Recent content by Peithelo

Thanks, that was an interesting read! The author's identity surely gives their creative works their form. And while I agree that the author's intent can't usually be wholly known through only knowing their identity, it is still an important aspect and part of encrypting the works possible...

Earlier in this thread you said that having more options could never be a bad thing. I fundamentally disagree. The purposeful utilization of lack of options is also a valid design decision. An option by definition gives you an alternative to something and enables you to resort to it if you so...

Basically everything from Vangelis is music that usually has no lyrics at all, which is something I often prefer. I tend to find this kind of music more involving than music that does have lyrics. And I do happen to find a lot of meaning in the next composition, for example.

I think it is an important distinction to make that homosexuals and heterosexuals do not play video games, people do. That is to say that they are people first, everything else at least should come secondary. It is true that the majority of these people consequently happen to be heterosexual...

As I understand it homosexuals already do often feel unwelcome and unwanted, but I suppose your message was an attempt at sarcasm. Nevertheless, the comfort of understanding and sympathetic company can of course offer some relief, but it unfortunately doesn't do anything to alleviate any of the...

Differentiating people of different sexualities in such a way that would even indirectly encourage them to remain seperated from one another merely increases the disconnect between every side of this societal issue. Doing so would further indicate that there is in fact a relevant societal...

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The series as well as the End of Evangelion were quite uncomfortable to watch and made me feel almost ill by the end of it all. Perhaps some of it was because I watched the series in its entirety over the course of only couple of days, but something about the overall presentation seemed to make...

You might be right about that, and I may have had a poor choice of words. As I said in my previous message everyone does indeed have the right to critique a work. In this specific situtation such critiquing should have been done while Dark Souls was still in production or now in an effort to...

It has been quite some time since I played either Flower or Journey so I can't go too much into the specifics. Especially the story in Flower is something that I don't remember very well at all. However I did actually do some research about the story in Journey and its themes near the time it...

I consider Dark Souls to be an honest work of art rather than a piece of purposeful entertainment that is produced to be appreciated by certain people. Demon's Souls even more so. They were created out of sheer willingness to create something and they then continued to create their own audience...

Oh, then the objective in Journey would be to reach a mountain that is visible from the very beginning. At the beginning you simply find yourself as a being of some sort, you then see a lonely mountain in the backround and embark on a journey in the hopes of reaching it in the end. Much like the...

This is likely the very reason Demon's Souls and Dark Souls are so incredibly precious to those who happen to appreciate them for what they are. Demon's Souls in particular was not intentionally designed to be appreciated by anyone in particular, but if someone does happen to find it to their...

Addition of easy mode to Dark Souls at this point, be it an option or the new default, would be a decisive change and one that, I believe, would lessen the intrinsic value of the game and the very experience it has the potential to provide you with. It would make it more likely that you would be...

Then you might be very pleased to know that these are exactly the kinds of things that the difficulty in Dark Souls is designed to emphasize. It is what gives them a greater sense of meaning and purpose. The world of Dark Souls is a dangerous and dark place, and this is reflected in the...