Confess! Games you play on easy. - by Bucky Seifert
Bucky Seifert on 10/1/2018 at 20:09
Time to fess up, taffers. What games or genres do you typically play on easy?
I am currently playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 on Explorer mode, because I'm in it more for the role playing than brutal combat. I also tend to play real time strategy games on easy because while I like RTS games, I tend to suck at them. I'm also playing Bayonetta on easy because I find I'm just not very good at spectacle fighters =x
And then there is many 16 bit platformers. I suck at 2D platformers,and when the option is presented, I almost always play it on easy. I know, shameful!
I also set System Shock 1's combat difficulty to one >.>
WingedKagouti on 10/1/2018 at 20:27
It depends on my mood and expectations of the game, but I have no issues playing on Easy if I just want to experience the story or just want to get a taste of the game as a whole. If I just want to sit down an destress, playing a turn based or slow paced real time strategy game on the easier difficulty levels tends to be a good option for me.
If a game is worth playing, it's worth playing on any difficulty setting.
Jeshibu on 10/1/2018 at 20:37
All the Silent Hill games I've played (2 - 4). I really don't care for the combat in them, and 3's literary puzzles on puzzle difficulty > easy can fuck right off, as can the invincible ghosts from 4.
Renzatic on 10/1/2018 at 20:40
Not always. I hate games, specifically FPSes and RPGs, who just make enemies damage sponges on higher difficulty. I prefer the Doom approach, where higher difficult means a greater amount of faster enemies to face off against.
And yeah, I played Divinity OS 2 on Explorer Mode. Though most games I play on normal or hard, depending.
Jason Moyer on 10/1/2018 at 20:49
I play most games on "normal" (or with rules-heavy RPG's, whatever is considered balanced) but immersive sims get cranked to 11 because they're so much better that way.
In the 90's, when I was way more interested in girls than games, I played a lot of classics like Quake or whatever on "easy" just to get through them quickly.
Zerker on 10/1/2018 at 21:15
Some turn-based strategy games or simulation games I've played on easy. Jagged Alliance 2 is hard enough even on the basic difficulty. I'm also playing some of Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon right now, but since I'm new to it, I don't really want to get into the competition shenanigans and just want to build my railway :D
Pyrian on 10/1/2018 at 21:16
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.
Jason Moyer on 10/1/2018 at 21:21
I really need to go back and play the more recent Civ and XCOM games on easy like you're supposed to when you start out. I think immediately jumping to the most balanced difficulty is part of the reason I kinda bounced off them.
McTaffer on 10/1/2018 at 21:28
Far Cry 1. Easy difficulty is the only way I've been able to get through it, because if you alert one person, you alert them all. People shooting you through walls (without any line of sight, I might add) is cheap no matter what, but it's a little more bearable when you don't constantly get instakilled for daring to walk by a tent full of dudes with x-ray vision that immediately open fire without even seeing you.
Malleus on 10/1/2018 at 21:50
I play every game on Easy unless it's a stealth game, or has stealth as a viable option (like Deus Ex or even Crysis) in which case I usually pump it up to max. Otherwise I'm not interested in difficult combat, but if I happen to like it that much then I switch to higher difficulties for the second playthrough and so. That's how I ended up finishing, for example, Metal Gear Rising on the hardest difficulty.
