Could an easy mode in next Souls work like this?

Emergence wrote:It does change the journey for the individual playing. The backbone of this game is built upon learning from one's mistakes and refining one's approach as a result until mastery is achieved. Reducing that difficulty level makes them game closer to a standard hack and slash. That is not From Soft's and specifically Miyazaki's vision. Perhaps Picasso would have achieved more renown if he choose to paint in a way that emulated the broad appeal. He was quite capable of intense realism with his work but he choose his vision. Asking for a compromise of Miyazaki would be akin to asking Picasso to do the same. It is time this man gets the credit for his vision. No one presumes to tell Kojima to remove stealth from Metal Gear Solid, so why do we do the same to Miyazaki?

Onion Knight wrote:The game already has an inbuilt difficulty for new players.
Too hard?
-Level up.
-Upgrade your equipment.
-Choose pyromancer(DS) or royal (DeS) as starting class.
-Use magic or pyromancies.
-Summon NPC's or other players.

It's not the reputation that's ruined but the whole point of the game itself. Souls games are built around risk and reward, if there's no fear of dying or failure especially during boss fights (building up that adrenaline,) where's the risk? and so the reward is dampened, that feeling you get when you finally kill a boss and make progress? Now gone, for new players.

Who says more players=better? With that logic Call Of Duty is the best game series ever created by humanity. Or that Dragon Age 2 is better than Origins.

It would make the game boring, knowing that you could just run through the game in about a day, because progress is so easy and failure is never going to happen, you wouldn't get more people playing, those more casual gamers you seek would sell the game on after completion and move onto the next 'hyped' title.

aprilmanha wrote:As for Picasso, he did paint realism but changed to the abstract to stand out more. It was in fact more profitable to change his style.

steveswede wrote:The conclusion I'm coming to with an easy mode is that the people that want this want the challenge removed. What they can't understand is that the challenge is a core mechanic and it will destroy what the Souls series is all about by removing it.

aprilmanha wrote:

steveswede wrote:The conclusion I'm coming to with an easy mode is that the people that want this want the challenge removed. What they can't understand is that the challenge is a core mechanic and it will destroy what the Souls series is all about by removing it.

But what about the players with lesser abilities, those of us who's skills are such that we would still find a Dark Souls "Easy" mode a challenge.

Its not about removing the challenge for all, and if a so called DkS "Fan" only plays the next game in easy mode without playing the normal mode that is a real challenge for them, then it is really only them that is missing out. Us worse players would have a challenge beating Easy mode, before then tackling Normal mode, while more skilled players jump right in on hard mode!

aprilmanha wrote:

steveswede wrote:The conclusion I'm coming to with an easy mode is that the people that want this want the challenge removed. What they can't understand is that the challenge is a core mechanic and it will destroy what the Souls series is all about by removing it.

But what about the players with lesser abilities, those of us who's skills are such that we would still find a Dark Souls "Easy" mode a challenge.

Its not about removing the challenge for all, and if a so called DkS "Fan" only plays the next game in easy mode without playing the normal mode that is a real challenge for them, then it is really only them that is missing out. Us worse players would have a challenge beating Easy mode, before then tackling Normal mode, while more skilled players jump right in on hard mode!

BIG TIME MASTER wrote:
Don't be ridiculous. What about players with only one thumb? And players who get sick at the sight of violence?

BIG TIME MASTER wrote:

aprilmanha wrote:

steveswede wrote:The conclusion I'm coming to with an easy mode is that the people that want this want the challenge removed. What they can't understand is that the challenge is a core mechanic and it will destroy what the Souls series is all about by removing it.

But what about the players with lesser abilities, those of us who's skills are such that we would still find a Dark Souls "Easy" mode a challenge.

Its not about removing the challenge for all, and if a so called DkS "Fan" only plays the next game in easy mode without playing the normal mode that is a real challenge for them, then it is really only them that is missing out. Us worse players would have a challenge beating Easy mode, before then tackling Normal mode, while more skilled players jump right in on hard mode!

Don't be ridiculous. What about players with only one thumb? And players who get sick at the sight of violence?

aprilmanha wrote:

BIG TIME MASTER wrote:
Don't be ridiculous. What about players with only one thumb? And players who get sick at the sight of violence?

I'm not sure what that has to do with anything, I'm pretty sure a player who is sick by the sight of violence would avoid the game entirely, not consider it but put it down after being stuck on the first enemy for an hour.

And if a person has only one thumb and likes to play games, I'm pretty sure they can play dark souls if they choose to.

Gazman0169 wrote:
It is important to realise that DeS and DkS are not the only brutally challenging games out there, which proves that there is a market for this sort of thing, and in order for the next Souls game to be competitive within this market it needs to stand out amongst the crowd by being a heck of a lot more brutal than the rest.