I think we are in agreeance from your other posts but that inital post did seem like you were not wanting more accessibility options and there are many others that want to gatekeep.
I mean they say that for a reason. If you are decent at shooters normal is way to easy. You admit you are bad at shooters, so how many people would bounce off of the game if they made heroic difficulty the norm?
It does because it proves people couldn't care less about developer's vision, they play the games the way they see fit to them. Anything else is a gatekeeping excuse.
If you don't know anything about game development why do you post takes like this? I can guarantee you there isn't a magic 'Create Difficulty Modes' toggle in game engines.
Not sure where you're trying to get at, DMC has difficulty options, I didn't deny that did I?
Yea. No one had issues with every option in TLOU part II. Yet even hint at the idea of some options in From games and you are berated.
Video games are not a jar of cookies up on a shelf, they're an activity. There are some activities that a person in a wheelchair cannot do. It's definitely nice to keep them in mind when making your product if you aren't intentionally trying to make something that requires dexterity they don't have, but you should not be obligated to. Rather than use the example of something up on a shelf they can't reach, you're suggesting that nobody should be able to play football because someone in a wheelchair can't. Instead we should keep football and then make another sport they CAN play. How is THAT so bad to some people? Let everyone have their thing.
Then I don't get your point in the reply before. I offered DMC as an example of a franchise that has implemented easy difficulty modes to a great extents without compromising it's vision at all, the easy mode is super accessible while the harder modes are still just as challenging and compelling as ever.
I'd argue that any game with a settings menu can do it. Like shit, we've got 5 million ways to determine how the game renders, but adding another variable to a damage formula is just way too much work.
But what if that IS the experience?
You don't have to be this rude and aggressive. I disagree with you and I think I explained my point very well. I do think video games are closer to physical sports than an object high on a shelf, so I disagree with your analogy. I don't think me saying "let everyone have their thing" is a "shit point", but this is part of why this conversation is often not worth having. You assume everyone who disagrees with you is some asshole, so you act like an asshole in turn, and a lot of people will just not want to deal with that.
Most rogue-likes do not have difficulty options--at least not in the traditional sense. The experience is often built around the release of tension that's been building due to your prior failures. Whether it be due to you putting together a character build that allows you to progress or because you've come to understand the mechanics of the game in such a way that allows you to continue.
Of course and all games need more accesibilty options and difficulty modes are just a portion of it, I think we are in agreement on the points.
A game designer's job is herding a player through an experience.
Summons make it easier because the boss AI literally breaks since it's never, never designed to deal with more than one player.
Most of the times, these have nothing to do with the creator's vision. It is either there for art direction consistancy/blending, animation smoothing or performance reasons.
I will engage in whatever conversation I wish and I will continue to tell people that they are being unnecessarily rude if I feel they are. You don't want to have a discussion, you want to yell at people.
There are many people who do though. I think part of the trickiness here comes from games being both art and a product. When it comes to the idea of "vision", I see the piece of software that is the "game" as divided between artistic elements the creator is trying to express and technical elements that should ideally make the artistic elements as accessible as possible. But since that line is subjective, mods give us the best of all worlds by giving players the opportunity to make specific accessibility changes that weren't implemented in the base game for whatever reason AND lets other artists make completely transformative works.
I think this is a drastic underestimation.
This isn't true. There are constantly people late to the party, returning to the party, speed running it, trying out challenging or funky builds, finding new ways to beat bosses, and so on. As someone who has pumped thousands of hours into the Souls games, I can attest to the games still being difficult, and that difficulty being a core part of their enjoyment. It certainly didn't wear off after one or two runs.
Question: how often are you obstructed from participating in something that seriously interests you?
How so? Do you have evidence of that? Demon's Souls remastered uses motion blur and it's simply for artistic purpose. Disabling it would be challenging creator's vision.
I don't see all those games being touted as a genre starter or best of the gen etc.
can we factor in summoning?Since people seem to have an inability to understand, here's a visualization:
People with disabilities are inherently going to have a more difficult and inaccessible experience with games that don't include accessibility options.
Was it the creators vision to essentially make the game harder and out of reach for entire group of people? No. In the case of Sekiro, they wanted the playing field to be equal.
What able bodied people in this thread and elsewhere FAIL to recognize is that accessibility options literally takes the inaccessible game and makes it accessible, and levels the playing field with able bodied people.
Able bodied people continuously forget in these discussions where they so passionately gatekeep the creators vision that they don't realize that its a fallacy.
Dark Souls, Sekiro, etc are created to be difficult so that players feel a sense of pride and accomplishment, right? They lack difficulty options so that everyone is on the same playing field, right?
How am I supposed to feel a sense of pride and accomplishment, and be on the same playing field with able bodied people if options don't exist for that to occur?
Shouldn't the people who so passionately gatekeep the creators vision be fighting with me for these options?
"But won't people who aren't disabled use the accessibility options to make the game easier for them, thus violating the creators vision?"
Won't we think of the able bodied people :(?
Yes, it does. You're challenging creator's vision. If you do it, you can't say a game can't have easy mode because it's not the creator's vision. It's one or the other, you can't have both. You're either gatekeeping or being a hypocrite. There's no escaping this.
