It doesn't make me any less of a gamer than you for playing on a lower difficulty
>>736879310If you're incapable of playing games on anything above easy mode then it definitely means you're bad. It's just there's nothing wrong with being bad in single-player games
If you are playing on a difficulty that doesn't challenge you in anyway you are negating the minimal benefits there are to playing video games and you might as well just watch it on youtube.Grow up manbaby.
>>736879310I only enjoying elden ring after I started using trainer.but I can't play it anymore because I can't figure out how open the trainer in the bg on linux.
>>736879310When I watch pewdiepies vlogs I get inanely sad and think this could be me but I just have OCD that revolves around video games and I wanna have a kid in Tokyo with a hot Italian wife
>time to play this video game, i hope nobody else on the planet is playing on a difficulty setting lower than mine- things nobody has ever thought to themselves at any point in time
>>736879310It does when you are a professional reviewer. They SHOULD be able to play a game well enough to understand the minute details in the core gameplay so that players know how much of a skill ceiling there is and how much replay value is in the games that are being reviewed.
>>736879823Its not even a hard game, genuinely do you have some kind of physical disability?
>>736879310Only applies to rhythm games to be honest. Normal mode or fuck off otherwise.
>move to japan to propagate white children with your white wifeFelix better have convinced his hot wife to do some threesomes with some japanese girls
I think less of you if you're an adult still playing on baby mode
>>736879461I'm capable of playing games on higher difficulties. I choose not to. My real life is stressful enough. I don't need to add simulated stress from video games. I'm looking for a comfy babymode distraction from life's problems.
>>736879310but easy mode is never fun
>You can't be bad at video games, as video games are merely a subject matter.>This is a deficit in your cognitive ability, something that likely plagues you in every aspect of your life.>In summary if you're bad at video games you're bad at life.
Meanwhile, the subject matter having fun:
>>736880746This checks out. Never met a rational, intelligent person that genuinely struggles with videogames
I can't believe any of the 10 people who played Fate/Extra played it on hard mode and had fun.
>>736879310>>736879461If you're not a fag, you will never talk shit about another person enjoying your hobby in the way they enjoy it. And if you look hard enough, you recognize that there's probably games where you are on the other side of this. Me? Shooters and action games I can play on very hard, racing games I can play on hard. Racing sims and RTS I gotta play on normal, and grand strategy? I gotta put it on easy probably. I'm not good at those. Probably all of us have a genre or a game where we just struggle. I played FTL on easy for ages before I got a win on normal. If you seethe because someone else needs an easier difficulty than you, Then why don't you play CS:2 against tournament winning pro players, see how much fun you have, playing on a difficulty you can't handle.
>>736879310easy mode in modern games is practically soft removing the fail state. The only way you would lose then is if you are literally a dog or cat with a controller.
>>736879310If you are having fun then why do you have to be so passive aggressive and need validation about it?
>>736880661don't care, go play games designed for casuals and be happy.don't come into genres known for being difficult and shitting yourself over them not being piss-easy like you were ever the target demographic
>>736880586>Italians are white?They never were anon. Italians were just Axis allied. (They never were white-supremacists unlike how some like to believe about the Mussolini Fascists. They were more open to non-wites and everyone being together for their country.)
>>736880974Did you not read my post? I said there's nothing wrong with playing on easy. I'm not great at fighting games, even against AI it's very rare I'm going to put the difficulty for those on super hard. I'm just saying that while it's fine to do so, you also have to acknowledge that lowering the difficulty does mean you aren't good at the game.
It's unethical to review a game in easy mode since you are not groomed to master the mechanisms and nuances to progress in the game. but. But that's the first rule professional reviewers break.
>>736879310If you buy a game play on whatever difficulty you want. Just be ready for people to make fun of you.If you pirate a game though you should have to play on the hardest difficulty.
>>736879310Easy is so braindead that you can't be a human and have fun with it.
>>736881072Epic meme. Epic for the win. The small hat alliance appreciates your support.
>>736881278>Oh no they usurped some jews that were running scams that must mean they are nazis.lol. Denounce talmud chudstein.
>>736881181It's also unethical to not play the game and then review it as if you have but that doesn't stop game journo's.
>>736880884Pathetic people accomplish things just so they get the feeling of having accomplish something.They will convince themselves that it's fun to beat a level or a boss even if it takes them 20 or 30 tries.All for a pathetic undeserved sense of accomplishment.
>>736881454/v/ hates games they haven't played
is playing a game on easy mode better than watching someone else play a game and saying you've experienced the game?
>>736881072north italians are germans, hth
>>736881578Easy mode is one step above being a secondary. Watching is one step below being a secondary.
>>736881678And??? Mafiosos were Sicilians? What point are you on about? Italy is a mix of people and ethnicities for a long time already ever since Rome since they imported bunch of slaves through conquests and trade.
>>736879310You play the difficulty you're capable ofPeople are really hung up about not being the best at everything, so they form all kinds of crazy copes about difficulty levelsThe entire point of interactive media like videogames is to practice and improve your own skills. You don't have to start in the deep end, and you don't have to get good, either.But everyone is a braggart, everyone is the best at everything, nobody can admit any kind of failing, so to admit you play a videogame at a lower difficulty is taken as an admission by retards that you suck and are incompetent at life in general.
>>736879310Just don't brag or pretend to be an expert and it's not a problem.
>>736881903>You play the difficulty you're capable ofTrue. If you're severely disabled then easy is fine.
>>736879310lower difficulties cheapen the discussion around the gametheres no prestige anymore cause everyone will do it eventually>oh my god you retard its just a gameuh huh
Why the fuck do people need self validation about the way they play video games? Fuck it you do you I don't give a shit how you play single player games.
>>736879310It does.But being less of a gamer doesn't make you any less of a person.This is the perspective you should look at it from.
>>736881110Almost like I agree with your premise.
>>736879310I have literally zero problem with people who play on easy mode. The problem is when they get asspained about it being called "easy mode" and demand the game gets tuned down as a whole, or demand games without difficulty modes get a special snowflake mode just for them. Aside from that, I also have problems with people that play easy mode but then use their easy mode clears as justification for being able to demand gameplay balance changes from the devs that affect all modes, because they didn't like their easy mode playthrough, but don't want to get good enough to play the game on normal as intended. So as it turns out I actually do have a lot of problems with all of you and you should all fuck off.
The only easy modes I play are in shmups, because those games are legitimately difficult and you have to be a turbo shmup autist to be able to get through normal on the first go. I eventually graduate to normal but I usually never go to hard or higher because those difficulties are actual masochistic bullshit for insane people. I do respect their right to exist thougheverbeitly.
>>736880884If by hard mode you mean using caster then fuck yea. I love my fox and logging the probabilities for each enemy pattern on paper was pretty fun.
>>736880974And if you're not a retard, you'll realise your dog shit opinion to go with your dog shit gaming abilities means your takes on whatever genre are worthless. I'm not going to go to said CS2 pros and cry that the game needs more training wheels, no, I need to either get better at it, or stop playing because this I'm clearly dog shit.>B-But it's fine so long as I have fun!Retards don't deserve to have fun. Frankly, the they should be aborted going up to the 72nd trimester, particularly if they insist on their takes being taken seriously.
>>736881072Why do you care? You're not white anyway.
>>736879310It does mean you don't like video games as much as people who play hard games. They're doing the same as you, just having fun, but the variety of games they play is several times larger because they're better than you.
>>736879310If you're not a fag, you will never talk shit about another person enjoying your hobby in the way they enjoy it.And if you look hard enough, you recognize that there's probably games where you are on the other side of this. Me? Shooters and action games I can play on very hard, racing games I can play on hard. Racing sims and RTS I gotta play on normal, and grand strategy? I gotta put it on easy probably. I'm not good at those.Probably all of us have a genre or a game where we just struggle. I played FTL on easy for ages before I got a win on normal.If you seethe because someone else needs a harder difficulty than you, Then why don't you play CS:2 against bots, see how much fun you have, playing on a difficulty kids can handle.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying a challenge, but the game maker is just placating your need for a sense of accomplishment in life.and that is kinda sad an pathetic, as appose to someone that just plays for entertainment.
>>736885038Entertainment and fun are relative to the skill level of the player. If you were good at the game, you'd have more fun.
>>736885168lol lmao even
A redditor will make this image in 5 minutes and get like 100 upboats, a 4channer will see that and repost it daily for 6 years.
>>736879461Unless higher difficulty means bullet sponge, that's just terrible game design made to bloat your time
>he plays on easy mode
>>736879310Didn't this Nordcuck move to Japan lmaoSo much for muh superior white civilisations. We all know when you don't have blacks around then whites default as the niggers
>>736879310Here's a real hot take: I think all games should purely be judged on the easiest difficulty. It's the game's job to prevent me from winning, and if it lets me select Baby Mode and still get the best ending, then the game should be treated as a baby girl game and ignored. Don't want me to think its easy? Take away the easy difficulty and force me to play the game.
>>736883263Crimzon Clover easy mode 1cc is genuinely one of my prouder gaming achievements. If you know, you know.
>>736884426Anon you are retarded. CS2 is playble CLEARLY because it has a system that prevents the game from being too difficult.And I think if you weren't such a dumbass, you would recognize that a CS2, that always pitted you against the hardest possible opponents, would be a fucking nightmare. Just as you know you wouldn't want to actually play a game where NPC enemies headshot the milisecond your melon is visible to them. Because you know you would never get to actually play the game. And you can apply this to almost every game ever. Has there ever been a game, where you anon, played on anything other than the highest possible difficullty? Did you maybe only beat DMC3 on Hard, instead of Dante Must Die? Did you beat Halo games in LASO? Did you beat Civ V on Deity? Xcom on Legendary Ironman? (and maybe long war). Imagine any game you had to play on less than highest difficulty, and how annoyed you'd be if it forced you to play on that difficulty. Imagine playing Diablo and only being allowed to make a hardcore character.
>>736879310Play whatever you want, but I think easy mode in most games just makes 'em boring and tedious instead of engaging and fun.
Easy mode players are the biggest attention whores. Nobody cares that they play on Easy but they crave validation for taking the easy way out and feel offended when no one is impressed.
>>736879310oh boy an eceleb Reddit thread
>>736879310it's fascinating how he's seen as both giga reddit and giga racisthow do you even get to that point?
You legitimately miss portions of story levels if you don't play hard in timesplitters
>>736885889He got away with saying nigger on stream because hes a handsome swede
>>736885889Beyond good and evil
>>736879310It makes you a pussy and a faggot.
>>736879310Yes it does, if you legitimately cant play a game on its base difficulty you shouldn't be playing games period.
>>736879310I'd be interested to know if any game actually has a good easy mode. Any time I've tried an easy mode out of curiosity it's just been such a cakewalk that it didn't even seem like you had to engage with the mechanics, which isn't fun at all.
>>736885694CS2 has a matchmaking system that matches you to an appropriate challenge (or tries to) you fucking retard, not whatever you find most "fun".>you NEED to play on the highest difficulty I never said that. I said if you're playing easy mode (and arguably normal if the game is actually balanced around a higher difficulty) that you're A. dog shit and B. Don't have criticism worth listening to.You've done little to sway me on either point.
>>736880746which sseth video is that line from? i cant find it on google anywhere
>>736886494Easy mode should be a way for a player to get used to controls, mechanics, etc. while still making progress in the game. When the player has no experience with videogames or a specific genre its a good way to start there and don't get frustrated with the lack of progress, maybe leading to the player dropping the game. For example, when I played my first music rhythn game (Guitar Hero 2) I played in easy until I felt the songs were getting too easy, still I had fun completing my first songs in that difficulty and eventually moving to medium, hard, expert. Maybe rhythm games are a special genre for difficulties, but I feel that should be the general goal in all games that include them.
>>736887017The Elden ring one I think.
All games should:1) Have the ability to change the difficulty mode on-the-fly.2) Track a save profile's difficulty usage per level/game area/mission/etc. over time.3) Make this information publicly available with no option for the player to turn it off.4) Actively foster a culture of cyberbullying people that refuse to try and complete sections on higher difficulties.
>>736887174And no bullet sponges
>>736879310What is this 2010? fuck off faggot, you are bad at games or maybe even you dont care about it that much you are just a FOMO fag trying to be part of it
It does make you bad. Why do you care though?
>>736879310Nah, easy modes were made for the modern audiences, they made it so subhuman mouthbreathers like you can cope, the devs literally made this mode to be able to squish some money out of a bunch of downies.
>>736879310i don't hate easy mode for elitist reasons. But easy mode in most games is too easy to be enjoyable, there generally needs to be some amount of challenge in order to have fun.I mean i guess minecraft peaceful mode would be an exception, but that's just because I hate minecraft's combat and literally just want to mindlessly strip mine without thinking too much.
>>736882042>theres no prestige anymoreit's a fucking game dude
>>736880746i just got old and now my brain has a one second latency, i wasn't always like this. The cognitive debuff is just being in my late 20s.
Everyone here is bad because everyone uses the fucking wiki when they play a new souls game.
>>736879310Playing all strategy and some RPG games on higher difficulties are usually time wasting bullshit.All 4x and total war games have Ai that cheats, and you usually play the game in a very rigid manner. Usually defensive, and a specific way to exploit the AI. Theres little choice in strategy in the STRATEGY game.
>>736879310It is okay to play on easy, but that doesn't mean every game needs or should have an easy mode.
>>736889571Uh huh
it's telling of intelligenceresearch shows game performance and IQ have a positive correlationanecdotally true in my experience
>>736879310WTF
>>736880287It's because of this that devs have to vanity size their difficulties.>Normal Mode>Hard Mode>Legendary Mode>Super Mega Extreme Mode
easytards trying to cope, video games are meant to give challenges otherwise go the fuck outside
>>736879461Wonder how many people would agree with me in that it is better to be bad at a game than to cut out 90% of the content of a game and treat it as if it is the intended way to play. Smash Bros, Dark Souls and such. Only time I think a "bad" player could objectively know more about a given game than the elitists who is coping with the idea that they are somehow better for intentionally playing the game wrong.
>>736879310As long as easy mode still requires you to actually play, yes, you are right. However, if it is a story/journalist easy mode where you can ignore all the mechanics and just tap a single button mindlessly to advance, then you are absolutely less of a gamer. To be a gamer you have to actually play the game.
>>736879310Is this the worst meme format ever? Including the Lisa and Kirby versions. These have to be the worst. Can't think of anything worse and so... Retarded.
>>736879310I used to disagree with this... now I wake up at 5AM and come back home at 8PM on most days, I barely have time in my life to do things like drawing, playing video games and posting on imageboards, so I have to optimize that time as much as I can, being able to play on easier settings and replay sections less, play more unique titles... it's good for my experience.I saw the light.
>>736880586It's either or have her sleep with his government mandated bull (quintessentially swedish)
For me it's ninomae ina'nis
>>736879310If you really believed that you wouldn't have to say so to reassure yourself.
