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 @gamingonlinux sometimes you just don't have the time to invest in a challenge! Easy mode ftw!  @gamingonlinux guilty as charged, especially for new games, so that I could learn the mechanics. Bite me! @gamingonlinux thatโs me! Iโve got zero time but still enjoy gaming. Easy mode is the way to go! @gamingonlinux I mostly do normal, but man I don't know what's wrong with enemies in Elden Ring. Like cmon give me a break will ya. They don't wait for a second to kill ya. @gamingonlinux Hmm on one hand I like to challenge myself ever so slightly when playing games, and I tend to be pretty good at it by this point. But on the other, I don't think I would've gotten to that point without making heavy use of cheats and stuff while growing up just because breaking the game in various ways was fun. Really helped me get a feel for how games work.  @portaloffreedom @byterot @gamingonlinux Hell yeah! The older I am, the less time and patience I have to tinker with character builds and strategies. I want stories, I want fun, and I don't want to spent half a year playing only one game on hard mode when I can squeeze there a few more just thanks to playing it easy.  @gamingonlinux I recently sung praises not only on Easy mode but on easy switching of difficulty! Playing #DeathStranding on the #SteamDeck. Wonderful game for me to relax with (for whatever weird reason). But then I found myself in a shooter sequence. And I just plain suck at aiming on anything but a keyboard and mouse. So I kept dieing. And after a few repetitions I was THIS close to giving up on this game I have enjoyed for 50h now altogether. 1/ @gamingonlinux But then I remembered the difficulty switch. Switched from Normal to Easy. Still sucked, but less so. Switched to Very Easy. Completed the sequence. Switched back to Normal & have been happily playing onward on that since. I want to enjoy this game. I don't want to switch to my desktop just because the game switches to shooter mode for a short story sequence. I don't have to proof anything to anyone. I already have a job, this is what I do for fun. Easy ftw 2/2 @gamingonlinux @foosel Are you playing with dual sticks only, or rest-thumb-on-right-stick-for-precision-gyro-aiming? The latter works surprisingly well for me and I donโt even qualify as sucking at ego-shooters. It didnโt make any difference if I played them with a mouse or an old Apple Trackpad. :-) @MacLemon @gamingonlinux Currently only dual stick. Have played around with the gyro a bit but so far it's still not intuitive and doesn't really improve my aiming that much either. I need to build muscle memory. Doesn't help that I consider myself fairly good at aiming with mouse and WASD. Used to play shooters in the past, still occasionally do, so it becomes extra frustrating when suddenly I can hit almost nothing anymore simply due to a different input device ๐ @gamingonlinux so ... Story mode.  @gamingonlinux I'm totally an easy mode player. I care more about the interactive stories.  @Mundon @gamingonlinux agreed for certain games. I did not enjoy the Persona3 gameplay and was totally more into the story and characters. Turns out I would probably just like the storybook genre. Too bad they are generally in Japanese >_> @gamingonlinux I start on normal and see how that goes, but I absolutely switch to easy if I feel like a game is wasting my time by overdoing it in the challenge. @gamingonlinux fair, Iโm just too F* old to play on easy mode. I feel like, If Iโm to sacrifice hours of my life into a game Iโd better make it worth my while.  @gamingonlinux Games are for enjoying yourself. If you want to play in easy, go ahead. In fact for single player games i believe it is ok to cheat if you want. Just dont ruin the game for anybody else and you're good to go. @gamingonlinux me, not spending one more minute in high on life than i have to. The game wasnt hard just... annoying  The framing of this makes it too easy for incoherent arguments; that in agreeing with the spirit of this argument amounts to expecting an easy difficulty setting, always. There are games where bolting on an extra, harder difficulty adds little value because the difficulty is created by ways the design of gameplay loops never really intended, adding no value. But that equally can apply at the other end of the difficulty curve, with an added insult of perceived condescension. @gamingonlinux Easy mode is fine. Though I love the trend where games replace the Easy, Medium,Hard naming structure with something like Story First, As intended, Challenging, etc. @gamingonlinux Yep, play how you want, as long as you don't set it to easy, then complain that the game is too easy. ;)
@gamingonlinux I do! It's not my default, but I'd rather finish a game on easy than play the first part over and over before tossing it to the back of my backlog never to be seen again. @gamingonlinux @gamingonlinux And โeasyโ = โaccessibleโ for many. Gatekeeping games is weird. @gamingonlinux Man, there's been a couple games where I picked Easy and died on the first level anyway. Rage quit and never went back, lulz.  @gamingonlinux Related: you cannot cheat in a solo game, whatever you're doing is not cheating. Do what feels best to you.  @gamingonlinux Not always, but when Iโm bored or tired, I like to play the most difficult level I KNOW I will win. I find it soothing, and I can look around for things Iโve missed, better strategy, etc. @gamingonlinux @darius During burnout, Iโd set games lowest with all the helpers I could enable to make it somewhat enjoyable. Iโm sure many players canโt mentally deal with challenging settings tbh! @gamingonlinux Absolutely, i have no embarrassment to say that I beat Doom Eternal on Easy. It was stress enough at that level, I don't need more neck pain in my life. I don't play all games on easy, but I will adjust it where and when I decide. @gamingonlinux absolutely right. I mostly chose and play games to enjoy a story, I don't have time to get frustrated with having to repeat the same thing 100 times over and over again until I do it just exactly right to progress.  @gamingonlinux I have a child. No time for hard mode. ๐ At least for story games.  Imagine, using a feature that's designed to be there, all because it's a game and that's how you enjoy it. Go figure. @gamingonlinux Games are form of art. With art, there's no wrong way to experience it. Being art though, it's not always meant to be fun. @gamingonlinux I wish the easy mode on brawlers were actually easy. The new TMNT game was and I had a blast playing with a teenaged relative who barely games. We tried to play Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and it was really tough even on easy. Guess which one we went back for more of?   @gamingonlinux When Doom Eternal came out, I played it on hard. It eased me into playing on that difficulty. Now when I load that save game, I get creamed, almost instantly. I do prefer easy though, it helps with the God Complex ๐  @gamingonlinux yep. 99% of the games i love to play i play on easy mode. the few games are touhou cause normal mode is not that much harder and makes you feal badass and i wanna be series cause nomather what your gonna feel dumb.   @gamingonlinux i do that, cause i'm not skilled or experienced enough plus i got adhd and my right hand got hurt and now it doesn't work like before anymore  @gamingonlinux I'm a "put hard mode first" gamer kind. But I like the option to skip it when it gets tenuous. In fact I'd go even farther, and wish there were a "skip the mecanistic part and storymode only". I had once had a very nice romance puzzle game, and got stuck on one of them. I couldn't even see the last bit of the story, it felt like being bullied. Good games don't even need difficulty settings, if their gameplay's depth includes enough to make everyone play at their own level of skill and still find a satisfying challenge.  @gamingonlinux absolutely. It's not for me - I'm one of those Soulsborne saddos who love a challenge - but if that's how someone else wants to enjoy a game (whatever their reason, whether it's a disability thing, or a time thing, or a "just because" thing is immaterial) then more power to them. @gamingonlinux totally agree. Yes, i like to play on hard mode but i really dont want to be forced to play it like that. Also very important accsessibility feature wich a lot of developers seem to ignore these days. @gamingonlinux full ack! There are genres I kinda like but are just too bad playing on a normal or even harder level. |
