Why do people here hate easy mode?
>>727718950Only defense when there souls like slop is hated.
>>727718950Why are you a fucking stupid nigger?
it's not okay
>>727718950don't hate it, just don't use it is all
>>727718950How you play my game is up to me, not my customer. Sorry!
>>727718950>games are supposed to be ...Bit arrogant to think you'reself some authority on videogames
>>727718950This is quite possibly the most obnoxious image format possible for an OP, and I say that with the knowledge of Wojacks existing.
>>727718950It's more the demanding that a game have one if it's not built with one in mind. A difficulty slider can lead to a lot of inconsistency or a lesser expierence by how the nature of scaling works out, compare that to a game with a single fixed difficulty and every part of the expierence is far more tuned and catered.
IMO, games should be balanced and designed around their hardest difficulty, with lower difficulties being tacked in as an afterthought, since you can’t fuck up the balancing on a mode that’s intended to be easy.Prove me wrong.
>2011: just git gud>2025: nah this boss is way too spastic we need an easy mode that respects my time i got taxes to pay and lawns to take care ofWhat changed?
>>727719351I liked the difficulty slider in Kid Icarus uprising.Higher difficulty means more and tougher enemies, higher rewards and access to certain secret areas.Also if you die, the difficulty is automatically lowered a notch which has an interesting effect on how you choose which difficulty to play a chapter on.
>easy (no thumbs mode)>normal (very easy)>hard (bullet sponge hell)>ass gaping hard (get instantly one shot)
>>727719626we stopped caring
>>727719626video games arent made for you anymore unc
>>727719334the version of this meme with lisa simpson is even more annoying
>>727718950Nothing wrong with easy games themselves, but easy mode in otherwise normal games just feels like extremely bland slog most of the times
>>727719763apparently they are nigger, youre the one bitching
>>727718950>>727719334>>727719823
>>727719626>time i got taxes to pay and lawns to take care ofYou got older, you just answered it yourself
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I've seen that people that play games on hard are total try hards. You can play easy, or normal difficulty and do just fine. I dont play games to be pissed and annoyed. But. Im not saying that hard isnt more rewarding at times.
>>727719892>>727719763Why are the newfags descending tonight? Do you not know how greentexting works?
>>727718950I honestly don't care how other people play as long as it doesn't have an impact on me, like cheating in multiplayer. If you care about it you're most likely insecure. One thing to care about on the other hand would be how people spend their money like complete consoomers which only keeps reinforcing the live service + lootbox + gacha + cash shop + battle pass whole shebang because other people's spending habits shape the vidya of today and I don't like most of the stuff released these days.
>>727719626>2011: I love a good challenge. Conquering it makes me feel accomplished>2025: I just need a distraction to finish while I scroll tiktoks/reels
>>727719920Everyone who says "tryhard" is trying too hard to not try hard at all.
>>727719947anyone who says unc is just falseflagging to piss you off. No one actually says that shit
>>727718950Watched somebody play through all of Dispatch without any input. Is it really a video game if you can do nothing and still finish it?
>>727719823I consider them the same thing, likewise with the Kirby one. They’re all the result of passive aggressive cowards trying to pretend their garbage opinions came from someone else.
>>727718950There's nothing wrong with beating a game on easy mode as long as you stay quiet and don't offer your opinions on anything except the plot.
Choose
>>727720037Its totally try hard
>>727720039And since it's /v/ 95% of the people saying unc are either a shade of brown or a shade of yellow. Safe to ignore.
>>727718950>in easy mode>stressfullESLs always have the most generic reddit opinions.
I'd be fine if they locked a lot of the dogshit design decisions like yellow paint to easy mode, but it just impacts enemy health most of the time. That isn't difficulty, that's a measurement of how much tedium you're willing to deal with.
Since consolegamers can't cheat like PC does that make them the last true gamers?
I played MGS2 on normal and some of the bosses took 15-30 minutes to beat.
>>727720409>tfw can't bring up gameshark because there are no more gamesharks anymore
>>727720230you forgot the furry in the corner added so people talk about furry porn than the already off-topic rest of the image
>>727720409What? Consoles are easier to cheat on than ever. They're just computers with brand names now.
>>727718950Fuck off, noob. Get gud or go back to watching TV.
>>727718950I don't hate it. I hate those who demand in games that are designed to present a challenge. The majority of games released now are either easy from jump or have an easy mode. A souls-game releases like once every few years and even when Elden Ring is the easiest souls-game FromSoft have dropped, people still demanded easy-mode.
>>727718950I prefer when games have an easy mode if that means there's an unnerfed hard mode.Played plenty of games where because there's no separation that means if something is too hard (but still achievable) it has to be nerfed so everyone can clear it.
>>727718950because they are jobless losers and beating shitty games is the only thing they can brag about
>>727720409They have built in aim assist which is cheating
>>727720678lmao ready to go back to your wage cage on Monday?
>>727718950Easy mode is fine so long as it cuts off content to punish babies that can’t learn how to play the game as it was intended. A lot of retro games (and some modern ones) would end prematurely if played on lower difficulties.Can’t remember what game did it recently but a game journo got caught “beating” the game on easy mode and reported on the “abrupt ending”, because the final level and actual ending are locked out of easy mode.
>>727718950Games being accessible to more people is not a good thing.
>>727720409>consolegamers can't cheatlollmaolmfao
Because the internet is full of soulsfaggots who think that artificially extending your playtime by making every enemy take 20 hits to die is some kind of accomplishment.1-shotting everything isn't fun either, but at least the people who play on easy aren't obnoxious dickheads.
>>727721509>but at least the people who play on easy aren't obnoxious dickheads.>All the easy mode faggots whining about elden ring
>3 difficulties to choose fromHardest>more than 3 difficulties to choose fromSecond hardest
>>727721509Easy mode faggots are the most obnoxious people around. Fuck off.
>>727718950only reason to play easy mode is to unlock something and only after beating normal modeif you cant play and beat a game on normal the mode dev intends then you don't deserve to play any games
I would be ashamed of playing in easy mode.
>>727718950I don’t care what people play on, but playing on easy usually makes it so there’s no point in engaging with a lot of the mechanics that the game has to offer, since they just aren’t necessarily.I usually find that the best setting is whatever’s between medium and max difficulty (typically “hard”)
>>727718950Video games like every other art form are supposed to be whatever the creators intended.
>>727720409brother, there were people flying around murdering people with aimbot back in Socom 3 on PS2, even when the game required you to enter a credit card to verify your account to even play online. they've been able to cheat since online play came to consoles.
>>727722889socom 3 didnt use credit card for online it used it if you wanted to make a clani played socom 3 online and it didnt need a cc
>>727723048my mistake, you're right, it just locked you out of most of the online features. they eventually rolled it back, but it didn't deter early cheaters. I tried to play a few games back then but every single game had people just flying around, instantly killing people through walls. I never encountered any cheaters in the online-only PS3 Socom, so I got to enjoy it at least.
>>727718950>games are supposed to be[...]You can go kill yourself. Nobody gets to define what games are ''supposed'' to be.
>>727718950the lowest I'll play is normal mode and that's if it's a game I'm not terribly interested in but I want to at least complete. hard mode or above mandatory for any game I actually care about
>>727723456yea the ps3 socom was ok but wasnt that popular either, the grind for medals and trophys also killed off alot of players.didnt encounter cheaters in it either, i did in socom 1 and 2 but they were rare and near the end of the games life.i didnt play socom 3 very long it was too different then the previous gamesalso the other socom for ps3 died instantly since the month long offline hack.
>>727718950If you’re incompetent enough to press a button, how on earth will you actually do something that matters?
>>727718950Souls games have only got easier though?
>>727718950A reason to play Hard mode right away is because some contents in game is locked behind it. Picking any difficulty lower than hard will restrict your access, which requires you to do an NG+ run.Some Idea Factory/Compile Heart JRPG have these kind of post game restrictions.
>>727718950Why do people that play games only on easy mode need to reassure themselves that they play on easy mode? If you don't say anything no one will know at worst you just won't be able to participate in certain discussions about hard bosses
>player number goes down>enemy number goes upif this is your game i shall remain on easy mode
>>727718950I dont hate when other people play on easy mode, but for myself that played vidya for almost 20 years, normal in most games just feels like easy and then hard is normal. Very hard is actually hard. Also, when the game doesnt let you just breeze through it, you tend to remember it more than easy games that you completed on auto pilot.
there's nothing wrong with playing on easy modethere is a problem with someone getting uppity and acting like they have serious opinions and input on a game after only playing on easy mode
>>727718950Not a single good point has ever been made by anyone using this faggot ass meme template or picrel
/v/ is filled with people who egopost and pretend to be god gamers, but seethe collectively at anything remotely challenging during new releases. You faggots are annoying, loud and fraudulent "hardcore" gamers.
The thing is, most video games are not difficult. If someone needs an easy mode to beat a video game, their coordination must be awful. The only “difficulty” I think is valid to bitch about are MMOs and shit where you need 40 people organized, online at the same time, and all sticking to their role. That shit is much more difficult to pull off than any roll slop boss that you need to die to 20 times to beat.Really, many people out there are terrible at video games. And many more cheat so they can feel good about being good at them. Unfortunately, very few people actually know how to devote the time needed to actually get good at something.
playing on easy is like me saving the thumbmail in OP and scrolling down to the bottom of his thread and posting before even finishing writing t
>>727719873fucking basedtoo bad op probably doesn't believe what they're saying
>>727727365bet
this image gets posted here as bait because it's one of the top all time posts on /r/gamingt. have made this bait thread myself before
>>727718950People don't hate easy modes. People hate that so many people fail to acknowledge anything good in a game being difficult and think that you should be able to sleepwalk through any the game to just enjoy the plot.This might not make a lot of sense nowadays but in the late 2000s, a lot of game journos were making articles about how stuff like health meters, life systems and boss fights were obsolete shit just getting in the way of the game's plot and weakening gaming as an artform or whatever. Most best sellers back then were games in which hard modes sucked also and were just taking cover more often rather than a more hardcore and fast paced affair that led to very skilled play (compare the higher difficulties in Uncharted or CoD to Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry to get an idea of what I mean). Even so called retro indie games were stuff in which you would get checkpoints every minute so dying never meant that much compared to a game that crafts tension and challenge in a way that's more palpable.Dark Souls was one of the few games that broke that narrative and showed that a game can be challenging (shut up, it was harder than the average game of the time, I don't care if you found it to be easy or whatever contrarian BS you have against that game), compelling and successful so nowadays it isn't that rare to see games that are more difficult getting praised.tl;dr people don't hate easy modes, they hate how people who play on easy see difficult games as meaningless instead of just something that's not their cup of tea
>>727718950Not every game is attempting to have fun in the same way and if you don't understand that different games are trying to appeal to different people in different ways there isn't really any helping you because you are just unwilling to understand or incapable of seeing others points of view.the point of the some games, where the fun is, can be the challenge, so in those types of games difficulty modes at all, or "easy modes" as well directly goes against the entire point of them and there is a reason developers don't add them.
