lmao fuck off with the gatekeepy bullshit that truly liking games means playing them on a certain difficulty setting
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So spare me your empty, deeply sad posturing about how anyone who plays games on easy or whatever isn't a true gamer. It's gross and it's ahistorical.
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god, there are so many embarrassing attitudes in gaming culture that are still sometimes treated as normal. grow the fuck up.
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I also feel like some people, in their justified desire for accessibility and difficulty options, can characterize everyone who sometimes appreciates difficulty in games as a “Git gud!” type who believes games to be some raw test of skill and personal worth.
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I loved overcoming the challenge of games like Dark Souls and Ninja Gaiden (2004). They wouldn’t have been the unforgettable experiences they were for me if they hadn’t been hard in the specific ways they were hard. Once someone argued w/me that this was super “problematic.” lol.
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entering a 16-input code you read about in a magazine to make a game super easy: true gamer shit, playing the meta-game of being a hardcore gamer as part of your identity going into the options mode and setting the difficulty to easy: lmao no true gamer would ever
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Yes! I knew a guy who once showed me how he'd hacked The Bard's Tale (which was really difficult and quite a slog in the early going) to make all his characters extremely OP so they could easily slaughter everything in their path!https://twitter.com/theangelremiel/status/1415428429688840194?s=20 …
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I loved my Nintendo Power that had all the secrets to Super Mario Bros 3.
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When I was growing up I remember the way gaming culture worked was much more gamer versus game. There's a reason we talk about beating games. And sometimes to beat them you used the tools at your disposal. "cheats" also gave access to otherwise inaccessible game features.
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For computer gamers as distinct from console gamers, the "cheat" community and the "mod" community were the same community. If you could mess with the game code to make it give you extra lives, you could mess with it to make extra levels.
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