| pokoko said: I care not at all about a game being considered art. I care that I enjoy myself while playing. As an example, Fallout 4 has two upper difficulties: Very Hard, which simply makes everyone, including your character, into bullet sponges; and Survival, which increases the lethality of attacks greatly, which I really like, but also includes a lot of other game-play changes, like restricting saves to when you sleep, which I hate. What did I do? I downloaded a mod that allowed me to play on Very Hard but with the lethality of Survival, which I enjoyed a lot more than either mode as they were programmed by the developers. Enjoyment, to me, is what gaming should be about. And, at the of the day, the option to change the gameplay also includes the option not to change the gameplay. |
The option to change game-settings like a difficulty level or things like control scheme and graphics, which I agree should be included in most games, is different than asking to be able to turn off an integral mechanic that has an impact on the gameplay and world design; in other words asking to turn off a part of the game itself. I don’t like dying, should I ask for the option to turn off enemies?
