A Difficult Subject (The Jimquisition)

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A Difficult Subject (The Jimquisition)

Okay... let's wade into this debate again. It's raged for years and has only gotten more poisonous in that time, but we're gonna step in anyway and try to talk about difficulty options.

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Jim Sterling takes a comprehensive look at the game difficulty debate. While I think he could bring a little more empathy to bear, he raises virtually every point that I think is important in this debate and handles them well. After all, as he points out, this is not a new debate and we’ve been over these issues multiple times before.

Tags: Shared Link, Video, CREATOR: Jim Sterling, TOPIC: Difficulty

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