I have a few comments and question regarding difficulty. Just to give a bit of context I have been playing games wince I was about five year old when I had the original Pokemon Red and Tetris for the Gameboy and Sonic and Tails for the Sega Genesis. At that age I could not get past the Green Hill Zone in Sonic or even finish a simple game of Tetris. I eventually grew out of that phase but my first PC game was MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries, which I only beat that game because there is an invincibility toggle right in the options menu. Eventually I got a PS2 mainly because I fell in love with the Ratchet & Clank series, and despite some difficulties along the way I beat them on my own.
Now a days I play a lot of action games including First and Third Person shooters, along with other action games such as Assassin's Creed, God of War () along with some Real Time Strategy games such as Starcraft 2 and Dawn of War 2. Most of the time, if not all the time I have to set the game to Easy difficulty, and on a lot of games I start on normal and eventually switch to Easy or else I won?t be able to finish the game, one such example was Bulletstorm. Other game where I just got tired of dying so often that I turned the difficulty to easy include Space Marine (and I have not played very much of it), Crysis 2, Resistance 3, all Call of Duty games. I went back and started another play through of Mass Effect 2 on Normal and also find it rather hard. There are some games I haven?t been able to finish even on easy including Crysis, the Killzone series and Company of Heroes, not to mention Armored Core games. I also gave up on a lot of Racing games single player campaigns, which include Motorstorm, Blur, and Split/Second.
My question is why? Most of my friends play these game on normal, hard, or even harder. Have I missed something along my gaming life because I have been playing games for as long and as often as they have. Have I made myself a worse player by just playing on easy? Is because I play a great variety of genres and not focus on one and get better at it? Or is it the fault of the games and developers? What do i need to do to get better? What are your opinions of game difficulty now a days? Also, I will not be picking up Dark Souls.
Now a days I play a lot of action games including First and Third Person shooters, along with other action games such as Assassin's Creed, God of War () along with some Real Time Strategy games such as Starcraft 2 and Dawn of War 2. Most of the time, if not all the time I have to set the game to Easy difficulty, and on a lot of games I start on normal and eventually switch to Easy or else I won?t be able to finish the game, one such example was Bulletstorm. Other game where I just got tired of dying so often that I turned the difficulty to easy include Space Marine (and I have not played very much of it), Crysis 2, Resistance 3, all Call of Duty games. I went back and started another play through of Mass Effect 2 on Normal and also find it rather hard. There are some games I haven?t been able to finish even on easy including Crysis, the Killzone series and Company of Heroes, not to mention Armored Core games. I also gave up on a lot of Racing games single player campaigns, which include Motorstorm, Blur, and Split/Second.
My question is why? Most of my friends play these game on normal, hard, or even harder. Have I missed something along my gaming life because I have been playing games for as long and as often as they have. Have I made myself a worse player by just playing on easy? Is because I play a great variety of genres and not focus on one and get better at it? Or is it the fault of the games and developers? What do i need to do to get better? What are your opinions of game difficulty now a days? Also, I will not be picking up Dark Souls.
