It’s not idiotic just because you aren’t smart enough to understand it. 

Well that’s dumb. I bought Ratchet and Clank, platinumed it, and then resold it for $50. But if throwing $50 into a void makes gaming better for you somehow, spend away, I suppose.

I don’t understand the commenters who are cheering the slow demise of physical media. Like, fair enough if all-digital works for you, but why wouldn’t you want other people to have options?

Great article.

Okay, then you are saying art should only be accessible to a few people. 

I just will never understand people that will defend this game not having an easy mode.

I’ll be honest. All these responses to the effect of ‘maybe this kind of game isn’t for you and anyway there are plenty of other games’ sounds like someone complaining that we don’t need Braille books because maybe blind people should just accept that books aren’t for them.

It’s an exclusive club for those with nothing better to do. The git gud crowd is an excess of machismo and immaturity.

Making the game “easier” is a slippery slope. Where do you stop? What is the defined standard for how easy a game is?

So yes, your enjoyment of *this* game is contingent on other people not being able to enjoy the game. Even if you never play the easier difficulty offered, the knowledge that someone else out there, somewhere, has played it and possibly even enjoyed it makes your experience worse...somehow.

I just will never understand people that will defend this game not having an easy mode. If normal mode is darksoul hard and then there’s just one easy mode for other, then what is the problem? Your normal soul-esque difficulty is still there, so let others enjoy the game in another way. I don’t understand how you can…

Not everyone plays games for the same reason (i.e. you might play for the difficulty where others do for the story/atmosphere). And beyond that, an easy mode doesn’t diminish your playthrough. “it’s good because it’s hard” can be said about most games with their difficulty turned up, if that’s your thing. Beyond that…