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.
The director’s vision argument is only ever used one way. They always say it if a game is too hard for someone, but if it’s deemed too easy by them they have no issue saying the game should be changed to accommodate their taste.
That’s literally why i left paradox forums for good, entire forums were choke full of this, no normal discussion was possible anymore.