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What games would you recommend others to just play on easy difficulty (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am making my way through Yakuza series right now and while playing 5 I realized that I am not that invested into the game’s combat, so I turned it to easy and that just streamlined the combat so much for me. I would recommend to maybe try Yakuza 0 on normal at first and then just switch it to easy if you feel like the gameplay might be dragging on.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (15 children)

I think easy game modes take away what a great game makes a great game. I'm not sure if I can explain this with words, but if you are going to play on easy, then it means you don't want to play. At that point, its probably not a game for you. I'm talking across all kind of genres and type of games. However, if a game is unfair or badly designed, that is the moment when I would recommend using easy mode. And it depends on how the difficulty scaling is implemented. Some easy modes are really dumb and take away the core principles of the game, while others are very intelligently realized.

Your example is a great example of what I meant by that. You are not interested into the combat, therefore made it easy so it does not get in your way. You didn't turn it down because its unfair. What happens is, you are actively playing a game, which you don't want to. I don't know what exactly scales in that game, so maybe its not a bad easy mode at all, but can't judge the game.

I'm currently playing Metal Gear Solid 5 for the first time (just played a few hours on launch and now I'm back to it) on normal difficulty. The game can be brutal at times and there were multiple moments when I almost quit the game. Yet I did not turn easy mode, and now I'm happy that I overcome the challenge naturally. And that's what I mean. I you turn the game to easy mode, then you get into these habits of not solving the challenges.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or maybe they just don't have fast reflexes so easy is... easier. My wife almost never plays on normal because she can't.

If she plays on normal, she will never finish the game and be so frustrated that it will cause her not to enjoy her evening. She works a lot and needs to de-stress when she gets home, so playing on easy is the best way for her.

Stop judging people. Just play your game and enjoy it.

[+] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If the opinion is "playing on easy means you don't actually want to play," I'm gonna give it the criticism it deserves.

Let me have my opinion. Why even leave your comment if you are pro-opinions?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm just expressing my opinion and give recommendations. Do what you want, its your experience that is ruined, not mine. Geez people need to calm down, its a discussion. No need to get personally attacked.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do what you want, its your experience that is ruined, not mine.

The fact that you believe there's a single way to play a game is so fucking hilarious when stuff like speed-running and challenges exist. Oh well. Enjoy your purist bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

We weren't talking about speed-running or challenges. And I made clear its not the only way to play a game, but for people who don't want to play the game as intended. Its a totally different and degraded experience, because the game is designed in a certain way. Therefore I do not recommend using easy mode... unless (and I made that clear before too) game is unfair or badly designed or if you don't want to play the game anyway, and just enjoy cut scenes.

I'm not attacking you or judging you, I try to protect the worse experience for from you and encourage to actually learn to play the game. If you don't wan to play the game like that, then maybe easy mode is for you. Or play another game. It's not my choice its yours, I don't take your choice away!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Ah so speedrunning and challenges, which are arguably harder, is fine? Speedrunning and exploiting glitches A-OK? But easy mode because I'm 44 and don't react like I did at 19, that's ruining the experience? Doesn't make sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The OP does not talk about speedrun and challenges. The one guy in the comments just changed the discussion topic. And even if so, Speedrunning and exploiting glitches has nothing to do with playing the game as intended or the experience of the game. And yes off course speedrunning ruin the experience of the game, as it is not playing the game as intended (unless it is specifically a speedrun game, but that is an exception and not our topic). That is a whole another topic and has nothing to do with our discussion and has nothing to do with the initial OP topic.

The OP asks what games to play on easy and which games he recommends, and I told him what I recommend or when I do not recommend playing them. It doesn't make sense to you, because you are conflicting different issues with the topic. Speedrun is not our discussion (that guy just started talking about it).

Mind you, the point the OP brought was to use easy mode because he does not like or find the combat engaging. Therefore he does not want to play the combat (and by extension the game as it is intended). How can you guys read and interpret all kind of nonsense and start flaming?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

You do seem to be simplifying what a game is, though. Boiling it down to what is "intended". If easy difficulty was created and put into the game by the developer, is it not intended?

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