Escalating skill requirements & FFXIV future

[Vidu]

...whenever I see a thread like this I wonder how people (like this) get past solo-games that involve any kind of combat. Do they just cheat their way through bossfights? Does every game offers a "skip this one"-option now? I've never heard of a solo-game being adjusted because people cried about it being to difficult...

And I'm saying that as someone whos mostly sticking to non-action games because I'm not that great at them.

...and as someone who had to do the Efrye-fight on the airship in FFX like 5 or 6 times because I just couldnt do it. And I know thats not action but strategy, but I looked at what I was doing, thought about what I could be doing better and finally got through it - I guess most people just dont wanna do that... probably need more games like Life is Strange - interactive movies rather than actual games.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

...whenever I see a thread like this I wonder how people (like this) get past solo-games that involve any kind of combat. Do they just cheat their way through bossfights? Does every game offers a "skip this one"-option now? I've never heard of a solo-game being adjusted because people cried about it being to difficult...

And I'm saying that as someone whos mostly sticking to non-action games because I'm not that great at them.

...and as someone who had to do the Efrye-fight on the airship in FFX like 5 or 6 times because I just couldnt do it. And I know thats not action but strategy, but I looked at what I was doing, thought about what I could be doing better and finally got through it - I guess most people just dont wanna do that... probably need more games like Life is Strange - interactive movies rather than actual games.

In a lot of cases, they either massively overlevel the content or quit. Since you brought up FFX, you can trivialize everything with some grinding, Blitzball or tossing Yuna into Auron's grid. With Aeons tied to Yuna's stats, they do absurdly high damage if she has high STR. Sadly, plenty of people like this just quit entirely because "it's too hard!!!!" It's why we keep seeing games get easier and easier.

That being said, Life is Strange is amazing. Not much in terms of gameplay, I agree, but still amazing.

[Vidu]

In a lot of cases, they either massively overlevel the content or quit. Since you brought up FFX, you can trivialize everything with some grinding, Blitzball or tossing Yuna into Auron's grid. With Aeons tied to Yuna's stats, they do absurdly high damage if she has high STR. Sadly, plenty of people like this just quit entirely because "it's too hard!!!!" It's why we keep seeing games get easier and easier.

That being said, Life is Strange is amazing. Not much in terms of gameplay, I agree, but still amazing.

I know this is totally offtopic, but I failed that fight BECAUSE you dont have Yuna there and I was used to throwing Aeons at everything - nice wake up call to finally figure out what to do with the other characters, actually! (Just how certain duties in FFXIV might be a nice wake up call to figure out what the other 90% of your buttons do...)

And yes, Life is Strange is a great game, I loved it! Picked it precisely for evenings/times when I dont want to pay an aweful lot of attention to mechanics or reaction-times. I enjoy Point-and-Click-Adventures for the same reason (and I can recommend The Book of Unwritten Tales in this context!) which is why it baffles me so much when people pick games with gameplay that they dont seem to enjoy enough to actually care about it...