FF6 ROTDS 1.3.1 review

I know that you don't want 1.0, Tenka. But the level of difficulty you want is still too high for people to find fun. That's where the issue lies. At most, it should be edged up a little from 1.3, and perhaps some of the parts of the game that still seem around 1.0 difficulty should be edged down to make things more even.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with the Quicksilvers here. That's how they're supposed to work, and also how they do work. But any individual fight still needs to be balanced as if Quicksilvers don't exist, which means Quicksilvers have no bearing on this discussion.

Why do you have an expectation that the hack *should* be difficult? The original vision, as defined by Nattak was "Harder than original, but most people shouldn't quit". You're right about that statement being vague. But that just makes it more silly if the hack falls outside the vision statement, which your idea of the hack would! The hack doesn't bill itself as intending to be difficult, the devs don't bill the hack as intending to be difficult (although it was played up more than usual on ID, albeit unnecessarily IMO, to show the hack would "fit" on the site), and the advertisements for the hack, such as the trailer, also don't bill the hack as intending to be difficult. The ones you're getting the expectation that the hack should be difficult from are generally random forum-goers, half of whom are complaining about that very difficulty, none of whom define what the hack should be anyways, and most of which are stating what the hack is, not what it should be. By your logic, if anything, the parts of the game you still like should probably be toned down a bit more to fit what the hack is really advertising, and has (for the most part), always advertised.

And to answer that other bit in James' stead, he's not calling you condescending for expressing your opinions, or making a lot of posts expressing your opinions. It's all about how you express your opinions that makes them sound condescending. Statements like "what are you talking about?" sound a little douchey in English in cases like these.