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I had no problem playing Red Faction: Guerrilla on easy. The combat wasn't anything to write home about -- it was about blowing the heck out of buildings -- so why struggle with something that clearly wasn't the focus? I'm getting a similar vibe from Just Cause 2, not coincidentally another open-world game whose combat is...erm, based on the demo, not exactly where Avalanche Studios spent their time. I won't have much trouble dropping Just Cause 2 to easy and just enjoying the sandbox.
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furiousgeorge
So I'm about 16 hours into this game. I'm playing on normal, I have to say that's probably as hard of difficulty setting that I'm going to play. The controls very from annoying to just plan crap. You just don't have the precision necessary to play on hard. Also there's a lot of bugs I've encountered. I still can't stop playing it just because I love running around blowing crap up. To say that only noobs play on easy isn't true, if you can play this game on the hardest difficulty and get 100% completion I would be really surprised.
jedimasterchief9
Some games used to make the hardest level damn near impossible (CoD4 and 5). But I always try to beat the game on the hardest difficulty. If the game mechanics work, then I see no reason to drop it down a notch. But CoD3, Civil War, and Darkest of Days have broken mechanics so there would be no fun in the game. Besides having fun is what playing games is all about.
Cathartic Denoument
@Patrick Klepek:
I'm totally with you on ratcheting down the difficulty level in favor of smoother gameplay towards the game's focus/strong point.
Example:
Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions was actually a decently fun game (maybe even exhilarating at times), but once its played on Extreme Difficulty (out of Easy, Normal, Hard, & Extreme), the game automatically becomes BROKEN.
If you get hit in mid-dodge roll, the dodge roll gets interrupted & you get hurt.
But if you're just standing/running & you get knocked down, you're invincible during the animation of getting up. Which makes no sense, since you should be invincible during the dodge roll, not the getting up part.
And if you're constantly being barraged during the getting-up animation, once the animation ends, you get knocked back down again, which makes you get stuck in an unending loop until you die.
You can't do an immediate dodge roll during the motion of getting up, in order to avoid hits.
Add on top of that the LACK of Data Posts (on Extreme Difficulty) to replenish your EVER dropping Thermal Energy counter (which is vital to you staying alive).
The flaws become so prominent, that you have to compensate for it, by increasing your skill/hand dexterity/coordination, after NUMEROUS failed attempts (read: "deaths").
To this day, I still have yet to go back & beat the 1st boss on this (Extreme) difficulty level.
Its very possible that I may just SUCK at this game, but this is after having played the entire game once per difficulty level, starting from the lowest, working my way up (which is what I do with most games, for MANY reasons). And the Extreme difficulty doesn't unlock until you've beaten the game once.
Patrick; if you can find someone @ G4 who can BEAT LP1 on EXTREME Difficulty (preferably on XBox 360, since thats the console I own & played the game on), PLEASE either direct that person to me, or me to that person, because that game is just PWNING my @$$. I would be eternally grateful to you for doing so.
And I'm trying to go for 2 secret achievements too:
1.] TM Master [50G] - Collect all Target Marks on each level, on Extreme Difficulty
2.] Extreme Soldier [150G] - Beat the game on Extreme Difficulty
Once I have those 2 achievements, I will be completely FINISHED with the d@mned game.
(And probably trade it in @ Gamestop, along with Ninety Nine Nights [another somewhat-broken game], for a lesser cost of another game.)
SinnerDelGore
Hmm, seems like it's another day of Internet Superiority. No matter what the subject, someone has to expose their e-p e n i s to prove they are better. There are good arguments here but please, tone down the "I rule cuz I play on Normal!" claptrap.
Now Round II!
Tmidiman
I never knew so many people (just going by the small sampling here) play games on easy to start. I start on normal myself.
Hmmmm, I don't know. Maybe this expains why "movie-games" like Uncharted 2 and GoW III. Hit one button, watch a movie, AWESOME! What a great game!
Now I'm not saying those games are bad. But I wonder how people interput what a game is. Is it about what you control or is it more about what you watch. As I've already noted, many gamers enjoy cut-scenes more than actual game play. Maybe, as Patrick is stating in his case, the focus of some gamers is more about "watching" than doing".
Interesting. Maybe for some it's better to look ggod than to play good.
Tim_1138
I like the idea of summarizing the sentiment of comments. I hate reading through some of this ignorant, unreadable garbage to see if other people agreed with my feel for a game. maybe make that a regular thing? (since you seem to relish the comments section induced punishment)
Pwnproof
I play everything on normal at first, second run is the hardest for more trophies but if the game does not try to take its self serious and its just for kicks then yeah i too will just run throu it on easy just to suck up the trophies i mean if the game is a cheap thrill then why am i going to frustrate my self over bad check points cheap design and...hell even some good games make me feel that way about them. as for this game i hated the 1st one but i have not tried the demo.
Rayzorshark
I start playing every video game that has difficulty settings on the lowest level. Once I learn the controls and gameplay tactics, I increase the difficulty to match my ability to play the game.
This allows me to manage the fun to challenge ratio and avoid the majority of "here's yer ass on a platter" frustration that can result in me walking away from a video game franchise altogether.
ThePsychoGamer
I can understand that, if i'm new to a franchise i might play on easy to begin with and try to get a feel for the controls, also if i'm not really into the gameplay i may drop the difficulty level so i can just enjoy the story. most of the time though i play on normal. Though i don't think it really matters what difficulty you play one to begin with, if your having fun that's all that really matters.
camaro72toy
the problem sounds like you,if you're over 20,and still playing on easy,then head to the nearest gamestop,and trade youre systems in,cause you should not be playing video games,I personally,am going to love this game for all it's worth and begs the question,why wasnt grand theft auto or even dragon age this smooth?
jwhite33
Maybe I just suck at life, but I play a majority of my games on easy. Gaming has replaced reading and in some cases movies as my main form of entertainment. I love me a decent story. I think that i would rather play through a game without hindering the progress of the story just to have the satisfaction that I play my games on a higher difficulty. I know there is a normal for every game, but some games on normal are just to frustrating or "buggy" to play through on normal.
I have beaten Halo on Legendary and God of War III on Titan, so its not that I don't have the skill. I would much rather get the story than be challenged by an ok game.
pklepek
Technically, Just Cause 2's "easy" mode is called "casual."
mikemill
Playing a game through on easy, no matter the genre, is pretty weak. A noob move for sure!
Fuzion9
Don't hate on Klepek! Difficulties don't determine a gamer, there are art and story elements that drive more people to play them than just challenge. But I can see his point. In some games it does complement the game to play it on a lower difficulty, especially in some sandbox games. Personally I do normal at the lowest (b/c that would imply what the developers originally wanted the experience to be) but lately I've been jumping into Hard right off the bat, probably because of the fulfillment when you beat the game in the end.
sandboxgamer
I think on your first playthrough you should always play on normal because I think that is where you have the most fun and I think that is the setting the gamedevelopers intented on making the game but i do love extra difficulty but honestly i'm in favore of games like GTA and Assassin's creed whicg dont give you the option of a difficulty setting i like that so you get a better appriciation of the game that being said mega man 9 did make we want to break my contoller alot but when you beta a game like mega man 9 or demon souls you say uck yeah I kicked that games @ss and that is a great feeling so I think sometimes frustration is a good thing.
LarcenousLaugh
Having played through the demo on Normal, and seeing the immense amount of punishment Rico can take before dying, I am not at all worried about playing through the game on that difficulty, maybe even slightly harder. I didn't find the combat detremental to the gameplay at all, in fact most of the time I spent trying to find more creative ways to take them out then just shooting them in the face.
L4Dfan550
@PotRoast
Yeah I'm gonna have to take BigPoppaChunk's comment that like me, I play the game on easy first because I don't want to come to a complete halt in an amazing story just because of a boss battle. I play easy because it allows me to enjoy the game and flow through the story without any major interruptions.
L4Dfan550
That's the exact way I felt about the Just Cause 2 demo. I really wanted to like the game as a whole but the combat seemed like an incomplete part of the game. But that didn't stop me from hopping on a motorcycle and skydiving off a cliff. Even parts of "bad" games that most people dislike, I normally give credit the developers for a certain aspect (i.e. the atmosphere in metro 2033).
PotRoast
Klepek, don't front, you play every game on easy. Are your gamerskills so stale and crawling with mildew that you must surrender yourself to a lower difficulty? What the hell were you doing before games even had an easy option? When it was strictly normal or hard? I would think that someone who has been to every E3 would have fresh gamerskills but apparently not. You're sloppy.
Gamelife1
I could never let myself playthrough a game on easy, it just feels to nub sorry. Usually I play a game on normal the first time and hard the second. Although recently I have been inclined to just start a lot of games on hard. What I've come to notice is that when you do this by the end of the game everything you do just jooks way more badass because your a much more skilled player. It is then that I'm willing to play a game on easy since you will basically just unleash pure pwnage into the hearts of your enemies.
Even in God of War III, I was playing on normal mode, but I accidently switched from misreading the prompt when I had died to many times. Since I made it all the way to another save before realizing this occured I couldn't just go back to my last save to fix the problem. I restarted the game after being about 3 hours in. Of course it only took about 2 hours to get back to where I was.
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