>This is the difficulty menu for Wolfenstein 2: the menu’s telling you only babies play the game on easy. It’s funny on the surface, but also an insidious kind of peer pressure. Don’t listen to it.
>At first I did, which is why I spent half of Wolfenstein 2 completely miserable. Playing on “Bring ’em on” the game’s normal difficulty, I spent hours dying to Nazis
>Finally I decided enough was enough, swallowed my pride, and set the difficulty all the way down to “Can I play Daddy” (read: super easy). And you know what? It felt great. Everything immediately seemed to click into place. I was able to run and gun like the game obviously wanted me to and feel like B.J. was the one-man killing machine everyone kept saying he was
Juan Smith
>don't be a wuss, It’s that kind of guilt that plagued me early on. I spend a lot of time playing games. What’s the point if I can’t hack it at the more masochism end of the difficulty ladder? I was also plagued with the anxiety over whether the Wolfenstein 2 I experienced would be the “real” one or not. Despite the number of times people pay lip service to “there’s no right way to play,” how difficulty options are crafted and displayed often tells a different story.
>Sticking a bonnet on B.J. and infantilizing the player by analogy isn’t exactly an invitation to explore playing Wolfenstein 2 differently. Even just calling one difficulty setting “normal” implies the others are deviant. When you’re fighting to liberate the country from people who believe in eugenics in a game that celebrates difference and diversity, moralizing the difficulty around the struggle (easy equals lazy/bad, hard equals virtuous/good) feels archaic.
>Assassin’s Creed Origins’ combat-free setting, on the other hand, takes a more imaginative approach to what difficulty settings could be. Rather than a binary scale based on loaded terms like “easy” and “hard,”
Gavin Miller
More games should do this. You should be mocked for refusing to git gud. In Ninja Gaiden Black, if you die 3 times and choose to play on Ninja Dog, the game mocks you and Ayane insults you.
Andrew Rivera
Games failed when they decided to be power fantasies instead of challenges.
Now we have an entire generation of homosexuals who just want to roleplay instead of actually learning the game.
Hunter Bennett
I don't think there's anything wrong with people playing on super easy, but it's pretty dumb to want all games to be easier in general.
Noah Price
>I spend a lot of time playing games. Doesnt sound like it
Isaac Walker
There's already a thread, use the damned catalogue.
Jason Hall
How much of a pussy do ya gotta be to not accept the fact that you aren't the best player and have to pick the easiest difficulty? If it really bothers you then fucking literally get good. Also this
Grayson Butler
Uh, he plays the games for like 30 minutes every weekend 'dudebro'.
Anthony Long
fuck this gay earth
Angel Allen
This.
Luis Rogers
Wait, Ayane insults you if you play on the easiest setting? Fuck, I've got to go back and play that right now.
Matthew Richardson
I agree. Easy modes should be abolished instead.
Who the fuck plays games on easy except for journalists?
Nolan Jenkins
>binary scale I am actually disgusted at this grossly charged stupidity
Parker Flores
>Even just calling one difficulty setting “normal” implies the others are deviant. When you’re fighting to liberate the country from people who believe in eugenics in a game that celebrates difference and diversity, moralizing the difficulty around the struggle (easy equals lazy/bad, hard equals virtuous/good) feels archaic.
This fucking guy can't even play a video game without examining every facet of his life.
Daniel Harris
Games should make fun of you for picking the easiest setting, to incentivize, but there should always be an easy mode.
Gabriel Edwards
How is it even possible to be bad enough at games that you can't even complete them on normal, christ that's just pathetic
Kayden Foster
Can't I be a homosexual and also be good at games while enjoying a real challenge? >What is Ikaruga Otherwise, you're correct though.
Brandon Rogers
Especially since "normal" is so easy these days and "hard" should really be considered the default difficulty for most modern games. Fucking pussies, go watch a marvel movie.
Nicholas Barnes
He wanted to be a real writer SO DAMN BAD, but he didn't realize he has no talent nor an actual critical eye. So he got into video games journalism because he told his friend at Kotaku that he needs to pay his student loans.
James Cruz
It's called being a failure
Hudson Bennett
Why is gaming 'journalism' still a thing who the hell even reads this garbage
Luke Myers
Penny arcade: Ultimate fucking pussy mode and Penny arcade: Doom not prereleased so this faggot can't make tough points about wars in the mid east.
Caleb Lewis
Dude remember when games punished people for playing on easy like beating the 2nd to last boss and a message appeared that said “LOL NOW PLAY IT ON A REAL DIFFICULTY KEK”
Wyatt Miller
>I spent hours dying to Nazis
Mason Williams
Don’t shit up the thread pol cuck
Kayden Bennett
I will need to do this
Juan Harris
I'm not making a political statement but the image of this faggot sitting there in front of his TV getting visually upset that "Nazis" are killing him, to the point where he actually wrote an article about it is hilarious
>cuck here
Ayden Gonzalez
>Kotaku Shit was pol before pol got to this thread
Chase Roberts
This reminds me of when Brianna Wu did that Wolfenstein 2 stream and ended up dying over and over on the tutorial until she dropped the difficulty all the way down.
Maybe these people should stick to lets plays if they can't handle the idea that they lack skill.
Juan Collins
>Shit up a Kotaku thread
Ayden Jackson
I'm convinced that there is no lower writing profession than gaming journalist. This is absolute bottom of the barrel stuff.
Bentley Morgan
Nice reading comprehension.
Levi Gonzalez
These morons want games to acquiesce to the fact that they're butthurt about being bad. Fucking casuals man.
Isaac Young
>More games should do this. If i remember right they used to do shit like this all the time,Earth worm jim even told you how crappy of a player you are if you beat it on EZ
Lucas Nguyen
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Leo Hill
>spent hours dying to Nazis
Good. You deserve it, faggot.
Jack Robinson
How do you suck so fucking much that you gotta go to the lowest possible difficulty? I really really thought that shit was for kids who haven't developed motor skill yet. If a grown ass person can't even get by on normal difficulty and their job is to play video games, then fuck sake, that's just sad.
