First if all, great article and thanks for allowing this space for discussion.

Sounds like an SCP.

Sorry, I’ve been out of the loop of this Cecelia stuff. Your post made me look all this up. From what I’ve seen both sides are calling each other out as liars and this is awful stuff to lie about. I haven’t seen any smoking gun that proves who is full of shit. It’s hard when you have two people who both seem genuine…

Yeah, sometimes improper punctuation makes me cringe because it doesn't read like something a human would say. Still, glass house and all.

Yeah, I deserve that. I flagged my own post because of my idiocy this time. I stand by the first paragraph but I wish I could delete the second.

Yeah, I fucked up and misspelled grammar then my phone auto capitalized it because Grammer is a proper noun. No excuse though, I am shamed.

I agree difficulty could be done a lot better and l4d is a great example. I also think devs have the right to focus on what ever they want BUT it is a problem that most triple A developers are more concerned with graphics than gameplay balance.

I might go back and try that actually, I haven’t thought about that! I’ll admit the story was really cool and it’s cool they added a way for it to be experienced by everyone. I got HZD for free with days of play so no loss on my part. I probably wouldn’t buy a game if I knew the gameplay would bore me long before the…

I made actual arguments that you completely ignored. Tell me how I said disabled people shouldn’t enjoy video games. I went out of my way to make it clear I didn’t believe that so it’s kinda offensive you still think that of me. You seem like a decent person given your post history before this but you seem to be…

What? I just said that it’s great that some games only appeal to casuals gamers and that I’m against removing difficulty sliders to games that already have them even if it hurts my personal enjoyment. Difficulty is NOT always easy to implement in a way that keeps the game fun and balanced, I’m not going to repeat my…

That person didn’t say they wanted to take away anything from anybody. We are talking about Elden Ring which is stated to not have difficulty sliders. The OP of this thread suggested they should be added. You can’t take away something that didn’t exist in the first place.

Plenty of able bodied people want difficulty options a well. I'm sure it's more than one differently abled gamer that is happy with From games as is. The entitlement comes from insisting that Fromsoft is beholden to you in any way whatsoever. Suggestions are nice but it's annoying when people talk about it like it's a…

Anyone insisting that all games on the market should be enjoyable to them is entitled whether that be insisting easy games be harder or hard games be easier. Assuming you know better than the developers is true entitlement. That doesn't mean you can't complain about accessibility, it just means you don't want to…

There are plenty of ways to make games more accessible to differently abled people besides difficulty sliders. Text to speech, subtitles, visual indications of sound, colorblind modes and so on. With adaptive controllers even most physical limitations can be overcome. Accessibility is about being able to play a game,…

“If you gaze into the an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

I think that’s a pretty cool and well thought out idea that sounds a lot like Hades end game, which is a good thing. It would need to be well implemented and reward the player with more than just bragging rights like either opening up optional combat or a golden ending.

With all due respect, I disagree about difficulty settings automatically being good. I’m certainly not saying the opposite either. Some games inherently work better with difficulty options while others do not. I don’t think there is a single gameplay feature that is universally good in ALL video games. Often…

GTFO with this terrible take. I have a very fulfilling job and I also enjoy hard video games. If you don’t that’s fine but stop projecting please, it’s offensive.

Nice troll

“Imagine prisons worked this way, with no rehabilitation.”