The game isn't even out and we're already doing this again? Games "Journalists" need to go

Omg can you stop with these? No, not every game needs to be accessible to everyone. You put in the work and git gud, that's what these games are all about. It's not about catering to crybabies who can't get through the challenge.

No.

This again? The game "journalists" that couldn't beat Sekiro are doing a preemptive strike I see, lol.

"Most importantly, assist mode opens the game up to people with physical or mental disabilities, allowing them to modify the game in a way which makes it playable to suit their specific needs."

The author is assuming that people with disabilities cannot play dark souls? Show me some evidence because unless a player is blind or can't use their hands, I fail to think of how any disability can prevent you from trying to "git gud."

Lol, just kidding about git gud. Dark Souls series is masterful but isn't perfect. Plenty of bosses and areas' difficulty are either artificially hard or the real boss is the camera. I beat Artorias and Manus without dying once. I died plenty of times to Bed of Chaos. The former 2 are apparently the hardest bosses in the game. Dark Souls is an Action RPG and while there is quite a bit of skill in learning how to deal with each enemy, generally speaking it's mainly your stats and build. I used a Claymore and a Crest Shield. Got them both to +10 and +5. When you are leveled up enough and have a good build, the game becomes much more manageable.

The only thing Dark Souls needed is just a bit more direction in what to do. I googled several times where to go next whenever I had no idea what to do next. My friend had told me about the Ring of Artorias needed to beat the 4 Kings in the Abyss. If he hadn't told me, I'd never have found out unless I googled it. Some fans will disagree with me as "lore hunting" is part of the Soulsbourne experience, but Soulsbourne series can go too far with the ambiguity.

Sekiro is much more straightforward in that respect. Things are laid out much more clearly. Sekiro is much more skill-based than Dark Souls and Bloodborne as there is a lot less "RPG" in the game with a bigger focus on action and stealth. Dark Souls is a block-attack game and Bloodborne is a dodge-attack game. But Sekiro is a deflect-attack game with "deflect" as Sekiro's version of parry. Enemies attack more erratically and come in larger groups. The game incentivises deflectiing because you can do "deathblows" with enough posture damage AND because dodging has no i-frames. Some attacks are unblockable - thus you jump or dodge. Also, deathblows cane be triggered by stealth kills. I found Sekiro to be the hardest from software game I played but also my favourite.

Writer = noob

No.

There should be a balance. I like difficult games but when is ridiculously difficult like Sekiro, is no fun at all.

Git gud.

The comfort mod for ds3 on pc made the game so much better. I totally agree.

I’ll bet that at least 30% of the commenters played a modded pc version and are just acting like they can actually play through a souls game.

The thing is: souls games aren’t that difficult. Yes you’re going to die, but that’s developed to be an integral part of the game. I’ve beaten a few of them and hell I’d say crash bandicoot 1 was harder.

Accessibility and easy mode are not the same thing. Should people with disabilities have a way of playing these games yes. But that does not necessarily need to fall on the developers. 3rd party accessories and better options at the system level can help this.

Journalists need to stop asking for Miyazaki to make his games easier. It's pathetic.

Thank god miyazaki doesn't listen to these fake gamers. Assist mode? Whats next

Queue the nerds who don’t know how difficulty “OPTIONS” are made.

They’re options, shut it.

Sit down and read a book if you can, please.

Difficulty is not controversial and no assist mode necessary. Stop using big words to try and drum up ‘controversy’.

Maybe your journalism needs an assist mode

Oh this time clickbait is earlier than expected.

No.

if gaming 'journalists' didnt spend all their time being offended and pandering maybe they would 'git gud' without the need of an easy mode

If From has decided to add some extra accessibility options then sure. If they didn't then let's not go through this pointless argument again.

I find it weird how these sites whine so much about how games should be made more accessible so that everyone can play them. They're things that have a learning curve, be it a piece of tech, an instrument, cooking.

From makes games with the intent of appealing to a specific demographic. It's a creative work, and like all creative works, it should be what the creators intended it to be. I suck at the souls games. Like real bad. Would love to play through them, but I don't have the patience. I am not the demographic. It's fine. If the games "should" have an easy/assist mode, then they would.... but they dont.. that means they should not. Nobody should tell an artist what to create. Unless we are all agreeing that games are not, in fact, art. Can't have it both ways. That is what EA/ubisoft/Activision do, and the general consensus seems to be that their games usually lack any kind of soul.

just coop assist like all the others, if you both suck or can't deal with pvp players interrupting then oh well. It's a proven system that works well.

No.

I wouldn't mind an assist mode but if it doesn't that's ok because I like the Souls like games for their unique difficulty.

The games are purposely built hard. That's their only point. If you're wanting a souls game to have an assist or easy mode, you've missed the entire point of the game and the challenge and don't get the real experience.

Souls games will never be for everybody. Fighting games aren't for me, I've come to terms with that.

git

gud

awwww poor little games "journalist" needs assistance. I can cut up your steak for you to before you eat it and mash your peas? Bless your little heart

thing is the souls games arent even that hard!!! - you die because you are careless or trying to rush around, each enemy has a pattern you just have to learn it

I played control for the first time because of the reviews, I died pretty frequently at the beginning but was intrigued by the design of the levels and the powers that you wield. Dying often makes me not want to play the game, but in control there was an option to have health and guns reload faster, as well as many other helpful tweaks that allowed me to keep playing while enjoying myself. Had this feature not been implemented I would have turned the game off a long time ago and never looked back.

You like your steak rare.... and I like mine well done, just because we dont understand how the other person can eat it that way does not mean that we dont get the same amount of enjoyment out of it.

No, at the end of the day, difficulty levels improve and teach gamers how to be better at the games.

If they remove the difficulty, then there will never be any skill progression.

While there at it, why don't they remove equations/formulas from Maths and Science at secondary school because they are difficult?

This next generation is going to be the demise of society as we know it.

"It's too hard, it needs to be changed so it's easy" no, get better, simple.

Weren't people saying it was running poorly on Switch 2 at CES earlier this year? I hope they fix that before release. If they can do 60 fps in handheld mode I might pick it up -- otherwise not interest in playing this game at 30 fps.

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