-----------------------------------------------------InfoFemale - 20“From Software should broaden its scope so that less skilled players can enjoy the story”
That’s a a funny argument considering the success the Souls games have is owed in part to the lack of an easy mode, forcing everyone to go through the same route and experience the sames things is what made so many people talk about it. An easy mode would cheapen the experience and not make it stick to players as much and thus makes less people want to talk about it and play it.
And if less skilled players just want the story they can read the wiki and watch playthroughs on youtube. Or they can acquire skill as getting good in a videogame is not impossible and Dark Souls isn’t even that hard.
“everyone would win if there was an easy mode"
From probably wouldn’t.
“games are meant to be fun”
Not fun for everyone, as you can’t please everyone.
Plus reducing the skill level to access the STORY? Even the most avid dark souls players barely understand the story, its not a matter of 2deep4u or anything but everything is so hidden and out of the way, and so difficult to find and piece together than enjoying the game for the story alone would be the most boring thing in existence. It’d be a fucking item hunt with lots of description reading. So few characters have any kind of exposition it’s hardly worth talking to most. Almost all understanding of the story comes from fucking lore hunters that play the game, and would you guess it you can go and watch all the videos from those people right now, with no bosses and difficulty ahead, just slap “vaatividya” or “epicnamebro” into youtube and go fuckin nuts.
Don’t do that.
The thing about Dark Souls’ story is that it isn’t there.
The director grew up reading english fantasy novels while having a poor grasp of the language, so he’d just sort of mentally insert whatever made sense to him in the gaps where he couldn’t understand. He wanted to share this in Dark Souls, which is why the story is so vague. A lot of it just isn’t there, so you can fill it in with your own shit.
Never trust the lore hunters, and never take what they say as canon. They’re often not much more right than a casual player, but people take what they say as gospel because they make videos on Youtube.
oh well fuck me there’s even LESS reason to play the game for the story
what the fuck, somebody sent me that exact same ask like seven times, word for word the same
it’s totally okay to not play video games! it seems that people kinda forget this and that there’s always a driving force to make certain games “mandatory reading” or something!
It’s totally fine to experience media in whatever way you decide to, including abstaining! this is very important please do not forget that!
