Games you had to play on Easy difficulty.

[Iwata]

I'm one of those people that in addition of playing games for fun, I also enjoy the challenge. I don't think I've ever played a game on "easy" my entire life.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

The last level of Killzone 2, and I still can't do it.

That difficulty curve is a freakin' brick wall.

 

[spartan231490]

I'm playing Dragon Age at the moment and I've never played a game of the same style, like KOTOR or Baldur's Gate etc. I'm awesome at Mass Effect but the combat is very different
Anyway, I really keep struggling on each boss I reach. Currently fighting Jarvia (I think that's her name) on her gang hideout and I cannot get past her, but if I lower the difficulty to 'casual' I'll feel like a complete failure, so I just have to suffer and be stuck

I suggest you have your warrior entertain her, while the other three focus thier attacks and kill the weaker guys one at a time, when they are all gone, it's easy to take her out.

OT: I've never had to play any game on easy difficulty, normal yes, all the time, but not easy.

 

[Grey_Focks]

agreed with everyone saying Dragon Age. Good god, that game hates me sometimes. Though, I would like it stated I played the majority of the game on normal, but if I keep losing the exact same encounter again and again, I will knock it down to easy. But yea, it sometimes feels like the random mobs in that game are harder than the actual bosses.

EDIT- I cannot believe I forgot X-Com. All three of the "real" x-com games I HAD to play on beginner, and even then I could never beat UFO defense or terror from the deep. I did beat apocalypse, though.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Super Ghouls and Ghost.

Yeah, we could change the difficulty.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

I'm re-doing Prototype all on Easy because Medium difficulty doesn't give you enough time for the final boss (1 minute 30 seconds? Lick my clean-shaven balls!)

I won with 2 seconds left. I was starting to just get pissed because I didn't think I was going to get it. I kept running out of missiles to throw at it. I just said fuck it and went at with the blade arm and the full body armor thing. I nearly pissed myself when I got the final hit with so little time left. One of my favorite moments in my gaming career.

OT: I've never played on an easy difficulty. I'm one of those people who will try and try and try again to beat something on at least medium difficulty. Very masochistic, but that's how I am.

 

[Aidinthel]

I'm playing Half-life 2: Episode 2 (that is such an awkward title), turned it down to easy for the last battle and it's still tough.

I got through Dragon Age on normal, except for killing the high dragon because I went there too early.

 

[afforon]

Dragon Age: Origins.

I'm not embarassed about it either; normally I play stuff on Normal.

Same game, but it makes me resentful. Mostly because it doesn't make sense to me. I can be playing just fine on normal, beating down encounter after encounter and plowing through bosses. Then I just hit one group of standard mooks and suddenly it's a total party kill.

My thoughts exactly. On my last playthrough, as a Blood Mage (I even think I might have "min-maxed" a bit) I beat the High Dragon in that weird Andratrian Cult clusterfuck mountain place without losing ANYONE. Then I had a random encounter on the way back to Denerim with a Bear and his wolf friends and the same party got slaughtered.

I usually play every game on the highest difficulty at least once, but Dragon Age is scary. If I do a Nightmare run, though, I CANNOT play a Mage. Nor have a damager Mage in the party. I'd die from friendly fire more than any darkspawn (Mostly because the darkspawn are pushovers and the random mobs are harder).

Its nice to know that I am not the only one who is more terrified of a random group of bandits then any of the big bads in that game

 

[Nitro288]

Raze's Hell is pretty challenging on Normal, but enemies have a ridiculous amount of health that it gets tedious fighting them after a while.

When I was even younger during the days of the N64, I used to play Super Smash Bros Singleplayer on Very Easy difficulty.

Nowadays, it usually seems like sometimes I have to turn up the difficulty in games. Alan Wake I started off on Hard, since Yahtzee's review makes me believe that the difficulties were renamed just to avoid putting some players to shame.

Normal = Easy
Hard = Normal
Nightmare = Hard

 

[Girl With One Eye]

agreed with everyone saying Dragon Age. Good god, that game hates me sometimes. Though, I would like it stated I played the majority of the game on normal, but if I keep losing the exact same encounter again and again, I will knock it down to easy. But yea, it sometimes feels like the random mobs in that game are harder than the actual bosses.

Yup, I kept getting my ass kicked by a random group of mages in the fade after taking out the desire demon with no problems.

 

[Enigma6667]

Mass Effect. It was ridiculous. Not because I was bad at it, but because the combat was so broken. My teammates wouldn't use their special powers despite the fact I commanded them to do so a bajillion times, trying to take cover is a *****, and enemies even spawn right behind you, and would hit you without you even knowing it because the damage indicator is so light and unnoticeable in the midst of all the lasers, biotics, and explosions flying all around you.

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

WoW - Because they gave me no choice

 

[El_Glovenator]

Metro 2033 and STALKER were the two I had to

 

[Mr. Gency]

GoW: Chains of Olympus. Got all the way to the final boss then I had to give up and switch to normal.

Also, Gears of War. Damn you Raam DAMN YOU

 

[ultrachicken]

Halo: CE
specifically because of one section where two grunts with rockets and a sword-wielding elite kept appearing in a narrow hallway and removed my limbs.

 

[Aux]

WoW - Because they gave me no choice

This made me giggle a little.

I also had to switch Dragon's Age down to easy. That game was very unforgiving, even at the start.

 

[FlyAwayAutumn]

Fighting the Devil in Dante's Inferno. I was playing on the hardest difficulty up to that point but there was no goddamn way I could beat that bastard.

 

[joemu362]

I really hate to have to switch to Easy, but I had to on Bioshock 2 once I reached the end of the game. That and Devil May Cry 3 are the ones that I remember just flat-out having to.

 

[Karanok]

I usually play games on an Easy difficulty because I rent them, so my main focus on playing a game is to have a lot of fun without getting frustrated and going through the game in a timely manner so that I can get on to the next game.

For the games I do own, I play Normal/Easy depending on the battles.

Fire Emblem (Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn) had to be fought on Easy because on normal it's hard to have all your main units at the same level and still win battles.

Dragon Age: Origins is usually on Normal, but I tone it down on some bosses (Broodmother and that one Dragon for instance)

I think The World Ends With You is the only game I enjoy playing on the hardest difficulty.

 

[Kastiel]

Dunno if this would be considered "playing on easy" but in Borderlands, i went to General Knox's world a bit underleveled on my second playthrough and i got my ass handed to me by the assassins, so i had to go back and level up a bit more. Also, i regret all the time i spent beating MGS: The Twin Snakes on expert. I don't know what it is, but i find the remake much more difficult than the original *shrug*