• neo@lemy.lol
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      5 months ago

      Wait, you play games to have fun and not as a duty? What about “pride and accomplishment”? ;)

      The moment I embraced easy mode was when Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was like: “Is the gameplay we designed for our single player game too tedious? Then buy some legendary items with IRL money or maybe our XP cheat!”

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        5 months ago

        I hate that games started designing around microtransactions. Like who thought “hey let’s take the worst parts of MMOs and put them into single player”. I loved AC origins and was so looking forward to odyssey and then I just bounced off it within a few hours because so much of it just felt like doing chores.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Extra bonus: Odyssey was supposed to feature a female lead, rather than the choice, but a misogynistic Ubisoft exec vetoed it, which I can only assume was reason for the absolutely garbage dialog.

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      5 months ago

      I’m glad I’m not the only one! Though if I play something for a second time I do tend to up the difficulty a bit.

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      And replay games I already know by heart. I can start a new game or… play Starfox 64 again. “Do a barrel roll”.