So long as the existing, extremely hard difficulty is still there, I fail to see how an easier difficulty setting takes anything away from anyone. You can still play on the hard setting, get the accomplishment of doing that, and probably even get an in-game trophy or achievement proving that you did it.
How are you in any way negatively impacted by someone else also getting to see all the content by playing an easier setting?
The thing is, large part of what made Dark Souls popular to begin with was its difficulty. It came when games were just getting easier and easier, made to be completed. And the difficulty caught on big time, without it the games wouldn't be near to as popular if you could just die a few times and pop the difficulty down to easy.
No, I like the idea of when you talk about the game with people you share the experience and relate to the difficulty people had with certain bosses and such. Its pretty simple to not just play it if difficult games is not your thing, everything doesn't have to be for everyone.
Well I'll wait a year then. I wouldn't mind Epic Store unless it was this very smug hostage scheme they have set up. Epic Store is still really bad missing tons of features. Also I can only imagine how much of a nightmare it will be for most indie games to get onto it when they are talking so much about their zero tolerance to "bad games".
I’m not going to pretend Epic are the good guys here, but seeing as Metro sold better than its predecessors while being only on Epic, adding that to the better rev share and it’s obvious going on Epic is a good « business move » however you want to paint it.
Again, while Epic are still far from exemplary, Valve have been going downhill for a long while. The forums are filled with abrasive asshole when they’re not outright racists, sexists (believe me, I have a very small game on Steam and even I had to do some moderations on my forums). Valve has the money to do moderation but put the responsability on the devs, which sucks. Not two weeks ago they were okay with releasing a pretty shitty game that was only going for shock value. Valve basically devalued their own store at every turn.
I’m more than happy to support the devs more so I’m buying on Epic when I can. I won’t personally miss many features on Steam, though I understand that some do and I’m not saying everyone should buy on Epic because they’re more righteous or whatever (they’re not), but I am surprised at the sentiment that Epic are some evil corporate assholes as if Valve weren’t also fucking up right now.
I just wanted to say that the stats the provided for Metro is not really indicative of anything. Since its intentionally kept super vague, its almost always a way to spin numbers that perhaps are not that impressive. What does the 2.5 even mean? in the first 24 hours? in preorders? It certainly is NOT lifetime sales, because Last List has sold between 2 and 5 million copies on Steam. And if Exodus sold over 10 million copies on the epic store we would 100% have raw numbers.
I still think the animations are pretty awful, sad.. the graphics otherwise are great, though some of the character designs are a bit iffy in my opinion.
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