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hornywarthogfart@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I don’t have a term for it but it sounds like you fall into a specific group of gamers. They enjoy gaming but they thrive on the difficulty curve. The curve is the draw no matter what it’s wrapped in.

Fighting games, easy to pick up, unbelievably hard to master.

Shmups: easy to pick up but unbelievably hard to master.

Certain rage games like Bennet Fodey or the Trials series or musical games like DDR which, again, have a crazy difficulty curve.

I’m in the same boat although I do enjoy the other games. They just aren’t nearly as good as people hype them up to be if not outright bad. In my experience, it is entirely the difficulty curve that drives our obsessions with these types of games.

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