this as the accusations not existing, we just had different and less pervasive enemies.
The rage was about righteous fury instead of actively wanting to see things fail.
We still had heroes.

What's Dark Souls of anime?

>>382734878
kids full stop

>>382756368
>Contra

I beat it as a kid while Battletoads I can't do even with warps.

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>>382739969
Comix Zone

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>>382759186

The remaster applied Crash 3 physics to all three games. This doesn't effect 2 that much, but it makes quite a few levels in Crash 1 significantly harder because several of the jumps weren't designed to leave you with room to get running speed for. For example, in the remake one of the gaps in the bridge level is actually factually impossible to clear without running before jumping on the turtle whereas in the original you could neutral jump on the turtle and still make it. I absolutely loved the crash trilogy as a child and it really took me a while to get used to Crash 3 physics being shoved into the other games.

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>crash bandicoot
>hard
in some levels, yes, trying to get some gems, yes, overall? no, hardest thing has to be jumping as you have to use the shadow to know where your going to land. think the difficulty in the HD ver is because of broken hitboxes, so it is kind of like darksouls in that regard

>>382759887
It doesn't AFFECT 2 that much. Effect is a noun my dude

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> Slippery Climb

>>382734878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgWzeB5-0vA

>>382760697
are they gonna fix it so crash's shoes arent coated in crisco and slide off of everything

>>382761717
>he bought the HD version
get an emulator you fag

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who hype

>>382761898
ok point me towards the romhack that lets me play as coco

>>382761996

You said CRASH's shoes

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>>382761951
Is this confirmed?

>>382762119

if you platinum all three games you get it

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>>382761951
>inputting the first part of the code while Warped is selected dehighlights New Game/Continue, as if there's a hidden option there
>Spyro demo is being worked on as we speak

>>382761951
>fangame

who gives a shit

>>382753647
yeah but the whole 'prepare to die' 'lel so difficult' normie meme is what they're making fun of

Who is the Dark Souls of 4chan boards?

>>382756012
No, it's only good for the porn mods

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>>382762175
First crash now /our/ dragon is coming back
>mfw

>>382744274
Well, by this logic we should have compared Dark Souls to Crash Bandicoot 1 back in 2011.

So your logic is flawed.

There are plenty of platformers that are significantly harder than Crash. Crash isn't even as hard as classic Mega Man, let alone Ghouls N Ghosts.

>>382734878
Because its a hard game based on pure game mechanics, and people who didnt grow up in the 90s are not used to that. So they use one of the only mainstream AAA games they have in recent memory that sticks out to them for that reason as comparison despite it being nothing alike in any other way. Also Dark Soul's became famous for "Prepare to die" and you die a lot in Crash, punctuated by an animation telling you how bad you fucked up.

So its just young people being dumb, nothing new.

Dude if you can die in a game, its clearly 'soulsbourne' inspired. You should be able to breeze through a game with no worries of challenge

What is the Dark Souls of video games?

>>382737787
>Dragon's Dogma - The Dark Souls of fantasy RPGs
what did they mean by this?

>>382765415
Dodonpachi doj

>>382744274
Yes, Dark Souls was the first game since the 90s (remember those?) to ever have no tutorials, handholding, or waypoints. It was also the first challenging game since the 90s (remember those?) even though it's not challenging.

>>382734878
That "journalist" is a fucking retard. The games are 1:1 remakes down to every last detail, yet >she claims they ruined the controls and made the game harder than it originally was. Why do these people feel the need to lie and pretend they have experience with the originals or sequels whenever something like this is released?

>despite the large library of video games I have access to, I only ever play a few of them
That's what leads to reposted topics like these from all sides, we have almost nothing better to talk about because everything else is mundane as fuck. It's like being in a comic book store when you aren't that nerdy to begin with so you overlook everything that isn't Spider-Man and Batman

>>382766602
Or they simply played the game 20 years ago and think that they remember exactly how it was.

>>382766602
"Video game journalism" is just fucking retarded. Only people who have no experience with anything in gaming get into it.

>>382766602
see
>>382759887

>>382760697
the difficulty in the remake is broken hitboxes and terrible edges. I really hope they fix ledges

>>382759186
re:zero

>>382734878
Last game made with any meaningful relevancy.

>>382734878
dark souls is the fidget spinner of gaming

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I don't know what's wrong with me but I find dark souls easy, not bragging though because I find games like Uncharted fucking incredibly hard. Just keep dying man

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>>382734878
Normies think Dark Souls is the hardest thing ever made, so they make comparisons to it whenever something remotely challenging presents itself.

>>382737867
Why do these guys have a habit of fucking up their comic when it reaches the last panel?

because if you like it or not, crash 1 at least, is hard, pretend it's not if you want, it is.

>>382769162
People who think Dark Souls is really challenging
>never played a game where character build was important
and/or
>never played an ARPG

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>>382769156
It's only Tuesday and I can already tell that this will be the most annoying thing I'll read all week.

>>382734878
Because people think a game being punishing means that game is hard.