"New game plus - quests will have no rewards..."

[Metalwrath]

Regardless on what you mentioned with RE2's B scenario, MGS's extreme difficulty and PE2's different modifier unlocks, you're completely missing my point.

Never once did I state that the Souls games were the first games to introduce harder difficulties, but it's largely because of that series that led to it becoming a popular feature in new game +. This was never about which game did it first.

But its not.It was popularised long before dark souls series.Yes dark souls revitalized it at a time where the newer generation of gamers were being fed mostly dumbed down games by development companies that were shifting away from gameplay focus and more on graphical and cutscene focus so to finally have difficult games and difficult content was a fresh of breath air so in that way you'd be technically right.It made it popular again.