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Drinvictus, do gaming w Game Introduces Easy Mode Called “I’m 35 and Have One Hour to Play This”

Yes please. I have a kid. I can’t die 20 times to a boss just so I can learn its moves and defeat it.

Annoyed_Crabby,

I tried Lies of P recently, made it to the first boss, and i just quit. This coming from someone who play dark souls, that boss is just too spongy and i have no patient to get through that, i have not much time to game anyway.

So i just get back to Project Zomboid.

lowleveldata,

That’s the fun part tho. Either that or the game is just boring and can’t even sustain the play time required to beat the boss. In that case don’t bother, play a more enjoyable game.

omgarm,

Figuring out how to beat a boss and execute that strategy is always fun. It just depends on if it’s Zelda where you do it without ever going down or Dark Souls where one mistake can end your attempt.

ParsnipWitch,

That’s not the fun part for everybody, though.

lowleveldata,

What kind of games are we talking about? For action games like Furi it should be the fun part

Okalaydokalay, do gaming w Game Introduces Easy Mode Called “I’m 35 and Have One Hour to Play This”

My friends’ 13 year daughter thought it was so weird I never encountered the Ender Dragon or any real enemies in Minecraft. I never play on anything harder than peaceful. Because after working all day, I just want to explore a randomly generated world and create stuff sometimes.

Jimbo,
@Jimbo@yiffit.net avatar

I never did ender dragon cause’ it was added after I was already done with the game in beta times lol

HanlonsButterknife,

Same lol. I actually went back for the mobile version and all this stuff with enchanting and villages it’s like an entirely different game

Excrubulent,
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net avatar

I had more or less gotten over the game when the ender dragon was added. It was too grindy and slow and I felt like I could never get far enough to even approach the end. Then I joined a server where they had a bunch of infrastructure already set up. Suddenly I had access to enchantments and elytra and the game became super accessible, and I discovered just how much faster and more fun the game is now with all the incremental improvements. It’s given me something to play with my kids.

QuoteNat,

I only ever do the ender dragon on multiplayer with friends so I don’t have to do the grind leading up to it.

Annoyed_Crabby,

Lol, i never did as well and i play normal, but because i just don’t have the patient to go that far. Gods know how many time i’ve create a new world now, same for terraria but at least i made it to plantera.

Also yes very tired after work.

VoxAdActa,

I hate how playing in peaceful locks you out of crafting a bunch of very useful items. Since bone chips and slime balls only come from monsters, I can’t make my plants grow big and pretty with bone meal or make a lead rope for my horse. I’m sure there are other examples, but those are the two I care about the most, lol.

wizardbeard,

Mods my man. Minecraft is definitely a game to play on PC.

Okalaydokalay,

This is partly why I also play on Creative, usually. But yeah, would like to have the Survival - Peaceful playthrough and still get everything craftable too.

Granted, you can find some of this stuff in chests and randomly throughout the world while playing Survival - Peaceful, which is kind of part of the fun for me when exploring dungeons and villages and the spawning mansions.

banana_meccanica, do gaming w Game Introduces Easy Mode Called “I’m 35 and Have One Hour to Play This”

This is how gaming dies. Easy mode should be forbitten as default and game should be always at hardest diffuculty and focus on challenging content and not grind. Hard challenges keep everyone busy, dosnt matter if you have infinite free time if you suck gaming. That should be the direction of a real game and not this no sense cringe “don’t have time to farm, here pay 80$ for your season-extraExp-bigEzRewards”. Fucking ridicoulus. Fucking Devs should actually rewarding the player who spend little time that the fucking no life grinder. Damn make % base drop chance -10% chance of legendary loot for each hour of the day log inside the game and gg.

Navarian,

I’m unsure if this is satire.

kiddblur,

Feels like a copypasta

artillect,
@artillect@kbin.social avatar

It is one now

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Still gonna downvote like it is. Poe’s Law and all that.

Virkkunen,
@Virkkunen@kbin.social avatar

I've googled and couldn't find this anywhere, and this user's comments are quite in line with what they've posted now, so I'd go for stupidity and gatekeeping over copypastaing

Fizz,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

Easy mode should only be for movie games

banana_meccanica,

They will find the way to complain even for that. Cutscenes too long please nerf. What? I need to press button during the scene? Everything is screw in a big pretending because be a gamer is cool, goddamit.

ReCursing,
@ReCursing@kbin.social avatar

Wow, that's a... take I guess

SpicyPeaSoup,
@SpicyPeaSoup@kbin.social avatar

One of the takes of all time, for sure.

Chozo,

This is one of the opinions of all time.

tekchic,

Here's your gate to keep. I think you dropped it.

stopthatgirl7,
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  • HubertManne,
    @HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

    thats just crazy enough to work!

    DominicO,

    mmorpg sweats be like:

    Glide,

    Damn make % base drop chance -10% chance of legendary loot for each hour of the day log inside the game and gg.

    Man, for someone who wants things to be “hard”, you really want to be rewarded for time spent, as opposed to skill. Hilariously, you’re the target audience for those $80 content skips: people who want to feel like they’re good, whether or not they’re actually good.

    You’re out here talking about “no sense cringe” while posting nearly illegible drivel about how you feel entitled to success because you have more hours to kill. Step back, get some perspective. Most people have made their time valuable. It’s not on them if you’ve failed to do the same.

    HubertManne,
    @HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

    Id be screwed because im one of those annoying twats who log in and afk just to keep abreast of chat until I get some time to play.

    tangelo,

    I think you missed the minus sign there and misread this, I will translate it: "The chance for rare loot to drop should be continuously reduced by 10% for every hour you log inside the game. I.e., you should receive rewards for completing difficult challenges rapidly, that is, skillfully." The implication seems to be that if the challenge is hard and you are not good at it, and are just throwing yourself at a wall repeatedly, or the challenge is non-existent/mindless (chore simulator), if you are repetitively doing either and grinding hours away, they are one and the same, and neither is a meritorious achievement. I think this is an interesting angle, as very few games reward skill expression or eureka moments as a momentous achievement. The vast majority, genre and budget irrespective, rely on the (easier to implement) crutch of locking progression behind pointless tedium, so given enough hours sunk in, everyone can win. It is interesting to think about how, whether, and under what conditions games could reward the above.

    Stillhart,

    You imply that easy mode = grind. I’m not sure why, they have nothing to do with each other. You can grind hard content just as much as easy content.

    Tearcell,
    @Tearcell@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

    @banana_meccanica @trashhalo man you sound like me 25 years ago lol

    I did grow out of it.

    banana_meccanica,

    Twentyfive years ago exactly when most of the game have stopped to be competitive. Now go to work grown man that loot boxes don’t pay by itself.

    watchdog,
    @watchdog@kbin.social avatar

    I actually agree with what you’re trying to say about microtransactions cheapening competitive games. It’s why I stopped playing competitive games altogether, but introducing proper casual modes for singleplayer or PvE co-op games for no additional cost to increase accessibility only helps increase the number of potential players. The existance of casual modes does not have any correlation with competitive games or takes away from another player’s time invested into the same game, and it will not cause the “death” of video games. The reason why people are disagreeing with you is because you’re blaming other players as the cause when it’s actually corporate greed with overinflated MTX and excessive season pass shit that’s truely killing the industry.

    banana_meccanica,

    Corporation actually make their decision on how players approach the videogames, this greed is accept and even need it by exactly this kind of consideration about making game relativity easy. Competition isn’t the only enemy as mine opinion, it’s this approach to gaming that makes everyone want to win easy and fast because “it is fun” till the next game, because games dies in weeks, even days, after realise. The best game of this lastest years was Elder ring, not an easy game but still love by all. People are hypocrites who cries about having bad games and when you ask them what they want you realize that actually they wanna the bad garbage they deserve. I’m sure what a good game needs for be fun, and its the challenge, something we will never find by keep accepting trash or telling others to be gate keeping of stuff, that mean never understand what actually a gate is, looking for quality dies on this and always will.

    Sentinian, do gaming w Game Introduces Easy Mode Called “I’m 35 and Have One Hour to Play This”
    @Sentinian@lemmy.one avatar

    I know this is satire but I would definitely play a mode like this. I may only be 20 but a 10 hour shift plus nearly 2 hour train rides kill me

    freeman,

    I mean many games usually have an easy mode.

    I frequently play on it.

    milkytoast,
    @milkytoast@kbin.social avatar

    yeah I'm glad I've kind of let myself play in easy, I enjoy games much more that way

    oo1,

    I'm too young to die

    Zapp,

    IDDQD

    squaresinger,

    Totally agreed!

    SamPond,
    @SamPond@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    I only realized it was satire after I opened the thread and saw it was HardDrive, not only did it feel something a game would do (probably a New Blood game) but I was also genuinely stoked

    Zapp,

    Indeed! I wish they would standardize this mode and add it as an icon to the back of the game box.

    Edit: Also I’m old enough that I think of games as coming in boxes, still…

    fox,

    The Steam Deck might be just the thing for your commute.

    Sentinian,
    @Sentinian@lemmy.one avatar

    I actually have both a deck and a switch. I’m just too tired before and after work to play on my commute.

    Zapp,

    I feel you.

    I have found that searching for game reviews with the term “Cozy Gamer” finds games that fit into that after work funk, for me, when I have that time.

    wildeaboutoskar,
    @wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.org avatar

    Great tip, first thing I found was this which is definitely right up my street

    HidingCat,

    It's not just about difficulty though; some games are designed to be really long. Looking at some of the RPGs out there, like Divinity: Original Sin.

    Sentinian,
    @Sentinian@lemmy.one avatar

    Play a lot of jrpgs, I understand that too well. My playthrough of persona 5 has been going since the beginning of this year and I’m hardly halfway through the story

    lemann,

    That sounds rough… hang in there man

    wizardbeard,

    Dear god. I burned out around your age with a similar work schedule. Less commute but more work hours. Took me years to recover.

    If your situation allows, please find yourself a better work and commute setup. Your boss isn’t going to care that you’re dying inside, especially when they’ve grown accustomed to everything you get done running yourself ragged. If you can, start doing less at work so you have energy to search for other jobs.

    In some workplaces, it’s actually better to let things slip so your boss can push for more manpower.

    Sentinian,
    @Sentinian@lemmy.one avatar

    My situation is lucky not the worst. I am currently going to a technical school for medical work. And when I actually am at the place I work in it’s hardly “working” much at all, a good number of days I literally can watch an movie between cases.

    Honestly most of the feeling dead is the commute, which unfortunately I don’t have many options for, can’t drive plus no other job I find offers nearly as much as I make (coupled with the fact that this quite literally the only job of its kind in the area).

    I also get along very well with my team (literally no drama) and management is pretty nonexistent and we all take a firm stand when they do.

    I very much appreciate the concern however

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