I don't mind strategic combat (I play Civ, BG3 on harder difficulties) but I hate grinding combat and play those games on easy. What that means is I don't play walking simulators. If I'm railroaded into a story, the combat better be damn good or I'm refunding the game or at best uninstalling it. I'd rather pay $100 for something like the outer worlds than $20 for something like greedfall where it's just a tv show with spamming buttons every so often.

Kirby does this in a lot of games. The main game is beatable by a child, but the more extra stuff you do, the harder it gets. And the secret bosses like Morpho Knight and Chaos Elfilis feel like straight out of DarkSouls or the Sans fight in Undertale. Oh, and in order to fight them, you need to have finished everything else that the game offers and defeat all the games bosses beforehand - with limited healing options.

Only souls game I beat is Elden Ring. Only by modding an easy mode into the game. I loved exploring in the game, especially the lore without worrying about dying because of my lack of skills. If anyone says that a souls-like is only fun because of it's difficulty is wrong, at least in my experience.

Yeah, exactly. People should have fun. In fact, I wish all games would include cheats. Sometimes I want to go crazy.

I enjoy Lords of the Fallen because when you die you are not immediately dead but in the Umbral World where you can continue to fight mobs/bosses and only if you die there you are really dead. So kind of having 2 lives in Mario the first hours or so it feels like a solstice that has a balance between button mashing and hard-core boss training.

Can't read the article without accepting sending cookies to thousands of companies. The only time I can remember having to restart was god of war 2, I was playing on hard and there was a boss I couldn't beat after about a week of multiple gaming sessions. It wouldn't let you charge difficulty on the fly so I had to restart the game on medium. I've beaten dark souls 3, most of elden ring and the first dlc, Bloodborne, play fighting games, etc. I also like point and click adventure games with little or no control challenges that focus mostly on plot and character development through story events. I'm okay with some games not catering to everyone as long as they are transparent about it, just like I wouldn't expect white knuckle challenges that take practice and fast reactions from a cozy comfort game like animal crossing.

I don’t mean to gatekeep because boss fights in From Software games are getting ridiculous but I think wandering into dangerous areas and overcoming challenges by cheesing things and even grinding level and gear is part of the charm.

> Can't read the article without accepting sending cookies to thousands of companies. In the EU you can’t be legally opted into tracking without explicit consent so it’s usually as simple as pressing „confirm choices” or similar option. I can’t believe people don’t use adblock and deal with this everywhere though.

I understand that it is for many. Just not for me. I prefer exploring lands and it's many wonders.

I use dns ad blocking so some of the cookies popups from the same host show up. This site either wants you to subscribe or accept ads **and** sending cookie trackers to advertisers, sure I could accept and assume my browser will successful block the third party cookies, but I don't consent so I won't accept.

Oh wow, haven’t seen that because of the adblocker. Fuck Eurogamer, that’s just illegal here. Meta has been trying to pull that repeatedly as well, they got in trouble with EU for that but I guess they feel more confident with Trump getting bribes from them now.

Looks like I'm not playing The First Berzerker: Khazan then. If the only draw to your game is how hard the combat is, then everything else probably sucks. Maybe make a good game instead of a hard game. I had no problem dropping the difficulty on Clair Obscur or Horizon or Mass Effect.

It was great back when they did. The ability to press a bunch of buttons and get a jetpack and an uzi and an airplane only improved GTA

>Lies of p has a difficulty slider that decreases damage from the enemies and increases the party window. That really doesn't do much. You still need to "memorize" the moves no amount of button mashing saves you even on easy. It sounds like that's a happy medium between "Mash attack until victory" and "memorize every attack pattern and still get stomped." >Do we argue horror games should have options for low horror so we can enjoy it without the horror? puzzle games should have a second set of easier puzzles for those who find them too hard? Story centric games should have low-story varients for those who still want to play? That dating sims should have aromantic varients for those who just like the comedy? None of these are analagous to the accessibility options people want in soulslikes. None of these are *literally unplayable* for people who simply don't like the genre. If you don't like the horror aspects of a horror game, you can look up when jump scares will happen. If you can't figure out a puzzle, you can look up hints. There's nothing preventing you from sitting through a story you aren't interested in. Contrast all of these with Remnant: From the Ashes, which I desperately wish I could play because I *like* the story and the gameplay, but I can't because there isn't a single boss I can beat. I can't just look up the answers to a puzzle onlineI can't just look up the answers to a puzzle online, I can't just sit through a story that I don't find interesting, there is literally nothing I am able to do to progress. Keeping me the *option* to reduce the insane health pools on bosses would take nothing away from the people who like chipping away at a brick wall for half an hour. >The intense strategic combat where numbers change little and skill changes everything is the point. That's what these games are built around it's their fundamental concept. What an insult to the writing teams. The only game I can think of that this actually applies to is IWBTG.

I almost added this to my reply to them, but it was already getting kind of long-winded. Yes, actually, accessibility settings in horror games is amazing. If the point is to achieve a certain level of scary, and the game is *too* scary for me to play, then giving me the option to reduce the scary will make the game *the right amount* of scary for me. Accessibility settings don't give me an easier experience than yours, it gives me an *equivalent* experience to yours.

>Complexity in move-set must also be decreased. No? Increase time between moves that are difficult to dodge or parry, reduce damage that those moves deal. Difficulty is reduced while complexity remains the same. >Also in the game world enemy placement and quantity must be adjusted to lower dificulty. Otherwise it'll be, mostly, just as hard I've never met anyone who actually has trouble with normal enemies in these games, it's *always* bosses that give us trouble. But also, see my first point.

This pause button feature is why I prefer PS5 and Switch/2 over PC. I just put the PS5 into sleep mode and when I’m back I press the PS button and resume. Same witch the switch power button.

I would also rather not play a game than pay money for something infected with Denuvo. I wish the Kazan developers would reckon that.