Games you had to play on Easy difficulty.

[dthvirus]

So I'm playing Metro 2033. If that isn't reason enough, I'm on a laptop, so my framerate hits 5 FPS every time an actor appears onscreen. I had to crank the difficulty down like mad.

So, what game have you had to admit defeat to and lower the difficulty on?

The non-hardware related example I have is the final battle in vanilla Oblivion. No spoilers from me, but man, I've yet to figure out how to do it on regular difficulty.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Fighting Ares in God of War.

That son of a *****.

 

[Woodsey]

Dragon Age: Origins.

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

 

[Megacherv]

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!)

 

[CrashBang]

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

 

[Breaker deGodot]

For some reason I find Serious Sam REALLY challenging at times.

[http://dragcave.net/view/rYtd]

 

[quiet_samurai]

Usually a game I have played through several times, or something that is more focused on the adventure/story aspect of it.

 

[RobotNinja]

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

Apparently there's an order you're supposed to follow with the quests, which is why the mage tower is so easy and doing orzammar early is almost impossible on normal. But I didn't know that and I had to switch to casual, and I felt like a failure.

 

[Tharwen]

For some reason I've never been able to do the first plane of Oblivion on normal difficulty. That's the only game so far, although it sounds like I may need to do the same for DA:O when I get it.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

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.

 

[KaiRai]

MGS. I dunno, I just can't face upping the difficulty and being fisted senseless for it. It's probably a bad experience with MGS2 - The RAYS at the end took the piss.

Also, the level "Acceptable losses" on MW2. I fail to see how in the split, split, split, split second between his friend dying, and him getting a skullfull of shotgun round, close range, can he alert an entire base to my location, of which they previously had no idea. Only done it on 1 star thus far.

 

[Omikron009]

The final battle in Oblivion. Not because the fight was particularly difficult, but because

Spoiler

That dumbass emperor kept getting himself killed.

That was frustrating.

 

[Vrach]

I mostly played games on Easy mode when I was younger and afraid of a challenge. Don't take me wrong, not thumping my chest here, just stating (haven't used any cheats since either, actually not even sure if they exist in modern day games save for the ones with a console or of course "trainers"). These days I prefer playing games on somewhere between the normal and hardest modes (3/3, 3/4-4/4 depending on the game, 4/5 etc., sometimes increasing it further on the next playthough), partly because I like the challenge and partly because WoW's recent difficulty nerfs made me wish back for some good old head-wall moments for a change.

Mind you though, I ain't awesome and hardcore, just tend to play the games I'm better at as I happen to enjoy them more - not cause of the winning sensation, just that the "I'm decent/good at this" and "I like this game" happen to coincide in most of the cases... the fact I'm a gaming addict as well promotes me wanting to make the game last longer, as it does on harder settings. Also, the feeling of beating something hard(er) is always really awesome.

But yeah my bad spot are strategies. RTSs more so, but back in the days I played Civilisation III (it was a while ago though, was thinking of picking up 5 when it comes out to see how I'd do now, especially as I got a tad better at RTSs in the meantime), I had to move the difficulty aaaaall the way down to Easiest. It was extremely defeating, even on my own, but especially when talking to a friend about it or even trying to play with him, as he was used to destroying the game on some of the most difficult settings.

 

[Mannayz]

Normally I'm a gaming masochist, but Killing Floor can be damn near impossible to play on a harder difficulty without leveling up all of your perks on easier levels first.

*Grumble*

 

[CrashBang]

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

Apparently there's an order you're supposed to follow with the quests, which is why the mage tower is so easy and doing orzammar early is almost impossible on normal. But I didn't know that and I had to switch to casual, and I felt like a failure.

Well that's embarrassing for me cos I've left Orzammar until last without even knowing that and still can't manage it. But both the Tower and Redcliffe were almost too easy and now Orzammar is like hitting a brick wall. I might just suck it up and move down to casual as well

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

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).

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

God of War 1. I've at least gotten kind of far on normal mode in both sequels, but that first one is a *****.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

I've never played a game on easy, even if Normal is so hard that I simply CANNOT PROGRESS. It's a point of honour. Even Devil May Cry 3, where the original western release had the game's Hard mode turned into its Normal mode and its Normal mode made into Easy. I got stuck on Agni and Rudra and never got any further. But I will NOT turn down the difficulty!