Easy mode

>easy mode
>for an already easy series

I will never understand this.

Why does this bother you user?

It's an option that makes the game more accessible

say i want to play the game, i can play it normally.

But if i lent it to you, since I know you got brain problems i can put it on guide mode so you don't go tard rage and break my stuff.

This is obviously a fictionnal example, since i wouldn't lend my switch to a fuckign tard, but you get the point (maybe)

it's capitalizing on the new modern gaming audience that fetishizes watching games be played, so now games are playing themselves so you can watch them

It's so your 4 year old daughter can enjoy the game as much as daddy did. :)

Because it's a childrens open world gamè and the arrows is for helping them navigate the area around them.

It really does seem more like an "accessibility" mode, like they are saying.
Maybe when you only have one moon left in an area you could turn it on as a last resort?
There was also that hint bird thing, so idk.

At any rate it's certainly better than the "2 player mode" in the Galaxy games, when it comes to girlfriend modes.

This. My nephew would rather watch somene play on YouTube than play the game himself.

I'm actually curious, did people complain this much about the super-guide in NSMB Wii and Mario Galaxy 2 back in the day?

It's so game journalists can also play.

ITs the game jornalism mode user
you must understand that people with mental disabilities need those things to be able to play the game

Because Mario is the Darks Souls of 3D Platformers.
t. Journalist

I havn't looked into this game much. How does easy mode work tho, I understand an easy mode for course based mario games but this is open world is it not.

Direction arrows for power moons, more of a hint mode than an "Easy mode". Bottomless pits result in you taking damage, rather than just dying.

People are bad at video games, user

Need a training wheels mode because people don't teach their kids to git gud anymore, they teach them to complain about it online and never play the game again and call it shit because they can't beat it. Difficulty is a design flaw now.

We're dumbing down our successive generations. That's how it goes.

What if every game was hard?

remember that time when metroid prime's "go here you stupid fuck" hint system was okay because le funny half pipe detector xd

Yes. They were stupid then too.

It's designed for literal 3 year olds, disabled people, and gaming journalists. Not sure why this needs so many threads though. Heaps of games have easy modes and no one seem to give a shit, but when it's a game literally targeted to all ages it's relevant?

It's a Nintendo game, of course Sup Forums is going to constantly make threads bitching and screaming about it. Nobody cared when Rayman removed the life and game over system but the moment Odyssey was revealed to have done the same thing Sup Forums flew into a frenzy of rage and trolling.

A game designed for all ages is (or should be) already easy enough. People can improve spatial and deductive reasoning by playing videogames and overcoming their challenges. Oh, timing and motor coordination, too.
Assuming that the difficulty isn't excessive, of course, because then it's just muscle memory.

So WHY on God's green Earth are we treating people like they're mentally invalid?

Because coddling equals sales, that's why.

you know you can also just not use it, right?

The fact it even exists offends me in a way that surpasses the mortal realm.

There was also an option to turn it off, thankfully.

I never did though because the Power Suit computer voice was hot af
>I don't actually remember if Prime had the voice or not, pretty sure they added that in Prime 2

ah, autism then. Sorry about your deficiency

>ITT: We let optional settings bother us

Dude, why the fuck do they let us change the language in a game? Who the fuck even plays in Arabian?

Super Mario 64's last two levels aren't easy, and final Bowser can be difficult.
Sunshine isn't exactly a cakewalk.
Galaxy 2 isn't that easy, especially the Prankster Comets.

Yeah and they still didn't understand that it was optional.

Pretty sure they know it's optionnal and thus doesn,t matter for shit, but they are searchign REAL hard for something to shitpost about.

Because its Nintendo

It's literally made for people like my girlfriend's 3 year old son, who loves video games but naturally are terrible at them at his age. This is to make sure that he can progress and not get stuck at the same jump over and over.

How are gaming journalists suppose to review the game if they cannot play it user? Try to be a bit more considerate next time you make a thread please.

I beat 64 when I was 3, and had already beaten SMW, Yoshi's Island, and DKC 1 and 2. This game will not be harder than 64, so I have no idea why this is needed. Small children have been beating Mario games since the NES.

3 year olds

Please stop fetishizing skill and be more understanding that gaming journalists are people too.

>We're
I think we both know (((who))) is actually doing it.

even after Disgraceful Dean? Really user?

How is he ever going to learn to git gud if he grows up with games that beat themselves?

It's not aimed at gamers, so you can't act like the feature is for anyone using this board (or most websites aside from the usual social media giants).

It's a known fact that the 3D Mario titles sell way less than the 2D ones, and casual gamers have more trouble controlling a character in 3D space, let alone figuring out common gaming conventions for 3D platformers. Doesn't mean they have brain problems, so much as it means they're just not good at video games.

it's for literal nintenbros

when i was that young mario 64 was the big thing and i made my mum play most of the game because it was too hard

>video game
>It's not aimed at gamers

THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF THE INDUSTRY

Easy mode just lets younger people play it. I'm guessing the game would be impossible for people ages 4-8 or so if it didn't have an easy mode.

>car
>not aimed at automotive enthusiasts
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF THE AUTO INDUSTRY

Why do you care if he ever "gets gud" or not? He's not your kid, and he might not even like video games when he gets older.

I know I did, but this is much better honestly because it's just an option in the settings and I don't have to see the fucking block in levels if I die a couple times.

so gaymers and children can play too

You want cars to be as easy to drive as possible for normal people because the consequences of fucking up is that people die. A game on the other hand is *supposed* to be a test of skill.

So you are saying that its bad for games to be made so that they can even be reviewed properly? You know the games industry would be nothing without professional games journalists giving informed reviews to get people to buy the games in the first place right?

There's plenty of game that aren't "tests of skill" and people just want to goof around in it.

I can't believe Sup Forums gets triggered at an optional mode literally made for 3 year olds with no coordination.

If they're professional games journalists, they should be able to beat a Mario game.

The devs are telling me that I'm shit at the game for putting in something like this, which is an insult.

It doesn't affect me. I already grew up on the older games and already got what few developmental benefits come from video games YEARS ago, largely exactly BECAUSE I kept practicing until I beat the games at their one and only difficulty mode.

Now that there are easier modes, kids will choose those and never improve their skills - just walk through a video game and not even play it, which seems pointless as hell.

Either watch the thing on YouTube for entertainment, or get your ass in the game and enjoy learning to use that brain of yours.

Stop being elitist and fetishizing skill please. You need to be more understanding, the games industry would be nothing without gaming journalists. If developers feel the need to have a barrier of entry to their game, then their game deserves bad scores and doesn't deserve to sell well because of it.

How is it an insult if it's entirely optional?
This thing isn't forced on you like it is in say Crash Bandicoot.

>Rated E for Everyone

It merely makes the game more accessible to new players, as opposed to alienating potential future sales. It'll be like Super Guide and other things where your save file will have a mark of shame that next to nobody will ever know about, since comparing Super Mario save screens is on the same level of two pals whipping their dicks out to compare them, meaning it doesn't happen except in extreme situations.

To be fair, it also breaks some norms of Mario, such as jumping off the side of the forest area will take you to the deep forest section, or allowing Mario to fall into quicksand at one point in the desert area will take you to either a bonus area or new section.

Imagine having to wait for someone like DSP to fuck up and find the secrets of the game, or having to pay out money for it? That would suck

why do people act like nintendo's forcing easy mode down people's throats?

>It's not okay when Nintendo does it

Because Neo-Sup Forums thinks that when a game has an easy mode it's automatically forced on them like it is on some PS4 games.

>games reviewers
>being able to give informed reviews
A reviewer should be able to use the media at least like the average consumer. Needing additional babbymodes implies that the reviewers would focus solely on the story, which shouldn't be a major part of the game and should be a equal part of the review and the game as all of the other things in the game at maximum.
It's almost like having a guy review a game based on it's soundtrack.

Journalism mode

>kids will choose those and never improve their skills

?

It's for literal kids. You know, Nintendo's target demographic?

The thing about the super guide option in most games it was implemented is that you were punished for using it. It would skip collectibles or mark the stage as unfinished until you went back and beat it legit.

It's for Everyone.

Hint Everyone =/= Kids

It's for game journalists user not normal people

>kids will choose those and never improve their skills
This and in a few years they'll be old enough to start bitching at devs to make games even easier.

They should rename easy mode to journalist mode

Kids used to play Ninja Gaiden and Battletoads at one point. What the fuck went wrong?

I know. It should have 3 difficulties, called:
>easier mode
>easy mode (normal)
>easy-ish mode

Why do you even complain?
They can make the game harder if the retards get their own assisted mode.

now they play Cuphead

kids.

>muh modern generations are shit!
Daily reminder that scientists making the most out of 3D printers technology are millennials and you're here masturbating because 20 years ago you autistically butted your head against Castlevania and won.

I have to admit I needed Easy Mode back with Super Mario Land 2 at first.
(Afterwards I did it on normal difficulty.)

I was like 7 years old, though.

>Super Guide
>NSMB Wii
>Mario Galaxy 2
>"Back in the day"

Oh fuck I'm old.

You aren't old, that user is simply underage.

Simple, really. 3D mario games always sell less than the 2D games and the main reason is because some people find them too hard, intimidating and don't like not knowing where to go.

nothing made me roll my eyes harder than my young cousins cousins showing me how they beat a mario level by abusing that super guide. I could have beaten that shit on my own at their age, even exploring the level to find all the hidden stuff too.

nintendo *IS* aimed at kids no matter what people says, of course they would make an effort to make it easy and non-frustrating for them.

Christ. I wonder if there is a way to get through to people like that without resorting to insults.

>hey there's a secret in the stage that you can't get to using the guide

I tell them I could have done it for them, and I usually do. Although I do kind of understand if they used it for some of the extra levels at the end of some mario games, those tend to be a load of ass anyways.
I like to point that out to them too, but they usually don't care.

Shit wasn't easy when we were kids.

Can you please stream SMG2 without dying once? Should be doable in one sitting.

Despite trying over a hundred times, I still can't get past the road of champions (or whatever its called) in 3D World. The last part gives me conniptions.