The problem isn’t an easy mode, it’s the lack of accessibility options. You need to be 100% healthy to play these games at all. The slightest nerve or muscle problem in your hand, reaction speed issues, eyesight problems and nope, you’re not allowed to play Souls games anymore. They should focus on adding accessibility options like R&C and TLOU2 did.
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@TheBrandedSwordsman probably GRRM misunderstanding the actual situation but “… it’s a sequel to Dark Souls…” is… interesting. At the end (the canon ending, as long as certain things are carried out) of Dark Souls 3’s dlc, there is scope for something else… that would take place somewhere else. So who knows?
Actually, I’ve always thought that a Dark Souls prequel game would be an awesome opportunity to explore Gwyn and his knights against the nameless King and the Dragons.
@colonelkilgore Yeah, I agree a prequel game would have been great, especially if you could play as Gwyn, getting his gear after completing Dark Souls 1 if you want to notwithstanding.
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@nessisonett I am very allergic to cats and I live with 5 cats. My allergy often triggers eye problems where i have to close my eye for a second every half minut or so. I could still Platinum bloodborne, beat sekiro twice, beat dark souls and platinum demon souls + doing a sl1 run even with my eye problems.
@Lassespfs@nessisonett in fairness I do think they are separate debates (easy mode and accessibility). I have a vague recollection of a journalist or two who struggled with Sekiro’s difficulty and was stating about the need for an Easy mode in From Soft games and tried to ‘use’ the disabled gamers and their accessibility requirements to bolster their own able bodied arguments. Some disabled gamers were a little perturbed as they are clearly much more than a mere tool to be used in a separate argument.
@Kidfried Just an actual pause button would help. A guy I went to school with has early onset osteoarthritis in his hands and while he can play quite a few games in semi-short bursts (can be therapeutic as well), online shooters and Souls games would mean he would have to play through the pain or put down the controller and let himself die in-game if it acted up. I noticed that Final Fantasy Souls game has a pause button and it can only be a good thing.
@Kidfried@nessisonett I wouldn’t be averse to a pause button… they would have to work something out in terms of the online ie. can’t pause once you’ve invaded or have been invaded but can pause at all other times maybe.
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@Th3solution Do you think Miyazaki's statement that you can skip more than half of the game's bosses if you so choose and still complete it will help you make up your mind about purchasing the title?
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@TheBrandedSwordsman@Th3solution so ‘over half’ does seem significant but I’d argue that most of the best From Soft bosses are only optional in Dark Souls 1, 2, 3, Bloodborne and Sekiro. Definitely not half in those cases but still quite a lot.
As always with From, I personally will want to beat all the bosses if I’m able… as the boss fights are generally such a high point in these types of games. The option to skip some is definitely a boon to try and tempt players in though. Hopefully that’ll be the case and gamers like Sol and many, many more will take the plunge.
@TheBrandedSwordsman Yes, I think that’s a plus on my end (the ability try to skip some boss fights) although in most games I end up still going for the optional bosses anyways.
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@nessisonett One of my biggest problems with FROM games is that they're just so obnoxious with things like pausing. Like you never know when there's going to be a knock at the door or your gran is going to fall down the stairs or something. And it's like, "Gran man I'm onto the last phase of Blood Starved Beast giz a minute."
I don't need that kind of stress in my life. I hate the lack of a pause button and just general quality of life stuff. It's like you wanna play online? LOL answer me these riddles three, and then use this item in this place at this time and you have a 1/12 chance of connecting to your friend but also they might be evil now. I don't know. There's just a difference between a game being hard with tough enemies etc. and a game being needlessly obtuse.
For me, I think they should just go the whole hog and have granular difficulty / accessibility options like in The Last of Us Part II so that anyone can play the games. I know that some people would just use the options to beat it even though they don't need the accessibility options but whatever. Who cares? Surely they could just tie trophies to the options or something so you can only get them if you play the honest to God vanilla version without any tweaks?
What does it matter. I'm still going to play this. Still going to battle on with all the nonsense. Still going to put up with no pause and stupid systems and whatever.
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