• @[email protected]
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    33 months ago

    I think insisting that difficulty options must exist at the meta game level in a menu is a very narrow vision of how challenge and difficulty can be.

    • @samus12345
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      33 months ago

      It’s just the simplest way. If they implemented it another way that’d be fine as well.

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        33 months ago

        But they did implement it in another way: spirit ashes, NPC summons, player summons, getting a big ass shield, etc.

        Many people hit a wall in elden ring and go “fuck it, I’m using the mimic tear.”. That’s essentially turning the difficulty down, except in-game and not through a menu.

        • @samus12345
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          23 months ago

          Some of us just really suck at their games. None of that made it easy enough for me to enjoy Elden Ring, but a trainer did.

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            23 months ago

            Okay? Some games even with the difficulty set to minimum are too much for people. I’m glad you found a way to have fun (unless you went into multiplayer with cheats, in which case shame.)

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              3 months ago

              True, true, but the point is they didn’t try and will never even entertain the notion.

              As for cheating, I never cheat online if there’s any kind of competitiveness involved.