Games where you unashamedly play on easy mode?

[Valkerion]

Platformers
Open-World
Games with stamina meters
Games with randomized/low % drop rates but are single player
Games where the difficulty balance/rewards are not worth doing at a higher level.

In general though I more often than not play on easy these days if there is an option. I'm in particular a fan of games that let you switch at anytime without penalty. There is just too much to play to bash my head against the wall when there is an enjoyable way to do things comfortably.

 

[Deleted member 20831]

Any game which adds tankiness as a padding for higher difficulty, its stupid.

 

[ffvorax]

If I struggle too much I just dont have anynmore enough time or patience.... or in general strategy games because I just suck at them...

 

[DJtal]

All of them, sue me. Seriously I have little time to play videogames. And really, it's not a job, I play for fun. One of the reason I never cared about achievements or trophies. I get that in real life, enough for me.

 

[SRTtoZ]

I usually play Easy Mode in games after I already beat it on normal/hard especially if I'm only in it for the story. Example is Prey which I didn't really care for the combat so I played it on Story Mode to experience the Story and the same for The Witcher 3. I eventually found out that you can make TW3 pretty easy on many difficulties by speccing certain ways. I think the last time I played it on normal or hard and was just so OP with whatever talent combination I was using. Again, a game which I really didn't care for the combat so I was just in it for the story. Games that I really really love the combat or if I'm trying to get all the trophies/achievements then I'll play it on harder difficulties. Obviously you can't change the difficulty in Dark Souls but if it was easier it would ruin the sense of accomplishment and the addictiveness of progressing.

 

[GTVision]

Street Fighter IV, and it still was difficult...

 

[Gelf]

Not many because a lot of my fun in games comes from "solving" the challenges that they present. I don't follow this idea that more overpowered equals more fun.

I'll do it if I feel overwhelmed by normal and easy still taxes me in someway. For me thats usually complex strategy games where I feel too stupid for normal or hardcore shooters as I'm a terrible aim.

 

[EarlGreyHot]

Bravely Default 2. The Asterisk battles are so fucking hard.

I also sometimes like to put Oblivion/Skyrim on the easiest setting because it turns you into an unstoppable god.

 

[Edward850]

Doom 2016 and eternal

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Curiously, I'm fine with 2016 on Nightmare, even. Eternal however I straight up just stick it on I'm Too Young To Die as well. There's something about Eternal that is just doesn't sit right with me, I could swear it's the ammo capacities.

 

[Chippewa Barr]

Final Fantasy games and basically every insanely long and/or grindy JRPG...I just love the stories and like to cruise through.

For all the FF ones with remakes/remasters I even use the assists like 3x speed, 9999, and sometimes turn off encounters depending on how lazy I am 👀

 

[Makoto Yuki]

Persona games. The battles get so boring and I'm mostly just in it for the story. Hell, I'd almost rather they just be VNs.

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That's how I started feeling about games that take over 100 hours. I just want to rush through them on easy.

 

[Jawmuncher]

If there's no trophy/achievement tied to difficulty I'll usually drop it down to easy if I find the normal mode to be too Grindy or difficult.

Recently played Persona 5 Strikers on easy and enjoyed it much more that way.

 

[Igor]

Most of them, especially the western ones where I find controls too floaty and combat not that satisfying. Bayonetta games are some of rare few I play on Hard.

 

[BigDaddyCool]

No

 

[Kazooie]

If the difficulty only affects combat and it is not one of the rare instances where I like the combat (Platinum Games, SRPGs, Pikmin), I'll use the easiest difficulty setting.

 

[Novocaine]

Forza sometimes. I take advantage of the fluid difficulty settings a lot. Although most of the time I play on a mid to high difficulty sometimes it's fun to just smash the opposition

 

[Joe White]

Every game that require using DS, as that stick and button layout increases difficulty by default. Currently playing spider-man with easy combat and automatic QTEs.

 

[natanqb]

I'm starting this on Series X right now. Ratcheting it down to the easiest difficulty is fine? I usually go default, but I tend to *hate* scary/survival horror titles.

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I think it is, but later you can put it on easy and it will still be fine, very easy gives you way too many resources making exploration pointless.

 

[Dr Pears]

Most story heavy games nowadays actually.

If anyone calls me a filthy casual I'll counter by saying I got every Platinum trophy on Fromsoftware games since Dark Souls 1 (Except Deracine)

 

[MoonlitBow]

I think the last time I went below normal difficulty to enhance my enjoyment was probably the Ghostbusters game on PS3 all of those years ago because I just wanted to experience the characters and setting I loved once again. Of course I got distracted by other things and ended up not finishing the game anyway.

 

[ghibli99]

I think it is, but later you can put it on easy and it will still be fine, very easy gives you way too many resources making exploration pointless.

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OK thanks -- I'll stick with default for now. Game looks really good w/ frame boost, although like Dragon Age Inquisition, cutscenes are capped at 30fps.

 

[Bengraven]

All of them. I've fallen off so much that I just play games to chill and relax.

 

[Big G]

Uncharted.

On normal, it's endless waves of bullet sponge enemies.

On easy, you're an action/adventure movie star.

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This. Uncharted is a lot more fun and closer to matching the overall spirit of the games when on easier difficulties.

 

[shadow_shogun]

All of them. I started RE8 on normal and it just didn't feel right, ended up quitting about 20 mins in and restarted on the causal difficulty.

 

[Deleted member 51248]

Open-world games, I cant do bullet sponges in a game that's already demanding a lot of my time for side quests and XP progression stuff.

 

[Mugen X]

P5, I have no patience for turn based combat.

 

[RetroMG]

I'm married, I've got two kids and a full-time job and I get about 45 minutes of gaming time per day if I'm lucky. I play most games on easy. I've got nothing to prove and I'd rather spend my limited time playing something enjoyable instead of beating my head against a wall.

 

[Violence Jack]

It would be easier for me to list the ones that I don't play on easy mode. With a kid and full time job, I don't have time to go back repeating parts multiple times. I just want to have fun and feel a little overpowered

 

[Duxxy3]

Just about everything.

 

[Estro]

Lately, the Uncharted games. I find the shootout sequences too prevalent and drawn out as it is on easy, I can't imagine on higher difficulty modes.

 

[Isilia]

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. Daein team is too week in that chapter that you fight the laguz. Or i just such at it :)

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Oh this is a good example. I turned it on easy on a second play through just to see the difference.

Being stuck with the loser squad at the start really hurts the game in the long run. Mostly because everything past that is very doable.

...Hard is just a hard (ha) pass.

 

[The Gold Hawk]

Will play easy mode on any game that I fancy.

There is no shame in playing on easy or lower difficulty modes for whatever reasons and people should never have to justify that they do.

 

[shintoki]

I did that one boss, Jager?, on world 3 instead of world 12 and 13. I didn't want to spend another 15 minutes killing him.

 

[verygooster]

Honestly if an RPG (JRPG or WRPG) offers an easy mode I'm going with that.

 

[Sec0nd]

Yakuza.

I don't enjoy that combat system in the slightest. And was actively making me quit the game. I'm on my fourth attempt of Yakuza 0 and now with the difficulty on Easy I'm enjoying it way more.

 

[Guts Of Thor]

Alien Isolation. Playing on easy makes the game even better. The alien appears less often, making him more scary, when he appears too often it becomes just annoying. It also maked you finish the game faster, the long duration is one of the few problems of this great game.

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I didn't know this!

I'm currently playing Alien Isolation on XSX on Normal and the constant appearances of the Alien make the game so fucking tedious. If playing on easy makes the Alien not appear as much , sign me up.

I normally play games on normal but as I've gotten older (I'll be 40 next year), I've lost all interest in having any kind of challenge and just want to enjoy the story/scenery with as little difficulty if any at all.

 

[Sabretooth]

Civilization games.

Anyone who tells you the play on anything but the lowest two (out of 7?) difficulty levels is lying.

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Oh my god are you me?

 

[Love Machine]

Everything with options I'll start on normal, then bump it down if I'm getting frustrated or stuck.

Personally really enjoy it when dynamic difficulty is implemented well, or when you unlock harder tougher challenges through play.

 

[Garden Of Eyes]

I think I usually play on Normal difficulty, unless there are trophies requiring for Hard difficulty. For cleaning up, I play on easy.

 

[Hazz3r]

Any JRPG. Im not here for the gameplay. I'm here for the world and the characters.

 

[Bedameister]

Most of them.

 

[seroun]

All of them. After the tree sequence in the first Ori I said to myself "you should be pretty proud of that. not necessary to get bragging rights anymore at this point."

I do it because I don't usually care about gameplay (I'm more of a story-character development person), and when I care about gameplay I like power fantasies.

 

[heathen earth]

If easy mode is an option, I'm taking it. I can play through "difficult" games like Bloodborne or Nioh for instance, but even then there are options to reduce the difficulty for yourself, like co-op/grinding/etc. Come to think of it, this may be why I bounced off Sekiro so hard. I'm not getting any younger, and my arthritis and reflexes certainly aren't improving as the years go by.

 

[Deleted member 36578]

I just recently stopped my Normal playthrough of Resident Evil 8 and restarted on Casual instead. The enemies were taking far too many bullets. Now they die much quicker and I'm enjoying it more because of it.

 

[The Third Heat]

Yeah, I'm slowly becoming an "all easy, all the time" boy in more and more games. I do enjoy a good challenge and I'll take on a Soulsborne-like every now and again, but for a lot of games, especially story-driven ones, I just don't care to get obliterated constantly. I'm here for the story and dying is just a roadblock to finishing it.

 

[Badgerst]

I hate Returnal.
still stuck biome 1 but my OCD keeps me coming back at least once a day to slog again. And then hate myself for wasting the last 1.5 hours after I inevitably die by melee on boss phase 3.
Would pay for an easy mode just to move on.

 

[Pedrito]

I always play on Normal. I think the only game I said fuck it and dropped the difficulty was Deus Ex Human Revolution because some the bosses seem almost impossible to beat if you picked the wrong skills.

If ever I play Uncharted 3 and 4, I'll probably do it on easy. Played 1 and 2 and they were enjoyable apart from the combat which I disliked immensely.

 

[Sanguine]

Long games where I'm playing it more for the story than the combat (i.e. Planescape Torment, Persona games, etc.) so I don't really want to get bogged down by one game because I'm getting stuck in combat when combat isn't even the reason I'm playing the game.

 

[CaptainBojangles]

Uncharted.

On normal, it's endless waves of bullet sponge enemies.

On easy, you're an action/adventure movie star.

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Agreed. I honestly think the Uncharted games are just more fun on easy

 

[NeonDelta]

Depends on the game. If it's a story based game i'll Start on medium/hard then drop it down to easy if I get stuck on a particular bit for too long and just want to finish it.

on simulation racing games and American sports game I put those on one of the easiest difficulties because I suck at them but enjoy playing them