Accessibility Means GET GOOD SCRUB
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
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I watch Whang videos all the time while eating, and generally don't have a problem, but goddammit, this is two of your videos in a row I watched while eating, and I *_CANNOT_* eat while that f'ing "deer girl" is up there. I literally find rotting foetuses more tolerable to stomach, wtf??
Games journos are leeches. Jim Sterling probably wanted to claim that ad revenue to make up for taking in nothing from OnlyFans
@@TenebraeXVII wait Jimmiya Stephanie Sterlingtana started OnlyFans? What the hell? 😂
Can't they just cheat in the game it seems like the best solution to me.
"I don't have time to be good at games, I'm an adult with responsibilities!"
- Woman, yelling into her phone for TikTok.
Mashes X to doubt
I have some female colleagues that use tiktotk then wonder why everyone treats then like children and never takes them seriously.
@@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32 It's especially bad when they're practically obsessed with it. Had a gf really into it. Nearly every day she would do some dumb shit just to put it on tiktok. Immediately put a stop to that shit, cause I know half the girls like that end up as basically tiktok strippers because they're that desperate for attention.
@@Winasaurus Social media in general is a bad influence (especially for women) but Tiktok takes the cake. Hell, I even caught my GF going down that e-thot road before I told her to cut that shit out or find a new boyfriend lol
Notice how she says "car" not house payment
"I'm a big kid with big kid responsibilities like car payments." That's something a sixteen year old would say to sound adult to their fifteen year old friends.
Pretty much. If you want to sound like an adult then talk about how you slept a little differently than normal and now your arm hurts all day. Or how you got fastfood for lunch and now your glued to the toilet because your intestines are mad at you. Thats the real adult experience.
Pretty sure she was going for the "frustrated school teacher talking to small children" angle, which is a pretty common thing with progs.
@@rwberger6 lol damn burh, that's funny...cause it's true and relatable.
@@DudeTheMighty I'm sure she knows all about talking to children. Especially when parents aren't around.
It's one of those, "Yeah lady, so does everyone else."
I was once at a convention that had a Disability Gamers booth. They had an event called “beat the blind guy” where you had to try to beat a legally blind guy at Killer Instinct. I tell ya, he hustled the HELL out of some of those professional players. He was able to tell what was going on, solely based on the sounds the game made. He wiped the floor with almost everyone! THAT is accessibility. Not some bullshit “easy button.”
I wouldn't necessarily say that's accessibility so much as a sign of a madman. 😄
Or...OR....he wasn't actually blind and you all got hustled by a carny style scam....
@@TheScience69 relax bonehead, not everything is tv. Someone would’ve already exposed him by now. Everyone has a phone. The only scams that work now are online ones.
@@MerlinTheCommenter 1the only scams that work now are on the Internet because that's where YOU read about them.
Wow. Why is it always the prick calling people things like bonehead that imediately show themselves to be the dumbest in the room...
based blind guy
"... then you're not telling a good story."
That... is not the only purpose of video games?
The story is one of the ways how the player's skill and/or endurance is rewarded.
"Telling a good story"
As if Super Mario World, Metroid, Castlevania, side-scrolling platformers in general etc. Were ALL ABOUT THE STORY
If you are playing video games for their stories you seriously need to start reading actual books
@@punishedbrak4255 Chess, Jenga, Poker, Yu-Gi-Oh, For Honor, Street Fighter, Super Smash Brothers, Among Us, Starcraft.... Hipsters are fucking pathetic. Who here has played Lost Odyssey? Oh my god what a beautiful, artistic game... if only ANYONE COULD BE BOTHERED TO SLOG THROUGH THE GOD AWFUL GAMEPLAY.
@@bigduke5902 Tried playing Star Wars The Old Republic because I heard it had good stories. The gameplay was so easy I got bored out of my mind. Went to the bookstore and picked up a Star Wars book.
Games can only benefit from having a good story. But if the gameplay isn't good, there are a lot of great stories that don't drip feed me the story between bouts of shitty gameplay.
I like to read. I don't like romance novels.
Why in the world would I knowingly go out of my way to buy a romance novel and then complain that the novel isn't something that it's not?
That's the level of derp we're on.
Better anology would be that a great book in the romance genre came out & because the book cover, font & pictures make you cringe so hard you want the audio version.
@@angrybellsprout I didn't put much thought into it.
Had considered comparing it them whining that Dostoyevsky isn't written at a level kindergarteners can understand.
@@iceprincess2134 Basically what it is. "I like reading, but I don't have the time to study what all these long words mean, writers should make it more accessible."
@@Winasaurus So like... translations. If you're not reading Dostoyevsky in Russian, maybe his writing isn't for you.
@@someguycalledcerberus9805 long words actually condense incredibly complex topics to save page space. Get gud scrub.
*Leftists* - "Diversity is strength!"
*Also Leftists* - "Everything must be the same and not require any effort!"
If it’s not homogeneous it’s not diverse.
progs only like diversity of race. not divesity of thought, or skill.
You found the twist: "Diversity" = Homogeneity.
@@ProjectADAMAndroid because of inherent jealousy of others' skills
It never fails to disappoint me to be reminded how far Jim has fallen, went from "you don't have a right to demand studios tell your story" to "if studios don't agree their games are political ill cry for 3 years"
I haven't really kept up with him the past 4/5 years. I felt he was losing his touch. Sounds like he never got it back. I haven't actually really heard anything from him in the time since I unsubbed. Does look like he lost some weight though. That's good to see.
@@MrSpartanspud Jim goes by “they”, actually. And if you misgender them, you’re a bigot apparently
"Guardian Spice is for the chromosomally deficient who think Steven Universe and Bojack Horseman we're actually good shows"
-Dev, 2021
But I love Bojack Horseman.
Bijack wasn't the second coming or anything but it could be humorous at times and there were some interesting story elements.
Bojack character drama is good, but whenever it tries to get polical it is cringe. The author tries to insert real world social-economical dynamics into a universe with flying bird people.
@@Noperare The animation was also lazy tweeny garbage.
Based
>I don't want a challenge I want a cool interactive story
so play those. Not everything should be for everyone.
I said that under a different comment. They make games exclusively for that. Play those and leave the rest of us alone. Unfortunately people like this believe it's discrimination if they aren't able to do everything. They don't understand that discrimination is not being allowed to purchase the game in the first place.
Hell, I could recommend her a whole library's worth of visual novels. She'd probably reject 90% of them based on them being "anime games" alone.
You’re missing the point. Dev even mentioned this in the video, these people see that a game is trending on some social media and can’t stand to be outside of the memes or, well, the trending topic at hand. But because they’re usually just playing games because it’s something popular nowadays, they don’t really want to put the time in to actually master the game, they just want to be in with the trending topic, to be in with the memes and jokes. Hell even though some of them will make fun of people who take pride in gaming accomplishments, they’ll do the same usually tweeting about how they managed to beat some boss or something. I think that’s what bothers them the most, not being able to be say that they, for example, beat a Dark Souls game and so on.
@@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves same, I prefer visual novels or logic puzzle games over the types that require quick reactions and hours of practice. There's nothing wrong with that until you start complaining about another person's ability to be good at something you're not. Get good or get out.
“I want a cool interactive story”
Choose your own adventure books are more their style.
Part of becoming an adult is - finding your limitations and trying to overcome them.
OR accepting them and taking responsibility like those with addictions.
You're asking q bunch of grown children to work for their gratification, good luck
Eh, don't have enough time or drive to get good at some things being ok is good enough.
Indeed. I know my limitations. That's why I play on easy mode with auto aim set to max, and when a game doesn't have those things, I don't whine about it like a grown manchild, I vote with my wallet
People who actually somehow enjoy things like bullet hell games should be welcome to them imo, and Kotaku journalists should stop complaining about the tutorial being too difficult xD
They're not adults.
“If you blame everything and everyone for your own problems you’ll never improve as a person.”
-Jordan Peterson
*Jordan Dripperson
Now if only he'd do that himself.
You've got to love how their main argument for adding easy modes is so that "everyone can enjoy the story" and their default game used as an example of one that "needs an easy mode" is always Dark Souls... A game series where the story is hidden and that you actively have to go out of your way to find inside of item descriptions which you then need to figure out how all these random bits of info each item desc feeds you fit together.
"Voice chat leads to abuse" immediately followed by "nobody wants to take away your voice chat." Sure, Jan.
I detest their word sorcery with every fiber of my being.
Gee what does that remind me of... "Nobody wants to take away your guns"
I remember watching a recording of a talk from one of the largest gamedev conventions in the world where dude was fucking salivating over the idea of turning chat off by default (text too) and even removing all comm options altogether lol
So many PC games have cut VOIP features for this crap. No VOIP in Soul Cal 6, for example. No text chat in RDR2 for fear of "toxic lobbies."
@@BlazingOwnager most RDR2 issues are caused by it being a really lazy port from consoles they genuinely don't care about
Sterling used to be a character, a purposely exaggerated obnoxious caricature of himself.
Now he’s turned into the joke he was pretending to be.
If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
I used to like Jim. Now he is a “woman” and has lost his mind.
Jim Sterling has been a complete joke for years now.
He became the mask.
@@Snakedude4life
“No one cares who I was before I put in the mask” - Jim (probably)
I love all the 'tough girl' attitudes "Stop right there buster" "I will suplex you out of chat" who have Mary Sue-drome. Who honestly haven't be out enough in the real world to realize having a battleship mouth and a rowboat ass will get them smacked upside the head.
That was beautiful.
That is something I would have heard someone say in the military. I will use this at some point.
And GAWD is it GLORIOUS when you see it actually happen to them! Makes me smile every time!
Edit: Battleship mouth with a row boat ass is one of the coolest sayings I have heard in a long time and I'm quite sad I haven't heard it sooner!
@@Hu-WhyteMan my dad used to say that one a lot. Dad knowledge!
@@jasohavents your dad sounds like an awesome man! As a father and old man myself (36 with a 15 year old daughter) he is the type of man I model myself after most likely!
The age-old advice of "Git Gud Scrub" is still very applicable in today's gaming landscape.
And in life
Thank God it is. There's nothing worse than paying $60 for a game that holds your hand and has no memorable challenge ( without being broken of course). Might as well just watch a video about and save some space on your hard drive or your gaming room.
@Iridium Essence Fire Emblem should have had a Game Over On Death mode for quality of life, where ANY character dying means Game Over.
@NorseViking84 if practice was new age these people would have real jobs
@@iridiumessence3571 *you know that its optional, right?* thats like getting mad at a new shop adding new produce without replacing your favorite one.
I think conflating accessibility with difficulty is offensive to those who actually have disabilities
I know disabled personalities who completely agree
If there's one positive message that gdq got right is ahowing disabled speedrunners proving that the only barrier to entry is hardware
It is. But I expect nothing common sense from these idiots.
There is this GIF of a man with cut arms all the way to his elbows, madlad uses a fightstick to combo better than most able-bodied players
@ninjahedgehog5 Expect modern GDQ to ban and memoryhole them for daring to be competent.
There was a time BEFORE GDQ was ideologically captured by these cretins.
Hard agree. Some of the most awesome gaming achievements I've heard of have been blind people either beating a game or actively being a part of a raid group. There's a kid who beat Abes Exoddus because of the tight controls and the well-engineered audio cues (ua-cam.com/video/23JgGAmCGVU/v-deo.html) and there's several articles about a blind kid raiding with his WoW guild with a "guide dog" and audio cues from addons. Hell, we have someone like fucking BrolyLegs being an absolute fighting game GOD.
But no, "easy mode" will fix what disabled people have difficulty with in video games. Pfff. Fuck off.
"Building computers has an accessibility concern"
Yeah, we can't all afford to spend that much money on a hobby
technician in training here. You have no idea, just RAM is pretty expensive. a decent gaming desktop will set someone back 1.5k or more if you're buying motherboard and all. of course there is preassembled stuff but that's just no fun. Why buy a bunch of pretty expensive parts if you're not going to go through the process of putting it together yourself.
@@weston8400 Yeah it's fun if you have a college degree on how to build a PC, for the rest of us chumps we prefer the quick and efficient way by getting pre-built PCs, which is why consoles are so popular due to the accessibility of being able to play a wide selection on titles on one system and all at a good price.
@@adventurouseddie9369 Actually, building itself is easy, since aside from one step, it's literally just plugging and screwing the right bits together.
Design is the hard part, since it requires actual understanding of what those parts really do.
Just when I think Jim Sterling can't get any worse, he acquires a collar obsession.
Yeah as soon as I saw him dressed up as a woman I stop watching. Funny thing is I remember him saying he was straight in one of his old videos and j was getting hated for pointing that out he's gone full woke left wing and that's when most of his fans left him. And he even did a videos about how bigoted we was for leaving him
@@thesecondsilvereich7828 ok late, but i remember him talking about having a boyfriend in a video from about 8 years ago. i remember because it was a quick gameplay review. but for almost half the video instead of talking about the game, he talked about going to a library or restaurant with a boyfriend.
These people also forget that the difficulty can be part of the narrative experience and the message would be lost with an easy mode. A survival horror game for example loses all tension when death is never an option.
Exactly. Actually playing Hades right now, where the story is the grind to crawl out of the Underworld. If any schmuck can beat it on his first go because of an invincibility option or something, there is no story. And of course, more importantly, there isn't even a game.
@@Boss-_ It does have god mode though which incrementally makes it easier the more you die. I tried it out after completing a run, but it wasn't outright handing me wins especially against Charon, by blood and darkness I was not ready for the boatman's oar to smack some humility back into me.
@@Rikika333 Yeah god mode was just a "training wheels" mode which makes it easier for olks to get into it
There's an indie game called "getting over it", and it's this qwop style game where you have to climb a mountain, and the dev narrates the entire thing mocking you every-time you fall off the mountain.
Sure, but if I CHOOSE to lessen my experience by making it easier than why should there not be an option for it?
One of the best examples of a game like this is Pathologic (both 1 and 2) where the fact that it is brutally difficult and honestly just isn't _fun_ is integral to the narrative. On one hand, playing Pathologic on easy would be blasphemy. On the other hand, because it's so punishing I didn't even think of getting the game and just watched a playthrough.
You could very well argue that an easy mode setting (as long as it informs you in big bold letters that "this will lessen the experience!") would have generated more income for the developers (people like me might have bought it) at very little cost (literally as little as a few lines of code, depending on how it is implemented), and would have given more choice for the player.
And of course if we're worried about ruining the experience: if difficulty is part of the experience, watching a let's play already ruins it for the watcher, so why not skip the middle-man, and let us ruin it ourselves in game?
EVERY game needs to come with accessibility options for horrible afflictions and conditions such as:
Colour-blind mode, Amputee options and of course, _THE_ most important, a *_Games Journalist Mode,_* which is just essentially AVGN's Beat a Game Button.
EDIT: OMFG, 4:23 I thought it was just a meme.
You sir, are an internet hero... Please come here and except your crown, metal and coupon for one free small french fry from McDonald's. LOL
Hey, dude
If a game developer put this mode in as a joke it would be awesome...
If I ever make a game I want to do what SoR 3 did where if you play on Easy the game will prematurely end after a specific level telling you to git gud
@@UnluckyFatGuy I'd do it if I'm able to accomplish my future goals.
"I just play for the story."
Plenty of no commentary full playthroughs on UA-cam, get your story there.
And you don't even have to buy the game!
My god, seeing Jim Sterling go from one of the few good video game journalists to whatever this is is just saddening
This is why I liked when Sophia Narwitz said gatekeeping needs to return.. specifically to gatekeep people who say things like this.
Honestly, I would love to welcome new people into communities, but then you get the people who whine and want to change shit that was never a problem to begin with.
@@ThechronocrosserII so we need to gatekeep
I like Narwitz, I cannot stand pronouns that do not align with my reality, but I'd give her the consideration of respecting her preferred reality as she's not a Rainbow Nazi.
@@samueldawkins slowly coming to that realization lmao
We need sheepdogs who relish tearing apart the wolves
The dialogue and cutscenes are available via UA-cam and other sites. If you don't want to play the game why did you buy, if you could watch it on UA-cam.
Indeed, just type "all cutscenes blank game title" and there it is lol smh
Not an option for the whiny streamers though. They have to at least play the game for their audience.
Some streamers do fill time with 'reactions' to other video content, but I don't know if any get away with just sitting their viewers down in front of a vid of SOMEONE ELSE playing games.
Or here's an idea: If they want a _story_ then Read a Fucking Book! Or watch a show! Hell, do an audiobook if they're _that_ lazy, otherwise they can just do like everyone else and Git Gud.
@@overlord7310 That's pretty much it, they're attention seekers, they want to be the center of attention, they don't care about the so called story of the game, they just want an excuse to turn on their stream and be the star of the show.
That's what let's plays are for. You can watch someone else play it then decide if you want to get the game for your self.
Remember when the actual games were making fun of you at the end of the campaign or trolling you for picking easy mode? These were the days.
Crash Bandicoot 1 makes fun of you at the end of any level you did not get every single box in.
I love deadlock
@@that_feech_fellow5878 uhh... based?
@@KnockinOnYourDoor yeah. based.
The big problem I'm realizing that the biggest problem with people these days is nobody wants to self improve or work hard to be great or aspire towards greatness. They wants everything catered to themselves and to be just like them. This is hyper narcissism
They're video games dude.
I'm not opposed to games having a "casual mode", for those who just want the story, but such doesn't suit all games, and shouldn't be mandatory.
If you want the story so badly, watch a "no commentary" let's play online.
I'm not against it either but I wonder how much of the current demand of it has being generated by games becoming easier. If its close to none them really no issue sticking in something easy to set up and would sell more units. If its the opposite then I would certainly be against it as games would lose their ability to present challenge and help people improve cognition and the reward of beating something with challenge.
I do think there is some demand for it or something like that given the rise of popularity of trainers. Though much of that could be explained as ways to get around badly designed games or games that add extra grind just to sell the solution.
Or watch better movies and read actual books.
@@bigduke5902
I don't watch movies, and all my books are about philosophy and religion. I read for a living. I don't want to read for fun
@@alexanderofrhodes9622 maybe try watching movies?
The problem easy modes create is that harder modes dont seem to get consistently well thought out tuning, often being simple number tweaks across the board leading to dull fights where the enemy has way too much health or certain strategies being irrelevant or unaffected. Games can have a more intentional difficulty curve when they have one difficulty setting
"im playing the game to watch the cutscenes and understand the lore" lmao just watch a youtube playthrough then.
Jim Sterling fell off the deep end hard and fast. It's hard to watch.
I'm surprised the resulting tsunami didn't wipe out all life on the nearest continent.
I'm color blind and though I really appreciate games that include color blind toggles, I know I'm in a minority and that probably the devs didn't even realize their color choices were shit for the color blind so if I really like the game I just ask for help from my friends with recognizing whatever it is color is relevant to and that's it. No meltdowns on twitter.
Also, _the game_ most guilty of fucking over the colorblind is also my favorite, which is cuphead. God knows how many times I died to something before realizing it was pink.
If we're going to use the jim sterling "I can't control my own impulses" argument. Then easy modes objectively ruin the experience of people seeking challenging games because they will turn down the difficulty when they get stuck.
Many people admitted to doing so or thought of it. And I love how they will go to dark souls and the likes saying it should have it. Darks souls has it already, co op or you could farm the easiest of enemies for levels and items. Though eventually you'll still have to get good enough to play the game.
I'm a full-time worker, a father, and I'm taking classes. Sometimes I only have time during my days off, and I love games like dark souls and I don't want people like this ruining the game.
I went trough dank souls 2 with a shit build having never invested into health or stamina
I still beat every last boss in it....and I suck
Blue smelter demon can go FUCK itself tho...thought that that co op gauntlet and boss were mandatory. Spent literal weeks trying to beat it
@@slydoorkeeper4783 Dark Souls is ironically easy when you realize EVERYTHING is pattern based so if your memory isn't bad you know that ambush is gonna keep happening and not to run pass it like a dumbass aggroing everything. Yet they do it again and again then blame the game. Some gamers hate accountability, mess up once it's the game. keep messing up in the same way it's you.
@@ExeErdna definitely, I agree that sometimes things are completely my fault and I need to get good. This goes for every game I play. I'll admit, I'm not the greatest gamer and my life hinders it. But I like challenging games, just so long as they remain consistent. I've tried games like League of Legends, I'll have phases where I'm alright, other phases (usually after a month where I got to play it for like 4 hours that month) where it almost feels like a different game because of some changes. And so I stopped playing them. For people that like it, thats their thing, but it isn't mine.
@@commisaryarreck3974 lol, I honestly play dex/stamina dodge or parry. The get good play style, but I've also beaten nearly every boss in that game. Save for like 3 DLC bosses. Blue, Sir Al, and Twin Cats. Maybe 1 or 2 others, but I think that's it.
How is it that the people demanding that games be made to suit their skill level specifically, are accusing people who enjoy difficult games of gatekeeping?
Lack of self-awareness
They don't like that there isn't a special trick that magically makes the game easy. When they look up how to beat a certain boss and find that the only thing you can do is just play better and don't get hit, that frustrates them. Because they're used to whining until someone gives them what they want, in every aspect of life. When that doesn't happen they lash out and get defensive and offended, because that's the one strategy they have left. They're incapable of putting any effort in themselves. They need to just stick to their cutesy indie puzzle games and leave our games alone.
Gatekeeping is when you block the gatekeepers.
Just like how you're transphobic for being upset that Y The Last Man has other men in it now...
@@KopperNeoman It's been canceled so now it has nothing in it.
@@gnerkus dropped on their heads*
the best part of the intro is that despite being a nightmarish trash mob from a horror game, Ricky could still probably whip the ass off most journalists in video games.
It is actually simple: just play games with an easy mode if you need your games to have an easy mode. Don't play the games with no easy mode if you cannot handle it.
Sterling: "I'm *actually* mentally ill, pay attention to me."
Jim sterling? He is a freak nowadays, he is a fucking monster these days
Wasn't he the one who wanted his fans to go after the 5 nights at freddy's guy?
@@77wolfblade I wouldn't be surprised if he was.
@@zugi8755 I stopped watching him months ago cause of how overly political he became
@@shawklan27 same, except for me years ago now, at first he made fun of shit games and talked shit about the games industry, then after a while he never stfu about his hate for capitalism and a bunch of gender shit
I can image Ricky Berwick laughing into all kinds of weird contortions at that "clawed half-man creature" opening
Ricky Berwick plays on hard mode like a chad xD
@@TheSaltedGawd Yeah ricky is a pretty nice guy. I think it's incredibly strange that these seemingly able bodied people never think to actually ask for the opinion of someone with a disability. They'd rather speak for them like they do for every other marginalized group.
@@fastestdino2 concepts over people. They like the ideas and care nothing for the individuals.
Don't forget Brolylegs, he'd kick your ass at his fighting game of choice
Ricky Berwick is a national treasure
The ironic thing is, they could just LEARN TO CODE an easy mode! (cheat engine)
These are legitimately the kinds of scrubs who use cheat engine to make themselves invincible in Soulsborne games and still get destroyed by people like Oroboros or Peeve.
I couldn't get very far in Sekiro either and I *love* Dark/Demons souls. It was difficult in a frustrating way and it crossed a line to where I didn't want to master it. I stopped playing it and moved on with my life.
Other people love Sekiro and find the difficulty perfect, isn't it great that we all have options that fit our own personal tastes?
I've progressed so very little in Sekiro and DS3 but I still come back to them from time to time to get my ass kicked and then close out of the game for another month or so. Good times.
@@TheTGOAC Leveling up is your friend. DS3 isn't that hard of a game. Explore thoroughly and you'll get plenty of souls for leveling.
My friend as a disabled wife she played games until she had a baby, she had some trouble with the dexterity in her hands, any games she had problems with she didn't play. My dad is 73 in November he as played and completed all the Dark Souls games and whilst my entertainment of choice is computer gaming. The problem those entitled millenials and zoomers is they think everything should cater to them, I'm not into hardcore difficulty games but as a normal person I just don't play them, I don't see why my tastes should spoil other peoples fun.
I'm a father, full-time worker and going to class, for these people I'm the paragon of don't have much time to master my skills at games. You know what, I still love dark souls, yeah I'll call bs on some things (mostly do that with DS2). But I don't complain their needs to be an easy mode, I just try to do the best I can. If I can't get it, I'll grind a few levels. If I still can't, I'll look for a guide. If I still can't take a break from it. Sometimes I have single game fatigue and what took me 10 tries before, come back months later may be within first 3. And if I still can't, just accept that isn't a challenge I'm worthy of. I'm not going to ask developers to change their game for people in my situation. I'll either adapt or find something different.
Your dad's fucking epic for beating Dark Souls at 73
yeah, its kinda insulting to me when i hear progs talk about adding an easy mode because "its inclusive" when brolylegs can kick ass in Street fighter only using his face. It just seems patronizing to think that mechanically challenged people can't kick ass.
Also, just remembered the story of the disabled fireman who cleared Genshin's Abyss (aka the game's only rotating endgame content) with his dang mouth. So honestly, video game journos have no johns.
Don’t water it down. It IS insulting. It doesn’t seem unreasonable. It Is.
and if i remember correctly, some top tier dude coudlnt handle losing to a "cripple" and it was a large flame war around it.
Best to use Leftists or Marxists. They gain power if you don't know their true name
Marxians. Neo-Marxists. Hegelians. Neo-Nazis. Feminists.
Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.
~ Mark Twain
Difficulty-gating is a storytelling tool that developers should never be forced to remove.
However, for those who can't pass muster for whatever reason, there is a "pseudo easy mode" option that is a bit more difficult for people to achieve these days but, you could always like, watch someone better than you play? I dont mean watching a lets play, since that ruins the interactivity. I mean literally sitting in the room with Onii-chan or whoever and talking to them.
I think it was NakeyJakey who had a really good video on the feeling of watching someone play that encapsulates it very well. Its different from the feeling of playing it yourself, but it still feels like you interacted with the game. You were still a part of the decision making. I consider it pseudo-easy mode, because your input is the easiest form: talking. But at the same time you can view someone else struggling at the parts that were meant to be hard, and the storytelling effects of difficulty-gating are still felt.
I'm partially paralyzed on my left side. the MMO mouse with 12 side buttons has made pc gaming possible for me.
But part of being disabled is knowing that you won't be able to enjoy some things that normal people can.
This can be disappointing at times. It would be far more disappointing to attempt to accommodate everything for everyone. It's just not possible, and any attempt to do so can only damage or ruin what would be an otherwise good game/experience for a game's target audience.
glad you can still play some stuff man!
@@ShortFatOtaku Gamepads are dope because I can essentially get by with only using my left thumb. shoutout to all the controller designers out there
Thank you for having a realistic view on life. You sound like a reasonable and cool person. Happy gaming.
The sane way to deal with it is focus on what you can do instead of what you can't.
@@simoncleret exactly. for about 5 minutes I was bummed that I would never be good at GunZ the duel. so I played something else lol
Always makes me laugh. I'm here playing with a prosthetic hand and they can't jump over a cylinder.
You’ve really got to hand it to them... no really, they might actually get over the cylinder then lol.
Proto android people are so fucking cool God bless humanity for caring enough to invent prosthetics.
At least Red called herself a big kid instead of an adult, she's definitely just an overgrown child.
In my day, when we wanted easy mode, we fired up the disk editor and modified the binary. We didn't wait for someone to build it.
That’s generous thinking that any of these people know how their computers work, never mind how to edit game code.
Journos and Twitch girls: stop judging us for using easy mode, games should just let us skip playing them, nothing should ever be difficult
Meanwhile in the Touhou community: EH, EASY MODO?!
"Only losers play on easy mode!"
- Tewi
what's the matter, little fella? bad at video games?
When someone says "Stop gatekeeping already!", GATEKEEP HARDER!
One instance of "don't harass people based on how they play" I actually agree with is the routes streamers take while playing games that give you multiple choices and endings. Like when people got the pitchforks when Markiplier dared to play Undertale his own way which caused him to not want to continue the series for a long time. They didn't just make fun of him, they were legitimately VILE. Otherwise easy mode will always be a topic of ridicule within masses of gamers and trying to police it is dumb as hell.
We need to start glamorizing the idea of niche appeal. I'd rather have 10 games that are exactly what I want then 100 games that are just kinda a little bit what I want.
Me and my game animator friend talked about this on our podcast. He’s not in the online world, he came to the same conclusion you did. Video games are art, not all games are for all people much like how not all art is for all people.
My opinion is some video games are not art just like how not everything that is made is art. Is a Twinkee art compared to a handmade cupcake?
@@hippopilot6750 yes. Art is subjective, so even if one person on this planet thinks a Twinkie is art, then it is for that person. But because it is subjective, you and I do not have to find it art.
I think there's something onesidedly disingenuous about the "not all [insert commercial product here] is for all people" argument. Having a broad appeal can also be a good thing. I think it's possible to take broadness of appeal to an extreme that makes the product worse, and also possible to take specialization to an extreme and make the product worse.
I took high school back when Shakespeare was taught, and I remember being told that Shakespeare wrote for two different audiences simultaneously. He apparently wanted the crude and lusty to take one meaning from his work, and the highbrow to take another meaning. I think a good video game should do this, too, regarding player skill. Imagine, say, a Metroidvania game where your character needs to go from point A to point B. Should we be strictly linear? No, because we don't believe in a single best path, only in best paths for different players. Let's say there are two paths from A to B. One is shorter, has more optional power ups (particular aggressive ones), but is substantially more difficult; the other takes more time to clear, takes the player by some eye candy that fills in some of the lore of the setting, but is substantially easier, including more health increases than any good player would reasonably need. This difference is clearly communicated to the player, perhaps by putting a particularly threatening enemy at the beginning of the short path while cutting the player off from backtracking to force players who retreat to "retreat forward" a bit, until the aggressive enemy gives up pursuit. To, say, a speedrunner, the long easy path in the game wouldn't exist - they couldn't spare the time for the scenic route. For the games journalist, the difficult section, outside of its intimidating outer layer, wouldn't exist. I think that would be the best way to tackle difficulty from a game design perspective - not menu options, but in-game choices that don't break immersion.
@@Dogapillar4Lyfe I guess I find art objective. I see some terribly cheap phone games just designed to prey on your chemical processes in your brain (while emotions are also chemical processes, they're separate to certain functions of the brain) to siphon your money and then I see normal games designed to be played. I see a cupcake, baked and ordered by recipe and then I see mass produced amalgamation of artificial materials designed to be addictive despite it's unhealthy nature, The processes that brought a twinkee into being and production can be called art but the end result? Is driving a delivery truck art? Is taking a dump art? It can be with enough deliberate intention but there are cases where it isn't. And I believe that if not everything is art then there are things that are not always art. I beleive in an objective definition of art that defines "true art". Anything that is intentionally designed to evoke an emotional response under the guise of art or being more than it's physical being
@@scrotiemcb5858 you also have to consider the designer of that game wanting you to take a certain path
Metroid Dread is destroying my ego that I ever called myself good at video games, and I'm loving every second of it because I'm slowly inching through it like I'm a kid again.
same, dude. even the first boss kicked my ass a couple of times.
I honestly didn't think it was difficult. Maybe because I'm used to Metroid games. Been playing them for years.
I can't wait
Fisher Price re-released their metroid game again?
I've legit died in dread more than any other metroid game I've played in the last 20 years and I'm enjoying the hell out of it because I'm facing legit challenge and have to strive to improve
Holy shit I didn't know that Superhot straight up censored their game. That's fucking awful.
Sterling would blow a gasket hearing you compare him to DSP lmao. 😂😂
Why are games considered "something for everyone"? This is the same as with any other artistic medium. I would argue that "Get good" can apply to any medium. For example, you can pick up a book that is hard to read. There may be words you don't know or ideas you will not be able to comprehend. You can grow by challenging this book. You can look up the meanings of certain words you don't understand and revisit some ideas that were hard to grasp at first. You will become a better, smarter reader if you grind that material. Of course there will be people who may be handicapped to read that book, some can be blind, some may be game journalists and not know how to read, but in the end of the day mostly everyone will be able to enjoy the content of the book. And if you can't experience that you can just watch a review on UA-cam.
Good comment.
No one is calling for 'The Lord of the Rings' to be simplified so that it's easier to read
@@juliantheapostate8295 They're just calling for the hobbits to be black instead. Oh, and that orcs are also black. And the elves are black.
Basically that Middle Earth should be nubia.
"Progs."
I love that term, it's completely accurate and not meant to be offensive, but it does have a twinge of being derogatory.
Proglodytes
Ugh. Jim Sterling is intolerable now. I used to like his hard hitting criticism of AAA gaming but he went down the progressive path.
LK Buzz was instrumental in that.
@@SirBlackReeds what happened?
Part of the reason Dark Souls was so talked about was that everyone was on the same level, it's hard for everyone, and everyone learns, shares their experiences, strategies, etc. If Dark Souls had difficulty modes and no invasion PvP no one would be talking about it, it would've been glossed over as just another Japanese action game release.
"Don't gatekeep!"
Isn't removing difficulty a form of gatekeeping?
how?
@@MDStepko this. exclusivity is sought after quality and always has been.
Bullshit
Gatekeep HARDER and don't let the infestation in
Look at the infestation of non-whites in western societies for the past century and the importation of subversive eastern cultural values and media for the past few decades and tell me with a straight face that gatekeeping has been a priority for people.
@@wakkaseta8351 Dude, you are into 5th dimensional gremlins with your thinking.
The only Hollow Knight “mini-bosses” that I can fully understand losing to so much that it becomes frustrating are the Dream Warriors (especially Markoth, fuck Markoth). But they’re totally optional (unless you want the true ending). If she’s dying repeatedly to Gruz Mother, Vengefly King, or Soul Warrior then I have no idea how you want the game to be made any easier.
i've played hollow knight dozens of times at this point, nothing in the game is too hard for me anymore with the exception of the traitor lord sometimes
If we talking about non-skippable bosses, Watcher Knights are hard, especially if you come early.
Markoth, for me, wasn't not that hard, he is more annoying and tedious. Other Warrior Dreams were quite easy. Like Marmuu's volleyball game, or Xero's flying blades.
But Grimm...and especially NKG...they will demand you to memorise all timings or perish, true Dark Souls style.
I ended up lost a few times playing Hollow Knight, but still got a good ending. Did not feel like completing God Home, and achieving that ending.
I don't like boss rushes.
at this point she's asking for noclip mode
@@quattrobajeena6484 If given the option, she'd lose track of where she is and where she ought to go. Hence demand a button to instantly complete the game while filling her with the satisfaction of completing a challenge.
I’m just laughing at how far Jim Sterling’s fallen lol
Ball gags.
@@onionhat745 Please no
This is precisely why gaming videos are so good.
I don't want to play outlast or resident evil 7, but I can still enjoy the lore and experience through a UA-camr.
The constant infantilism of our society has been a noticable trend throughout the years. The difficulty of video games is just one of the most apparent.
The adage about freedom vs safety comes to mind here
The problem is not the complaining, as childish as it is, but most of these people have positions of power to sway (or at least force) opinion to fullfill their own demands.
@johnseppe But this time the industry is surrendering the fundamental security of a steady fanbase for the temporary liberty of complete inept whingers being able to succeed.
I started working a fast food job as a 16 year old in early 2020. All the general managers liked me solely because I tended to my responsibilities and stayed consistent in my work. I thought that much was the bare minimum but apparently you’re special for only being competent on the most basic level. I do remember the constant whining and moaning and complaining of most of my coworkers.
So the idea that adult infants are this swelling tumor in western society is probably true.
"Deer girl" - LOL, he's a buck. He even has antlers.
Legal buck? The season just opened lol
I doubt the wolfkin will care either way.
Not with today’s medical technology! ✂️
It, it is an abomination
Technically reindeer have antlers on both sexes.
To me accessability is merely about being physically able to play a game.
If you have functioning limbs & eyes but can't figure out how to dash-jump... Play point-and-click adventure titles. They'll give you more time. Often a greater focus on interactive stories too...
The wheelchair guy analogy is SO! perfect.
Also as person with dyslexia I can safetly say that progs really don't give a shit about us.
Remember when sekiro came out and game jurnos said there needed to be an easy mode for disabled players and a disabled person showed up and beat the game.
They did the same for dark souls 2 five years earlier.
I have a friend who lost his left arm while deployed and he plays soulslikes exclusively and shreds them. People just want excuses.
@@tedtedsworth4656 hey your friend has more skill than a gamy journalist
@@TheDoglover23456 a goldfish mindlessly swimming in a bowl does too, so that's not much of a complement
Conflating disability access and game difficulty is pretty evil.
Not really, some of these people seem disabled to me
@@PonyCraft that's a polite why of putting it
That’s evil indeed. A quadriplegic guy managed to beat sekiro. The game journalists have no excuses.
Having started playing dark souls Re for the first time and people asking to dumb it down make me mad. The difficulty is part of the experience.
Look this video does exactly what its accusing gaming journalists of. Using the accessibility argument to make its point. As someone with a disability i really wish people would ask the community how we feel. Why do i not think this is evil? Because somebody wanting an easy mode literally doesn't have any impact on me when i'm gaming.
@@jay1jayf The video's thesis is...
"The most disgusting part of it all though. Is
how these people co-opt those with actual real physical needs. Because they're tired of being made fun for being dsp clones".
He's co-opting a discussion about people with actual real physical needs. Because he wanted rip on games journalists. And unlike those journalists & game devs. He made a video without actual talking to the people the video is technically about.
Can only speak for me. But i don't find anything disgusting about easy modes in games being part of the accessibility debate. And can we please be clear. The only ones linking this to ableism are people arguing against easy modes.
If he's going to speak for a whole community of people. Maybe he should have actually had some disabled gamers in the video. Or at the very least talked to gamers with disabilities and quoted them. Apologizes for the length was trying to be clear.
If you're not good at playing a certain kind of game and just want to see the story, just watching a lets play is a perfectly good solution.
Hell, thats what I did with horror games I was interested in because I have terrible panic reflexes when I'm physically playing games and I just wanted to experience them without freaking out my parents with my girly screams at every jumpscare. We have a small house, and it doesn't help I have a loud voice.
"not everybody wants to play games to be absolutely infuriated and in pain"
yup, those people are what we call: Casuals.
7:20 - as a Game dev myself: NOPE.
note for the people who will somehow find the games I made: I did not claim to be a "Good Game Dev", and I know that my games are crappy - I made them with no engine, and a codebase of my own creation.
Ah yes the old SJW hypocrisy. I used to have a good chuckle about right leaning hypocrisy but honestly, the left has the best.
The left can't meme, but they can still make me laugh, so at least they're good for something.
So you're a fence-sitter then.
@@wakkaseta8351 "Unless you're a hardline SJW or a gun-toting right leaner you're just a fence-sitter/cringe centrist REEEE"
Shockingly enough you can be on the right and still poke fun at the extreme parts of the right. It's a gradient, not a 0/1
@@Winasaurus
When you say "the right", do you mean the actual right, or just today's mainstream right made up of the liberal rejects the left's thrown out the past few overton window shifts?
at least Jim Stirling is learning he's not actually a person because he has no will of his own.
It's fun to watch automatons designed for politics try to explain self awareness.
Hearing supposed adults have full on tantrums because their magical electric smiles machine is too hard is a whole new level of cringe
As a wise man on the internet once said:
*GIT GUD SCRUB*
"I don't want to play games in suffering and pain"
then play something else
Like Life is Strange - pretty sure thats the kind of game that would appeal to "easy mode" audence.
"But my Twitch bucks!!!!!!!"
Yes exactly I hated playing cuphead after a long day of college. It felt painful. Doesn't mean cuphead is bad, it's just I wasn't in the right mindset to play it.
The games themselves should shame the player for playing on easy, like Wolfenstein 3D.
I make hentai games, and one of them had the difficulty modes listed as erectile states!
Each accompanied by a silly illustration of the main character! :P
Easy = Flaccid
Normal = Half Mast
Hard = Fully Erect
@@Icelink256 What the actual fuck
@@Icelink256 nice
Or ninja gaiden black.
@@Icelink256 Pretty Based
lol the Ricky Berwick pic when he said clawed half man creature 💀
GATEKEEP YOUR HOBBIES
"All restaurant food should come with a pre-chewed option because sometimes I shouldnt need to chew the food to be able to enjoy the flavor of a meal"
The thought of that just made my stomach turn.
Some the elderly people in the retirement home are no longer capable of eating and chewing themselves and therefore require mixed food. These people typically also suffer heavily from dementia and have difficulty answering simple questions. Making the pre-chewed option the default option would make food more accessible to more people. /s
(Almost off-topic) I've been a fine-dining chef for over 10 years. People come into a stakehouse and fume about there not being a vegan option. Then come into a vegan place and fume about us not serving scrambled eggs.The amount of ''gluten allergy'' drama is off the scale (still), yet in all those years I had seen the actual ''to the person who prepares my food'' card twice. I had a strong desire to put something pre-chewed and even pre-digested on the plate several times. I wonder if some of them would have noticed any difference.
But this is essentialy what people are after these days - and then they don't even fume that what they get chewed and digested is sh8te. Because nobody should be required to use their head, ever, by the looks of it.
"scary movies are too stressful so theyre not accessible to me"
Damn games and their **shuffles cards** challenging and rewarding gameplay.
I like to relax and take it easy and blow shit up too, but not EVERY game needs to have an easy/casual mode...
"I love video games"
Usually when you love something, you do it enough to be good at it. Maybe you just like video games?
Before I played Dark Souls, I played video games on easy mode by default. If Dark Souls had difficulty options, I would have played it on the easiest mode, and it would have just been another action RPG too me. If Dark Souls had an easy mode, I would have never fallen in love with the franchise or the genre. The claim “An extra difficulty option doesn’t effect you.” Is false. If Dark Souls had an easy mode, I would have never realized what kinds of games I actually like to play, and I would have missed out on some of my greatest gaming experiences. There are a lot of people who have had a similar experience.
Multiple difficult options would divide the community. If someone says, they soloed Darkeater Midir, everyone one else who’s soloed Midir knows what this means and feels solidarity with them. This solidarity wouldn’t exist with people who beat Midir on a lower difficulty setting. The experience would be fundamentally different and there would be a rift in the community.
If you are someone who likes to throw around the claim, “Video games are art,” you have to recognize that Dark Souls doesn’t exist for you to beat it or even enjoy it. Dark Souls exists to convey the artistic vision of Hidetaka Miyazaki. Any enjoyment you derive from playing Dark Souls is just incidental to your experience of Miyazaki’s vision, and Miyazaki shouldn’t have to compromise his artistic vision just to pander to people who would rather play an easier game.
Miyazaki stated himself that one of the reasons for one difficulty option is to build in players feel of "the same expirence". Community of dark souls wouldn't be the same with more options. For example Everytime i scroll 9 gag and some guy in games section makes a post "i beat dark souls" or something. There is like 30 comments saying "congrats". It's nowhere near that with other games.
and i was like you. If the game gave me an option to give up and change difficulty, then i would at the time and miss on my favorite gaming expirience in my life.
Didn't the video make a point about the game not being responsible for your lack of self-control? Because you defaulting to the easiest option available and "blaming" the availability of the easy option is exactly that. You can always _choose_ to challenge yourself if there are multiple options, and you not doing so is entirely on you.
The same experience bit is a valid point, although you could really just add an " _on easy_ " bit to the "I beat Dark Souls" line.
For example, I wouldn't say that the Darkest Dungeon community was greatly divided by the game having difficulty settings.
Although I do agree with the artistic vision bit. If the designer truly has a vision they want to stick to, then I always respect that. In every other perspective, however, more choice is always good.
@@someguycalledcerberus9805 Thanks for the critique. The first point may have gotten a bit muddled in the narrative, but it was less about choice and more about not knowing what you don't know. You seem to be someone with high openness to new experience, so I could see how always playing on the easiest option and not trying harder difficulties could seem ridiculous to you, but for someone like me (with low openness to new experiences), I saw no reason to play on harder difficulties, because I already enjoyed playing games on easy. Of course it was ultimately my choice, but the point is, it wasn't an informed choice, and I would have never found out how much more I enjoyed playing difficult games (or games on higher difficulties), unless something like Dark Souls pushed me out of my comfort zone.
@@wind_traveler Haha, no I am also the type who plays the game on easy all the time. Sorry, if I maybe sounded harsh, I wasn't trying to attack you. I am just pointing out that it isn't the easy option's fault if people take it. Your point is very valid, in that necessity can channel you to discover new things and move out of your comfort zone, but on balance I believe choice is always good.
What's funny is that soloing midir is technically easier if I recall, as he gets harder the more summons you have. Even then, doing it either way is still an achievement in it's own right.
That girl in the bow would have a point if she A) wasn't a streamer sharing her stream publicly and B) didn't end the point by calling people that gatekeep "boring" - what a weird non-defense. She wants to avoid being shamed for doing what she does, but she resorts to shaming in one of the weirdest ways possible a generally *valid* response to people getting in on your sphere of interest/entertainment? When gatekeeping isn't pure asshattery, it's usually good, if not at least valid.
Also, I don't see how playing on a harder difficulty - or at least playing on "Normal" precludes someone from exploring the lore, enjoying the story and watching the cutscenes... as though those things are mutually exclusive to playing on a harder difficulty? Cringy cope!
You’re boring. So boring in fact, that I’m gonna make an over acted rant video that clearly shows how aggravated I am.
Not even that but if shes talking about dark souls (which i assume she is from the context) the difficulty and getting good is part of the whole lore and narrative.
She wants to experience it by not experiencing it.
@@VoidplayLP also the thing with dark souls is that a lot of the lore is in items. So collect said items, go to hub, read.
For games where there is narrative while there is also action going on, I can see. If it's action-cut scene-action while no blend, difficulties don't matter.
It exposes her mindset. She isn't their to entertain her audience, she's their for the attention. She's a streamer to be entertained by her audience.
6:44 "I want a cool interactive story!" Then get a choose your own adventure book lady, or watch other people play the games. If it doesn't have an easy mode it isn't required. They need to learn to play...
I just couldn't get good enough to play ninja gaiden, so I didn't play it. I watched my little brother absolutely destroy in in the hardest difficulty, but in his memory I buckled down and got better at the game rather than get rid of his game. In short, GET GOOD OR BECOME A SPECTATOR FOR THOSE WHO ARE.
funny enough they talk about "easy mode won't affect your experience" or "it's just an option for others" ignoring what developers might want for their games, like Miyazaki saying difficulty was just a tool for the narrative
but if you argue games should have hard modes or stop removing options from the player, suddenly the developers are righteous and don't have to cather to your petty needs, "maybe play a different game" they will spout
just say you want it all for yourself already
"I don't want a challenge, I want a cool story!"
Go read a book.
Challenge is not a requirement in a videogame, they can just play games with other focuses other than challenge.
or a easy jrpg.
Or just play a visual novel.
"Why are you wearing a collar!?"
Why's Jim wearing a wig and lipstick? I fear I've missed some lore between now and last time I watched a Jim Sterling Video (>10 years ago). 🤔
he is now a she
*He* goes by Stephanie or somesh*t.
He transitioned
@@ryngobrody1627 did he actually?
Last I head he’s just NB
His terminal wokism progressed to the denialism stage.
I'm a cyclopes with tunnel vision. Figuring out ways to mitigate my disability or turn it to my benefit is part of what makes gaming fun. I'm also 100% reliant on others for transportation and live in the ass-end of nowhere so gaming is one of the best ways to keep my mind sharp. The people using disabilities as a cudgel would turn every game into an idle game if they could and that shit is legit terrifying.
Jim Sterling used to be one of my favorite video game UA-camrs. I stopped watching him years ago for no particular reason, then just a few weeks ago, I decided to revisit his channel on a whim. And lo and behold "Stephanie" Sterling has been producing nothing but the kind of hyper-political cringe we see at 9:42. The downward spiral is real.
“My lack of self control and pay pigging for Pocket Mortys is an accessibility/ableist issue.”- Jim Sterling.
"He" probably does blame MacDonald's for getting fat...
Don't you mean Jane Sterling
To be fair, it is technically taking money from the mentally ill...
I had that game all I did was wait for commercials and make the schnuckles but I got bored days deleted the game.
I'm left handed.
So I made my own keyboard.
I made games more accessible to myself.
I just learned to play right handed.
I can't do left mouse. Tried for years. Just can't do it.
The funny thing the invencibility mode on Super mario prevents you to get most secrets in some stages , because some require other power ups or use enemies as platforms.
Dude...if that girl wants "On with the story," she could always watch a streamer, or a "Let's Play" video, or a video that takes all the cut-scenes and strings them together.
8:40 - Oh good, you said exactly what I commented while I was typing it. Well done.
Any time Jim Stirling posts a video, he only continues to prove why nobody should watch him.
he is a sage when it comes to SOME topics but others oooh boy does I kringe at him.
I used to watch Sterling just to observe a person's gradual descent into madness in real time and because quite some topics were absolutely spot on.
Recently though it has been too much and I unsubsribed some months ago.
@@Solus749 He's a stark raving lunatic now.
@@Ruffy112 Same here.
I hadn't watched Jim Sterling since I was in middle school (like around 2012-2013). Didn't keep up with him, haven't paid attention to his videos or content. I just looked at his channel and holy shit, the whiplash I got is compareable to an F-16 crashing into a mountain.
Jim Sterling, game journo, addicted to microtransactions and dresses up like his mum
Really good point on the "It's not for you" card progressives use or hate depending on the context. They really do believe that the whole world should be catered specifically for them and them only.
I love games, but haven't been good at them since like 2004 when I was in high school...so now I play the games I can like Don't Starve and just watch UA-camrs play the games I wish I could excel at but don't have the time to. Easy fix.
If you don't want to play the game and just absorb the story, every game out there has a non-commentary 'let's play' on the internet. There, I saved you $100 :)