XX Y XY said:
All that said, I'll be happy to tell you why I, personally, don't want an Easy Mode in the Souls series.
It really just boils down to there being an extreme amount of easy games out there today.
Think Call of Duty on Veteran, versus Unreal Tournament on Godlike.
When, once in a blue moon, a game comes along that actually makes me feel like I could work a little harder in order to fully master it, I'm overjoyed.
But when it then gets turned into a series of games? Yeah.
Now, this is when most people tend to ask: "What does that have to do with there being an Easy mode? You could just not use it, right?".
I always answer the latter question first. Yes, I could simply stay clear of Easy mode, and my game experience would be fine.
However, for each new installment in a series, it gets increasingly likely that the gameplay will be "simplified", eventually leading up to a point where the games start being built around Easy mode, and made artificially harder, rather than being built around Hard mode, and being made artificially easier.
If you think this sounds like "Because I like it better, and all you other guys can leave my toys alone", you'd be right.
But with people like myself having so few toys to enjoy, I'll fight for them teeth and claw.