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fightinggamegirlfriend · 4 months ago

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me venting about specific aspect of game designs. Also I choose violence towards a particular part of ‘elitist gamers’.

How to explain to game designers and gamers that making fun of people for picking the ‘easy mode’ for a video game, is fucking shitty and elitist as fuck.

Especially how they completely forget any fucking nuance of ‘hey maybe this person is playing a game in a genre that they are unfamiliar with and want to play on a easier difficultly setting for their first playthrough to familiarise themselves with the gameplay and its mechanics.’ Maybe they even want to experience a narrative FIRST, over say a frustrating time with the game, like are you seriously going to point and laugh at someone for wanting to experience something new?

Like dude I cannot stress how these kinds of elitist assholes are the same ones who ACTIVELY MAKE IT INTIMIDATING for people who WANT to get into a specific piece of media that intrigues them, and by extension YOU ARE SCARING AWAY A POTENTIAL FAN WHO COULD LEGITIMATELY VIBE WITH THE GAME AND ITS WIDER COMMUNITY FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS.

Like seriously how dare people want a new experience, so let’s ACTIVELY make fun of them for NOT ‘getting good’!! /sarcasm

#about shin megami tensei 4 #Came across a post about it making fun of a h games journalist who made an article documenting their experience #with the game and they found it challenging that they put it on easy mode #and like look I get it SMT is supposed to be challenging HOWEVER. That shouldn’t fucking gatekeep people from giving it a #legitimately try and wanting to experience something different.#and so in that post people make fun of the journalist in the tags and it’s like. YOU ARE THE ASSHOLES WHO SCARE POTENTIAL FANS FUCK YOU #I think what makes this particularly worse is that apparently SMT4 MAKES FUN OF YOU FOR PICKING EASY MODE #wow what a way to turn me off from a game guess I’m uninstalling it and reinstalling DOA Dimensions now /hjks #<- though legitimately that DOES TURN ME OFF #shallow rambles #shallow vents #hi. Have people ever heard of nuance in game design and game experiences??? Apparently not!!! /sarcasm #hm. Thinking about that soulsbourne video critiquing the whole ‘gif gud’ mantra #like at least soulsbourne is hard but doesn’t MAKE FUN OF YOU FOR BEING BAD AT THE GAME. Like it’s as if it WANTS YOU TO GET BETTER AT #THE GAME!!!! That’s NUANCED GAME DESIGN THAT DOESNT COMPROMISE ITSELF!!#idc if the games journalist is bad at games. If you act like this towards casual gamers who WANT to experience something difficult #Then I think you’re NOT FUN AT PARTIES AND I DONT WANT TO EVEN INTERACT WITH YOU #basically why do we have to punish and make fun of people for not being ‘good at video games’ especially those who WANT to try something #different. If anything we should be applauding that fact. NOT PUNCHING DOWN.#there’s also something slightly ableist about it because it implies everyone SHOULD pick up on details immediately but not #everyone’s brains work like that. some people have short term memory issues or have a hard time ‘reading patterns’ etc.#Waking up and choosing violence this morning

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