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I Play Every Game on the Easiest Difficulty Setting and I'm Tired of being Shamed for It
- Thread starter SpinierBlakeD
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Who you're being shamed by? Difficulty never even comes up no matter who I talk to about games, be it colleagues at work or friends at the pub.
That's not the point of games unless that's what you yourself are concentrating on and feeling some kind of complex for? The only time we're mentioning it is when we play Bloodborne or Sekiro. But that's kinda the focal point of From Software games.
Relax and forget about it, and just maybe, find new friends.
That's not the point of games unless that's what you yourself are concentrating on and feeling some kind of complex for? The only time we're mentioning it is when we play Bloodborne or Sekiro. But that's kinda the focal point of From Software games.
Relax and forget about it, and just maybe, find new friends.
Fully agree OP.
I have nothing to prove to anyone so I play games in a way that suits me best. I know I can beat hard games if I keep trying, but I don't care enough to bother wasting my time like that when I could just play more of something else than waste 100 hours trying over and over on one.
Using my options that I can has made it better too. I appreciate the Final Fantasy Remasters for having built in trainers. I appreciate using trainers to turn off all damage in Souls games now to see the content. Playing in easy or safety modes in games is more fun for me since I can see mote content. And that's totally fine!
Keep doing you, OP.
I have nothing to prove to anyone so I play games in a way that suits me best. I know I can beat hard games if I keep trying, but I don't care enough to bother wasting my time like that when I could just play more of something else than waste 100 hours trying over and over on one.
Using my options that I can has made it better too. I appreciate the Final Fantasy Remasters for having built in trainers. I appreciate using trainers to turn off all damage in Souls games now to see the content. Playing in easy or safety modes in games is more fun for me since I can see mote content. And that's totally fine!
Keep doing you, OP.
But you don't. You already said you don't have the time for high difficulty games. From Software games aren't hard as fuck like some of these indie platformers, but you also can't just run in yolo no scoping. If you want to see the art or music, Twitch and youtube are great for that.
I'm way too shit at games to experience all of Super Meat Boy's OST, so I just got the OST :P
Don't belittle a person because they don't react to something the way you do or the way you want them to.
I play on hard usually but i got no problems with people enjoying games how they want to and not playing games that frustrate or annoy them
Ah, yes, the high intellectual bar that can only be cleared by [checks notes] dodging into enemy attacks.
You go! As I get older I have started to pick games that I can complete and feel accomplishment in. Making games hard for no reason but to piss you off so that when you win you feel better than others is silly and cost sales. I won't play dark souls, blood borne, or sheik0 because of this "l33t" mindset.
If they hate on you F em I got your back!! I try normal all the time but if it's stupid I go easy without a care!!
Yeah I don't get why people go straight to people playing hard to only prove something. I just find it more fun. Anything on easy just feels mindless.
Where is this 'shame' coming from? It's all up to the person. I play games for the challenge and don't even bother with stories and cinematics since it bores me, and that's ok! What you do is ok too!
The being immersed in the world and character I'm playing as is actually the reason I like Souls/Bloodborne so much. Most games have you defeat giant god demons that terrify every NPC/fellow fighter like it's nothing. That really kills it for me. This loser is what's giving you guys trouble? Is it a power fantasy thing? Having everything freak other characters out but you do it with little effort?
At least with Souls games if someone walks up to me and says "be careful that fucker over there is pretty tough" I'll believe them and not talk behind their backs on video game forums.
To be fair Souls/BB are the only games that do this for me. Going out of my way to play hard legendary whatever mode in other games so that enemies hit 8 times harder and take 3% damage has no appeal to me whatsoever.
At least with Souls games if someone walks up to me and says "be careful that fucker over there is pretty tough" I'll believe them and not talk behind their backs on video game forums.
To be fair Souls/BB are the only games that do this for me. Going out of my way to play hard legendary whatever mode in other games so that enemies hit 8 times harder and take 3% damage has no appeal to me whatsoever.
Difficulty sometimes makes a game way better. Vanilla Fallout 4 is a bland and boring game. Fallout 4 on surival mode (no fast travel, can only save in beds) is a fucking AMAZING experience that I'm really glad to have played.
But it's not for everyone. I find playing on hard modes makes me learn the game better. There's nothing cooler than being Bill Murray in a game like Dark Souls or Megaman, playing through sections that kicked you ass but now walking through them like it's nothing to you because of experience.
But it's not for everyone. I find playing on hard modes makes me learn the game better. There's nothing cooler than being Bill Murray in a game like Dark Souls or Megaman, playing through sections that kicked you ass but now walking through them like it's nothing to you because of experience.
Has anyone every literally said something directly to you about gaming on easy, or does your ego feel pings of pain every time some random person on the internet makes their own personal, indirect comment about playing on easy?
I do the same. I don't care anymore about difficulty, i'd rather just enjoy the story and de-stress. Same reason I love musou games, I just want some mindless fun.
Ya its either gotta be this or multiple exits all leading to the same end point!
They are absolutely nothing like that. At least souls and BB. Haven't heard of that other game.
Like they're challenging games but they're not unfair and the difficulty isn't there for "no reason but to piss you off"
I don't give a crap what other people think especially when it comes to enjoying something that I paid for with my own money.
After reading the OP, it sounds like the issue isn't the difficulty of the game(s), but your attitude in general.
If this game has an easy mode, have fun friend!
BUT
if you use cheats to beat game that doesn't have an easy mode, then tell me that you "beat" the game - I'm gonna laugh at you.
BUT
if you use cheats to beat game that doesn't have an easy mode, then tell me that you "beat" the game - I'm gonna laugh at you.
you'll need to work on that legal defense
they're long games, yeah. At least 40 hours or so. They constantly autosave though so they're actually great games for stop and go play.
Honestly sounds more like he's shaming the experiences he doesn't like, lol.
I have no problem with people playing on easy, but my personal problem is that most of the times, easy feels like most of the mechanics are left behind. So the way the game is supposed to be played to get a certain experience is ruined (maybe too harsh of a word but it's late). This is not true for all games and I also enjoy games for multiple reasons (immersion and exploration) but anything but normal usually feels out of whack, be it too hard or too easy. That's why I like to have no options, this way I get the experience the devs want me to have and not something that might be an afterthought that just raises some numbers and Multipliers in the game's code (I just finished Bayonetta on normal and thought it was a tad too easy, so now I am thinking, would hard have been more enjoyable or too hard, how would I know, why do I have to chose? Just give me the cake that you made without asking me to fuck with the icing).
Also, difficulty can be a great tool to teach you something that you are uncomfortable with. For example the mikiri counter in Sekiro. I am terrible at countering an enemies attack, in most games, I never bothered with parrying in Dark Souls either or MGS Revengence. But the last boss really made me learn that move, because otherwise, I couldn't beat him and even though I was seething, I still loved the idea that I had to improve the way I interacted with a game to overcome the challenge. That is great, but this does not have to be the case for every game. I don't think I could take that kind of beating from every game. It's a nice change of pace from most AAA games that have a mellow enjoyable difficulty.
Another reason while I appreciate difficulty is the setback when it is paired with options. Like yeah, repeating the same stuff can suck, but it can also force you to reevaluate the situation trying out new strategies. For example the last boss of Hollow Knight: She was driving me insane and I was mixing and matching all my charms, trying out new builds that might be more effective until I reached a point where I just gave up and decided to go on a hunt for a better charm. So I left, defeated an optional boss and his quest, leveled up my charm and went back in to fight the last boss again. This time, my strategy worked and I was winning. It felt like I outsmarted the boss, not by learning something new and improving as a player but by entering the fight prepared and using strategy. Again this feeling would not exist if I went in toasting her ass first try.
That's my two cents. Play what makes you happy, it's your short time on earth.
Also, difficulty can be a great tool to teach you something that you are uncomfortable with. For example the mikiri counter in Sekiro. I am terrible at countering an enemies attack, in most games, I never bothered with parrying in Dark Souls either or MGS Revengence. But the last boss really made me learn that move, because otherwise, I couldn't beat him and even though I was seething, I still loved the idea that I had to improve the way I interacted with a game to overcome the challenge. That is great, but this does not have to be the case for every game. I don't think I could take that kind of beating from every game. It's a nice change of pace from most AAA games that have a mellow enjoyable difficulty.
Another reason while I appreciate difficulty is the setback when it is paired with options. Like yeah, repeating the same stuff can suck, but it can also force you to reevaluate the situation trying out new strategies. For example the last boss of Hollow Knight: She was driving me insane and I was mixing and matching all my charms, trying out new builds that might be more effective until I reached a point where I just gave up and decided to go on a hunt for a better charm. So I left, defeated an optional boss and his quest, leveled up my charm and went back in to fight the last boss again. This time, my strategy worked and I was winning. It felt like I outsmarted the boss, not by learning something new and improving as a player but by entering the fight prepared and using strategy. Again this feeling would not exist if I went in toasting her ass first try.
That's my two cents. Play what makes you happy, it's your short time on earth.
I work about 50 hours a week. Games like Bloodborne and Sekiro are a very unfun way for me to spend my precious free time.
You do you OP, one of the coolest things about video games is that everyone can experience them through different lenses and get different things out of them.
You do you OP, one of the coolest things about video games is that everyone can experience them through different lenses and get different things out of them.
Play how you want to play. You shouldn't let people's opinions drive your life. So enjoy your gaming.
People can play on whatever difficulty they like especially in a world with many poorly designed difficulty modes. But, there are also many games that are made more meaningful in terms of relevant decisions within them by playing on higher difficulties and I think it's always worth pushing people to try those experiences at least a little bit.
Are there actually lots if people shaming people for playing on easy mode to the point where it's a cultural norm vs three people on reddit?
"I have very little free time so watching the lord of the rings on marathon is an unfun way for me to spend my limited free time"
i mean yeah absolutely if you have no interest in something, feel free to do something you actually enjoy with your free time instead. Still kind of weird how common the "i have a job and little free time so I don't like souls" thing is when it could be applied to anything.
"I have very little free time so watching the lord of the rings on marathon is an unfun way for me to spend my limited free time"
Once I gave up trying to get trophies and just play the games I want to play on the easiest settings possible, my gaming life became so much more pleasant. Love a good FromSoftware game (for all kinds of reasons), but for the most part, easy is where I live.
I usually play on normal except some special cases like survival horror games - but for example I could live without ever seeing another "if you didn't play KH on critical, you didn't really play it" remark. Asinine gatekeeping is all it is. If the people who played on standard or proud feel they had a good experience, who is to say otherwise? 'Easy mode' is not solely for kids, but pissing contests sure shouldn't be following you into adulthood.
Eh, not really. I beat Dark Souls 3 and Dark Souls Remastered quicker than I was able to beat an easy game like Final Fantasy XV or Kingdom Hearts 3. But I knew the Souls game rules by that point. RPGs in general take like 20+ hours anyway so it sounds like RPGs just aren't your thing.
Sometimes challenge is part of the atmosphere. I find no enjoyment in playing anything on easy because I'll just be left with the cursed, "that's it?" feeling. No thanks. I don't buy a game so that it can basically play itself.
I honestly don't care how people play games, whether easy or hard.
I prefer games that are more mechanically challenging rather than narrative in nature. To me, playing Link in BOTW on hard mode is more cinematic than a game like Uncharted 4. The emergent gameplay and impacting the gameplay is what I love. Something like New Vegas is narrative done well, it's narrow and targeted but it's also open and varied. Bloodborne (which you torched in the OP) is interesting because of the weapon variety, the path variety, the experience variety.
For instance, I am a huuuuuuuuge Spider-man fan and I didn't hate, but was truly unimpressed by Spider-man PS4 because it was "game that has a track to fill out and you go and fill it out and story happens." I didn't feel like Spider-man, and it left a very poor taste in my mouth. I made the same Spider-man that everybody else did. Yuck.
>> Does that mean everyone needs to like that?
Nah
In closing, I don't think "easy setting" gamers are persecuted, in fact I think they are often catered to: Mario golden leaf for instance, or "narrative modes", etc. So I'm very confused by the premise of the thread, but hey.
I prefer games that are more mechanically challenging rather than narrative in nature. To me, playing Link in BOTW on hard mode is more cinematic than a game like Uncharted 4. The emergent gameplay and impacting the gameplay is what I love. Something like New Vegas is narrative done well, it's narrow and targeted but it's also open and varied. Bloodborne (which you torched in the OP) is interesting because of the weapon variety, the path variety, the experience variety.
For instance, I am a huuuuuuuuge Spider-man fan and I didn't hate, but was truly unimpressed by Spider-man PS4 because it was "game that has a track to fill out and you go and fill it out and story happens." I didn't feel like Spider-man, and it left a very poor taste in my mouth. I made the same Spider-man that everybody else did. Yuck.
>> Does that mean everyone needs to like that?
Nah
In closing, I don't think "easy setting" gamers are persecuted, in fact I think they are often catered to: Mario golden leaf for instance, or "narrative modes", etc. So I'm very confused by the premise of the thread, but hey.
I like RPGs. I dont like wasting my time trying to the same thing over and over. I have very little time to play games, so I definitely dont want to spend my time stuck repeating something.