Excerpt: A game’s difficulty is a very interesting thing. Sometimes it defines a game, and sometimes it destroys a game. In some cases, people hail it as the thing that makes a game a hit, while other games live in infamy thanks to just how difficult they are. Difficulty is certainly a subjective measure, and certain people are going to find different thing more difficult than others, but when the majority of a community holds one opinion, It’s probably a fairly good measure of a games difficulty.So what happens when a game, or part of a game is so mind-numbingly, pants-dirtyingly hard? (Culture, Dark Souls, Demon’s Soul, Guild Wars 2, Industry, PS3, Retro, Xbox 360)
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