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Difficulty for the Souls games is something I feel. I know you both have talked about this

Gary Cole. It's really ultimately part of the marketing. Yes, these games are difficult, but I

feel that especially when Dark Souls came out, it was difficult in a way that was surprising but not

unfair because in the HD era of gaming, the early HD era, things are beginning much more expensive

to produce. So the philosophy by publishers was we need to make sure that everyone can finish these

games that buys them. So there is a lot of guidance in these early HD era games. There's a lot of

handholding. There's a lot of tips and hints and everything just to get you to the finish line.

When this game said no, you have to figure this out on your own. I think that was a bit insulting

to a lot of people who said I just got off of their work. I want to sit down and play Uncharted 2

and have the game show me to the ends. I want to move. Yeah, it's like hits. Why remember even the

first time the idea of this really hit me? It wasn't even playing like I played some mainstream games,

but it was in I was 07 for BioShock, which I didn't think was too straightforward in its

difficulty at first. But I remember the first time the giant arrow just appears to be like this way,

this way. It's like, okay, all right. That was one of those moments where I felt slightly

insulted. I'm just like, could you trust me a little bit? There's so many other parts in BioShock

that trust you as a player to understand something. Yeah. To then have a giant blinking arrow show up.

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