SJ Longthorne

Accessiblity controls and game difficulty are two completely different things

The Xbox adaptive controller is awesome for people who need to use that to play games, and disabled people can be extremely good at dark souls and other video games as well. It doesn't matter if you're disabled that doesn't necessarily affect how good you are in a game

You realise there are lots of different types of disability, right? Yes, many disabled folk are absolute pros without assistance, and others have disabilities that make it more difficult. If you take a moment to listen to some of such people in this discourse...

Like I said, SOME disabled people can be really good at games. Don't twist my words.

My point here is that game developers have the choice to decide if they want their game to appeal to the mass market and as many people as possible, or they can narrow their scope to be for a specific crowd of people. Yes it's exclusion, but not every game is for everyone.

But it literally can be? Devs are not infallible. And I say that as someone who designs games.

Difficulty options aren't necessarily something every dev wants in their game. It's a design decision that not every developer should have to use. Many games are created with one difficulty in mind. 1/2

Yoshi for example is a relatively easy game, they designed it that way to appeal to kids or families for the most part. Dark Souls is relatively challenging, that's because they are primarily targeting the "hardcore" gamer demographic. 2/2