Recent content by Kerg3927

I've already explained what I believe to be the potential costs of changing the design formula. You look at it as merely entertainment. But From Software definitely looks at it economically. And I do, too, because I want From to be financially successful so they keep creating awesome games...

I probably would, but I'm a die hard. Marketing is a complicated thing, though, and can't be oversimplified. You can't just look at my answer when you're talking about millions of people. Some would see it as a sell out and a betrayal of the core values upon which the game built its success...

Old school WoW servers were full on communities, your other life outside of real life. You walked around and saw and talked to people you knew and had played with before. It was kind of like living in a small town. You had a reputation on the server. If you were a really good player and/or a...

I was playing at the time and remember hearing about it, but I don't remember it being an issue on our server. I was on an RP server, so we didn't have any ultra-progressive raiding guilds in the first year of the game, so I doubt anyone on our server was able to clear Zul'Gurub and beat the...

Sure. On "I'm too young to die" mode, for example, players take half damage. If there was a cheat code to halve the damage taken, then entering that code would be exactly the same thing as switching the game to "I'm too young to die" mode. https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Skill_level And by...

Because I think it's similar to entering a cheat code back in the day, like in Doom, for example. I read it. I said I'm not religious, so why would I place a greater importance upon religion than video games? To me, video games are more important. Anyway, what if a person really thinks...

Makes perfect sense to me. I'm not religious. But as I understand it, if I wanted to become Jewish, I'd have to stop eating pork. I don't get to join otherwise. No bacon, ever again. I can complain all I want, but the final answer is always going to be... this is how the religion was...

And I've already pointed out how silly the "there are already ways for people to cheat themselves so why not just add an outright cheat button?" argument is. Two wrongs don't make a right.

I don't see a contradiction at all. The Evangelists want people to play it, but only in its original form, as they and everyone else played it. I bought a copy of Dark Souls Remastered for my brother and his son. They haven't played it yet. My brother hasn't because he just doesn't have...

Like I said, it seems there are multiple schools of thought on that, and that's one of them. That article ends with this very mature and wise advice...

That's one school of thought. Another is that an easy mode can be something that discourages people from ever learning to play the game competently, before they ditch it for something else and decry how boring and overrated the game is, and every casualty that results from that bears a cost...

I understand that point. Some unusually low-skilled players would no doubt still find it challenging. But I don't think most low-skilled players are forever statically handicapped because they were unlucky enough to get the short end of the gene pool. I don't think that they are drooling...

I would say they can both be bad if exploits exist that someone can learn on the internet. But otherwise they are different. Say someone is fighting a boss and struggling. A guide advises one to wear some fire resist gear, equip a shield with fire resist, and use a weapon that does strike...

Okay, opinions differ.