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For me "easy mode" was watching people playing on Twitch. It got me a "good" understanding of the story and let me enjoy the world, without the stress of having

For me "easy mode" was watching people playing on Twitch. It got me a "good" understanding of the story and let me enjoy the world, without the stress of having to actually play the game. :)

ModernMech 5y ago
See, this is why developers should just put in a god mod. Good ol IDDQD, then let your customer just have fun killing monsters rather than scaring them off to Twitch or YouTube to watch someone else have fun.
pimeys 5y ago
I've been totally sucked into the Twitch Elden Ring streams. BarbarousKing having his fourth playthrough already, and I'm still watching the first one. A magical game I'm going to try myself when it works well with Proton on Linux.
- Polycryptus 5y ago
  I've heard that it works fairly well on Proton already. In fact, perhaps even better than it does on Windows in some regards as a result of Valve having implemented some mitigations for things the engine does incorrectly in Proton. (Thanks to a desire to have the game work properly on the Steam Deck) I haven't tried yet, though, as I'm playing my way through the Dark Souls series proper before giving Elden Ring a try.
  - alpaca128 5y ago
    Proton uses Vulkan to replace DirectX and Elden Ring's handling of DirectX isn't optimal, or something along those lines. The end result is the game running better on Linux because it coincidentally circumvents those issues.
gambiting 5y ago
Also really, just look up strategies. In all of these games nearly every boss can be cheesed in some way. Really, there's no shame in looking it up.
- oneoff786 5y ago
  I would find that pretty shameful personally.
  - gambiting 5y ago
    How so? Games are ultimately there to be enjoyed. If following a guide makes it more enjoyable, then that's perfectly valid. And I say that as a working games developer.
    - oneoff786 5y ago
      The same way cheating in solitaire is just lame. Or save scumming in a roguelike. Or installing a mod to just make the game much easier. Or walking for a bit on a long run. Or pretty much any solitary situation where you bend the rules for your favor. Once you do it, you will likely internalize that you’re not capable of doing it and will rely on such methods and general lack of skill for the rest of the game, and eventually reach a point of indifference where it’s not about you doing well but rather just attempting it a number of times where your incompetence works. If that makes things more fun for you, sure, whatever. I did this a lot as a kid. But now I would be acutely aware that I’m cheating myself of the full experience and skill curve of the game and feel very little satisfaction from it. I’m current doing a bit of owl cat’s pathfinder video games. The game is pretty well balanced on normal. The game includes a very unbalanced mode called unfair which requires a lot of metagaming hyper min maxed character development. There is further a mode that gives you one self deleting save slot so you have one chance permaloss. I see a fair number of people playing in unfair, with one save slot, bragging about their completion of the game having looked up character builds for every unit, used mods to make some parts easier, and save scummed to undo the effect of choosing permaloss. I think they’re morons personally. Don’t delude yourself into thinking you’ve accomplished something when you’ve outsourced, cheesed, and cheated many parts of it. Play games on lower difficulties and play them fairly instead of playing them on harder difficulties and cheating to get through. There’s a wide spectrum and sure it’s just a single player activity but I find it personally exceedingly lame. My mum plays games and is not technically skilled so she plays on the lowest difficulty and uses guides and it’s still very hard for her and you know that’s great.

For me "easy mode" was watching people playing on Twitch. It got me a "good" understanding of the story and let me enjoy the world, without the stress of having to actually play the game. :)

ModernMech 5y ago

See, this is why developers should just put in a god mod. Good ol IDDQD, then let your customer just have fun killing monsters rather than scaring them off to Twitch or YouTube to watch someone else have fun.

pimeys 5y ago

I've been totally sucked into the Twitch Elden Ring streams. BarbarousKing having his fourth playthrough already, and I'm still watching the first one. A magical game I'm going to try myself when it works well with Proton on Linux.

Polycryptus 5y ago
I've heard that it works fairly well on Proton already. In fact, perhaps even better than it does on Windows in some regards as a result of Valve having implemented some mitigations for things the engine does incorrectly in Proton. (Thanks to a desire to have the game work properly on the Steam Deck) I haven't tried yet, though, as I'm playing my way through the Dark Souls series proper before giving Elden Ring a try.
- alpaca128 5y ago
  Proton uses Vulkan to replace DirectX and Elden Ring's handling of DirectX isn't optimal, or something along those lines. The end result is the game running better on Linux because it coincidentally circumvents those issues.

gambiting 5y ago

Also really, just look up strategies. In all of these games nearly every boss can be cheesed in some way. Really, there's no shame in looking it up.

oneoff786 5y ago
I would find that pretty shameful personally.
- gambiting 5y ago
  How so? Games are ultimately there to be enjoyed. If following a guide makes it more enjoyable, then that's perfectly valid. And I say that as a working games developer.
  - oneoff786 5y ago
    The same way cheating in solitaire is just lame. Or save scumming in a roguelike. Or installing a mod to just make the game much easier. Or walking for a bit on a long run. Or pretty much any solitary situation where you bend the rules for your favor. Once you do it, you will likely internalize that you’re not capable of doing it and will rely on such methods and general lack of skill for the rest of the game, and eventually reach a point of indifference where it’s not about you doing well but rather just attempting it a number of times where your incompetence works. If that makes things more fun for you, sure, whatever. I did this a lot as a kid. But now I would be acutely aware that I’m cheating myself of the full experience and skill curve of the game and feel very little satisfaction from it. I’m current doing a bit of owl cat’s pathfinder video games. The game is pretty well balanced on normal. The game includes a very unbalanced mode called unfair which requires a lot of metagaming hyper min maxed character development. There is further a mode that gives you one self deleting save slot so you have one chance permaloss. I see a fair number of people playing in unfair, with one save slot, bragging about their completion of the game having looked up character builds for every unit, used mods to make some parts easier, and save scummed to undo the effect of choosing permaloss. I think they’re morons personally. Don’t delude yourself into thinking you’ve accomplished something when you’ve outsourced, cheesed, and cheated many parts of it. Play games on lower difficulties and play them fairly instead of playing them on harder difficulties and cheating to get through. There’s a wide spectrum and sure it’s just a single player activity but I find it personally exceedingly lame. My mum plays games and is not technically skilled so she plays on the lowest difficulty and uses guides and it’s still very hard for her and you know that’s great.