Had to share this with my friends immediately

Sorry, think I just went on a bit of a ramble lmao. But difficulty in games is just a topic I'm pretty passionate about.

Unfortunately a lot of people just don't see it like that or understand that so they just see a life counter and complain about archaic design when in reality, it's probably a good idea to get better at the earlier stages rather than pounding your head against a later stage (4/4)

And I feel as if modern games bash those kind of games as "quarter munchers" or whatever without looking a little deeper.

As an example of an older mechanic that's fallen out of favour: I do still think lives have their place, especially with games designed around skill mastery. (3/4)

That was just what I was used to. I was still a kid at the time too so I'd always try to argue back without fully understanding their POV.

Obviously now I can tackle the topic with much more nuance, especially now having experience with retro and modern games. I still love arcade style games (2/4)

I grew up in the 2000s but I grew up poor so my main console as a kid was the Mega Drive/Genesis, then in 2008 I learned about emulation and was able to play everything up to N64

It was confusing for me in the early 2010s when I first heard people complaining about "unfair" difficulty when (1/4)

Shadowbringers*

Tactics has my favourite story in any FF, grew up playing the WotL version on PSP but the Ivalice Chronicles is better imo. Just wish it had the WotL content, miss my boy Balthier. (2/2)

Great choices. I'm too young to have aged XI during its height unfortunately (I was two years old when it released) but the other three are great picks

1st Chapter is honestly my GotY. I haven't gotten around to finishing Clair Obscur yet so that might change but right now it's definitely 1st Chapter.

As for Avowed, I played a few hours, got bored and then never touched it again