Easy Should Be Easy

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

A game that is too hard for 1 person is better than a game that is too easy for everyone. Most people would prefer a challenge than to just being able to waltz through a game killing everything just by looking at it.

 

[Daedalus1942]

I think this a very friendly and nurturing way of handling the casual gamer crowd. However, every one of these ideas have been implemented before and, more often than not, are either completely worthless or unable to be turned off. This trend towards reward for not doing anything is not going to help gamers as a whole. Sure, more people will be able to finish the game, but there is no sense of accomplishment. We're past the age of "Godmode." Let people succeed or fail by their own merits.

Most games don't even have a godmode these days, or even cheats per se.
I don't really care. I pray they don't make games easier.
I'm really looking forward to Demon Soul's. That looks so incredibly hard/fun.

 

[The Heik]

Well looks like mediocrity is taking over.

The whole idea of praising crappy gamers for being crappy is stupid. letting them think that they're great is cruel, because eventually their puffed-up egos will be put up against more hardcore gamers, who will beat them, and make them feel worse about themselves. Anyway, these suggestions outlined in the article have already been tried. And they failed. All it does is make the sense of achievement feel hollow.

Also, casual gamers only buy games intermittently, so trying to make games for them is like shooting yourself in the foot. THey won't buy any more games, and it'll scare away the more hardcore gamers who actually hold up the gaming industry. Very bad economic plan.

 

[Azdron]

Oh god yes, I cant even begin to count how many times ive come to after finishing a maelstrom of gore and chaos and just wondered "now what was I doing here again?" or "man who were those guys and why were they SO angry?" or "Woohooo, Now what was my actual objective here again?" A "what am I doing now?" Button would be fucking epic. I really liked fables glowing trail and dead spaces holo projection thing. Man fuck maps, maps are for NERDS.