Make series with a dedicated fanbase

Why does this keep happening?

On a side note how come casuals like Dark Souls for being hard but hate every other hard game like pic related?

Because Dark Souls gives them elite gamer virtue signalling points.

Casuals have only one slot for challenging games and it's occupied by dark souls, which is very dramatic about its difficulty. Ninja gaiden just pushes your shit in without artifice.

Dark Souls is a different kind of hard than Ninja Gaiden was, Dark Souls you get through either by having good reflexes and intuition, decent reflexes and trial and error, or bad reflexes and grinding. Ninja Gaiden if your execution and reflexes aren't up to snuff you ain't making progress ever, you can't grind to get around a fight you can't beat and you can't make up for mediocre skills by just trying different things one at a time.

dark souls ain't that hard even, its just very punishing if you die. meanwhile ninja gaiden is if I remember correctly not that punishing agains't you but very hard to get through.

gwyndolin best girl.

This meme needs to die

because in every dark souls you can just summon five friends and make the game ten times easier?

Pretty much. Souls games aren't that hard unless you restrict yourself a lot. They got a reputation since they are harder than the average AAA game, but they are nothing compared to games that are actually challenging.

That's where they fucked up. Instead of actually killing the fun, they could have just had a "cinematic" mode that subtle called you a pussy the whole way through. Then when you get to the end, they show a final boss who just falls over and points you to treasure chest. It's a gold katana that kills everyone, (unless you beat the game normally, previously, in which you just get a panty sword or some shit) but it only works like the normal dragon sword during normal difficulty. The idea is to continually take the piss out of a casual and basically expose him as being a shit player without him knowing about it unless he picked up on the fact that the game has been continually mocking him. In fact, the entire story should change into something extremely simplistic and for children as an insult to the player.

Being good as something doesn't make it easy.

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