![]() ![]() In case you can’t tell, I fired up Bayonetta this last week and I’m really having fun the intense and over-the-top action just sort of makes me want to scream with joy a lot of the time. These days I play most games on Normal or higher. See also this Shoryuken Thread complaining about the addition of an automatic mode in Marvel Versus Capcom 3. …Okay, The Onion I’m not, so that’s all the satire I’ve got, but it’s kind of funny to watch core gamers get all bent out of shape when there is an easy mode for a hardcore game available. However, if the End Times were to happen tomorrow, and horrifying hosts of angels really were to drop down from the sky, raining fire and doom on all of mankind, will these so-called casual gamers falsely believe that they have the real skills needed to take them down? Skills that, in reality, involve pressing both the Y, and B buttons, as well as timely stick moves and dodges, in rapid succession? This blogger’s bet is that the casual players will find themselves lining up to become Angel Chow, while those of us with the guts and manliness to play video games on Normal or higher will be the only gamers who are likely to survive this Doomsday scenario. ![]() ![]() That’s all well and good, and may give a novice player some sense of mastery, allowing them to experience the good feelings associated with ripping the heads off of evil but angelic beings. It’s well-known for blistering difficulty at the high levels, but also for including a “Very Easy Automatic” mode that practically plays the game for you, executing complex and appropriate combos with a single mash of the same button. So, what’s the problem? Well, it’s very basic… players who use these so-called Easy, Casual, or Automatic modes may be having fun, but, are they really developing the skills that they’ll need when the world is about to end?Īs an example, take the video game Bayonetta. This runs the risk of creating a new crop of unskilled players who are nevertheless enjoying games. However, a totally scientific study of “just guessing” has shown that the amount of easy games, or even easy modes in what have traditionally been core game franchises, is now on the rise. Video games have had occasionally had easy modes for less-skilled players since the dawn of home console systems. Are ‘easy mode’ video games putting our entire planet at risk?
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