10 Video Games That Secretly Get Harder Without You Realising
7. Killing Andre - Dark Souls
While your decisions don't carry quite the same abysmal consequences as DD2, Dark Souls still gives you full reign to screw yourself over. Whether it's choosing a really crap starting item, or killing someone you shouldn't have, you can make your Dark Souls playthrough as easy or as hard as you want.
On that note, killing Blacksmith Andre is considered by much of the fandom to be an...ill-advised move.
Andre is a blacksmith you meet in the Undead Parish, who can upgrade your weapons in exchange for Titanite. These upgrades can be truly remarkable, so while it is completely doable to finish the game without them, getting them can make the game so much easier.
Needless to say, killing him is not something that most players consider wise. For one thing, you don't really get much out of it compared to what you lose, and secondly, doing so makes the game so much harder than it otherwise could have been.
Only the clumsy or trigger-happy players end up putting down Andre, and they always regret it afterward. As well they should.