Gaming question of the day. Should games that are intended by design to be challenging and difficult add an easy mode option. #gamingsky #question #questionoftheday - ThreadSky

mastercoden.bsky.social • 78 days ago

Gaming question of the day.

Should games that are intended by design to be challenging and difficult add an easy mode option.

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dextroduology.bsky.social•78 days ago

If it’s something like a souls like game yes.

And then lock it behind a $20 pay wall

oppy124.bsky.social•78 days ago

"Easy mode" No. Accessibility features? Yes.

kingnickolas.bsky.social•78 days ago

This

nickserpenta.bsky.social•78 days ago

This heavily depends on the game and where the challenge comes from. I hate when the difficulty comes solely from higher health. I will want an option to turn that off. If it's from the challenge of mastering the systems? Some options are nice for accessibility but I may not use them.

tensei.bardrockcafe.com•78 days ago

More options is always a good thing, as long as they are that. Options. Though it is never a bad thing for the developers to state what the intended way to play is. There's a game I'm highly appreciative of that has a difficulty called "We didn't playtest this."

1/2

tensei.bardrockcafe.com•78 days ago

HOWEVER, having said that I will always be a bigger fan of games with more granular difficulty and accessibility options (the Pathfinder crpgs, for example) instead of a simple difficulty slider.

jrblount.bsky.social•78 days ago

If the goal of the video game is to make as much money by as many people as possible than probably.

acatwithnoplan.bsky.social•78 days ago

I want to say yes. Cause I don’t have the time to “Git Gud” for every game. But I understand that the draw of these games Is the difficulty. Maybe do some MGS rules and the EZ mode unlocks nothing for completing the story. Just the story’s completion itself.

capsizebuyback.bsky.social•78 days ago

Yes, but disable achieves.

jiendo.bsky.social•78 days ago

I'd say "Yes" to this, as a vast majority of players who'd play these sorts of games could/would be (super?) casual & not have the time or patience to sit there for hours on end to work out what to do to progress further.

Adding an "Easy Mode" option would make it more forgiving & less stressful.

beeceejay.bsky.social•78 days ago

I have never understood the purpose of intentionally designing art such that a subset of its owners might not be able to ever enjoy it fully. If you're designing a game so difficult that it's conceivable that it could never be completed without those options, then yes, as accessibility features.

wagwoanimator.bsky.social•78 days ago

The best system would probably be something that modifies RNG and enemy stats/behaviors based on a user-defined preferred challenge level that adjusts as you play as opposed to blanket settings via easy, normal, and hard.

Tetris with only straight bars in play doesn't sound too engaging.

ninjacatmuffin.bsky.social•78 days ago

I think so. I don't think adding an extra mode or even difficulty sliders (in case you only find one mode of gameplay difficult) doesn't "take away" from a challenging game. The same goes for any accessibility feature

chuuppi.bsky.social•78 days ago

I don't think that games necessarily require an easy mode that you select before starting the game. Challenge can be added with optional content or there can be tools for players to overcome the challenges in different ways.

innkeeperwifey.vtubers.social•78 days ago

My thoughts on this are complicated. I see no harm in it and won't be upset if it happens, but if a game is designed to be very challenging I don't think it's needed. Not every game has to be as wide reaching as possible. As long it's an optional mode I don't mind either way though.

jessiez5.bsky.social•78 days ago

I'm kind of indifferent, I played Jedi Fallen Order on the hardest setting looking for a souls game and it felt good for me, but I acknowledge that some people don't have the same tastes or tolerances as I do. And to say that the point of DS or ER is that they are hard I feel is underselling then

jsglassbrook.bsky.social•78 days ago

No but I would argue that if your going to lock in the difficulty of a game then the priority should be expansive accessibility options. Let players set their controls to be as comfortable as possible if the game is going to be difficult by design.

Keep the door open, but don't pull punches.

invaderkota.bsky.social•78 days ago

Nah, it's up to the developer to bring their vision to life and if they wanted a game meant to challenge people so they can overcome it, that's up to them.

Gamers aren't really owed an easy mode. If the game is too hard and you don't want the challenge, then it isn't for you, you don't have to play

smartdaemon5.bsky.social•78 days ago

It’s really a choice of the development team, but to have an “easy mode” to introduce a newbie to the video game, in the form of a tutorial or an encyclopedia —ahem, Escape from Tarkov—, is a good addition.

It’s different for a video game to be hard from its design, than from a player’s ignorance.

thereisnowall.bsky.social•78 days ago

Yes, under the context of accessibility.

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