Why Doom: the Woke Ages removed "I'm too young to die"

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You can't be hecking toxic and taunt the player to get better

pick easy difficulty in Viewtiful Joe

hear young kids laughing

nu Doom ends at Doom (2016).

buy Viewtiful Joe at the store

hear young kids laughing

You Will Be Coddled.

t. shitter

so what's it called in-game now

Stating a difficulty setting is the intended experience is bad

That's actually retarded, that's a very useful information

"Aspiring Slayer". The other difficulty levels retain their same names.

Pussies

Why are people so soft now?

Yeah. I remember years ago the bloggers crying salty tears about how the Very Easy difficulty setting was named like "Don't Hurt Me Daddy"
Giving players a lot of sliders and adjustable parameters to up or down the challenge is great, of course. But it just really set them off when the easiest preset difficulty called shitters out on being shitters.

pick easy mode

final boss is literally unbeatable

Based zun

We need more of this.

Absolute faggot

Little bitch

Journalist

None of this is new tho, I realized that in Dragon Age Origin.
There is no achievement in the game for completing the game in the highest difficulty, which I found odd because there is other "difficulty based" achievement such as not being KOed for x amount of time during the playthrough.
When I looked into it I found devs saying that they didn't want to make the players feel like they need to finish the game in that difficulty.
I'm sure that this shit started before that, I just realized it at that moment.

My feelings are getting hurt if a line of text in video games describes developers' intention in a humorous way

These guys probably need to solve the problems within themselves before it's too late.

I'm so fucking tired of crybabies who cannot handle it when anyone points out reality to them.
They get their fucking vidya journalism mode where they only have to click a button to proceed already, but not even that is enough, they also have to be told that it is completely fine to use this mode and you are in no way allowed to remotely imply that maybe this is not the intended difficulty the game is supposed to be played at.

What happens if game developers don't follow this guidelines?

they will give you user-aligned scores

wow that's mad gay

Children are spoiled, they have everything they want at their fingertips and their enslaved parents are keeing them from experiencing any sort of risk, hardship or even distress. They can only grow pathologically weak and fragile.

kek

we'll just take away something that's been a unique and famous part of Doom since the beginning to maybe marginally increase outcomes

The aggregate of all these little changes essentially means creative consolidation. These people are basically totalitarians, but they have everyone by the balls because if you disagree, you're a prejudicial bully who's overreacting

the easiest mode in my favorite game is called GIRLIE and it actually makes the game slightly harder by not actually giving you enough laps to make it to the lead. by contrast the hardest mode is DEATH in which every race is 20+ laps and every ai driver is actively trying to kill you

Fatal racing

Damn, this takes me back. This was fucking awesome.

Soulless and no fun allowed.

It's all so tiresome.

if game has "difficulty settings" none of the devs gave a fuck. Single difficulty only and no other way around it

Giving players a lot of sliders and adjustable parameters to up or down the challenge is great

No, it's the developers fundamentally giving up on any semblance of balance and offloading their lack of design sense onto the player.
Lazy devs just increasing HP and damage got tired of being called out for it so they just decided not to even bother anymore.

Aspiring Slayer

Is that a Columbine reference

devs have to actively hide which mode the game is actually balanced for

this is insane

Difficulty settings should be handled like DMC and Ninja gaiden and the like handle it.
An extension of the game. With new enemies, new encounters and mixed puzzles.
Not just the same game with some sliders adjusted.

But devs don't give a shit about replayability.

You absolutely deserve to be insulted if you play on gaming journalist mode. I hate this pussy shit. Treating players like actual children who cant take a bit of banter is way more insulting than calling easy mode 'baby mode'.

LAND OF THE FREE BAYBEEE

PS3 graphics

Parryshit

Need top of the line GPU for the game to work

No challenge

Worst enemy design ever

Slow Motion shit

Mobile game UI

No Mick Gordon

is this the worst game of all time?

This shit is so fucking gay. These people claim to understand Doom and respect Doom's legacy, and then they turn around and undermine everything that makes Doom unique and cool. Everything has to be homogenized, simplified, and neutered so not even one person could be dissuaded from buying it.

That's the case for a lot of games these days. These big companies try to please everyone. But in the process the games lose their soul and identity.

because everyone's a pussy now and they want to cater to everyone
end of story

Remember how they gave you the option to not have to see the funny insulting text when you try to quit the game in Doom and Quake?
These people have no spine.

Naming or describing the difficulty levels in a way that demeans players (such as, "Baby mode").

"I'm too young to die" doesn't even do this, most people who say that line in movies are adults. It implies nothing about the user's age or ability, the sole thing it communicates is that (you) are afraid of dying in the game. That's it.

so not even one person could be dissuaded from buying it.

This is also what I don't get. Supposedly the game content is made to appeal to the largest audience available, then to make it run smoothly you need a top of the line PC, i.e. something only the 5% of people have.
I guess PC players aren't really accounted for.

HOME OF THE BRAVE

It's a console game through and through. They don't even let you change the menu key binds so menus on keyboard are a total mess.

Sounds just as stupid as the British Columbia new grading description system.
This kind of coddling will only result in more mediocre results because "everyone is a winner".

AAA devs of games like nu-Doom are definitely aiming for console players now and treat PC like an afterthought, though not as much as a decade and a half ago the sentiment is still there. They mostly just don't bother with actual optimization anymore and throw out these games with disgusting requirements and necessitating memes like raytracing just to force PC players into buying more and more upgrades to be able to run modern stuff despite tech mostly having plateaued in terms of what they actually NEED to make games

...so if you just wing the exams and answer everything wrong, you'll still get the "emerging" grade?

I can see why karens and soys are upset over "this is baby mode for babies"

what the FUCK is the problem with "this is the intended experience we balanced the game around"??

You're free to live anywhere else, but I don't think the rest of the world tolerates faggots like we do here.

don't tell your players what difficulty is a good place to start at so they can avoid having the game be too easy or too difficult for their first playthrough

Brilliant! Next we should remove the default key bindings, in case someone doesn't like using WASD or has a disability where holding down Shift or Ctrl is difficult for them!

You're free to live anywhere else,

What you're doing in your stupid fucking country affects the entire world, numbnuts

You're the faggot, my friend and your never-ending insistence that everybody just shut up and let you ruin every goddamn nice thing that this country had going for it is what earns us the most ridicule from other countries. Cease your pitiful subversion, take that cock out of your mouth, and let's try to keep this country from sliding further into hell.

Guess they still fucking failed then because I have no interest in buying this shit.

Sounds like a euphemism for diverse criminals like Lunchtime rowdies or "rambunctious youths".

Because the "intended experience" difficulty is still too hard for literal retards so they get upset.

Yesterday night a group of "aspiring slayers" mass robbed a Kmart in local andeville heights, more at 11.

"aspiring slayers" could be here he thought.

They're ABCD equivalents. No idea of what F would stand for. Considering it doesn't appear anywhere, it might've been removed entirely so that you can basically not fail.

so they get upset

sure, but WHY?
whats the friction here? A bar intends to sell alcohol but im free to get an alcohol free glass of water, should the bar be banned from advertising alcohol as a selling point of going to the bar?

a game could be intended to be brutally impossible, or intended to be painfully easy. shouldnt cause any personal offence to tell people what was intended by the devs in your own game

i just have no interest in DTDA at all.

teacher keeps drawing these damn squiggly lines on the board and expecting me to know what they are

get an "emerging" grade for ninth grade english because I'm "still learning muh alfabets" or some shit

but WHY?

Because they're narcissists and can't handle the thought that they aren't able to succeed at something, no matter how trivial it is.
Alternatively: because people on their social media feed are talking about it and they need to rush through the game so they can be part of the conversation before moving onto the next FOTM shit.

Imagine buying that g_oyslop and legitimizing the mistreatment you receive from all the AAA sludge by doing so.

Remember when games were made for a moderately sized community, weren't trying to aim for the smallest common demographic and could be mean and edgy like a teen wearing Korn and slipknot t-shirts?

youtu.be/LSgLQzjfj00

dei is to push white women into liking and consuming games and similar media en masse because white male market has been "exhausted" according to the corporate overlords. when you have to appeal to women you have to make things soft and that's where we are now - every game is cute and fluffy even when the themes are grim and brutal

For me it’s stray bullet

100% this. I want to know what the developer intended.

Eternal was the most boring shit imaginable. I've tried to force my way through it multiple times and get can't get any enjoyment out of it. The gameplay loop is insufferably dull.

Choose "Very, Very Easy".

Game asks you to enter in the code on your handicapped parking sticker.

Failure to provide the code, or back out, will cause the game will brick you console.

My mom only let me play on Kids mode because she thought Adults mode had explicit content

My favorite is Liebermode
We should start naming very easy modes after specific people again. Make a platformer and name very easy after Dean Takahashi

Too young to get it, I guess. Who was this Lieber guy?

too young to get it

Don’t you mean aspiring knower, you bigot?

Joe Lieberman, US politician who spearheaded the congressional hearings about video game violence in the 90s

Lurk eight more years.

Ah, I only really knew about Jack Thompson and his crusade against GTA

game reviewer mode (it opens a youtube link containing the cinematics)

e-girl mode (easy)

reddit mode (normal)

I CAN'T BREATHE (hard)

raised by a single mom (nightmare)

ha you're a baby for playing very easy *wink*

for able bodied people this does not clear the barrier of offensive, getting picked at for your choice to play on the wimpy difficulty falls within the bounds of politically acceptable humor . any insinuation that the very easy difficulty terminology is somehow degrading to a core group like women would be trivially deflected.

many of our female streaming partners have shown of at the game at the highest level of challenge we offer

the context where it could be construed as offensive is a ridiculously small statistical edge case of disabled people who are capable enough to navigate videogames just with greatly reduced challenge. reducing any bit of cheeky gamemanship in an entertainment product to that standard is stupid. a better solution if they must would be a one time prompt asking if you'd like enhanced accessibility features. in that case the game could swap out the low difficulty bming.

If I ever make a game that has difficulty settings im going to set the default to max being very hard with a parentheses that says (dev intended) next to it and they'll lower all the way down journalist mode, where the game essentially plays itself

Realistically, calling the difficulty setting Easy/Normal/Hard is demeaning, there's no naming convention that isn't, thus the whole point is moot.

CT

Figures.

We all hate on woke shit like gay black disabled characters and but this is really what killed gaming

Game difficulty has no significant changes in design and hard is just higher numbers

Normal.

Game has intended difficulty level that the experience was explicitly crafted around

True.

Game changes its mechanics to increase difficulty

Hardest available.

Game has permadeath option with quickly acquired items or skills being lost

Permadeath.

Game has permadeath option while also encouraging 100+ hour playthroughs with large quantities of hard to obtain skills, items, or equipment being lost

Non-permadeath.

It all depends on what the game has to offer in a difficulty mode. I don't mind spending time learning mechanics or even getting my ass kicked. But if the game wants to aggressively waste my time, I'm not bothering with higher difficulties.

looks like diarrhea vomit

Wait, they're even whining about saying "This is the intended experience"? That's way too thin skinned.

And that's way more interesting than worrying about them changing I'm Too Young To Die.

crusade against GTA

it was a crusade against everything video games

I'm Too Young To Die now reunites with his brother, Hey Not Too Rough. May he rest in peace.

We should just surgically remove everyone's brains and tongues so no one can ever say, do, or think anything offensive again.

Not offending anyone is more important than free will.

i am hurt plenty

Or just nuke california, problem solved.

No, we have to wrap up the entire world in bubble wrap and cotton wool! Safety over freedom! It's for your own good, just trust us! You're too stupid to know what's best for you! Surrender your free will to the almighty nanny state! Just trust us! TRUST US!

Why do leftoids hate self improvement?
Also bullying is a good thing to motivate you, they just make hugboxes and censorship, and feed people's delusions.

Everyone must be equally mediocre. No one can be allowed to excel, or be superior to the Party. All threats to the Party's control must be eliminated! MUST HAVE CONTROL! MUST CONTROL EVERYTHING! CONTROL! CONTROOOOOOL!

I noticed that too and immediately knew it was a woke thing. How did we get here from pic related and "Earth is the melting pot of the universe"? It's not like these DEI consulting companies weren't just as if not more prominent back when Eternal released.

Can somebody please explain what in the fuck is offe sove about "I'm too young to die"

there is no healthy non elderly person that needs to play games modern games on easy. normal difficulty in modern games has been optimized to measure the most basic hand eye coordination and learning skills, it's a glorified coloring book. easy mode is just a sandbox mode that removes any pretense of it being a structured activity you need to pay attention to. any woman that is interested in a game enough to bother playing it is capable of completing normal difficulty if they are able to ride a bike or thread a needle. actually restrictive difficulty as the default in generic mainstream games started to die out in the 5th gen.

the game clearly isn't made for me and therefore I won't buy it and won't discuss it
simple as

doom

at all complex

Why are you pretending it had anything to be dumbed down in the first place? ID took a dead IP and made 3 unique FPS frameworks out of it. Each one offers something different.
Are you stupid?

pick easy mode

don't get the true ending

NES and SNES games did it right

Doom: the Woke Ages removed "I'm too young to die"

id confirmed pro-Israel

Probably for the same reason KC:D2 was infected while KC:D1 wasn't: someone saw the success of the first one and realized they had to something about it

what is disparaging about the phrase "too young to die"
even elderly people can say it. it doesn't mean that you are a literal baby, it means that you would prefer to die at a later point

do these niggers speak English?

no they speak gay

they see the word young and start thinking about kids
involuntary pedo response

Wasn't there a game that unironically made the easy difficulty called 'journalist' and there's a lot of screeching from the journos for it?

This is what you get for shitting on the only major non-woke gaming company out there (Nintendo) for BS reasons (waaaah, they are going after pirates, waaaah) while promoting western slop.

but N truly embraced that shit too they dont even allow ecchi shit anymore and censor as much as snoystation does on the VNs that do somehow manage to release. also compare links awakening to echoes of wisdom. the former is all white and the second is mostly black. they are rotting kids just like anyone else.

Oh, look, another non-issue for chuds and grifters to get angry about.

t. aspiring slayer

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How long until they outlaw "Normal" because it sounds offensive to faggots?

This is the way.

"why are people so soft now?" says the manchild crying on alt-reddit about how the difficulty name was changed to make it "woke"

no u argument

appeal to triviality

you cant complain that we complained because thats complaining!

why are you like this?

wah wah wah

you used the fallacy I made up because too many people said I should stop crying!

Lol

too young to die > die young > dead kids > bad

It's the walking-on-eggshells philosophy at work again

no one is too young to die
Israel has a right to defend itself

She never even played Eternal lol

Why do devs listen to this council of Karens?
Is it a funding thing?

Basedby, woke is what you came for
Good games by SJWs
And everyone is playing them
Cause they’re the games for you

why yes, I am proud of my shit taste

Yes. They want the jewbucks

based arcade gamer

Not everything is a woke conspiracy idiots. They probably changed it for clarity. "I'm too young to die" doesn't really tell you anything. You could make a claim that Aspiring Slayer is equally "problematic" because it implies you aren't yet on the level of the Slayer.

It was, but then they did it for so long that when the money dried up they now do it voluntarily

I'm too young to die" doesn't really tell you anything

none of them do you retard. does Nightmare actually tell you more info about what the experience is, or is it just an evocative word to imply a level of danger?

insane place for you to draw your arbitrary line

Oh boy another useless ""controversy"" about bullshit that some grifter retard can claim is ""woke""
Does anyone else have anti-woke fatigue?

but N truly embraced that shit too

cast of all white characters

Sure thing, retard.

they dont even allow ecchi shit anymore

Nothing to do with wokism. They have always been family friendly. Cope coomer.

they are rotting kids just like anyone else.

Bold-faced lie.

its a conspiracy that its made to appeal to the largest nonexistent bubble, that every game mechanic has been dumbed down and casualized when the earlier games were already hyper casual point and click shooters

it is impossible for a consultancy group to have forced this idiotic change!!! it its definitely not part of microsoft's woke push!!!

Mainstream games can't have souls anymore, because companies have departments full of women directing their maternal instinct towards consumers instead of children who don't exist, or when they do, are just aborted fetuses that they keep in a jar of olives.

if lolcowlizers shat on your game and changed (((problematic))) words its safe to say its woke if you didn't undo their shittening

and that's how you kill video games

I have the same level of fatigue of you throwing a tantrum instead of hiding threads that make you grumpy.

nigga heil hitler

Yep, and letting women into the industry was the beginning of the end which lead to diversity hires, trannies and faggots not long after as a result.

Wait, you can't even say one difficulty is the intended one?

If i was a dev i would go through these faggots website and do the opposite of everything they say to do. You would probably come out with a good game.

NTA, but youre a retard and are now promptly butthurt over being called out.
Your attempt to cope and evade is pathetic.

Frieren is so fucking perfect. I want to watch her getting railed roughly by a hung gigachad.

initiatve

who initiated this? a woman?

You'd likely also get a visit from three-letter men with guns.

im not an exec but my brother in law is
the truth is theyre just out of touch, theres too many layers between them, and you. They dont know about you, and your thoughts. They have a team whos job it is to work that out and make money for them. They unironically think they HAVE to DEI or they will die in the long run due to cancellations and a "changing world"

That team was compromised by karens, the women who took those quiet desk jockey jobs. They got into HR, they hired other karens, - all white women, DEI is a myth. Minorities arent being hired more, other white women are.
They lie, a game, a show, a movie flops... they lie. they convince the exec not to worry, stay the course.

blackrock funding dried up, but its too late, these people literally dont know what YOU are saying, and the karens have a monopoly on information that reaches them, and who gets hired.
Unironically.

How to fix this? you need to become HR, become the in between and push out those women. but you cant, they wont hire you. They took over the system from the inside out.

Its over.

three-letter men with guns

Or cow dungs

Sounds like a larp but I'm dead serious, I've been to game conferences before and chatted 1-on-1 with CEO's of studios big and small. Every single one of them told me they don't have anything to do with the creation process and straight up admitted they had no idea what game their studio was making. Also worth noting all of them mentioned a desire to go back to their glory days of making games in teeny tiny teams for fun and mentioned not enjoying their role because of the detachment to game development (as CEO is more business oriented).
So if you have HR playing middle man between developers and sign offs, it's not wonder they inject whatever shit they want with a few white lies.

Eternal was the most boring shit imaginable. I've tried to force my way through it multiple times and get can't get any enjoyment out of it. The gameplay loop is insufferably dull.

The boomers who still cling to Doom aren't "too young to die".

Why does this poo still have the haircut of a twelve year old from 2002?

Activist faggots purposefully conflating "difficulty options" with "disability settings" is such a retarded and insidious trend.

I have woke fatigue, i have anti-woke fatigue and i have anti-anti-woke fatigue, why can't trannies and jews rope 41% faster?

It only highlights that they are the very evil they speak off. They are the ones who think people with disabilities are less capable.
Same with racism and DEI. Just shows that the people pushing for this BS are the most racist PoS.

So now game balancing is some explicitly not the devs job? All games are now supposed to have freely altereable any aspect of difficulty, and the dev isn't even supposed to say which is most inline with his vision?

I pay for product I want, not some faggot who follows guidelines made by some fat Karen

If SJW faggots had it their way, yes. In their ideal world, every single difficulty variable would be a granular setting managed by the player.

From Microsoft's own accessibility guidelines:

Include multiple levels of difficulty presets (ideally four or more, covering a wide range of values to ensure that players with a wide array of gaming experiences and ability levels can choose a difficulty mode that provides the level of challenge that they want).

Provide players with the option to change difficulty at any time without losing game progress, regardless of whether they have already started the game.

Provide players the ability to regularly save game progress. Ideally, both manual and auto-save options should be provided so that players can continue after failure without significant loss of progress.

Provide the ability for players to discretely adjust the difficulty of different mechanics. This can either be though explicit difficulty settings (like Puzzle Difficulty and Combat Difficulty) or through a set of assists (like Brake Assist and Auto-Aim).

Provide an ultra-low difficulty mode for the game that enables a wide range of players to progress through the narrative.

Consider providing a mode for players to complete the entire game by using a greatly reduced control scheme. This is important for players with especially severe disabilities or those who simply want to experience the game's narrative.

Ensure that the language used to describe the difficulty presets is descriptive and doesn't denigrate the player (for example, "Wimp Mode").

Single player, local multiplayer, and local split-screen games should be pausable at any time (excluding saving/loading screens). Both active game play as well as cinematics (intros, video cutscenes, scripted cutscenes) should be able to be paused at any time.

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/accessibility/xbox-accessibility-guidelines/108

The “difficulty” of a game is a subjective construct. The level of difficulty that a player experiences isn't defined by the game. The level arises from the balance between the player's abilities and the barriers that the game presents. A fixed set of barriers in a game results in different players experiencing different levels of difficulty—what’s too easy for one player is enjoyably challenging for another player. However, the same game might be too hard for another player. It's important to remember that different aspects of games can provide different types of challenges for players. For example, a game that's rated “difficult” might introduce game mechanics that are challenging for a player with a certain type of disability. However, younger players, casual gamers, or those who are new to gaming might also need to use a lower difficulty setting. Some players purchase games for the sole purpose of appreciating the art or story line. These players, regardless of skill level, might set their difficulty to “easy” or “story mode” to enjoy the game for its art or story line.

Overall, the key goal to keep in mind is ensuring that players have a way to enjoy the game in its entirety by providing options to lessen the difficulty of game experiences that might block a player from progressing. An inability to get past certain levels, game events, or game mechanisms blocks the player from enjoying the remainder of the story line and other content that they set out to enjoy. Games without configurable difficulty modes might block a player from the game altogether.

It truly indicates that they have completely given up on honoring what Doom actually was. If that wasn't obvious from all the gay fucking superhero writing that has taken front seat.

This shit sucks bad. You're not a Doom fan if you like this retarded gay and lame faggotry for children.

the truth is execs are completely retarded and have no idea what they are doing
i'd post that ronnie comic if i had it

I don't think the game is woke, it just looks like shit.

The Zoom games are pure zoomercore, which is why it's ADD shit using color coordination for children and parryslop. Zoomies cannot fathom any adversity, including mean devs hurting their feelings. Bitch generation.

maybe, probably. But many are where they are because theyre smarter than the people around them and earned it, the issue is when youre too big, too busy, to handle it all so you delagate it down to others, but you arent vetting those others and letting them make decisions youre unaware of
hence why its worse for bigger companies.

"This is the intended experience" is useful knowledge though.

there is no more "intended experience", they just threw in a bunch of "modes" that just increase numbers with no other change and gave you a trillion sliders so you have to adjust the difficulty yourself because they spent no actual time doing so.