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Gunstar Green wrote:

marurun wrote:The difference is that your opinion imposes something on other players of the game, and those who would like an easy mode impose nothing on you. Accessibility for them has no impact on your play experience, but you would demand they suck it up or skip the game, which certainly impacts them. These two views are thus unequally weighted.

If they wanted people to have a different experience the option would be there. But they don't, so it's not, so what are we arguing about?

Who will be the first on a internet forum to admit they were wrong. So this just will never end.

Gunstar Green wrote:If the experience available is the experience intended why should the creators be obligated to offer an alternate experience?

Entitlement gamers.

Exum be like.

I find a lot of hard and easy modes half-assed. I doubt many developers short core development any to add these. Further, when you ask that a book or movie be changed, that affects others as well. Easy mode does not. Easy mode is more like making Braille or audiobook versions available, or optional closed captions or audio descriptions.

It all comes back to easy mode having no consequences for players who play normal or hard. Why fight so hard to deny someone else an experience? You lose nothing yourself for someone else to gain something.

Because Segata meme basically. There's really no rational reason not to offer an easy mode in any game period. As you said it's really no different than CC, braille, one handed controllers for amputees, or whatever else. Some people have problems, some people just want that specific 'story' without the abuse due to (insert reason...time, suck at X style, etc) but want to enjoy it anyway. Somehow that has turned into gamer heresy.

I must admit, now I'm older, have a family, work full time etc., I sometimes choose to play games on 'easy', because my disposable time seems to diminish with every new day and I just want to chill out and enjoy a game's story (or just gameplay) without too much thought or stress. Yeah, it's lazy, but whatever. Most games I play on whatever the default or 'normal' difficulty (and sometimes choose a harder difficulty), but I do like having the option sometimes...

Also, my brother is autistic and has severe learning difficulties. I think easy options are great for him and other people with learning difficulties, since we're talking about making media accessible for all audiences.

Perhaps a qualifier is needed. If adding an easy mode does not impact the normal mode, there's no reason it can't be done. Most difficulty tweaks are low effort anyway.

Xeogred wrote:Demon's / Souls / Bloodborne are all literally PERFECT.

Peace out!

You mean the game where I blocked a skeleton's attack while I was on a staircase, it glitched me through a wall, and I literally fell out of the game world?

Yeah, that sounds like perfection was achieved.

Edit - People like to say that the Souls games are "hard but fair." But the amount of jank I have experienced really stretches the definition of the word fair, IMHO. If From Software wants their games to be hard but fair they should fix their game.

Xeogred wrote:Easy difficulties suck.

Contra Easy Corps would have been boring and wouldn't have made me feel like I became a spiritual monk transcending through the next dimension when I beat Hard Corps.

Ya'll know easy difficulties are optional, right?

marlowe221 wrote:Edit - People like to say that the Souls games are "hard but fair." But the amount of jank I have experienced really stretches the definition of the word fair, IMHO. If From Software wants their games to be hard but fair they should fix their game.

You're really one of the only people I hear this from so I don't know how to respond. I can't compare it with my perspective because I didn't have the same experience (except for one very specific part of the game that is JANKY AS SHIT and I'll let Souls fans guess what that is because I don't want to spoil anything). So I guess all I can say is that's a fair argument from your perspective.