What's up everybody, welcome to IGN GameSoup. I'm your host, Damon Hatfield. This is Justin

Davis, Ryan McCaffrey, and Brian Altano. And our topic today comes from viewer, Birch

Miller. Birch? Yes. Cool. It's a good treat. He thinks video games today need to be providing

us with more options. Maybe a strange topic, but let him explain. He says, your discussion

about the death animations in the new Tomb Raider game reminds me of something I've been asking

for years now. A few weeks ago, we were talking about those very grizzly death animations

in Tomb Raider. Why don't developers give users more gameplay options? Developers need

to realize, he's calling out to these developers. These developers need to realize that this

generation wants all the customization they can get. Is that true? Before we go any

further, is that true? What is this generation wants all the customization? I mean, that's

absolutely true. It's a big thing with even gamers younger than ourselves that customizing

your iPhone, faceplates. I get Xbox faceplates were never a thing, but they were $15. That

was the problem. They were like $20 if you like it. Anyway, the way that the kids these days

accessorize and no one wants to just have the same, like when I was growing up, everybody

had to have a starter jacket. That's what you had to have. But now like the NFL team of

your choice have routered on the back for sure. But you could also, it was a team of your

choice, but you had to pick one of these three teams. The Raiders? Well, I mean, not where

I was. It was the Packers. Anyway, let's continue. Now you could say that adding options

will change the gameplay, but if it's optional, then what's the big deal? So here are a few

ideas of things that might make games more interesting. So he wants, for example, there

to be a mode without enemies, like in Uncharted or BioShock. So sometimes I just want to look

around and find items. Why not give me the option of exploring a world without the tedious

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