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Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Maybe try on New Game+.
This one, by far, is the best one about easy mode. "Don't jump on me, Mario" is regularly repeated even now in my friend group.
But I gotta admit, games like Jedi: Fallen Order constantly encouraging me to turn the difficulty down when a boss is kicking my ass got on my nerves. I put this game on hard because I wanted a Souls-like experience. I beat Orphan of Kos, I can beat Trilla, just let me try again, just gotta remember her combos damnit!
Hot takes! Get your Hot takes!
Ow! I burned my hand.
So that's what I'm playing on, at least for a few of the bosses, then I bump it back up.
-Tycho Brahe
Yeah I did this on outriders too funny enough, but that game had escalating difficulties and stupidly long boss fights.
I remember my gamer shame moment was literally having to google how to beat ff13, and the successful answer was an ask jeeves one which cracked me up.
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I don’t have the time to feel stressed about game difficulty.
Yeah I play games to entertain myself, and I have a limited time to play between work and my 6 year old. So if the game is frustrating I'm not having fun.
Like I'm playing dying light 2 on normal, I could play on hard but why? That just makes the game unfun for zero reward.
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I love the Souls games. I'll play most RPGs on hard because I tend to do everything and I love making my characters OP so the higher difficulty tends to help balance that. But for something like say Doom I'd definitely always just play the normal difficulty. And I have no shame on playing something on easy if I'm just not as into the combat. It doesn't happen often but it does sometimes. Kena was the most recent example. Before that it had probably been years since I actually used easy. But I just didn't find the combat very rewarding and just wanted to see how everything played out and explore around the world.
This is all assuming he didn't run into one of the optional super bosses that are in the 60-80 range. As when you find them in part 2 you're maybe in the mid 20's-30's and aren't really supposed to beat them at that point.
Honestly I agree with the other comment that tales of arise-ia was pretty bland. But in addition all the bosses and enemies were just hp sponges which was a problem in the final dungeon for zesty and part 3 of legendia as well. They need to go back to higher damage output if they want enemies to have millions of hp. Mystic artes especially have horribly low damage output compare to the other games.
On that note tales of wise usually the difficulty just increases enemy hp count and not much else so it's typically never harder just more time wasted to kill it. Occasionally you get a boss like tales of vesperias or Sync from abyss where they have more attacks, limiter is broken and such on higher difficulty but that's pretty uncommon in the series. Limiter wise all that changes is their Mystic arte special attack kills your party if you dodge/don't guard in time and have the right stats instead of leaving the party with 1/2 1/3 3/4 or 1hp on the other difficulty settings. And since ma's are full screen in some of the games you can't dodge them.