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Topic	I'll never understand the disdain towards Easy Modes
UnfairRepresent 02/28/21 1:17:36 PM #104:	Gladius_ posted... Does it matter? Fact is there's demand for that kinda game. Yeah and it's dumb and toxic. Sure. They probably would and such arguments would be ridiculous. At the same time if you have a game franchise with difficulties and take them away people would get angry as well. To me games are a hobby they aren't a life for me. Me too. Which is why I find these attitudes such as yours to be totally puzzling. The only argument that matters is if it's the developer's vision. If it sells well their vision was correct in the eyes of the consumer. If it sells poorly then it was a terrible decision. This is literally all that matters. Why do you get to decide that? Why is no one allowed to criticize something for sucking? ViewtifulGrave posted... I think its people like the TC in this thread that annoy people. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/241157-control/78659446 Why? Why would Control having a easy mode effect you at all? EnvoyOfTheLight posted... Guy in the video is dumb as heck. If it forced the suit on you, that's one thing, but you don't have to touch the block at all. Exactly lightwarrior78 posted... I really yet to see an argument for it that wasn't rooted in either FOMO (Oh no, my life is ruined because I can't see the end of this video game) and/or a willful desire to maintain the illusion of achievement brought by playing the game (having to "beat" Cuphead themselves rather than just watching the ending on youtube). Both start getting very childish in my eyes. Games are supposed to be fun, but if you're only having fun if you're winning, you have issues. There are a lot of games I never beat from back in the day, and while I'll never beat Zombies ate my Neighbors, I have fun every failed attempt. If I stop having fun playing the game, it really isn't hurting me in any way to not finish it and just move onto something else. Others seem to have problems with that and try to hide being a bad loser and their frustration at not being immediately good at something under some idea that their owed beating a game on their terms. At best, it's annoying and arrogant how people act at even that tiny level of being told no to that. At worst, it worries me at a cultural level as it seems we have a culture being bred to cry about having to face any challenge or minor hardship, and I wonder how a life of such "easy modes" have really not prepared people to face even a tiny inconvenience. Games are amusements If a guy can have fun on an optional easy mode that is objectivey superior to them having to quit and no longer have fun solely because that's what you did and you're terrified of chage. And no, a dude playing Metal Gear Solid 3 on Easy doesn't meant he is not "Prepared for inconviences in real life." that's absurd. --- ^ Hey now that's completely unfair! https://imgur.com/yPw05Ob <cite>UnfairRepresent posted [p:951181807] in I'll never... [t:79319659]...</cite> <quote>Gladius_ posted... </cite> <quote>Does it matter? Fact is there's demand for that kinda game.</quote> Yeah and it's dumb and toxic. <quote> Sure. They probably would and such arguments would be ridiculous. At the same time if you have a game franchise with difficulties and take them away people would get angry as well. To me games are a hobby they aren't a life for me.</quote> Me too. Which is why I find these attitudes such as yours to be totally puzzling. <quote> The only argument that matters is if it's the developer's vision. If it sells well their vision was correct in the eyes of the consumer. If it sells poorly then it was a terrible decision. This is literally all that matters.</quote>Why do you get to decide that? Why is no one allowed to criticize something for sucking? ViewtifulGrave posted... </cite> <quote>I think its people like the TC in this thread that annoy people. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/241157-control/78659446</quote> Why? Why would Control having a easy mode effect you at all? EnvoyOfTheLight posted... </cite> <quote>Guy in the video is dumb as heck. If it forced the suit on you, that's one thing, but you don't have to touch the block at all.</quote>Exactly lightwarrior78 posted... </cite> <quote>I really yet to see an argument for it that wasn't rooted in either FOMO (Oh no, my life is ruined because I can't see the end of this video game) and/or a willful desire to maintain the illusion of achievement brought by playing the game (having to "beat" Cuphead themselves rather than just watching the ending on youtube). Both start getting very childish in my eyes. Games are supposed to be fun, but if you're only having fun if you're winning, you have issues. There are a lot of games I never beat from back in the day, and while I'll never beat Zombies ate my Neighbors, I have fun every failed attempt. If I stop having fun playing the game, it really isn't hurting me in any way to not finish it and just move onto something else. Others seem to have problems with that and try to hide being a bad loser and their frustration at not being immediately good at something under some idea that their owed beating a game on their terms. At best, it's annoying and arrogant how people act at even that tiny level of being told no to that. At worst, it worries me at a cultural level as it seems we have a culture being bred to cry about having to face any challenge or minor hardship, and I wonder how a life of such "easy modes" have really not prepared people to face even a tiny inconvenience.</quote> Games are amusements If a guy can have fun on an optional easy mode that is objectivey superior to them having to quit and no longer have fun solely because that's what you did and you're terrified of chage. And no, a dude playing Metal Gear Solid 3 on Easy doesn't meant he is not "Prepared for inconviences in real life." that's absurd. --- ^ Hey now that's completely unfair! https://imgur.com/yPw05Ob</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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