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Dark Souls 3 Should Have an Easy Mode - The RPG Files at MMORPG.com

Dark Souls is a tough series and beating it, or even a single boss, is a mark of pride. In the lead-up to the launch of Dark Souls 3, our RPG columnist has spent his week considering just what people love about the game and why others find it just so impenetrable. Dark Souls is one of the last bastions of truly challenging gameplay and that shouldn’t change. But for some, an easy mode might be just the trick.

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vveaver_online

no

Amsai

Hell No!

Rusque

Good April fool's post, but Dark Souls games already have an easy mode. You just learn how to play and boom, easy mode. That's the actual trick of Dark Souls. It doesn't have a progressively increasingly difficulty curve, it just has a "you must be this tall to enter" bar. You either pass the bar or you don't. So if you learn to play, you unlock Dark Souls Easy Mode.

Ghavrigg

Ok, you got me. I had a big ol' rant written up about how terrible the idea would be, but I forgot it was April Fool's.

ElRenmazuo

Dark Souls is the easy mode of Demons Souls

yaminsux

April's fools joke. Quite eloborate too, nice.

Ikeda

You guys... you're so silly... Super Mario Bros. needed an easy mode. And Contra. And Battletoads. Let's just easy mode the world. You know the negotiations with North Korea and Iran? Easy mode them too. School? Easy mode. No need to study.

Satyros

The genius of Dark Souls IS its non-optional extreme difficulty. Give people a choice and it ends up just another RPG. Have heard many taking pride in finishing Dark Souls, yet non in finishing The Witcher in hard mode.
Stop trying to destroy the single game series that has any sort of challenge to offer.

Lobotomist

no...

Shana77

No. And I find Dark Souls far to difficult, but still no.

See the problem with giving the option of playing easy mode is that the flesh is weak. Give players an easy mode and even if they have selected hard, once they encounter the maddening adversity they will switch to easy mode. Aside from that, the pride of killing a boss will dissapear. Nobody cares you killed some boss in The Witcher on hard mode. But killing a boss in the souls series is a huge achievement exactly because there are no shortcuts or easy modes to do the same thing.

It will thus ruin the game for a group of gamers that really wants to experience an authentic, uncomprimised challenge. And there are so few of those, why do that? There are more then enough games for people who like a more moderate challenge.

And again, I tried Bloodborne and found it far to hard for me. But let that game, and others in the series exist for their fans.

sketocafe

The sad thing is that, despite the date, every souls game already has an easy mode. Level as much as you can and enhance your weapons and armor as high as you can and you're playing souls on easy. People just don't get it because it's a self-selecting difficulty slider rather than an UI option.

Sovrath

Ikeda said:

 You know the negotiations with North Korea and Iran? Easy mode them too.

That would probably be a good thing. 

DAS1337

I'm guessing that this is an April Fools joke. If it isn't.. then... lol? I don't even play Dark Souls, but it would be no surprise to me if a bunch of whiny babies complained so hard that the developers folded to easy mode, effectively destroying the whole allure of the game. There are hundreds, nay, thousands of other games to play, that offer less difficulty. Pick one.

GameByNight

Shana77 said:

No. And I find Dark Souls far to difficult, but still no.



See the problem with giving the option of playing easy mode is that the flesh is weak. Give players an easy mode and even if they have selected hard, once they encounter the maddening adversity they will switch to easy mode. Aside from that, the pride of killing a boss will dissapear. Nobody cares you killed some boss in The Witcher on hard mode. But killing a boss in the souls series is a huge achievement exactly because there are no shortcuts or easy modes to do the same thing.



It will thus ruin the game for a group of gamers that really wants to experience an authentic, uncomprimised challenge. And there are so few of those, why do that? There are more then enough games for people who like a more moderate challenge.



And again, I tried Bloodborne and found it far to hard for me. But let that game, and others in the series exist for their fans.

This is an interesting line of thinking, but I can't shake the feeling that players in this vein are opposed to the idea rather than practice. How does someone else playing on easy make your experience less authentic and compromised? Normal version would be exactly the same as now.

Not dismissing you or being rude. I'm just curious if you can elaborate further on that particular element. I acknowledge your comparison to The Witcher and would tend to agree, but I always question the impact of what other players do in a (mostly) single-player game that I can completely ignore. Is it just the pride of being on of the accomplished?

Bloodaxes

Knowingly it's a joke, I'd still like to continue this train of posts with a big NO!

If you want an easy mode of dark souls, play lords of the fallen.

Octagon7711

Who cares what other players do?  

Sovrath

Even if it wasn't an April Fool's article, the idea of Dark Souls being "hardcore difficult" is part of its brand identification.

As others have pointed out, adding a variety of difficulty sliders just makes it another role play game. But when people hear "Dark Souls" it conjures up certain images, emotions, ideas about what the game "is about".

In essence they would be diluting their brand by changing this.

Octagon7711

Either that or twice as many people would play.  

Deivos

Problem with easy mode is I really don't feel "World of Darksouls" would have the same punch.

Rusque

GameByNight said:

 

This is an interesting line of thinking, but I can't shake the feeling that players in this vein are opposed to the idea rather than practice. How does someone else playing on easy make your experience less authentic and compromised? Normal version would be exactly the same as now.

Not dismissing you or being rude. I'm just curious if you can elaborate further on that particular element. I acknowledge your comparison to The Witcher and would tend to agree, but I always question the impact of what other players do in a (mostly) single-player game that I can completely ignore. Is it just the pride of being on of the accomplished?

As much as the Souls games don't have an Easy Mode, they also don't have a Hard Mode. There's just the game as it is. And while adding modes wouldn't change the gameplay experience for those intent on playing through on normal, it would nullify the community and what it means to have played a Souls game.

If someone tells me they've beaten Skyrim, it's meaningless. Okay cool game, I enjoyed it too.

But if someone says that they've beaten the Souls games, I know what they've been through. They've been flattened by the Capra Demon, they froze and had chills in the Tower of Latria, they've fallen to their death in Anor Londo by those archers, they said, "woah this is awesome" when they got to Shrine of Amana and five minutes later said, "f- this I hate this place", that relief of finding a bonfire/arriving at Nexus, etc,  it's a huge series of shared experiences.

So yeah, it's kind of like a club. The Souls community is pretty great, and yes, they will tell you to "git gud" about a zillion times because that's all the game asks of you. Just learn the game. It's kind of a paradox that says, you cannot arrive until you've arrived.

Luccheno

April fool or not, i do not get the line of thought of people not wanting an easy mode.
I find the normal mode of the game hard and rewarding, but the way other people play it does not affect me so, why should i get opposed?
Thinking like this is the reason why discrimination against minorities in real life occurs. people worry too much about themselves and forget they only live their lives and not others XD

Sovrath

Octagon7711 said:

Either that or twice as many people would play.  

I think they are aware that if they added easier modes that they would get more players.

Maybe their brand identity is worth more than just adding more players. I'd be curious to hear a spokesman for the company address the idea.

Arskaaa

many streamer said Dark souls 3 is most easy Dark souls game.

Entris38

Brutal here!
I've tried demon souls, dark souls, and bloodborne. They are just not for me. Give me difficult puzzles, you have me locked, give me eye/hand coordination to this degree and I'm screwed. The only way for me to get anywhere in these game is to way out level the content, sooner or later I run to a stop sign in the game and can't progress any further ....forget ng+.
I wouldn't ask it to be easier, so I just choose to watch someone stream it because it looks great. April fools joke or not, i no longer have that hand dexterity and I hate it. Guess I played Ring King too much on the Nes 30 years ago and wore out my thumbs.....
Such great games though.

FlyByKnight

no.