I mostly do normal, but man I don't know what's wrong with enemies in Elden Ring. Like cmon give me a break will ya. They don't wait for a second to kill ya.
Hmm on one hand I like to challenge myself ever so slightly when playing games, and I tend to be pretty good at it by this point. But on the other, I don't think I would've gotten to that point without making heavy use of cheats and stuff while growing up just because breaking the game in various ways was fun. Really helped me get a feel for how games work.
Hell yeah! The older I am, the less time and patience I have to tinker with character builds and strategies. I want stories, I want fun, and I don't want to spent half a year playing only one game on hard mode when I can squeeze there a few more just thanks to playing it easy.
I recently sung praises not only on Easy mode but on easy switching of difficulty!
Playing #DeathStranding on the #SteamDeck. Wonderful game for me to relax with (for whatever weird reason). But then I found myself in a shooter sequence. And I just plain suck at aiming on anything but a keyboard and mouse.
So I kept dieing. And after a few repetitions I was THIS close to giving up on this game I have enjoyed for 50h now altogether. 1/
so ... Story mode. I like that some games that call it story mode. It allows you to get through the game and enjoy the story and not get bigger down by difficult content. It's not my thing, but I know people that benefit from this kind of game mode.
I start on normal and see how that goes, but I absolutely switch to easy if I feel like a game is wasting my time by overdoing it in the challenge. My favourite thing is well implemented and seamless adaptive difficulty that is invisible to the player.
The framing of this makes it too easy for incoherent arguments; that in agreeing with the spirit of this argument amounts to expecting an easy difficulty setting, always.
There are games where bolting on an extra, harder difficulty adds little value because the difficulty is created by ways the design of gameplay loops never really intended, adding no value.
But that equally can apply at the other end of the difficulty curve, with an added insult of perceived condescension.
Easy mode is fine. Though I love the trend where games replace the Easy, Medium,Hard naming structure with something like Story First, As intended, Challenging, etc.
I do! It's not my default, but I'd rather finish a game on easy than play the first part over and over before tossing it to the back of my backlog never to be seen again.
I mean I like a challenge every now and then, but some games have gameplay or controls so abysmal I don't really bother and just play for story. I totally remember playing the wannabee walking-sims Soma on easy mode (it had a top notch writing, but one of the most dull attempts on stealth & horror I can remember).
As we used to say in RPGs: But that's badwrongfun ! Aka: don't listen to people on the internet and play as you and your group like it ๐
Not always, but when Iโm bored or tired, I like to play the most difficult level I KNOW I will win. I find it soothing, and I can look around for things Iโve missed, better strategy, etc.
@darius During burnout, Iโd set games lowest with all the helpers I could enable to make it somewhat enjoyable. Iโm sure many players canโt mentally deal with challenging settings tbh!
absolutely right. I have no shame in lowering the difficulty on a game if I'm struggling. I just want to enjoy playing instead of bashing my head against a wall.
Absolutely, i have no embarrassment to say that I beat Doom Eternal on Easy. It was stress enough at that level, I don't need more neck pain in my life. I don't play all games on easy, but I will adjust it where and when I decide.
absolutely right. I mostly chose and play games to enjoy a story, I don't have time to get frustrated with having to repeat the same thing 100 times over and over again until I do it just exactly right to progress. I like games that call this "story mode", I feel more respected. I understand that some people do need the challenge, good for them, just not me.
I wish the easy mode on brawlers were actually easy. The new TMNT game was and I had a blast playing with a teenaged relative who barely games. We tried to play Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and it was really tough even on easy.
yep. 99% of the games i love to play i play on easy mode. the few games are touhou cause normal mode is not that much harder and makes you feal badass and i wanna be series cause nomather what your gonna feel dumb.
I'm a "put hard mode first" gamer kind. But I like the option to skip it when it gets tenuous.
In fact I'd go even farther, and wish there were a "skip the mecanistic part and storymode only". I had once had a very nice romance puzzle game, and got stuck on one of them.
I couldn't even see the last bit of the story, it felt like being bullied.
absolutely. It's not for me - I'm one of those Soulsborne saddos who love a challenge - but if that's how someone else wants to enjoy a game (whatever their reason, whether it's a disability thing, or a time thing, or a "just because" thing is immaterial) then more power to them.
totally agree. Yes, i like to play on hard mode but i really dont want to be forced to play it like that. Also very important accsessibility feature wich a lot of developers seem to ignore these days.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •Playing #DeathStranding on the #SteamDeck. Wonderful game for me to relax with (for whatever weird reason). But then I found myself in a shooter sequence. And I just plain suck at aiming on anything but a keyboard and mouse.
So I kept dieing. And after a few repetitions I was THIS close to giving up on this game I have enjoyed for 50h now altogether. 1/
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •I like that some games that call it story mode. It allows you to get through the game and enjoy the story and not get bigger down by difficult content.
It's not my thing, but I know people that benefit from this kind of game mode.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •My favourite thing is well implemented and seamless adaptive difficulty that is invisible to the player.
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But that equally can apply at the other end of the difficulty curve, with an added insult of perceived condescension.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •As we used to say in RPGs: But that's badwrongfun ! Aka: don't listen to people on the internet and play as you and your group like it ๐
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •I like games that call this "story mode", I feel more respected.
I understand that some people do need the challenge, good for them, just not me.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •Imagine, using a feature that's designed to be there, all because it's a game and that's how you enjoy it. Go figure.
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I do prefer easy though, it helps with the God Complex ๐
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •In fact I'd go even farther, and wish there were a "skip the mecanistic part and storymode only". I had once had a very nice romance puzzle game, and got stuck on one of them.
I couldn't even see the last bit of the story, it felt like being bullied.
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