Comment on Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The question is, does the responsibility fall on you to choose games that fit your skill level or the developer to compromise their vision to accomodate a broader audience? Would we take the same stance with other art? I find a lot of Foreign Arthouse Films to be slow paced and unenjoyable. Should the writers and directors be required to make an alternate cut to accomodate my preferences?

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Many games, have varying difficulty levels. AFAIK movies have never had anything like that.

    I have also seen cuts of movies that were horrible, and then an alternative cut is released that is leaps and bounds better.

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    • teft@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      AFAIK movies have never had anything like that.

      Try watching Primer.

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      • Skua@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        To be fair they're still right to say that there are no difficulty settings on that film, it's just set at fuck you difficulty from the beginning

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• Alawami@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s almost as if not every game is made for everyone

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know I could have played Euro Truck simulator for more than an hour if it had been an online pay-to-win MOBA.

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• teft@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you had played it longer than an hour you probably would have gotten good.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or they wouldn’t. I tried, died with the first enemy every time, refunded the game. Not everyone can “git gud”.

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    • teft@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The first enemy is meant to destroy you. You skip him and find other things to do and come back later when you’ve leveled up. It’s an open world game.

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      • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Let them not like the game for gods sake, they are in their right to refund it, they are not complaining about the game, just saying that it’s not for them. I love it and have tons of hours played + spent reading the wiki but it’s not for everyone and it’s cool of they don’t like it.

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      • Skua@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It's okay for people to not want to take several hours to learn to play a videogame. I say this as someone who has taken the time and likes this game a lot

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So your argument against playing for longer than an hour and getting good is playing less than two hours and refunding? You need to play the game for a few hours to understand the combat systems and the way that enemies react.

        and your argument to enjoy a game is to force yourself to play it longer than the return period is, therefore eliminating any chance of a refund?

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      • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Dude, I just don’t like it. The game just wasn’t fun for me. The game’s not my cup of tea. It’s not a hard concept. Also, you kinda move the goal post a bit.

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• Bookmeat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In other news, Florida Man sues because space flight is hard, it should be as ready as opening a beer.

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• Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve played it for over 500. It’s easier than the Dark Souls games.

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• solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sometimes I want to sit down and play a game for fun, not frustration.

  there are a lot of games that are fun AND easy…that said, if i’m really enjoying a game and get to a boss that causes more frustration than fun, and is going to consume more time than i’m willing to spend, then it’s cheese/godmode o’clock. done, dgaf. devs make the games they want, i play them the way i want. win-win

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• Aphelion@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I haven’t bought Elden Ring for this exact reason, but I love watching other people struggle and then succeed at it.

  I have one friend who uninstalled Elden Ring completely after they reduced the difficulty of the new expansion DLC because he felt like they watered down his achievement of beating it.

  Ultimately games are a form of art and their designers and developers have the ultimate say in how accessable (or not) they want to make the experience. I have also seen games with way too much ease of play features that completely destroy any challenge to the point of making it unplayable (looks a Ubisoft).

  Researching games before you buy has become a critical skill to avoid feeling burned, because social media does an amazing job of selling you games through FOMO.

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• Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wemod is how I do it.

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