Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 17:28:35 +0000
From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: What difficultly level do you play one?
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 13:28:35 -0400
Message-ID: <45jl8jp74gjpmqfsqrdh86pdttvkivf7im@4ax.com>
References: <v6dmq5$98ka$2@dont-email.me> <v6ebfc$clnf$1@dont-email.me>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 55
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: sv3-aIn2wwJ+emQQxVnErWq1JvkAuhl09Bnb4ANxbs+aNFG+t7cvJEOEnEquJqTHgnAuzYpebPQD+b+k+yU!V7StrWCysQ4R4qQCKorXJm8s70JZWqeJs852MyIL7UdL32K+q7IBkt7S/5oViVn04X1cLNA=
X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com
X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
Bytes: 3870

On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 08:15:57 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 7/7/2024 2:23 AM, JAB wrote:
>> This one came up on a channel for table top miniatures games but they 
>> did also talk about computer games. Now of course this is all personal 
>> preference as there's no right way to enjoy games but the main thrust of 
>> the argument was that the advantage of playing on easy mode (in the TT 
>> context that was interchangeable with social) was it gives you a lot 
>> more scope to be creative and play the game how you want and just try 
>> things out to see what happens.
>> 
>> That's certain how I approach CRPG's. I don't want to go through 
>> numerous guides on how to build an optimal character, I want to pick 
>> what I fancy playing. My general strategy is start on normal mode and if 
>> it all becomes too much, which it often does as the game progresses and 
>> your character/party becomes progressively less optimal, change it to 
>> easy mode and carry on.
>> 
>> One of the interesting parts they said is that if you're effectively 
>> going to use someone else's build then what not just watch them playing 
>> the game. Obviously that's a bit of hyperbole but I can understand their 
>> point.
>> 
>> So for me, yep I play on easy mode.
>> 
>I'm much the same.  I've had too much stress in my life and am getting 
>to old to be in a constant adrenaline rush playing a game.  I'm not 
>playing to prove anything, I'm playing to have fun and relax.

The way I look at it is: I've done my time banging my head against
computer game difficulty. I've done the hard stuff. I've played Doom
on Nightmare mode. I've flown Falcon 4.0 with max realism settings. I
beat Syndicate: American Revolt. I've nothing to prove anymore. I
shown I have the chops. If I want to go a bit easier nowadays, that's
no problem. I've _earned_ my easy mode. ;-P

But it's also an issue of time. Not so much that I have less time to
play games, but I have such a surplus of games, I can't dedicate
months to a single title just to achieve mastery of its mechanics.
That backlog isn't getting any smaller, after all!

And, if I'm totally honest, my reflexes have definitely slowed. )I
tend to think of it in terms of "how fast can I drive in racing
games", since that's where it's most notable. It used to be that
pushing my car to 300mph was no problem; I could make those turns
without problem. Nowadays I'm down to around 210mph before I start
slamming into things.) So for a lot of games, the inevitable effects
of age make some difficulty levels a lot harder for me than they used
to be. But I prefer not to dwell on that, so consider all my
previously mentioned reasons the more important considerations ;-)