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> This raises some accessability issues, definitely. I'd love to see Fromsoft games take that challenge on next. > Especially as I'm getting older, I definite

> This raises some accessability issues, definitely. I'd love to see Fromsoft games take that challenge on next. > Especially as I'm getting older, I definitely feel like I have a lot more "knocking the rust off" to do... I would definitely appreciate novel takes on accessible mastery. I likely [1] have visual memory (immediate + delayed), subtle but measurable visual motor difficulties, and ADHD:I. Having zeitgeist games feel so thoroughly inaccessible is alienating. One thing that feels like it helps (no concrete data, placebos and all that...) is high refresh rates. My guess is that it frees my visual memory from being used for interpolation. Ironically, From Software seem almost antagonistic to providing this. [1] Measured definitively ~15 years ago; who knows what's happened since then.

DanHulton 5y ago
Why that sounds very familiar. I'll have to see what I can do about increasing refresh rates, seeing if that helps. Weirdly, what I've found helps is restarting games. Like, play 2-3 hours, go offline for a day, then come back and replay those 2-3 hours. I find I have a lot less "newness" fighting for attention, and my subconscious has had time to assimilate a lot of it subconsciously, and then I have a much better "second play" experience, and then I can continue on happily after that. Also, same tactic for boss fights. Sometimes I'll be stuck on a boss for an hour or so, and all I really need to do is go to sleep and try again tomorrow. I actually spent like 1.5h on a miniboss in the first major castle, then the next day, came back and beat him first try. Feels bad to set it down, feels great to smash through that barrier later.