Was in a comment section about designing games to respect the player’s time and mentioned I never finished Hollow Knight because it makes you fight the final boss again each time you want to give the secret boss another shot.
Someone jumped in literally telling me “GET GOOD” and when I told them there were other things I’d rather be doing, they followed up with “so don’t get hard games just to complain about.” They never responded when I asked them how I was supposed to know exactly how hard everything in the game would be before I ever played it.
Every fucking time. I swear I can set my watch by it. The Dark Souls series has earned my undying enmity for what it has done to gaming discourse.
i do personally think people should give the “real” version a fair shot, games are made with purpose to evoke certain emotions and i as the author feel good when that connects (and also yeah, you might discover something new you like)
but also i’m not your boss, i’m the author and you’re welcome to kill me and spend your time as you like, if i added difficulty settings i did it in particular ways and with intent to preserve the “real” experience as much as possible, fuckin go for it