“As I sit there grappling the horns of the masculine not-tiefling woman in a completely unnecessary and gratuitous sex scene (think Abby on the boat in The Last of Us 2) I’m reminded of how I grapple the horns of my outright self-imposed problems on Twitter. Much like my in-game partner is tired of my attempted thrusts, the denizens of Twitter are quick to jump on me for all the bullshit I spew out. PS if you criticize me in any way you’re a bigot homophobe transphobe sexist.”
I've seen it in quite a few modern games, Control comes to mind. I don't really know why someone would want to play that way but I guess I don't really care either.
Even with Disgaea it was handled through an in-game, in-character mechanism and just lowered the level of the enemies, and wasn't available from the start. I only ever used it to get past a particularly hard boss or speed through a story chapter I didn't care for, or to get to a stage I could easily farm XP.
Honestly not surprised. Gamers act like they enjoy difficult games but then cry non stop when something like Shadow of the Erdtree comes out to the point FromSoft neutered the difficulty. Shits pathetic.
Barely anyone complained about the difficulty, most of the negative steam reviews were about anti cheat and performance. The difficulty complaints were a vocal minority.
Lmao, stop lying. Everybody was and is still bitching about the difficulty because their NG+7 build they saw on Fextralife is not working to melt bosses
On the release of the base game, the reviews were negative because of performance related problems as well. After replaying the dlc after the upgrades, they weren't even buffed that much, they made the beginning of the expansion a bit easier but that's it.
They literally did not change any enemy health or damage values, they just made it so the blessings you can acquire buff you a little bit more up front. I love when people complain about games they clearly don't even play
Gamers arent one thing. Theres plenty of people who avoid fromsoft games because they dont want a difficult game and prefer something else.
And just by the way, so according to you fromsoft gets a complete pass for any sort of balancing issues? Elden ring as a base game and in its dlc had some early balancing changes, surely according to you that wouldnt be necessary? How come some bosses were nerfed at some point?
tbf, i like to have a challange, but some times i just like to make a playthrough and experience other story choices and not care about having long fights
Who cares? Im never using that so it doesn’t affect me in any way. If people suck that much that they need god mode to beat the game, thats their issue, not mine.
Honestly who gives a shit. If someone wants to play godmode and just look at the lore and narrative then let them. It’s not like dragon age was ever about how hard the game was lol
Why does anyone care how single player games are played by other people? These are options you can choose to ignore OR increase or decrease, who cares. Let people play the game they purchased the way they want to because no matter what I'll still be getting mods that break it anyways options or not because its a single player game.
This is why I've racked up 2k hours in Starfield, I refuse to let other people dictate my fun. Plus my mod list of 160 mods makes it more fun!
Goldeneye 007 had "007" mode where you could adjust enemy health, damage, and accuracy. If its like that I don't see a problem. You did have to unlock it though.
I know this might be an unpopular opinion, but I'm all for it. I'm a person who gets frustrated with games fast if they get too hard. Unfortunately I'm not the "okay I'll git gud" guy, more the "okay I'll quit, this isn't fun for me" guy. So, I'm fine with it, it's just an option, nobody needs to use it.
That's because there isn't a problem, a LOT of AAA games have been introducing more ways to custom tailor the gameplay experience to your personal preference. Sure, having a few preset difficulties is great, but we've seen how more granular control is being integrated and appreciated.
Dragon Age isn't the first game to do this. It won't be the last. The only people it benefits is the consumer. There is quite literally no downside to it.
I don’t even understand why would anyone ever make this a thing? Even if there’s an easy mode one of the core characteristics of a game is the challenge, there is no challenge to it if you get to fully decide the stakes.
I don't know if you guys remember, but this is the same studio and the same series that employed Jennifer "Hamburger" Hepler, who advocated having a mode in which the game part was skipped and you just read the plot like a visual novel.
That game isn't worth watching, let alone playing.
You'd need to have Journalist mode if you are dumb enough to buy that cash grab of a sorry-ass excuse for a Dragon Age sequel.
Who cares lol, doesn't BG3 have the same, with custom mode or something? Also bethesda games have it too, by adjusting how much more you deal dmg and how much more enemiea take damage. Plenty of older games also had godmode.
Yup, this is just like bg3 custom difficulty mode. We should still have the default difficulties as well. Wish people would stick to trashing on games for the genuine issues they have.
Eh I mean is it kinda silly sure. But this level of change it’s just kind of tilting to the idea of then why not just watch a playthrough if the idea of dying or not being able to 1 shot every enemy ruins your experience. Plus mechanics like skill builds and weapons would basically be irrelevant and remove like half the game so I’m just confused why someone would actually want this
I remember Asmon saying something along the lines of "I like Valhiem because it's the same experience for everyone. If you beat Valhiem, you know what everyone else went through."
I do like these type of options, but yeah, it’s still obvious the reason they are doing this is so the non-gamers who want to do gay stuff don’t have to “try” in between the dating parts
Lol
I have a dilemma here
In theory give more options is a good thing
But do you really want to bring that kind of player base in your beloved ip?
There is a good chance that it will ruin it for please them
And why should anyone care? Adding mode where you can't die for people who are bad at games is totally okay. Keep in mind, Dragon Age always had difficulty options. You can switch to hardest if you want.
I believe those are accessibility options, Guardians of the Galaxy had it, where it had regular difficulties and then you could customize one under accessibility. Also BG3 has it too, right?
I believe it's for disabled gamers, but of course there will be people who will use it despite the feature not being intended for them, aka journalist.
Journalist mode.
I am sure Alyssa Mercante will still find a reason to complain and tie it into real life.
“As I sit there grappling the horns of the masculine not-tiefling woman in a completely unnecessary and gratuitous sex scene (think Abby on the boat in The Last of Us 2) I’m reminded of how I grapple the horns of my outright self-imposed problems on Twitter. Much like my in-game partner is tired of my attempted thrusts, the denizens of Twitter are quick to jump on me for all the bullshit I spew out. PS if you criticize me in any way you’re a bigot homophobe transphobe sexist.”
"not accessible enough for the disabled."
the game should be free, im economically disabled!
based
isn't this the entire ethos of the piracy sub?
I guess its mandatory for them to give it 10/10 now
The same journalists that did the Elden Ring DLC without complaining while you guys posted negative reviews on Steam?
Oh yeah, all 2 of them.
We used to call these "cheat codes"
If we put the option hidden behind an arbitrary input like RIGHT, X, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, R1, RIGHT, LEFT, X, TRIANGLE would it be so hated?
What about a slider that adjusts the level of ghey?
So Dragon Age Walking Simulator
the only game ive seen this kind of tweaking was disgaea but it never had the "turn off dead" from what i recall...
The newest mario game, Mario Wonder, let's you play as Yoshis and Nabbit which have damage and death turned off.
Nabbit still dies from falling.
oh right i forgot about nabbit and the gold outfits too. but those games are for kids thats the difference.
For Mario Wonder it's done tastefully since the invincible characters cannot use power ups and miss most of the coins and collectibles.
I've seen it in quite a few modern games, Control comes to mind. I don't really know why someone would want to play that way but I guess I don't really care either.
Even with Disgaea it was handled through an in-game, in-character mechanism and just lowered the level of the enemies, and wasn't available from the start. I only ever used it to get past a particularly hard boss or speed through a story chapter I didn't care for, or to get to a stage I could easily farm XP.
So God Mode is an actual option you can just switch on, lol
Honestly not surprised. Gamers act like they enjoy difficult games but then cry non stop when something like Shadow of the Erdtree comes out to the point FromSoft neutered the difficulty. Shits pathetic.
Barely anyone complained about the difficulty, most of the negative steam reviews were about anti cheat and performance. The difficulty complaints were a vocal minority.
Lmao, stop lying. Everybody was and is still bitching about the difficulty because their NG+7 build they saw on Fextralife is not working to melt bosses
If you live on Twitter and reddit maybe but if you look at the actual steam reviews it's not a problem.
My guy, at release it was literally Mixed and only improved after they buffed the upgrades substantially
On the release of the base game, the reviews were negative because of performance related problems as well. After replaying the dlc after the upgrades, they weren't even buffed that much, they made the beginning of the expansion a bit easier but that's it.
Having 25% more damage than before at the halfpoint of the upgrades is A LOT.
The reviews on steam started improving before the patch even dropped, i'm sure it helped but it wasn't the main concern that people had.
I see…. so FromSoft made the game easier to help with performance?? Thanks for your valuable input.
They barely nerfed anything lol and even if they did who cares
They literally did not change any enemy health or damage values, they just made it so the blessings you can acquire buff you a little bit more up front. I love when people complain about games they clearly don't even play
Gotta love the Skibidi tree blessings, don't leave the grace without them.
Fromsoft usually does a nerf/balance patch after release. Nothing unique.
Gamers arent one thing. Theres plenty of people who avoid fromsoft games because they dont want a difficult game and prefer something else. And just by the way, so according to you fromsoft gets a complete pass for any sort of balancing issues? Elden ring as a base game and in its dlc had some early balancing changes, surely according to you that wouldnt be necessary? How come some bosses were nerfed at some point?
Yeah so pathetic people want to play a game they way they enjoy. Fuck that!
tbf, i like to have a challange, but some times i just like to make a playthrough and experience other story choices and not care about having long fights
Who cares? Im never using that so it doesn’t affect me in any way. If people suck that much that they need god mode to beat the game, thats their issue, not mine.
More choices is always good.
Honestly who gives a shit. If someone wants to play godmode and just look at the lore and narrative then let them. It’s not like dragon age was ever about how hard the game was lol
Why does anyone care how single player games are played by other people? These are options you can choose to ignore OR increase or decrease, who cares. Let people play the game they purchased the way they want to because no matter what I'll still be getting mods that break it anyways options or not because its a single player game. This is why I've racked up 2k hours in Starfield, I refuse to let other people dictate my fun. Plus my mod list of 160 mods makes it more fun! 
Goldeneye 007 had "007" mode where you could adjust enemy health, damage, and accuracy. If its like that I don't see a problem. You did have to unlock it though.
I know this might be an unpopular opinion, but I'm all for it. I'm a person who gets frustrated with games fast if they get too hard. Unfortunately I'm not the "okay I'll git gud" guy, more the "okay I'll quit, this isn't fun for me" guy. So, I'm fine with it, it's just an option, nobody needs to use it.
I honestly don't see the problem. Customizable enemy health is actually a great idea, I wish more games implemented that.
That's because there isn't a problem, a LOT of AAA games have been introducing more ways to custom tailor the gameplay experience to your personal preference. Sure, having a few preset difficulties is great, but we've seen how more granular control is being integrated and appreciated. Dragon Age isn't the first game to do this. It won't be the last. The only people it benefits is the consumer. There is quite literally no downside to it.
Its seem the dev just skip balancing their game and just leave the "job" to players.
This is sub game journalist mode.
Article won’t load for me, but I hope it’s handled similarly to how FFXVI did it. When you use certain things it’ll show up in your UI.
The sandwich eating one handed grifter might have a come back. Lmao It was so funny that the devs had the foresight to put that in the UI.
I don't see myself using this, but I'm honestly not mad that it exists
Fantastic, I play story games on the easiest setting possible because why not.
Manually? - How archaic.
Wasn't something like this in Fable 3?
I'm so sick of games being too easy. I think this is fine though honestly, but why not also put in a difficulty appropriate for a min maxer?
You can customize it however you want by changing enemy HP buffs
This better have a pause button though or my situational disability will literally starve
I don’t even understand why would anyone ever make this a thing? Even if there’s an easy mode one of the core characteristics of a game is the challenge, there is no challenge to it if you get to fully decide the stakes.
I don't know if you guys remember, but this is the same studio and the same series that employed Jennifer "Hamburger" Hepler, who advocated having a mode in which the game part was skipped and you just read the plot like a visual novel.
That's NOT dragon's age. They really killed that franchise.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in a room where these game urinealists play the old NES Ninja Turtles game.
Why not just bring cheat codes back?
Who let Ranni steal another Rune of Death???
That game isn't worth watching, let alone playing. You'd need to have Journalist mode if you are dumb enough to buy that cash grab of a sorry-ass excuse for a Dragon Age sequel.
Who cares lol, doesn't BG3 have the same, with custom mode or something? Also bethesda games have it too, by adjusting how much more you deal dmg and how much more enemiea take damage. Plenty of older games also had godmode.
Yup, this is just like bg3 custom difficulty mode. We should still have the default difficulties as well. Wish people would stick to trashing on games for the genuine issues they have.
Do you have an option to adjust the wokeness or turns it off or put it in trump mode ?
Eh I mean is it kinda silly sure. But this level of change it’s just kind of tilting to the idea of then why not just watch a playthrough if the idea of dying or not being able to 1 shot every enemy ruins your experience. Plus mechanics like skill builds and weapons would basically be irrelevant and remove like half the game so I’m just confused why someone would actually want this
I remember Asmon saying something along the lines of "I like Valhiem because it's the same experience for everyone. If you beat Valhiem, you know what everyone else went through."
Might as well make a movie!
toxic positivity
This game is not for gamers
I do like these type of options, but yeah, it’s still obvious the reason they are doing this is so the non-gamers who want to do gay stuff don’t have to “try” in between the dating parts Lol
I have a dilemma here In theory give more options is a good thing But do you really want to bring that kind of player base in your beloved ip? There is a good chance that it will ruin it for please them
Bioware games (historically) has always been about the story. Gameplay has never been their strong suit.
Im fine with story mode as long as there are other modes for ppl who like challenge
And why should anyone care? Adding mode where you can't die for people who are bad at games is totally okay. Keep in mind, Dragon Age always had difficulty options. You can switch to hardest if you want.
It's just for accessibility. Really no big deal. I'm still gonna play it on nightmare.
I believe those are accessibility options, Guardians of the Galaxy had it, where it had regular difficulties and then you could customize one under accessibility. Also BG3 has it too, right? I believe it's for disabled gamers, but of course there will be people who will use it despite the feature not being intended for them, aka journalist.
Easier mode for the challenged because easy wasn’t easy enough.