I start every game on easy because I'd like to experience the story first with no frustrating levels getting in the way and interrupting the flow. On my second go, I play normal, and the next on hard and so on.
Poll: Easy Mode
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I tend to play most games on easy. Specifically the games where the only thing that the difficulty level changes is how much health the enemies have and how much damage you take. Because that's stupid. Sorry that I don't feel like shooting a guy in the face for half an hour to kill him while he can two shot me. Not exactly my idea of fun.
But something like Hardcore mode for Dead Space 2, where they restrict your ammo, your saves, and give you awesome toys for beating it? Heck yeah I'll do it.
But something like Hardcore mode for Dead Space 2, where they restrict your ammo, your saves, and give you awesome toys for beating it? Heck yeah I'll do it.
I tend to play on Normal, but I think Easy modes are incredibly important. Case in point: I was trying to get someone into gaming, and eventually she wanted to try Alan Wake. It took her about ten minutes to get the hang of using the two analogue sticks in tandem, and still died a few times on the first couple of enemies even though she was on the lowest difficulty. Eventually she got the hang of it and the difficulty was just right to allow her to make it all the way to the end without giving up.
Players like these need easy modes otherwise they'll get frustrated and stuck on their first tries of games and may lack the incentive to go on. YOU might not need it, but other people less experienced or just getting into the hobby do, and it's not fair to look down on them.
Players like these need easy modes otherwise they'll get frustrated and stuck on their first tries of games and may lack the incentive to go on. YOU might not need it, but other people less experienced or just getting into the hobby do, and it's not fair to look down on them.
I remember a great game from a few years back, Galactic Civilization II, where I was plotting an invasion of a neighboring faction and he sent me a message that boiled down to the following:T_ConX said:
"Hi there, I know you're planning on invading me and I would take precautions to stop you, but you aren't playing on Tough difficulty. I hope your victory is fulfilling with the knowledge that I could've stopped you, but won't..."
I felt like shit afterwards and had to restart the game on Tough difficulty.
I know several gamers who play lots of games but are also very bad at games and need an easy mode. Hell, if I'm running through a game for the alternate ending or what have you I'll just play on easy...
There is so much cute in your avatar!Jark212 said:
I play games on easy because I play for the story and I don't like dying.
Easy Mode deserves to be in the game as much as Hard mode. I generally play through on Easy, and if the game was good enough I'll run through on a harder difficulty. You aren't a pussy if you play on easy, and you aren't a dumbass with no life if you play on Hard. You play your way. No definitive way for gaming.
Often when I start up a game I say, "Your not a kid anymore! You don't need that easy shit! BE A MAN!"
I have switched to easy mode numerous times.
I have switched to easy mode numerous times.
Damn ninja'd again.StriderShinryu said:
OT: As has likely been said many times by now I do think that it's important to keep the integrity of the game in tact, I recenlty had a long and in-depth discussion wwith a few escapists about Dark Soul's and why an easy mode would be detrimental to the game and that the issue could be tackled by those requiring an easier time of the game using some kind of strategy guide, since the major difficulty in Soul's games is figuring out how to beat your enemies through trial an improvement.
But otherwise yeah do whatever, I know people that would never have beaten DMC3 if not for easy mode. I personally didn't even unlock easy mode until halfway through dante must die > >
There are many games I would have never got into had it not had a forgiving difficulty level, like MGS3 or Guitar Hero. Hell, it's safe to say I'd probably have never started gaming if there wasn't a gentle, orientation difficulty.
I started playing games when I was six, and in my 11 years of gaming, I very rarely played games on Hard mode. Medium difficulty provides a balence between challenge, and reward in my experience, so I generally don't go any lower or higher. Hell, it took me years of play before I manned up to play normal regularly.
But to say that easy difficulties are detrimental to gaming is like saying short, easy to read novels are detrimental to literature, or that light hearted comedies like Community somehow bring down excellent shows like Breaking Bad, or Mad Men. It's absurd, and it makes video games seem like an exclusive club of nerds with extreme levels of muscle memory.
I started playing games when I was six, and in my 11 years of gaming, I very rarely played games on Hard mode. Medium difficulty provides a balence between challenge, and reward in my experience, so I generally don't go any lower or higher. Hell, it took me years of play before I manned up to play normal regularly.
But to say that easy difficulties are detrimental to gaming is like saying short, easy to read novels are detrimental to literature, or that light hearted comedies like Community somehow bring down excellent shows like Breaking Bad, or Mad Men. It's absurd, and it makes video games seem like an exclusive club of nerds with extreme levels of muscle memory.
Even if there's no mode labelled 'easy' but instead a 'normal' 'hard' and 'very hard' Then you still have an easy mode, it's just being called something else.
More options isn't a bad thing though, and you need to have something for people who are new to a genre to start with. You don't expect someone who's never played a Moba before to just leap into LoL and play ranked, you give them bots so they can figure out what they're doing and work up to the harder content.
I usually play through every game on Normal like the boring sod I am, but I always reckon it's nice to have the option. A game I absolutely love (like KH2) will usually end up getting played through again on he harder difficulties.
I'm not saying every game needs an easy mode some games are just supposed to be hard (Super Meat Boy, Dark Souls, etc), but it's nowhere near a bad thing.
More options isn't a bad thing though, and you need to have something for people who are new to a genre to start with. You don't expect someone who's never played a Moba before to just leap into LoL and play ranked, you give them bots so they can figure out what they're doing and work up to the harder content.
I usually play through every game on Normal like the boring sod I am, but I always reckon it's nice to have the option. A game I absolutely love (like KH2) will usually end up getting played through again on he harder difficulties.
I'm not saying every game needs an easy mode some games are just supposed to be hard (Super Meat Boy, Dark Souls, etc), but it's nowhere near a bad thing.
Easy is a good thing. Sometimes you just want to chill and experiment/play for the story.
Personally, I start a game on normal and bump it up if the challenge is fun. Haven't played easymode in years.
Personally, I start a game on normal and bump it up if the challenge is fun. Haven't played easymode in years.
More options is a good thing, surely? Not everyone can be extremely good at a game and sometimes even I don't want to approach a game like an athletic competition with myself.
Depends entirely on the game. Difficulty selection is great for, say, strategy games with complex systems that would be daunting for new players. It's also good for games where the objective is "use your skill to get to the end" - sort of like what that guy from the social game company no-one had ever heard of said a little while back; games where the A.I. is substituted in for a second player to compete against.
Where I do not think that difficulty selection is relevant is in games that try to give one particular experience. When the Dark Souls easy mode thing came around, someone related to Assassin's Creed piped in to use the analogy that if you have a cover-based shooter in which easy mode renders using cover unnecessary, you've made a game that has no reason to exist. Many people here blasted him by saying that Assassin's Creed is too easy (which for me it is), but missed the point entirely - difficulty selection drastically alters the "meaning" of the game, and the way you interact with it. Difficulty selection should not be in every game, although many do benefit from it. If a game is too hard, and designed to be that way, you should recognise that it's not meant for you and leave it alone. And the opposite is true for games that some people might think are too easy.
Where I do not think that difficulty selection is relevant is in games that try to give one particular experience. When the Dark Souls easy mode thing came around, someone related to Assassin's Creed piped in to use the analogy that if you have a cover-based shooter in which easy mode renders using cover unnecessary, you've made a game that has no reason to exist. Many people here blasted him by saying that Assassin's Creed is too easy (which for me it is), but missed the point entirely - difficulty selection drastically alters the "meaning" of the game, and the way you interact with it. Difficulty selection should not be in every game, although many do benefit from it. If a game is too hard, and designed to be that way, you should recognise that it's not meant for you and leave it alone. And the opposite is true for games that some people might think are too easy.