This hurt my brain.

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Projection is a hell of a drug.

See this is why you whack your kids with your belt when they start acting like a bitch, or else they continue to do it though to adulthood.

That tends to be the case with most people who claim that others are "entitled". For example see feminists spouting "male entitlement" then demanding in the same breath that companies/government/individuals need to give them special benefits or pay for their stuff.

The Bukkakian From The Planet Dillhole shut the fuck up you childbeating apologist.

There is a reason I support an outright ban on the term "Entitled" because in essence people use the term to mean "These things you want, I believe you should not want them". People ONLY use the term that way and I have yet to see a single person use the term "Entitled" anyway else or in a way that is satisfyingly valid (I mean why would a customer have standards or prerogatives? How entitled)

Nice

Fuck. This person knows what they're talking about!

I'M THE THE TRASHMAN nigga you just got accepted into Harvard

Lmao

So woke man

I have bought a gun, why can't I join the navy SEALS? Why can't they be more goddamn inclusive smh

I bought a football why can't I play in the NFL

I'm alive, why don't I have everything I want?

@@BaldorfBreakdowns communism in a nutshell

@@e-tan3911 pretty much

ProtoAMP right on point.

ProtoAMP Only ones I disagree with are ai ones, because coding semi decent ai in complex games is already super difficult.

Check out the Metro games. They’re horror FPS games that use FPS conventions to make a challenging game (through many of of your points). They even use regenerating health but it restores slowly and you have limited “somewhat quick healing” pick ups

ProtoAMP difficulty is when it takes a tremendous amount of skill and dexterity to defeat a challenge, not more ammo

Fraser Souris Dont forget about Ranger Mode, that actually turned Metro into an intense survival game. The only problem I had with it were some of the mutant waves, they really contradicted Metro's survival elements.

and in both cases we already have that. for games its called Let players. go watch it be played and you don't have to do anything. for puzzles its called cut out the damn picture on the box. its honestly baffling that these -journalists- don't have any kind of self awareness of what they are saying. even casual gamers see why this is stupid. its like if some billionaire said "the government should give us money as a reward for having all this money" and despite everyone else going "uhh shut up you're an idiot" other billionaires are just shout "yes they should it makes sense and would be good for everyone!" go home -Game journalists- you're dru... oh you're not drunk, you're just stupid.

AVGN MENTIONED HAVING A WIN THE GAME BUTTON

@@conaireparsons9672 having rewards for having money is called investment.

@@iNezerroth *ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: UNMARKED GRAVE DIGGER* replay to a year old, long forgotten, comment.

@@conaireparsons9672 and?

I would like to see controllers that can be used with our toes, for people born without arms, or lose them later in life. Or a system of straws that you blow in, for people without limbs at all. And I'm being dead fucking serious No I'm not.

@@poliwag9570 I consider the accessibility of games for the disabled to be far more important than whether or not a game is difficult

@@HorFrench a game can be difficult and have accessibility options. Hardware isn't down to game devs, they can add things like su titles and colourblind options, but keyboards and mice or controllers designed for disabled people is a different matter - thats down to the separate companies to provide those.

If you ever have the opportunity, I strongly recommend Bloodborne. Just grind 50 levels in the starting area before attempting any of the bossed and you will experience a moderate and somewhat 'fair' difficulty from bosses. And there are a lot of them in the game. I finished the game and a month later had the chance to get the DLC which adds a shitton of content, but I still need to recharge all the juices I pumped into it. XD

i love hard games i often play easy mode for the first hour or five but usually after that i kick it into high gear although in survival mode i get a mod which lets me alter certain factors like bullets having weight except for heavy ammo (stuff like 5mm minigun rounds mini nukes rockets grenades ect) and anything else

Hey good job! Hope you preserve for the rest of the game. I get easily frustrated too but I always just try harder because no freaking code and pixels are going to get the best of me

If you are ever picking up bloodborne, DONT FIGHT AGAINST THE ORPHAN OF COZ for the love of God he is gonna whoop your ass. Also try dark souls

And now for Dark Souls. Hoho boy, that game is fun.

Good point

Eh, simple fix: Larger square hole, or smaller round peg, workaround achieved. :P

His fragile world would fall apart if he was given a "Jack in the Box"!

"I should get to fly a titan in space spreadsheets because I downloaded it, even though I don't know economics."

Thats an EVE reference isn't it?

What a rip off! I bought these golf clubs and I can't even hit the ball! This game is flawed

You shouldn't have to buy a fishing pole and bait and sit there casting over and over. You should be able to walk up to the water, shout "FISH!" and have them jump out at your feet.

Yep Mike, good job. well done.

They want to steal our enjoyment because they can't be bothered to get good

I think he just want's to see the artwork on display... which the best way to do that is through playing the game and fighting the bosses.

Personally, that's all I want out of a game, when I pay 50 bucks. I want a 30 second cutscene.mp4. Forget the exe and all that other crap you call "gameplay". Just give me the "you win" video!

Imagine you're a Cuphead developer. "Hey, you know what I really love? These really intense bullet hell games. You know what I also love? Oldschool hand drawn animation movies! Let's combine the two!" Journalist: "I only like half of that. Remove the other half. I could just watch a playthrough on KZfaq but eh."

@@Dan4Neo That's what art museums are for.

@@Dan4Neo I use Google, and other peoples gameplay experiences, I don't play games much anymore. I wouldn't ever suggest a boss skip button; on a side not, this reminds me of the AVGN episode, where the Nerd gets a button that beats the hard games for him.

Like or nothing will happen heheh

Like or nothing will happen That my friends is a well timed sex joke that was unintentional or intentional

lactarius 77 Then let the player decide. Have an easy, normal and hard mode.

Halo 5, instead of doing challenges do get different type of gear. Now you use micro transactions.

Quantumplatinum but the problem with that is most of time the enemy just have more health that's not hard it's just that you have to hit them more time which just annoy the players

I think video games should have one difficulty that matches the vision of the developers, one difficulty that makes things easier and one difficulty that makes things harder (what we have now actually). rebellion force, if you want to experience what the developer wants you to experience then play the normal mode. That is how the game is pretty much meant to be experienced. You say that the enemy having more health is not hard, but what does a developer need to do in order to make things "properly" more difficult? Should they remake the entire boss or come up with new combos just to appease gamers who want a different challenge? Well, it would certainly be nice, but you can't expect the developers to make things different in variety for the only reason of making the game harder. If you want a bigger challenge, you have to understand that the only way to have a bigger challenge is by making the challenge itself bigger, not changing it in any way. To get back to my previous point, Rags pretty much explained all of this in a neat manner, but at the risk of repeating what he said I will now state my own opinion on this topic. If a gamer thinks that in a challenge-oriented game the most important things are the visuals, and I'm not saying that in any way shape or form Cuphead's visuals don't partially make the game as interesting as it is, then the said gamer should watch a youtube video of the said game instead of pressuring the developers to change their vision to accommodate the people who can't "git gud". There is even a simple mode in Cuphead for crying out loud, so his "criticism" is so invalid that I feel it shouldn't even be acknowledged by anyone. It shouldn't even be respected enough to be addressed. One of the things this "journalist" also mentioned was how the game on simple mode strips some of the moves and transformations that the Regular mode has, and the only thing I have to say to that is: yes, that's how it works. What this guy actually wants is for all the moves and transformations to be there, but to have it be much much easier to get through them, so you can feel like you actually accomplished something. I feel like his heart is in the right place: he wants everyone to be able to experience Cuphead in all of its glory no matter how much they suck at the game, but the truth is that games are made to be challenging and, most of all, played. Not looked at. If someone wants to experience Cuphead and all the transformations/attacks, then simply get used to the Regular mode. I feel pretty gay writing this whole fucking paragraph like a fucking loser but it was weighing on my chest ever since I looked into this story, so at least getting this out there feels good.

Nor pander to games "journalists" who obviously suck at the category of games they're playing.

Is your condition terminal or is there a chance in the future?

If we have any games in common on Steam then i'd love to play with you. I know this is a late reply but I figure the discussion is still relevant. I'm not big on MMO's but I have pretty high patience for bearing with new players so if you ever need a teammate for 3rd or 1st person shooters, hit me up. My Steam username is LIGMA 8-9 . Take care

They need to make special controllers for people like you

@@dehydratedculture9126 Or more freedom when mapping buttons. There's a one-handed (or they only have use of one hand) speedrunner out there that specifically praised Neir: Automata for the ability to map anything to any button. I'm no programmer, so I don't know how much extra work that is, but even as a non-disabled gamer I often wonder why being able to map anything to any button isn't always an option.

There are controllers for disabled folks out there everything from modified controls to head and eye tracker controllers. I found an article that has a list of organizations that make them. You might want to check it out. game-accessibility.com/documentation/physical-disability-games-controllers/

This is how to react to a game being hard. Well done. Maybe she could play games with slightly easier difficulty to start off. Video games aren't all hard.

@@draculableh1842 We actually bought an old PS2 not too long ago and have been sharing with each other games we grew up playing. She's been having a great time with that

Demonic exactly ffs

I can't wait to see their reaction when they finally realise this, its going to be gold. That being said, we can call them liars when their "official" review comes out and its literally all about discovery mode.

Moritz R Too much challange. Probably a better idea to just have the player stand in a tube with a conveyor belt that carries them through the game. Then, as an extra "fuck you", make the audio of the npcs muffled by the glass.

Moritz R way to hard

I'd love that. In fairness I'd play it too just for luls

I didn't know that. That pisses me off that people tried to lessen the criteria. The Medal of Honor is THE award of extremely high prestige in the military that's reserved for soldiers who went far and above the call of duty in defense of the Constitution and the United States. It's literally an award for those who are exemplars of honor, bravery, and self-sacrifice, and that's why it holds the respect and value it deserves. To lessen the criteria is like spitting in the face of those that made those sacrifices, displayed honor and bravery of the highest caliber. Not everyone should get this award.

Isn't that literally one of the first lessons schools and parents teach their kids? "Just because you want it doesn't mean you'll get it."

You beat too much challenge - you get satisfied

You are so fucking right. I just bought super Mario maker 2 and it’s a great balance.6 out of 40 levels so far I’ve used Luigi’s help option to clear some levels that are to difficult. But overall is a good balance of challenging and some levels lack a challenge which equal fun. I just beat last of us on my PS4 and I just say I hate that fucking game. It was hard as hell and not fun at all. Last of us is 100% challenge.

@@i_am_gohan9232 The last of us was easy as hell wym? It was a borderline walking simulator.

The thing is too much challenge is a different barrier for different people You have people like me where that sweet spot is so far as to self impose HARDER challenges on top of the hardest difficulty of games (IE: doom 2016 and eternal brawler mode)

So far at this time it is 3 :3

It's at 8 now

as of now? 5

They just dislike and don't comment cause they don't want to get anally penetrated by rags if he did a commentary on them.

Flipped StuG nine so far...

Spectre Walkthroughs to the man from the n7, this will amuse you. The guy who made a fool out of himself with the cuphead tutorial shitstorm, is the same that back in the day said that mass effect was too complicated and had no future. Absolute kek.

You can surley give me an example? Not a preview, someone who did a whole review!

Sivert in the future,press 1 button to process the game

So Destiny 1&2?

Press X to win

Your Waifu's best friend Not really. Destiny 1 was pretty hard to get through without getting an aneurysm from the "story".

that sounds way to much like vanilla skyrim

yomojoflo there's already a 'skip bosses' buttons, and that is watching someone else playing it aka LPs in KZfaq and/or Twitch. And yeah, the existence of such button would definitely impact gameplay in general. If devs bother making 'skip boss' buttons, why should they even bother making challenging bossfight, at all? The whole point of video games (and games in general) is to play while abiding by sets of rules and system. When you make video games, it's much, MUCH better to make games that YOU want to make, so it would correspond with your *target audience*. That's why Cuphead sells and loved by overwhelming majority of people who've bought and played it. Because the devs knows what they want to make, what they want to play, and they stick to it.

"Skipping maybe only even a single boss in the entire game is not comprable to not playing the game at all." So fucking what? In many games, some bosses are already optional after all. If a boss is put right where you have to fight them to progress the story/main quest/whatever, then devs put them for good reasons. Can't beat them? Git gud. "Your argument "If devs bother making 'skip boss' buttons, why should they even bother making challenging bossfight buttons, at all?" works just as poorly as an argument like "If devs bother making 'skip cuntscene' buttons, why should they even bother making interesting cutscenes, at all?" for example." That's a retarded analogy. Bossfight is part of the major content of the game, and again, if a bossfight is mandatory then devs put them for good reasons. Meanwhile, cutscenes are either for audio-visual exposition (to attract player's attention to where devs want them) or just some cheap bullshit like forced script where, for example, player character is suddenly ambushed or have something taken away from them. Besides, cutscenes are probably only mandatory the first time you see them, and is skip-able the next time around because only incompetent fucks would make them mandatory every time you see them more than once. Bossfights are something harder to design, and giving players an option to skip them because they can't git gud would push devs to just lazily design them because they have, in the back of their mind, that some people would just skip them. "Yeah and I'm saying some games might benefit from adding a skip option for certain parts of the game to that system." There are many ways to design 'skip' certain parts of the game. Good RPGs, for example, would give you options to skip parts of the game (mostly combat encounters) with the use of either sneak, persuasion, and/or many other myriad of choices. 'Skip bossfight' button, though, is retarded. Again, bossfight are something that's harder to design because devs has to account for boss area, AI behaviour, stats and skills of the bosses, etc etc, unlike cutscenes which is easier to make. Especially since cutscenes take away player's control of the gameplay (unless some QTE or dialogues are thrown in to the mix), of course 'skip cutscenes' button is unquestionable.

Skipping bosses is bullshit, cause bosses them selve are part of the experience. Cuphead is a good example of it. The Bosses in this game transform at a certain point, but you would totally miss out on that if you skip the boss. Or look at Final Fantasy 7, where some boss fights even have dialoge.

@@FqYIwgsiRW2MaTDc I think the only people who would actually use it are mostly just game journalists who would just skip through long/hard games just to use for reviews.

Sam Liu git gud*

Games Bloggers*

That's amazing

Except most game journalists just play the first few missions to get their review out before other journalists. So my proposal: anyone remember the Pink Scorpions from Serious Sam if it got pirated? Do this to review copies if they choose the easiest difficulty. Add a little watermark or design change so when the journalist bitches on the internet about the insane difficulty and post video/screenshots, they can get called out for being pussies.

@@iCantEvenButtonsGaming That's what happened to Downward Thrust with his review of DMC5 (he did take the video down though). Apparently he complained about the game being a button masher when it was clear that he was playing on Auto Mode.

Tim Morris Definitely the latter.

Erik The Elder Dragon it seems that way more and more everyday.

Journalists just suck at games from the looks of it. See Dean Takahashi playing Cuphead's tutorial level for an example.

rcblazer or whoever did that Doom gameplay a little while back. Lol

Tim Morris game journalists failed at life

It’s not a podcast.

@@elenaphisher244 If you're going to respond to a 3-year-old comment, I'm surprised you picked literally the most uninteresting sentence in the entire comment to reply to. Nonetheless, it's a 50-minute video of a guy talking, and the visuals are not necessary to watch. It's basically a podcast.

@@Strakester But it’s not a podcast lol

​@whateverkat8122 it literally falls into the talk video category. It's a podcast on video essentially. podcast /pŏd′kăst″/ noun A series of digital media files distributed over the Internet to which a user can subscribe by means of syndication software. The content of one or all of the files in such a series. An audio programme in a compressed digital format, delivered via an RSS feed over the Internet to a subscriber and designed for playback on computers or portable digital audio players, such as the iPod. See?

They should cost less because you don’t get the full content like the American version

tzane123 Because if they play those classics they would probably give up on the first stage.

Not to mention back in the day, most games with an Easy difficulty setting would stop midway through and a message will appear saying "Go back and play on a harder difficulty setting to move on from here."

tzane123 ninja gaiden

tzane123 Gamers don't. You just have to take into consideration that the majority of these " gaming journalists" don't play games. They're a bunch of frauds who are there to push their agenda. It's why you hear them pushing for this " skip the boss" button.

Careful there, we don't want them getting ideas from coinmunchers now that we got microtransactions...

Oh god yes! It's absurd that anybody would want to skip a boss. A game isn't a game if there is no "peak" for you to struggle through.

GoreGutztheImpaler exactly. Especially in a game like Cuphead. That would be like going to a pizzeria and skipping the pizza.

MCPunk55 UHHH I'm not really sure how it will help you overcome obstacles in real life but games are meant to be fun but everybody has they're taste in gaming But just because someone sucks at a game doesn't mean it's bad I find it very stupid Sorry I'm late BTW

If you have enough heart and guts you can scare bastion into getting out of sentry mode.

@Zero .Karma not with immortality field and double shield in the game

Hey as a Bastion mainer, I kinda love that. Especially when I set myself up in a place out of the direct path. Tactics beat rush son!

SuperSwordman1 Is this one of my people?

Bad habit from Team Fortress 2 #removerandomcrits

LeeboProductions I dunno what that is

It's a site that sell games super cheap, and some of the proceeds go to charity. You can get 3 games for a $ (Or whatever you want to pay) and then another 3 games for $5+ and so on. The Borderlands games are on there at the moment. The games change over time. Look it up.

LeeboProductions not particularly worried yet as long as ign keeps humble business as usual, on the conspiracy side of things I think they're trying to find a way to launder money

LeeboProductions o fuck we are screwed

Somehow I never knew it existed until two months ago and behold my luck...

Canadian Turtle IGN is one of the worst. there one of the crappiest and i hope they go out of buisness.

At least they didn't create another article recently on how gamers are horrible people like the Escapist did.

Honestly, I only ever read gaming "journalism" sites if they have exclusive interviews or something. Their opinion pieces are meaningless to me because it seems a lot of them spent more time writing the article than actually playing the game it's about.

I've literally NEVER cared about game reviews, neither from critics nor from consumers. I've never once in my life read a game review from a "game review website".

I just use steam reviews, hundreds of reviews from actual gamers who have actually played the game

yeah why play a game if i dont have to? why would i want to USE the thing i paid for? lets just remove the entire game and replace it with a screen that says YOU WON!!!!11oneone its what they want, right?

DarkAR I just imagined a terribly made MS Paint 'You Won' screen. Let's do that for every game. Skip the awful challenges of actually playing, just win instantly if you start the game!

From this article i don't think he could even get to the "You're Winner" screen in big rigs because it doesn't have arrows pointing exactly where the goal is. same goes for finding the dungeons in Zelda 1. even though the game is about exploration and you aren't supposed to know where it is. it's idiot's like him that are ruining gaming...

The only good thing about this logic is no microtransactions bc it's not inclusive to people with less money

Antonio Miller same with people who demand games to be harder.

At the beginning of development the empathis should be on FUN, not difficultly. Design with fun gameplay foremost in your thoughts. Making tons of money is a by-product of fun games. Well, it used to be anyways. Lately money is being made by microtransactions and season passes to idiots with more money than sense but FUN should be the focus.

@@airiakizuki5592 a game being hard can help with the fun for some people like me that like challenges when beating bosses in cuphead because it feels rewarding.

asilva5021 were any pinkie fingers lost?

Journalists are fucking stupid. Why would you review a game if you can't play it. It's understandable for a normal person to ask for an easy mode, but when journalists ask for it and take disabled people as an excuse, its sickening, especially when it's their job.

I'd enjoy the shit out of that.

It be the hell of a pachinko machine since Konami doesn't know what a real game is anymore.

+Marcus Porter Yeah, true. Konami sucks. They're like the Japanese version of EA.

Brave comrades of Vorkuta, the time has come to rise against our oppressors! Today, we show them the hearts of true Russians! We have all given our blood for the Motherland. We have answered her calls without question. We gave our youth, our hearts, our very souls for her protection. As brothers, we fought side by side against the German fascists. We crawled through dirt and blood and sand to achieve our glorious victory... Not for medals, or glory ...But for what was right. We fought for revenge... When Berlin fell, how did our leaders repay us? We returned not to the rapturous welcome...but to suspicion and persecution. In the eyes of our leaders we were already tainted by the capitalist West. Torn from the arms of our loved ones, we found ourselves here... this place... this, this terrible place. Here we have languished, with no hope for release... No hope for justice. We have toiled in Dragovich's mines until the flesh peeled from our bones... We have watched our comrades succumb to sickness and disease... We have been starved. We have been beaten. But we will not be broken! Today, we will send a message to our corrupt and arrogant leaders. Today, my comrades... Vorkuta - BURNS!!!

@@blueman7700 true

Annoying clickbaity sounding titles ;( only thing i dont like about him.

I mean, at least the title is actually the subject of the video, or at least the subject of the criticism in the video.

Matro It's not clickbait. The title is the subject of the video.

Matro The title is literally the subject of the video.

Dat Boi it’s misleading if you have never watched him you would think he us complaining

Brian Aguilera You’re thinking Utilitarianism, not socialism.

Not everyone, no. I mean a dancing game obviously can't be completed by someone with no legs. But within the confines of your game's medium (i.e. a dancing game, a VR game, a puzzle game, an action game), I think it's a mark of good design to have a satisfying experience provided for multiple skill levels.

Begone demon, politics have no place here!

Ghorda9 politics have a place everywhere.

Don't tell me that a rock is middle left and snails are far right.

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@@tkg3701 youll be happy to know that in the four years since i made this comment it no longer reflects my views. rallying and crying about inclusivity in gaming is for the birds

Helaxo Damn those Global racist fuck #silverlifematter

Infinite Continues would already make a lot of difference.

Those buttons exist. Corporations press them all the fucking time.

I need a skip life button.

The games give different things for beating Legendary? I hope it still counts on co-op.

MCC gave us people having trouble Halo 2 Legendary both the Scarab and Bandana skulls

ST-1170 Halo 2 was unforgiving

Halo 2 is the only Halo I own and it is hard but easy what I mean is it’s easy to pick up and be good but enemies are hard to kill

VCXZ I never realized that

Given that the alt left (in the US at least) are defacto communists calling themselves "democratic socialists" in the effort to avoid scaring off the significantly more reasonable non-partisan citizens, it's no surprise that their gaming counterparts would put forth an idea as absurd as this.

Not true! Communism acknowledges that some people are better than others and then send them to the appropriate work camp / intellectual institution / glue factory. What we need is a government organization to tell people that they are gamers, readers or movie goers.

appropriate work camps...like siberia, where they can rot and not be dangerous to the state?

@Lt Muffler: If you don't know the differences between the alt-left, communism, and democratic socialism, do yourself a favor: stop posting political comments until you learn. You're only embarrassing yourself.

Got Nothing arguably those could be turned into examples of the opposite, the devs probably assume that lowering the barrier of entry to the game via difficulty is going to result in extra sales, civ as an example had many mechanics but newer players could struggle with so many of them, so they make it easier and now more players just may give it a try. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but for business it makes sense. It's just unfortunate for those of us who enjoy a real challenge.

Agreed. Making people try is offensive these days along with anything else. What isn't offensive? People humping each other in frony of children in the street. That's the mentality of these people.

Ok man, take this with a grain of salt, but I'm inclined to not believe your example of Shadow of War. I've played it on the hardest difficulty (just to be sure, you mean Gravewalker right?), I feel like we're playing two different games (or at least on two different platforms). Captains are a big focus on the game, so saying "I only died fighting Captains" could mean you've died over a hundred times since more than 10 captains can respawn after a single mission in one region at a time and they are the main way for getting new items and levelling uo your character. Also, a captain that's a lower level than you can kill you in 2-3 hits and captains can reach MANY levels higher than you. No matter the difficulty setting the mechanics and gameplay of shadow of war can be bullshit to the point where in a lot of encounters you are spamming the dodge button to stay alive. The AI in the game and the hit detection is so bugged that sometimes your character can just spontaneously drop dead because the game doesn't realise the enemy has to attack you to kill you. Also, the Captain's traits can reach some truly bullshit levels sometimes (sometimes they can be really exploitable, but that's the point of gathering intel on them before attacking). I've encountered shield enemies (can't be hit from the front) who are vault breakers, immune to execution, enraged by fire, beast proof, vigilant against stealth, arrow proof, you name it. Let's not even talk about how bugged the game's counter icons can get. I've died multiple times to beserker captains where I've already been killed by the time the icon to dodge (not counter) has shown up, and given that the only reliable way to kill beserker captains who are frost/stun proof is to counter them and knock them to the floor, execute, rinse and repeat, the game refusing to give me appropriate notifications in a speedy manner doesn't exactly even the odds. I will say however that when all the mechanics work well fighting a captain that's a higher level than you is basically an Aragorn vs Lurtz simulator, bith you and the captain are throwing each other around, dodging each other, getting small stabs in, it's really gritty, brutal and awesome and you feel (well I do) like a badass if and when you emerge the victor.

@@TOONYBOY Not to be insulting, but you must not be that good then. It's true that I have fought some captains that had a truly bullshit combination of abilities, but that doesn't make those fight hard; it makes them tedious and that's a big difference. It's been years, but I'm fairly certain I had fewer than 20 deaths the entire game. As I said, the only deaths I really had were when captains with the "No Second Chance" ability would one shot me. It was far, far too easy to regain health in the middle of battle. As long as I didn't get impatient, things rarely went wrong. On a related note: fuck Hunters. Two/three spears were enough to kill you on Gravewalker. Learned early on, KILL ALL HUNTERS FIRST!!!! (Oh, and I was playing on PC.) To further demonstrate games general lack of difficulty, I defeated Harrisi (from Witcher 3) when I was around 20 levels below her on Death March difficulty. True every single hit only did 1 point of damage, but the point is that I still beat her on the hardest difficulty while suffering a massive level disadvantage. To be fair, I did die a few times before I succeeded. As for your skepticism, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about that. I don't record my game play so I can't prove anything. You'll have to choose to believe or not at your own discretion.

@@cleverwitticismhere6922 Gotta love it when you don't get notified of a response. The only times you can heal on Gravewalker (either that difficulty or Brutal is the one where you only have one life anyway, so ANY Captain could instakill you). It takes several seconds to heal, so in order to be able to heal (assuming you weren't killed in one hit) would be in very specific circumstances where there's an enemy to harvest, but no ranged or nearby enemies to interrupt you, or the AI was feeling particularly lazy and took ages to attack you. We would have to be very specific with how we differentiate "difficult" and "tedious", considering the fact that if there's only one way to damage an officer, but he can one-shot you, and there are multiple enemies constantly interrupting your attempt to capitalize, then that could definitely be argued as unfair. Unless of course, we're not in disagreement of the state of the game, simply the words we use to describe it, since I don't think you would argue that having a one-shot kill captain who switches between counterable and dodgeable attacks, but the attack connects before the appropriate icon has shown up is fair, I would imagine you would sum that up as a bug, not necessarily a flaw with the design of the mechanics, correct?

Alastor Hacon the church of unlimited frames

Alastor Hacon one question: Specs?

ilie vlad AMD FX 8320 XFX RX 550 4GB 16 GB RAM Hoping Black Friday and Cyber Monday are gonna be good to me.

Maybe Ryzen 3 1200/X4 950 would have been a better idea. Then you would have a much easier upgrade path ready for the sales.

Alastor Hacon same plan on shopping cyber Monday because going irl is for plebs

yoshi1202 the ps4 only have a lower TDP HD 7850 even 1070 doesnt exist at 2013

Brave comrades of Vorkuta, the time has come to rise against our oppressors! Today, we show them the hearts of true Russians! We have all given our blood for the Motherland. We have answered her calls without question. We gave our youth, our hearts, our very souls for her protection. As brothers, we fought side by side against the German fascists. We crawled through dirt and blood and sand to achieve our glorious victory... Not for medals, or glory ...But for what was right. We fought for revenge... When Berlin fell, how did our leaders repay us? We returned not to the rapturous welcome...but to suspicion and persecution. In the eyes of our leaders we were already tainted by the capitalist West. Torn from the arms of our loved ones, we found ourselves here... this place... this, this terrible place. Here we have languished, with no hope for release... No hope for justice. We have toiled in Dragovich's mines until the flesh peeled from our bones... We have watched our comrades succumb to sickness and disease... We have been starved. We have been beaten. But we will not be broken! Today, we will send a message to our corrupt and arrogant leaders. Today, my comrades... Vorkuta - BURNS!!!

@@blueman7700 true

IseeSandvich I don't think those things are mutually exclusive.

What does social justice have to do with this?

kap1618 Comparison not metaphor

Again I ask what does gaming journalism about a admittedly silly idea such as a "Skip boss button" have to do with social justice warriors (which is basically 2017 newest trigger word which is why I never take the term seriously.)

this was a joke comment. I made it because when I look at some of the things that games journalists write, I can see similarities between the sjw movement and games journalism. I never said anything in that comment about the idea of a "skip boss button" that was bought up in one (maybe 2) of those articles; though now that you mention I will say that idea is dumb. Cuphead is a game that is pretty much entirely made up of boss fights If games journalists want a skip boss button for the game, they would be happy to know there already is one. Its called the off button on their computer or console. I don't take games journalist or sjws seriously either, by the way. I just like making jokes.

SinPunisher Beat it like it's an unarmed black man and you're a cop.

SinPunisher When I come to a video game, I come all the way.

SinPunisher a penis?

SinPunisher wrong website

that´s what i said

Actualy, the people that complain about cuphead dificult were probably the same that whanted dark souls to have a easy mode

DM-Oz game devs should never take these clowns seriously. Dark souls have a set difficulty, people complained they want an easy mode. Cuphead has an easy mode, and now they bitch for a skip boss function. Next thing you know, they will demand an 'spectator' mode so the game plays itself.

Dark Souls was riding on a lot more than just difficulty; the game design literally wants you to win, it inspires you to keep trying at every step and literally guides you through it without telling you. The design is actually fantastic. Cuphead is also absolutely phenomenal.

Facebreaker but first, we need to talk about paralel universe's

Half an a press!!!

Oh you ended up making that point. Wrote the comment before I finished

Jeremiah Collins lemme smashhhhhhhhhhhh

And Cuphead has those XD

Jim Bo yea if only Cuphead had some of those things, or like upgrades to purchase from an in-game store equipping the player with better tools... Too bad

Easy modes are too hard

Seeking Origin Or a system that allows you to remove certain attacks while charging up a super move or somthing.

Difficulties are good. Games like DMC and Bayonetta have easy-auto difficulties, are they any worse because of that? Nope, these arestill challenging and good games.

I EAT PANADOL Genji is super easy to play. Genji mains dont admit it. Theres a reason theres aton of genjis in top 500.

The Sandity he is not as hard a people say he is, but being so flexible while hitting every single shuriken in the head is not that easy as you might think.

Being able to aim is a personal skill its only vaguely a part of the game. The reason theres a lot of Genji in top 500 would probably be because they aren't blind retards.

ur profile pic, good taste 👌

Brave comrades of Vorkuta, the time has come to rise against our oppressors! Today, we show them the hearts of true Russians! We have all given our blood for the Motherland. We have answered her calls without question. We gave our youth, our hearts, our very souls for her protection. As brothers, we fought side by side against the German fascists. We crawled through dirt and blood and sand to achieve our glorious victory... Not for medals, or glory ...But for what was right. We fought for revenge... When Berlin fell, how did our leaders repay us? We returned not to the rapturous welcome...but to suspicion and persecution. In the eyes of our leaders we were already tainted by the capitalist West. Torn from the arms of our loved ones, we found ourselves here... this place... this, this terrible place. Here we have languished, with no hope for release... No hope for justice. We have toiled in Dragovich's mines until the flesh peeled from our bones... We have watched our comrades succumb to sickness and disease... We have been starved. We have been beaten. But we will not be broken! Today, we will send a message to our corrupt and arrogant leaders. Today, my comrades... Vorkuta - BURNS!!!

ItsMaridon Education doesn't stop when you leave school or college. Education can be self gained in the areas you want to learn. Theres no reason to learn what names of all the rivers and oceans in america are. Theres no reason to learn that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Theres no reason to learn why things happened in the 1800s. We should be getting custom fit educations on the things we really want to improve on. Not some throw away facts that may not apply to your future job. They fail to teach so much in school that actually matter in our future adult life. They are prepping us for nothing more then failure unless you cheat your way through or are really good at regurgitating info and then forgetting about it next week to move onto the next set.

The Sandity My comment was sarcastic .. i just tried to say that by their logic its unfair and exlusive that for example not everyone is going to the olympics and we need skip buttons for that, so everyone can go there.

That's a future I could get behind!

Dave S not to mention all the gold weapons!

Community is too toxic and uncooperative at plat below to climb.

Well funny that you mention blizzard, cause theres lfr in wow...

Ben Crandell theyll criticise anything they can or will about a game.

Pay us to play your game: YES

Tiny tina how are your parents?

Carl I am here before this blows up.

"It's okay for games to be hard." - A fucking Hanzo main

Mei or Bastion is fine. Shimadas are inexcusable.

Kepora1 What do you mean fine? One freezes you and looks at you with a smile then shoots you in the head while the other emits cute noises while going full ham on his enemies, Overall just barrels of toxicity and hurtfulness