The Remooooover
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It's not just the censoring that happens because of this, games get made easier because these fucktards are that bad at games they need training wheels and hour long videos to know what to do.
Remember Cuphead? Remember that Doom play vid where the reviewer clearly couldn't use both analog sticks at the same fucking time? These "reviewers" can barely exist without someone telling them what to do so how the fuck it is expected to listen to them should set off all sorts of warning signals.
I always assumed those reviewers were journalism majors in college who got rejected by all their heros like the New York Times, New Yorker, and even the local paper, so instead went to places like IGN.
A lot of them are writers, English majors, or literature or film students, who want to work in some creative field and they played video games at some point in the past so they think that's something they can write about.
Options like switching from ''hold-click, mouve mouse, then drop'' to ''click to pick then click again to drop''.
Or settings for making the mouse very sensitive so it crosses the whole screen by moving less than 2 inches on the desk.
That allows me to play despite chronic pain.
But I just don't play the games that aren't for me instead of whining for devs to spend countless hours trying to accomodate fringe needs and preferences.
Platforms that allow automatic refund if less than 1 or 2 hours played also removes the ''if I buy this, is it pure waste because it'll hurt too much to play'' problem.
(But the latter point is just an accidental benefit from the costumer-friendly ''if it sucks, can I get my money back?'' refund policy.)
I'm almost starting to agree with you.
That's coming from someone who HATED those rapidly-flashing lights games used to have, such as at the end of every Wily boss in Mega Man 2. I think it was that infamous Porygon episode of the Pokemon anime that made Japan stop doing that.
Then again, imagine removing the flashes from the last few episodes of Evangelion--the ones with all the...non-Japanese words.
The unsettling dramatic effect would be GONE. And it wouldn't be as memorable.
Honestly, most of those would have gone away anyway as they were just holdovers from the Atari days brought on by the low graphical power needing something to depict certain events and bring it a level of hype.
I have a 3 year old nephew who is over the moon for Mario Kart on the Switch. The autosteer and auto accelerate make that possible since his motorskills are still developing. The ink attack never gets old because he acts like someone flung shit at him every time.
For some reason, the only way to be successful is to pander to such a wide audience that there's little to nothing any particular audience would enjoy.