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>are stupid enough to sell/drop qeust items.
Lots of rpgs have quest items look like regular loot, making it easy to soft lock yourself because you dropped an iron sword without realising it's necessary to beat the game or access content, there's zero reason to make that easy other than feeling smug when other people do it.
>Figuring out what works is part of the fun. (Unless you are the type who plays RPGs for gay sex and compensation for the lack of social life)
You just touched on the fact that different people find different things fun. I personally like working out builds, but not everyone does. And those people are as entitled to want games to cater to their favourite parts as we are for ours. It also assumes game dev competence. Feels like every time I start an RPG I have to look up which skills or classes are dog shit and/or bugged and/or do not function as described because there's almost always at least one.
>today are literally targeting the most drooling of retards who don't even play RPGs without guides
Right, but such a difficulty increase does nothing but encourage and reward guide following behaviour. If a retard only uses guides, they will do the exact same thing if the game is explicitly meant to be harder, and they're encouraged to do that thing when they read things like "It's easy to softlock your playthrough".

I don't know, maybe I'm just tired of artificial difficulty, it often feels like a chance for devs and players to fellate themselves. I come from a /tg/ background where ivory tower design was and still is used to explicitly give some people an excuse to pat themselves on the back for not being new to the game. I played Lunacid recently, fun dungeon crawler but stopped playing because it both doesn't want to map itself but also wants to be labyrinthine, which makes returning after a break unbelievably tedious. And its idea of being hardcore includes "You can't even pause this [single player] game!!!!".

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