Who said I wasn't calm?
From reading various threads about RE2, and specifically Mr. X. I've seen this sentiment frequently, and often expressed in the same breath in which that poster admonishes other players for disliking Mr. X.
Dark Souls became popular because it was a really well crafted game, with a good challenge to it.
But they can handle being relentlessly stalked by everything else in the game? At the end of the day, I think most people who use this mod are just people who don't want to be rushed. Again, do as you will, but I don't feel the game is better for it.
Surely this rationale means that any mod is "a weird choice for a mod," as all of them modify the game contrary to how it was made. New textures, models, sounds: they are all not what the developers put in or meant for the players to experience.
Oh ffs, thats your answer?, ok, better get to mod the shit out of every game with a pursuing enemy then, anything before trying to overcome obstacles right?.
You aren't relentlessly stalked by other things in the game to the level of Mr X though. He's a giant foreboding presence, designed to get your pulse racing when you hear those footsteps no matter where you are. That's definitely fun for you an I, but people with anxiety issues? That thing can be too much in a way that the regular enemies are not.
Sure, that'd certainly be great for a lot of players for a lot of games. Wouldn't make a lot of sense in something like Alien Isolation where it's the core mechanic, but something like RE2 where it's an enemy that's not even in the game that much? Sure why not?
Nobody disagrees with that notion. What is fundamentally debated here is whether the player is allowed to make that decision for themselves or if other people like you get that power over them.
"I think it's to the detriment of the experience" doesn't accurately portray some of the most negative posts in this thread.
I know you've been posting in the thread regularly, but you've missed how the spectrum of responses ranges from "Great" to "Don't play the game."
nah, i do find the stupid justifications, well, stupid and overblown.
I accept it, i also accept its nonsensical and stupid, but you do you.
If you are not playing the game with the mod "every enemy is Mr X", it is laughable too. :p
hahahhah
Surely the degree to which a mod affects the player's experience is something only the designers of the game could determine? Seems strange to me, especially with the value placed on visual and audio design, to dismiss one as acceptable and the other as not. Whole teams at studios exist to create art and sound for a game, but why is their contribution less valuable and able to be replaced?
Hyperbole
What's so hard to understand about your own statement that this mod is not "playing the game as it was meant," but apparently other kind of mods are? Nothing you claimed that I responded to concerned to what degree the game is changed; it was an unqualified statement made at the start of this conversation.
This is more of a debate on game design, but I would think visual and audio is extremely important to the construction of good horror, and mods that change those have the potential to significantly impact the experience. I agree with your example, but some of the existing Mr. X mods that make him an object of humor seem quite significant in terms of a player's time with the game.
Same here, I'd looove that. I was really wishing Capcom would release a new difficulty where that's a thing. Mr X is an absolute joke of an obstacle after your first playthrough (which is prob why this thread has taken off the way it has) so I'm all for making him more dangerous.
Uhh okay. Apparently there's no difference between swapping some textures and literally removing entire enemies from a game. The more you know.
