God it is *SO* incredibly validating to hear John talking about difficulty in games the way he is. Like, I play Bayonetta and DMC at max difficulty. I do under-leveled challenges in rpg's, I love difficulty and self imposed challenges. Having easy modes or modifiers to help people get into a game is an objectively good thing. Let more people play how they want, and experience things they wouldn't otherwise. If I'd told one of my best friends they **HAD** to experience DMC5 on Devil Hunter difficulty on their first time through (as their first game in the series), they would've dropped it and never picked it up again, but now they're clearing Bloody Palace runs as a way to unwind from work, and we've bonded so much over the series.
It's true and false. More often than not, games that don't have an insultingly easy mode for players who do not care and that can be physically turned on and off in a menu will suffer from game design decisions to accommodate those players. That's why Jrpgs are so easy in general, to take into account players who do not play, do not explore, and rush through the story. It's not an invalid way to play but I feel like I am the one being punished for interacting with the game to much as a result. Elden Ring is the same and so are many other games. I'd rather have a difficulty slider that allow others to have insane stats or shitty enemies and let devs create the experience they want.
The only time I dislike a game’s difficulty is if the game creates a harder mode that isn’t hard. Ppl like to say to limit yourself using mechanics fo make it more difficult but I think games should just be balanced.
37:03 What a hero HoboCrawNun is. What a man. He took a quest item he accepted absentmindedly, and sold it. Now the Tiphrates people get no pistachios. All because that girl chose to believe in the Dokapon equivalent of your soundcloud rapper friend who will totally pay you "when [his] music drops, bro, promise"
40:54 And this was the moment The Final Hobo sealed his defeat. He channeled Woolie's 20-20 vision, looked in the direction of a Behelit, did not see said Behelit, and began to cheer wildly while scraping by an NPC that he, himself, mocked as an irredeemable loser. Congratulations, HoboJohnGamer. You did it.
The cycle continues, no player will realize that 3rd place is actually the worst place to stay in. Its too hard to crawl to the top from 3rd, and you dont get to bring the rest of the players down to your level without darkling.
I hope the villainous landlord HoboCrawfish eventually has a "Christmas Carol" style revelation and recognizes that investing in leveling up his poor, underdeveloped towns will benefit both himself and the townsfolk that he so cruelly disregards. I suppose his actions are meant to emphasize the empathy and generosity of our hero, Kathy.
I feel like this game is progressing too fast for any of the characters to seriously invest in their towns, but I'm mostly comparing it to how slowly the game went when woolie and co. played.
I agree with the idea that people are way, way, WAY too hung up on game difficulty in the souls series and in general, and wear it too much like a badge of honor. However, while I believe that Elden Ring and other games definitely need more accessibility options just for ease of use and play, I do think that specifically for the kind of story they are trying to tell with these games meta-narratively, an easy mode would take away from that. The "easy mode" is getting help from friends, using ashes, using overpowered weapons or spells, using everything the game gives you to overcome the challenges. Nothing stops you from continuing to level past the pitifully low level of 125 for the online multiplayer meta. I think the beauty of these games is they're as hard or as easy as you want to make them. Everything has a cheese method to beat it, every challenge can be reduced to a level that fits your own comfort by way of getting help from friends or making use of the tools in the game to cover for your own mistakes. But the beauty of these games is that they ask you to rise to the challenge of them, and find a way to overcome it. They WANT you to win. The git gud bullshit is just toxic community members who take pride in masochism, and try to define how others should enjoy their game. Your way of having fun with these games is not everyone else's... Anyways obligatory good job John, but Kathy really should just take over the channel by now. I know she'd respect the concept of a challenge you're expected to meet, and knows you'd never want to overcome her because she was going easy on you. /s
Having some other player carry you and beat the boss for you is not the same as having the boss just do a bit less damage and have less health but you still have to fight and beat it.
Appreciating and loving art because it speaks to you is far more fulfilling then feeling superior because you can beat it the best. Speedrunning can be an expression of that appreciation, rather than a way to feel superior to others. 9:04
You know that our little hobo crustacean pet is in trouble when a pathetic third place is "THE GREATEST COME BACK IN VIDEO GAMES", like damn girl, let him at least some air to breathe
I felt really... alienated by Elden Ring. I got it because I knew friends who had it and saw a bunch of ads talking about how you can easily just play with friends and just that... and for me, it was the absolutely worst game I played. Now I might have had some situations that were odd... like multiple invaders (why does playing with friends mean you have to open up to invaders?) who I couldn't leave zones and waited 45 minutes to an hour because they avoided me till I just was bored and tired of it all. This doesn't mean it's a bad game, but the experience was not fun for me. And when someone makes me wait around, then barely wins the fight after getting an ambush because I'm barely paying attention and teabags me that's just... rude. Why try to make games unfun for others? I want everyone to have a fun time, and I don't think forcing pvp on people who don't want it helps. If anything, it just made me decide Fromsoft will never make a game I'll enjoy. And that seems not ideal if you want more people loving the games.
Just like in the playthrough with Woolie and co, John falls into the trap of clawing for 3rd place instead investing long term into getting to 1st. 3rd is easily the worst position to be in, in dokapon. Your options for changing up the score is limited only to barely catching up with towns.
Superhobocrawfish sure does talk alot about playing games the way you want for somebody that subjected his poor innocent podcast cohost to playing fear and hunger on terror and starvation mode
Examples of social anxiety in games... they're both glancing hits, where the primary focus isn't quite in the social dimension but that's still an essential component: Original FF7, coming to your hometown and it seems weirdly fine, except that everywhere there are these weird black blobs that MIGHT be hooded figures, and they just say "...", and nobody else in these buildings has any dialogue indicating they're even aware those black things are there. And I'm in love with how the Sinking City handles the supernatural horror- where you're going around the town and there's a spectrum of ambiguous weirdness but also the supernatural just kind of has its dick out. Over there. Casually. And everyone just kinda has to deal with it and try to normalize it.
I got mixed feelings when it comes to difficult games. I've stopped playing some games in the past (like Skyrim or Gran Turismo 2), because they got too easy after a while to the point where they started to bore me. However I also had games that were annoyingly difficult, like Armored Core 6. It's hard to figure out a working tactic/loadout sometimes and a lot of hard bosses are at the end of long missions, making things pretty frustrating. And honestly for me it gets to a point where after beating a boss like that I don't even feel accomplished, I'm just happy that shit is over. In that game it just so happened that the very next mission also had a tough boss at the end and that made me quite the game for at least a week, because I was just not having a good time.
Homebody is definitely a good recommendation for a game about social anxiety. Pretty cool little experience too. I feel like it would be up John’s alley
@16:40 If you're still looking for social anxiety games, "Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk...". It's about buying a bag of milk from the store. Real short, but I think it hits well.
John should have gone darkling when he had the chance because that would have brought kathy and gabrielle down with the towns, he is evolving though not gonna lie.
Hearing that's SEW's next video I remembered that I watched that movie after he recommended it on Trash Taste and that I had reviewed it on letterboxd. Couldn't remember my exact thoughts on it so I looked it up. My review just said: "Darude Sandstorm?!" The dangers of mixing series reviews with the more jokey ones.
I find the argument that "people associate game difficulty with their identity" so strange and outdated now, because with how mainstream Elden Ring and Soulslikes have become, I can't imagine there are still many people who think beating those games gives them unique bragging rights. They're just regular games now, and their "difficulty" (at least for FromSoft titles) is meant to feel rewarding for the individual, not serve as some elitist filter. But I do see this argument levied a lot, and it sometimes feels like a way to diminish people who think that selectable difficulty defeats the core purpose of these games, which is to feel the reward of overcoming seemingly insurmountable challenges on a level playing field. Whether you just bang your head against the challenge with brute force, or devise a strategy with more tactical finesse, you're earning an undiluted victory, and that's what makes it feel good and worthwhile. Ultimately, I feel like with good enough design, you can provide a near equal level of challenge for all types of players, without requiring difficulty selectors that create a class divide between the "real" players and the ones who choose to stay in normal and easy modes. To be clear, I don't mean that EVERY game should be sans difficulty selections. I just think that some games benefit from their omission, and trying to shoehorn them into things like Elden Ring might not be such a great idea (especially since the game basically has its own emergent difficulty scaling based on player creativity).
feel like this game would be significantly improved if it did the Earthbound thing by making monsters you're significantly more powerful than then they just pop and give you the xp
On the discussion of game difficult I'll play devil's advocate a little, I do somewhat understand being disappointed in the way someone chooses to engage with a certain type of media. An example might be people who watch One Piece like Dragon Ball, it's objectively not the intention of the show and so although everyone entitled to their opinion it's ignorant and therefore flawed. Some people definitely validate themselves with difficulty but I think there's also a lot of people who enjoyed Elden Ring and feel an "easy mode" goes against some core value of FromSoft games.
From hating Steve to turning him into an apprentice and now finally hating him, Crawfish seems to have gone down to up and down like some sort of hater. Steve need to beat Hobo at all cost because he is John.
This is hard to watch sometimes. It was particularly hard to watch him going to the weapon store when he didn't have enough money and using that road block when he could have headed straight to the boss and easily beaten it. He spent so long in that area not attacking that boss that it was inevitable that another player would swoop in. Still, this makes me want to watch it all the more 😂
I'm pretty bad at Dark Souls, but I'm also against giving it an easy mode because the struggle is important to the narrative. I understand people wanting to play games for fun, but that shouldn't be every game. If I don't like Fear and Hunger because I can lose limbs, I'm just not going to play it. I'm not going to yell at the dev to let me play without the feature. (The Fear and Hunger thing is just a hypothetical example, I like the limb damage mechanics) That said, I'm not against games that are similar to Dark Souls in mechanics having difficulty settings. If you want to make a game where you wander around a would, picking up tiny shreds of a narrative from environmental storytelling while platforming and fighting big bosses, and you don't really care for the "hostile environment fantasy" that's absolutely wonderful, go ahead and make it. It'll probably be good! Just also recognize that the difficulty of Dark Souls is important to the narrative or that game series in particular.
That is true, but the fact is that between letting people experience a game, even if it's a fraction of it, vs not letting them experience it at all because it's too hard, I always say go for the former.
Ok I was thinking about it and I think I figured out why the whole game difficulty is so heated, and it seems like most of the fault is on the side of the people that want the easy mode. For example in this very video john unprompted just immediately calls anyone that doesn’t want a easy mode a loser with no life or identity. Which is really harsh and shitty, literally no room for nuance. Then the farther condensation of “I have a wife and I like to jog so I don’t need hard games to validate myself.” Just wow I had no stake in this argument at all but I desperately want to be on the opposite side of this shitfest.
6:55 The game would need to be completly rebalanced. That's enough of a reason NOT to have it. + This IS the designe philosophy of the game, this is what the creators wanted the game to be like. Why should they change it?
Kathy could never become a Darkling, for she is incorruptible and far too successful for that - unlike John, who is very corruptible and absolutely not successful at anything, except when it comes to a contest of incompetency, to which they excel at like no other 👍
6:30 I just don't get people that are obsessed with game difficulty. I think its fine to feel good about doing something you think is difficult but passing that on to other people is absolutely insane. There is almost nothing anyone could do in a videogame that would even remotely impress me and I am interested in both speed running and esports. Just straight up beating a videogame is not a real achievement.
Two or three episodes ago. Iirc, she and Gabrielle got into a fight while Kathy was at low health, Kathy surrendered, and Gabrielle chose to change her name
i think the entire idea of elden ring is try different stuff and style at any time, this is why you can respect you character and switch how the weapons stats and attacks, so if the person who is palying only know to headbutt a wall by doing the same thing are failing and want a easy mode in the game because the game is not build around his playstyle is kinda dumb.
and this is not me being "get good noob" i never played elden ring i only played dark souls 1, but i have a feeling that elden ring is more forgiving and experimental than older games and encourages the player to be creative.
Im gonna tell my kids this was the Epic of Gilgamesh
The traditional or FATE/series version? Cause i can definitely see Kathy as archer Gil
@@nash6237Yes
@@nash6237 Kathy could call us all mongrels and we would thank her for it, as well we should.
Somehow much longer and less homoerotic than the real thing.
I cannot convey how emotionally invested I've become in this board game.
Got two campaigns going with my girlfriend and one with some friends. Love how petty it is.
God it is *SO* incredibly validating to hear John talking about difficulty in games the way he is. Like, I play Bayonetta and DMC at max difficulty. I do under-leveled challenges in rpg's, I love difficulty and self imposed challenges. Having easy modes or modifiers to help people get into a game is an objectively good thing. Let more people play how they want, and experience things they wouldn't otherwise. If I'd told one of my best friends they **HAD** to experience DMC5 on Devil Hunter difficulty on their first time through (as their first game in the series), they would've dropped it and never picked it up again, but now they're clearing Bloody Palace runs as a way to unwind from work, and we've bonded so much over the series.
It's true and false. More often than not, games that don't have an insultingly easy mode for players who do not care and that can be physically turned on and off in a menu will suffer from game design decisions to accommodate those players. That's why Jrpgs are so easy in general, to take into account players who do not play, do not explore, and rush through the story. It's not an invalid way to play but I feel like I am the one being punished for interacting with the game to much as a result. Elden Ring is the same and so are many other games. I'd rather have a difficulty slider that allow others to have insane stats or shitty enemies and let devs create the experience they want.
The only time I dislike a game’s difficulty is if the game creates a harder mode that isn’t hard. Ppl like to say to limit yourself using mechanics fo make it more difficult but I think games should just be balanced.
37:03 What a hero HoboCrawNun is. What a man. He took a quest item he accepted absentmindedly, and sold it. Now the Tiphrates people get no pistachios. All because that girl chose to believe in the Dokapon equivalent of your soundcloud rapper friend who will totally pay you "when [his] music drops, bro, promise"
Man I can’t believe John killed an innocent Wabbit and hollowed it out to wear as a hat. Kinda sick and twisted.
Oh so when Davy Crockett does it he's a national hero but when *John* does it he's a monster. This is anti-Gamer discrimination this is.
You have to be sick to play this game
This episode feels like watching the stock markets several months before the Great Depression
I haven’t even finished the first video yet, I just keep seeing the thumbnails and I’m like “oh dear god he’s still going”
Dokapon never really ends
Name a better duo than Steve and getting abducted by aliens (a close second is Kathy and winning in general)
Hobo Crawfish and the consequences of his own actions?
40:54 And this was the moment The Final Hobo sealed his defeat. He channeled Woolie's 20-20 vision, looked in the direction of a Behelit, did not see said Behelit, and began to cheer wildly while scraping by an NPC that he, himself, mocked as an irredeemable loser.
Congratulations, HoboJohnGamer. You did it.
The cycle continues, no player will realize that 3rd place is actually the worst place to stay in. Its too hard to crawl to the top from 3rd, and you dont get to bring the rest of the players down to your level without darkling.
John says he just wants a bunch of spinners despite all the evidence of him in a strip club pointing to the contrary. 😂
So that’s the final form of HobocrawFish - BUNNY CLERIC!
HoboWabbit
I STILL BELIEVE IN YOU, JOHN.
I hope the villainous landlord HoboCrawfish eventually has a "Christmas Carol" style revelation and recognizes that investing in leveling up his poor, underdeveloped towns will benefit both himself and the townsfolk that he so cruelly disregards. I suppose his actions are meant to emphasize the empathy and generosity of our hero, Kathy.
I feel like this game is progressing too fast for any of the characters to seriously invest in their towns, but I'm mostly comparing it to how slowly the game went when woolie and co. played.
his greatest form is kathy with dumb hat...yeah sounds about right.
Dokapok kingdom is fear and hunger, except you’re permanently locked in the nashrah fight and your party is only the girl
I agree with the idea that people are way, way, WAY too hung up on game difficulty in the souls series and in general, and wear it too much like a badge of honor. However, while I believe that Elden Ring and other games definitely need more accessibility options just for ease of use and play, I do think that specifically for the kind of story they are trying to tell with these games meta-narratively, an easy mode would take away from that. The "easy mode" is getting help from friends, using ashes, using overpowered weapons or spells, using everything the game gives you to overcome the challenges. Nothing stops you from continuing to level past the pitifully low level of 125 for the online multiplayer meta.
I think the beauty of these games is they're as hard or as easy as you want to make them. Everything has a cheese method to beat it, every challenge can be reduced to a level that fits your own comfort by way of getting help from friends or making use of the tools in the game to cover for your own mistakes. But the beauty of these games is that they ask you to rise to the challenge of them, and find a way to overcome it. They WANT you to win. The git gud bullshit is just toxic community members who take pride in masochism, and try to define how others should enjoy their game. Your way of having fun with these games is not everyone else's...
Anyways obligatory good job John, but Kathy really should just take over the channel by now. I know she'd respect the concept of a challenge you're expected to meet, and knows you'd never want to overcome her because she was going easy on you. /s
Having some other player carry you and beat the boss for you is not the same as having the boss just do a bit less damage and have less health but you still have to fight and beat it.
Appreciating and loving art because it speaks to you is far more fulfilling then feeling superior because you can beat it the best. Speedrunning can be an expression of that appreciation, rather than a way to feel superior to others. 9:04
In this episode John turns his character into Sistermon
You know that our little hobo crustacean pet is in trouble when a pathetic third place is "THE GREATEST COME BACK IN VIDEO GAMES", like damn girl, let him at least some air to breathe
Is the town we have to go back to, riverdale?
I felt really... alienated by Elden Ring. I got it because I knew friends who had it and saw a bunch of ads talking about how you can easily just play with friends and just that... and for me, it was the absolutely worst game I played. Now I might have had some situations that were odd... like multiple invaders (why does playing with friends mean you have to open up to invaders?) who I couldn't leave zones and waited 45 minutes to an hour because they avoided me till I just was bored and tired of it all. This doesn't mean it's a bad game, but the experience was not fun for me. And when someone makes me wait around, then barely wins the fight after getting an ambush because I'm barely paying attention and teabags me that's just... rude. Why try to make games unfun for others? I want everyone to have a fun time, and I don't think forcing pvp on people who don't want it helps. If anything, it just made me decide Fromsoft will never make a game I'll enjoy. And that seems not ideal if you want more people loving the games.
I simply do not validate myself because I am not valid.
27:18 Foxcade was so real for this one.
This series is occupying my "anime time" and I have zero regrets
I am so so happy to hear in stars and time mentioned, if he hasn't already streamed it id love to see that
Just like in the playthrough with Woolie and co, John falls into the trap of clawing for 3rd place instead investing long term into getting to 1st. 3rd is easily the worst position to be in, in dokapon. Your options for changing up the score is limited only to barely catching up with towns.
54:27 "And that's what you get for not having the balls to kill it sooner. Good job, Hobo Crawfish, you failure." - The DokaGods, probably.😂
The greatest comeback in video games? Woah, is Kathy going to tank and get to the top again in this one? :O
Darkling Kathy vs HoboCrawfish is the final battle we deserve but will never get.
John: It wont be my best
I doubt that, strongly, every video of yours is instant fucking dopamine to me
In stars and time rules, I would looooove to watch a stream of that game.
i've been absolutely loving this series, it's been so much fun to watch, and made me buy the game on switch to try it out for myself!
Superhobocrawfish sure does talk alot about playing games the way you want for somebody that subjected his poor innocent podcast cohost to playing fear and hunger on terror and starvation mode
I see the title, and can’t wait to see Steve shine.
Became obsessed with this game after watching the first few vods and now I play it while I watch John play it 🌚
RISE YE FINALISTS FOR THE FALLEN HATH POSTED
Examples of social anxiety in games... they're both glancing hits, where the primary focus isn't quite in the social dimension but that's still an essential component:
Original FF7, coming to your hometown and it seems weirdly fine, except that everywhere there are these weird black blobs that MIGHT be hooded figures, and they just say "...", and nobody else in these buildings has any dialogue indicating they're even aware those black things are there.
And I'm in love with how the Sinking City handles the supernatural horror- where you're going around the town and there's a spectrum of ambiguous weirdness but also the supernatural just kind of has its dick out. Over there. Casually. And everyone just kinda has to deal with it and try to normalize it.
hell yeah more in stars and time would be sick
I got mixed feelings when it comes to difficult games. I've stopped playing some games in the past (like Skyrim or Gran Turismo 2), because they got too easy after a while to the point where they started to bore me.
However I also had games that were annoyingly difficult, like Armored Core 6. It's hard to figure out a working tactic/loadout sometimes and a lot of hard bosses are at the end of long missions, making things pretty frustrating. And honestly for me it gets to a point where after beating a boss like that I don't even feel accomplished, I'm just happy that shit is over. In that game it just so happened that the very next mission also had a tough boss at the end and that made me quite the game for at least a week, because I was just not having a good time.
HoboCrawfish, the man who got offered a second behelit because he wasted the first
Some may call these clickbait titles but I know the truth. These are the true descriptions of the Final Gamer's saga
Social anxiety horror is exactly how I describe films by Darren Aronofsky
Homebody is definitely a good recommendation for a game about social anxiety. Pretty cool little experience too. I feel like it would be up John’s alley
He played it before! Check an earlier video 😊
17:00 An easy one is Rule of Rose, it easily touches on most, if not all, the points in your recent video.
@16:40 If you're still looking for social anxiety games, "Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk...". It's about buying a bag of milk from the store. Real short, but I think it hits well.
It was on sale on the switch eshop, and i missed it, is it worth getting it for 8
John should have gone darkling when he had the chance because that would have brought kathy and gabrielle down with the towns, he is evolving though not gonna lie.
Hearing that's SEW's next video I remembered that I watched that movie after he recommended it on Trash Taste and that I had reviewed it on letterboxd. Couldn't remember my exact thoughts on it so I looked it up.
My review just said: "Darude Sandstorm?!"
The dangers of mixing series reviews with the more jokey ones.
Yes thank you.
more like he CRAWled his way back to 3rd
At 17:24 for my fellow Italians : "SUORA ATALANTA!!! ATALANTA SUORA!!!" 🖤💙🖤💙🖤
I find the argument that "people associate game difficulty with their identity" so strange and outdated now, because with how mainstream Elden Ring and Soulslikes have become, I can't imagine there are still many people who think beating those games gives them unique bragging rights. They're just regular games now, and their "difficulty" (at least for FromSoft titles) is meant to feel rewarding for the individual, not serve as some elitist filter.
But I do see this argument levied a lot, and it sometimes feels like a way to diminish people who think that selectable difficulty defeats the core purpose of these games, which is to feel the reward of overcoming seemingly insurmountable challenges on a level playing field. Whether you just bang your head against the challenge with brute force, or devise a strategy with more tactical finesse, you're earning an undiluted victory, and that's what makes it feel good and worthwhile.
Ultimately, I feel like with good enough design, you can provide a near equal level of challenge for all types of players, without requiring difficulty selectors that create a class divide between the "real" players and the ones who choose to stay in normal and easy modes.
To be clear, I don't mean that EVERY game should be sans difficulty selections. I just think that some games benefit from their omission, and trying to shoehorn them into things like Elden Ring might not be such a great idea (especially since the game basically has its own emergent difficulty scaling based on player creativity).
feel like this game would be significantly improved if it did the Earthbound thing by making monsters you're significantly more powerful than then they just pop and give you the xp
A fresh new look to usher in a new era. Second place is so close!
HOLY SHIT HES PLAYING IN STARS AND TIME AND I COULD BE HAPPIER ALSO STREAM IT I WOULD BE SO DOWN
#BelieveTheSteve People!!
41:05 - 41:23 Your promos are improving each and every time! One day you will be a great jobber!
Why can’t we just be messmers buddy?? I just wanna be friends with the scary beings. Even the not hot ones
Does Hobo Crawfish call himself the Final Gamer because he's trying to end in last place?
On the discussion of game difficult I'll play devil's advocate a little, I do somewhat understand being disappointed in the way someone chooses to engage with a certain type of media. An example might be people who watch One Piece like Dragon Ball, it's objectively not the intention of the show and so although everyone entitled to their opinion it's ignorant and therefore flawed. Some people definitely validate themselves with difficulty but I think there's also a lot of people who enjoyed Elden Ring and feel an "easy mode" goes against some core value of FromSoft games.
From hating Steve to turning him into an apprentice and now finally hating him, Crawfish seems to have gone down to up and down like some sort of hater. Steve need to beat Hobo at all cost because he is John.
Also john keeps calling gabrielle gabriella lol.
This is hard to watch sometimes. It was particularly hard to watch him going to the weapon store when he didn't have enough money and using that road block when he could have headed straight to the boss and easily beaten it.
He spent so long in that area not attacking that boss that it was inevitable that another player would swoop in.
Still, this makes me want to watch it all the more 😂
I'm pretty bad at Dark Souls, but I'm also against giving it an easy mode because the struggle is important to the narrative. I understand people wanting to play games for fun, but that shouldn't be every game. If I don't like Fear and Hunger because I can lose limbs, I'm just not going to play it. I'm not going to yell at the dev to let me play without the feature.
(The Fear and Hunger thing is just a hypothetical example, I like the limb damage mechanics)
That said, I'm not against games that are similar to Dark Souls in mechanics having difficulty settings. If you want to make a game where you wander around a would, picking up tiny shreds of a narrative from environmental storytelling while platforming and fighting big bosses, and you don't really care for the "hostile environment fantasy" that's absolutely wonderful, go ahead and make it. It'll probably be good! Just also recognize that the difficulty of Dark Souls is important to the narrative or that game series in particular.
That is true, but the fact is that between letting people experience a game, even if it's a fraction of it, vs not letting them experience it at all because it's too hard, I always say go for the former.
IT'S CRYME TYME HOBOCRAWFISH
Ok I was thinking about it and I think I figured out why the whole game difficulty is so heated, and it seems like most of the fault is on the side of the people that want the easy mode. For example in this very video john unprompted just immediately calls anyone that doesn’t want a easy mode a loser with no life or identity. Which is really harsh and shitty, literally no room for nuance. Then the farther condensation of “I have a wife and I like to jog so I don’t need hard games to validate myself.” Just wow I had no stake in this argument at all but I desperately want to be on the opposite side of this shitfest.
6:55 The game would need to be completly rebalanced. That's enough of a reason NOT to have it.
+ This IS the designe philosophy of the game, this is what the creators wanted the game to be like. Why should they change it?
John
JOHN ARE YOU GOING TO DO ANOTHER RIVERDALE VIDEO
DEAR GOD JOHN PLEASE NO
Steve in dead last and fourteen fucking levels lower than everyone else by the end of this episode is a bit too relatable tbh.
Nice vid
Aris are getting an LSD installed as well? Feel like you'll need one to put all that power down
Kathy could never become a Darkling, for she is incorruptible and far too successful for that - unlike John, who is very corruptible and absolutely not successful at anything, except when it comes to a contest of incompetency, to which they excel at like no other 👍
Ok whoa. Jesus. Like, there's ribbing, and there's being an asshole?
The greatest comeback? You mean Kathy?
Wait, how long has he been playing this game?
Superwabbitnun
6:30 I just don't get people that are obsessed with game difficulty. I think its fine to feel good about doing something you think is difficult but passing that on to other people is absolutely insane. There is almost nothing anyone could do in a videogame that would even remotely impress me and I am interested in both speed running and esports. Just straight up beating a videogame is not a real achievement.
I just noticed this... when did Kathy get her name changed lol
Two or three episodes ago. Iirc, she and Gabrielle got into a fight while Kathy was at low health, Kathy surrendered, and Gabrielle chose to change her name
“Not his best” is my review of every Super Eyepatch Wolf video…his best video will come one year from now to the day
i think the entire idea of elden ring is try different stuff and style at any time, this is why you can respect you character and switch how the weapons stats and attacks, so if the person who is palying only know to headbutt a wall by doing the same thing are failing and want a easy mode in the game because the game is not build around his playstyle is kinda dumb.
and this is not me being "get good noob" i never played elden ring i only played dark souls 1, but i have a feeling that elden ring is more forgiving and experimental than older games and encourages the player to be creative.
Foist!
not every game should be beaten by every player. people are not equal.
Day 24 of asking for American Mcgee's Alice. Road to 30🎉.