Space Lynx
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Processor | 7800X3D -25 all core |
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Motherboard | B650 Steel Legend |
Cooling | Frost Commander 140 |
Video Card(s) | Merc 310 7900 XT @3100 core -.75v |
Display(s) | Agon 27" QD-OLED Glossy 240hz 1440p |
Case | NZXT H710 (Red/Black) |
Audio Device(s) | Asgard 2, Modi 3, HD58X |
Power Supply | Corsair RM850x Gold |
OT post but please indulge me. Have you played the Dark Souls games created by From Software? They have no cheats and require the player to learn every nuance of every boss to finish the game. It makes most RPG games look like games day at Playskool. Games like CP2077 & the Witcher don't need cheats, they're easy enough considering the difficulty levels. Dark Souls? Brutalistic hardcore punishment. It's almost not a game.
FTR, I've never finished any of them. Not through lack of trying....
I don't equate memorization to skill and have never understood why people think Dark Souls takes skill, it takes memorization trial and error, not skill. Perhaps that is all skill is, if it is... then well that is just sad to me cause I thought it was more than that. I guess timing is a part of skill, but I still feel it more than that, even though I can't describe it.
I think getting 40 people together in 2005 to do a major raid in World of Warcraft required a different kind of skill as well, there is a reason 40 man raids really don't exist at the brutal difficulty level that they used to, and it had nothing to do with timing of attacks back then, it had to do with leadership, keeping everyone on same page on Ventrilo, etc. Those were some fun times.
But to be honest I don't have a definition of skill, so perhaps you are right, but I just feel it is more than just "learning and timing mechanisms" that Dark Souls requires.
Also, I don't necessarily play games because they are difficult, I play for the story/atmosphere/unique ideas. Which is why Endwalker is my game of the year. Best story ever told in the history of humanity. The ending of Endwalker... my ******* God my brain melted, it will never be topped.