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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I think if something can be done to allow more people to enjoy the game, then it should not be considered a bad thing to do it. You can not make it accessible to everyone in the world, but if there are time and resources to add accessibility, it should not be neglected.

  And I don’t agree with the use of artistic intent as an excuse to not include specific accessibility options: take closed captions for example, they are made to allow deaf and hard of hearing people enjoy the content even when they can’t hear the sound. A lot of media is built on sound being a cornerstone of the experience, and people who will use closed captions will have no notion of it, but does it mean that they should be excluded completely?

  Just because people who use the accessibility options will not experience everything in a way the author intended does not mean they should not be experience it at all, and in this day no one really complains about game including captions or colourblind options, but anything that might affect difficulty is, for some reason, out of the question and is only subject to the artist’s vision of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy mode is not fake accessibility. Celeste has the correct idea in allowing players adjust the difficulty for accessibility purposes. Not everyone has the same reaction speed, same cognitive abilities, same eyesight. There are people who can only use one hand and that automatically makes reacting to attacks many times harder, should they be excluded from being able to enjoy the game because they are not physically capable enough for the boss fights? And boss fights are probably 5% of the game anyway!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember seeing a version of snake that runs on a car dashboard as an easter egg (like, literal dashboard, tiny screen where the gas milage is shown)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Novels and Movies Offer Closure. Video Games Should Too. [The New York Times]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any good litrpg recs? I’ve only read solo leveling and it was good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am working on a turn-based wargame, influenced by the old Win3.x era WinWar 2 game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So are you basically making a more modern flash game? I think all flash graphics were vector and that gave them a really cool look

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is cancelling Rare's 'Everwild' and ZeniMax's new MMORPG IP as part of broader cuts — with 'Perfect Dark' impacted as well⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even when people were saying that MS turned a new leaf and that they are better at managing all the studios that they buy, and that they’ll make more better games for Game Pass to be a success, I knew that this was coming. Microsoft has been nothing but consistent in this one thing: it’ll pivot hard in one direction, pour tons of green into it, hire the best people, and then fire everyone and abandon the idea forever.

  Zune, Windows Phones, Kinect, and now I guess XBOX. Well, looks like it lived long enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychonauts 1 and 2.

  Some of the most imaginative big budget games in existence, from themes to art style to level design

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #17⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What have you been playing

  Jak and Daxter 2 via opengoal on Steam Deck. Such a clunky game, but it runs beautifully (except I had to stop right now because it crashed in the middle of the mission, but that’s one crash in several hours). This game feels like a sequence of levels that are just hard enough to be infuriating, but without feeling impossible. And the characters make it more interesting and easier to keep trying the same mission 20 times in a row.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #17⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for doing these, this is some top quality content!

  I wonder if Microsoft is making dev mode free because hackers got close to a working exploit in retail mode. There was one shared almost an year ago, but it required a specific app from the store that had been deleted since, but maybe it led to something behind the scenes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic Remake Is No Longer In Development - Report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We just got a pretty good Dead Space remake, so maybe