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This is an IGN opinion piece from Mat Jones, who thinks everyone\u2019s made too big a deal out of experience-altering mods, and wouldn\u2019t replay a video game ever, even if he were forced to do so by vampires holding his family hostage.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve spent the weeks since The Blood of Dawnwalker\u2019s release nodding at headlines about how the time-pressured quest to rescue lead character Coen\u2019s family \u2013 which is on a controversial 30-day timer \u2013 is the heart of the design, and that anyone looking to extend that clock with a mod wouldn\u2019t be having the intended experience<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n

But, after reading that the developers themselves aren\u2019t so bothered about the timer that they\u2019d definitely want to add it in again<\/u><\/a> \u2013 that a Dawnwalker sequel could strip out this mechanic and still inexorably be a Dawnwalker game \u2013 I\u2019ve interrogated my own assumptions. I wonder if we\u2019ve been giving anyone who\u2019d roll back a couple of 0s on the odometer too hard a ride. Is the example of the \u201cirresponsible modder\u201d, someone incapable of understanding that developer intent should supersede any possible alteration, a fantasy?<\/p>\n

The threat of a ticking clock is one of the first things you learn in screen writing classes: that a scene is more tense if there\u2019s an outside force driving it forward, that a conversation which would otherwise just be two people in a room is twice as interesting if one of them really needs to get out of there. In a movie it’s contrivance; obviously the timer can\u2019t end until it\u2019s dramatically interesting. A game, meanwhile, has to account for your character learning they\u2019re about to explode and then just doing their idle animation for their remaining twenty minutes of life. The idea of a long-tail timer achieves the same aim as the movie version, though. Every decision matters if you can only make so many of them, and everything has more weight if there\u2019s a cost.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s unlikely that Dawnwalker\u2019s modders, or any modders who\u2019d take the time limit out of any game, are unaware of this. I\u2019m cynical about trends, I\u2019m not cynical about individual people. I can imagine someone who has reckoned with this decision has thought about why these systems are implemented, but eventually accepts their \u201cvandalism\u201d of the art as a small price to pay to overcome problems inherent to this scale of game design.<\/p>\n

Many games don\u2019t benefit from a second playthrough. I\u2019ve been playing games almost daily for over thirty years. I\u2019m more than aware of how much gristle and sinew there is among the meat. I\u2019ve chosen not to go back to a lot of things that I\u2019ve loved in the past because I haven\u2019t wanted to do the same stuff over and over. For every great bit of combat design in the best open world games, for every narrative twist and turn, there\u2019s a lot of looking around in cupboards for bullets or pissing around in menus trying on new shoelaces that give you an extra 3% poison damage. Dawnwalker is no different; the equipment variety that will help in the quest to defeat the story\u2019s vampiric villain, Brencis, is as incremental in scale as any other game. I\u2019m fine doing this sort of stuff the first go through, but when I\u2019ve absorbed the majority of the experience, it\u2019s a challenge to get myself to care again.<\/p>\n

For every great bit of design in the best open world games, there\u2019s a lot of looking around in cupboards for bullets or pissing around in menus.<\/section>\n

If there\u2019s, say, enough unique stuff in Dawnwalker for a player to only see 70 or 80% of everything in a playthrough, maybe just enough to miss a chunk if you were busy making other choices, but not enough to have a radically different experience the second time around, then playing it twice would just be pushing through a lot of the same things you\u2019ve already done. Micro changes in context, but macro similarities in activity. If someone wants to see everything in there and they still want the goodie gumdrops school prefect ending, they\u2019re being more generous to their own time and patience than they\u2019re limiting their appreciation of art.<\/p>\n

I respect people\u2019s intelligence enough to believe they can be placed in a scene where the cost will be having to spend a lot of time they don\u2019t want to spare, and empathise how much that would weigh on a person who doesn\u2019t have it, without themselves actually having to carry that burden in their own game.<\/p>\n

Personally, I don\u2019t have any desire to mod the game to give Coen\u2019s family a bit more breathing room, because I\u2019m happy to accept whatever narrative conclusion I\u2019m given as the result of my actions. I like the idea that my one playthrough would be informed wholly from my decisions, good or bad, and presumably expertly paced around the amount of time the devs think a person can play the game without it overstaying its welcome. Anything I miss, well, it wasn\u2019t meant to be.<\/p>\n

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I am, however, willing to admit that my stance here comes with some baggage: I don\u2019t really care that much about finishing games at all, at least when I\u2019m not playing for review. I\u2019ll often get very close to the end of a game and decide that I\u2019ve seen enough of it. Star Wars: Zero Company has a very interesting take on the tactics genre and a few excellent surprises; I still can\u2019t help but feel like I\u2019ve experienced every possible combination of abilities it has available and I\u2019m not really driven to repeat them. I\u2019m a mechanics guy, not a story guy. If there were 100 possible endings, I\u2019m never going to see 100 of them. Given that I will pay upwards of \u00a360 for one weekend of a game I\u2019ll get over without completing, I think anyone who would care to mod their ability to achieve a particular endings, or see more of a game\u2019s story, inherently cares more <\/em>about the experience than I do, rather than less.<\/p>\n

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This is beside my point, but it\u2019s fun to think about: Why is narrative intent considered more sacred than aesthetic design? I\u2019ll regularly watch clips of people playing Deadlock where characters have been modded to look like Lebron James in the Space Jam sequel. I couldn\u2019t imagine anyone writing an op-ed to deride anyone doing it as straying outside of the game designer’s artistic necessity.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve entertained the argument for being against modding difficulty<\/em>, that games in the Souls series are easier than they get credit for and they\u2019re more about the determination to continue, which you\u2019d be robbing yourself of by not giving it your all. Dawnwalker initially feels like we\u2019re having the same conversation, but the alteration made by modders isn\u2019t necessarily making the game easier <\/em>so much as it\u2019s making the game less restrictive<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The time limit might be the point of the game, but really the point of the game, like all the rest of them, is to have something to do while your mates are out of town and your partner is at a work thing. I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s that deep, and if it were that deep, I think it\u2019s as deep as doing a YouTube search for an ending you didn\u2019t get, but you get to play a few extra hours of a video game you really like first.<\/p>\n

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