Easy Modo

Well, personally I have no interest in playing something that isn't a challenge.

>>384226578

Uh yeah its called being an adult doing what you want.

Also if its a game you want to play through again but quicker

>>384226578

i bought the game so I use it however I see fit, but I was playing easy in pirated games for the story because no achievements to bolster my ego with Hardcore Ironman runs

When you're a game reviewer and are only doing this shit for money.

Basically, if you're doing it with malicious intent, to exploit the people who trust you.
Backstabbing is horrible, but it's not pathetic - it's how all the richest people came to existence.

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>>384226578

When you realize that easily stomping the AI can be fun in its own right.

When replaying to get a different ending, I set it as easy so I can plow through it faster.

Games that have an easy mode aren't worth playing. Everyone plays to the same standard. Everyone gets the same experience.

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Some of us have already beaten the hardest game in the history of mankind

I don't need to prove anything to anyone anymore when it comes to being a hardcore gamer

So nowadays i just play on easy to relax and enjoy game storytelling

>>384226837
Where's that reviewer that gets called out by the devs for playing the game on easy because it locks the true ending?

>>384226578
Dunno about easy mode... but I turn FO3 from the hardest to medium somewhere during the DLCs. I KNEW I was good enough at the game, but I was sinking round after round into those aliens and just thought, "fuck. this. shit."

Like when difficulty is just a % manipultion.... what's the point (once you're balls deep in the game).

>>384226578
When you don't care/like the gameplay at all and only want to get through the game because of the story

>>384226578
Yes, if you want to play a game in which story is the main thing and gameplay is a mess.
PLANESCAPE TORMENT

>>384226971
me again. spelling errors due to whiskey. sorry not sorry.

>>384227034
It's not reddit newfag noone cares

>>384226578
When you're a grown-ass adult who barely has time to himself and is very out-of-practice because of it so you pick the easiest difficulty so you don't have to git gud because if you did you would have to get lucky and have retire before you'd have enough time.

>>384226578
>Easier setting dumbs down the game in ways that it's no longer fun to play or satisfying to win
>Harder setting makes the game more tedious by shoehorning decisions and restricting play-styles or viable builds
Basically just play on the normal difficulty, and if that's so easy you feel like you can't lose then just go find a better game instead of cranking up some bogus difficulty knob

>>384226578
After 15 years old your body starts to degrade. At 30 your ability will be halved. At 60 it will be one eight of what it used to be.

>>384226578

Games that rely on telling a story and cutscenes

Speedrunning

Genres in which you suck, no one is perfect at all of them

>Is there any scenario where it would be ok for a grown adult to play video games? I can't think of any.

FTFY

I tink playing games like hitman and alien isolation on the hardest the very first time can really ruin the experience unless you learn very quickly.

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When the game forces you to grind for a stupid long time and you just want to masturbate

>>384227249
>after 15 your body starts degrading
I thought your body was still growing at 15 any you degrade after your mid 30's

Just for funsies. In MML it was unlocked after beating hard mode IIRC, so why the fuck not for shits and giggles?
It was fun playing through the game with an all-stats-max buster

>>384226578
rushing bullet sponge difficulties to get through the narrative

>>384226971
fo3's difficulty is just making enemies massive bullet sponges, when it should've been making you actually able to die past level ten

>I'm a masochist
>Why aren't other people masochists?

>>384227374
That's only to do with social intelligence and thinking ability. Most games require only good coordination, twitch reflexes, fast strategic thinking, good and energetic body. I think 15 is peak for a lot of genres, if you start playing video games as a toddler.

>>384227294
For speedrunning, I think playing the game on the easiest mode is a cop out. The point of a speedrun is to show off your skills right? I just don't think you can't do that on the easiest difficulty.

>>384227436
I'm ok with unlocks such as this, you've already proved you can handle the game at hard and easy would be for a run of shits and giggles

>>384226578
If there's no penalty for playing Easy, and the gameplay sucks, then play Easy.
Though if the gameplay is terrible there better be a good reason to be bothering in the first place
tits and ass are not good reasons

>>384226578
When you're playing with your little daughter probably. Although girls tend to be commonly good at ryhthm games from my experience.

>Game only has Easy and Normal difficulty
Why?

Or even better;
>Game has no difficulty setting and is piss easy

>>384226578
When you're going through the game a second time to pick Choice B instead of Choice A and you can't be bothered. I did that with Of Orcs and Men because there are parts in that game that are hard for all the wrong reasons.

Also, No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise has a Super Sweet mode that's easier than the standard Sweet mode that unlocks when you beat the game once and puts all the female bosses in new costumes.

when after a frustrating day all you want to do is go home and feel like a badass with no effort

>>384226578
after I beat a game I like to to play it again on NG+ and set the difficulty to easy and just feel like a god destroying everything

when you already finished the game on another mode

>>384227656
there are certain instances that playing hard mode gives the player a better gameplay experience entirely. RE7 Is a recent example of this.

Now, is there a good reason not to play on hardest difficulty?
I'm at least trying to and sometimes find that "hard" in some games comes from simple scaling and not properly balanced. Then is it fine to play hardest difficulty is you have to cheese opponents? Is it worth playing at all?

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>>384227703
>game only has normal and easy difficulty
>easy mode is piss easy
>normal mode is gut wrenchingly hard

>>384227910
>Now, is there a good reason not to play on hardest difficulty?
if hard mode just gives enemies truckloads of health and makes it tedious

If easy mode and hard mode have different endings, you should play both.

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>game is potato easy on normal difficulty
>game will skullfuck you alive on hard difficulty

>>384227910
>Now, is there a good reason not to play on hardest difficulty?
If "hard" mode only reduces damage you deal and increases damage you take

>>384227910
Who else feels like difficulty settings in general are hacks. A single difficulty setting ensures that you are getting the intended experience and (assuming the devs are compitent) balancing issues aren't a problem.

>>384226893
(You)

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>>384226578
>beginner
>easy
>normal
>hard
>chaos
>ultimate

the only difference is how often the enemy blocks (by that i mean reading your input) and how much of a damage sponge they are. they don't change how they fight either. can't do much shit to them until you can upgrade weapons.

so why waste that time?

>>384227009
Fuck off underage

>>384227009
The story is shit too tho

>>384228079
Wow, wouldn't it be great if there was some kind of setting between hard and easy? Devs should get on that.

>>384227975
Nier?

>>384227249
Your reactions peak around mid 20's, what are you high on?

God Hand
I got my shit pushed in and it took me 10 hours to beat it on normal

>>384226578
EDF makes you play through all the difficulties to grind armor & percentage.

>>384226837
What if easy mode is the worst possible way to play a game? wouldn't the reviewer get a wrong impression from playing the easy difficulty?

>>384228208
>game is potato easy on normal difficulty
>normal difficulty
>N O R M A L

>grown adult
ummmm no honey if youre a grown adult you dont have time for videogames

they don't spend their time on a video game image board, and just want the enjoyment of completing something.

>>384228116
some people are better at games than others
and difficulty settings add replayability to games

>>384228254
It's a racing game

>>384228116
There is a big gap between the lowest and highest skilled people you want playing your game. If the experience is intended to be challenging but not overwhelming you should probably include some form of difficulty scaling. Otherwise, most players will either find it too easy or too hard.

>>384228295
That would be unusual.
It's totally rational for a shitty reviewer to always pick easy - it's the biggest average time save and most games won't call them out on it because being too harsh with players hurts sales.
Capitalism made sure that major vidya is all reward, no punishment. Even the fake punishment to make reward more rewarding is very unpunishing.

>>384228116
i agree but only with hard mode, games should be challenging and balanced around normal. i'm ok if there's baby mode where balance is thrown out so the kids can play

>>384227034
>oh noes, bad spelling and grammer, better give him a downvote

nigger we are on /v/. Everyone comprehends autist

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>>384227774
>badass

>>384228393
There are better ways for devs to add replayabillity without difficulty settings. and being bad at a game isn't an excuse for copping out and potentially devaluing your own experiance by playing on easy mode. Sometimes it's necessary to persevere instead of just giving up.

>>384226578

If you want to demonstrate the differences to your friend.

Or speed through to a certain part of the game you enjoy more (This is only really relevant with difficulty switching)

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I play SMT mainline games on Easy so that they're as hard as Persona games on Normal.

>>384226578
>Play Fallout
>High difficulty
>Empty full clip of gun into the head of a bandit
>40% health remaining

Yeah. High difficulty is such a good mechanic. In certain genres the difficulty would also ruin the experience completely, one good example is horror and how Alien: Isolation fell to this meme.

For Valkyrie Profile yes.
Easy mode is hard mode. hard mode is easy and normal is, I guess normal.
But not really.

>>384228598
>that would be unusual
what? easy mode being the worst way to play a game? I don't think that's unusual... There are lots of games where easy mode is just tacked on because developers need an easy mode. They almost never have thought put into them.

>>384226578
When my mom wants to play.

When you have already played the game and want to just casually enjoy the game every now and then
Kinda like with hardest difficulties, where you really should only do it if you want the extra challenge.
Normal difficulty will always be the best difficulty as it allows one to breeze through most parts whilst still providing a challenge at certain areas/parts

The problem with difficulty though is that it basically only ever increases/decreases health/damage.
Proper difficulty should have those changes but also changes in the way enemy AI work and if game has puzzles or something of the sort, changing the way it works in a way or something

>>384228837
>clip

>>384228837
for games like Alien: Isolation, where the developers want you to have an intended experience, A single difficulty could greatly benefit them

I usually play on normal since that should be what the devs balanced the game difficulty for, but I wouldn't hold it against someone if they play on easy, still better than cheating.
Not if you're a journalist and this is your "job" though, you should be playing games on normal and finishing them and perhaps doing it all over again on Hard just so you can give an informed opinion.

Is there any scenario where it would be ok for a grown adult to care about another adult choosing to play easy mode? I can't think of any, aside being autistic

>>384229140
Everyone is on a spectrum including you obviously

>>384226578
The second video game my exwife ever played was Dante's Inferno. Her first was FF9, where she never made it passed the first major dungeon (that weird ice temple).

She picked easy mode, and had me do a couple of the harder platforming sections where the camera fucked around without being able to control it.

Easy mode is good for very inexperienced players, especially if you've never played the genre before.

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>>384226578
My dad is like mid 50s and hasn't played games since Atari, I think it's okay for him to play RE on easy like he does these days.

>>384226883
Dynasty Warriors type games come to mind. The most fun about that genre is just totally destroying huge waves of enemies.

>>384228837
Which Fallout game? Bethesda's own are notorious for just flipping the damage given/taken modifiers into the NPC's favor, that includes TES as well.

>>384226578
Porn games

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I always just choose the difficulty whose description fits me the best. It's usually hard, but not the hardest. If there are no descriptions, normal.

>>384227567
Git gud

>>384229205
>Easy mode is good for very inexperienced players, especially if you've never played the genre before.
How is that a valid excuse?
Remember when you're a kid and playing those hard as shit video games that don't even have a difficulty selections??
did getting your ass kicked again and again made you quit??
Easy mode is not meant to exists except to let casuals to have a reason/excuse to claim that they "finished" a game.

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>>384227656
>tits and ass are not good reasons

>>384229205
>leddit spacing
can see why you would support easy mode.
Kill yourself, nigger.

>>384228934
>There are lots of games where easy mode is just tacked on because developers need an easy mode.
It's still optimal for a reviewer who doesn't care much for review quality to pick that.

Reviewers aren't required to accurately portray the game. It doesn't get them extra money if they are good at the job, because people who care about quality don't care about reviews.

>>384228748
no difficulty settings are the most efficent way to add replayability to a game and adding an easy mode opens your game up to children / old people / women who would otherwise never play your game

>>384226837
the fuck is dis nigga talkin bout lmao

When you your little cousins come over to make the game easier for them which makes it fun for them. Besides that there is no reason when playing solo just git gud.

>>384226578
Its always ok for adults to pick easy since grown ups don't really care about what game you finished on what difficulty level and it stops being a topic you'll get social recognition for once you left school.

>>384228272
t. IGN

>>384226578
I did almost all of Tales of Xillia 2 on Chaos, cept the bad end boss. I put that on easy the 2nd attempt because fuck that bullshit.

>>384226578
disabled gamer who finds some systems too hard to deal with but still enjoys the gameplay and when difficulty just makes things bullet sponges. i enjoy grinding and doing things overpowered so i usually chose the mode that gives the best items which varies.
people who get hung up on difficulty and think it holds some actual value are fucking stupid. its nice to beat shit on higher difficulties but there is literally nothing wrong with going easy especially in a single player game.

>>384229470
No, but it's a good spot for beginners to learn the game without getting terribly frustrated with it because some games just don't have a decent enough tutorial area for those players. If they have a good time, they can go back and play it again on a higher difficulty level if they want to.

>>384229530
I don't know what "leddit spacing" is, but if you're referring to the double spacing, it's because of ENworld.

>>384226578
did this in nier automata when playing 9S's route cause i hate him

>>384228598
>>384229561
As long as they don't lie about it.

>>384229530

>Knowing what leddit spacing it
You should probably join him :^)

>>384226578
I used to play with cheats turned on to make it even easier, being invincible feels great desu

>>384229579
why do you feel the need to be inclusive? People should try to make games that they want to make. Inclusivity might come at the cost of ruining the intended experience of the game.

>>384226578
to have fun

>>384229801
>fun
>on easy mode
I think you need to leave. This board obviously isn't for you.

>>384229801
But challenge is fun

>>384229721
>NOT knowing that "leddit spacing" is spammed to every post that uses it

Go back.

>>384229894
>leddit spacing
God I hate newfags

>>384229956
Right back at you.

>>384229794
no it doesn't ruin the intended experience because you can select the intended experience by choosing 'normal' (or often hard because game devs tend to make their games too hard and tone it down for the normal difficulty setting)
and if you need to ask why having more people being able to play your game is a good thing, stop being retarded

>>384230112
what I'm saying is that people can ruin it for them by willingly choosing the unintended experiance. How is this so hard to understand?

And no, having more people playing your game isn't a good thing. Maybe for the producers. But casualizing mechanics and dumbing down good game design is what comes with popularity, and that isn't what I would call a good thing.

>>384226578
Playing Modern Video games.

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>>384226578
Digimon World Next Order

the actual battles don't get any harder, there's no higher stakes, all the harder modes do is make you get less stats from training/fighting meaning more grinding instead of fighting

So I'll play on an easier mode so I don't waste my time with this shit

>>384230471
except adding difficulty modes to your game doesn't comprimise the original setting at all and barely takes any additional work time
people can also ruin games by using cheats, by hacking the game, by borrowing their friends save or reading a guide on the internet
so long as you don't have 'press X to switch to easy mode' prompts people can make their own decisions how they want to play a game

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Difficulty setting shouold always be set to the highest level your skill allows. The settings are there so that everyone from kids and old people to teens and young adults can find a suitable level of challenge. Most people here should be hard mode players by default, but a lot of people think they belong on "normal mode" because of the name.

Apparently PS4 games has this thing called "Safe Mode" nowadays which essentially removes the possibility of defeat altogether? So you can just sit back and engage in what's more or less an interactive video?

I thought the point of a game was that it should be hard. People play football with their feet because it's harder than just picking up the ball and walking over to the goal.

>>384230826
My favorite is sleep mode.

>>384229705
He's talking about the way you made every sentence into its own paragraph to make your post seem bigger and more important.

Like this.

In reality, it's just wasting everyone's time and your own.

>>384230660
adding difficulty modes do comprimise the original settings because there are going to be people who automatically choose easy mode because they are afraid of a little challenge. the difference between difficulty settings and hacks/cheats is that hacks are actually hard to get.

People don't know what they want, so why would we willingly give them the option for something they have no context for? Most people I have experience with can easily do normal mode but choose easy mode because they have no idea what they are getting themselves into.

>>384226893
(you)

>>384231075
sounds like a problem with your friends, not the game
it's easy to google cheats or guides
maybe you should force them to play on normal if it upsets you so much

>>384231075
this sounds like a personal problem. maybe you should stop being that friend who shits on his friends because they play on different settings than you. to be honest i dont even talk to my friends about difficulty settings unless it was actually meaningful which means the game most likely doesnt have settings.

>>384227910
If its artificial hardness, like you have less health, more enemies, deal less damage, and explosive spam, then theres point for playing it on "hard mode" if the enemies that are spec ops for example are supposed too be like spec ops, but have shit AI and someone a gang in Detroit would hire, then there would be no point in playing it on hard if its not actual difficulty.

>>384230034
>>384229956
You two argue like children

>>384226578
>Is there any scenario where it would be ok for a grown adult to play easy mode? I can't think of any.

Time and i guess cinematic bullshit where the "story" is considered a selling point to something and not really the game play itself.

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You are like a little baby. Watch this.

Ironically, the two highest difficulties actually change the game up significantly, and provide a different experience for that playthrough, along with many other tweaks that aren't 'give x enemy 60% more hp

>>384231558
no it's not a personall problem. All I'm saying is that people don't know what they want and ruing there experiances. Just because I bring up my friends as an example doesn't mean I ever get on there case for playing easy mode, I barely talk about video games with them at all.

>>384226578
handicapped in some way, new to the genre, games with an actual steep learningcurve

I honestly can't recommend people new to rpgs and tactical games to start xcom:UFO defense on einstein seppuku at any age.

>>384226578
I have ALS and it's gotten harder and harder to even play games at all anymore. I don't have precision or timing for difficult games anymore.

>>384231205
dude, don't pretend that this is only a problem with my friends. All It doesn't upset me really. I'm just saying there are a lot more positives for there to be one finely crafted difficulty besides multiple unbalanced difficulties.

>>384231879
Such as?

>>384232097
many games do difficulty settings well and blaming the game for your friends percieved lack of self-control is stupid and backwards

>>384232031
Really sad to hear. At least, from what I know, you'll have your sight unimpared

>>384231075
Thing is that it goes both ways, oftentimes the "intended experience" is far too easy for an experienced player and higher difficulty settings help make games less boring.

>>384226578
Most games aren't really games anymore, they are interactive movies designed to let you finish them.

I normally put a game to easy if I'm getting bored of it 2/3 the way through and just want to finish it and move onto the next one

>>384231075
If a game is too easy you crank up the difficulty ya dingus. Not the devs fault if players don't while they don't find easy fun. People that actually want to play easymodo and have their hands full can play too. everyone else plays it normally, hyperspergs do nightmare azn mode

>>384227249
Tokido just won Evo and he's over 30.

If you are a grown adult and you have the time to play on hard mode and learn fifteen enemy attack pattern over five phases in a ten minute long boss fight just so you can shitpost about it online, then maybe you aren't as grown-up as you think.

at or above Hard usually

>>384232319
-Can only quicksave once per area(the game is divided into cells)
-You can no longer carry dozens of doughnuts, health pipes, and other healing/ medical items with you, and instead they act as pickups that restore your health and disappear on contact.
-Enemies are more resistant to fire, which is a very useful weapon previously.
-Civilians shoot you on sight, meaning that, combined with the previous changes, you need to carefully consider your paths, learn where items are, and hide out in places to deal with groups of people pulling machine guns on you, or use explosives and fire and other tactics.

Ironically the highest difficulty after that gives civvies 'power' weapons, where they end up slaughtering eachother on accident, and means you'll get high tier weapons at the start once they kill eachother.

>>384232319
not him but I know there are difficulty modes in POSTAL 2 where all npcs have random weapons and are trying to kill you, even ones that are supposed to be friendly or neutral.

Or modes where all NPCs just hate you, but dont have random weapons.

>>384232645
>being a brainlet

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>>384226578
There is no reason to play Silent Hill on any action difficulty besides easy. It just means you have to whack monsters longer than usual.

>>384232645
It has nothing to do with time. The less free time I have, the more I gravitate towards difficult action games while avoiding rpgs/story games. They are dense on intensity, challenge and just gameplay so I can have a satisfying 30 minute session playing them even if they kick my ass.

Ninja Gaiden

Also Ninja Gaiden 2 for the stunlock ninja groups

>>384229647
>implying IGN even finished God Hand on easy
>implying you had no trouble at all
fk u

>>384232823

Puzzles are harder though.

>>384226893
Literally this. Games are a chore.

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HOW DIFFICULTY SHOULD BE:

>No difficulty slider
>game is moderately challenging to complete
>optional shit to get extras like the true ending is very difficult

HOW IT SHOULD BE IF THEY INSIST ON BEING ABLE TO CHANGE THE DIFFICULTY

>Normal: the intended difficulty of the game
>Hard: an extra challenge where it is harder to avoid getting hit and enemies have more damage, maybe take slightly more hits
>Easy: babbymode difficulty so kids can beat the game but still enough that you have to use your brain to beat the game

HOW IT ACTUALLY IS
>Easy: game plays itself for you
>Normal: piss easy as fuck
>Hard: very tedious difficulty where enemies just have shitloads of extra health and kill you in 2 hits
>Insane: ultra cheap bullshit where everything kills you in one hit and is full of near unavoidable deaths unless you memorized the game

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>>384228272
>ever touching easy
>not going straight for normal

>>384233238
>game is moderately challenging to complete
Meaning
>game is easy for anyone who isn't shit

>>384233328
I did, you faggot. Can you even read?

Probably when you buy a game that find you really aren't enjoying but just want to finish it so you can move on without it feeling like a waste

>>384226578
Most RTS/4x/other strategy games easy is the AI without cheats, higher difficulties adds more and more buffs to them.
Only acceptable for the first game to learn the mechanics though.

>>384233238
So basically the ideal is the main game being easy and some half assed optional content being challenging? Fuck off. I don't see a reason to trust the vast majority of developers to know what the approptiate level of difficulty is for me, so the more options they give me the better.

>>384233436
You made it seem like you're answering OP's question and that you played it on easy before playing normal.

Some games like IWTBtG were designed to be so difficult that even on easy mode, they're still challenging.

If you're just talking about shit like Fire Emblem though, no. There is no excuse to play any lower than normal.

>>384226578
when it simply raises the health of enemies, or simulates having really shit luck.

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>>384226578
How about when the games a dick and locks the hard difficutly on the first play through?

And no it's not medium, its to easy to be caled that

>>384227578
The point of a speedrun is to go from start to finish in the shortest time possible. At that level of play the only difference hard mode makes is increasing the clear time.

>shit at sneaking
>playing mgs3 on medium
>still near the beginning but almost out of trans ammo
>thinking about starting over cause I need that ez gun

>>384226578
>Complete game on normal because it's almost always the best way to play
>Higher difficulties often inflate numbers and nothing else, making the game a chore rather than a challenge
>Move up through higher difficulties if they actually offer new unique challenges and rewards
>After thoroughly overcoming all challenges in a game that is apparently good enough for me to have completed it several times over, switch to Easy Mode in order to fuck around with the world and mechanics in a more controlled environment

>>384226578
If you're going for trophies or speedrunning. Why play the same game assumingly you've beaten already on hardest again. Trophies can be a pain otherwise.

>>384228832
why not do the opposite?

Normal mode in Way of the Samurai 1 shoved my head in the mud. The big enemies took too long to kill and did a fuckton of damage

>>384226578
Normal difficulties in most game are eas enough is as.

I generally give harder difficulties a try, but if the only change is something lazy like making every enemy a bullet sponge, why bother. increased health pools only increases tedium.

Bravely Default.

>>384226893
I know this is memeing but if you think that's the hardest game ever you're a fucking brain dead retard. hope you never breed

>>384226578
My coworker is 45 y/o and he can't play games on hard difficulty. not because he don't want to but because, he say, given his age if he wants to enjoy fast paced games he needs to lower difficulty cause he doesn't have a reaction time as good as his young age.
Couldn't finish papers, please for this problem.

>>384227703
>Game is easy by default and unlocks hard mode AFTER YOU BEAT THE FUCKING GAME with little reason to replay it

persona. literally who cares about dungeons and shit.

>>384226578
There's an Easter egg you want to record as quickly as possible

>>384226578

Sometimes you genuinely don't have the skill for harder modes.
Sometimes games have multiple branching routes that you want to experience but don't want to spend the same amount of time running through the entirety of the game.

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I-its ok anon, you can lower the difficulty setting for this one. I mean, you beat her once. Noone expected that they would bring her back a second time. It is unfair, just give up. Its just a single fight.

>>384226578
When you are bad at videogames.

>>384226578
You know what ?
I do it just to piss you off!

>>384226578
FF13. Normal mode only adds more HP and slightly increased rare drop chance to monsters.

>>384238552
At any level of play the only difference hard mode makes is increasing the clear time. What the fuck kind of an excuse is that?

>>384226578

I know a guy that is missing 7 fingers.

He plays on normal most of the time.

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>>384228160
Sponging enemy is the fucking worst.
I want game where I can kill things with 1-2 shot and same for the enemy

>>384226956
pixeljunk shooter. 2011. Daemon hatfield.

he later edited the review to remove the bit mentioning the "lack of ending being boring and a poor design choice" after yeah, the dev called him out and being a casual and playing it on casual mode.

>>384244517
sidescroller* not shooter my bad.

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>>384227436
>after the pain of hardmode you get easymode
>tearing through the first boss in a second
>ripping the blumebears in a second
>ripping the lake jyun boss in a second
>manhandling Juno in a blink of an eye

>>384226578
When the gameplay is utter trash but you like everything else. See Deadly Premonition

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>>384226893
Dark Souls is barely hard. 30 minutes in and I got used to the technique of rolling behind someone or baiting out their attacks and then backstabbing them.
All the difficulty in Dark Souls comes from the fact that the game doesn't tell you what the hell you're supposed to do. This is both good and bad.
It's good for things like bosses and difficult enemies because it's a trial and error, but for other systems within the game? Thankfully you know WHERE to go as long as you listen to NPCs, but knowing how to use the fine systems such as stat allocation and weapon upgrading is nowhere in the game. The fact that you have to resort to third party guides is disgusting.
The number one thing that adds to it's difficulty that no Dark Soul's fan will ever admit to? The game's horrible hitboxes and inconsistent gameplay mechanics.
Stand too close to a wall and try to swing and you'll end up smacking the wall, that's cool as hell. However, I've had spear and sword using enemies stab me through the corners of walls multiple times. Not to mention inconsistent hitboxes causing me to take damage I normally wouldn't have.
But as usual, the only replies to this will be the only response Soulsfags ever have.
>git gud xd

>>384226578
If you smoked weed and just want to play game in peace without having everything be harder just cause you smoke.

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>>384226578
>grown adult
When you are a grown adult with a job, wife, kids and a group of friends and don't want to spend more time on a single game and be done with it to move to the next one when the life finally gives you a couple of hours a day.
If you are a basement dweller NEET with zero social interactions then by all means go ahead and waste all your time with a single game all day long.

>>384228208
Learn to read

>>384246072
If you have to play games like you're doing a timed exam, you probably should be playing games.

Adults only play hard. Not even normal/medium is acceptable.

Honest answer: If you are playing a rhythm game for the first time, especially arcade games, you better start with easy mode/maps or you will fail even before the game starts

But this is going to be ignored because this thread is for just shitposting

>>384243421
Fucking Doom 2016

>>384226578
I played easy mode for Rikku's path in Chain of Memories. I was tired of that game after Sora and just wanted to it over to move on to KH2.

>>384226578
I did this for the Witcher 3 because I just wanted the combat sections to be over quickly and continue exploring and talking to people.
I ended up moving it up to normal later on, but I don't regret playing it on easy, it's not like im playing bayonetta

>>384245410
no one should use a guide their first play through
rule of thumb fag.

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>>384227703
>game has 5 difficulty settings
>each one only changes damage intake and output

>>384226837
You think you're smarter than you are.

The only time I had to go for easy mode was DMC3 but then I found out those japs were fucking with us.

>>384226578
It's acceptable if the game's only difficulty settings are Easy and Hard and it's your first time playing it.

>>384246556
I didn't, but apparently the consensus among Soulsfags is that a guide is needed for it.

>>384226578


Dragon Age origins on console. Outside of min maxed builds, the game is exceedingly difficult to play on console. 80% of the game is fine, but the game has some major spikes on boss battles and trying to do it with a controller is pointless frustration.

I play on easy because I'm not ok with people surviving headshots.

i can think of many

i was just playing prey and the combat was complete shit, the enemies were infinitely respawning for no reason, the game gated my progress through grinding, and i just wanted it to end when i got to that point, so i loaded up a trainer and rushed through the rest of the game

it was a shit show, bad games with badly designed structure are definitely OK to use easy mode

>>384226893
That's not Crash

>>384238552
>>384244037
you cant generalize it like that, every game is different. some games are faster on harder difficulties, some games are faster on easy difficulties.

>>384227249

kek wat
My current 30 year old self would absolutely destroy 15 year old me in EVERY video game.

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It makes sense if you are an overemotional literal faggot like 80-90% of /v/ tho. Why are you asking that question here?

Any game with grinding like jrpgs

most of that is no skill just grind character alot and win

>>384226578
Why would you ever care what difficulty people play their games on?

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>>384247036
Wow, you must suck.

>>384228837

>he doesn't mod Fallout games to be 5x damage dealt and 5x damage received

Try living a little.

I switched mirrors edge to easy after that one part where the enemies in the warehouse kept shooting the shit out of me. I don't even regret it since most of my deaths come from falling rather than getting shot.

>>384228079
this is my main problem with nier automata

>>384226578
>I can't think of any.
Then you are most assuredly not a grown adult.
It is not even a question of intelligence; if you truly were one, you would simply have not enough time to pretend to have time to git gud at games anymore.

>Two difficulties
>Normal and Hard
ideal

>>384226578
yes - when they couldn't be arsed with higher difficulties, you fucking moron

ami the only one who just plays everything on normal

I don't see a point in messing with the difficulty at all

>>384243661
As much as I loathe BSI for its awfulness in design and mechanics both, I really dont get what was hard about this.
Is it easier with M+KB?

>>384226578
Well people can play games however they like, I don't see why it would matter.

But then you have some specific circumstances where individuals reach a special level of insufferable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75lZYTDK_sE

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>>384226578
One Way Heroics, trying to get End of the World+ epilogue.

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>>384226578
when combat is so tedious (higher difficulty = sword sponge enemies) and boring (dash back, dash forward, attack, dash back repeat 1000 times till enemy die) - best example was Witcher 3.

Souls series are also awful but don't have difficulty slider so i don't give a fuck about them since there is no story or intresting world to discover, just awful combat and nothing else.

I tried playing Very Hard on Nier Automata as a first playthrough, but I just couldn't do it. OHKO was bugging me. So I stuck to regular Hard instead.

In hard, I feel like I'm pretty reliant on shockwave and pod abilities instead of engaging in close-range combat with the enemy. Enemies do big chunks of damage.

The atmosphere of the game is pretty nice, so at least there's that.

Yeah when you want to fuck around with enemy AI or just generally fuck around to try and break the game.

>>384248915
>Souls series are also awful but don't have difficulty slider so i don't give a fuck about them since there is no story or intresting world to discover, just awful combat and nothing else.
(You) blew it

>>384246681
You're projecting.

I play games for fun.

Also I suck at shooters so I always play those on easy so I don't get too pissed off and can actually enjoy the game.

>>384246681
Digging at this stranger's insecurities won't make yours disappear.