My late-dx’d AuDHD manifests in dyspraxia. For decades I beat myself up that I couldn’t “git gud”.
Ignore that ableist crap & the “gamers” spouting it.
Play the games on story/easy mode. Enjoy the storytelling! Some folks will happily carry you in MMO raids & dungeons.
Games are meant to be fun!
I was really happy the first time I finished GTA V story mode! First time I'd ever done that for something so long and involved!And the game is not that hard if you don't want it to be! Such a revelation!
All of this. My handle is SpoonieEZMode for a reason! Fighting a battle currently in a game I play because some new content is ableist af and they fired their accessibility lead a while ago (!!!) soooooo back into the advocacy I go. I'm retired, dammit....
I'll bang on about this forever: even games that sell themselves on being hard are supposed to be achievable!! It's the sense of overcoming difficulty that makes it fun, and for that you need to tune the challenge to something you can *personally* overcome
I once had someone berate me for just not doing a grindy and not fun part of the game, by insisting that in real life you have to do lots of work for the rewards and, like… that’s why I am trying to have fun times where I get to not do that!
In a game I love, the “real gamers” won’t play on anything other than nightmare mode but they use a mod… the mod actually makes the game easier but it’s named as if it makes it harder.
It seems like a lot of effort to avoid playing on a different level!