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How does one enjoy easy games?

hardwenzen · 2024-04-22 05:23:58

Guys, i am at an impasse in life, and i want to hear y'all opinion about my current situation, which might very well be a mental illness that is ravaging me to the core. Incredibly frustrating as you might imagine.I am simply incapable of enjoying an easy game, be it when played on Normal, or Easy, it doesn't matter. If i am playing a game, and its not on the highest difficulty that is available to you on your first playthrough, i get bored, and lose interest. I feel like my gaming experience is incomplete. Prior to 2005 when the X360 launched, i used to play most titles on Normal, and only pushed harder difficulties in some titles that i owned, and back then, i mostly rented games. But with the introduction of Achievements, Microsoft has conditioned me to play on the highest difficulty to unlock all the 1000 points, and now, even if there's no achievements related to the difficulty (gow2018 and Ragnarok are a good example), i still must do the highest difficulty on my first playthrough just to feel like i completed the whole package.One of my main gripes about lower difficulties is that; the mechanics and the little things you can do in games, they become completely and utterly irrelevant. You don't need to 'buff' yourself before doing a boss fight. You don't need to create a mental strat for a difficult spot you're stuck on (Doome Eternal had a bunch of it). You simply press the W key and button mash in every game. That is just a shitty way of experiencing a video game, and nothing memorable will ever come out of it. The latest example is Dragon's Dogma 2. The game is baby mode when played with three other pawns, but when you play just with your main pawn, it can be pretty challenging, and you feel the progress of your character the way its meant to be.And no, frustration from dying on the same boss for 50+ times is not what i feel, nor do i consider it a waste of time. Prefer being stuck on the same boss, hitting my head against the wall for hours, over beating a game over the weekend, and moving to the next title in line.

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#101 deactivated-664b983590f56

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That's why your brain damaged (mental illness)....your nerves are been over stimulated by the satisfaction of being greatly rewarded by completing something at a greater challenge. It's hardwired into your DNA/persona...but you can break the mold/habit by will power. Just play on an easier mode and see what happens....stick with it.

lol you are basically numb. Give gaming a break for awhile and come back to it...you might just change your perspective on the issue.

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#102 pmanden

Member since 2016 • 3290 Posts

I feel you. I prefer to play the majority of my games on hard difficulty. If it's an RPG I always choose the very hardest setting, and I do like grinding a lot. But there are a few games I just want to breeze through and relax while I am doing it, because the gameplay isn't that entertaining, and I just want to enjoy the story, for example High on Life.

In general, games are too easy nowadays. I kinda miss those hard-ass 8-bit / 16-bit games sometimes.

9 months ago