Confess! Games you play on easy. - by Bucky Seifert
Nameless Voice on 10/1/2018 at 22:16
I'm incredibly stubborn and play almost everything on the hardest difficulty.
Yes, Far Cry 1. I remember that being especially hard. I beat it on the hardest difficulty. The Witcher 2, yes, I completed that on Dark difficulty.
Sometime I regret not being able to play things on lower difficulties even if they might actually be more fun.
The only thing I can remember playing on easy was Anachronox, because everyone told me to and seriously that combat was bad enough as it was.
For me, it's probably "confess to games that I played on Normal".
That list usually includes things where difficulty just makes bullet-sponges - I wouldn't play later Elder Scrolls games on anything but the default difficulty.
I also went for Normal in Divinity: Original Sin, since Tactician just made the already-poor combat system extremely unfair rather than tactical.
Maybe a case could be made for Civ4, which I always tried to play on Noble, and could never actually win once even though Noble is a fairly-low difficulty listed as what you should play at if you've played a Civ game before.
demagogue on 10/1/2018 at 23:38
FTL since I'm more interested than making deep progress than being challenged, at least until I get the other ships back (I'm on a new computer now than I originally played it) to make normal difficulty interesting.
Volitions Advocate on 11/1/2018 at 03:43
Ghouls 'n Ghosts (or Ghosts 'n Goblins for the arcadey folks), For a game that once you beat it tells you to replay the whole thing to get one more item for the end boss at the next difficulty up.. yeah I started on Easy.
Some games you couldn't even play on easy. Castle of Illusion for instance, where the easy mode was called "practice" and only let you play 3 stages. Or Golden Axe for doing the same thing.
More modern: I've already played through them, and a friend of mine hasn't. So we're playing the whole Metal Gear Solid series together. On Easy... because fuck having to not die during Ocelots torture 6 times instead of 2 or 3.
icemann on 11/1/2018 at 03:45
If they put an easy mode into Dead Cells, I'd do that just to see what ACTUALLY happens when you beat the "final" boss.
henke on 11/1/2018 at 06:35
Quote Posted by Pyrian
Let's see. My first game of Invisible Inc was on Easy, but that was too easy. I started FTL on easy, as everybody should, and there are some ships I still find are only fun on Easy.
Same.
If I'm replaying a game I've already mastered I might also turn down the difficulty. Starting my 3rd playthrough of
The Last Of Us I turned it down to Normal or Easy. I already beat the game on the hardest difficulty so I don't have anything to prove, just wanna enjoy the trip!
WingedKagouti on 11/1/2018 at 08:24
Quote Posted by icemann
If they put an easy mode into Dead Cells, I'd do that just to see what ACTUALLY happens when you beat the "final" boss.
They've put 3 levels of "even harder" into the game, so I guess they consider the current default to be easy mode...
Malf on 11/1/2018 at 15:33
Most of the time, I play games on the hardest difficulty available, or one below (occasionally).
The best games that allow you to choose play completely differently at harder difficulties, and some even lock content behind playing on hard (a practise I'm less enamoured with).
Civ and other strategy games though? Yeah, they usually get played on normal and occasionally Easy.
But I have another dirty secret.
I have a Cheat Engine problem that affects my gaming in cycles. Like in a lot of RPGs, the economies and weight management systems are usually utter bullshit, so I end up using Cheat Engine to give me effectively infinite cash. Or improve stats in a game that dishes them out too slowly, or that locks conversation options behind stat scores.
I don't do this all the time, but I'll happily use it to bypass what I perceive as being a bullshit design decision on behalf of the developer.
Along similar lines, I don't think I've ever played an un-modded game of XCOM 2. While I love the mission phases, I find the Geoscape phase to be frustrating and overly punishing. So I use mods to give me extra engineers and scientists, or extra resources, or extra weapons, etcetera, etcetera.
The thing is?
In very few cases has this diminished my enjoyment of the games I've used cheat mods or Cheat Engine in. And the times it has (like where I completely broke all sense of progression in Rogue Legacy), it's taught me valuable lessons on how developers balance their games, and how they could better do so. And also, when not to cheat.
I never cheat in a multiplayer game mind you. But that's less an issue these days when I'm mostly looking for cooperative multiplayer experiences rather than competitive ones.
Oh, and I always, always exploit the first caravan in a Dwarf Fortress game by waiting for them to unpack all their shit then deconstructing the depot. But fuck it, that's DF, and that's hard enough as it is :)
Tony_Tarantula on 11/1/2018 at 16:48
Dark Souls.
Neb on 11/1/2018 at 20:32
Most of the time I spend gaming now is with a podcast/talk on and the game's master volume down to around 5%, music off, subtitles on. If it's an action game, then difficulty is set to easy.
I can't seem to focus entirely on either a podcast or a game in isolation, so both together is how I roll now. It's bliss.
N'Al on 11/1/2018 at 21:22
The one game I purposefully stuck on easy was Dragon Age Origins cause I wanted to avoid the game's flash mobs and focus on the story. I feel that was the right approach.
Other than that, I only ever play games on easy second or third time through - first run is always normal or hard, game depending.