curl-6 said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
But it does take from the experience of the person modding it. Imagine removing all the pitfalls in Mario and all the enemies except Goombas. Then you play Mario and aren't impressed at all saying "It's an ok game, just run left to right and hit the flagpole." They never get to experience the boss battles or airship fortress or flying through the sky. Hollow Knight is one of my top 10 games of all time because even though it is hard, you learn so much while playing it. The experience of beating Hollow Knight and being forced to learn different concepts makes the game ten times better. There's plenty of games out there with an easy mode. Enjoy them instead. |
People are allowed to decide for themselves what kind of experience they want. Some folks simply don't enjoy punishing difficulty, and that's okay. They may genuinely have a better experience if say enemies deal less damage or there's less lost progress upon death. Why does it even bother you how others choose to play? Just play it the way you want and let others do the same. |
The funny thing is that there is already an easy mode built into Souls-like games. If you are having a hard time, you can just farm more souls or explore another area of the map until your character is OP for the boss you are stuck on. And on top of that, most of these games have an item combo like Guts' greatsword, or Giant Dad build that makes the game easy. Souls-likes aren't actually hard; they just don't hold your hand Nintendo style. The people installing this mod after three measly days just want everything spoon-fed to them quickly. They could be patient enough to find that one OP item or go exploring/farming. But they gave up.
If you change the rules of soccer so that you can use your hands, you aren't playing soccer anymore. That's because not being able to use your hands is a small but critical aspect of the game. If you want to play base'ketball or some other variation of a sport that's fine. Just don't claim to be a soccer player while playing a game that isn't soccer. In the vein of videogames, once you take the "difficulty" out of a game like Hollow Knight you've changed a critical aspect of the game. People who install an easy mode mod aren't playing Silk-Song. They are playing a different game that looks and feels the same but is not the same game. Imagine buying a guitar and instead of learning to actually play, you hook your system up to AI and prompt it to make your playing sound awesome. Now, imagine still claiming to be a guitar player. You aren't. You are doing AI-assisted karaoke. And people who use an easy mode mod aren't beating Silk-Song. They are beating a romhack. Both the guitar player and the Silksong mod enjoyer are posers.
And to that I say it's more mature to just accept that not everything is for you than it is to try to be one of the cool kids enjoying the new hotness. Just go play a different game. Otherwise you are as much a poser as someone that tries to pass store bought cookies off as their own recipe.