imagine dark souls was so easy you get bored. Wouldn’t you ask for a difficulty slider? Let people ask their needs to be fulfilled. And definitely, avoid being contrary to them only because their need is alien to you. They are not even asking anything from you.
imagine dark souls was so easy you get bored. Wouldn’t you ask for a difficulty slider?
No? What? I’d play something else.
I’m not out here like “stardew needs to add permadeath and player invasions”. I don’t find stardew very fun so I don’t play it.
Adding more options is usually fine but I don’t accept the premise that every game needs to be fun and completable by every player.
If someone made Calculus Souls, I know I wouldn’t do well at it. I wouldn’t demand that they change it to be Arithmetic Mode just so my bad-at-math brain can finish it. if they add that, fine, maybe even good, but I don’t feel entitled to that.
FURTHERMORE: Difficulty options can be changed in ways other than a meta game slider. You need basically zero reflexes to finish elden ring with a tower shield and spirit ashes. Is that good enough? Or do people want it so everyone can finish the game in naked parrying dagger mode.
It’s also different games for different occasions.
Sometimes I just want background static for my thoughts → Stardew Valley
Sometimes I want to casually explore a whimsical world → BotW
Sometimes I need a constant flood of adrenaline to drown out the pain → Dota2
Dark Souls is amazing, and it would suck if it was easy. Everything about it is punishing and that’s part of what makes it such a standout experience. Same with Silksong.
My issue with this way of thinking is that difficulty is not always a gradient thing, it can be about what you have learned and are able to apply. If a game is very focused around the player developing specific skills, and repeated practice until they are able to figure it out, an easier version where you can get through it without learning the prerequisites would not be the same game at all, and requesting that could amount to the same thing as asking for its erasure.
I’ve never watched a different cut of a movie made specifically because people didn’t like the original
Personally I’ve been meaning to watch Terminator 3: The Coming Storm for precisely that reason. I’ve also enjoyed plenty of modded games that change the original because the developer’s vision wasn’t all that great in many people’s opinion.
I’ve only seen director cuts that more closely align with their vision. Which is what fromsoft essentially does
Project 4K77 is Star Wars as it was originally released but the director doesn’t want that version to be available anymore.
I totally think people should mod their games to their liking. But here the people who want to change the game are mad the developers didn’t make it to their liking in the first place.
Just mod it, especially when the developers have specifically said they make these games for an exact experience.
Star Wars despecialized is very cool but we had to accept Lucas didn’t care for the original like we did and it was up for someone to independently go and create the modified work. Fan work and mods are fine and great and they exist to fill this exact need because the original creator has vision and preferences too.
They’re falsely framing advocates asking FromSoft for an easy mode as people calling FromSoft ableist and demanding that Dark Souls be canceled. They listened to a few too many Gamer Bros™ and don’t have an actual thought-out opinion here.
My complaint is that people take issue with these specific games being too difficult and not having accessibility features when it’s essentially designed by one guy who holds himself to be an artist that specifically wants to make these games exactly how he makes them.
It’s just the wrong games over which to make it an accessibility issue because they’re inherently mechanical/physical and it necessarily butts up against the simple right of a guy to make his own games like that
imagine dark souls was so easy you get bored. Wouldn’t you ask for a difficulty slider? Let people ask their needs to be fulfilled. And definitely, avoid being contrary to them only because their need is alien to you. They are not even asking anything from you.
No? What? I’d play something else.
I’m not out here like “stardew needs to add permadeath and player invasions”. I don’t find stardew very fun so I don’t play it.
Adding more options is usually fine but I don’t accept the premise that every game needs to be fun and completable by every player.
If someone made Calculus Souls, I know I wouldn’t do well at it. I wouldn’t demand that they change it to be Arithmetic Mode just so my bad-at-math brain can finish it. if they add that, fine, maybe even good, but I don’t feel entitled to that.
FURTHERMORE: Difficulty options can be changed in ways other than a meta game slider. You need basically zero reflexes to finish elden ring with a tower shield and spirit ashes. Is that good enough? Or do people want it so everyone can finish the game in naked parrying dagger mode.
It’s also different games for different occasions.
Sometimes I just want background static for my thoughts → Stardew Valley
Sometimes I want to casually explore a whimsical world → BotW
Sometimes I need a constant flood of adrenaline to drown out the pain → Dota2
Dark Souls is amazing, and it would suck if it was easy. Everything about it is punishing and that’s part of what makes it such a standout experience. Same with Silksong.
My issue with this way of thinking is that difficulty is not always a gradient thing, it can be about what you have learned and are able to apply. If a game is very focused around the player developing specific skills, and repeated practice until they are able to figure it out, an easier version where you can get through it without learning the prerequisites would not be the same game at all, and requesting that could amount to the same thing as asking for its erasure.
Make your own game then 🤷♀️
If I see a movie and it was boring I don’t ask for a more exciting version
You’ve never watched a different cut of a movie?
I’ve never watched a different cut of a movie made specifically because people didn’t like the original
I’ve only seen director cuts that more closely align with their vision. Which is what fromsoft essentially does
Personally I’ve been meaning to watch Terminator 3: The Coming Storm for precisely that reason. I’ve also enjoyed plenty of modded games that change the original because the developer’s vision wasn’t all that great in many people’s opinion.
Project 4K77 is Star Wars as it was originally released but the director doesn’t want that version to be available anymore.
Just throwing that out there.
I totally think people should mod their games to their liking. But here the people who want to change the game are mad the developers didn’t make it to their liking in the first place.
Just mod it, especially when the developers have specifically said they make these games for an exact experience.
Star Wars despecialized is very cool but we had to accept Lucas didn’t care for the original like we did and it was up for someone to independently go and create the modified work. Fan work and mods are fine and great and they exist to fill this exact need because the original creator has vision and preferences too.
Is your complaint that people have a different opinion of the games as delivered? I’m afraid you’ve lost me.
They’re falsely framing advocates asking FromSoft for an easy mode as people calling FromSoft ableist and demanding that Dark Souls be canceled. They listened to a few too many Gamer Bros™ and don’t have an actual thought-out opinion here.
My complaint is that people take issue with these specific games being too difficult and not having accessibility features when it’s essentially designed by one guy who holds himself to be an artist that specifically wants to make these games exactly how he makes them.
It’s just the wrong games over which to make it an accessibility issue because they’re inherently mechanical/physical and it necessarily butts up against the simple right of a guy to make his own games like that