Today I admit it - I sometimes play games on easy/casual/beginner whatever it may be.
I'm easily frustrated and get no joy from replaying a segment of a game over and over. I have a job and responsibilities, I want to experience a game and get as much out of it as I can. I don't want to fall into the trap I did in the last generation of having a ton of games that I got through 60% of before getting bored or fed-up because I wanted to beat it on a decent difficulty level.
I was never a high-score gamer, or someone who felt the need to beat people in multiplayer. I play games for the escape and immersion into a new world and approach a game in the same way I approach a novel. I actually appreciate that some games are getting easier in order to move the narrative along. I just don't have the world's best reflexes and it killed me growing up that I couldn't experience games the same way as other people because in many I'd undoubtedly run up against a wall where it just got too hard.
So yes, sometimes, especially if I hear a game has a considerable difficulty curve, I put the setting to easy and if I like the game, maybe I'll play it again on normal. So there, that's off my chest - I'm not proud of it, but I've come to terms with it.
A Confession: I sometimes play games on easy
Today I admit it - I sometimes play games on easy/casual/beginner whatever it may be.
I'm easily frustrated and get no joy from replaying a segment of a game over and over. I have a job and responsibilities, I want to experience a game and get as much out of it as I can. I don't want to fall into the trap I did in the last generation of having a ton of games that I got through 60% of before getting bored or fed-up because I wanted to beat it on a decent difficulty level.
I was never a high-score gamer, or someone who felt the need to beat people in multiplayer. I play games for the escape and immersion into a new world and approach a game in the same way I approach a novel. I actually appreciate that some games are getting easier in order to move the narrative along. I just don't have the world's best reflexes and it killed me growing up that I couldn't experience games the same way as other people because in many I'd undoubtedly run up against a wall where it just got too hard.
So yes, sometimes, especially if I hear a game has a considerable difficulty curve, I put the setting to easy and if I like the game, maybe I'll play it again on normal. So there, that's off my chest - I'm not proud of it, but I've come to terms with it.
For me it's like
Medium: If it's for the story because the gameplay is almost on the wrong side of bad.
Hard: what I normally play on since stuff harder than that normally isn't unlocked untill you beat the game on Hard anyway.
Above Hard: For those times where they actually put that in and you don't have to unlock it, that's the thing I'm playing on
Don't see any shame in that at all. We all have a different style of playing games and you're reasons are totally legitimate. I for one play games on easy as well and then work my way up the difficulty levels since I want to enjoy the game for what it is before I challenge myself to it.
I played Dragon Age: Origins on easy, mostly because I made the mistake of buying the game for 360 and didn't feel like suffering through any sort of "challenging" gameplay with controls that terrible. I also swapped to easy mode to fight Matriarch Benezia in the original Mass Effect, but I switched right back to normal afterward.
Well then you should play games on harder difficulties. You never experience the game as it should be played on easy. You may as well just remove the game and piss on it because the people who make the game generally don't put all those gruelling hours into making it so you can come along and run through sections of the game with no thought or skill what so ever. I think you need a new hobby.I want to experience a game and get as much out of it as I can.
and examples of games of the top of my head (games if you play them on easy you are not seeing the true game as it is)
Any of the Ninja Gaiden games this gen and last
Perfect Dark and PD Zero
Prototype
Mega Man 10
Mass Effect 2
also any sports game
I usually play on the hardest difficulty level I feel like I can beat the game on, which is occasionally easy. Sometimes I just want to go along for the ride, so I play on something easy because it's fun to beat the crap out of stuff with no effort.
" @nail1080: Granted - I didn't say every game - and based on what you've listed, I don't have interest in many of those games (other than Mass Effect 2, which I played through on normal). And while I value strategy, there are some games where I'm willing to dial it back to easy so I can see the whole story. "fair enough, it just frustrates me that games are getting more and mre casual these days. When they added an Easy Mode to NG I cried, when they announced an easy mode for Mega Man I didn't leave my room for a week.
And ME2 - hearing people complain about insanity made me cringe so much. 'It's too hard!', they screamed....'not if you use proper tactics' I say,,,but no they just cry moar and demand a patch. Or just hearing of people play that game and never using the pause menu and giving orders, even though combining multiple powers is awesome and necessary if you play on anything higher than the shamefully easy 'normal' mode which plays like a generic 3rd person shooter
And look what they did to the new SC game. It's a fucking disgrace how casual and shitty it is compared to the master piece which was Chaos Theory
I'm a fan of easy mode myself in some cases like if it's a terrible game but I want to finish it or I am borrowing the game for a short time.
I'm just the opposite. I will usually play the game on the hardest difficulty from the outset so I don't have to play it twice to get the normal/hard achievements. Of course, this only works if the game in question gives you the normal/easy achievements retroactively for playing on hard. I'm looking at you, Bad Company...
So if their grueling hours was made that they didn't want you to have an easy play through, why bother having the option of having an easy mode? No one cares about the developer, but whether the end product was designed appropriately for people. Video games aren't about struggles, its about entertainment." You may as well just remove the game and piss on it because the people who make the game generally don't put all those gruelling hours into making it so you can come along and run through sections of the game with no thought or skill what so ever. "
@nail1080 said:
You need a life beyond video games. It's that easy. Crying like a little bitch and locking yourself in your room doesn't count." When they added an Easy Mode to NG I cried, when they announced an easy mode for Mega Man I didn't leave my room for a week. "
To the Topic Creator, as long as you're having fun, you're doing it right.
" @nail1080: Bloo bloo poor babby is sad that people are getting options for how they want to play the game. Just don't pick easy mode and let the people who want to play the games on easy play them on easy. And don't cry over stupid video games. They're flashing lights on a screen. Dear lord. "Playing on easy takes your appreciation of the game away. For instance, reaching Wily Castle 4 the 1st time on Mega Man 10 should be a jaw dropping moment where you're thinking...oh shit I can't believe I made it here.
Now people can play on easy and not give a fuck
It takes away from the thought and hard work put into the game by the people who made it and there should always be certain places that only those who have the skills to get there see...
Im the same way, the only time I do not play a game on its hardest setting is because I basically don't want to play the game anymore, but I still want to finish it; or the hardest setting is just stupid hard to the point it is cheap and just not fun to play.
I don't replay games (very few exceptions), so i figure I might as well be as challenged as much as possible and get my best value playing that way. Also most games settings are bumped down a notch in my mind. Ive played enough games to know that normal tends to be pretty damn easy.
Hell I play on easy too. When I want some cool cinematic I kill everyone like in an action movie with no problem mentality, I pick it.
" @ztiworoh said:Dude, how pathetic is your life? Honestly. I play all my games on easy on the first playthrough, and I have a blast doing it. I didn't miss out on Bioshock because I played it on Easy. I tried it on Medium and it was too difficult to be enjoyable for me. Video games are meant to be enjoyed. If you want to play them all on the hardest difficulty, cool. Good job. Just don't act like you're better than those who don't and that they are ruining gaming.Well then you should play games on harder difficulties. You never experience the game as it should be played on easy. You may as well just remove the game and piss on it because the people who make the game generally don't put all those gruelling hours into making it so you can come along and run through sections of the game with no thought or skill what so ever. I think you need a new hobby. and examples of games of the top of my head (games if you play them on easy you are not seeing the true game as it is) Any of the Ninja Gaiden games this gen and last Perfect Dark and PD Zero Prototype Mega Man 10 Mass Effect 2 also any sports game "I want to experience a game and get as much out of it as I can.
I played Dragon Age on easy simply because the combat is so poor, I decided its not worth my effort when the focus of the game is dialogue trees.
I always start on medium and if it's too frustrating, I move down to easy. I find normal is ok in most situations, but on the rare occasion I do play easy. I did play Dark Void Zero on easy since the game was so ridiculously unforgiving (I even found even easy to be hard D:).
Have a look at these statistics for Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2 Episode 1 (down the bottom). Both of these graphs show that more people play on easy than hard; yes, it is just two games, but they are the only statistics of this kind I know of. I'd be interested to see similar statistics for other games if they exist.
Also, lol at hostility towards people playing games on easy.
Not to affiliate myself with the people who think he's a bad human being for playing video games on easy, but the opinion that the easy difficulty cheapens the experience is legit too.
Worse than that though, because people can have different opinions about what the experience should be, I think the easy difficulty just has a way of making people feel a lot less confident. I started on Easy with Guitar Hero 2 and in 2010 I'm still stuck in a hard place between getting 100% on every Medium level song and sucking it up on Hard/Expert. If I had started on Medium or Hard I'd probably be an above average player by now.
I play almost every single game on easy. The only exception being Mega Man. When I play a game all I want to do is relax and have fun. I don't find enjoyment from having to worry every second that I'm going to die. I barely finish a game as is, making me play a section over because I died isn't going to make me want to play it more.
" I played Dragon Age on easy simply because the combat is so poor, I decided its not worth my effort when the focus of the game is dialogue trees. "hahaha shit likes this makes me laugh. You played DA on easy because you thought the combat was poor? You know nothing...
Get a life kid. I pity you." @Burns098356GX said:
" I played Dragon Age on easy simply because the combat is so poor, I decided its not worth my effort when the focus of the game is dialogue trees. "hahaha shit likes this makes me laugh. You played DA on easy because you thought the combat was poor? You know nothing... "
" @nail1080 said:I know man, Bioshock is so damn hard with that bloody inifnite life respawn system, it's so tough for gamers these days...." @ztiworoh said:Dude, how pathetic is your life? Honestly. I play all my games on easy on the first playthrough, and I have a blast doing it. I didn't miss out on Bioshock because I played it on Easy. I tried it on Medium and it was too difficult to be enjoyable for me. Video games are meant to be enjoyed. If you want to play them all on the hardest difficulty, cool. Good job. Just don't act like you're better than those who don't and that they are ruining gaming. "Well then you should play games on harder difficulties. You never experience the game as it should be played on easy. You may as well just remove the game and piss on it because the people who make the game generally don't put all those gruelling hours into making it so you can come along and run through sections of the game with no thought or skill what so ever. I think you need a new hobby. and examples of games of the top of my head (games if you play them on easy you are not seeing the true game as it is) Any of the Ninja Gaiden games this gen and last Perfect Dark and PD Zero Prototype Mega Man 10 Mass Effect 2 also any sports game "I want to experience a game and get as much out of it as I can.
I like a good challenge most of the time. So I'll play on hard.
However if I'm getting my ass handed to me attempting to play on the hardest difficulty, i might give up and go to easy. (Like when i tried playing Mass Effect 2 on the hardest difficulty to start off with, and i never played a Mass Effect game before that so i didn't know what to expect.)
Me too
I play games to have fun. Why frustrate myself?
I don't even really want a challenge either, that's what real life is for
I always play on easy. I just want to have fun, not be on top of the leaderboards or anything. I don't see the big deal about it.
" @nail1080 said:Roasted.Get a life kid. I pity you. "" @Burns098356GX said:
" I played Dragon Age on easy simply because the combat is so poor, I decided its not worth my effort when the focus of the game is dialogue trees. "hahaha shit likes this makes me laugh. You played DA on easy because you thought the combat was poor? You know nothing... "
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