Check the reply I put in the comments on the linked video you put below

Is she disabled?

Yeah I definitely disagree with what she's saying when it comes to difficulty mode. Only have to look at what happened to Ninja gaiden when they dumbed it down because people were saying it was too hard. They ended up ruining the game. Yes myself playing the game I got a lot of dog ninja cuz I wasn't very good at it but at least the gameplay was fun. But as soon as they change the gameplay and dumped it down for regular players it ruined the game and it was never the same.

The truth is is that I was never really a soul's game player It's not that I didn't like the difficulty it's just that you ended up being taken all the way to the beginning of the chapter which was real pain in the ass. This is why I liked Alvin ring cuz it left you pretty close to where you died so you didn't have to backtrack so much. And for the 30 years that I've been playing video games I actually have to say my most favorite game is Eldon ring I had more fun more enjoyment playing that game than any other. Yes it was a pain in the ass for some of the bosses especially the bone dragon Oh my gosh that was a pain in the ass in elden ring. I must have died 50 times trying to kill that boss.

Problem with the video at 15:06

True Virgin comment

Also a mimic and summons can distract Mesmer during a diaper change so I don’t think they’ve even played base game, either.

Dude the game is like 90-100 hours. I know people with kids full time job got thousands of hours in destiny. Kids ain’t an excuse

​@@DistinctionDino oh hey I'm people

Oh wow 💀💀

Are they not supposed to?

You should watch her video instead of the clips from here and decide for yourself if that’s what she is really saying. That might be the case, but she’s explaining a term devs use in the industry. She is telling you what they use, not even her opinion on it. Going after her for it instead of the industry she is explaining is weird behavior that won’t change a damn thing

​@@shadowedfang2098 just because she parrots what the industry says doesn't make her free from criticism. She's basically using corporate speak because she's a corpo herself.

@@noblegalifreyan4551 no she’s using a term that many video game developers of all sizes, from single-dev projects to triple-a, use because devs of all sizes want more people to purchase and play their games. If more people can play your game, more people will buy your game. That’s it. Not that complicated

@@shadowedfang2098 a game for everyone is made for no one.

If you give birth to a kid who wants to be a game journalist, that is a disability and lifetime responsibility.

That’s true. But this is all over a pause button. The thing is the game already includes a pause button. It’s called a grace lol and they’re so abundantly available. Literally in your face every 50 steps you take lol they would know that if they just played the game

​@@kickass2733You can actually pause the game by bringing up the tutorial pop-up

​@kickass2733 dumb argument.

How could you view other human beings that way? She's disgusting.

I suck at them also. I still buy them and play them because I am delusional about my abilities each time a new one comes out.

By her argument, you could say that you have a purchasing disability.

Same as me,I don't buy them and I don't care to discuss about their difficulty,if someone has fun with them it's ok. What bothers me is that too many developers followed the trend by doing bad clones instead of making actual good action RPGs.

This is a VERY sensible take.

I'm the same way

Whaaaaa what do you know!! Someone actually has you, know a functional brain. Wish I could reward you bro. What's your steam account name, I'll give you steam points 😂

Man this is how everyone should play games to be honest. Ive been stuck on the final boss for 3 days now, but I made an oath not to use summons or shields because I want that feeling of overcoming a challange. Everyday for an hour I hop on and try my hand at the boss. I die, I learn, I come back. I die, I learn, I come back. Eventually, I learn enough to get the boss HP bar down just a little further. Yesterday I got it down to 1/8. The boss was 2 hit. And despite dying to this boss probably tens of times now, I never raged out or got angry. I simply put the controller down and came back later. And funnily enough, when I eventually *do* come back to try again, thats when I get my best attempts. People will sit there for days and bash their head against the wall, they would neglect everything else in their life and wonder why they cant win. The problem is that they simply take the game too seriously and need to fix their priorities.

As somebody with 4 it’s easy to know when they’re just screaming to scream or legit need help. No parent is gonna let something happen to their child over a game. Even when I’m playing Warzone with my friends I just find a hidey hole and hope for the best.

@Rondel56 I would mostly agree but I do have an ex friend who would for sure let his kid get hurt before he stopped his game. I guess that why he's and ex friend lol

Yep got it in one! Plus when they get older you can game with ya kids too!

Returnal wasn't as big of a game, why is this even surprising, homie?

You can still 'pause' the game, technically- as long as you can get to the map. If not, oh well- you die, your runes are there. It's not like 'farming runes' isn't a thing in Mr. Mogh's little spot.

@@elijahherstal776 fun fact, if you have your map up and get hit, the game drops your map so you can fight. The map isn't a pause.

@@Watsabeholder it is if you hit 'help' when the map is up, goober.

there was xD loads of people were crying about it.

It’s not even what she meant, you sound like you have a learning disability if you actually understand context 😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Not necessarily you have to beat mohg and radahn before you can access the dlc.

Sooo you get a dlc for a game out 2 years and think the access point of the dlc hard? In order to get to leynedell radahn is almost needed mohg is optional so for a dlc make that optional boss need to beat in order to play, and difficulty is based on the players ability .... Just get better lmao.

Lord Godfrey's hands are rated E for Everyone.

@@dusttodust915 Skill issue, because I suck at this game and beat both of those bosses.

Kratos the pacifist

Yep, that's why he can't jump.

The boy took away his jump button. Yes.

Boy hand me my walking cane

I really want a mod where someone changes the word boy to disability.

True and these games are certainly made for fucking morons. No skill needed, these games are for fucking morons.

It is in America

@@anon7596Can’t be a disability when it’s the norm

It literally is

Definitely is being slow is a disability

Cause she's a Santa Monica Studio Sony Shill

But she did. So you’re wrong lol.

@@starscythe2099 If she did, I'll take the "L". Still don't care for her takes.

@@agentsmith3034 thats fair

@@starscythe2099where is this vid at

My gf has vision impairment and I think they should do highlight player and enemies, but these journalists are jokes bro

You getting the upgrades or using summons?

Elden Ring can be as hard as you want and even then almost every situation can be solved with basic kit of a player. So don't you worry, pay attention to results of your experiments and you will be just fine. Beat the DLC with my two-handed cold swords which carried me through the base game and only had major problems with the final boss, partially due to bad fps. But I took my shit together and smacked him. Even if 6 hours later. And still with pure melee char

The game is absolutely 0 skill and for morons. It's insane that people belive otherwise. These games are no skill and for dumb fucks 😊

@@ChasodeyThe final boss is the only boss I had to use another player to help me with.

Ya maybe they need to rethink their gaming hobby altogether if they're so unable to actually play for more than 5 minutes at a time before getting up

Gamers who grew up into adults I think are resentful of not being able to game like when they were kids so they lash out at people who have more time and use the tactics of the bullies of before to demean those who play more

These people will spend 1000s of hours watching trash tv they have time to game.

Learned helplessness in action. Where you get people telling you "the computer doesn't work" while clicking away the error message that clearly explains step by step what they have to do. As soon as they see a popup with text they close it so they don't have to turn their brain on. Elden Ring is the one Souls game where they can't use that excuse.

Activists

@@glenmcllosers

Git gud at writing articles? Skill issue.

Gaming journalism has been irrelevant for well over a decade, my Brother in Christ. Anyone with any skill, talent, or an IQ higher than room temperature got out of that dead profession long ago. So now they're scraping the bottom of the barrel. I mean seriously when was the last time anything a game journalist said about a game had any actual value? Blockbuster Video has more right to exist than gaming journalists.

Gaming journalism? You mean gaming bloggery, right?

@@wwjnz9263 She is a former Game Journalist and is currently game blogger also a writer for Santa Monica Studio (God of War franchise)

@@CheoWalkerwich….. you can see why… God Of War the last one its just not right

Kinda like being you huh Bob Joe😏...... Both are fuckin pathetic

​@@Lanceleon8893She's a writer , what does she have to do with the gameplay?

Those are the people who perceive the game's difficulty as a brick wall because the Souls games expect a certain mindset where you learn from mistakes instead of making excuses. I know that from my own first attempt at Dark Souls 1.

Yeah, I was rocking a level 350 character and I was getting flattened non-stop until I went on a 'runaround' to find as many of those fragments as I could.

Can we send her back to Aus?

That’s what California does to people unfortunately.

Awwwww, She has an opinion different than yours 😊 Why are you so stupid?

The culture brainwashes you for ever.

Yeah I was shocked she had this take.

and imagine if that child wakes up screaming half way through a boss fight, wow you are suddenly "Situationally Disabled" in that Boss fight are you not? ie you're less able to fight the boss than someone without a screaming kid in their arms, (unless you just let your child scream until you beat the boss...great parenting)The clue is in the word "Situational"

In that case, you're situationally disabled if you've gotta take your dog out, answer your door, use the bathroom, or anything else for that matter.

​@@elkins_guyYES FUCKING EXACTLY, NO ONES CALLING HAVING KIDS A DISABILITY

If I was her child I would stick a fork in an outlet as an adult after seeing this video. Being seen as so much of a burden to my family would kill my self-esteem.

It does give lesser time for sure

Kinda funny watching a man insist how stupid it is that women struggle with kids, classic

Last time a person talked like that it was a fat ,obese clown named Karl Marx and guess who he was and was responsible for creating?

I mean, it *is* a woman. They want to be praised for having kids, breastfeeding them, and not letting them die Kind of sad that my dog did that with entire litters, and all she wanted was a hot dog.

More like this mode was made with Journos in mind.

She never said having kids was a disability. She says that having kids can cause situational disabilities which is a term defined as "a temporary barrier that limits a person's mobility or ability due to a specific set of circumstances or their interaction with their environment". She's simply stating that if you are a parent and have a kid running around, a pause button would be very helpful and she's completely right. People are being stupid because they are fully believing videos such as this one that don't fully explain her video or what situational disability is.

And that has to do with .....?

@@animeforever1962”situational disability” is a nonsense woke game urinalist term and they know EXACTLY what they’re doing by framing it in that term. If you’ve got kids running around and need to watch them, don’t start playing a fucking video game. Play when you actually have the time and ability to focus. It’s not a wild fucking concept.

@@BasedHyperborean How the hell is it woke? It just describes situations that pretty much everyone goes through. She was literally stating a fact. Even if they play Elden Ring after their kids go to bed, boom, they start crying in the middle of a boss fight. Of course they are going to go check on the kid and having a pause button would help.

@@BasedHyperborean Hey, big "Man" (😆) in quotes. AnimeForever asked you _How the hell is it woke?_ You haven;t answer it.. what happened? Are chu a big manly, man, man who fights the "snowflakes" on the left?

Cool. I beat it on NG+6. Final boss was tough but felt great when I won.

Does it get harder with each new game +? I really want to play again after ng+ if it's even more challenging

@@likeandsharedeeznutsbruh2845yes

@glenmcl ya final boss and the hippo rocked me for a bit. Nice job man

Ah yes two virgins

Priorites.

As someone who only plays PvE I agree, it should have pause at least in offline mode. Especially in Elden Ring there are so many areas where you simply can't just stand around in peace, I sometimes have to run around for a minute or two just to be able to open the map.

Bro you can pause Elden Ring if you’re playing solo.

@@Lolhatestorm Bro we obviously mean a pause button, not an undocumented help menu trick.

Git gud

@@Evan-nl4gt My fellow Evan, I thought you’d have my back ;~;

Allanah's takes are usually good. What was she thinking here? She's WAY off on this one & I don't play Souls games

She's a 2024 woman ​@@ChasingStarz-Ou812

​@@ChasingStarz-Ou812she is not, she didn't give an opinion regarding kids, she stated an industry term that existed well before her

@@VGInterviews I do not know how you can even support her on this one - & I like her.

@@ChasingStarz-Ou812 because there is nothing to support, she didn't give an opinion, she just explained what a term means, people are just offended that they think their kids are being personally attacked, if instead of "situational disability" the term were called "high priority situation" or something like that, nobody would care

Situational disability is an actual insult, because you have no idea what disability even is.

Hate to say this but if you use terminology that isn't common in the lexicon for a lot of people it's going to come across as an insult. So even if she was correct in using it and people misunderstand her the problem is that she is so out of touch with the culture that she's trying to talk to it comes across as if she is an outsider speaking with little to no cultural intelligence

@@noblegalifreyan4551 Yeah it's basically the same thing as Latinx, it's simply manipulative astroturfed corporate speak that no one would use colloquially unless they were paid to use it.

​@@rozoro4215have you ever, idk, DISABLED Bluetooth on your phone, or DISABLED something that you can enable, just say you only hear wheelchair when you hear disability, you are the one who is thinking 1 way and not using that vast lexicon you claim to have. Words have different meaning and applications, stop fucking ignoring obvious shit just so you can be mad

The "funniest" thing is that Xbox was one of the first companies that made an official adaptive controller, but nobody brings it into discussions about accesibility... It's not about the game itself, but how can it be played.

Being able to pause has literally no negative effect on gameplay to make it easier? How hard is it to ask for it, also, who tf care how easy someone makes a game for themselves, it's their experience. Also, please look at the multiple definitions for the word disabled, you'd be surprised it means more than people in wheelchairs

Trust me the mimic doesn't make the dlc easy. Least not against the story bosses especially the final. The rest of game sure.

Yeah mimic isn't the secret cheat code people think it is

@@bjones243 nobody said cheat code, but easier mode

@@imo098765 not really. More often than not my mimic is just a slight distraction more than an actual help

​@@imo098765 you havent played the dlc 😂

The terminology around situational disability isn’t referring to disability in the context of personal mental or physical disability rather the nature of environmental demands and external situations that disables you from playing the game a situational disability

She was specifically saying “situational disability” which doesn't mean the same as visually impaired, physically impaired , mental impaired type of disability. It refers to situations beyond your control that force attention to hence situational; it’s just technical terminology. Besides this wasn’t in lieu of a difficulty option but rather a pause option

Having a 2 year old kid IS a disability in the term she explained, it is something that existed well before her, all of you just act like she went and personally insulted your kids, get your heads out of your asses

​@@kadebass6187Even if she wasn't trying to convey that having children is some form of disability she's just using corpo speak in a manner that comes across as alien and out of touch. The problem is that she and like many other of these content creators are corporate veterans. They're so far into the corpo culture but they come across out of touch.

​@@noblegalifreyan4551 Absolutely. Speaking "Corpo" to an audience of "Nomads" and "Streetkids" can only lead to misunderstandings.

@@kadebass6187 Why do we need a pause button in a game like Elden Ring? Is it even a good idea to have a pause button in Elden Ring? The game has a PVP component; pause buttons are not ideal. You play offline only and want to pause gameplay? Two options: 1. Put down the controller. You loose nothing if you die. Elden Ring allows you to get the runes back. Or... 2. Exit the game. Elden Ring places you exactly where you exited, except for Bosses, when it places you outside the fog gate, allowing you to reset the fight if you want to.

Seriously though, would it blow her mind to know there is wheelchair basketball and it's literally as difficult or more difficult than real basketball?

@@PWNHUB definitely will but then again , what can you expect from someone who thinks having children is a disability, seriously people make some really weird arguments just to whine about difficulty settings in these games , these people should play something like contra they'll understand what difficulty is lmao

I agree, I suck at Elden Ring it is my first play through, I learned how to parry by watching a tutorial video I am getting better. My fighting can only be described as spastic sword waving and leaping but I am still killing scrub enemies and I am upgrading my character. I am just enjoying the sights and getting stronger and less desperate. I even learned how to guard counter a little. This isn’t a race it’s not meant to be.

@@zaphael7238 and with that , it makes you automatically better than people who whined about difficulty and gave up. keep at it. good luck

@@zaphael7238don’t give up- the first time I played Elden Ring (my first FromSoftware game), I was stuck on the first boss for about 5 hours, knew absolutely nothing…hell, it took me couple of youtube videos to realise I could upgrade my weapons hahahah. Now, I’ve beaten all of their games multiple times (except for DS2), and Elden Ring is contender for my personal favourite game (with Bloodborne)

Exactly!! Difficulty =/= accessibility

Making gameplay easier does make it easier to play.

Yep Activists want to sound like they know what they are talking about, but they dont.

Yeah

They say that but I find it to be much harder than ds1 2 or 3 because the damage you take is so much more than those games I don't think anything can one shot you in ds1 to ds3

Yes and no. It's a bit of a unbalanced mess especially when boss rooms this time around aren't made around the bosses well enough. Discount ornstein and smough was not anything fun or thought provoking. Just cheese

@@HDGaminTutorials my counter to that is, there’s more to explore, there’s more bosses to fight, there’s way more abilities… you aren’t as limited as DS1 or DS3. If you’re stuck on Ornstein and Smough, there’s very little you can do besides “git gud.” If you’re stuck on literally any boss in Elden Ring, there’s like 100 other bosses you can fight or areas to explore.

@@HDGaminTutorials If you're getting one shot you're not wearing enough armor.

Don’t forget contra from NES. Die twice and back to the start menu they know nothing about that.

@@brandinicole1372 My man, no one only had two lives in Contra. Lol. Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, B, A, Start. 😉

@@Darkeus1 someone should have told my brother back in the day 😂

Kids these days are instead getting perfect scores in Neon White and DMC5. It doesn't matter when there will always be hardcore youth. Both those games have difficulty options btw

Facts!

Yeah, most guilds I've been a part of in MMOs were casual guilds, where during a raid someone has had to step away to take care of their kid, it really isn't that hard, as it's just a game (why you haff to be mad 😆). But I guess she just wanted something to complain about.

Yes WOW is unhealthy, your point

Wow pause is know as AFK or normally for me, damn kicked again 😅

Literally nobody is asking for an easy mode in this video.. where’s this strawman argument coming from?

Awesome parent. But I don't think difficulty options would kill anyone. Look at DMC franchise

@@ॐIo The game already has difficulty settings in the sense of what you use and how you play. It doesn't need an option for it. None of them do. I am far from the best Souls player and I've beaten all but Dark Souls 2 and Sekiro. And DS2 was only because I really got bored in the game, not even a difficulty thing. If I can do it, anyone can, seriously.

@@pawkeshup I would say I'm a decent souls player, have played all of them have done naked runs in bloodborne only, but the barrier of entry is a bit much with these games for the masses, hard to recommend to everyone.

@@ॐIo And? How is that a bad thing? I wouldn't recommend several games I play to other people. Not because they are too hard, but because they serve a niche that I know interests me, and not them. That's just how it should be. Make games people enjoy, not pablum that can be smear across every gamer regardless of their personal preferences.

@@pawkeshup I know people who would enjoy the experience if not for the learning curve.