I dunno why but Lies of P getting difficulty options makes me really mad

I dunno why but Lies of P getting difficulty options makes me really mad

There are only two people that cry about difficulty options in soulslikes
A) Manchildren that want to be seen as special little boys in their secret club so they can feel motherhecking superior for playing the toy better
B) Casuals that want to pretend that since there are no difficulty levels, their cheesing + guide looking + summoning run was exactly as skilled as the player that didn't do any of that gay shit
It's literally a non-issue. I have never played Lies of P and I never will, but guess what, anyone that used summons in Elden Ring did not beat the same game I did. I was a better gamer. And by the same token, there's nothing wrong with adding a baby mode for people with disabilities or whatever, because who the fuck cares?
I have been consistent on this viewpoint my entire time on Anon Babble and I will remain consistent. You're retards making a big deal out of nothing. I have already read your stupid quarterback designer and slippery slope arguments and I see through them all.

As long as its

very easy

easy

normal

idgaf, just dont call one of the new baby modes normal

People just get mad about it because it was clickbait journalists that were talking about it so now we have to pretend difficulty selection is bad

Just make it so trophies/cheevos are disabled in the easier difficulties

I got all chievos before the patch, so I really don't give a fuck.
Now imagine if you know anything about the genre, you are in Dark Souls 2 threads, and see morons who claim it's the easiest game in the series but then cry about enemy ganks and fog walls. You'd realise that most of those people suck ass.

its not about "me better me play harder setting durrr" its about the complete removal of a balanced and carefully curated experience at the expense of complainers who don't like the game anyways.
you might say that Normal is the substitute for what would've been if there was one difficulty, but devs are notorious for either making it way too easy or hard with no in between. most difficulty options are customised via % increases and decreases which are low effort and garbage ways to tailor an experience.
Elden ring doesn't count since summons and spirits are opt-in rather than forced. You still have the one single intended experience, just with an extra bone for those who need it.

Ok, so let's assume Elden Ring 2 has a normal mode and an easy mode that is the same as normal mode but enemies hit 25% as hard and have 40% as much health. Just those two modes. Why would anyone bitch about this?

same

dei=deia=a=accessibility=woke
pushed by microsoft.
you cant publish your game on xbox, much less gamepass, if you dont abide their woke standards. ever notice how gamepass catalog is 101% calarts woke shit?
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/accessibility/xbox-accessibility-guidelines/108
developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/resources/productinclusion/product-inclusion-actions/help-customers-feel-seen/

Damn, I was almost posting in a thread that wasn't culturewarslop. Thanks for rectifying this problem.

you guys glazed this game so hard and now you hate it for the dumbest reason
sad

Shit game.

I still like it. I get the urge to replay it often when I get annoyed at a different game.

Game‘s great. Difficulty settings just don’t work for souls games, though.

i was a day 1 hater

Any game I've played that has dificulty options only really has two options.

piss baby

and

holy fuck that's bullshit

Souls games at least from from are balanced for the most part.

Why do Koreans create good games and then shove dogshit ideas like ntr or a difficulty slider?

You're a day 1 bitch

Play his game.

Imagine caring about skills in a single player game lmao

Either you play multiplayer shit like counterstrike and assfaggots or you're not competing shit

I would agree but the forced parry system in P is fucking atrocious. If they got rid of it or tunned it better then it would be a great game.

You don't need to parry at all, there's so much broken stuff you can do without relying on that

I dislike difficulty options in general. It muddles the shared experience of playing a game. I like a lot of easy games but not every game needs to be accessible to everyone and if you want to make it so it's way better to just give players the tools to make their run easier. Grind options. Crutches. Handicaps.

So what do you do if you're standing next to the boss and he does that red attack?

think about gook ntr porn

I have never seen this opinion expressed on Anon Babble except in the last few days in relation to this game

because you can't design a good game if you have difficulty options

If I could I would probably play EVERY souls game on easy mode. Until Elden Ring I would say no, when the next game has the same balancing as Elden Ring I am going easy mode.

hurr durr here are 55 move sets please learn

do not forget about le input reading and random revenge attacks

floating in the air because it waits so you can‘t anymore

hit boss 2% damage

Yeah no. I tried to beat the dlc without ashes, it was incredibly annoying as shit. Once I pulled the slime out I finished it pretty easy, except radahn. And even then the whole ending was „shota falling in love with big muscle faggot“. Easily the worst dlc.

Why are you standing next to him in that moment

Try don't do that

Nobody gives a shit about the lies of penis

to deal damage to him

he does the red attack randomly

Because it undermines gatekeeping
And I think I don't have to point out why gatekeeping is important

This is like trying to walk out of your house like people do every day but tripping down the stairs on nothing and breaking both your wrists. I don't know what to say, it's not a matter of advice.

Mogged by CHADzan

Retarded journalists have made it the norm that every new game needs to be completed in a few hours on the hardest difficulty or it's ableism, which is the complete opposite of how games used to be like donkey kong

The number 1 mod for Lies of P is easy difficulty. The same for Elden ring and other souls games. Sometimes people just want a game to be easier and there's nothing wrong with that.

I will beat it now, I have never played a soulslike before and the difficulty curve with checkpoints being rare made me not want to learn the parry and dodge combat

Sounds pretty based ngl. Finally souls-slop clones stop riding Babazaki's dick and think for themselves.
Just add a fucking achievement for the last difficulty and that's it

There's nothing wrong with it, just don't pretend like your opinion on gameplay means as much.

Just add a fucking achievement for the last difficulty and that's it

Nah. Add an on-screen watermark so journos playing on easy mode are instantly outed.

Lies of P already had multiple "you didn't beat the game" patches anyways, people were too casual for 1.00 Laxasia.

Nobody wants to play as generic shirtless man

The game already gives you like 3 different things for easy mode, this weapon, summons and throwable items.

That's because you are a limp wristed faggot.

Clearly you don't either when you play normalfag games.

also if you miss this weapon get the scythe its basically just as broken and has even more reach

what would they dumb down the next entry? Since the dev has already knelt down to the sharesholders

I think it just fucks up the balancing. Most games with difficulty sliders are piss easy on the lower difficulties and only a challenge on the hardest because they make everything tankier.
Games with one option for difficulty don't have this problem because the devs don't have to factor in exactly how to make each difficulty, which is why games like Dark Souls and Lies of P benefit from having only one option.

Most games with difficulty sliders are piss easy on the lower difficulties

How would you know? You filthy casual

*kisses you with big wet lips*
you know it baby

They are clearly rigging the game to give themselves data that can justify making easy games in the future.

The difficulty names are:

Butterflies Guidance

Awakemed Puppet

Legendary Stalker

if you bought game and were presented with these options, which would you pick for first playthrough? Probably not the first one, unless you deliberately wanted easy mode. And probably not the 3rd one, because difficulties named “legendary” are usually fucking awful, especially for first playthrough. It sounds like meme tier macocist difficulty.

So you naturally pick the middle option. Which one would assume is “normal”. But it’s not. It’s easy mode. It isn’t easy, medium, hard. It’s very easy, easy, normal. In order to play game as intended (and as anyone who played it from launch until now played it) you have to select “Legendary Stalker”. Which nearly zero people will do if they don’t have outside knowledge.

Then BAM we have player data that says that 90% of new players (as opposed to returning players) picked Very Easy or Easy. Therefore that is the audience we cater to for future releases.

Because these companies see player drop off and assume 100% of people who quit game did so because it was too hard. They cannot fathom player quitting just because they didn’t like game, or any other reason.

This is why Lords of the Fallen patched out an entire boss fight. They straight up removed the fight vs Lightreper in tutorial where you are supposed to die. Because they assumed the massive player drop off after tutorial was anger at a scripted death. But I highly doubt many people quit because of that. They quit because game is just kinda shit. But by trying to appeal to these imaginary people who quit game due to a one-time scripted death, they removed introduction of games antagonist (he know appears later and acts like he knows you, despite having never appeared before) and also removed cutscene intruding the most important story NPC.

This is why Lords of the Fallen patched out an entire boss fight. They straight up removed the fight vs Lightreper in tutorial where you are supposed to die. Because they assumed the massive player drop off after tutorial was anger at a scripted death. But I highly doubt many people quit because of that. They quit because game is just kinda shit. But by trying to appeal to these imaginary people who quit game due to a one-time scripted death, they removed introduction of games antagonist (he know appears later and acts like he knows you, despite having never appeared before) and also removed cutscene intruding the most important story NPC.

The Lords of the Fallen CEO is a retarded that is angling for chud boosts. The Lies of P developers are based. I'm not worried.