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[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Sometimes I even set the difficulty to Easy to really chill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one! Though if I play something for a second time I do tend to up the difficulty a bit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

A lot of times I start out with Normal difficulty, and a game eventually escalates its difficulty past what I am capable of delivering. At which point I find that the only way to change the difficulty is to start over, so I uninstall it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Sometimes I'll get the trainer so I can chill and feel like a badass. I could "Git gud" or better yet ill take infinite ammo and no reload and relaxingly kill everything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

if game difficulty gets to the point the tedium takes the joy out of it, nothing wrong with easy mode.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait, you play games to have fun and not as a duty? What about "pride and accomplishment"? ;)

The moment I embraced easy mode was when Assassin's Creed Odyssey was like: "Is the gameplay we designed for our single player game too tedious? Then buy some legendary items with IRL money or maybe our XP cheat!"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I hate that games started designing around microtransactions. Like who thought "hey let's take the worst parts of MMOs and put them into single player". I loved AC origins and was so looking forward to odyssey and then I just bounced off it within a few hours because so much of it just felt like doing chores.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Everyone who looked at how much money WoW was pulling in without having to churn out game after game and figured out why

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Extra bonus: Odyssey was supposed to feature a female lead, rather than the choice, but a misogynistic Ubisoft exec vetoed it, which I can only assume was reason for the absolutely garbage dialog.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The suits did. You know, so the line goes up. Because we're all gonna die otherwise or something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And replay games I already know by heart. I can start a new game or....... play Starfox 64 again. "Do a barrel roll".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

StarFox 64 is so perfect in that arcade-game way, where you can technically finish it in a sitting but it's so cool to figure out different paths and stuff. :D

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I had not seen it, that was pretty cool.

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