I started playing on easy mood when I became a dad. I don’t get a lot of time to play now and when I do I want to just feel empowered and enjoy without having to replay sections over. Gives me more time to enjoy my hobby and be with my family
I could've written that comment myself. 🙂 If I get to play 5-10 hours a week I don't want to spend those not getting anywhere... also, I find that a game's story and flow is a lot more enjoyable if it isn't interrupted by me dying all the time.
I’m here looking for validation because I’m in the same boat lol. The other day I just decided to make the switch from being a hard mode gamer straight to an easy mode gamer. Was playing an RPG that I had been on a hiatus from and got absolutely stomped by the boss I had stopped at, then checked my settings and realized I had everything set to the most difficult options (low damage output, high damage received, no retries, etc.), so I changed everything to easy. I realized that all I would have done is go and grind until it became easier anyway, so why waste the time?
I’m in the same boat, I don’t play games to be challenged, living in real life is hard enough already. I’m replaying the Mass Effect trilogy and have decided to play all three on casual and even still, the second game especially, it’s still more than challenging enough to keep me engaged. I hate stress, I suffer from severe anxiety which gave me chronic pain, playing games on hard is bad for my pain management routine so I don’t do it.
Exactly! I have IBS and when i play games on hard mode it sometimes makes me feel stabbing pain in my stomach. Also playing horror games makes me head ache. I am an old man. I'm in my 20's 😭😭. When i play games i want to relax and feel powerfull and not doing another chore to prove to myself something that i am a REAL MAN AND GAMER BECAUSE I PLAY ON EXTRA HARDCORE MODE. Easy mode is my friend and the easier the game mode is the more time I can save.
Exactly, I’m out of the house 15 hours a day and work a stressful but reward job, at time I want to stick and game on and casually stroll though it. I think normal difficulty is plenty tbh on a lot of games.
@@justaneditygangstartell that to my body. I am 26. Been working hard labor jobs since I was 16. My left knee cap cartilage is worn out and almost non existent to the point that my knee feels like bare bones grinding on each other, so I gotta wear knee braces to walk, I also might have Parkinson cause I have nerve problems, I have shaky hands, anxiety, tingling sensation in my hands and feet they come and go, head aches, insomnia, lower back pain, have headaches, chest pain from gynocomastia. So you can be in your 20's and feel old if you have health problems or have lived a rough life.
Mass Effect has great, entertaining gameplay. It's _fun to play_ as opposed to being designed for the fun to come from facing challenges. It also has a great story well balanced by the combat. A true masterpiece of game design.
I play on easy because my nervous system is all jacked up. My reaction time is shit (5th percentile of cognitive processing speed) and I have awful spatial awareness and coordination due to dyspraxia.
If it helps you, my reaction time has always been bad. That`s why my friends don`t understand why I like shooter games. Just because you are not very good at something doesn`t mean you don`t and can`t enjoy it.
Like others have weighed in, when I was younger and really wanted to master a game, playing on a harder difficulty was a project that was rewarding to tackle and took time. Now, it's a hassle more than anything, and as an older person, the time it takes to devote to clawing through one game on hard with limited time keeps me from enjoying all the other stuff out there. And for a purely single player experience, I can't imagine why anyone would give a damn about playing on easy. And, like you said, people with physical disabilities count as well. The more people playing games, the better.
I always played on normal sometimes hard mode, but recently I've realised who am i trying to impress?? Im married with 3 kids work 12 hour days. Game time is my time to sit relax & lose myself in the game world im playing. Easy mode has made me enjoy it so much more. If there is an option I'm easy mode all the way. Im not out to impress anyone. Work & life is hard mode.
I used to play games on normal mode because I felt like it was the "standard" difficulty that the devs made, however, when I reached adulthood and need to do some adult stuff, I switched to easy mode. Normal Difficulty is not really normal across the board, some games have their normal mode play like a hard mode in others. You also got people like me who are quite messy when it comes to mind-body coordination and because of that, Elden Ring and Dark Souls is a no-go for me. I really enjoyed playing the Star Wars Jedi games even if playing on Story Mode, it made me feel like a powerful Jedi, plus it is convenient. I did try it on the higher difficulties but having to respawn repeatedly while doing the same platforming stuff again and again can be tiring.
@@lilsoonerfaninmo nah, its fine, the devs are the ones making the game and the ones who get to choose it. They can use mods or cheat engines if its a big deal, but not every game needs to cater to everyone. Im not complainning that dark souls should have a easy mode, neither i am complainning that kirby should have a hardcore mode.
@MasterP86 The devs can do whatever they want, but to sit here and say "muh devs vision" in response to certain games getting easy modes is built on a flawed idea, but everyone just dismisses that, seemingly out of some kinda fear for their own pride
First off, I’m not a masochist lol. From the beginning I’ve always played games at their default setting. Only game I ever played and beat on its hardest difficulty was the original gears of war. Now that I’m older I still play on normal but sometimes I play on easy when I just wanna relax. I don’t play souls games because again I’m no masochist.
@@Kenzar23 You destroy the sense of the gameplay in some cases, especially in easy modes. And if a game is "stress" for you, i think something else is probably wrong in your life. Why do you think, it is "stress" to play a game just how it was created? I think what you mean is just watching a game, not playing it. IF you want that okay, But again, you would probably miss great experiences.
I used to have to swat it out for the 'nightmare difficulty' achievements and stuff but then I just asked myself...'why'? Today I get my 'challenge' from other real people in fps games and competitive things..and when it's solo- I dont feel like I have anything to prove anymore, I play easy and even use cheats to enjoy the story and hack about at my adultlife backlog of games
For the most part, the complaints about easy mode only come up when someone says that souls games should have one. They simply appeal to a specific demographic, and that demographic also deserves to be catered to, just as much as people who use easy mode.
I started playing God of War a year ago on moderate, and that game was kicking my ass! I dreaded firing it up to the point where a year later I probably had only done five hours of the game. By contrast, I finished The Last of Us and The Last of Us II twice each, once on moderate and once on hard. But God of War is just a different animal! So out of frustration, I bumped it down to easy mode to get through one of the bosses. And holy hell! I have not been able to put the controller down since. I love the game so much more and I’m able to just enjoy the story and the lore without dying 800 times. Playing on easy creates a path to sometimes just enjoy the story and I can go to other games to give me a “challenge.” But I’m also starting to feel like I don’t need to be challenged anymore. Video games are supposed to be fun, not stressful. And thankfully, I don’t have any toxic gamers in my life arguing otherwise. You paid for the console you paid for the game do whatever you want with it. 😉
You need to reflect on what makes a 'terrible person', this just isn't that. The people who are arguing for an easy mode are weaker-willed people who want to be catered to, and these game companies have no requirement to cater to your preferences. You are not their target audience And being obese comes with a laundry list of health complications, it's just as bad if not worse than smoking cigarettes
@@Kenzar23 'sad' sounds like projection. Why are you sad? Is it because you can't beat the game at it's intended difficulty? If you try, try, and try again I'm sure you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. Believe in yourself and achieve your goals
Thanks for posting this!!! I'm playing flintlock right now and was playing on normal, was getting my butt handed to me and said you know what... let me switch to easy, in Flintlock you don't garner achievements in easy mode, which is ok with me. As soon as I changed the difficulty, -BAM- having a blast...Having so much fun in fact that I felt like I was cheating and needed to see what others thought about it, which brought me here... I've tried Lies of Pi and Elden ring and the Lords of the fallen, and tired really quickly of dying and making no progress after 2 hours of play... I'm in the same boat as a lot of folks here... I play for fun, I don't need something in my life that's going to piss me off... So again, thanks for posting this and validating my feelings on the subject... Cheers!!
I play in easy mode because I like to enjoy the game and don't burden myself by the stress of beating the game in hard mode. I like it that way it's just my opinion.
I'm glad someone finally points out this problem in the gaming community. I perfectly understand why games for example by From Software are always so difficult and how it actually done in order to reflect the bleakness and the unforgiveness of the worlds they created, but I don't understand how some people can feel superior and tell other people to "get gud" simply because they beat the game. Most of us aren't lucky to have jobs that we enjoy. Some people come home completely exhausted. After coming back from work from a gruelling shift under the management of a boss that acts like a douche, you might not want to play a game where you struggle and get killed 40 times in a row in order to win. Maybe you want to beat, smash, steamroll, crush, rip'n'tear your enemies in the game in order to unwind. Or, on the opposite, you just want to enjoy, the dialogues, the story, the scenery... As much as I can enjoy a sense of "pride and accomplishment" (lmao) after an intense boss battle, it's also nice just to explore or fuck around, to actually take the time to appreciate what you have on your screen.
Well said. A lot of us have a lot more going on than investing time to become an expert at playing video games. Hobbies should be fun and that’s all video games are for most people (unless you play for money in some way), so enjoy them in the way that works best for you.
"You might not want to play a game where you struggle and get killed 40 times in a row in order to win" Then don't, there's many other games. Fromsoft games are designed exactly for that experience and some people like that, the people saying "get gud" aren't saying it because its wrong to dislike the experience. They are saying 'get gud' because people are treating the experience itself as a criticism of the game, not the point of the game.
We all deserve to experience the amazing stories each game has. Easy mode was made for a reason. Let’s just enjoy the story and experience without judging what “level” we played it at.
I play games like dirt 5 on easy mode because I want to play it at my own pace and idc if people dislike me for that like so what I win races easy with a skoda fabia without doors I just want to have fun
I recently started playing Devil May Cry 3 and holy crap that game is hard on Normal mode. Enemies damage way too hard, you start off with very little weapons or buffs, and when you die, the game tracks your damage so even if you complete it, you get a low score, giving you the lowest possible currency, which impedes you unlocking necessary abilities and items. I started playing on easy mode and it is so much less of a headache to get through.
For me the worst are the games that mock players for playing on easy. I used to work with disabled person who was a gamer. Imagine having poor motor skills for game to call you names on top of that for wanting to still enjoy it.
I like to play to chill, not to get an adrenaline shot. for an adrenaline shot I'll go and ACTUALLY have an adventure. adrenaline shots aren't meant to be had while sitting down in front of a few pixels
Game designers should take note of this. A game is not worth having if the player has to sit through the cut scene too many times replaying the same level, trying to beat it. Then, maybe that's deliberate, so the player spends more money on something else. Every games that looks interesting just got too hard and complicated for me a few years ago. On top of that, I'm not going to upgrade my computer just for a game I probably won't enjoy.
Let me start by saying, all because a game is described as difficult shouldn't discourage you from playing. You may be better at it than you think. For instance, I am horrible at the Souls games due to there slow and methodical gameplay, but the Nioh series suits me much better because it is much quicker and variable compared to other Souls-likes. In addition, don't let the cesspool of the internet determine what games should/shouldn't enjoy and play and how you should enjoy them. People nowadays complain about games 20 hours or less being too short and here I am a husband, father, and worker and a 20 hour game takes me 3 months to complete.
There is truth to this, some genres are easier for some people than others. Weird example but even though I’m pretty bad at most games, the old 2000s guitar hero/rock band series was something I actually did “git gud” at. Not to point of 100%ing DragonForce or anything like that, but I could hold my own on expert, something 95% of players apparently couldn’t according the JasonParadise.
I can relate to the 20 hours not being a short game. I actually have a substantial amount of free time but don’t want to spend all of it grinding out 100s of hours of gameplay for every game I play.
If you tell people they shouldn’t play on easy, you’re literally telling them "you’re having fun wrong" and your argument becomes automatically invalid. And after playing a certain game that did have difficulty settings (which I think most games should have) that recommended me to play on normal only to get my butt handed to me the whole way (couldn’t change difficulty afterwards), I made it a regular safety precaution to start on easy, only making exceptions if the game said I could change difficulty throughout the game.
Look buddy. I'm going to level with you. And hopefully I don't come across as an elitest. So games being fun is one thing. But if you're in the camp where let's say a Dark Souls or Bloodborne or Elden Ring need an easy mode, well you're in the wrong camp. Those games were designed to challenge the players in mind. For the record, I have no problem with you wanting to play games on Easy mode. But that doesn't mean the Devs aren't going to have a problem with it. In fact some devs intentionally go out of their way to insult you for playing on Easy. You want an example? Look at what the Easy mode in the PS1 version of Doom is called. It literally calls you a Wimp. So unless you want to feel like you're lesser and never good enough, might want to up the difficulty just a little bit. I'm just saying and making a point.
If I may, I think there needs to be more "less-complex" game. That's not the same as "less-depth", mind you. I mean, back then we had fewer buttons to remember: Move, Jump, and Run. Modern games: Move, Camera, Jump, Aim, Shoot, Melee, Dash, Block, Reload, etc.
Im too old to care what some try hard says about easy mode. Between school and my job, i dont have time to keep trying over and over on a boss on Dark Souls.
I like playing games at 55 but I'm rubbish at playing games. My criticism is that games are too hard. I've had to give up on so many games that was just too hard to complete and that's on easy mode. It's really frustrating.It's comparable to buying a blu-ray movie that just stops half way through so you never see the end.
Exactly, at our age, it's harder to learn new systems and our twitch reflexes are nothing like that of a teenage. We also have time constraints. What we do have is the money to buy better computers, but what's the point? The games aren't made for us and the kids can't afford the machines they're made to play on. The gamer world is made for children with indulgent parents.
if an easy mode is already in the game and you want to use it sure why not, in my opinion easy mode does cheapen the experience for me but if it doesn't for you then who cares, but if you ask for an easy mode in a game that doesn't have one and you are struggling than i am sorry to say that game is just not for you.
I don’t necessarily play every game on easy. I quite like Dark Souls type games in part for the challenge. However, there are many games I’ve enjoyed more on easy difficulty. Many times I just want to relax and enjoy the experience.
To be honest, if you give me a difficulty setting, i am just going to play on easy mode. I don't have time to waste on dying over and over again. I work a lot. If there is no difficulty setting, then i will just enjoy the game the way it was meant to be played like the souls games, even though they are difficult, at least there is no difficulty setting so i am playing it in the same setting as eveyrbody else, so if i beat it, its feels good.
Rpg's and story driven games are easy/normal mode games for me. Only online competitive multiplayers get the effort to get better out of me. One is a story on gaming medium, one is gaming competition, by design. Even if you can make a competition out of a story driven game.
A non-penalizing easy mode should be accepted as something that's allowed to exist as much as a game not including it. It's fine if your game has or has not an easy mode. What matters more is if the game is good or not. Touhou itself actually doesn't punish people who prefer easy modes. In fact, it mocks hard mode players instead.
I like playing in easy mode sometimes, it’s makes you appreciate the story and mechanics of the game more because to be frank most people when playing in higher difficulty rage and get frustrated at the mechanics which can ruin the experience for them, with that being said I’ll play game in the highest difficulty for achievements, I also play the souls games for a challenge so it makes me feel better about playing in easy difficulty on some games like Fallout 4.
I usually play easy modes for fun. I might do higher difficulties or other bonus challenges later when I'm feeling like it (a good challenge can be fun too), but... I just got a game and want to play it for fun, and there's an option specifically for that, why should I not choose it. Though I find it funny how when I played Bug Fables (Very great game, I recommend playing it) I activated Hard Mode the second I got it, even though this was my first time ever I played it, and the furthest I ever got in a Paper Mario game was in 64 somewhere like end of Prologue or like Chapter 1 or something.
Its simple. Have a trophy associated with playing it on hardest. So the EGO is satisfied for tge people who like it. But add a easy mode even in souls like, so people with disability or ppl who dont have time to invest too much time can play and experience it.
Excatly. I love the dark medieval fantasy setting of souls games but i just cant enjoy them because they are way too difficult. I have a full time job so when i get home i want to have fun and enjoy the good story and not getting my ass kicked by a boss for 100 times. Life is already difficult i dont want games to be too. Thank god Witcher 3 exist.
I don't care if u wanna play an easy mode, but when someone comes to a game that is known for its difficulty and starts making demands to make it easier now that's annoying. Not everything is for everyone. Anyone can try the game, but if you don't like it....rather than demanding change maybe try something else.
I play a lot of strategy games like RimWorld and Stellaris on easy. The mechanics are just so complex and I don’t think in terms of gamebreaking min/max. I tend to build sensible bases but you need specific tactics to break those games and the difficulty is balanced around gamebreaking strats
There are games where I have hundreds of hours in and I know inside-out and I am comfortable playing on harder difficulties. But I will be honest. Story games, unless there are achievements tied to it, I enjoy playing on easy mode. I enjoying being OP and beating my enemies senseless. As I got older, I started to enjoy this more and more. I play games for fun, not as a job, there is no reason to infuriate myself with Hard mode and so on. I like a good MMO and a good boss fight, but if I play a JRPG I would rather play on easy mode and breeze through the game, rather than have to farm the same mob for 2 hours for some drop.
I play on easy beckose i want to win, and i want to feel like i cant loose, i want to feel like im an all powerfull warrior beckose thads the point of games for me, to make you feel powerfull, Not to struggle and be flustraded, life is for thad, games for me are for actually winning for once and being powerfull.
I agree for the most part, if a game offers difficulty options than people should use them as they wish without being shamed. But demanding games that were not intended to have difficulty modes be changed to suit you is not okay. Miyazaki said this in relation to Elden Ring and the requests for a easy mode "We are always looking to improve, but, in our games specifically, hardship is what gives meaning to the experience. So it’s not something we’re willing to abandon at the moment. It’s our identity". The developers clearly have reason and desire for the difficulty to be what it is and should not face pressure to change it. Not every game is for every person. I also think of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. where the publisher demanded the developers put in difficulty options, so they just reduced bullet damage on the easier difficulties. ALL bullet damage, player's included, which turned the game into a nightmare to play on anything but the intended hardest difficulty.
I only ever fully beat one Souls game, Demon's Souls. That was sort of enough for me. It was rewarding to finally reach those end credits, but also very draining. So when I booted up Dark Souls I thought I was ready for more but no... All I felt was something like 'oh no, not this again' and it's been like that ever since. Now I favor easy mode in games, but having beaten at least one Souls game I can say I fully understand that design philosophy; the difficulty in souls is a curated experience that's meant to be hard, but fair, and in the end immensely rewarding in a way no easy game is. Designing a game that way is their artistic freedom put to well use. I would never demand an easy mode added in, I'd rather play something else. Then some put forward the argument that 'if I buy the game I should have the right to experience the whole game.' To me that sounds like 'I bought this book on quantum physics, so therefor I should be able to understand it'.
@@darkhiker3150 That comes with a large set of issues because difficulty is much more integral to game design than being a flavour choice. Consider a boss is designed around it having a 1 hit kill move, with the point being that players have to always watch out for that move in particular. If the damage reducition makes it no longer one hit kill the boss can completely fall apart as the players can act much more freely and ignore the bosses design. This is also true even for other non-one hit kill attacks. Enemies are often designed with different moves carrying different levels of danger to the player, a strong move is scary because it can kill you if caught off guard. Universally nerfing enemy damage blurs the distinction as moves that should be scary become tankable with the worst case scenario often being that players can just ignore the attack altogether.
even as a little kid my default was always at least normal, except mario kart when i'd play on easy but i got bored so i put the cpu to the hardest difficulty lmao. Grown adults playing on easy? I can understand it if you're learning to speedrun a game or something but LOL if otherwise.
So, the thing that happened is this. Demon's Souls when it released wound up overlooked. I know I overlooked it, when really I wish I had checked it out now that I have, as well as due to my experience with From Soft's Soulsborne series. Dark Souls, and the phenomena it started, was a breath of fresh terrifying air during a time when Difficulty Settings were EVERYWHERE. When games could just be breezed through because you could choose to make it easy. Not a horrid thing, sure. However, the Soulsborne series gave everyone something that they either knew they'd wanted, or hadn't realized they'd wanted it till they tried it. Games that made you work for victory. Something that the standard gaming experience of the late 2000's had been lacking. I like having the option of adjusting difficulty, for sure. However, Games like that NEED New Game+ functions and bonus content for those second runs, wherein one would up the difficulty to challenge if they've gotten better. It increases replay value. Overall, it's important to have both kinds of games.
I agree with you except with one problem: Trends. We know the video game industry is just as guilty of that as any form of media. The problem is, the Souls genre suddenly became the new trend and games that didn't need to follow that formula suddenly shoehorned it in there. In the 2000s, maybe the games were easier, but it was because they placed an emphasis on action and frenetic gameplay. Now many games have copied the Souls formula which has bottlenecked the accessibility of some gamers who would otherwise be interested, but are turned off by immediate difficult gameplay. For instance, I love the Devil May Cry series. It is my favorite game series. However, very few games resemble that anymore. The only company that took a risk for a game like that was, go figure, Capcom with DMC5.
@@midwestyleAgreed, however, there is a trend towards more accessibility even with hard games. For example, the remake of Crash Bandicoot lets you save after every level unlike the original, yet it’s just as difficult as it’s ps1 counterpart but less stressful and more forgiving. Similarly Crash 4 has the option of removing lives altogether yet it’s considered the hardest in the series to date. And that’s not even considering stuff like colourblind mode, minigame skips in Ratchet etc. Honestly one of the biggest things that puts me off the souls games is that fact that you can’t fucking pause most of them!
Playing on Easy mode is fine. What I find ruining gaming experience? is if that's the only experience we get. Difficulty should be optional. Skill expression through mastering the game or job or class should also be optional, not mandatory to clear content and available to allow players to feel fulfillment in mastering it if they so choose. If everything becomes easier, and duller, blander and is promoted to be the standard and " ONLY OPTION " ? that's when I find it stressful because I can't get my enjoyment out of it. I see this very much in Job designs in MMO's for example
i play almost everything on EASY difficulty unless the game has no difficulty settings which i still like, like Sekiro and Black myth wukong some of my all time favorites, and also if u guys forget, GTA and Red dead redemption games also don't have difficulty settings. but if games gives me a choice to choose, its either, EASY OR NORMAL. i almost never play HARD MODE unless it's a New game+ mode.
The issue is certain games have no balance between normal and hard. Take Kingdom hearts for example. The hard mode is extremely unfair that you find yourself wasting time. But the normal mode is way too easy that it becomes a monotonous button mashing session. I’m not having fun either way but the dopamine you get from beating a boss on hard mode is rewarding.
I usually play grindy rpgs on easier so I dont have to grind as much, and since I can skip battles on easier didiculties the challenge balances it out anyway
My only issue is when people complain about how easy the game was and how the AI was "Brain dead" Then when you ask them what they played on they say easy or the ones that try to be like "Bro I been beat that boss he wasn't hard" I bet it wasn't when you played on easy. If you suck at games cool play on easy nobody looks down on that people just aren't gonna take that person's opinion on the gameplay seriously. P.S. None of that applies to my handicap brothers and sistas get it however you can.
I've played games for years, world of tanks Beta, WOW , plenty of games where skill was the thing and pvp. But for all those games I loved to escape to Skyrim. Easymode walking around like a G
People can play whatever mode they want and mod the game however they want. My issue is that people often don't appreciate how integral difficulty (wether easy or hard) is to a game's design. It's rarely a thing that can just be swapped at will. Hard and easy difficulty create a specific expercience, a specific tone, and fosters specific player behaviour. One example you show in this video that I think highlights this very well is ghost of tsushima. I fully believe Ghost of Tsushima would have been better if it forced people to play on lethal. The reason why isn't even anything to do with mastering mechanics or having a challenge. Its because the increased ease of death on the player has a major effect on the player's priority. Playing on lethal makes it really hard to fight 'honorably' and defeat all your enemies, in fact it becomes harder and harder the further you go into the game. This ends up giving the ghost tools a mechincal purpose that is otherwise absent by making it an easy means to safely kill enemies (smoke bombs in particular let you kill large crowds easily). The result of this is two-fold, first ghost tools now serve an active gameplay function instead of being another means of killing by consitently and reliably helping in fights where pure swords skills will struggle. Secondly the push to rely on ghost tools puts the player to experience the same emotional journey as Jin where the desire to fight honorably is challenged in gameplay encourageing the player to go down the same path as Jin and accept the use of ghost tools. Resulting in the mechanics of the game working alongside the narrative not opposed to it as my friend experiened when he was easily able to play 'honorably' during his playthrough before lethal had come out, only for the game to then act as if he had been using ghost tools all along.
But why should that matter if you care about those things you can play on the harder mode and people that dont can play on the easier mode it effects you in no way
@@roxas303 Let me reiterate, I don't care that people play on easy mode. I care when people complain about a lack of easy mode in a game that is aiming to handle those aspects and uses the dificulty to handle much of the design. That's effectively expecting the developers to at least redo their design in the majority of the game, for an audience that isn't interested in the core experience the game provides.
Something the SoulsBorne crowd needs to hear, and take off the gatekeeping caps for once Nevermind that you have games like Another Crabs Treasure, a well liked Souls-like game with a Easy Mode, why the fuck is it anyones business how someone else enjoys a video game on their own time? I swear, theres something about Dark Souls that makes people turn their brains off from rational discussions, and just replaces the actual conversation with screaming monkeys "Youd have to disable multiplayer" Two things; 1, This assumes that games like Dark Souls and Elden Ring are literally incompleteable unless you engage in the multiplayer (which us a flatout lie), and 2, you are arguing from a hypothetical that assumes people who would play on easy would also be hyper-competitive with their play, which is extremely rare at best "Youd have to make 2 different games" In short, no. In an era where difficulty is just how much damage is done and recieved is tweaked. The idea that the whole game would need to be retooled is in bad-faith, and coming from a position that thise who play on easy mode would do something stupid like disregard game mechanics, which is simply not true. No easy mode, that I can think of, just lets you go braindead through the game as if the mechanics don't matter, and arguing that people will or would do something like that, assuming its somehow possible in the first place, is nothing but disingenuous strawmanning because they know they don't have a point (Gee, I wonder what big scale RUclipsr argued with such fucked logic like that, HMMMMMMMMM......) "But Miyazaki-" Listen, he is not perfect, and neither are his visions. They are open to criticism the same way games like TLOU2 was. A devs vision does not magically exclude or write off any criticism, and you lot need to grow the fuck up and stop trying to idolize him and his work as if theyre the second coming of Christ in a dying world In short, SoulsBorne guys, y'all need to simmer down. The vehemently easy mode defenders aren't much better, but the second you lot man up and actually try to listen and argue in good faith and stop relying on these dog shit arguments and logic, will be one step closer to at least both sides respecting each other
There 1 point in your video you gloss over that is the most important point: story driven games. I normally play on hard, but I finished xc1 on easy becours I only cared for the story, but it’s also the only game I did that. 1. If story is all you care for, then I’m sad to say: you’re in the wrong media, there’s plenty of good movies( thou not modern ones) and books and comics for you to get story, a game is about interaction 2: some games are not about story, no one wuld give a fuck about elden rings story, if it wasn’t for the dificulty and gameplay, as it’s honestly not that great. 3: you know what’s more frustrating then not progressing in your favourite game??? Loving a game and thinking about all the cool things you culd do, only to never do any becours they be soo op, they break the game and make it unfun to win( see comet beam in eldenring) when you actually DO wont to interact with the systems, but there’s nothing there to test you if you do
Speaking on behalf of games like fromsoft titles, no, it should not have easy difficulty. You do not deserve to be a part of the conversation between players if you do not struggle the way they all did.
I am a swedish ED physician doing my second residency to become cardio. I also have 6 hours a week to do medical chief-stuff for an emergency call center. I have two kids and a dog. I have been gaming since seven. I fought hard with Battletoads. Never managed the level with conveyor belts. I have platinumed Sekiro. Now doing Blasphemous and HFW. HFW on Ultra Hard. No NG+. UH from start. 200 hours later and 2000 deaths I am 75% into the game. And it's so much fun! The feeling of taking down an apex Slaughterspine without cheesing after 3 days of trying is awesome! But... I have played Horizon for a year now. Bloodborne took five months. It takes time. But so worth it. Why going easy? Isn't it better to just read a book or watch a movie? The "I work so much" argument is not valid. I work a lot. Still have time to git gud. Someone compared easy-mode to a wheelchair while being disabled. Yep. That's exactly what it is. Are you all disabled?
To miss out on the story because you can't play the game? There are many people playing the game from start to finish online. Using tears of the Kingdom as an example is weird considering there is no difficulty option everyone plays it at the same difficulty level is whether or not you actually focus on building to make things easier. Game producers don't care if you make it to the end of the game or not they care if they make a profit, game developers on the other hand they want you to reach the end but they also have a certain vision for how that ending is achieved, if you don't want any adversity in a game that's meant to show adversity then why not just watch a movie. Gaming is for everyone but not every game is meant for everyone. Just like movies and music is for everyone... But certain genres of movies and music isn't for everyone. You can still enjoy the medium without needing to try to cater to everyone for every title. There is a saying: "A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone". Now that I said all that, if it's a 100% single player experience, where there's no multiplayer facets at all then I will not mind a multi difficulty slider, or some ways to customize the controls I'm all for it. I'm only against Sekiro having an easy mode, because at this point in time from software has a reputation and expectations for their games especially if on their title card for said games imply that you are going to die more than once. If it's going to have an easy mode you might as well not die at all.
No. Easy mode means that there are people who are bad and I intend to gatekeep. Go play something else you are not welcomed. I do have a full time job on top of part time university so if you want to attack me from that angle give up.
Nah that means they just want to enjoy the game i mean shitting on someone for wanting a relaxed gameplay kinda speaks volumes then again it's just guys with really fragile egos so what do I know
This just sounds like entitlement, you aren't their target audience and they don't need to change their game because you can't beat it. The entire experience is to overcome your limits in games like Dark Souls, introducing difficulty levels would strip that away entirely
@@Disneylover1992 The target audience and the devs don't care what the non-target audience think Not having a choice in difficulty is what creates the shared experience that embodies what Dark Souls is all about
@@Disneylover1992 Nothing I'm doing is 'gatekeeping'. You are perfectly allowed to play these games, I recommend you do; your issue is your self-defeating mindset. If you want to play these games you need to accept the fact that it's hard and you will fail, but through failure you will eventually reach success "who is to decide what the target audience is", the devs, the people who actually make the games. They aren't making these games for people like you You don't see me going to pageant shows and complain about how I'm not their target audience. I could scream "Your dresses are stupid, let's see some cosplay!" and it would be futile because nobody there would care what I think - I'm not the target audience
@@Disneylover1992 Have you ever overcome an obstacle before? It forces you to grow, learn, and adapt - that's the purpose of this type of game Players who don't like to grow, learn, nor adapt request easy modes which neither the devs nor target audience want in their game That shared experience is the whole point, to help each other overcome adversity. It's an achievement
@@Disneylover1992 Yes and we're who these games are made for "Try, try, and try again" is the mindset of a Dark Souls player, failure is just a setback. If you just set the game to Easy then you'll never experience the entire purpose of the game
@@SparschweinLvl100 no it just means I want to enjoy the game just because someone plays on easy doesn't mean it's lazy I really don't get why playing on easy bothers y'all so much
@@Kenzar23 It is definitivly lazy, you could also play on normal and would be fine (consindering difficulty on most games), there is no justification for playing on easy. Imagine having a hobby and don't put any effort in it. You can do that , but why bothering playing games in the first place by taking this approach?
@@SparschweinLvl100 Again why does it bother y'all so much if we play on easy it's such a stupid mindset to have because someone plays a game on easy it's lazy and y'all wonder people call y'all try hard or sweaty gamers
I say easy and story mode should locked out part game tell you play on normal see full story one player Play one a higher difficulty should get reward that only way to get the item
Why spend 60 dollars and up every new release to quickly select easy mode. When I grab a game if it has an ultra hard difficulty I’ll select hard then come back for ultra hard. Bc the hard difficulty geared me for the next step. All in all the games not really difficult it’s your confidence and performance
Remember games are for recreation not a measure of your character.
I started playing on easy mood when I became a dad. I don’t get a lot of time to play now and when I do I want to just feel empowered and enjoy without having to replay sections over. Gives me more time to enjoy my hobby and be with my family
I could've written that comment myself. 🙂 If I get to play 5-10 hours a week I don't want to spend those not getting anywhere... also, I find that a game's story and flow is a lot more enjoyable if it isn't interrupted by me dying all the time.
I wish i could like this comment a thousand times. I am in the EXACT same boat.
I’m here looking for validation because I’m in the same boat lol. The other day I just decided to make the switch from being a hard mode gamer straight to an easy mode gamer. Was playing an RPG that I had been on a hiatus from and got absolutely stomped by the boss I had stopped at, then checked my settings and realized I had everything set to the most difficult options (low damage output, high damage received, no retries, etc.), so I changed everything to easy. I realized that all I would have done is go and grind until it became easier anyway, so why waste the time?
Easy mode is here to be played on. To say "Don't play on easy mode" is like saying "You're disabled, don't use your wheelchair."
Yes, very similar
Very good analogy ❤
Don't use a wheelchair do the handstand walk like Alehandro from Total Drama
True the people that want an "easy mode" setting in soulsbourne, are disabled
So whats with people that use a wheelchair although they can walk?
I’m in the same boat, I don’t play games to be challenged, living in real life is hard enough already. I’m replaying the Mass Effect trilogy and have decided to play all three on casual and even still, the second game especially, it’s still more than challenging enough to keep me engaged.
I hate stress, I suffer from severe anxiety which gave me chronic pain, playing games on hard is bad for my pain management routine so I don’t do it.
Exactly! I have IBS and when i play games on hard mode it sometimes makes me feel stabbing pain in my stomach. Also playing horror games makes me head ache. I am an old man. I'm in my 20's 😭😭. When i play games i want to relax and feel powerfull and not doing another chore to prove to myself something that i am a REAL MAN AND GAMER BECAUSE I PLAY ON EXTRA HARDCORE MODE. Easy mode is my friend and the easier the game mode is the more time I can save.
Exactly, I’m out of the house 15 hours a day and work a stressful but reward job, at time I want to stick and game on and casually stroll though it. I think normal difficulty is plenty tbh on a lot of games.
@@thewitek498 bro you aint an old man if your in your 20s
@@justaneditygangstartell that to my body. I am 26. Been working hard labor jobs since I was 16. My left knee cap cartilage is worn out and almost non existent to the point that my knee feels like bare bones grinding on each other, so I gotta wear knee braces to walk, I also might have Parkinson cause I have nerve problems, I have shaky hands, anxiety, tingling sensation in my hands and feet they come and go, head aches, insomnia, lower back pain, have headaches, chest pain from gynocomastia. So you can be in your 20's and feel old if you have health problems or have lived a rough life.
Mass Effect has great, entertaining gameplay. It's _fun to play_ as opposed to being designed for the fun to come from facing challenges. It also has a great story well balanced by the combat. A true masterpiece of game design.
If you bought the game its YOUR game=YOUR setings
This
Soulsbourne games have easy modes there just not a setting
@@Castigar48 yea, espeically make a op build that you can wipe things out completely. or just mod the game and get an easy mode mod.
I play on easy because my nervous system is all jacked up. My reaction time is shit (5th percentile of cognitive processing speed) and I have awful spatial awareness and coordination due to dyspraxia.
If it helps you, my reaction time has always been bad. That`s why my friends don`t understand why I like shooter games. Just because you are not very good at something doesn`t mean you don`t and can`t enjoy it.
Like others have weighed in, when I was younger and really wanted to master a game, playing on a harder difficulty was a project that was rewarding to tackle and took time. Now, it's a hassle more than anything, and as an older person, the time it takes to devote to clawing through one game on hard with limited time keeps me from enjoying all the other stuff out there. And for a purely single player experience, I can't imagine why anyone would give a damn about playing on easy. And, like you said, people with physical disabilities count as well. The more people playing games, the better.
I always played on normal sometimes hard mode, but recently I've realised who am i trying to impress?? Im married with 3 kids work 12 hour days. Game time is my time to sit relax & lose myself in the game world im playing. Easy mode has made me enjoy it so much more. If there is an option I'm easy mode all the way. Im not out to impress anyone. Work & life is hard mode.
I play on easy mode cause I have a freaking day job, that's challenge enough, plus I bought the game to have not add more stress to my life.
I used to play games on normal mode because I felt like it was the "standard" difficulty that the devs made, however, when I reached adulthood and need to do some adult stuff, I switched to easy mode. Normal Difficulty is not really normal across the board, some games have their normal mode play like a hard mode in others. You also got people like me who are quite messy when it comes to mind-body coordination and because of that, Elden Ring and Dark Souls is a no-go for me. I really enjoyed playing the Star Wars Jedi games even if playing on Story Mode, it made me feel like a powerful Jedi, plus it is convenient. I did try it on the higher difficulties but having to respawn repeatedly while doing the same platforming stuff again and again can be tiring.
Its 100% fine to play on easy, its also 100% fine to play on hard, what isnt fine is to demand that a dev needs to make a easy or hard mode.
Its also equally wild to dismiss those who argue in one favor under "dev vision", or something equally stupid
@@lilsoonerfaninmo nah, its fine, the devs are the ones making the game and the ones who get to choose it.
They can use mods or cheat engines if its a big deal, but not every game needs to cater to everyone.
Im not complainning that dark souls should have a easy mode, neither i am complainning that kirby should have a hardcore mode.
@MasterP86 The devs can do whatever they want, but to sit here and say "muh devs vision" in response to certain games getting easy modes is built on a flawed idea, but everyone just dismisses that, seemingly out of some kinda fear for their own pride
First off, I’m not a masochist lol. From the beginning I’ve always played games at their default setting. Only game I ever played and beat on its hardest difficulty was the original gears of war. Now that I’m older I still play on normal but sometimes I play on easy when I just wanna relax. I don’t play souls games because again I’m no masochist.
well most Souls games like Dark Souls 1 and Elden Ring, normal mode is more like hard mode in those games, and then hard mode is complete insanity.
Same I'm no masochist and I don't want to break my controllers lol. I'd rather play on easy mode and have the enemies play on Dark Souls mode XD
i enjoy the souls games. does this mean im a masochist? or maybe I just have insane amount of patience from that game?
I really hate this "GAMES SHOULDN'T HAVE EASY MODE" Why is it anyone else's business?
Life is already hard. I just want to play.
"i just want to play". That u can do also on normal or hard modes... easy often removes the whole sense of the gameplay mechs.
@@mipha5262 but it's a game people want to relax not be stressed
@@Kenzar23 You destroy the sense of the gameplay in some cases, especially in easy modes. And if a game is "stress" for you, i think something else is probably wrong in your life. Why do you think, it is "stress" to play a game just how it was created? I think what you mean is just watching a game, not playing it. IF you want that okay, But again, you would probably miss great experiences.
@@mipha5262we don’t care
If you're in a wheelchair, you should still be able to enjoy life. If you're not very good at a game, you should still be able to enjoy the game.
I used to have to swat it out for the 'nightmare difficulty' achievements and stuff but then I just asked myself...'why'? Today I get my 'challenge' from other real people in fps games and competitive things..and when it's solo- I dont feel like I have anything to prove anymore, I play easy and even use cheats to enjoy the story and hack about at my adultlife backlog of games
For the most part, the complaints about easy mode only come up when someone says that souls games should have one. They simply appeal to a specific demographic, and that demographic also deserves to be catered to, just as much as people who use easy mode.
I use mods to create my own easy mode. I enjoy soles games a lot more now
I started playing God of War a year ago on moderate, and that game was kicking my ass! I dreaded firing it up to the point where a year later I probably had only done five hours of the game. By contrast, I finished The Last of Us and The Last of Us II twice each, once on moderate and once on hard. But God of War is just a different animal! So out of frustration, I bumped it down to easy mode to get through one of the bosses. And holy hell! I have not been able to put the controller down since. I love the game so much more and I’m able to just enjoy the story and the lore without dying 800 times. Playing on easy creates a path to sometimes just enjoy the story and I can go to other games to give me a “challenge.” But I’m also starting to feel like I don’t need to be challenged anymore. Video games are supposed to be fun, not stressful. And thankfully, I don’t have any toxic gamers in my life arguing otherwise. You paid for the console you paid for the game do whatever you want with it. 😉
Shaming someone because they play on easy mode just shows you're a terrible person. It's like fat shaming: Useless, dumb and disrespectful.
You need to reflect on what makes a 'terrible person', this just isn't that. The people who are arguing for an easy mode are weaker-willed people who want to be catered to, and these game companies have no requirement to cater to your preferences. You are not their target audience
And being obese comes with a laundry list of health complications, it's just as bad if not worse than smoking cigarettes
@@Wakish0069 imagine telling people you're playing the game wrong because they don't play the difficulty that you like that's pretty sad honestly
@@Kenzar23 You are free to play games however you'd like, and we're all free to laugh and comment on it
@@Wakish0069doesn't really make it any less sad it's honestly funny watching people losing your mind over the slight inconvenience in a game though
@@Kenzar23 'sad' sounds like projection. Why are you sad? Is it because you can't beat the game at it's intended difficulty?
If you try, try, and try again I'm sure you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. Believe in yourself and achieve your goals
People who cry and want difficult games are purely trying to impress someone who don't exist.. The difficulties in almost all games are already enough
Thanks for posting this!!! I'm playing flintlock right now and was playing on normal, was getting my butt handed to me and said you know what... let me switch to easy, in Flintlock you don't garner achievements in easy mode, which is ok with me. As soon as I changed the difficulty, -BAM- having a blast...Having so much fun in fact that I felt like I was cheating and needed to see what others thought about it, which brought me here... I've tried Lies of Pi and Elden ring and the Lords of the fallen, and tired really quickly of dying and making no progress after 2 hours of play... I'm in the same boat as a lot of folks here... I play for fun, I don't need something in my life that's going to piss me off... So again, thanks for posting this and validating my feelings on the subject...
Cheers!!
I play in easy mode because I like to enjoy the game and don't burden myself by the stress of beating the game in hard mode. I like it that way it's just my opinion.
I just stick to normal difficulty. I feel like that's the experience the developers intended.
I'm glad someone finally points out this problem in the gaming community. I perfectly understand why games for example by From Software are always so difficult and how it actually done in order to reflect the bleakness and the unforgiveness of the worlds they created, but I don't understand how some people can feel superior and tell other people to "get gud" simply because they beat the game.
Most of us aren't lucky to have jobs that we enjoy. Some people come home completely exhausted. After coming back from work from a gruelling shift under the management of a boss that acts like a douche, you might not want to play a game where you struggle and get killed 40 times in a row in order to win. Maybe you want to beat, smash, steamroll, crush, rip'n'tear your enemies in the game in order to unwind. Or, on the opposite, you just want to enjoy, the dialogues, the story, the scenery...
As much as I can enjoy a sense of "pride and accomplishment" (lmao) after an intense boss battle, it's also nice just to explore or fuck around, to actually take the time to appreciate what you have on your screen.
Well said. A lot of us have a lot more going on than investing time to become an expert at playing video games. Hobbies should be fun and that’s all video games are for most people (unless you play for money in some way), so enjoy them in the way that works best for you.
"You might not want to play a game where you struggle and get killed 40 times in a row in order to win"
Then don't, there's many other games.
Fromsoft games are designed exactly for that experience and some people like that, the people saying "get gud" aren't saying it because its wrong to dislike the experience.
They are saying 'get gud' because people are treating the experience itself as a criticism of the game, not the point of the game.
We all deserve to experience the amazing stories each game has. Easy mode was made for a reason. Let’s just enjoy the story and experience without judging what “level” we played it at.
I play games like dirt 5 on easy mode because I want to play it at my own pace and idc if people dislike me for that like so what I win races easy with a skoda fabia without doors I just want to have fun
I recently started playing Devil May Cry 3 and holy crap that game is hard on Normal mode. Enemies damage way too hard, you start off with very little weapons or buffs, and when you die, the game tracks your damage so even if you complete it, you get a low score, giving you the lowest possible currency, which impedes you unlocking necessary abilities and items. I started playing on easy mode and it is so much less of a headache to get through.
For me the worst are the games that mock players for playing on easy. I used to work with disabled person who was a gamer. Imagine having poor motor skills for game to call you names on top of that for wanting to still enjoy it.
Imagine looking for more adequate activities.
@@Blazemoth imagine being a compassionless like you
@@Blazemothyou’re a virgin
Exactly it's supposed to be chill
i had to go assist mode on resident evil for a boss I could kill, what I don't like is that now I cant switch back to normal, but oh well
Playing on easy mode is fine. Not every game needs an easy mode tho. From Software is the best example.
i usually play my games on easy or normal. ngl when I want to get real serious I usually go play dark souls or something
I like to play to chill, not to get an adrenaline shot.
for an adrenaline shot I'll go and ACTUALLY have an adventure. adrenaline shots aren't meant to be had while sitting down in front of a few pixels
Game designers should take note of this. A game is not worth having if the player has to sit through the cut scene too many times replaying the same level, trying to beat it. Then, maybe that's deliberate, so the player spends more money on something else. Every games that looks interesting just got too hard and complicated for me a few years ago. On top of that, I'm not going to upgrade my computer just for a game I probably won't enjoy.
Not going to shame someone for playing on easy or normal mode, but harder settings are a true test of your playing skills.
Let me start by saying, all because a game is described as difficult shouldn't discourage you from playing. You may be better at it than you think. For instance, I am horrible at the Souls games due to there slow and methodical gameplay, but the Nioh series suits me much better because it is much quicker and variable compared to other Souls-likes.
In addition, don't let the cesspool of the internet determine what games should/shouldn't enjoy and play and how you should enjoy them. People nowadays complain about games 20 hours or less being too short and here I am a husband, father, and worker and a 20 hour game takes me 3 months to complete.
There is truth to this, some genres are easier for some people than others.
Weird example but even though I’m pretty bad at most games, the old 2000s guitar hero/rock band series was something I actually did “git gud” at. Not to point of 100%ing DragonForce or anything like that, but I could hold my own on expert, something 95% of players apparently couldn’t according the JasonParadise.
I can relate to the 20 hours not being a short game. I actually have a substantial amount of free time but don’t want to spend all of it grinding out 100s of hours of gameplay for every game I play.
If you tell people they shouldn’t play on easy, you’re literally telling them "you’re having fun wrong" and your argument becomes automatically invalid.
And after playing a certain game that did have difficulty settings (which I think most games should have) that recommended me to play on normal only to get my butt handed to me the whole way (couldn’t change difficulty afterwards), I made it a regular safety precaution to start on easy, only making exceptions if the game said I could change difficulty throughout the game.
Look buddy. I'm going to level with you. And hopefully I don't come across as an elitest. So games being fun is one thing. But if you're in the camp where let's say a Dark Souls or Bloodborne or Elden Ring need an easy mode, well you're in the wrong camp. Those games were designed to challenge the players in mind. For the record, I have no problem with you wanting to play games on Easy mode. But that doesn't mean the Devs aren't going to have a problem with it. In fact some devs intentionally go out of their way to insult you for playing on Easy. You want an example? Look at what the Easy mode in the PS1 version of Doom is called. It literally calls you a Wimp. So unless you want to feel like you're lesser and never good enough, might want to up the difficulty just a little bit. I'm just saying and making a point.
If I may, I think there needs to be more "less-complex" game.
That's not the same as "less-depth", mind you.
I mean, back then we had fewer buttons to remember: Move, Jump, and Run.
Modern games: Move, Camera, Jump, Aim, Shoot, Melee, Dash, Block, Reload, etc.
Im too old to care what some try hard says about easy mode. Between school and my job, i dont have time to keep trying over and over on a boss on Dark Souls.
I like playing games at 55 but I'm rubbish at playing games.
My criticism is that games are too hard.
I've had to give up on so many games that was just too hard to complete and that's on easy mode.
It's really frustrating.It's comparable to buying a blu-ray movie that just stops half way through so you never see the end.
Exactly, at our age, it's harder to learn new systems and our twitch reflexes are nothing like that of a teenage. We also have time constraints. What we do have is the money to buy better computers, but what's the point? The games aren't made for us and the kids can't afford the machines they're made to play on. The gamer world is made for children with indulgent parents.
if an easy mode is already in the game and you want to use it sure why not, in my opinion easy mode does cheapen the experience for me but if it doesn't for you then who cares, but if you ask for an easy mode in a game that doesn't have one and you are struggling than i am sorry to say that game is just not for you.
Your video changed my mind completely ❤
I don’t necessarily play every game on easy. I quite like Dark Souls type games in part for the challenge. However, there are many games I’ve enjoyed more on easy difficulty. Many times I just want to relax and enjoy the experience.
To be honest, if you give me a difficulty setting, i am just going to play on easy mode. I don't have time to waste on dying over and over again. I work a lot. If there is no difficulty setting, then i will just enjoy the game the way it was meant to be played like the souls games, even though they are difficult, at least there is no difficulty setting so i am playing it in the same setting as eveyrbody else, so if i beat it, its feels good.
Couldn't of said it better myself
Rpg's and story driven games are easy/normal mode games for me. Only online competitive multiplayers get the effort to get better out of me. One is a story on gaming medium, one is gaming competition, by design. Even if you can make a competition out of a story driven game.
A non-penalizing easy mode should be accepted as something that's allowed to exist as much as a game not including it.
It's fine if your game has or has not an easy mode. What matters more is if the game is good or not.
Touhou itself actually doesn't punish people who prefer easy modes. In fact, it mocks hard mode players instead.
I like playing in easy mode sometimes, it’s makes you appreciate the story and mechanics of the game more because to be frank most people when playing in higher difficulty rage and get frustrated at the mechanics which can ruin the experience for them, with that being said I’ll play game in the highest difficulty for achievements, I also play the souls games for a challenge so it makes me feel better about playing in easy difficulty on some games like Fallout 4.
I usually play easy modes for fun. I might do higher difficulties or other bonus challenges later when I'm feeling like it (a good challenge can be fun too), but... I just got a game and want to play it for fun, and there's an option specifically for that, why should I not choose it. Though I find it funny how when I played Bug Fables (Very great game, I recommend playing it) I activated Hard Mode the second I got it, even though this was my first time ever I played it, and the furthest I ever got in a Paper Mario game was in 64 somewhere like end of Prologue or like Chapter 1 or something.
Its simple. Have a trophy associated with playing it on hardest. So the EGO is satisfied for tge people who like it.
But add a easy mode even in souls like, so people with disability or ppl who dont have time to invest too much time can play and experience it.
Excatly. I love the dark medieval fantasy setting of souls games but i just cant enjoy them because they are way too difficult. I have a full time job so when i get home i want to have fun and enjoy the good story and not getting my ass kicked by a boss for 100 times. Life is already difficult i dont want games to be too. Thank god Witcher 3 exist.
I don't care if u wanna play an easy mode, but when someone comes to a game that is known for its difficulty and starts making demands to make it easier now that's annoying.
Not everything is for everyone. Anyone can try the game, but if you don't like it....rather than demanding change maybe try something else.
I play a lot of strategy games like RimWorld and Stellaris on easy. The mechanics are just so complex and I don’t think in terms of gamebreaking min/max. I tend to build sensible bases but you need specific tactics to break those games and the difficulty is balanced around gamebreaking strats
There are games where I have hundreds of hours in and I know inside-out and I am comfortable playing on harder difficulties. But I will be honest. Story games, unless there are achievements tied to it, I enjoy playing on easy mode. I enjoying being OP and beating my enemies senseless. As I got older, I started to enjoy this more and more. I play games for fun, not as a job, there is no reason to infuriate myself with Hard mode and so on. I like a good MMO and a good boss fight, but if I play a JRPG I would rather play on easy mode and breeze through the game, rather than have to farm the same mob for 2 hours for some drop.
I play on easy beckose i want to win, and i want to feel like i cant loose, i want to feel like im an all powerfull warrior beckose thads the point of games for me, to make you feel powerfull,
Not to struggle and be flustraded, life is for thad, games for me are for actually winning for once and being powerfull.
I agree for the most part, if a game offers difficulty options than people should use them as they wish without being shamed. But demanding games that were not intended to have difficulty modes be changed to suit you is not okay. Miyazaki said this in relation to Elden Ring and the requests for a easy mode "We are always looking to improve, but, in our games specifically, hardship is what gives meaning to the experience. So it’s not something we’re willing to abandon at the moment. It’s our identity".
The developers clearly have reason and desire for the difficulty to be what it is and should not face pressure to change it. Not every game is for every person.
I also think of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. where the publisher demanded the developers put in difficulty options, so they just reduced bullet damage on the easier difficulties. ALL bullet damage, player's included, which turned the game into a nightmare to play on anything but the intended hardest difficulty.
Most easy way of reducing difficulty is how"hades" does it, reducing inbound damage for player only
I only ever fully beat one Souls game, Demon's Souls. That was sort of enough for me. It was rewarding to finally reach those end credits, but also very draining. So when I booted up Dark Souls I thought I was ready for more but no... All I felt was something like 'oh no, not this again' and it's been like that ever since. Now I favor easy mode in games, but having beaten at least one Souls game I can say I fully understand that design philosophy; the difficulty in souls is a curated experience that's meant to be hard, but fair, and in the end immensely rewarding in a way no easy game is. Designing a game that way is their artistic freedom put to well use. I would never demand an easy mode added in, I'd rather play something else.
Then some put forward the argument that 'if I buy the game I should have the right to experience the whole game.' To me that sounds like 'I bought this book on quantum physics, so therefor I should be able to understand it'.
@@darkhiker3150 That comes with a large set of issues because difficulty is much more integral to game design than being a flavour choice.
Consider a boss is designed around it having a 1 hit kill move, with the point being that players have to always watch out for that move in particular.
If the damage reducition makes it no longer one hit kill the boss can completely fall apart as the players can act much more freely and ignore the bosses design.
This is also true even for other non-one hit kill attacks.
Enemies are often designed with different moves carrying different levels of danger to the player, a strong move is scary because it can kill you if caught off guard.
Universally nerfing enemy damage blurs the distinction as moves that should be scary become tankable with the worst case scenario often being that players can just ignore the attack altogether.
even as a little kid my default was always at least normal, except mario kart when i'd play on easy but i got bored so i put the cpu to the hardest difficulty lmao. Grown adults playing on easy? I can understand it if you're learning to speedrun a game or something but LOL if otherwise.
So, the thing that happened is this. Demon's Souls when it released wound up overlooked. I know I overlooked it, when really I wish I had checked it out now that I have, as well as due to my experience with From Soft's Soulsborne series. Dark Souls, and the phenomena it started, was a breath of fresh terrifying air during a time when Difficulty Settings were EVERYWHERE. When games could just be breezed through because you could choose to make it easy. Not a horrid thing, sure. However, the Soulsborne series gave everyone something that they either knew they'd wanted, or hadn't realized they'd wanted it till they tried it. Games that made you work for victory. Something that the standard gaming experience of the late 2000's had been lacking. I like having the option of adjusting difficulty, for sure. However, Games like that NEED New Game+ functions and bonus content for those second runs, wherein one would up the difficulty to challenge if they've gotten better. It increases replay value. Overall, it's important to have both kinds of games.
I agree with you except with one problem: Trends. We know the video game industry is just as guilty of that as any form of media. The problem is, the Souls genre suddenly became the new trend and games that didn't need to follow that formula suddenly shoehorned it in there. In the 2000s, maybe the games were easier, but it was because they placed an emphasis on action and frenetic gameplay. Now many games have copied the Souls formula which has bottlenecked the accessibility of some gamers who would otherwise be interested, but are turned off by immediate difficult gameplay. For instance, I love the Devil May Cry series. It is my favorite game series. However, very few games resemble that anymore. The only company that took a risk for a game like that was, go figure, Capcom with DMC5.
@@midwestyleAgreed, however, there is a trend towards more accessibility even with hard games. For example, the remake of Crash Bandicoot lets you save after every level unlike the original, yet it’s just as difficult as it’s ps1 counterpart but less stressful and more forgiving. Similarly Crash 4 has the option of removing lives altogether yet it’s considered the hardest in the series to date.
And that’s not even considering stuff like colourblind mode, minigame skips in Ratchet etc.
Honestly one of the biggest things that puts me off the souls games is that fact that you can’t fucking pause most of them!
Playing on Easy mode is fine. What I find ruining gaming experience? is if that's the only experience we get. Difficulty should be optional. Skill expression through mastering the game or job or class should also be optional, not mandatory to clear content and available to allow players to feel fulfillment in mastering it if they so choose. If everything becomes easier, and duller, blander and is promoted to be the standard and " ONLY OPTION " ? that's when I find it stressful because I can't get my enjoyment out of it. I see this very much in Job designs in MMO's for example
i play almost everything on EASY difficulty unless the game has no difficulty settings which i still like, like Sekiro and Black myth wukong some of my all time favorites, and also if u guys forget, GTA and Red dead redemption games also don't have difficulty settings. but if games gives me a choice to choose, its either, EASY OR NORMAL. i almost never play HARD MODE unless it's a New game+ mode.
The issue is certain games have no balance between normal and hard. Take Kingdom hearts for example. The hard mode is extremely unfair that you find yourself wasting time. But the normal mode is way too easy that it becomes a monotonous button mashing session.
I’m not having fun either way but the dopamine you get from beating a boss on hard mode is rewarding.
Ok.. well that also means
Playing games that are meant to be difficult is ok and you don’t half to play them.
I usually play grindy rpgs on easier so I dont have to grind as much, and since I can skip battles on easier didiculties the challenge balances it out anyway
My only issue is when people complain about how easy the game was and how the AI was "Brain dead" Then when you ask them what they played on they say easy or the ones that try to be like "Bro I been beat that boss he wasn't hard" I bet it wasn't when you played on easy. If you suck at games cool play on easy nobody looks down on that people just aren't gonna take that person's opinion on the gameplay seriously.
P.S. None of that applies to my handicap brothers and sistas get it however you can.
If you dont like hard games then I dont know why you buy demon souls
i want this aesthetic withowt pain in the ass, if ure masochist then dont drag other people in your mental illness
Uhhmm we're talking about games in general not just soulslike buddy
Realize I didn't like God of war bc it was a little to hard
I've played games for years, world of tanks Beta, WOW , plenty of games where skill was the thing and pvp. But for all those games I loved to escape to Skyrim. Easymode walking around like a G
People can play whatever mode they want and mod the game however they want.
My issue is that people often don't appreciate how integral difficulty (wether easy or hard) is to a game's design. It's rarely a thing that can just be swapped at will.
Hard and easy difficulty create a specific expercience, a specific tone, and fosters specific player behaviour.
One example you show in this video that I think highlights this very well is ghost of tsushima.
I fully believe Ghost of Tsushima would have been better if it forced people to play on lethal.
The reason why isn't even anything to do with mastering mechanics or having a challenge.
Its because the increased ease of death on the player has a major effect on the player's priority.
Playing on lethal makes it really hard to fight 'honorably' and defeat all your enemies, in fact it becomes harder and harder the further you go into the game. This ends up giving the ghost tools a mechincal purpose that is otherwise absent by making it an easy means to safely kill enemies (smoke bombs in particular let you kill large crowds easily).
The result of this is two-fold, first ghost tools now serve an active gameplay function instead of being another means of killing by consitently and reliably helping in fights where pure swords skills will struggle.
Secondly the push to rely on ghost tools puts the player to experience the same emotional journey as Jin where the desire to fight honorably is challenged in gameplay encourageing the player to go down the same path as Jin and accept the use of ghost tools.
Resulting in the mechanics of the game working alongside the narrative not opposed to it as my friend experiened when he was easily able to play 'honorably' during his playthrough before lethal had come out, only for the game to then act as if he had been using ghost tools all along.
But why should that matter if you care about those things you can play on the harder mode and people that dont can play on the easier mode it effects you in no way
@@roxas303 Let me reiterate, I don't care that people play on easy mode.
I care when people complain about a lack of easy mode in a game that is aiming to handle those aspects and uses the dificulty to handle much of the design.
That's effectively expecting the developers to at least redo their design in the majority of the game, for an audience that isn't interested in the core experience the game provides.
I always play games on normal mode
Thank you.
Something the SoulsBorne crowd needs to hear, and take off the gatekeeping caps for once
Nevermind that you have games like Another Crabs Treasure, a well liked Souls-like game with a Easy Mode, why the fuck is it anyones business how someone else enjoys a video game on their own time? I swear, theres something about Dark Souls that makes people turn their brains off from rational discussions, and just replaces the actual conversation with screaming monkeys
"Youd have to disable multiplayer" Two things; 1, This assumes that games like Dark Souls and Elden Ring are literally incompleteable unless you engage in the multiplayer (which us a flatout lie), and 2, you are arguing from a hypothetical that assumes people who would play on easy would also be hyper-competitive with their play, which is extremely rare at best
"Youd have to make 2 different games" In short, no. In an era where difficulty is just how much damage is done and recieved is tweaked. The idea that the whole game would need to be retooled is in bad-faith, and coming from a position that thise who play on easy mode would do something stupid like disregard game mechanics, which is simply not true. No easy mode, that I can think of, just lets you go braindead through the game as if the mechanics don't matter, and arguing that people will or would do something like that, assuming its somehow possible in the first place, is nothing but disingenuous strawmanning because they know they don't have a point (Gee, I wonder what big scale RUclipsr argued with such fucked logic like that, HMMMMMMMMM......)
"But Miyazaki-" Listen, he is not perfect, and neither are his visions. They are open to criticism the same way games like TLOU2 was. A devs vision does not magically exclude or write off any criticism, and you lot need to grow the fuck up and stop trying to idolize him and his work as if theyre the second coming of Christ in a dying world
In short, SoulsBorne guys, y'all need to simmer down. The vehemently easy mode defenders aren't much better, but the second you lot man up and actually try to listen and argue in good faith and stop relying on these dog shit arguments and logic, will be one step closer to at least both sides respecting each other
I love play on lower difficult on hitman bc the ai is stupid and I feel superior
There 1 point in your video you gloss over that is the most important point: story driven games. I normally play on hard, but I finished xc1 on easy becours I only cared for the story, but it’s also the only game I did that.
1. If story is all you care for, then I’m sad to say: you’re in the wrong media, there’s plenty of good movies( thou not modern ones) and books and comics for you to get story, a game is about interaction
2: some games are not about story, no one wuld give a fuck about elden rings story, if it wasn’t for the dificulty and gameplay, as it’s honestly not that great.
3: you know what’s more frustrating then not progressing in your favourite game??? Loving a game and thinking about all the cool things you culd do, only to never do any becours they be soo op, they break the game and make it unfun to win( see comet beam in eldenring) when you actually DO wont to interact with the systems, but there’s nothing there to test you if you do
Games before where 1000x harder and made for kids lmao
It’s my game, my rule, my journey not someone else’s. So easy mode or not, its non of your business.
Speaking on behalf of games like fromsoft titles, no, it should not have easy difficulty. You do not deserve to be a part of the conversation between players if you do not struggle the way they all did.
No one cares virgin
I am a swedish ED physician doing my second residency to become cardio. I also have 6 hours a week to do medical chief-stuff for an emergency call center. I have two kids and a dog. I have been gaming since seven. I fought hard with Battletoads. Never managed the level with conveyor belts. I have platinumed Sekiro. Now doing Blasphemous and HFW. HFW on Ultra Hard. No NG+. UH from start. 200 hours later and 2000 deaths I am 75% into the game. And it's so much fun! The feeling of taking down an apex Slaughterspine without cheesing after 3 days of trying is awesome! But... I have played Horizon for a year now. Bloodborne took five months. It takes time. But so worth it. Why going easy? Isn't it better to just read a book or watch a movie? The "I work so much" argument is not valid. I work a lot. Still have time to git gud. Someone compared easy-mode to a wheelchair while being disabled. Yep. That's exactly what it is. Are you all disabled?
To miss out on the story because you can't play the game? There are many people playing the game from start to finish online.
Using tears of the Kingdom as an example is weird considering there is no difficulty option everyone plays it at the same difficulty level is whether or not you actually focus on building to make things easier.
Game producers don't care if you make it to the end of the game or not they care if they make a profit, game developers on the other hand they want you to reach the end but they also have a certain vision for how that ending is achieved, if you don't want any adversity in a game that's meant to show adversity then why not just watch a movie. Gaming is for everyone but not every game is meant for everyone. Just like movies and music is for everyone... But certain genres of movies and music isn't for everyone. You can still enjoy the medium without needing to try to cater to everyone for every title. There is a saying: "A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone".
Now that I said all that, if it's a 100% single player experience, where there's no multiplayer facets at all then I will not mind a multi difficulty slider, or some ways to customize the controls I'm all for it. I'm only against Sekiro having an easy mode, because at this point in time from software has a reputation and expectations for their games especially if on their title card for said games imply that you are going to die more than once. If it's going to have an easy mode you might as well not die at all.
No. Easy mode means that there are people who are bad and I intend to gatekeep. Go play something else you are not welcomed. I do have a full time job on top of part time university so if you want to attack me from that angle give up.
Nah that means they just want to enjoy the game i mean shitting on someone for wanting a relaxed gameplay kinda speaks volumes then again it's just guys with really fragile egos so what do I know
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This just sounds like entitlement, you aren't their target audience and they don't need to change their game because you can't beat it. The entire experience is to overcome your limits in games like Dark Souls, introducing difficulty levels would strip that away entirely
@@Disneylover1992 The target audience and the devs don't care what the non-target audience think
Not having a choice in difficulty is what creates the shared experience that embodies what Dark Souls is all about
@@Disneylover1992 Nothing I'm doing is 'gatekeeping'. You are perfectly allowed to play these games, I recommend you do; your issue is your self-defeating mindset. If you want to play these games you need to accept the fact that it's hard and you will fail, but through failure you will eventually reach success
"who is to decide what the target audience is", the devs, the people who actually make the games. They aren't making these games for people like you
You don't see me going to pageant shows and complain about how I'm not their target audience. I could scream "Your dresses are stupid, let's see some cosplay!" and it would be futile because nobody there would care what I think - I'm not the target audience
@@Disneylover1992 Have you ever overcome an obstacle before? It forces you to grow, learn, and adapt - that's the purpose of this type of game
Players who don't like to grow, learn, nor adapt request easy modes which neither the devs nor target audience want in their game
That shared experience is the whole point, to help each other overcome adversity. It's an achievement
@@Disneylover1992 Yes and we're who these games are made for
"Try, try, and try again" is the mindset of a Dark Souls player, failure is just a setback. If you just set the game to Easy then you'll never experience the entire purpose of the game
@@Wakish0069 it makes sense for those games like dark to be hard souls they're talking about other games in general
Playing on easy mode is embarassing and should be prohibited.
And no wonder gamers are the butt of every joke people who comment like that
@@Kenzar23Maybe but playing on easy is just lazy, it shows, that you just won't put any work in your hobby and are not passionate about it.
@@SparschweinLvl100 no it just means I want to enjoy the game just because someone plays on easy doesn't mean it's lazy I really don't get why playing on easy bothers y'all so much
@@Kenzar23 It is definitivly lazy, you could also play on normal and would be fine (consindering difficulty on most games), there is no justification for playing on easy. Imagine having a hobby and don't put any effort in it. You can do that , but why bothering playing games in the first place by taking this approach?
@@SparschweinLvl100 Again why does it bother y'all so much if we play on easy it's such a stupid mindset to have because someone plays a game on easy it's lazy and y'all wonder people call y'all try hard or sweaty gamers
Wow, disability excuse to force from solf to make an easy mode
I say easy and story mode should locked out part game tell you play on normal see full story one player Play one a higher difficulty should get reward that only way to get the item
Edited still horrible
That would then make the easy mode pointless
I work 2 jobs. Night job and day job and school full time. And still select hard. Get good or stay easy like most females
and what color's your bugatti, tough boi?
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Good for you. Must be fulfilling to derive your masculinity from video games.
Candy Crush doesn’t count 😂
Your comment proves you have a fragile masculinity
Why spend 60 dollars and up every new release to quickly select easy mode. When I grab a game if it has an ultra hard difficulty I’ll select hard then come back for ultra hard. Bc the hard difficulty geared me for the next step. All in all the games not really difficult it’s your confidence and performance
Because people find enjoyment in different things why is that so hard for people to understand
@@roxas303 hey man people just don’t like that soft approach 😂
@@spiritrealmking9416 thats why its an option you don't have to play the "soft" mode
@@roxas303 and I won’t cause that’s my choice but you can play soft mode
@@roxas303 Because people sadly put self worth on beating games on hard mode