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[OmegaSupreme]

Psychonauts 2 will have an invincibility toggle

Double Fine wants everyone to enjoy the sequel—even if you don't have "diamond six rank in shooty mcBlam".

www.pcgamer.com

I didn't see this posted. The article is a few days old. I'm fine with this. This game should be for as many people as possible. What do yall think?

 

[Captain Toad]

Our culture is a bunch of pansies.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Finally I can finish a game one my own again like when I was a young lad.
Anyone seen my glasses and my teeth?

 

[Kuranghi]

I like accessibility options in modern games for messing about after beating them, or sometimes I've used them to get through a particularly annoying part again after losing progress for some reason. In R&C: Rift Apart you can bind slow motion to the dpad shortcuts and it was pretty fun to mess about with at the end before I stopped playing, just to see all the death animations in more detail.

Best thing in Spiderman: MM was being able to just disable the QTEs outright, they mostly add nothing and it was just more fun to watch the cutscene 9/10 times for me.

 

[Varteras]

I don't personally care for the idea but it's the developer's right to decide if they want to make their game stupid easy or very difficult. In this case Double Fine is choosing to include an option to let you walk through the game.

 

[Fuz]

Not good.

 

[Droxcy]

They added a bunch of user friendly and disability features to make the game more accessible which is great! More people to enjoy a great story.

 

[SafeOrAlone]

A. Cool option
B. Sort of corny that they are trying to hype it so much
C. Don't really mind, because Dark Souls players are annoying
D. Although I do love Dark Souls

 

[kretos]

what's the point just watch a youtube walkthrough

 

[Kilau]

Can I just toggle all achievements/trophies unlocked from the main menu from now on?

It would be so much easier if I could just add completed games to my profiles without having to bother playing them.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Can I just toggle all achievements/trophies unlocked from the main menu from now on?

It would be so much easier if I could just add completed games to my profiles without having to bother playing them.

Now there's an idea!

 

[Vagswarm]

It's usually the puzzles in games that give me more difficulty than anything else

 

[elliot5]

Fine by me. Just don't use it if you don't want to. Let the developers put in the features they want for accessibility purposes. It still allowing achievements is fine. Who gives a fuck enough about achievements as if they're anything meaningful? They're personal things, why would it matter how anyone obtains them besides yourself? I just get achievements for Rewards points. Not every developer needs to put in stuff like this, but if Double Fine wants to then that's okay.

 

[JimboJones]

Our culture is a bunch of pansies.

Well lots of older games had god/invincible modes you could unlock and cheat cartridges/disks where big up until the mid 00's.

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

Our culture is a bunch of pansies.

Post a picture of yourself and your girl. I'd love to see who's calling everyone pansies.

 

[Max_Po]

Well lots of older games had god/invincible modes you could unlock and cheat cartridges/disks where big up until the mid 00's.

yes, unlock ver given...

 

[22•22]

 

[Dee Dah Dave]

In my day games were rock hard, you had 3 lives if you were lucky, and you had to pray the Commodore 64 didn’t crash

 

[Shai-Tan]

it's for people who wouldn't otherwise play the game and would enjoy the story. there's plenty of games with "just the story" mode.

an invincibility toggle actually is better than lowest common denominator game design path that many games take. it won't satisfy people who want more difficult puzzles (an equivalent feature would be puzzle "hints") but I don't see most "gamers" crying about puzzles not being hard enough

edit: for platforming it's a bit harder. most games make more difficult platforming side content

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

In my day games were rock hard, you had 3 lives if you were lucky, and you had to pray the Commodore 64 didn’t crash

 

[OmegaSupreme]

In my day games were rock hard, you had 3 lives if you were lucky, and you had to pray the Commodore 64 didn’t crash

I miss when things were rock hard.

 

[Blond]

Can I just toggle all achievements/trophies unlocked from the main menu from now on?

It would be so much easier if I could just add completed games to my profiles without having to bother playing them.

I wish I could opt out of all this garbage. I’ve turned off trophy and achievement notifications day-one the ability became available. Game design also shifted to fit achievements which is bring stupid because many games became less replayable unless you just HAD to have achievements.

 

[GametimeUK]

I'm a massive fan of accessibility options in games. I don't see anything wrong with someone playing the game how they want to play it in a single player environment.

 

[Bartski]

is there an option to skip all gameplay?

 

[22•22]

Bunch of filthy casuals here


/s

 

[Vagswarm]

Well lots of older games had god/invincible modes you could unlock and cheat cartridges/disks where big up until the mid 00's.

No lie. We had to use the 99 cheat code to get anywhere in Contra. lol

 

[GametimeUK]

is there an option to skip all gameplay?

Skip buying the game too and watch a let's play.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Real gamers rise up!

 

[Fuz]

I miss when things were rock hard.

See an andrologist.

 

[Holammer]

Stupid. If you're going to have that, make sure you cannot earn achievements with it turned on.

 

[SenjutsuSage]

You can tell a lot of people don't remember a lot of old games had cheat codes to enable invincibility and unlimited bullets and such. And it's just an option.

 

[TheDuskwalker]

First had a invincibility cheat, so no surprise.

Of course since this is 2021 instead of just announcing it as such, you instead announce it with condescending twitter posts towards gamers for journalist brownie points.

 

[elliot5]

Stupid. If you're going to have that, make sure you cannot earn achievements with it turned on.

no. achievements are still possible with it on. Why does it matter to you?

 

[Syphon Filter]

Why devs feel they have to dumb down everything?

 

[Fake]

Can they add an option for a AI play the game for me?

 

[Faithless83]

Journalist mode! Expect 10/10 reviews.

 

[LordCBH]

Awesome! Not an option I’ll probably use but I’m glad it’s there all the same!

 

[MrS]

Journalist mode! Expect 10/10 reviews.

Facts

 

[Spukc]

It’s the creators original vision. If you don‘t like it play something else. Not every game is made for you,

 

[mitch1971]

Stupid. If you're going to have that, make sure you cannot earn achievements with it turned on.

Who made you king of the trophy laws? Let people get trophies if they want. All for people playing a game how they want and earning what they want. It doesnt stop you playing how you want.

 

[01011001]

Game journalists need to review the game somehow, so here's their special mode

 

[Punished Miku]

First had a invincibility cheat, so no surprise.

Of course since this is 2021 instead of just announcing it as such, you instead announce it with condescending twitter posts towards gamers for journalist brownie points.

Pretty much this. It's not really any different from a cheat or unlockable.

The only difference is the condescending and virtue signaling messaging.

 

[Knightime_X]

Our culture is a bunch of pansies.

We had cheats since the 80's.
And cheat devices sold like crazy in the 90's.

 

[Miles708]

Stupid. If you're going to have that, make sure you cannot earn achievements with it turned on.

Why?

Pretty much this. It's not really any different from a cheat or unlockable.

The only difference is the condescending and virtue signaling messaging.

I have to say I have to agree here.
I'm totally ok with the option but I hope they insert it in a way that doesn't feels like getting patted on the head and being told "don't worry, we love you even if you're an idiot".

Being Double Fine, though, i totally expect/hope for this to be a way to throw in some clever jokes.

 

[Fake]

Journalist mode! Expect 10/10 reviews.

Still too hard for them.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

Options are ALWAYS good. Nobody force you to use them.

 

[Abriael_GN]

Our culture is a bunch of pansies.

The developer obviously cares about this kind of thing, so there's nothing wrong with them making the game as easy as they want to. If it played itself, it'd still be fine. It's an option, and no one loses anything.

Now, when people want to FORCE developers to provide said options when they don't want/care, that's a different thing, but it's obviously not the case here.

 

[Danjin44]

Thats Devs choice and they can do what they want with their own game but I hope people understand that freedom works both ways, if Devs are free to put invincibility option for their game then other Devs are also free not put difficulty option if they don't want to.

 

[BabyYoda]

One site had the writer of the article saying he hoped he'd still get all achievements despite using invincibility mode...that would be ridiculous. Also, they should rename it "games journalist mode", it's the only way most of them would be able to complete it!

I don't mind that it's an option, but if you call yourself a gamer and you're not seriously handicapped and you use it on your 1st run, then shame on you!

Also, I can smell virtue signalling a mile away, that's what his tweet was about, hopefully more doesn't follow, as I really want to enjoy this game!

 

[Bartski]

It’s the creators original vision. If you don‘t like it play something else. Not every game is made for you,

Unironically that's exactly right. That is the vision, we can joke about it but I honestly think it's nothing to be fucked with. Just like the right other studios have to make their games tough as nails giving no options to make them easier.