"Gamer pride" sounds like a 2017-era hate group

@Geoff69420

Жыл бұрын

They certainly sound like a bunch of proud boys

@TheAxeLord47911

Жыл бұрын

I would not be shocked at all if GamerGaters described it as such in 2014, either...

@jakedill1304

Жыл бұрын

I believe gamers TM is the official phrase, as Michael Jackson might say.. you're being ignorant.

@hazukichanx408

Жыл бұрын

Based on the excerpt at 9:01 it does kind of seem like that comment is from the context of "When I die in a game, and the game says 'Awww does baby wanna switch to _easy mode?',_ I hate that." So he's talking about his own gaming, playing other people's games, rather than the attitudes of his game's players, at least in that particular comment. Not a fan of this context misrepresentation to be honest.

@geoffrogers7590

Жыл бұрын

​@xof49 I always thought "the proud boys" sounded like the name of a gay rights group. I kinda wish somebody would start one called that just to fuck with them.

My brother has Multiple Sclerosis, he used to miss playing games but accessibility options are letting him play more comfortably again. Sometimes people can do such wonderful things for eachother, thank you for supporting accesability JSS ❤️

@TheAxeLord47911

Жыл бұрын

I hope your brother is okay. Everyone regardless of disability has a place in the world

@michaelteegarden1434

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️❤️ life is hard enough we shouldn't be making our hobbies reflect he same hardships

@ichijofestival2576

Жыл бұрын

I'm reminded of a time a few years ago when my brother broke his hand. As you can imagine, that alone killed a *lot* of his games. We did find one game that was almost perfect, except we needed to somehow assign a shortcut to a mouse key. A function I figured existed, and was just buried. But no, turned out what I was suggesting-- a function which could be accomplished by one frigging finger on the keyboard-- would've "destroyed the balancing."

@1IGG

Жыл бұрын

@@ichijofestival2576 a bit late, but maybe helpful to others: there are programs like AHK (Action Hot Key) that allow you to bind "scripts" to a button. So you could e.g. W + M1 to bind on pressing the alt key.

@TheSweetSpirit

Жыл бұрын

Auto potion wasn’t an accessibility thing, it’s been a powerful mechanic historically Which means if they advertised it as an accessibility option then, wtf that’s very dumb! edit: Apparently I made this as a reply to someone else's post about MS? ... Whoops. That's phone texting for you I guess.

One of my favorite accessibility options I’ve ever seen was in Dead Cells. There are points in the game where it flashes a bright light on the screen. As someone with sensitive eyes, I learned to instinctively close my eyes at those points. Later, while digging in the menus, I found this option to disable those flashes. It was such a simple thing, but it made my experience so much better.

@Rylatar

Жыл бұрын

Dead Cells is incredible in terms of accessibility - in spite of being designed as a hard game, they added so many options to adjust difficulty and potential straining issues via Assist Mode (on top of already present accessibility settings) to let as many people experience the entire game as possible. It really helped me ease in after a few years of bouncing in and back - I always struggled with platforming elements in games and it's not made easier over time even as I get better in games by my joints and nerves in hands getting screwed up with working with computers and being a PC gamer for 20+ years (and some of my other hobbies over the years including wrist strain too lol). I hella love Dead Cells. I'll honestly buy anything Motion Twin does just to keep supporting them.

@ezstarhops

Жыл бұрын

This is my bane… the bright white transition screens and flashes to white. Oh, camera shake as well (shakes fist at Bourne Identity craze).

@AileTheAlien

Жыл бұрын

@@ezstarhops 🙂I'm really glad most games include options to reduce or disable screen shake. That stuff gives me headaches!

@dj-y7018

Жыл бұрын

They even let you turn the consumable health items to "vegetarian" mode lol

@corruleumblue3317

Жыл бұрын

@@Rylatar "in spite of being designed as a hard game" In some ways I feel like it may be more *because* it's designed as hard, because what counts as hard is different for everyone. Having those options means players can fine-tune the difficulty so it's hard but fair by *their* standards, whether or not their sense of hard matches the developers'. Because the appeal is in achieving an achievable challenge, and if that difficulty slider is in the wrong spot, you lose either "achievable" or "challenge".

One of the worst parts of this is the people that say "Well _I'm_ disabled and I can play these games just fine. Accessibility options and the discourse around accessibility are infantilizing and insulting to me.". Like the world only exists in their anecdotal bubble and they're the spokesperson for disabled people everywhere.

@exquisitemeat5845

4 ай бұрын

They're correct, you're just entitled

As a disabled gamer, I know that there are flat out games I can never play for myself, so the only recourse in those cases is if I’m interested in it is to watch somebody else play it for me. Of course, games aren’t the only inaccessible thing, it is actually quite fascinating how inaccessible the most basic things are and nobody really notices or cares unless you’re disabled yourself

@tomekurgacz318

Жыл бұрын

It's just great when you want to play a video game but before buying it you have to make sure that it has difficulty or accessibility options so you don't flush money down the drain for a game that you can't play

@dfjab

Жыл бұрын

this is one thing that apple has always done quite good work with. Their new UI framework's tutorial even includes adding accessbility features to the sample app you're guided in building.

@wanderingrandomer

Жыл бұрын

A friend of mine can't play Metroid Dread because they are disabled. It really sucks because the game's great, and they agree - they just wish they could experience it first-hand.

@arikaaa69

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingrandomer what specific issues make the game unplayable for them? I love the game and beating it on hard was extremely satisfying, but as an able bodied gamer I never noticed the problems, aside from the fact that the game lacks accessibility options

@wanderingrandomer

Жыл бұрын

@@arikaaa69 Dread makes constant use of every button to control Samus in combat, especially as you unlock more abilities, and my friend has cerebral palsy, and basically only has the use of one hand. There's no way he can keep up with how brutal Dread can be. All they needed to do was add the option to rebind buttons so he could play with his good hand. He can play Smash Bros. ok because of that.

Every time i think about accessibility options, I'm reminded that touhou games - bullet hells notorious for being near impossible to clear for the casual gamer on even a normal difficulty - have their own cheat code that unlocks everything instantly, and have only gotten more accessible with time, even including disabled rep in the series itself and making commentary about how conversations about disabled people rarely involve them

@shis1988

Жыл бұрын

I still remember when Sia's movie was coming out. It was autistic people only talking about how bad it is. No advocacy groups or those little white posers went at it at all. Those guys you see trans-advocating and with their BLM tees? Gone.

@willow5523

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, as a disabled person it's fucking shit to have to rely on people that don't bother to listen and understand our lives to champion our rights. It's inevitable for marginalized people because the system that sorts me out of capitalism as an "unproductive" also prevents me and people like me from having any real social or political representation. I've experienced much the same with so called trans "allies" who down play the outright exterminationism we face from the right and centrists. Anyone who gives a single shit about the lives of fellow human beings should start listening to marginalized people and not claim to speak for us until they do.

@gamepapa1211

Жыл бұрын

This. So very much. If a game that is notoriously impossible to clear like Touhou acknowledged accessibility, The Gamers(tm) have no grounds to argue without sounding like twats.

@Robstafarian

Жыл бұрын

@@willow5523 "Nothing about us without us!"

@thegoodsouphotel8332

Жыл бұрын

God mode anyone? Level skips? Accessibility has been a thing for a while, just not implemented in every game.

Something I heard at a UX lecture once that absolutely changed my perspective on accessibility. It was something like: "even able bodied people like me are all on a sliding scale of ability in our day to day lives. You might be able-bodied but multitasking and not able to use all you mental and physical facilities on a task, you might be being distracted from a task by something, you might be in a dark room and not able to see what you're doing fully, and in context of gaming, you might have terrible old hardware that limits your ability to see the full contrast of the image, or have huge input latency preventing you reacting quickly". Regular gamers can only benefit from having accessibility options.

@yanDeriction

Жыл бұрын

situational disability!

Thank you for this. I'm 43 and disabled. I have MS and a host of other autoimmune conditions. I wish more people understood that being able-bodied is TEMPORARY. I used to play games on the hardest mode and nothing ever bothered me. Now I get motion sickness or vertigo very easily. I'm insanely photosensitive and flashing lights have the dual effect of pissing me off and causing a migraine that can last days. My hand-eye coordination is not top notch anymore, and my brain fog days (where cognitive function is not where it should be) prevents me from noticing details I once would've, reacting to things as quickly as I should or following through with a plan. All of these things have made me completely quit playing multiplayer with strangers as I have no idea how good I can git on any given day. I never thought any of these things would happen to me. Now I am VERY thankful when I can do things like turn off head bob, toggle off flashing lights and play easy modes now and again.

@frado9194

Жыл бұрын

This really interests me, and makes me think about my body in that way a bit more. What was your fav game when you played them more often? Or top 3

@DrewDahmer

Жыл бұрын

@@frado9194Oh I still play, but where high twitch factor FPS games might've interested me, they do not now. I do play the Borderlands games (all of them) and a large reason for that is that they've always had some accessibility features. My favorite genre is survival horror, but as almost all of those come with flashing light mechanics now that you cannot switch off, I tend to stay away from indie horror and stick to mainstream titles like the Resident Evil games, which tend to have at least a few settings that help. The latest RE4 demo had a whole motion sickness button you could hit and it automatically customized several settings for you. Things DO seem getting better in the gaming industry for disabled gamers. Just very slowly.

@ritchski1

Жыл бұрын

Yeah unfortunately people that don’t have physical or mental problems don’t appreciate what they have. It’s human nature, u get accustomed to it until you have no choice but to adjust.

@TheShadowChesireCat

Жыл бұрын

Same. I am looking likely for MS diagnosis too. Same accessibility features help me. Sometimes I turn off vibration cause it makes pain from nerve damage in my hands hurt worse. When that happens, you have to get really good at playing to time things like combos right. As someone who was born with Dyspraxia, I am naturally very, very bad at that. So technically my skills, with disability taken into account, far exceed people who don't have issues.

@ptisdefinitelyisacheateron9920

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully you were able to play elden ring even if it wasnt made for yoy

I am going to break some brains: It is possible to have gamer pride AND be for accessibility features.

@dustind4694

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Am I proud of going through DMC3 on Dante Must Die? Sure. Do I demand other people do it to be fans? No, that would be stupid.

@zerodollarbird

Жыл бұрын

It is in fact, more gamer of you to want accessibility features, because it means more people will be gamers.

@aguyuno

Жыл бұрын

Yes exactly. Hell I get mad at that “do you want to make it easier??” Thing too lmao. But gd

@lucyinchat

Жыл бұрын

Y'all ever play Yakuza?

@wmdkitty

Жыл бұрын

As a disabled gamer, YES. THIS.

A developer not putting accessibility features in their game cause of gamer pride is like an architect not adding ramps to a building because "I can walk so what's the problem?"

@evanchismark3092

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if said architect would use that line of reasoning if they're hit with a lawsuit for an ADA violation.

@Sonichero151

Жыл бұрын

Of course, not adding ramps to a building is liable for lawsuits as it is discrimination for disabled.............. but the game industry isn't worried about that.....

@loorthedarkelf8353

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the gamers are worried about accessibility options taking soooooo Much dev time as being the reason why they cost $70 now? / Joke Building owners skipped fire escapes because it was cheaper not to build them. It took a whole lot of deaths before it became legally required.

@LexYeen

Жыл бұрын

"You have legs, don't you?"

@kudlac1322

Жыл бұрын

Wasn't that the plot of Ain Rand's "Fountainhead"? An architect having a fit because safety regs won't approve his building?

I remember my little cousin getting a white Tanooki Suit in Mario and boasting about how good she was at this gane. And I had the impulse to tell her that the game handed her a cheat because she sucked so much, but then I remembered that I am an adult and let her have her fun.

I lost all functional vision around my 30th birthday back in 2019 due to multiple unsuccessful retinal reaatachments with a diagnosis of glaucoma that sadly took away my sight. At the time, I’d resigned myself that the hobby I’d had for so long was something I’d no longer able to enjoy. My partner would play the latest games for me, but it just wasn’t the same. However with the announcement prior to the launch of The Last Of Us 2’s accessibility settings, I was pretty emotional and hopeful that these settings could be implemented across more games and since then, I’ve been able to finish both last of us games, God Of War Ragnarok and As Dusk Falls with no sighted assistance. Thank you so much for speaking about this, the future of gaming for disabled folks is looking very promising and shining a light on this helps so much 💙💙

It‘s not just gamers who are like that.I‘ve recently seen a video of a woman ranting because she saw peeled potatoes for sale in the super market.“Is it really that hard to peel them yourself?“ Well if you are disabled it might be THAT hard…she can just keep buying the unpeeled ones really why does this bother people so much…

@animeotaku307

9 ай бұрын

Not to mention that for someone who doesn’t have the time to peel potatoes, it would be a godsend.

I can't tell you how much I love having a big suite of access options in games. It makes sense because being disabled can mean so many different things and having a game you can customise is always going to be better than a one-size-fits-all approach (or no options at all.)

The keyword here is "OPTIONS." A function that allows players the CHOICE to Tailor the game experience to what makes THEM comfortable and have fun with the things you should want to share with people to begin with.

Even though I do not suffer from any major disabilities, I do suffer from some pretty awful carpal tunnel and the increase in accessibility options in games has been fantastic for letting me skip certain game mechanics that may aggravate it. Not having to mash buttons, auto looting and other stuff that reduces the number of repetitive button presses. It's very nice. Even stuff that has nothing to do with my carpal tunnel but just being able to skip QTE's (why are these even still a thing?) in games like spider-man is a god send. Heck, even just letting me make the UI bigger is nice.

@potatertot360

Жыл бұрын

Chronic pain IS a disability, though.

Those who have disabilities are already living life on a higher difficulty. They don't gotta prove to me their skill on anything. i met a one armed dude who played street fighter, WELL. he was amazing

@lexruptor

Жыл бұрын

This is the most underrated comment I've ever seen. Props to you, and mad props to the one armed Street Fighter.

@klisterklister2367

Жыл бұрын

This

@snackplaylove

Жыл бұрын

“I’m Not disabled I’m just playing life on Hardcore” I like it.

@dustind4694

Жыл бұрын

This MFer gets it.

@mechanomics2649

Жыл бұрын

Look up Brolylegs

The emphasis Steph put on "i guarantee you it will be a special night" at the end kinda made me think this wrestling event is going to be a cover for them unveiling their robot army and announcing their imminent takeover of the world.

@majuuorthrus3340

Жыл бұрын

Can't be worse than the UK parliament.

@Debilitator47

Жыл бұрын

@@majuuorthrus3340 Or the US senate and house. The lowest of the low got lower because of them.

I remember asking if there was a map option/ if one could be implemented on steam, because of aphantasia and constantly getting lost making the game essentially unplayable for me. And of course I was dog piled and mocked “how stupid do you have to be to get lost in this game” etc. I was surprised when the dev joined in though, and seemed to take “I would like a map because I am disabled” as somehow attacking their game and creative vision.

@mechanomics2649

Жыл бұрын

Was it a Soulsborne game? This sounds like Soulsborne fans.

@clubafterlife

Жыл бұрын

what game is this, if you don't mind me asking?

@frado9194

Жыл бұрын

@@mechanomics2649 tbf dark souls was built around no map

@MoonShadowWolfe

Жыл бұрын

Shit dev. Who were they? I'd like not to buy from them if they've not reconsidered their exclusion.

@bluester7177

Жыл бұрын

@@frado9194 who cares? nobody is asking for them to change the game, they are asking for an optional menu item for people who have a hard time for whatever reason, I'm an artist myself but sometimes I understand why people hate us , sometimes artists are incredibly pretentions and annoying,

DMC 3 would recommend turning down the difficulty after the 10th death. It only hurt my “gamer pride” because my older brother was watching me die over and over to the first boss and started laughing when the “would you like to switch to easy?” pop up occurred; It’s really funny to me in hindsight 😂

@Layahn

Жыл бұрын

It didn't just recommend it. The game literally unlocked it after a certain number of deaths.

@ViridianSunrise

Жыл бұрын

IIRC, the original US version even had the difficulty upscaled to be harder, so Normal mode in that was equivalent to the Japanese version's Hard mode. Easy mode was actually Normal! (They changed it around for later editions.)

@Layahn

Жыл бұрын

@ViridianSunrise yup, I think the dmd settings were roughly equivalent, otherwise each difficulty was one step up for NA

@88cryingwolf

Жыл бұрын

This whole thing reminds me of a t-shirt I once saw "yeah yeah You're top of the leaderboard on call of duty, put that on a job resume, see where it gets you" I think the same logic could be used against prideful gamers TM.

@edwardrichtofen8530

Жыл бұрын

@@88cryingwolf no, it’s more having pride in doing something challenging… Like all aspects of life. I’m betting you barely have any hard memories of the games you play if you never let them be difficult at all. Like in real life you won’t remember things as much as the things you worked hard for.

It's such a small thing, but my partner is red/green colorblind and never even considered it was an issue until he played a game with a colorblind setting. It's a simple thing to overlook but how often are objective markers or other design elements categorized by red and green? And he'd never thought to look for an option to make things easier for himself before seeing it in an indie game, turning it on just to "check it out," and realizing it made a difference.

@sunyavadin

Жыл бұрын

Train Sims are a major one for that, where all the signals are red or green, and distinguishing them is the difference between getting to the destination and derailing when you rear end the train in front.

@devforfun5618

Жыл бұрын

the default hp color scheme is red/green, in multiplayer games that is often how you know someone is an enemy

@Joe90h

Жыл бұрын

This is a thing with people who might be ever so slightly hard of hearing, too. I have some real issues with wax in my right ear, and recently started actively treating it with warm olive oil and making the effort to sleep on my right hand side and now I'm hearing hi hats in music I didn't know were there, and now bass can escape my head so I can better determine the volume of my own voice. We get so caught up in how we experience the world that we assume what we see, hear, smell and taste are 'normal'.

@ElliWoelfin

Жыл бұрын

It's funny how I, with protanopia (aka my eyes don't have red cones and I can only just barely perceive red via what little the other cones pick up), don't typically find colorblind presets any help. Only if I can manually adjust what I need does it help at all, and that just seems like the easiest option for everyone, but is way less common. I'm totally fucked irl though, but hey, it's not a disability if you can't see it ;)

@veinerschnitzel

Жыл бұрын

​@@devforfun5618 it's not just colour but saturation. like lime green and a deep red look very dissimilar too me. but dark green and a less saturated, dark red are imperceptible. not so much about colour itself but about having the colours starkly contrasting in ways other than being different colours.

"Medication is just a crutch, you should be able to deal with problems on your own :/" Something actually said to me, an adhd bipolar adult individual by a 15 yr old.

As someone who's never really struggled on the physical side of disability, i still always find it nice to turn on subtitles because i always find they're nice and if i dont hear something i can see it. also helps keep my attention. I will however always admit i do have a gamer pride problem. and it is a problem, let me make that clear.

@ASpaceOstrich

Жыл бұрын

Same. I have audio processing issues but often refuse to use subtitles because I don't want to "grow dependent on them" and have caught myself playing games on difficulties that I'm not enjoying out of pride. Its a problem.

@NFM1337

Жыл бұрын

And it's really cool if you can also change the language of the audio, say if you're trying to learn a new language. I played Resident Evil on 3DS with Italian audio and English subtitles.

@juliodavila424

Жыл бұрын

I remember when I discovered in, Borderlands 2, I think? You could make the subtitles a different color or even highlight them. Really changed my experience for the better. I like subtitles just because sometimes the audio gets in the way. LIkewise, a friend of mine isdaltonic and when fiddling with options he discovered there was a daltonic mode. He said it made such a huge difference, because up to that point, the guns had just been guns for him. He hadn't realized that you could tell how powerful it was just by the color.

@solblackguy

Жыл бұрын

I do the same because I'm scared I'm not going to hear something plot essential.

@erylaria398

Жыл бұрын

As i get older and my audio processing issues get worse, i am SO grateful for subtitles!! Not just in games but also in movies where the audio mixing in some scenes is just plain shit.

The RPG/open world fear Steph mentioned of NOT wanting to accidentally advance the story because you went down the 'correct' path is super relatable. I want to explore 100% of the game FIRST.

Funnily enough Steph, System Shock 1 back in _1994_ had accessibility/difficulty options for combat, puzzles, the cyberspace flight sim sections and even the story content, easiest being classic Doom level storytelling and hardest being the same as normal but also giving you a 7 hour timer to beat the whole game.

@InfernalMonsoon

Жыл бұрын

I actually mentioned the original System Shock in my comment. A stellar classic way ahead of its time :)

@ShidoMedia

Жыл бұрын

Yeah! The remake that's scheduled to come out soon kept that too.

@lionocyborg6030

Жыл бұрын

@@ShidoMedia I like how the remake version of cyberspace difficulty 3 makes it kill you if you die in the game unlike the original game.

Wonderful video, as always. I have to say, the lack of "a shred of empathy" is why so many things are the way they are and heading ever downward.

@WadeyWWilson

Жыл бұрын

It's not though. I have trouble feeling empathy but I still want as many people as possible to enjoy art. *EDIT* I agree it was a good video, didn't want it to come across like I didn't enjoy it. Just wanted to explain even if you have little empathy you could still want people to enjoy what you enjoy.

@collin1240

Жыл бұрын

@@WadeyWWilson The key wording is "lack of a shred of empathy"... so... no empathy at all. They can't empathize until they are in the situation and it's happening to them. And even then their "empathy" in that moment starts and stop with them, and how they are affected. You may have trouble feeling empathy, but if you at least feel some - to the point of wanting as many people as possible to enjoy something - then it sound like you at least have a shred of empathy.

@Vasoslaihiala

Жыл бұрын

@@WadeyWWilson tefuq do you mean "it's not though". So what is it then? I don't care what you think you feel or not. There is nothing that stands out more obviously than the lack of empathy. There's no other reasonable justification for their cunt-ism.

@WadeyWWilson

Жыл бұрын

@@Vasoslaihiala I think it could be a part of it. But just blaming it on a general lack of empathy seems like such a blanket statement. I have no doubt that the lack of empathy plays a part in it. But to just say it's all a lack of empathy I'm not sure would be correct. Could be. I don't know enough about the people to say whether that's the case or not. I'd have to do more digging. *Edit* I also noticed upon re-reading my comment that I may have come across as kinda confrontational or shitty or something, and that wasn't my intent. Just...not sure if I know enough to blame it all on lack of empathy. Although, of course, it very well could be.

@WadeyWWilson

Жыл бұрын

@@collin1240 Oh make no mistake, I think the lack of empathy is a major part of it. I just don't know enough if I can blame it on it's entirety on a lack of empathy. I mean it very well could be, I don't know much about this. Just saying there could be things other than lack of empathy. I worded this really shitty though, I'm sorry if I came across as confrontational or anything though. That was not my intention. Just wondering what other factors, if any, could be at play.

My favorite part of the Yoshi-P part: When you're playing a single-player mission in FFXIV and you fail, it prompts you to replay it on easy mode or even *very easy* mode.

@Rc3651

Жыл бұрын

That was my first thought, he doesn't like it personally himself when he fails and gets the pop-up, but he still wants ways for people to be able to experience the story. I think they thought that maybe the ring difficulty adjustments would be more elegant or balanced if they took up gear slots instead of being menu options? I can see where they're coming from but menu options like in Bravely Default probably would have been better

@Bootleg_Jones

Жыл бұрын

That and other recent precedents have me wondering how much nuance was lost in translation in that interview. If these accessibility rings do take up normal ring slots (which they may not, though I can't find mych info either way) then that's an issue, but a few of them seem to cover the same things in different ways (there's both an auto-dodge ring and a ring to make manually dodging easier, and the former may make auto-healing redundant if used) and we don't even know how important ring slots actually are which may end up mitigating (tho not eliminating) that issue. Also, I really feel like Yoshi-P was trying to say "I want to offer these in a way that doesn't make people feel bad about using them" more than anything, and I think that is actually a good goal to have even if the results in this case aren't very good at all. I think it's good for a game to call its "easy" mode something like "story focused" or whatever so long as it isn't reinforcing the elitism of gaming culture (which unfortunately FF16's approach may be doing).

@redwitch95

Жыл бұрын

@@Bootleg_Jones Yeah, I'm not fond of judging someone based on how precisely their words were translated. Nuance matters and something that sounds politer/gentler in Japanese may come across as harsher in English depending on how a translator approaches it.

@gabagandalfoftheweed

Жыл бұрын

@@Bootleg_Jones As avid manga reader I get the impression that most "professional" translations lack in several departments.

@Mr_Waffle.

Жыл бұрын

@@gabagandalfoftheweed Because professional translators are paid peanuts and are on ridiculously strict deadlines so they have to settle on "close enough". You can't spend all your time on nuance when you have a whole book to do in a week.

It's weird to me that while accessibility options for everyone are shot down by the toxic gamer community, receiving help from other players seems to be just fine. I didn't see anyone really making fun of the thousands of people inviting LetMeSoloHer into their games to beat Malenia for them instead of "getting gud", but throw out the suggestion of an easy mode and they're likely to burn you at the stake.

Accessibility options are what allowed me to play god of war ragnarok when I was visually impaired. After my surgery I then played it a second time and was blown away again

I remember unironically calling myself a proud gamer. That was before I got online. It was just my way of telling other nerds that I refused to be shy or embarassed by something I enjoyed and welcoming them to tell me if they were also into it. Basically, it was a performance to disarm people who regularly get bullied so I didn't get a knee jerk reaction. And then the internet arrived in my household ( I was age 11 ), and tho I remained quite blissfully ignorant of online gamers beyond stereotypes I did feel ashamed getting associated with them That wasn't a community I wanted to be part of, and I can't say I was proud of it either. At 13 I stopped playing multiplayer games. Solo or nothing, I was afraid to go online. 16, most of my relation to gaming is reading webcomics, I haven't played a new game in ages because the hobby was too poisoned. I've found my way back to the joy in time, but the intensely online gatekeeping GaMeRs sure as shit did not fucking help even a little bit. They were terrifying assholes at every turn. These days, my gamer pride is watching the new generation play my old favorites. My baby neice got her first star in Super Mario 64, and did a happy dance and flailed all over, and THAT is a thing I can be proud of; sharing joy. Don't keep gates, tare the wall down.

@clarencegutsy7309

Жыл бұрын

If you paid for that picture you got ripped off.

@Revealingstorm.

Жыл бұрын

​@@clarencegutsy7309 what picture

@mechanomics2649

Жыл бұрын

@@clarencegutsy7309 Your mother got ripped off when she had you.

@clarencegutsy7309

Жыл бұрын

@@mechanomics2649 Really gay avatar as well.

@loorthedarkelf8353

Жыл бұрын

​@@clarencegutsy7309 I drew my avatar, so it was free 😜

My younger sister is mentally disabled and loves playing the same games as me and my brother. Me and my brother play a wide variety of games ranging from pokemon to elden ring. I'm often the one helping her play these by navigating areas, crafting items, buying items, and beating enemies that are too hard for her. Accessibility options help her enjoy the same games as me and my brother without needing so much outside help and I for one appreciate that.

@Alice-May

Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah

@Fezdani

Жыл бұрын

Does Elden ring have accessibility options such as changing the game difficulty levels? I heard so much about how you have to just "git gud" or not play at all that I've never tried it.. This is coming from someone with arthritic hands, I can't play certain games because of it and it's really unfortunate.

@TheMadBeast

Жыл бұрын

A honest question for you then. Do you feel like all the old game's you own or have or play. (lets say the ones that "could" be updated i.e Xbox/PlayStation/Wii) That the Devs/Company's should then go back and make them accessible to your sister? Is there a certain point or degree you go "They weren't made for everyone" or the actual and logical part of "they didn't think of these options" ?

@mieshii23

Жыл бұрын

@Madbeast No I'm not saying they should do anything. If they want to update the games then great, more power to them. Whether or not a game has accessibility options never stopped her from playing those games, it just makes it harder for her. I'm not sure why you're making a point to ask about older games anyway. Okay so they didn't think about accessibility options back then, that doesn't mean they can't consider them for newer games. All I was saying is that I appreciate them adding such options. It's like when she plays ARK, I put it on creative mode so she can freely explore and gather materials without dying every five seconds. Games are meant to be played so I don't see how adding more options for more people to play them can be a bad thing.

@mieshii23

Жыл бұрын

@Fezdani I'm afraid not which is a shame.

Honestly, the only "issue" with accesibility options is that some of them come dangerously close to showing just how badly designed the base gameplay experience can be. For example take that ring in final fantasy that allows you to automaticly use potions. Maybe the game simply shouldn't be designed around you needing to chug potions so frequently that this becomes a relevant ring...

@youtubeuniversity3638

Жыл бұрын

Heck, maybe just do health refill/regen after X seconds of no damage or somesuch, then potions can be a mid-fight emergency heal then. Or, if the point is resource management, maybe bump player healthpools and reduce opportunities to top off, so then a potion drank is a resource expended and not a disposeable annoyance to deal with.

I liked the Telltale method where if your failed a few times, it started getting easier and easier, it would give you more time, then it would auto hover over the right thing. Ultimately it would just pause the game until you hit the correct button to continue on. I liked it. And I know this because it did happen to me several times and I ended up needing that easiest mode. I think every game that is narrative focused should have that as an option.

It's like going to McDonald's, getting your Big Mac and fries, and being pissed about the McChicken on the menu.

@animeotaku307

Жыл бұрын

More like getting pissed that there’s a Happy Meal on the menu and deciding to mock anyone who gets it.

@imo098765

Жыл бұрын

accessibility is different from difficulty and if a game designer wants to add sliders to make things easier who gives a rats ass about it, the same the other way if they dont who cares

@animeotaku307

Жыл бұрын

@@imo098765 Except it’s not? Just because something is possible for someone with a disability doesn’t mean that it’s accessible. If a person in a wheelchair can get to the bathroom, but it takes thirty minutes to navigate to it because of narrow hallways and awkward corners, it’s not as accessible as it is to someone walking there. Same with visibility in a video game.

I’ve had to come to terms recently with the idea that I might be disabled. Of course, my struggles are nothing compared to someone with something that affects them more, but I fell and landed on my wrist a number of years ago and have dealt with chronic pain since that’s made it difficult for me to do things like drive. For abled people, it’s extremely difficult to imagine life as a disabled person, and so it’s easy to dismiss them entirely.

The fact that in FFXV auto-dodge was locked behind the most frustrating dungeon in the whole game. And then it's an accessory and doesn't even work all the time.

More accessibility is never a bad thing. I admitted only just turned 30, but my reflexes are nowhere near what they used to be. So shit like auto-QTE completion is a godsend. That, and I'm a full time carer, so I don't have as much time as I used to for games so I really don't wanna be stuck on certain sections because my reflexes aren't as good anymore.

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

I started a replay of Black Mesa recently. I started on medium difficulty with aim assist completely off. I died a lot. I turn aim assist on to a very low setting, and now I am having way more fun because I can actually progress!

@GhostNappa2k10

Жыл бұрын

@Sky is really High I can understand that! I'm primarily a console player, but I did play PC shooters at one point. Tried getting back into them last year again, but I just cannot use mouse and keyboard for things like that anymore sadly. I know aim assist is frowned upon, but it's bloody useful.

@Piketom1

Жыл бұрын

"That, and I'm a full time carer," - This! Now that I am an adult with a full time job, I don't want to be stuck on one section of a game or feel like I need to spend time I don't have "getting gud." When I am resting after work, a casual experience to unwind is exactly what the doctor ordered.

@resileaf9501

Жыл бұрын

I feel like a large portion of those "Git gud" types are young 'uns who think that they're going to have youthful reflexes for their entire lives and their skills will never reduce. Nasty surprise waiting for them in their thirties when the burden of a full-time career and less free time and less sleep makes it harder for them to function.

@HUYI1

Жыл бұрын

Similar situation for me, I just don't have time for demanding or difficult games anymore, too old for it and don't have the patience

the accessibility features in Celeste and Ultrakill that slow down the game speed are crucial to my enjoyment of them and honestly I'm so happy they're included

@snigwithasword1284

Жыл бұрын

If you're on PC you might want to look for a program like Cheat Engine, it's a little involved but it can put a speedhack on almost any game out there. Enjoy :)

@edwardrichtofen8530

Жыл бұрын

Cool. But I doubt it was essential to most peoples enjoyment. It’s not all about you..

@chymos6628

Жыл бұрын

@@edwardrichtofen8530 ...so? The options being there hurt nobody. You don't want to use them, don't. That's why they're called options, not mandatories.

@edwardrichtofen8530

Жыл бұрын

@@chymos6628 and if it takes development time away? I would rather a good game with no accessibility options than a super accessible but bland game. Like Ubisoft games. You always forget it takes time to do accessibility options. And while nice, isn’t necessary.

@snigwithasword1284

Жыл бұрын

@@edwardrichtofen8530 Your attitude is hot garbage. Accessibility options are basic functionality for a lot of people. They're formulaic, unless you're really going to town they take no creative input. the problem isn't they're difficult to implement it's just lack of awareness or sheer apathy as you have shown in abundance. Saying it takes time to add accessibility options is like saying it takes time to build a wheelchair ramp and then worrying the architect is going to get bogged down researching how wide and how steep it has to be, if concrete will be too slippery if it gets wet... All this has been figured out long ago and codified in standards. Architects barely have to think about any of it. It's a standard requirement too so anyone who comes back to you saying they had to cut out some ornament because ADA was too expensive is running a terribly threadbare outfit. If your game was bland sorry but it was going to be bland anyway, maybe the developers shouldn't have spent time working on a menu screen and should have made you open it from a console command window. Far be it from me to shame you for blaming marginalized people for your problems though.

I may not personally be into wrestling but I'm so happy that you're getting to live your dream with it, so by all means plug away! It's fun to see the clips of what you get into and honestly impressive to see your progression! You're doing these acrobatic moves I never could have imagined you doing a few years ago!

@KingBobXVI

Жыл бұрын

I just like how in the picture with all of the wrestlers they have the absolute goofiest costume. The star mask just ramps the cheese factor to 11 and I love it.

@carlost856

Жыл бұрын

It helps get into it if you think of wrestling as a kinda shonen anime live theater.

@luccaladinig2783

Жыл бұрын

@@carlost856 Unfortunately, the "shounen" part of that statement is what turns me away 😞

@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819

Жыл бұрын

We grew up in an age of cynicism in the 1990s and 2000s where people said "nothing matters, so who cares?", and look at where that got us? Lots of people grew up thinking that nothing should matter and anyone who wants to care is either an idiot or has ulterior motives. Meanwhile, people that always had ulterior motives have managed to make things worse for everyone because of this nihilism.

@kingstarscream3807

Жыл бұрын

@@luccaladinig2783 There has been a vast amount of different wrestling promotions over the years. The Japanese ones tend to be more shounen, naturally, while Western wrestling is generally more grounded and at least tries to tell a somewhat credible story, even if everyone knows it is fake.

“Just because it’s true, doesn’t mean it’s right” - I like that

Interestingly, the one game I can think of that gives you the option to reduce the difficulty after one death is... Final Fantasy 14. The game that made Yoshida's career.

@tenjenk

Жыл бұрын

More like the other way around really, Yoshida propped up and resurrected 14 after its initial verison flat lined. FF14 also has a number of accessibility options for color blind people, etc. I feel this is more of a case where Yoshi does want to retain the games efficacy but still provides ingame items as an inventive way to help people, hopefully their use is adjusted in a manner that is more functional though.

@FireMage7777

Жыл бұрын

If you're talking about Easy and Very Easy for solo instances, then you should also know that feature has actively hurt the game, and allowed people that have no business advancing and being burdens to others in a cooperative setting

@Bunny_Dubois

Жыл бұрын

I was going to mention this. You fail a solo duty once, and when you next start it it gives the option for normal, easy, and very easy.

@keppakappa5033

Жыл бұрын

​@@FireMage7777 and here we have an example of someone who is part of the problem.

@JJ-M

Жыл бұрын

​@@FireMage7777But, here's the thing. Solo instances are for the story. If all you want to play is the story, why should it bother anyone? You aren't impacting the skill level of ultimate or savage candidates. But, what also happened at that time? The WoW flight, which surged a massive number of people who had a very, very different concept of how to play a MMO.

I've had glaucoma since I was born. I've been playing video games since I was six years old. I related to this medium because there is not just auditory element to it (to which I responde best), but also spacious one (kind of like a digital sense of touch.) Playing on medium difficulty was always kind of a chore, so I let go of my "gamer pride" pretty quickly. I could write a lot about it, but I think that the last paragraph of the video summed things up preety well in broad strokes. It's nice to be recognized as worthy of empathy and not being patronized. It's just nice and kind. Gate keepers are a bunch of pethetic cunts. I wish Stephanie showed some of her most rageful rage while talking about this. I get that the "discourse" about easy modes and accessibility options is repetitive and pointless, but it's nice to hear when somebody with a platform cares. It makes, at least, me feel less like I'm alone in this. And so did this video, so thank You

I still struggle at times with the notion that needing help is shameful and that I'm less of a person for doing so, or even that I'm disabled in some way. It's only been in the last few years with the help of therapy and some good friends around me, that I realise that it's OK to need help

@mattphoenix4702

Жыл бұрын

I understand completely where you’re coming from. One of the wonderful gifts that the recent COVID shutdown gave me was the discovery that I’m on the autism spectrum. It’s apparently not uncommon. Just like someone with color blindness I didn’t know I was experiencing the world in a different way from everyone else, I am considered “high-functioning” and I’d built up tools that let me navigate the world “normally.” Then when things shut down, the lack of use of those social “tools” led to their atrophy. When I went back out into the world it was overwhelming. I still struggle a little bit with this foolish sense of shame, that there’s something “wrong” with me, or I’m a burden. Even though my friends could tell something was bothering me I was afraid that being open about it would change how people thought of me or treated me. It’s taken me about 2 years to get to the point of acceptance or at least making peace with it, and literally everyone in my life cared far less about it than I thought they would. And now, if I’m having an off day and just need my space, or if I just don’t have the energy to go do something on the weekend after a long week, I’m able to just explain this and people understand. I think really I was more afraid of what people would think about me if they knew than I was concerned about the diagnosis itself. The human brain is a truly weird thing.

@Elora445

Жыл бұрын

@@mattphoenix4702 Are you me? I got my ASD diagnosis at the same time you did. I was 38. I could definitely recognize myself, my thoughts and the people around me in what you wrote. Everyone I told about my diagnosis simply nodded and said that explained a lot about me, that's all. Everyone also is more understanding when I simply don't have the energy to be socializing. It's led to a lot less upheaval than I thought, to say the least. I think it helped that I was the third member of my family with a neurodevelopmental disorder.

@Beremor

Жыл бұрын

A while back I played Final Fantasy Origins with my sweetheart. I read up a bit on how the game works and realized the higher 'difficulties' only entail more grind without changing the game's challenge in the slightest. We don't have that much time together and we *really* weren't playing Final Fantasy 1 for the 'difficulty' (read: grind). I jokingly called myself a filthy casual, selected easy mode and just got on with my life. I'm a pretty able gamer, but ever since then, I find I have a lot more fun with games when I start on lower difficulties and then bump it up if I feel I want more challenge. Sorta like using gym weights; you start off too light and work up until you find the perfect weight, rather than struggling with too heavy and going down until you can finally move them.

@boogaloo_weed

10 ай бұрын

get a job lil bro 💀😆 dont ever let me catch you in these comments again kid

i had this conversation with friends a few days ago where one of them said, they didnt understand inclusion in games, and im sitting there... with the crutches ive used for the last 15 YEARS I NEED TO USE TO WALK and i said "yeah, thats why im never going to be able to use VR, man..."

Imagine what accessibility features we don't call that. What we just call features but do, even if only accidentally, make games be more accessible. Hell, in a way one could argue *volume settings* let folks who are hard of hearing and ones who have overly sensative ears both play the same games. Is modifying your brightness accessibility? Can help folks with bad eyes see good. Where even is the line even? TF2 lets you choose from various sounds to have play when you hit/kill someone, exact same volume whether you facestab someone or headshot them from so far off you can't even see the heavy you blew up the head of. No wondering if that was a near miss or just a hit that didn't kill, no matter how much noise and chaos you're surrounded by or trying to aim through.

@altothealtoiest1682

Жыл бұрын

I played the Outer Worlds for class once and discovered I could change the font size of text boxes and was blown away by how nice it was

@youtubeuniversity3638

Жыл бұрын

​@@altothealtoiest1682 Pokèmon I believe lets you change how quickly text appears. I would most definitely include text appearance options into this discussion.

@Bagahnoodles

Жыл бұрын

Or shoot, go even further and look at things like aim assist.

@dragon1130

Жыл бұрын

Almost every game that has volume and brightness features I end up adjusting. I always put the music at about 50-75%, effects at 75-85% and voice at 100% because I want to hear the voices and it's hard to hear them when music so often blares over everything else. (This is primarily in older games, but...I still don't take chances.) I always turn brightness up in games because the darker parts of games are so dark I can't even see half the time. I seriously got flack from a friend for playing Dead Space with the brightness up by about 10-20% for which I told him I can't see anything...which he claimed "oh your just too scared" to which I then actually yelled at him "I CANT F#CKING SEE THE GOD DAMN GAME!!!!!!!" Which was impressive as I had to find a way to convey that many exclamation marks in an audible form, but I feel he got the message after I had to YELL at him. I also have to turn my TV brightness as well as the switches internal brightness in order to play Metroid Prime Remaster just to see the darker rooms... and hoe boy ate there dark rooms in that game. Fun fact, original isn't NEARLY as dark as the remaster. I even tested it using my emulator (it's what I had on hand) and surprise surprise, the same exact rooms in the game are still dark, butnI can actually navigate them and see where steps and platforms are.

@youtubeuniversity3638

Жыл бұрын

​@@dragon1130 Sounds like certain games are made more Accessible for ya with that.

The aging gamer will grow to appreciate those settings when they can't comfortably read or hear the dialog.

@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342

Жыл бұрын

Shoot lol I'm 36 and can already tell I don't see or react as good as I used to lol.

Also, almost every rogue-like or lite I've played has had options that can make the game "easier" or "harder", depending on how you tweak the sliders. Like, the same technology that enables putting accessibility options into your game *also* enables putting challenge options into it, too. In fact, when people do challenge runs, you'll often see them make other parts of the game easier, either to make the run more interesting/fun for the runner or their audience, or in an attempt to balance out the gameplay somehow. The ability to include these options in games can make the game better for *everyone* - even the people leaving these short sighted comments!

I always make use of the subtitles on this channel. Thank you for having them and thank you Laura for making them!

Hmm. I didn't think I'd get hit hard today by a single comment of yours, Steph. When you mentioned that sufferers of chronic pain "shouldn't get medication for it." Yep. I felt that one hard. I'm in that exact situation. Very painful but "everybody must be an addict, right? So no pain meds just in case you might be." Years of this. Fucking yeeeears

@IlIBonesIlI

Жыл бұрын

See, I feel like I'm on the other end of the looking glass here. I come from long lines of people with addictive personalities, and am a sufferer of chronic pain. I was so terrified of addictions that I spent most of my life trying to cope with Migraines using nothing stronger than NSAIDs.

@realdiesoft

Жыл бұрын

@@IlIBonesIlI i can understand that but I don't have that. I had pain meds for a few years and they helped a lot. I also had a strong example of someone i refuse to be (father is/was an alcoholic) so i don't indulge in much. I hate feeling like I'm losing control of myself so I haven't even been drunk before.

@IlIBonesIlI

Жыл бұрын

@@realdiesoft my father is/was a speed freak and I haven't seen him since I was a year old. These days I smoke copious amounts of weed to cope with the pain, and the depression induced by being in pain constantly.

My favorite game is "Guess which submenu the option to turn the subtitles on is under" because it feels like it's a different one in each game

All the accessibility options in Spiderman allow my 5 year old to play without worry of dying or getting stuck on the science puzzles that she can't figure out. As a parent of a younger games enthusiast, it's nice to have the options.

You won't hear the counter argument, but I'll give it anyway: I need games with a singular difficulty setting like the Souls games or Sekiro or Hollow Knight because otherwise I will ruin the challenge for myself. I'm unable to control it, either. I can't force myself to only play the highest or intended difficulty when the game bumps me into easy mode, I'm just not wired that way. There are so many other games out there that cater to a variety of tastes. If the games with a singular difficulty start to offer an 'easy mode', then there's no games left that cater to me and my weirdo tastes. Those are already the only ones. And I don't really care if it involves modding since that's not something I even engage with. I only came to that realizating with Elden Ring, really, since it made it way too easy to sidestep the difficulty of every encounter and cheese your way through it. And as such I wasn't forced into that deeply satisfying feeling that Sekiro gave me when I slashed my way through NG+.

I think that we all know why the accessibility backlash is what it is. Also, there is probably a ton of crossover between the git gud/anti accessibility folks and the people who don't want the videos exposing the wrongdoings of these companies.

@shis1988

Жыл бұрын

It's funny how after playing the Souls saga (sans Sekiro but f Activision refusing to drop it below $30 when I got the whole trilogy for $45), I want everyone to be able to play Elden Ring, Bloodborne, hell each of them, every one of them!

@christalerico6953

Жыл бұрын

@@shis1988 Yeah especially Elden Ring. That one has the most broad appeal. And of course F Activision.

@RobotMasterSplash

Жыл бұрын

​@@shis1988 It wouldn't even be the same type of game or experience anymore. Don't assume so easily that you know better than the devs.

@kestrelstargazer9545

Жыл бұрын

@@RobotMasterSplash I have never seen an accessibility setting that changes a game type. Dark Souls would be an action RPG regardless. Experience is not universal. Two people can play the same game and due to different circumstances have radically different experiences. Finally, game developers are not gods and if I have an opinion on their games I will give it. They get to decide if they want to listen or not. I feel that a lot of people do not consider the experience of the disabled if they are not disabled themselves.

@RobotMasterSplash

Жыл бұрын

​@@kestrelstargazer9545 Wow, you reduced an entire game experience down to its genre in order to make your point look correct, way to move that goalpost. Acting stupid doesn't make you correct, it just makes you stupid. The you try to strawman by implying that I compare devs to gods, as if you actually have some right to force creators to do anything other than what they want to. Your dishonesty is pathetic and very telling of how the thought process is working behind these arguments. Devs have the right to make a game however they want, even if EVERYONE hates it.

As someone with nerve damage in my shoulder, I really appreciate button remapping a lot for action RPGs. My right hand can't always keep up with the enemies because there's a slight delay in my fingers. I've lost a lot of friends who would taunt me to "get good" when I'd play fighting games with them and usually lose. Then, I'd explain that it takes me time to get muscle memory and they would still taunt me anyways because they have no empathy at all and want to feel like victors when they're really just dickheads.

@1IGG

Жыл бұрын

Damn, that sucks. Hope you find better friends!

@gregvs.theworld451

Жыл бұрын

What throbbing bellends. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.

@styx971

Жыл бұрын

i hope you've found better friends since then . that really sucks . i don't play fighting games personally cause i don't want to 'get good' i want to have fun mashing buttons n seeing cool things happen. that exact reason you stated is why i stopped playing capcom style fighting games with my ex-husband , he was always that type of jerk , but i usually did much better with a MK or naruto game ... different combos differ beast

I think the replay argument is a great point. I would LOVE to play Disco Elysium again, but I'd love if there were options to make dice rolls a little easier and make the game a little faster in general.

The absolute most absurd response to requesting an accessibility feature I've seen recently was the response of the Spiritfarer Devs who refuse to implement an option to toggle off the flashing lights in the game, so that people won't have seizures. (At least one person reported having a seizure from playing the game) Response was that development was done and that they are sorry for the "discomfort" ... which is maybe one of the most absurd ways I've read people downplay a seizure...

@RobotMasterSplash

Жыл бұрын

If a game's development is done, then it takes significant resources to reopen it again because all of those people are busy working elsewhere. It sucks but it's not absurd.

@wurst1284

Жыл бұрын

What's absurd about being done with something?

@stellarlight5626

Жыл бұрын

​​​@@RobotMasterSplash It's absurd it doesn't take much to put out a reduce flash intensity feature in a game. Stop being ablist. Literally not that difficult tp update a game with that small of feature.

There's also the Like A Dragon games (like the recent Ishin remake) that puts up a "Switch to Easy" prompt after a few deaths in Hard/legend. I can see why that can be insulting, as that can end up being an extra prompt to go through for people trying to learn the higher-difficulty fights. That prompt could, and should, be a toggle-able option.

@RobotMasterSplash

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for suggesting a reasonable solution and not just misrepresenting the people who criticize it as some kind of negative gamer stereotype like the overwhelming majority of people are doing when they bring this feature up.

@mechanomics2649

Жыл бұрын

@@RobotMasterSplash I'm not sure what you talking to ghosts has to do with anything being talked about here, but okay. People are and have been talking about it in this way, in fact by and large people have suggested these kinds of solutions (like easy modes) and the vast majority of people who don't want accessibility options whine and cry and shit their pants all the same.

I recently gained a whole new appreciation for accessibility when I had surgery on my hand and realized I couldn't play 90% of games. Citizen Sleeper got me through a tough time.

Accessibility is AWESOME and adds options to games that many gamers have wanted for a long time. The more options the better; lets maximize the number of people who can enjoy games!

I remember Final Fantasy VX doing sort of the same. There was an accessory called "the Black Hood" and if you equipped it, it auto-dodged for you. And the way to get it was to complete the most bullsh*t dungeon that was all platforming that if you missed the platform or got hit by a spike, it jumped you back really far back. It was a nightmare.

@thatnerdygaywerewolf9559

Жыл бұрын

So that was what was at the end of the dungeon? I remember attempting it, and after five hours of failure, I turned the game off and didn’t play again for years.

@siryumyum

Жыл бұрын

Just thinking about Pitioss makes my palms sweaty. Fuck that place.

@Stinkdawg

Жыл бұрын

FFVX had another accessibility armor available for free right from the start called "Magitech Exosuit" that made you invincible for a specific amount of gameplay hours and would recharge after something like 12 or 24 hours of real time. So as long as you didn't mind always looking like The Guyver or waiting a day every time the suits ran out of juice, it was pretty okay.

Accessibility options are great for everyone. Even if you may not need to use them now, it's good to know they're available in case you, a friend or family member might use them at a later point in time.

@mjc0961

Жыл бұрын

Just because I have full control of both hands today doesn't mean a tragic accident won't happen to me tomorrow. Just because I have two working eyes today (well, I need glasses, but otherwise I'm good) doesn't mean there won't be some freak accident tomorrow that ruins part of my vision. I wish more people would realize this before they throw a fit about accessibility options.

@pokeguy742

Жыл бұрын

@@mjc0961 fun fact, if you need glasses you have, by definition, a visual disability. A lot of people don't really see it that way, but it's true.

@talonhammer

Жыл бұрын

​@@pokeguy742 Don't "see" it that way, hee hee. Seriously, I found it odd how many people in these comments don't understand that their condition might be a 'real' disability! says something about our culture

@stellarlight5626

Жыл бұрын

The fact that Bloodbourne and Dark Souls lack accessability settings is kind of sad as it would bring in more money to the developers and would allow more people enjoy it ❤️

@apjapki

Жыл бұрын

When they put these things in to help a certain group out, there are always way more people that use that function than expected. Often way more people outside that group use those settings than the group it was intended for (have first hand experience of this with colourblind and literacy options).

I wish more games had accessibility options. One of my favourite series (monster hunter) has become extremely difficult since developing carpal tunnel. I just wanna enjoy the games i've always enjoyed

@Fezdani

Жыл бұрын

I'm right there with you. The amount of furious action and sheer number of button presses become really intense when you have carpal tunnel or arthritis. I had to give it up. Really unfortunate.

@obitosenju3768

Жыл бұрын

And the worst part it is not a fighting game or something where learning those are part of the fun. It is just bullshit

Colourblind settings are a life blood for me gaming. The fact it incidentally pusses off gamer bois makes it all the more glorious! Thank you Naughty Dog oh and thank the Goddess for you ofc!

@queenbeeautumn

10 ай бұрын

Nothing compares to the joy I felt when I first saw colourblind mode in Civ 5 ❤️

Just kind of re-discovered this channel. I’ve been obsessively watching your videos and joined your patreon to support this badass ad-free content! We’re going to get you back up above 1 million, Steph!

@jamespaul6315

Жыл бұрын

Why has it gone down? I missed something I think

@christraven

Жыл бұрын

@@jamespaul6315 Steph came out as trans, and a portion of the audience were shitbags about it and unsubbed.

@MediaMunkee

Жыл бұрын

@@jamespaul6315 Because transphobia, pure and simple. Or, somewhat more generously, transphobia and/or a distaste for political discourse. To be fair the channel never actually reached a million, it peaked at just over 900k, but it's been dropping by 1-2k a week pretty steadily.

@TheAxeLord47911

Жыл бұрын

Give it time, the transphobes will drain themselves soon enough. Here's hoping we get back to 1 million soon, too!

@GuerillaBunny

Жыл бұрын

@@jamespaul6315 Mostly culture war bullshit, I think. A bunch of snowflakes couldn't handle mature, critical conversations about their favorite hobby, I guess.

I turned 50 this year myself. I have no idea what Yoshida thinks turning 50 means as for me I've become much more empathetic and understanding of other people and their issues. I also care even less than I used to about how good others are are at games (which wasn't that much to begin with). So as a guy that is the same age as him I can declare him full of shit.

@tenjenk

Жыл бұрын

You're taking his words the wrong way then without really looking at all he said. Yoshi P is good people. FF14 also has a number of accessibility options for color blind people, etc, and a mode where difficulty single player missions give you easier modes if you die repeatedly. He is sincere in what he says. he wants to retain the efficacy of the FF16 but has still provided items which help people out, albeit that system needs some adjusting to carry out its intended function.

@ZanaTheBatPony

Жыл бұрын

@@tenjenk Then why did he add in those accessibility options in the form of 5 rings, when FF16 only has 3 accessory slots? Don't get me wrong, YoshiP is one of the rare few individuals in the Gaming Industry that're genuinely good, but it would make more sense to add accessibility options into a dedicated part of the menu, rather than how he went about handling it.

@tenjenk

Жыл бұрын

@@ZanaTheBatPony thus why I said it needs to really be improved upon, given theres still time to do so.

@ZanaTheBatPony

Жыл бұрын

@@tenjenk Here's hoping that an actual accessibility options section gets added, instead of only being able to use 3 out of 5 rings at any given moment, but knowing how the Game Industry works, this'll only happen if enough people criticize how YoshiP has handled adding in accessibility options.

@RobotMasterSplash

Жыл бұрын

​@@ZanaTheBatPony I dunno man, kinda feels like they will just be encouraged to not bother trying next time. Gamer boycotts often do more harm than good.

I know Halo infinite launched in a bit of a sorry state in terms of content. But it was the first game I ever played that had a "sensory" section. It includes things like sliders for the strength of flashes, disabling blur effects, blocking loud sudden noises etc. As someone who is very Neurodivergent I cannot express my gratitude enough for whoever included that menu

before I knew I had any disabilities, I would find I'd have a terrible pain in my head after playing games. That's when I found out that too much light gives me migraines. Turned down contrast and brightness of my screen and instantly I was having fun again. Such a small change, but it made all the difference. Games with these things available to tweak to perfection are so appreciated by me. It's just good sense to have accessibility options. Games are enhanced by the personal customization of play through menu options.

my thing about accessibility and difficulty options is that if you can change things to make a game easier, generally it also allows you to change things to make things harder. I feel like often the people saying souls games don’t need difficulty options are the same that say pokémon is too easy. like… ok, and if difficulty options were more popular, maybe pokémon would ship with a hard mode

@youtubeuniversity3638

Жыл бұрын

Black and White or their sequels, forget which, had difficilties. But only one had easy unlocked by default and other hard and you had to beat the game to get the other. Maybe if difficultt modification was more normal they wouldn't have messed that up bad.

@Ashtari

Жыл бұрын

While I wouldn't use it, I would not mind Pokemon shipping with a Nuzlocke option built in for gamers who enjoy playing with that rule set.

@monckey44

Жыл бұрын

@@youtubeuniversity3638 must’ve been the sequels, they’re still the only pokémon games I never played. got a copy a few years ago and lost it immediately. took that as a sign lol

@RonOnTheWay

Жыл бұрын

I can't say Dark Souls should have difficulty options as that's literally the driving creative force of the game. The protagonist is supposed to be weak. The experience is supposed to be grinding. For accessibility - they do have options, like calling in aid or using spells that stun, or track. Elden Ring added more save points too. Lean into that approach more, like Elden Ring did. I don't think a difficulty slider should be added to games where the hallmark is difficulty. Pokémon isn't known for difficulty and it's not a core part of what makes the game fun.

@Fernando-ek8jp

Жыл бұрын

@@RonOnTheWay Yes, but not every player is able to get the same sense of weakness. I have no issues playing some games at their hardest, and I get fun out of being able to play games above "normal". Yet some people struggle with normal or even easy some times. Not everyone has the same level of tolerance and skill, an "easier" Dark Souls difficulty wouldn't make it equally easy for everyone. Also, a lot of people are still able to bend the game over backwards and utterly break it through their skill. Are they playing the game "wrong" by being able to beat the game without getting hit or leveling up much?

As an aging "gamer" I appreciate it when companies put in the most basic accessibility things like increasing font sizes, subtitles with neat little tweaks, audio tweaks, toggling buttons rather than mashing, etc.. When I was playing a Fire Emblem on the Switch a couple years ago (Three Houses, I think), the font was so ridiculously small that it strained the eyes. There was no way to increase it. My eyes are aging. My next set of glasses are 100% going to have bifocals. Yay. My hearing is also declining, so I like it when visual cues are an option. These things aren't present to make games "easier." And when my reflexes and nervous system start to shit the bed, I will take advantage of accessibility options that help with that. Companies that won't put that stuff in their games because they (don't want to cater to the disabled) only want to make "hardcore" gameplay are going to find their fanbase shrinking and dwindling as those gamers age up (or have other things happen to them). I mean, I had a friend who had several complications from diabetes hit him hard in just a few years and he went from loving video games to not being able to play them at all because his vision was going and his hand-eye coordination was shot. Life happens. It takes zero effort to be kinder to each other and your audience.

@RobotMasterSplash

Жыл бұрын

Okay but you're literally trying to say that features which require lots of development time and hired consultants are "zero effort" for the developers which is obviously false. Some games wont be accessible by their nature, and some developers can't afford the extra work. That's just how life is. I despise this idea that devs are doing something "wrong" for not having them and I'm not holding back my thoughts on it anymore.

@Khasym

Жыл бұрын

@@RobotMasterSplash Ummm, scaleable font size DOES take zero effort. If this were Java games, running on Java code, you MIGHT have a case....there is no reason it take any kind of effort, to set your basic font size, to the size the DEVICE'S OWNER chooses to run it on.

@RobotMasterSplash

Жыл бұрын

​@@Khasym I like how you only pulled out the one absolute easiest example, thanks for proving my point.

@goodpeople25

Жыл бұрын

@@RobotMasterSplash "It takes zero effort to be kinder to each other and your audience." is nowhere close to "trying to say that features which require lots of development time and hired consultants are "zero effort" for the developers which is obviously false" let alone any use of the word "literally". That your straw man has an easily pointed out example even at face value is just proving it's a crappy strawman.

@DomyTheMad420

Жыл бұрын

"their fanbase shrinking and dwindling as those gamers age up " you act like the younger generation won't be picking up those controllers.

The argument of 'what does it matter if accessibility options are there for people who aren't you' doesn't pass muster when you consider that developers only have finite resources to make a game and that extra Text to Speech option necessarily came at the cost of other features to the game that you didn't get, such as extra levels or content to play. And if you then say 'but an accessible game means more customers and therefore more resources to develop with' then you end up with lowest common denominator games, cross platform, mobile friendly, free-to-play genshin impacts

@Mintylight

Жыл бұрын

Considering the substantial amount of filler many AAA titles usually have in order to be able to say that it takes 60 hours to finish I'd be DELIGHTED if some of that were devoted to making access-options instead.

@markhackett2302

Жыл бұрын

Devs only have finite resources? Then why are there bonuses and shareholder increases? Devs didn't gain more time, so why are there more profits?!?!?!?

@sirkastic

Жыл бұрын

@@Mintylight One person's filler might be another person's main course

@Mintylight

Жыл бұрын

@@sirkastic Very true. Hence, all options should be available. Because one persons easy might be another persons hard.

Logically, having "gamer pride" would make people happy to see extensive accessibility options! 'look at all those things that make the game easier, I don't even need them! Yay me!'

Good video. For more info as to why designing for accessibility is generally a good thing overall, look up the "curb cut effect" Speaking on the white tanooki suit...my young son is a relatively new, inexperienced gamer, and recently picked up Super Mario 3D World. The suit is allowing him to enjoy a game that would otherwise likely be frustratingly difficult for him. When we play together, he takes the golden leaf and I play without it, and we both have a great time with the game. That's the important thing. Related: remapping controls and buttons should just be a standard option every game offers by now.

@Seajack64

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but it should also have a "turn this feature off" option for the in-game help stuff. I can't remember exactly which game it was, but I remember being frustrated at needing to decline a dialog box offering Luigi to play the game for me over and over each time I died and not being able to find any way to stop it. I actually gave up on that game because each time I was being challenged and starting to enjoy myself, this damn dialog box would ruin my flow. I also remember in a different game sometimes accidentally getting some of these helper power ups and needing to find a way to die so that I could continue without it. I'm neurodivergent, I support these features and assistances being available (even by default): I get it; but they really need to be optional and able to be turned off.

English language in dark souls is an accessibility option

Accessibility options are a lifesaver for me when they can actually apply. I struggle severely with visual processing and have a tendency to run into things in visually overwhelming situations like the grocery store. Mario Kart 8 has a feature that effectively puts you on guard rails and it's improved my ability to play the game immensely since I'm not constantly driving off the map while focusing on something else onscreen. I haven't played many games with a huge suite of accessibility options, but it's always nice when something helps for a disability that probably wasn't directly considered.

Ikenfell is actually a great example of how accessibility can improve things for ~everyone~! I don't have a disability that would make its offerings essential for me, but I still ended up turning off the timing-based stuff and using instant victory for most encounters. That allowed me to focus on the boss fights and made combat more tactical, which was great! In a narrative game like Ikenfell, giving players ways to taylor their experience with the gameplay to their enjoyment and their needs is just a sensible thing to do.

I'm not disabled, but if a game has a hold a button instead of mashing it. I'm all in all the way.

@animeotaku307

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure controllers would be happy with that, too

Back then there were things like "cheats" to make stuff easier and nobody really cared about it.

@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342

Жыл бұрын

Now those cheats are often in the form of pay to win microz lol. Such horse crap...

@Bootystank99659

Жыл бұрын

Because cheats get seen as cheating and not enjoying the game for what it is

@jlev1028

Жыл бұрын

​@@Bootystank99659Looks like you're the only person who cares.

@Bootystank99659

Жыл бұрын

@@jlev1028 ?? I wasn’t saying I agreed with the statement or anything just saying something gamer guys often say and didn’t ask anyone to care either What are you on about

@RobotMasterSplash

Жыл бұрын

​@@jlev1028 Looks like you're way more sensitive about your gamer rep than you imply. If you didn't care then you wouldn't be getting mad at someone who simply calls a cheat a cheat. This whole conversation reveals a lot about gamers.

A little story! I have my own pride when it comes to overcoming difficult challenges. There can be a lot of fun there. However I actually used accessibility features once! In hat and time the first expansion contains a mission where you need to deliver things all throughout the ship. For some reason this was incredibly unenjoyable for me. Whether it was because I was working a shit job at McDonald's or something else, I just couldn't handle this challenge I should be able to do. Accessibility settings let me just get on with the rest of the game. I've never been more grateful for them. On a side note I don't really care about wrestling but I also don't really care that it takes up tiny spots in the video. It's good to see you out there living your best life. So keep on doing choke slams or whatever, I'll be here for it like a parent who doesn't understand their kids but still wants to be supportive

Gamer pride? Buddy, that’s just an ego. We already have a word for that.

I was doing a workout with my dumbbells at the time of starting this video and never before on any of your videos (and we've seen the Cornflake Homunculus) have I been so terrified... That said, thank you for the motivation. I will keep pumping lol

Suddenly Black Mage’s rotations and being a glass cannon in FF14 make more sense. It’s Yoshi-P’s favorite class. Also your bit about puzzles reminds me of how much I hated the puzzles in the late game Palaces of Persona 5. Had to look up a guide online to progress in the dungeon after multiple tries and I was playing Easy mode.

@nuclearbiologist

Жыл бұрын

as an ex summoner main seeing every job get squashed, I find his "pride as a gamer" to be a load of shit. Where was that pride for every other job or any normal content?

@writer_man5318

Жыл бұрын

@@nuclearbiologist To be frank, Summoner's change was more about it becoming an actual Summoner as it was just a pet DoT class before that didn't make you feel like a summoner compared to the mainline games.

@nuclearbiologist

Жыл бұрын

@@writer_man5318 going to rip my eyes out everytime people call summoner a dot job. bio and Miasma. That's ALL IT HAD. In heavensward sure it had a shit load, it lost all of it in stormblood, and then in shb it was just two dots. And STILL FFXIV players wouldnt shut up about it. The main focus of Summoner before endwalker turned it into a 5 button ranged dps, was THE PETS. YOUR SUMMONS. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE They really could have removed the dots and just focused more on the egis and swapping between them and it would have been perfect.

@GlasgowMick89

Жыл бұрын

DRG main since ARR when they used to be the squishiest class in the game, i feel your pain. High damage, low hp and defence. The pain of Titan and Coils back in the day lol. I do miss those days alot. Don't miss being 1 shot though >.< .

@michaelconnell1010

Жыл бұрын

@@GlasgowMick89 I am glad they got rid of the battle permadeath that came with being ringed out.

It's good that we get accessibility options because one day I will old as fuck and will need them.

An opinion on this: accessibility should be about allowing more people to play the game. Sign language support, colorblind support, additional subtitles, indicator markers, heads up display alerts, that kind of thing actually makes sense universally. And, in a single player game, yeah. Simplifying button combos, I can see how that would be a good thing to have. Although having it to a point where the game plays itself, I mean, if the developers want that type of accessibility for players who want to focus more on the story, then, honestly, go for it. It's their decision. But, if a developer excludes certain types of handicaps, is it really something to get upset over? Honestly something I'm not fully sure on, and want to hear from the other side and have a conversation about it. Particularly the arguments of people who seem to conflate accessibility with difficulty. Like, an easy mode could be an issue if the game was particularly designed mechanically to run with a single difficulty level. That is something I can see having a valid argument as it would mean having to rebalance the game for different difficulties, potentially diverting resources away from core mechanics and design. That's a possible argument. So, instead having accessibility features to let players have certain handicaps to perhaps make it a bit more manageable in the event that either it is genuinely too much for them, or they are disabled in some regard, is good. If the game is balanced around one difficulty level, then accessibility features should be allowing others to play the game at all. That's how I see it, and, would appreciate hearing from others on it. Just, please keep it civil.

Honestly, the whole "playing around pride" thing is a genuine issue in game development, even outside inclusivity. You have to be very careful about how you offer aid to a struggling player, because they don't react to even the kindest of prompts in the way you'd necessarily expect. For instance, statistics show that for a LOT of the average playerbase of a game... the threshold where their pride will allow them to willingly lower the difficulty setting of a game is actually significantly lower than the threshold where they'll just say "screw this!" and drop the game altogether. Likewise, those prompts after a few lost bosses that ask if you want to bump the difficulty down this time... even when I can intellectually appreciate the intention behind it... yeah, in the heat of the moment, after death number six, it kind of just makes me want to chuck my controller at the screen. Like a dad on a road trip insisting he isn't lost. It's an interesting psychological phenomena.

@ukyoize

Жыл бұрын

"Easy mode is now selectable"

@devforfun5618

Жыл бұрын

true, if i cant play a game on normal it is more probable for me to quit, but that is because of the history of lazy difficulty settings, usually just changing health, removing enemies or making them attack less often (and the game wont tell you which), if a game has a more granular difficult like changing the rarity of random events occurring or reducing the grind then i keep playing, for example in v rising you can change how long the day lasts, or how much materials you collect

@jacksonteller3973

Жыл бұрын

Not me,

@revolutionofthekind

Жыл бұрын

Yyyeah it's never felt great to get those pop ups, tho for me it just alerts me to the fact there are even options in the game. Which IS helpful. So even if i may kneejerk say no at first, there are times where if i'm really struggling and its becoming unfun, i'll toggle the difficulty just for that part and then toggle back. Like thats a thing i think people dont realize about difficulty settings in modern games: you can turn them on and off as needed. Which is a problem! I think, rather than the pop up, games should just..up top tell you theres an option? So if you get frustrated you already know you can change the difficulty! As disabled as i am, i DO like to challenge myself. But i also like to have fun more, and i'm playing a game to have fun. So it just makes the most sense to me to let people have fun the best way they can, and enjoy the game.

I think Rogue Legacy 2 has a perfect example for an 'accessibility' difficulty; a separate menu for all sorts of additional boons and sliders for enemy health, damage and speed... But the thing that makes it great, is that it goes the other way, too. You can not only crank it down to make the game easier, but crank it up, to make the game even harder, while displaying the additional difficulty as a score value, if enabled. Now that's the kind of accessibility option any Proud™ Gamer™ should be able to get behind. Brotato has similar accessibility sliders, that go both down and up.

I'm aware the fact im giving both sides without radically going "Yes must have" many folks will disagree with the content i will type. But please remember not all things are as simple as "its done to include all" vs the big company's going " how to we make even more money from those who wouldn't normally be able to enjoy this game and pay for the content" I do not mind games that give Accessibility to all types of players for the many reasons they would need help to play the game. My issue with Accessibility options is when to create and generate said options take from the games coding/work needing done/release fixes or other aspects to then include everyone. I'm sure many folks will go "it should be done anyways" or as Jim's "stabbing" point from the "bad half" of "not all games are made for everybody". The one post of "Sekiro being lambasted for lack of accessibility" isn't a call of "keep those unable to play out from playing" it was a "the game shouldn't be penalized for not including the accessibility as core release options" Can your game have accessibility and work just fine? It can? Cool run with it. Do you have to redo the whole game to make it workable and delay a release date? Not really cool tbh. Do you then use the whole "but its for all gamers" and use the guilt card and etc to make folks agree to the longer delay or complete redoing of a game? More uncool. I know Jim is all inclusive for all things but I do hope they still acknowledge. There is a point of when things are included from the start and when things are added in to score "points".

I have ADHD and I really get the issue of wanting to just get a boring or tedious section done and over with. Sometimes I like to hunt for Achievements because seeing the little 100% bar on a game makes me happy. But I would also sometimes just like to get a "get all achievements" button because then I can play the game with mods, or don't have to worry about forgetting to do a certain choice that was 45 minutes of gameplay and 15 minutes of unskippable cutscenes ago. The achievements are meaningless, even to me to a degree, I just like having them because it calms my chaotic brain to see that 100% bar so I can now game the way I want to. I do not, simply cannot understand how making games more accessible is somehow a problem. The bastards are already getting more and more prohibitively expensive with today's economy making it so that 70-120 dollar or euro or pounds require several months of saving up. Shouldn't you then be allowed to enjoy the game the way you want to? Nobody's asking for games to all be dumbed down to the point of "click X to win". Just to add options that allow more people to be gamers.

@kingstarscream3807

Жыл бұрын

As a fellow ADHDer, surely you don't expect devs to allow you to auto-win all achievements just so you can not feel bad about using mods or cheating?

@l0rf

Жыл бұрын

@@kingstarscream3807 in a way, I kind of do. There's some really bad games out there that also take far too long to complete. Have you tried Sword of the Stars 2? Or the Jagged Alliance sequels. For those I wouldn't mind a button that disables the game but gives me 100% in it, just so the bad game doesn't win. Sometimes it's a whole suite of multiplayer related things that I'll never get because my friends don't play the game and I'm not interested in finding a lobby for 10 year old games, if there's even still servers. That kind of thing I would also happily take a disable but all achievements unlock option. It's a weird quirk and I don't expect anything like that to ever happen, it'd just be... Nice?

accessibility is so very important and for people to behave as if it...diminishes their own 'Gamer Accomplishments TM' is beyond ludicrous. i'm not considered disabled (aside from needing glasses), but having accessibility options is vital to me just to enjoy a game. subtitles, enabling loot highlighting or pinging, expanding/narrowing FOV, auto-lock on targeting, and easing combo bits are my go-to options. my ADHD means i get visually overwhelmed, and i've always been shit at timing when it comes to combos or platforming (back in the day this meant i simply didnt play games because i would just devolve into button-mashing, which meant i got nowhere). and i don't give one solitary flying fuck if Gamers TM have an issue with the way i play games: games are art and art is meant to be enjoyed by everyone, which means it *needs* to be accessible.

@mjc0961

Жыл бұрын

I really will never understand that kind of person. If you don't want the accessibility options to get in the way of your "gamer accomplishments" (that absolutely nobody else on the planet cares about BTW), don't enable them. Simple as. They always act like they're forced to enable them if they exist. It's so exhausting.

As a gamer who enjoys video games, it makes to happy that accessibility features allow as many people as possible to enjoy the same games I do, that those people help contruibe to franchise sales and ensure the games I like can keep being made :)

Accessibility options help everyone. For example, it led to the ability to turn off all those awful visual settings that make games look more "cinematic" (motion blur, film grain, camera sway/bob etc).

In the spirit of accessibility, I actually really like the 15 second wrestling clips :D Wrestling is such a visual performance, which I have trouble sitting down and concentrating on for long periods of time. The clips are like highlight reels of the wild parts that I can catch in the middle of listening to a Jimquisition episode!

thank you for this video! in 2021 i got very severe breakthrough delta covid had a stroke while i was in a coma my left hand is basically a cute flipper and there are soooooo many games i cannot play one handed because you cant keymap to a mouse in lots of themthe accessible controllers are a tad expensive toothis is never discussed anywhere and people think its silly because they dont realize that gaming can be positively social and theraputic

Some people say the whole idea of competition in general in every single situation is to vanquish and conquer your enemies and then boast about how your skills are superior to the other person's. Some people say that boasting about how you are superior to the other person or people because of your more refined, more excellent skills after you win the confrontation is the sine qua non of the competitive situation. Sine qua non is Latin for "the absolutely necessary thing".

@Carabas72

Жыл бұрын

How are single player games a "competitive situation"?

@gwillis01

Жыл бұрын

@@Carabas72 People always like to talk to their friends ( either online or in person ) and brag about their high scores. A person rarely plays a video game without telling someone else about their achievements and high scores.

If every game should be made for everybody then why do we have a ratings system.... no single product is for everyone.

Here for the Al gore rhythm. I’m quite happy with the gains in accessibility. It’s so important

@Cool_Calm_Cam

Жыл бұрын

Gym gains? Nah, how about accessibility gains.

@zippomage

Жыл бұрын

al gore rhythm would be a bitchin game!

@sypherthe297th2

Жыл бұрын

"SWEET HOLY HELL! SOMEONE GOUGE OUT MY EYES!!"

@edwardrichtofen8530

Жыл бұрын

@@Cool_Calm_Cam why not both?

I tried having gamer pride once. After about 2 hours I switched God of War (2018) from Hard to Normal and actually enjoyed playing the game lol Great video as always!

@ukyoize

Жыл бұрын

You could have even more enjoyment by switching to a better game.

@tenjenk

Жыл бұрын

@@ukyoize its hard to play things which doesnt exist.

To all the "hardcore" gamers who are against accessibility settings: just remember that you're only one major accident or illness away from needing them yourself.

@youtubeuniversity3638

9 ай бұрын

Like they would believe that... Or even care if you did convince them...

it's funny cuz in FFXIV if you fail a solo scenario on the first try you get the "do you want to change to easy mode" pop up immediately

@coffeeavenger

Жыл бұрын

That’s a relatively recent change that was implemented because so many people got blocked from MSQ progression by the solo duty in 4.4. It was almost as if SE realized people who don’t identify as gamers play FFXIV for the story.

@thetruewisegamer

Жыл бұрын

@@coffeeavengerbut I never understood this why buy something ,if you don’t care for a good chunk of something. it like buying a meal at restaurants then only eating half and buying the rest

@NoobLord9001

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@@thetruewisegamer because the half you DO eat is worth the monetary price.

I actually like it when games recognise that I've died over and over again in a particular area and automatically lower the difficulty for that bit of the game until I've beaten it before returning to normal. I wish more games had that auto scaling feature. Much better than getting frustrated and angry and it also doesn't hurt your "gamer pride" as you don't have to go in and manually set it to easy mode.

@DJCPreston

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I love games with this feature but don't announce it. I think it's also a lot more common than many people realise.

I hate easy mode in dark souls but I love accessibility options for disabilities. You can have both

@Carabas72

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How do you feel about an ultra-hard mode in Dark Souls?