>>712727256 (OP)
They tend to bully the less fortunate like russians and troons and stuff.
Good guys overall.

the kid didn't beat Malenia, simple as

>elden ring
>social media (probably reddit)
>article looks like kotaku
>game journalists
>souls babies mad a child can beat their so-called tough game
i dont associate with you people

>play easy mode
>get called
>wahh wahh why are you so mean!
lmao get fucked faggot

>>712727256 (OP)
i put on the blasphemous blade and me and my mimic gangbanged her in one attempt shit was easy

>>712727256 (OP)
That sounds like a problem within the guy's personal online community, especially since the article snippet doesn't even say how big his community is. Most people online understand that a literal seven-year-old can just use the gear they think is cool.

>>712727256 (OP)
fathers taught their sons to beat games back in my day

>>712728118
back in the day fathers didnt know shit about games. they were all nintendos and they would ask are you winning son

>>712727256 (OP)
I think I agree with the posters on this one
>Pre-nerf RoB
>Pre-nerf Mimic
yeah no shit a 7 year old was able to do it

>>712727256 (OP)
>toxic
Anyone who uses that word not in reference to chemicals is a flaming faggot.

>>712727706
I did the same thing. Meanwhile, fromdrones pounded their head against the wall for hours trying to beat this poorly designed boss in a forgettable kusoge lmao

>>712727434
this is a 7 year old playing bro, you ever been around a 7 year old? They're barely conscious, it's impressive either way.

>>712727910
The 7 year old probably used OP gear that his father suggested but even if he played on easy mode it's stilla good display of skill because he beat Malenia and he's an actual 7 year old so who cares.

>playing version 1.0
>open world slop as expected
>frost stomp + mimic tears
>halfway the run they patch things
>use steam offline mode to bypass this
>ULTRA destroy the bitch first try
>fucks given = 0

>>712729347
>>712728643

I fthe father actually legit made efforts to play the game pre nerfs then no wonde rthey made fun lmao.

Using an OP build is one thing but actually planning to have your kid play unpatched so you can tell him to use the most powerful items and then post "looook my son beat Malenia" is cringe on his part.

Kid did nothing wrong but the dad was clearly seeking attention in an embarrasing way.

>>712727256 (OP)
Deserved. The dad's just using his kid for upvotes anyway.

>>712727256 (OP)
i mean yeah, he didnt beat it (the game)

>>712727434
>clowning over 7yo for beating the same boss as you did on easy mode

that's just shitters being salty a kid can do as well as them

>>712727256 (OP)
Children shouldn't be seated with participation ribbons
that's how you become vee users who justify their lack of skill and drive on anything other than their own hands
Maybe the enxt time, this kid will actually best Malenia. Simple as.
>mimic
>rivers of blood before nerf
Don't care if you're literally a woman. Being 7 is no excuse. You're still better than a woman. So I wouldn't even excuse a woman doing this. Be better

>>712728118
Back in the days fathers thought them computers are devil magic and out there trying to steal your son's soul

>>712730201
>as you did on easy mode
i didnt played on easy mode
but nice try
>clowing over 7yo
for that i would need to visit the shithole you are shilling and not 4chan

>>712727256 (OP)
>RoB
>mimic
He didn't beat the game

>>712730265
>>712730201
>>712730206

The kid doesn't even know what's going on and doesn't matter in this, it's just cringe that the father felt the need to farm upvotes like this. I just hope the kid had fun with the game overall.

>>712727256 (OP)

>>712727256 (OP)
>Little shitster kid uses the most op things in the game
>beats easy boss
>retard dad thinks this is worth posting for me hecking karma
>reddit calls him and his son out for being clout chasing shitters
>Noooo! He’s only seven!!!!!
Kys

>>712727256 (OP)
soulsfags are so obsessed with difficulty and prestige despite playing an easy baby rhythm game
it's funny and sad

>nooo you can't just beat this game without gimping yourself intentionally noooooo please

i ended up soloing malenia despite using summons for literally every other boss because she just kept healing off of them and it was a massive detriment. i have no idea where people got the idea that they make her easy.
>>712730474
oh he was just being a cunt lmao fuck him

If you can't reliably kill Malenia with any reasonable build in a couple tries you're bad.
>muh starfist build with 12 buffs I got from a streamer
>muh bleed and frost abuse
>muh night comet spam

>>712729221
I was a 7 year old who beat battletoads

>>712730265
Butthurt loser males that equates video games to real life achivements. Neck yourself you pathetic waste of space. Join the increasing statistics of young, useless, kissless males that kill themselves. I could almost jerk off everytime I read those numbers. It's fucking fantastic. The amount of toxic, retarded vitrol that is spewed out every day makes me so fucking glad that the incessant negativity and toxicity is actually causing them to kill themselves. It's poetic justice. Go join the crowd of incel losers you subhuman sandnigger.

>>712729221
you must understand, Souls games are only hard with some mental chastity.
They can't be supportive of someone playing it on 'easy' mode because then they would have to admit that the game is easy.

>>712730474
>Falling for obvious ragebait then posting about it
self inflicted

>>712727706
You didn't beat the game (I did the same but with ranni's sword lol)

>>712730714
Holy projection, kek

>>712730353
Nice reading comprehension, idiot. Maybe ypu should have read more instead of playing vidya.

>>712730714
>t. 7 year old mimic and bleed user
absolutely embarrassing

>>712730265
Based

>>712730714
Why don't you send that exact response to the kid in OP's post?

>>712730419
>be proud your boy could do something you considered hard
>share the moment
>UMM AKSHUALLY YOU CAN'T DO THAT, YOU CAN ONLY TALK ABOUT YOUSELF ON THE INTERNET! LIKE ME!

Because souls fans don't actually enjoy souls games. I mean, let's be honest, how does anyone enjoy trial and error roll slop? What they enjoy is the bragging rights they get from beating souls games. That's why whenever you criticize a souls games they go
>"Skill issue bro!"
You're basically attacking their fragile ego by criticizing souls games at all. Their biggest achievement in life is beating souls slop jfl

>>712730474
easy modes as accesibility are just fin, but what people fear are games becoming more accesible by default.

Yeah I know you're not the twitter user on the picrel but I feel the need to say it anyway.

Look what capcom did with MHWilds, no they didn't add an easy mode or accesibility options or anything like that, no, the game was made easier for everyone, the default normal experience of the game has become so streamlined and simplified and enshitified to catter to "new players" that the game literally lost half of what made it fun in the first place.

Accesibility is good, but when will people understand, when will people get that in order for a game's mechanics to shine you have to push the players a bit? You have to make something worth beating, what's the fun on a game where you noclip to the ending and see the credits roll?

The souls elitism discourse has poisoned the well so much that now every time someone fears excessive streamlining or critiques a game for being too easy they're see as some kind of lifeless nerd, even though a fucking child can beat Bloodborne if only he tries a little, people like to cry so much about how overwhelming or difficult things are and they can't be arsed to do it because they're too le stressed out, but the truth is that most people can fucking beat a game if they just persist a little, how many times do we have to hear the same fucking story of someone bouncing off of Dark Souls 1 cause it was too hard and then on their 3rd try they actually beat the game and they think it's the best thing they have ever experience in their whole life? People are so stubborn when it comes to refusing to try playing the fucking game when they should be stubborn to try and get better at it in the first place, that's where "git gud" comes from, and once you're good enough THEN you can give your opinion and say what you didn't like about the game, cause there ARE bullshit bosses and enemies and difficulties worth talking about.

>>712730761
the point of rpgs is to develop your character and become as powerful as possible. i achieved my goal therefore beat the game.

>>712731010
Souls games are the only games to ever get to me actually stay outside of my head and ocd thoughts. Allows me to focus. Same thing as learning. You don't like this because you don't see an apple and have a low iq so you aren't stuck in your head. But me, someone with. A160 iq that has been through immense trauma, it helps me stay in reality and sharpen things about myself you aren't even aware exist within yourself. Pretty sad for u

>>712731061
I would say the purpose is to experience the devs intended experience. They didn't spend tons of time crafting Malenia moveset, or Simon in e33, for you losers to one shot / mimic it and not see the moves or learn the flow. You deprive yourself of the experience and feel proud. I wonder how much of life you do this too. I feel bad for the seven year old. Having a pathetic beta male dad who avoids character growth by removing challenge and walls. His son is doomed to be a soi tendie at this rate

>>712730491
>>712730714
>>712731031
>>712731061
>>712731154
samefagging this hard

>putting your kid on socmed
as expected of rollsloppers, always relying on the summons to deal with their problems

>>712731312
Retard

>>712730474
If this kid can't shrug off babby-tier banter like this and retaliate by saying this guy's mom fucks niggers, he'll never make it as a gamer.

>>712727256 (OP)
>toxic
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=lfhseUDFI04

>>712730713
desu idk what that game's like

>>712730748
Elden Ring has a very particular issue in that it released with dogshit balancing and to an extent it has dogshit balance to this day, many spells and weapons are so ass they might as well be useless, while others are so good that many of the game's challenges can be trivialized with them, so inevitably, this makes it so beating a boss or an area or the game itself using only the most powerful items and resources feels less impressive than if you beat the game using more "average" powered gear. The DLC then was created with people using OP strategies in mind and that's why the bosses in there are so absurdly overtuned and annoying if you want to play "normally", this explains the difference between people thinking the DLC was ass or fun challenge wise, you either accepted the meta or you refused and got fucked, skill level does play a factor too though, but personally I'd rather have the game be more level headed, I'd like the game to be more balanced, to have less of these disparities.

Back in the day beating a souls game or bloodborne felt equally valid all the same no matter your build (except magic on Demon's and DS2) and the only caveat to discuss was wether you summoned help, but there was no people doing dick measuring contests comparing how impressive it is to beat Radahn with moonveil as compared to a blasphemous greatsword and such.

>>712731031
I have a friend who played ER like a retard and spent the whole game summoning while having a 60 vig heavy armor build with fists weapons, some fait for buffs and mostly spamming the buttslam ash.
Only Radagon was enough of a counter that he needed to focus and learn the fight. Unsurprisingly, that ended up being his most memorable fight.
Malenia came close but you can pancake her with the buttslam so it ended up not being that much of a challenge.

Why look online for attention? Why not show his mom/wife for self approval?

>>712731312
I am only one of these guys bro

I WILL admit I have samefagged before, or at least done something loosely fitting that definition, but I think it was valid when I did because I was right

>>712727256 (OP)
Soul like fans are the giganerds.

Why don’t you guys appreciate the promotion algorithm approved by the government? They decided to promote this fucking nigger’s lies about his son not really playing a dog’s dick, aren’t you happy you were lied to?

>>712727706
>>712729347
>thread about 7 year old beating game
>grown men enter to brag about being on level with a 7 year old
Interesting

>>712727256 (OP)
Whats the issue here? He didn't beat the game.

Don't post stuff online to brag if you don't want people to reply

>>712727256 (OP)
Maybe don't expose your son to the internet to try to brag next time fucking attention whore dad.

Well deserved.

Why are soulstroons so autistic?

>>712731490
I hate how fucked up Elden Ring build balancing is but that's pretty funny.

I really do hope Fromsoft calms down again for their next game, I don't want any more bosses that looney tunes stay on the sky and then do the most bullshit attack of all time like Malenia, or they swing their sword from 50 meters away but they slide through the ground to reach you... it gets annoying when the bosses don't even follow the laws of physics anymore even when they're not using magic. I have found that this is what made Elden Ring get annoying for me personally.

>>712727393
no you just hang around racist pedophiles

Do people actively farm rage bait for clout like this and ignore the positive comments to paint communities in a bad angle? The fact that the article didn't like the og thread is evidence.

>>712731309
if the developers didn't intend for me to get jacked as fuck then they shouldn't have given me the option to do so. they have the means to limit player power if they really wanted to.

>>712731905
*link

>>712731468
while I agree that the dogshit gear is dogshit, the powergap between "meta" and "average" really isn't that significant. It's more of a skill issue really, I'd make the distinction between "actually meta" and "low skill build that can carry a shitter". Stuff like starfists R2 build vs Blaphemous Blade L2 build or a sorcerer spamming night comet.

>>712731010

I enjoy souls games which is why I get so critical of them when they become trial and error slop like Malenia.

Games will always have trial and error as a factor because there's only so many attacks an enemy can be programmed to throw at you, and you can learn them with time, but a well designed game shouldn't rely on this and the attacks and challenges should feel reasonable, I am not even asking fair here, because people irl aren't fair when you try to invade their castle or fight them, I am just asking that they don't fucking make a whole ass explosion every time their sword hits the ground that can damage you through the whole arena unless you jump because fuck you, at some point it just gets absurd, even Bloodborne enemies who are on coke screeching and flailing at you every second at least do things that seem reasonable for what they look like, they don't make the whole fucking arena explode and force to run away at full speed in their phase transitions.

>>712727256 (OP)
>game gives you tons of magic powers
>you're not allowed to use them
I can't understand people that refuse to use any of the spells, or familiars, or buffs the game gives you.
Literally why are you playing a fantasy game if you hate fantasy?

>>712731891
>racism is a bad thing
Post your hand, Jose/Jeet.

>>712727706
I used blasphemous as well
Took me a couple attempts but then I found you can stunlock her if you time the WA to hit her just after her recovery animation finishes from the last hit

>>712731910
>t. one shot Simon because he can't actually best him

>>712731309
>game about absorbing souls and becoming extremely powerful
>you shouldn't let yourself become powerful
Go play fucking Mount and Blade or something, if you just want to run around with a long sword and a buckler and not do anything cool.

>>712732331
i don't know who simon is

>>712731468
>bad balancing
this is intentional, japs love having broken shit. Its only recently by trying to cater to the west have they started 'balancing' their games.
Look at Monster Hunter or Pokemon or any jrpg.

Without waterfowl, Malenia is a pretty simple boss, and peopel get way too hung up about the hp leech. You can dodge most of her attacks on reaction, strafe many of them, and the fancier ones have very obvious startups like her lunge stab and her grab. Unironically her basic 3 slash on medium roll might be the hardest attack to consistently dodge (aside from waterfowl).

>>712732217
Why? Will self-insert as the cuck as you imagine my hand grabbing your mom's ass?

>>712732103
maybe I am biased because I have invaded a lot in Elden Ring.

I was just a guy using a nomrla greatsword and shield with a couple of incantations and a jar canon.

The difference between a normal greatsword that has a weapon art that does a powerful poke as compared to a sword that can cause a huge explosion that kills everything in front of you in just an innstant like the blasphemous greatsword cannot be overstated.

It really does make the game a lot easier to use fucked up items like that, the issue with Elden Ring IMO is that when you're playing through the levels and areas with normal enemies the game is balanced around my greatsword that does normal damage and can do a powerful thrust with my ash of war, but when the bosses arrive, at least in the endgame, the game is balanced around the bullshit spells and weapons that deal nuclear bomb level damage quickly, there's a disparity here, if you use average weapons you're making the bosses too annoying, if you use gear that's too good then the bosses are fine but the areas and normal enemies are trivial, and if you use the mimic tear on top of that then... well, it's a relaxing game to play, it's valid if that's what you want when you play, but personally I don't like it at all.

>>712732420
Probably because you one shot him so he didn't make an impression the way he did to everyone else
embarrassing

>>712732380
Maybe you should go play a different game you fucking retard
not once ever had souls been about bricking "extremely powerful"
imagine defending skipping 99% of the love a dev put into a moveset and taking pride in that retsd

>>712731031
being able to freely remap the buttons of the controller is all the accessibility a game needs, 80% of the "difficulty" in souls games stems from the dogshit default controller scheme

>>712732103
What a retarded post

>>712732426
Monster Hunter Wilds balancing is ass, not only are there obviously OP builds but even if you use an average normal build the game is still a fucking snoozefest because it's too fucking easy, they made the game a power fantasy where you kill an apex monster on your 5th hunt and 15 hours in you have already killed the king dragon, because they wanted the game to be picked up and played to the end for wider audiences.


Also, games like DS3 and Bloodborne weren't perfect but they were still better balanced, and Sekiro is straight up a single experience that's impossible to cheat at

Elden Ring and Armored Core 6 have been the latest shit Fromsoft has cooked up and they have had awful balancing, the bad builds are too bad and the good builds are too good.

I can't really speak for Nightreign but that game is weird af and I don't care much about it cause I haven't played it.

Get fucked kiddo

>>712732709
The games have always been about going from Zero to Hero by absorbing the essences of the thousands of enemies you kill over the course of the game and the powerful weapons, spells, buffs, items, etc., that you gather on your adventure.
Starting off as a nobody and building your character to be the strongest by the end through adversity and cleverness and stacking modifiers.

The games are not about running around as a wimpy shitlick using mundane weapons, refusing to use a shield, refusing to level INT or Faith, refusing to use consumables, refusing to use talismans, refusing to play intelligently, etc., so that you can do 5% damage per swing to every boss and spend 6 hours of your life dying over and over again because you suck at RPGs.
Do you think all of that stuff was put in the game on accident?

>>712732768
button binding features and features to help people with bad vision or even people whoa re one handed seems like great things to me, though it does seem like those would be a lot of work to implement.

I also wouldn't mind an actual console that lets you literally add modifiers like doubling or halving the damage of enemies or bosses, or modifying certain stats to a game's run, everyone would know that the "base" difficulty of the game is the proper way to experience it but if someone wants to do a challenge run with bullshit level difficulty this would let them, and if I want to let my mom play fucking Elden Ring as her first game and I halve the HP of every enemy for her first playthrough that would make things easier for me and her, maybe you could lock away the trophees and such for when using options like these, but I do see how it could lead to an absolute shitshow of online discourse where some streamer decreases enemy health by like 10% and then beats the final boss and then everyone says it's not valid and the leftoids say it's completely valid cause it's in the game and then everyone complains the game got casualized while others say it isn't and the streamer is just a little bitch and yada yada...

So I don't blame Fromsoft for ignoring all this and just making one game with one setting to play desu, you could do all of this with mods, but that does leave console players in the dark sadly.

>>712732537
good morning saar

>>712733172
Not trading this shit, mimic user. Cope harder. This same mindset is why you failed at your career relationships, everything.

>>712733172

This again comes down to balancing, the games are not made to be bullshit hard where you only do 1% damage on every sword swing against a boss, but when a build is so busted that you can throw a spell that annihiliates the boss in 5 seconds and you didn't even see the bosses moves then there's obviously a problem there too, there's a gradient to all of this.

>>712729347
I'm still mad about hoarfrost stomp, it went from kinda op to "why would anyone ever use this against anything on any build".

>>712732603
PvP is an entirely different discussion.

Blasphemous is good but it really isn't the be-all end-all peopel make it out to be. You're locked into a rather long ash that can be avoided, has a slow recovery and little hyperarmor. The sword itself is alright but doesn't have great scaling. Fire is a good element but not always desirable.
Your GS with capped stats is much more versatile and can easily do more damage if you actually use it properly.
>can reliably work on STR, DEX, Quality and arcane builds
>physical infusions can be greased or buffed
>also decent with int and fth
>cragblade with a charged R2 build for stagger
>RKR with a charged R2 build when you can't rely on staggers
>bloodflame blade with multihit ashes
>giant hunt for pierce weakness
>lion's claw when you can't be assed to think
>chilling mist for anything that can freeze
>occult or status infusions on arcane builds
>general purpose roar ashes

>>712733504
and then they just give us the divine beast frost stomp in the DLC

>>712733282
>it does seem like those would be a lot of work to implement.
Sometimes they just need to not have some arbitrary restrictions. Like in AC6 where you can remap everything except the core expansion, while the select button is unused by default. Core expansion is forced to be either L3 + Y, or L3 + R3, just why.

>>712733172
Fromsissies love mental masturbation more than they love souls games. Which is funny too because none of them is good enough to be a speedrunner so they just cope with arbitrary handicaps

>>712732208
Because they want the game to be Dark Souls 1, so when the game isn't that and has other integral systems the players are intended to engage with, that's seen as "cheating". That being said Dark Souls 1 is better than Elden Ring by miles.

>>712733382
You're the type of guy to fuck your own ass to masturbate because that's 'hard mode' compared to just jerking off.

>>712730305
Were they wrong?

>>712730474
Bloodborne is PEGI 16 or 18

>>712733364
Yes your mom is Built for BBC I can be unoriginal too

>>712734128
The damned thing is that DS1 has all the same types of very strong items, weapons, spells, buffs, etc., that later games have.
You can get the Black Knight Halberd within an hour or two of starting the game if you know where you're going and it crushes almost every boss. Poise stacking with Havel's Armor or any other heavy armor is easy mode. Just use almost any pyromancy or sorcery and it easy mode. Rings, consumables, talismans all let you get extremely powerful.
People were shit at the games back then so the average player was too ignorant of the mechanics to break it. But today if you go back and play DS1, not crushing it takes more effort than just making a good build and sailing to the end.

>>712732864
That's pretty much every MH, we just never saw the numbers before so people didn't pay to much attention, using elemental GS and shit like this.
Only Sunbreak (not even Rise) got decent, but you can endlessly roll skills, so its hard to even make an optimal build.

Bloodborne and Sekiro have reduced rpg mechanics, comparing that is like saying Mario is balanced.

>>712733065
where is the butt plug?

>>712734874

Information spreads fast nowadays, a game comes out and 2 days later you can just search "best build" and you get a guide telling you how to overpower yourself in like an hour, there are no secrets or barriers now, everything is out in the open, many times you may even learn information even though you didn't search for it, I found out about moonveil's effectiveness without even trying just by osmosis, people who don't even look for it still end up learning about the best strategies and items in the games, and then it becomes a situation where you ask yourself "oh, should I willingly avoid using strategies that are too good? Shouls I self imposre rules on myself because I'll enjoy myself more?" and that's just too annoying to think about, there are gonna be times in the game where the self imposed rules will fells just right but then some other times the game may be frustrating or actually bullshit so throwing away that limitiation and just using the bullshit you know will work is not as dirty as you once thought, I dinstinctly recall avoiding using summons my whole playthrough in Elden Ring until I got to Malenia and I just couldn't be arsed, some may argue i didn't really beat her, and I can agree with that, I just didn't care to beat her though, cause she was too annoying.

>>712734628
Very good bloody bhenchod bastard

>>712735476
>I dinstinctly recall avoiding using summons my whole playthrough in Elden Ring until I got to Malenia and I just couldn't be arsed
As someone who can now bully Malenia into a corner and spin waterfowl into a whiff, that's totally fair because I did the same thing and had her raped by the poo man

>>712727256 (OP)
autism

because soulsfags are literally only capable of saying the same thing over and over and have convinced themselves that even getting past the first boss is completely and mechanically impossible without exploiting gamebreaking glitches, just because some journo couldn't beat it.

>>712727256 (OP)
Miyazaki openly admitted to using all the cheap tactics he can to play his own games. The seven year old is as good as Miyazaki.

>>712727256 (OP)
They're boomers who peaked over a decade ago, so finishing singleplayer games in order to feel better about themselves is all they have left

>>712727256 (OP)
>whoring your child on the internet
>mimic tear
lol deserved bullying.

>>712730925
>be proud
>WHORE YOUR CHILD FUCKING WHORE THEM FOR CASH LIKE THE PIECE OF SHIT YOU ARE
Never post children on the internet you stupid fucking retard. Just don't do it. EVER

>>712727340
Scribby.

>>712727256 (OP)
I used to do Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia challenge runs when I was 8 years old lol stupid kid cant even beat Malenia properly at 7?

>>712734628
you are brown, however.

>>712727256 (OP)
>Make game series
>a core-concept of the game series is inter-connectiveness of player worlds
>When someone achieves a goal, it shows in other players worlds
>You even see the deaths of other players to give you organic environmental help
>a core gameplay element is leaving helpful information and tips for others
>another is to summon NPCs
>another is to summon actual players
>The games have built in lore reasons to help (or sometimes hinder) other players
>"Jolly cooperation" even becomes one of the biggest memes around the games
>If you interact with any of it, "you didn't beat the game"
Here's a hot take: If you beat any souls game without summoning, you didn't really beat it.

>>712741097
listen bro
the entire point of souls games is to play them while interacting with their mechanics the least possible
true souls players learn to not even roll or block

>>712727256 (OP)
>one would hope for some praise
Why are these fuckwits looking to the internet for praise and validation? Why this obscene, narcissist compulsion to show off and get attention?

>>712727256 (OP)
Souls community 2009-2015
>hey bro if you're stuck on that boss try going here for an overpowered item that hard counters it
>or just summon me and I'll kill it for you
Souls community 2016 onward
>NOOOOO YOU'RE PLAYING IT WRONG YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO ONLY USE O AND R1 LIKE ME
>GIT GUD GIT GUD GIT GUD HARDEST GAME EVER!!!
This series gaining mainstream success was a fucking disaster.

>>712733282
>I also wouldn't mind an actual console that lets you literally add modifiers like doubling or halving the damage of enemies or bosses
I hate games like nu-Doom and nu-Arkane that do this. It feels like the developer giving up and telling the player to do their job for them. The likelihood of you stumbling upon the perfect difficulty when given all the variable to tweak is 0% and you're constantly second-guessing yourself and wondering if you should change the difficulty any time it's too easy or too hard. Souls games already get it right by making the difficulty selection something that happens IN THE GAME instead of in a fucking menu. You can choose to use magic, you can choose to use summons, you can choose to pick the best starting class etc. Picking easy/medium/hard from a list is boring, unintuitive and outdated design (unless it's a 20 minute long game that is designed to be replayed, like a shmup or roguelite).

Beating a boss in a video game isn't a real achievement.

>>712743581
my gamerscore says otherwise

>>712743183
Maybe I communicated it wrong or maybe you disagree with me regardless.

But I think having an attribute slider to change the numbers in the game doesn't have to be bad as long as there's a strong and obvious proper option, the way I envision it is that when you start the game and play normally you get the intended experience, but if you want, you can permanently disable multiplayer on your save file to enter the edited mode where you can do any changes you like at your leisure, and it should be strongly encouraged to play the game normally first but this could be used for special cases.

Some people may just want to do a challenge run so they double the health of literally everything in the game, and some people may want to make the game easier for themselves with the stat sliders and they can beat it that way if they so chose, but they should known that this is not the "proper" experience and that this is a modification, beating a boss this way would not be the same as beating a boss the normal way, it could be viewed as less valid, and it could disable trophies, but it's still an option if a 7 year old wants to play, or if a 50 year old single mother who wants to get into gaming wants to play, or if someone who's just insanely terrible at games for whatever reason, or someone's who's ill and has difficulties with their nervous system so playing the normal version would be too hard for them.

>>712727256 (OP)
>*sigh* guess it's back to beating my kid for views again

>>712727256 (OP)
Since when is using the great rune not beating the game?

>>712727256 (OP)
He deserved it for trying to farm karma by showing off his son playing a game on easy mode. Go to hell with that shit. I miss when families weren't broken by the internet.

>easy mode is using items game lets you
Uhuh.

>>712727256 (OP)
they're right
Rivers is cheating

>>712727340
kek

>>712731640
Your autism prevents you from seeing what chad-poster meant, he means that nobody gives a fuck how you beat a game, if I got an achievement for it, I beat it. Simple as