Poll: Are games too easy?

[Confidingtripod]

Well are they? I personally found that in games like Mass Effect 2 and Fallout 3 at the standard difficulty setting unless you seriosley fuck up you can get out of most any tight spot (not to say these arent good games) but I used to play games like time splitters where it starts easy but then you reach the level "the mansion" ,plonk! you in the middle of a mansion filled with almost immortal zombies with a shotgun and theres no ammo pick-ups with no idea where to go. It took me weeks just to find out what I had to do!

Another example is baldurs gate,a pre-oblivion (W)RPG where you command a party of adveturors around a map,only to realise that the games difficulty slope is the equivalant of everest.For example:at the beggining I only had my guy and a thief you get at the start,I'm told to go to an inn for two more members,at said in a guy very forthcomingly asks about me I realise hes an assaain,he casts spell,INSTAKILL,game over.

Where did difficulty of games go

 

[NeutralDrow]

No. Not at all.

 

[Purplefood1]

Just crank the difficulty setting up
anyway different difficulties require different styles of gameplay

 

[Nebr66]

no, it usually takes me a couple of play through's before I have any great ease throughout the game.

 

[Mozza444]

No. Not at all.

I second this.
I only enjoy a slight challenge anyway, and would hate to have to spend a week completing one mission..

 

[LeonLethality]

Games used to be difficult. We got good at them and they are no longer as difficult. While I admit games are holding your hand a lot more these days the main reason of them not being as hard as they used to is because we have experience.

Someone new to gaming will find games a lot harder than veterans will.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

Play Ninja Gaiden 2, COD 4 and MW2 including Spec ops on veteran, Rainbow Six Vegas 1+2 including Terrorist Hunt on Realistic...
Those were challenges for me.
Games are still difficult in my eyes.

 

[socialmenace42]

i think most games have a respectable difficulty curve these days. You know, you play it through the first couple of times on normal for the story then on hard for the challenge and then on 'pointless mode' for the sheer groin-numbing frustration...

 

[ThreeWords]

Difficulty of games went out the window when publishers realised that incredibly difficult games don't sell as well as easy ones.

Fuck that noise! I love hard games! Not stupidly, irrationally hard, but a game like Fallout 2, tough, but surmountable, and with a massively satisfying feeling when you finish it.

I echo your thoughts. I get my fix by cranking up the difficulty to max on Oblivion. When every foe is a near death experience, each kill feels like a true triumph!

 

[Mindmaker]

Either that, or my "skill" has gone through the roof.

 

[Korten12]

Difficulty of games went out the window when publishers realised that incredibly difficult games don't sell as well as easy ones.

Fuck that noise! I love hard games! Not stupidly, irrationally hard, but a game like Fallout 2, tough, but surmountable, and with a massively satisfying feeling when you finish it.

Demon's souls sold quite well.

 

[Jackalb]

Sometimes but if they are

Just crank the difficulty setting up

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Difficulty of games went out the window when publishers realised that incredibly difficult games don't sell as well as easy ones.

Fuck that noise! I love hard games! Not stupidly, irrationally hard, but a game like Fallout 2, tough, but surmountable, and with a massively satisfying feeling when you finish it.

You mean like when you glitch out Pac-Man?

No, games aren't too easy. I'd say generally that gamers who play on their consoles for more than a few shits and giggles after work have gotten better at games, hence making them seem easier. Either that, or my standards have been hightened since Abe's Odyssey...damn Scrabs.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Left 4 Dead 2 on Expert. Dark Carnival, to be precise. Go ahead, I'll wait.

 

[Purplefood1]

Just crank the difficulty setting up
anyway different difficulties require different styles of gameplay

Higher difficulty settings in most modern games just makes fights take longer. Whats easy for five seconds isn't going to be any harder if it lasts fifteen.

Yeah but it will change the gameplay and therefore change a lot of the game.
Resident Evil 5 as an example, me and my friend went through most of the game hitting things to death as we needed to conserve ammo for the bigger beasties when we got to professional mode the game completley changed, we needed to run away from evey infected we met and actually use the cover system.
But mostly i agree with you on most games turning the difficulty up doesn't make it harder just longer because the player isn't stupid they know it's harder and will be more cautious.