Do we need "easy mode" any more?

[Raggedstar]

I rarely play easy mode, but it is necessary for reasons already mentiond. I tend to start on normal unless it's a game in a franchise I feel I've mastered already (or if it's something I KNOW I can handle).

Bayonetta on normal mode is actually pretty tricky, especially if you're not used to the fast-paced hack-and-slash gameplay. It has 2 easy modes, a normal mode, and 2 hard modes. I never went easy (except for trophy whoring), but the higher of the easy settings do kinda ease you in. Teaches you to look for tells and learning attack patterns while not spanking you like in the harder settings.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Well, some Games do require that you beat certain difficulty modes to gain access to the more difficult ones.

Then there are games like Dead Rising, which stupidly locked the easy unlimited time mode behind the fact that the player had to beat the timed game to unlock that mode.

When I got the game way back, I didn't know that it pulled the three day crap similar to Zelda: Majora's Mask.

Easy mode should not be an unlockable, that is bull crap.

 

[Stryc9]

I was wondering if there's any actual purpose to having an "easy mode" other than it not being "normal or "hard". I guess it serves a purpose of not being either of those because if you took away "easy" then that would make "normal" the new "easy" because there would be nothing below "normal" any more.

You answered your own question in the first paragraph of your post.

Also, there are some people out there who play on easy just to get through the game for the story because they don't have the time or patience to keep repeating certain challenging parts of the game on harder difficulty settings.

 

[FalloutJack]

When I was a child, I played as a child and thus had easy mode. Now that I am older and wiser, normal mode IS my easy mode.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Yes, yes we do.

/thread.

 

[chadachada123]

As much as I love games like Demon's Souls that lack difficulty options, for nabbing achievements I much prefer setting it on easy mode so that I don't have to try hard AGAIN just to pick up some collectables or whatever.

Games, however, should be mode around normal or hard mode and then made easier for easy mode, rather than making it with easy mode in mind and then just turning up the health for harder modes.

 

[Souplex]

We don't need it, other people do.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Yes it is required I can't believe you would suggest otherwise. We always need real easy modes that are easy and real hard modes that are hard.

 

[Ashadowpie]

i've been playing games almost all my life and for some reason i terribly suck at them, i almost need easy mode cuz if i die more than 5 times in the starting, i actually lose interest. no one likes 'game over" and like the one guy said, its a different kinda fun when you can just blast your way through all the baddies without cursing and throwing the controller from stress cuz your screwing up all the time.

 

[Reaper195]

Yes, fuck yes we do. I tried playing Mass Effect 3 on Normal and kept getting raped. TO the point where I was about to give up. One difficulty change later, and I'm enjoying the game thoroughly. Same with Mas Paynes, Just Cause, Halo, Call of Duty, and almost all games. For a vast amount of people, it's not about a challenge. It's about the fun of a game. Hell, the only reason I play DayZ is simply to test my survival skills. If it weren't for the fact that I
ve always wanted a zombie survival game, DayZ could go fuck itself.

Also, when on Easy on ME3, being a Vanguard makes you feel like a Biotic God. Biotic charge into group, Nova, heavy melee, pull on guys in distance, heavy melee, biotic charge guys still in air, defeat Reapers, become sentient machine god. Like colour blue.

 

[Vegosiux]

Also, when on Easy on ME3, being a Vanguard makes you feel like a Biotic God.

Well, that's not a good thing. I mean, we know how Biotic Gods tend to end up if left to their own devices... *cough*ME2 Biotic God*cough*

 

[Faladorian]

That depends what the developer's idea of "normal" is.


Some games are bone-crushing on normal.


Hell, when I played Dragon Age: Origins, I could play the whole game on normal with a mage, but with a rogue i had to switch to easy to beat the freaking tutorial.



So yeah sometimes it is. Also, if i just want to speed through to get story I'll choose easy. Like KH Chain of Memories. I did Sora's story on normal, then riku's on beginner because I wasnt interested in playing cards anymore and just wanted the story.

 

[rob_simple]

I find easy mode useful when I just want to run through a game to experience the story or if I'm just doing a sweep for collectables and don't want to deal with dying every ten minutes as well.

So no, there is absolutely no reason to lose easy mode especially since it's presence is doing no harm.

 

[JMeganSnow]

If nothing else, easy mode helps people who want to get screenshots or similar.

Lots of people play games for lots of different reasons--and the same person may have different goals at different times. They're more likely to keep gaming as a part of their lifestyle if games are flexible enough to meet their goals.

 

[malkavianmadman]

I think it depends on the game and how they do it. If they just make the enemies morons that sucks but if the enemy is just as smart but not as numerous or not as tough thats ok. As for game type some games just have a story you want to follow, I played my first game of vernum: Escape from teh pit on casual so I could just focus on the story.

 

[devotedsniper]

I'd consider myself a "hardcore gamer" (I guess) and I usually play on either easy or normal, it's not because I suck (I used to be very good at online fps's), it's more the fact that when it's on easy or normal I can enjoy the story better, dying alot because of the jacked up difficulty is just frustrating and can totally kill a game for me.

 

[Garrett]

If it's not doing any harm, why delete it?

Personally I play most game on normal. However, IMO the only way to play Call of Duty games (I'm mainly speaking about CoD2) is on Veteran difficulty (except those damn "stay here until the time reaches zero and have some unlimited enemy spawn from every direction" missions). On the other hand, the only way to play God of War games is on easy. Sure, I beat GoW on very hard, just because I liked it so much, but this game is meant to be played on easy. Kratos is suppose to be walking typhoon and you can get that feeling on easy.

 

[jackinmydaniels]

Easy mode does have it's purpose, mostly for people who don't play games a lot or are new to gaming. Like, say, my dad loves to play Call of Duty, because he likes guns and explosions, but he also doesn't really want to be challenged to hard. So he throws it on easy and shoots people for a couple hours, but I think most gamers can safely say that they typically jump right into normal or hard the first time playing a game.

 

[D-Class 198482]

As I can hardly get through Painkiller: Battle out of Hell orphanage on Easy, yes, I don't want to see what it is like on Hard or Normal ;-;

 

[CityofTreez]

Options people, we need them.

Also sometimes I don't want to be challenged, I just want to enjoy the ride.