For real, the Epic G!mer :brainworms: that are so obsessed with how a fucking video game should be played by other people that the Epic G!mer doesn't even know and may never meet are insidious.
I've met them here, too, specifically about the Dark Souls treat and specifically about a theoretical accessibility mode. I may even get some fresh Epic G!mer rage about it in the comments here. Again. :freeze-gamer:
back in my day, every game had an easy mode, it was called going into the developer console and typing in "god" :grillman:
Honestly, all the stuff about following the "artistic vision" has always been baffling to me, like the ability to tweak, mod, and just outright break games to your liking is one of the best things about them - sure, it's not for everyone, but the fact that it's there is awesome. Yeah, Valve probably didn't intend for you to play the Highway 17 chapters by just abandoning the car so you can accelerated back hop off a ramp and skip an entire level, but you can do that as just a random consequence of the physics system, and that is really fucking cool.
If you're going to complain about "the intended experience", stick to a non-interactive medium, go be a film snob and complain about people watching stuff on screens that are too small and don't have the necessary color calibration or whatever.
For me, the core of the argument is whether someone believes other people should or even must play a video game the way that someone else plays it.
Yeah, I like the challenge, sure. But playing Skyrim with unlimited magic and just annihilating everything in my path is fun. Nothing breaks the smug CHUDDiness of the Thalmor, Dragon, or Vampire when the lowly mortal is an all-powerful deity that eats megalomaniacs for breakfast also has more than its appeal.
Reminds me of the CHUD who tried to dunk on leftists for speedrunning, and his the reason you suck speech boiled down to "leftists hate blind conformity and think for themselves....and that's terrible!"