[games_access] 1. Tomb Raider: Player Tailoring (Sandra Uhling)

[Ian Hamilton]

I've seen that proven quite conclusively, a game that (in a similar way to Dimitri's work) exposed as many existing variables as possible without overcomplicating the settings screens, giving enough options to cater for even the most profound cognitive and motor impairments. Those settings have proven extremely valuable to the minority that find them useful, but the default settings are hugely popular with everyone else - so much so that it is one of the most successful mainstream game they have ever produced.
As these kind of settings already exist on the back-end I totally agree with you.. a relatively minor bit of work to expose them results in a hugely beneficial experience for some people and at zero  enjoyment / difficultly cost to the other players.
Ian

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> From: "Sandra Uhling" <sandra_uhling at web.de>
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> Hello,
> 
> do we have some information about the feedback
> of the gamers for player tailoring?
> I am wondering if they do not use it any more.
> It looks like that there will be also no option for
> automatic aiming. 
> 
> I liked player tailoring. 
> The balancing was bad on difficult level, because Lara 
> was healing automatically, so I did not need any medipack.
> But this balancing could have been fixed. It was not a problem
> of the player tailoring.
> 
> I do not understand why they do not understand
> that they can make one standard version like they want
> and offer options for people who like to adapt the game
> to their needs. No one will loose anything. :-)
> 
> Best regards,
> Sandra
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