Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
My personal taste on positionals is that I find them to be a chore and abhorrent. They don't give me any rewarding feeling when I get them right, especially since there is so little feedback with them...
Feedback is a Good point.
Unlike say Kaiten, positionals have near no immediate positive feedback nor negative to encourage more of the positive. Finishing a target/fight knowing you did all you could is about all the feedback you'll get.

It's impossible to argue Fun since its subjective. Aside from Fun or not? I pile Positional removal with desire for " Effortless Gameplay and Comfier ".
  • No gear Routes/Skilltrees/Rotation deviations
  • No more 12345 Combo buttons
  • No more small hitboxes
  • No more boss positioning, it auto warps back to the center
  • No more resource management
  • No more Gauges just remove them
  • No more Double weaving requirement
  • No more thinking it's all 2 minute
  • No more pressing buttons at all its all Auto-Combo
  • No more self-mitigation management, all integrated passives now
Saying Positionals adds nothing is dismissive unless you mean purely for your own enjoyment. Tank pulls and Melees movement gets affected by the existence of positionals ever so slightly. Just cause something is easy doesn't dismiss it as meaningless, cause that logic can be applied to everything of varying difficulty that varies per player on what they find difficult and easy.

If its all about " meaninglessness " cause it's " that-easy " and there for it " adds-nothing " then it goes towards making the game " effortless and comfier ". Then at that point? what is the logic to not follow the list listed above? Why stop at positional removal if its about how optimally comfy we can make the game? Cause we can go pretty far with how comfy we wanna make the already pretty pillow gameplay we have. I'm watching Edgerunners as I do Savage reclears. Maybe we want to go towards " One-handed-gameplay " so I can do that while munching on popcorn... maybe that is indeed the more fun route and maybe I am wrong.