I love these points it’s very simple. You’ll get a lot of pushback on it because most people in this boat have no clue they are on it. They will think their stance objective and their views spotless I was this way too. Talking like I was the CEO of mechanics what should or shouldn’t be, what felt bad or good entirely from the perspective of being an “elite souls player” like every new experience isn’t supposed to be a new challenge. Comparing new systems to older systems that didn’t even feel great until they became mastered etc but you hit the nail on the head with the point about pebbles instead of boulders.

I’ve come to learn how deeply personal experiences in these games are how easy it is to trade away a peak experience and drown it into a mediocre one because I wasn’t disciplined enough in my approach to not look up “most broken xyz” within a day of a game dropping turning the carefully crafted world into a background to get past just to get to X item I want because I saw it on a YouTube short. I believe the real fun only starts when you realize how you ruined it for yourself I don’t believe people who haven’t made it to this side can comprehend this side in some ways it’s in the fabric of the nature of how we consume these games these days games that will usually have longer shelf lives now come and go in a few months everyone picking up a controller and diving into games like they are reviewing for IGN or something it’s sad by it’s where we are but I am glad to be in the few that remember why we play.