[ SECRET POST #3531 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3531 ⌋

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Comments

[world_eater]

my best friend never really played video games and is now too intimidated to try and it makes me so sad!

video games are not about skill. the skill threshold is there to provide a challenge for the player which feels rewarding to overcome. it is there to serve the player, not to gate an experience to only the worthy.

if you get that reward from playing on easy you're not doing a single thing wrong. if you activate godmode to bypass the challenge entirely because you're interested in another aspect of the game that is perfectly fine too.

they're games, they're there for fun. unless people are depending on you (such as in multiplayer games where you play with random people), you could run circles in a game and you wouldn't be doing it wrong.

though you would be missing out, granted.

/motherofpetpeeves

[soldatsasha]

video games are not about skill. the skill threshold is there to provide a challenge for the player which feels rewarding to overcome. it is there to serve the player, not to gate an experience to only the worthy.

This entirely!

Game difficulty is very carefully designed to be challenging enough to engage players and feel rewarding, without being so difficult as to be frustrating or cause a player to lose interest. This is why so many games have difficulty settings. It should be FUN.

I'm one of those 'git gud' sorts of maniacs who plays everything eight times through on completionist nightmare runs. I'm also willing to spend hours or days reading wikis and practicing to get better at a game. I've spent my share of time lamenting how casual some genres have gotten. But then, I've been "hardcore" gaming for two decades, across hundreds of games and nearly every genre. The challenge/fun threshold for someone like me is totally different than it is for a new player or someone who only plays games casually. Play it where it's right for you!

(That said, I do think anyone who enjoys video games should at least give the recommended difficulty level a try, rather than skipping straight to the easiest. Partially because it tends to be more balanced with a smoother difficulty curve so that the player is forced to learn basic skills as they go rather than breezing through and then running straight into challenges they don't know how to overcome, also because most games are designed so that difficult fights lend emotional weight to the story and give the player a sense of accomplishment during key story beats.)