Still less embarrassing than the only "easy mode" we had in the 80's; beg an older friend/brother to get through that part for you, at the price of eternal reminders that you had to ask for help.
Back when i replayed half life 2 A LOT, i used to just save right after the hardest part of the game, so on replays i could just reload that save abd skip the section. ...fucking nova prospect turret section...
Yeah, yeah... just ask your older brother, and he'll get you through the tough part all the way to the end of the level...then reset the system so none of that saved.
To be fair to the Spider-man Kid’s Mode example - that’s actually probably more accurate to the character than him not saying anything, so in a way it’s providing a superior Spider-man experience. 🤷🏻♂️
Funny thing they missed about the headguard is that Glass Joe gets one in the title defense mode since when you beat him the first time he was at 99 losses.
@@WhiteFangofWar Really? Because not to brag, but I did beat Punch-Out on the Wii, and got to Title Defense, with only slightly moderate trouble. But Title Defense Glass Joe is still a joke. I do remember Donkey Kong being in the game, but I don't remember ever doing that fight. I had a pretty good record in the game, nothing great, but I definitely didn't lose 100 times. I lost a lot less than that. But since it was a few years ago, I don't remember my record specifically. I just remember beating everybody, taking the title, doing most of Title Defense, don't remember how far I got, but I don't remember beating that mode though, I think I just went and played another game. But, Punch-Out on the Wii was a good game. But I can't believe how awful Glass Joe is as a boxer. Like I said before, he's literally the worst boxer of all time.
@Conquest Really? I know that already. I just didn't mention it, because does anybody ever mention who specifically the guy he beat even was? Was it King Hippo? Mr. Sandman? Super Macho Man? DK? Doc Louis? But does it even matter? Glass Joe IS legitimately the worst boxer of all time. Who's this guy Glass Joe beat? Is he hiding in shame somewhere, or what?(I mean; if it were me; I know I would), Did he retire because he lost to the worst boxer ever? Or did he ever exist in the first place? I don't know.
Messing with the guards is fun in many games. I never finished Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory because I spent all my time tormenting guards at the start of the fourth level in various ways. That or playing the Panama bank level like a Call of Duty level.
@@torgranael If you can find a copy of the game and it's an earlier model PS2, you could play it still. Did you know that the PS2 and PS1 controllers were backwards and forwards compatible?
As a kid back then when I heard kid mode I was like "Wow, an appropriate mode for a 6 years old" and yet Monster Ock still scares the shit out of me regardless of any difficulty
@@brandonp7503 That was always the scariest Spider-Man boss. Seeing Carnage slide over to Doc Ock, after he was already knocked out, and then attach itself to him and then start screeching at you, while throwing things at you, even making Spidey get scared. Seriously, all you did in that "fight" was run away, because your attacks do nothing to Carnage Ock. When I played the n64 version as a kid, I always tried to skip that scene, or complete the game before a new episode of the Spider-Man cartoon would come on. But I always HATED seeing or hearing Monster Ock's screech, so I also turned down the TV volume too, because I didn't want to hear it saying "DIE!!!!! DIE!!!!!!!" constantly, while chasing me down a hallway with its red goopy, red metal monster tentacle-like things. It's not even a fight, Spidey's just web-swinging away from it, trying to escape, or expose the thing to harsh sunlight or whatever Symbiotes were weak to. I had nightmares about that Monster Ock thing as a kid, and don't know how I beat it, back then. And when I'd go back to the game, I always dreaded seeing my worst nightmare: Carnage Ock, chasing me down a hallway, like this just suddenly became a horror game starring Spider-Man. But props to whoever did the voice for that demonic nightmare creature. They did a good job with the voice.
I hated the sewer crawling scenes more...you had to do X within y seconds or instantly die...in almost every scene, even the fight with Venom, you had to beat him in under a certain amount of time
Yeah man, its like the game throw you a bone out of guilt&/pity since you already brought it and didn't want you to refund it as the result. But you know what they say, you gotta start somewhere, and I will admit I've become better player out of easy mode and finished normal on my second and hard at the third run. Still couldn't beat DMD though...
@@komi-samabeliever7319 Yeah, I agree, got to start somewhere; and since DMC3 is the first DMC game in the timeline, it's the perfect place to start, since this is the beginning of the legend known as Dante, who gets his DT powers; names his business; and dances around in the first mission while he's killing demons, it's fun as hell(pun intended), and yeah; I went through the same problem with Easy Mode, getting killed by the boss of Mission 2; Vergil, the Arkham Blob Monster; Agni & Rudra, Cerberus, pretty much every boss; even Lady, but; this was when I really sucked big time at the series, but yeah; being thrown into the deep end of the series, did help alot, but I also grinded against certain bosses, so I wouldn't EVER lose to them again, like Vergil, Arkham; the boss fight in the the 2nd mission, Beowulf, and it almost worked for me...but I never got past Hard Mode on DMC3, but I wanted to eventually work my way up to Dante Must Die, but even though I've played literally every single DMC game, from the very first one(with Trish, and the whole "fill your dark soul with light", thing, and Mundus), and the one with Emo Dante; which everyone hates, along with DMC2, 3, 4, and 5, and even seen the anime too; which is short; but pretty good, and is even referenced in DMC5; when they mention Patty being on the phone, Patty being the little girl from the DMC anime; who Dante was tasked with helping her trying to find her mother; while she stayed at the Devil May Cry office; and basically asked Dante for desserts. But; it's nice to have a throwback to the Animated Series. Sorry you couldn't beat Dante Must Die; but to be fair; even most of the best DMC players out there have always had some trouble with DMD difficulty. Since you basically die in only 1-2 hits, and since certain bosses in DMC3 already add pain and suffering to the game like for example: literally EVERY single Vergil fight, to Arkham (when he becomes a giant pink tentacle Blob demon); Beowulf; Cerberus, and anyone else I forgot? It's been a while since I've last gone through DMC3: Dante's Awakening: Special Edition, and I've forgotten most of the bosses; but I love every single DMC game; except maybe DmC, but not because it's a terrible game, it's just not a very worthy entry in the DMC series, with whiny; Emo Dante; Vergil being bland and boring; and the girl, Kat, she just doesn't do much; but it's still got good gameplay, just not a very good entry to the franchise, in my opinion. I mean; I actually liked DMC2 slightly more(no idea why; maybe it was the stylish Dante outfit or Lucia, the other protagonist), I don't know. But I definitely want to go back to the DMC games, and try them again on higher difficulties. Because it's worth trying again, for the sheer hell of it(pun intended).
I would purposely die to get into easy mode as a kid. But only lets you do it if you're dying in the first few missions. Once you get past Mission 3, you're locked in.
As a non English-speaking kid in the early 2000s I appreciated Spider-man's Kid Mode. There are levels that I never fully quite figured out to this day. Like the airplane in the hangar.
This game was really hard to me when I played it. I didn't have enough health all the time. I thought the game was really hard. I didn't even know there are difficulty levels. When I saw them in the video I thought "yes I remember that spider man shot his web when you chose one line there. I didn't understand they were difficulty levels. I just thought "funny animation" when I played it". It would be useful to know that you can lower difficulty level. I just clicked up-down, up-down, up-down for funny animation and never chose it
True story: in boxing, headgear prevents tears and other blemishes but doesn't reduce impact. Lil Mac might look more handsome than Glass Joe, but he's probably in just as rough a shape at that point.
@@DrAlchem01 , how about making future boxing headgear with special clear parts that are padded, yet will not scuff up over time, or be super sharp plastic or glass, in order to fix that peripheral issue instead?
@@paxhumana2015 that's a great idea, you're onto something! Olympic and pro boxing don't have headgear, but there's still a market for it among amateurs and casual boxers. They need to get used to using their peripheral vision to helping them deal with threats and that would help them become much more familiar with it
I love the head gear in Punch-out because it's referenced in the rematch matches by Glass Joe who becomes only slightly stronger because he get one after you bring his lose count to 100.
As a easy mode player, I'm actually fine with games poking fun at me for picking easy mode. Long as its not a constant reminder, or worse: Game locks you out from the major parts of the game. By which at that point: why even include a easy mode, if you don't want players who purchased the game to use it?
Game makers didn't want you to rent the game, see everything that it had to offer, and then return it. By having some of the game locked behind harder modes, you would have to practice to get to it (which hopefully meant buying the game).
@@lincolnpascual If thats the case, why bother with including such difficulty modes to begin with? Why not pull a dark souls and just...make a hard game without the illusion of being able to decide the mode you want to play on?
Honestly that Spiderman example is just what half the games with voiced protagonists or narrators do these days on any difficulty if you take more than three seconds to do whatever you're supposed to do. It's particularly annoying if you have a puzzle solution handed to you before you even start the puzzle, just because you're exploring a bit.
The funny thing is that I'm 99% certain that the Spider-Man example *wasn't* just on Kid Mode--I specifically remember Spidey hinting that I needed to "get the bomb to a 'safe' place" when I was taking my sweet time, but I don't believe I ever played on Kid Mode. (Admittedly, that was 20 years ago; I might just be misremembering how good/bad I was at the game.)
"Infantile Mode" in the Super Adventure Box section of Guild Wars 2 is a good candidate for this list. I'm not sure if it's how it fills the levels with happy clouds that spawn rainbows that let you basically skip all the platforming, if the related achievements are called "Baby's First Super Adventure" or... y'know... the name that brings the biggest shame.
The worst part about the shiny leaf is that sometimes it doesn’t help. Like when you keep dying because you’re trying to time your jump right for one of the stars.
Honestly, as someone who likes the color purple and would enjoy dishing out more damage than I'm taking, "The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile's" Pretty Princess mode seems for me! And I'm sure plenty of people in Metal Gear Solid V screwed around just for the pleasure of seeing a chicken hat on their head. XD
I will freely admit that I play games to relax and enjoy the story... So yeah, I will play easy mode often... If I enjoy the game, I may go back and play it on harder difficulties... But I am no trophy/chieve hunter these days, and can honestly care less about a platinum/100%
Agreed, I have played some games like Frostpunk where even hard mode you have to get lucky with some things and time a lot of stuff to perfection, play an optimised strategy that everyone uses, it's a good challenge and you can still fail. Then they have extreme where it's all that to the nth degree where even the elite players will restart without a certain starting condition and lose most of the time. Putting modes in that the majority will never complete seems a little silly to me but no-one should feel bad they can't do games that are deliberately too hard even on easy
I remember Ninja Dog mode. I went to stay at my uncle's, who had the original XBox and a copy of Ninja Gaiden Black. I died to the ch1 boss 3 times, and the message popped up. My uncle had never seen it, so he encouraged me to go along with it. He was cackling by the end of it, and I was just kinda shocked at how much of a roast Ayane gave Ryu.
I love it when games let you know right up front how easy or difficult they will be. Remember the Wolfenstein 3D difficulty setting of "Can I play Daddy?". That is fine right up to the part where I find out the kid is ten times better than I. He still doesn't want to play with me because I am "too slow" or something...Brat!
Lol, my dad can feel your pain. Sometimes I let him have a go at Halo MCC because he knows Halo 1 from his experience on the OG Xbox. Seeing my reaction times and ability to bounce through a level compared to him gives him the same impression that his reaction time is going down the drain, without me having to let him know that his are no match for Legendary.
I remember playing Wolfenstein 3D in the mid 90’s with my dad. I played on the “Can I Play Daddy?” difficulty while he played on one of the harder difficulties. When he was playing I would sit beside him and watch him play through a level while I held the booklet with the maps and told him where secret walls and treasure were. Those guards that jumped out and yelled “Spion!” always made me jump! Every single time! Those are some fond memories though.
Imo it's a bit unfair to say that the Spider-Man game is purposefully shaming the player when the kid mode was probably designed to make the game more accessible to very young players (as the name implies).
And it was. I couldn't even figure out how to web swing when I was 5. The decision to make web swinging the same button as jumping for kid mode was lifesaving XD
It makes sense sure, but it's also super uncommon and generally frowned upon by most gamers, Or at least the loud entitled ones, remember when Nintendo got flak for putting a driver assist mode in Mario cart?
Maybe i just have no shame, but most of these seem like I would rather play them than the regular difficulty. Life's hard enough as it is; I don't need video games to make me feel like, even in fantasy, I'm still not good enough. Also, that baby chick thing seems like it would be a great avenue for hilarity. Like wearing the stealth suit and putting c4 on the backs of the guards in the first Metal Gear Solid.
You don't need a stealth suit to do that in MSG 5. I remember someone made a compilation video of them using c4, a remote detonator and Fulton extraction balloons in combination. Was absolutely hilarious.
@@Chris_Sizemore That does sound pretty good. I actually haven't played 5, because I didn't have a PS4 for a long time and by the time I got one, I had long heard that it was unfinished and bad, so it wasn't at the top of my priority list. It's still on my list of games to play just because i loved the rest of the series, but haven't gotten around to it.
@@michael_mcgowan MSG5 is unfinished, and the "ending" is rubbish. The meat of the game is great. The Fullton Recovery System is one of the most fun mechanics ever introduced to the Metal Gear franchise ever. Phantom Pain is worth playing, even in its incomplete form.
Remember that MGS 5 learns whatever you use to deal with the guards, regardless of difficulty setting. Sniper ? Guards now wear heavy helmets. Close combat ? Guards now walk in pairs. And other stuff, it's actually very interesting.
Doesn't Batman Arkham city and Knight also use this? Funny thing is that Even so... Snake and Batman are still too powerful that they have the tool of every counter...
@@MikeP828 there not scripted.. because during the stealth sections if you sneak behind lone thugs or millita, their leader will tell them to stick together.. It's basically the AI Director telling them to counter your tactic.. I know in Metal gear solid 5 all missions and bases Encounters, if you sneak around at bases in night time, the enemies will use Night vision to find you in the dark including adding snipers.. Kinda like how in a fighting game if you win the first round against the AI opponent, the AI tells your opponent to get aggressive (Up the difficulty on them) I did play street fighter 2 and when I faced Balrog including Chun Li.. Balrog liked To get Close and personal, While Chun Li jumped to the back and she would try to Wall jump attack you...
@@Mangaka_Library the enemies booby trapping gargoyles and wearing heartbeat sensors are all scripted. It doesn’t matter how you played the game they still did that, that’s what he was referring to not the ai reacting in the moment by changing their tactics. He was referring more to the world changing based on your actions as a player and not the ai reacting based on your actions. Some examples are that in mg5 if you played loud and gunned down every single enemy you see then the enemies started wearing body armor and helmets, if you fultoned a ton of enemies in front of other enemies they would start to recognize what was happening over the course of the game and then cut down their friend before he goes to the moon. If you frequently deployed at night then they start wearing night vision and more spotlights start showing up, if you frequently used the cardboard box to sneak through enemy bases then over time enemies will start checking boxes and eventually just shoot it on sight if they notice it’s moved, etc. what your talking about is technically the same thing but it’s a very primitive version of what metal gear 5 had and I don’t think any other game has done it in at equal or better level then mg5 did
I still remember DMC3 that got most people was Vergil 1: Rose are Red Chocolate is Delectable You are not worthy as my opponent Easy Mode is now selectable
I can remember playing DMC3, and I could barely get past the first boss, the one outside of the yet unnamed Devil May Cry building, and getting killed by it, and seeing the "Easy Mode is now selectable" message too. I tried not to pick it, because i wanted to prove to myself that I didn't need Easy Mode, but as soon as I got to Vergil 1, and died like, 4, 5 times in a row, I went back to the beginning of the very first mission, and spammed it in Easy Mode, just to get back to Misson 7, and kick Vergil's stupid ass, just to say I did. And I wouldn't stop until I beat Vergil(yes, literally every single Vergil boss fight),on EVERY SINGLE DIFFICULTY setting, even Very Hard and Dante Must Die. Even though I had a hard as hell time fighting those 2 annoying demon swords, Agni & Rudra, but even though I never got to do that, I still beat Vergil multiple times anyways; and I managed to beat the first boss without having to worry about him anymore, and even Agni & Rudra, the only truly challenging bosses in DMC3 were Arkham(after he turns himself into a tentacle blob monster), and Vergil has to help you, and you also can't use Devil Trigger in the fight either, so no health recovery, and Arkham always keeps sapping your health, and recovering his own health, while Vergil just went off and did his own thing, and also, there were exploding blobs too. Really annoying as hell, as if having to accept Vergil's help already wasn't shameful enough,(although I thought it looked cool), especially the cutscene after the fight. But, Vergil 3, is probably the most challenging final boss in the game, (probably in the DMC series as a whole), and if you hadn't died enough (somehow), to get the "Easy Mode is now selectable" message yet(firstly, good job on getting that far in DMC3 to have not died that much). But you'll definitely see that message by either Mission 19(the Arkham Blob), or Misson 20(Vergil 3), the bane of my experience with DMC3.
Brings back the good ol' days when me and my brother would hover over the "kid mode" selection 1000 times just to hear the different voices say kid mode.
What about the "Don't Hurt me, Daddy" difficulty level in Wolfenstein new colossus? It literally shows the main protagonist in baby clothes complete with a pacifier when you select it.
Yeah, that was a part of the original Wolfenstein, too. I didn't really mind it then because I was a kid myself, but nowadays I can't be bothered with games that pull condescending nonsense like that lol
99% of the time, I am playing the game for the story, not the combat, so I always go Story/Easy mode on all games. I totally accept being shamed for enjoying my game :)
You need to include Killer Instinct SNES's very insulting message for beating it on easy mode! "Congratulations, you have defeated Ultratech's low end, garbage, obsolete, floor model, weak, on the verge of extinction, barely mobile, only can do a 5 hit combo, pathetic, yesterday's news end boss. I hope you're happy with yourself. Maybe you should up the stakes for a real challenge."
i hope as time goes on more games will let you change the difficulty wile playing because sometimes its just one bit of a game that you get stuck at and i dont feel like replaying the entire game on a lower difficulty just to pass one tricky part
Monster Hunter Rise has an interesting take on a difficulty slider. Basically, there are these things around the map called Spiribirds, and they can provide boosts to your attack, defense, max health or max stamina. You can choose to take a couple of minutes to gather some of these along with other small creatures called endemic life, and they can help make the hunt easier. They're also mostly not on the direct paths, so you do have to go out of your way a bit to gather them. If you feel confident enough, however, you can just go right up to the monster and fight. Nothing is stopping you, but it will be a bit harder because you're losing a bit of attack, extra HP and stamina. The defense admittedly doesn't matter because it's only up to +50 or so when Master Rank sets have over 600-700 defense.
I don't think the white tanuki suit is that bad, but asking if I want Luigi to beat the level for me is downright humiliating., Not as much as the fact that I actually used that once in Mario Galaxy 2.
@@markerikson7423 IIRC in Mario Galaxy 2 at least if you have Luigi finish the level for you, you only get a brown star instead of the normal yellow one, but are otherwise still able to continue the game.
@@markerikson7423 Depends on the definition of completion. Technically you can't get the "complete all levels without easy mode" achievement.... but that's specifically an achievement for not using easy mode, which you used, so yeah. :P (and only gives an additional mark on your safe file anyway)
It is if you want to show that you want 5 stars on your save file. If you even touch the Invincibility Bell in Super Mario 3D World once, you'll only get 4 stars. Plus even if you do use it, it doesn't guarantee you passing said level if you run out of time.
Gotta love Devil May Cry 3's way of roasting you. I'm sure many unfortunate devil hunters have seen "Easy mode is now selectable." Pop onto their screen after dying too many times to a boss, as if the game itself put you in the kiddie pool because you made it clear you can't swim in DMC's deep waters.
It's hilarious when the first God of War offered to make enemies weaker if you die too many times in a given stage... including the clunky platforming sections.
Ah yes, Easy Mode where you're shamed for having to go that route. For me, it was Circus of Meat from Psychonauts. After failing miserably like twenty times to climb up the spinning web or whatever, I sighed and handed the controller to my Eldest and said, "Could you get me past this, please?" I think she was 12 at the time. And she has never let me live that down.
@@Feasco oooooooohhhhh yes it was! If I ever meet Tim Schaeffer, I'm going to tie him down and yell, "RASPUTIN!!!" in his ear ever ten seconds for several hours.
I feel the pain, possibly at the same spot - the camera goes fixed and totally ruins my aim to the next platform while little Oli yells the same 3 lines forever! still a top fave game tho, I replay it almost every summer
Hey, everyone plays games differently. Some people like dying over and over in order to slowly but surely take down a tough enemy and feel proud of their effort for doing so, and some people like to enjoy playing the game at some point
Shadow Warrior 2's easy mode description says something to that effect. While that's wholesome, I find it a lot more interesting when they go the length to roast the player for picking easy. I mean, the developers designed the game to challenge you and for you to have fun with it. Trashtalk is meant to ignite a fire in you. When the game makes an enemy out of me, I make it my mission to learn the ins and outs of it until I can take everything it can throw at me and make it look effortless in dealing with it all. Sometimes, you just need a little inspiration in the form of a haymaker straight to the ego for you to pick yourself up and persevere.
@@fierysmile2929 That also very much assumes that you have any sense of gamer pride. I’m disabled. I’ve accepted the fact that I suck at video games a long time ago. I don’t care if games make fun of me, at least personally. I don’t think it’s a good thing that some games make fun of you for picking easy modes, because that might really hurt some disabled gamer who needs the easier mode for accessibility reasons. One of the big problems with the gaming industry is that it’s very ableist, as it assumes you can use both hands (this is particularly true for consoles, but I’ve seen it in PC and mobile games too). This is not the case for every gamer out there. I can’t use my left hand. Luckily, I play on PC, so I generally have access to cheats. However, it would be nice to see more one-handed mode control schemes in video games.
@@AlphaWolf096 This is probably gonna come off as insensitive, and I guarantee that's not the intent. Neither a lack of accessibility options nor ableism are why you'd choose easy. Choosing a difficulty level is a conscious decision by the player. You pick what you believe you can beat, disability or no disability. I say that because people like Brolylegs exist. He can't use his hands at all. He plays using his face. He beat Elden Ring not to long ago, and has beaten every Souls game before it. He favors difficult games. But what makes my point is the fact that he beats professional gamers, people who are good at the games and play their hardest all day every day, who don't have disabilities, on the regular and makes it look like he's barely even trying half the time. We're all different as human beings. We all function differently, we all behave differently, we all have different strengths, different weaknesses, and different mindsets. But Brolylegs proves that only that which we _let_ stop us, actually stops us.
@@fierysmile2929 That’s great for Brolylegs. Never knew about him. However, he’s one person. Besides that, that’s really no excuse not to have alternative control schemes for disabled people or having them in mind during design (VR is especially bad for this). Understanding and sensitivity never hurt, either. If a disabled person (or any gamer, for that matter) doesn’t think that they can beat or even just enjoy a higher difficulty, then games shouldn’t be making fun of them for that, because that could potentially be very hurtful to someone.
@@fierysmile2929 I mean not everyone takes games that seriously. Some people just want to chill and have fun without having to have to train like a professional athlete
I absolutely remember using kid mode, as a kid, on that spider man game. I had the PC demo and I replayed that bank mission many times! Never played through the whole game though...
I don't think I'd be saying "Shame on you" after I've been killed four times in same spot by an annoying trick, or something I haven't mastered yet. More shouty four letter words and gestures.
I know they didn't actually mock you for using it, but it reminds me of the Resident Evil remakes with their cheap one shot boss kills, resulting in the game condescendingly asking you to switch to "Assisted Mode". Damn that swinging storage crate!
@@maliciositygames Yeah, I'm pretty sure Birkin only attempts to grab you when the crate is coming back?? Last time I played on Hardcore, 9/10 times he would never start that move until grabbing me means dragging me with him to the depths.
various 90’s games would either offer a bad end mocking you for playing on easy, or a screen consisting of a wall of text saying to “try next difficulty”, but often times BOTH will happen. One such instance is everyone’s favorite SNES brawler, TMNT IV: turtles in time where shredder laughs at you for playing on the easiest setting
Devil May Cry 3 doesn’t need to shame you for being bad. All it needs to say is “Easy Mode is now selectable” after Cerberus kills you a few times and you’ll feel all the shame you need to
Wait, no Shin Megami Tensei IV? You die and you can use in game currency (super valuable) or play coins to be revived. Each subsequent death the assistant to the Death dude gets more and more annoyed and sarcastic plus patronizing with you. Finally with exasperation he let's you access easy mode. The only way to access this mode.
I always play on the easiest mode first when playing a game for the first time. I want the story first. Then I usually play a gain on the default mode. And I'll only play on the harder difficulty modes for achievements
Idk if you mean the sneaking suit (the outfit shown) or the active camo suit, but both the camo and chicken hat make it so you cant get s rank, the chicken hat is just more visually embarassing
The difficulty level selection screen in Wolfenstein: The New Order springs to mind. I believe they put BJ in a baby bonnet with a pacifier on the easiest setting. I think they also use absurd names/descriptions for them just to poke fun at the player for picking easier difficulties. I usually go with the 3rd most difficult setting; it's harder to choose when there are 4 options instead of 3 sometimes. RE7 is more polite with just saying that on they'll take it easy on the player when easy is selected. Considering how I am with horror games, that's the setting I've opted for so I can concentrate on the story and solving puzzles, and being scared, without also juggling fighting enemies that won't stay down all the time. Doesn't Crash Bandicoot do something with the Aku Aku masks if you die enough? I know people call it a pity Aku or double pity Aku. Kingdoms of Amalur is one game that will ask if you want to change the difficulty setting if you keep dying in a row a lot. When I first started playing I ran into issues fighting the Maid of Windemere for the House of Ballads faction quest. The game started showing me a little popup after respawning reminding me that I could always change to an easier difficulty. It wasn't patronizing in its wording, but knowing how easy the game is, for the most part, on the hard difficulty setting had me refuse to change the difficulty. It also means no achievement for playing the whole game on hard; have to start on hard and not change it until after you've defeated Tirnoch. Re-Reckoning added a Very Hard difficulty, but it's trash. They didn't balance it. All they did was make the enemies damage sponges without adjusting weapon damage or anything else. After just one or two fights weapons are nearly broken and it just draws things out several times longer without making it fun anymore, so I restarted on the original Hard difficulty and it works like it should.
They did put BJ in a baby bonnet and i started my first playthrough of that game a few weeks ago and was deciding whether or not to use the easiest mode
Wolfenstein's baby bonnet is a throwback to Wolf 3D, which had the same things, back when overcompensation and embarrassing machismo had more of a hold on gaming.
@@Checkplease700 Does he actually wear it in the game or is just to poke fun at the player when they're choosing a difficulty setting? I've never selected it myself.
@@wraithcadmus I don't miss those days. I go the medium/normal difficulty on most games with difficulty settings, but I've gotten over feeling shamed for using an easier mode when I feel like it. I've completed BioShock Infinite on every difficulty except 1999 mode. The 3 main modes felt pretty balanced to me, actually. Easy was easy, but it was still fun, and the hard difficulty wasn't overly punishing and not that much more difficult than normal mode.
Saying that line about putting the bomb in a "safe" place, to imply that you need to take the big bomb and put it in the safe in order to complete the level is actually quite in character with Spider-Man.
@@michealforguson5317 Yeah, sounds exactly like something the ol' Web-Head would say, because he loves making puns and witty jokes like that; constantly.
Well now I feel better. I beat Punch Out Wii and didn’t even realise that the headguard was a thing in that game, so obviously I didn’t lose that many times lol
Yeah, everyone should be wearing head protection. Or, alternately, not be playing a sport where you punch each other in the head until someone falls unconscious.
The easiest difficulty setting in "I Wanna Be The Guy" is medium. If you choose it, it doubles the number of save points in the game. However, it also puts a giant pink bow in your character's hair and all the medium difficulty save points change "SAVE" to "WUSS" when you've used them.
@@RandalfElVikingo it's a playable game with 8 bosses, 3 save slots, difficulty modifiers, a fan base, TH-cam episode series on it, and it's better than 90% of the AAA dogshit that's come out since lootboxes came to consoles. It's a real game.
I mean, honestly, the mocking backfires. What's more humiliating? Being taken down by someone 100 times smaller than you, or being taken down by someone 100 times smaller than you wearing a pink bow? It's more embarrassing to the bosses you defeat than to you.
That has always confused me, players at that level of skill need those things more and people playing at high difficulties will probably love having decreased resources.
@@shadenox8164 Except in the cases where the reverse happens: easy mode specifically gives MORE exp and rewards (and sometimes, is the only change). For some reason this is much less common though.
At least these games aren't like retro ones which let you play around 3 levels, gave you a patronising message about you playing on easy mode and then forced you to replay them on a harder difficultly just so you can actually complete the game... I'm talking about you Mickey's Wild Adventure/Mickey Mania! No, I don't have a 25 year old grudge on a videogame, that would just be silly... 😅
Oh boy..... I never even finished that game as a kid, it was freaking brutal. Freaking haunted house levels always tripped me up, even on Easy >_> Might have to go back and give it a shot I suppose
and there are games like Skyrim where all achievements can be unlocked on the easiest setting, some of us play games for story and not any impossible challenge Had that Spider-Man game on N64
Most games: "So you died to the boss again? Don't worry, now you'll deal more damage and take less." Souls games: "So you died to the boss again? Don't worry, now you'll take more damage and deal less."
That seems to only be in Demon Souls. Now Dark Souls 2? That's a bit more apt. Die a bunch in DS2 and your character's Maximum HP starts decreasing. Using a Human Effigy will reverse this, and that's why I always have a boatload of them. That and, DS2 is the only Souls game that I go out of my way to try to make every enemy vanish. Since defeating the enemies enough times removes them from the game untill your next playthrough.
Sekiro: “so you died to that boss again? Don’t worry, a lore based plague will make npc’s too sick to bargain with you” Elden Ring: “so you died to that boss again? Don’t worry, we have more bosses for you to die to”
Alien Hominid, by Behemoth studios, a game with origins in Newgrounds, lets you play easy mode. However, you can only play the game up to the first boss before it shows your alien wearing a diaper and bonet, and telling you to play on Normal in order to continue.
I remember Devil May Cry 3 had not one, but two 'mercy modes' unlocked via repeated deaths. You don't have to wear anything humiliating, but you'll know that the game is taking pity on you. You'll *feel* its condescension in every halfhearted swing of the enemy's blades.
Wanna talk about the simple difficulty for cuphead? In this, each boss misses a phase, they take less damage and also, you don’t get their soul contract once you complete it.
A great example of this is “Will You Snail”. It’s a great indie game about a sadistic AI that predicts your movement in order to kill you and that’ll shame you for being bad at the game to the point we’re they’ll lower the difficulty themselves and make a frankly condescending statement about it. Needless to say, I’ve been shamed way too many times. :)
In Advance Guardian Heroes, any time you died through the earlier levels of the game, you'd be offered a deal that would turn you into an unstoppable killing machine for the rest of the stage...and then make it impossible to actually reach the end of the game, while the big bad guy mocks you.
I loved playing that spiderman game on our old N64... The best part was all the cheat codes to getthe different costumes. Thank you invisibility suit for letting me see the later levels before I was old enough to actually develop skill. 😅
You know I actually really like the idea of kid mode in the spiderman game. I mean yeah it shames you if you're not a "kid" using it but that level of inclusivity in a game is kinda sweet. They should totally have one in the next The Last of Us.
I love games where you can alter the difficulty on the go. Guess I'm getting old, but I play games to have fun and enjoy the story, not to get fed up and quit because I'm to stubborn to lower the difficulty.
Imy favorite description of easy mode come from Shadow Warrior. Basically it goes, "it's okay to play on easy we're not here to judge. Afyer a hard day you just to feel like a superhero." Cracked me up when i read it.
I'm not ashamed to say, that I played the Spiderman game on Kids Mode. But also, I was six and this was one of the first games I ever played on the PS1. :D
I was going to repeat this joke with the tutu and the ribbon and such but instead I'm just going to sigh that so many of these associate embarrassment/being bad at games with femininity. More chicken hats.
I was hopelessly bad at the Spiderman game even on Kid mode when I played it as a kid. In my defence, I had to play it on PC with horrendous keyboard controls, so not entirely my fault.
Wasn't the pc version a watered down, not as good one anyway? Not trying to be mean or anything but I heard the Pc port was glitchy af so it may not have just been you there (Idk though since I never played it)
How can you not mention the classic Earthworm Jim. If you played on "practice" mode, the game was mostly identical to normal except at the end you got Jim reading a script about "what are worms"
Easy Mode in Metal Gear Rising basically causes the game to parry all attacks perfectly, even if you would have otherwise messed them up on the harder difficulty modes
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has what can really only be described as a cheat weapon if you're finding the game too difficult. It's called the Fox Blade and it one hit kills normal enemies, and cuts down bosses faster than I could type this comment.
@@jaredcrabb Me neither. I only remember Normal, and Professional. I've played a lot of RE4, never saw an Easy Mode in that game. I played the original GameCube version, the Wii version, the ps4 version, and the Switch version. And nope, only remember Normal; and Professional. If there's an easy mode, I definitely don't remember it. And why would it block off the hedge maze with Salazar's dogs, or some rooms in the castle?
oh, "pretty princess mode" reminds me of a crazy comic book called "i hate fairyland" by Skottie Young. it has a really cutesy art style, AND extreme gore! it also has a running gag where the protagonist, Gertrude, KILLS THE NARRATORS! AND at one point, she gets into a fighting tournament, and the boss is NAMED "pretty purty princess"!
As a mother of a six-year old, I'd love actual kid modes for some of my favourite games. Many of them have such cool or lovely environments, where both kids and tired parents would greatly enjoy a casual stroll without timers and violence. As a very casual gamer, and non-expert in game-making, I often wonder howuch extra work it would be to program an option of turning off everything except environment and non-violent actions.
You forgot the most humiliating aspect of the White Tanooki Suit.... If that thing even shows up at all on a 3D Land play through. The stars on the file select screen lose their shine. And look ugly.... So, if you're struggling with a level. If you want to avoid this. You NEED to reset your game, and lose whatever checkpoint you had....
Still less embarrassing than the only "easy mode" we had in the 80's; beg an older friend/brother to get through that part for you, at the price of eternal reminders that you had to ask for help.
Older brother.
Sure thing, honey.
Back when i replayed half life 2 A LOT, i used to just save right after the hardest part of the game, so on replays i could just reload that save abd skip the section.
...fucking nova prospect turret section...
Yeah....we'd get my mom to finish tough levels....
And then you take back over and die on the next part anyway.
Yeah, yeah... just ask your older brother, and he'll get you through the tough part all the way to the end of the level...then reset the system so none of that saved.
To be fair to the Spider-man Kid’s Mode example - that’s actually probably more accurate to the character than him not saying anything, so in a way it’s providing a superior Spider-man experience. 🤷🏻♂️
And honestly, I don't understand what's so bad about also having web swing mapped to double-tapping jump. Why is that part shameful?
I don't know why they added that to the list, Spidey says that regardless of it being Kid Mode or not.
I was thinking the same thing, what is Spider Man without his witty one-liners?
Also it's called kid mode so it has to be easy, played it all the time as a kid
@@Benjamin-rj7ds Yeah, I was going to say. He does that regardless. I had it on PC and honestly the real easy modes were certain suits you could get
Funny thing they missed about the headguard is that Glass Joe gets one in the title defense mode since when you beat him the first time he was at 99 losses.
I thought the headgear was to also protect his literal glass jaw, and not just because Glass Joe is literally the worst boxer of all time.
Yeah, you really don't want to wear it, it's basically a big sign saying 'I suck as bad as Glass Joe!'
@@WhiteFangofWar Really? Because not to brag, but I did beat Punch-Out on the Wii, and got to Title Defense, with only slightly moderate trouble. But Title Defense Glass Joe is still a joke. I do remember Donkey Kong being in the game, but I don't remember ever doing that fight. I had a pretty good record in the game, nothing great, but I definitely didn't lose 100 times. I lost a lot less than that. But since it was a few years ago, I don't remember my record specifically. I just remember beating everybody, taking the title, doing most of Title Defense, don't remember how far I got, but I don't remember beating that mode though, I think I just went and played another game. But, Punch-Out on the Wii was a good game. But I can't believe how awful Glass Joe is as a boxer. Like I said before, he's literally the worst boxer of all time.
@Conquest Really? I know that already. I just didn't mention it, because does anybody ever mention who specifically the guy he beat even was? Was it King Hippo? Mr. Sandman? Super Macho Man? DK? Doc Louis? But does it even matter? Glass Joe IS legitimately the worst boxer of all time. Who's this guy Glass Joe beat? Is he hiding in shame somewhere, or what?(I mean; if it were me; I know I would), Did he retire because he lost to the worst boxer ever? Or did he ever exist in the first place? I don't know.
@Conquest , no, Gabby Jay and Glass Joe fought each other twice, split the wins, and spent every other fight that they ever fought losing.
I knew about the chicken hat but this the first time I heard there was a better version, would be fun just to mess with the guards with the second one
exactly, bout to do some fun shit with that.
Messing with the guards is fun in many games. I never finished Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory because I spent all my time tormenting guards at the start of the fourth level in various ways. That or playing the Panama bank level like a Call of Duty level.
@@torgranael Ever play the PS1 Phantom Menace? Mos Espa was especially fun to mess with the guards in.
@@anon_y_mousse Never had a PS1 unfortunately. My PS2 still works though.
@@torgranael If you can find a copy of the game and it's an earlier model PS2, you could play it still. Did you know that the PS2 and PS1 controllers were backwards and forwards compatible?
As a kid back then when I heard kid mode I was like "Wow, an appropriate mode for a 6 years old" and yet Monster Ock still scares the shit out of me regardless of any difficulty
That was a body horror nightmare fuel boss.
@@brandonp7503 That was always the scariest Spider-Man boss. Seeing Carnage slide over to Doc Ock, after he was already knocked out, and then attach itself to him and then start screeching at you, while throwing things at you, even making Spidey get scared. Seriously, all you did in that "fight" was run away, because your attacks do nothing to Carnage Ock. When I played the n64 version as a kid, I always tried to skip that scene, or complete the game before a new episode of the Spider-Man cartoon would come on. But I always HATED seeing or hearing Monster Ock's screech, so I also turned down the TV volume too, because I didn't want to hear it saying "DIE!!!!! DIE!!!!!!!" constantly, while chasing me down a hallway with its red goopy, red metal monster tentacle-like things. It's not even a fight, Spidey's just web-swinging away from it, trying to escape, or expose the thing to harsh sunlight or whatever Symbiotes were weak to. I had nightmares about that Monster Ock thing as a kid, and don't know how I beat it, back then. And when I'd go back to the game, I always dreaded seeing my worst nightmare: Carnage Ock, chasing me down a hallway, like this just suddenly became a horror game starring Spider-Man. But props to whoever did the voice for that demonic nightmare creature. They did a good job with the voice.
I played it on PC
I hated the sewer crawling scenes more...you had to do X within y seconds or instantly die...in almost every scene, even the fight with Venom, you had to beat him in under a certain amount of time
No you didn’t
"Easy Mode Is Now Selectable" in the Devil May Cry games hurt the worst for me because it was subtle
Yeah man, its like the game throw you a bone out of guilt&/pity since you already brought it and didn't want you to refund it as the result.
But you know what they say, you gotta start somewhere, and I will admit I've become better player out of easy mode and finished normal on my second and hard at the third run.
Still couldn't beat DMD though...
@@komi-samabeliever7319 Yeah, I agree, got to start somewhere; and since DMC3 is the first DMC game in the timeline, it's the perfect place to start, since this is the beginning of the legend known as Dante, who gets his DT powers; names his business; and dances around in the first mission while he's killing demons, it's fun as hell(pun intended), and yeah; I went through the same problem with Easy Mode, getting killed by the boss of Mission 2; Vergil, the Arkham Blob Monster; Agni & Rudra, Cerberus, pretty much every boss; even Lady, but; this was when I really sucked big time at the series, but yeah; being thrown into the deep end of the series, did help alot, but I also grinded against certain bosses, so I wouldn't EVER lose to them again, like Vergil, Arkham; the boss fight in the the 2nd mission, Beowulf, and it almost worked for me...but I never got past Hard Mode on DMC3, but I wanted to eventually work my way up to Dante Must Die, but even though I've played literally every single DMC game, from the very first one(with Trish, and the whole "fill your dark soul with light", thing, and Mundus), and the one with Emo Dante; which everyone hates, along with DMC2, 3, 4, and 5, and even seen the anime too; which is short; but pretty good, and is even referenced in DMC5; when they mention Patty being on the phone, Patty being the little girl from the DMC anime; who Dante was tasked with helping her trying to find her mother; while she stayed at the Devil May Cry office; and basically asked Dante for desserts. But; it's nice to have a throwback to the Animated Series. Sorry you couldn't beat Dante Must Die; but to be fair; even most of the best DMC players out there have always had some trouble with DMD difficulty. Since you basically die in only 1-2 hits, and since certain bosses in DMC3 already add pain and suffering to the game like for example: literally EVERY single Vergil fight, to Arkham (when he becomes a giant pink tentacle Blob demon); Beowulf; Cerberus, and anyone else I forgot? It's been a while since I've last gone through DMC3: Dante's Awakening: Special Edition, and I've forgotten most of the bosses; but I love every single DMC game; except maybe DmC, but not because it's a terrible game, it's just not a very worthy entry in the DMC series, with whiny; Emo Dante; Vergil being bland and boring; and the girl, Kat, she just doesn't do much; but it's still got good gameplay, just not a very good entry to the franchise, in my opinion. I mean; I actually liked DMC2 slightly more(no idea why; maybe it was the stylish Dante outfit or Lucia, the other protagonist), I don't know. But I definitely want to go back to the DMC games, and try them again on higher difficulties. Because it's worth trying again, for the sheer hell of it(pun intended).
I would purposely die to get into easy mode as a kid. But only lets you do it if you're dying in the first few missions. Once you get past Mission 3, you're locked in.
Respectfully disrespectful
Who cares what the game calls you? Lmao I'm trying to have fun and enjoy the game..that's why I hate dark souls like games
I’ve never heard of Dishwasher: Vampire smile before today, but as someone who hung out with the emo kids, I can confirm that’s what 2011 looked like
Honestly i want this game JUST for the pretty princess mode, ngl
@@Randomodnar It should be available on Steam, I think.
@@thomasjess5029 oh i mostly commented so i could come back and remember the game for when i get paid. 100% going to be purchasing this game
@@Randomodnar Oh okay, that's cool. I got a huge wishlist on Steam and GOG for games that I look forward to when they go on sale.
@@Randomodnar if you haven't got it yet look for their 3 pack of vampire salt and sanctuary and charlie murder all amazing fun games
As a non English-speaking kid in the early 2000s I appreciated Spider-man's Kid Mode. There are levels that I never fully quite figured out to this day. Like the airplane in the hangar.
This game was really hard to me when I played it. I didn't have enough health all the time. I thought the game was really hard. I didn't even know there are difficulty levels. When I saw them in the video I thought "yes I remember that spider man shot his web when you chose one line there. I didn't understand they were difficulty levels. I just thought "funny animation" when I played it". It would be useful to know that you can lower difficulty level. I just clicked up-down, up-down, up-down for funny animation and never chose it
Same. I was 6 when I played it. I really liked playing on kid mode back then.
Wasn't the airplane in the hangar from the sequel?
Windtunnel. Yeah. Gumming up the bi-plane propellers? Really hard to do.
True story: in boxing, headgear prevents tears and other blemishes but doesn't reduce impact. Lil Mac might look more handsome than Glass Joe, but he's probably in just as rough a shape at that point.
From experience it also blocks part of your peripheral vision. So while you're more protected in a sense, you're more likely to get hit anyway!
@@DrAlchem01 , how about making future boxing headgear with special clear parts that are padded, yet will not scuff up over time, or be super sharp plastic or glass, in order to fix that peripheral issue instead?
@@paxhumana2015 that's a great idea, you're onto something! Olympic and pro boxing don't have headgear, but there's still a market for it among amateurs and casual boxers. They need to get used to using their peripheral vision to helping them deal with threats and that would help them become much more familiar with it
The fact that glass Joe gets one in title defense but Little Mac doesn't is technically cheating though I guess he gets a pass because doctors orders
I love the head gear in Punch-out because it's referenced in the rematch matches by Glass Joe who becomes only slightly stronger because he get one after you bring his lose count to 100.
Look, it's either I go Easy Mode or I miss out on 95% of the game I paid $60 for. A gamer's gotta do what a gamer's gotta do!
Respect
Pokedex entry 132, friend: Ditto
Same, sometimes I play in easy mode for achievement reasons
Fair. Often times, I want something in my life to not be a challenge.
I'm a parent of 4 kids. I just wanna enjoy the story and escape the world for a few hours.
As a easy mode player, I'm actually fine with games poking fun at me for picking easy mode. Long as its not a constant reminder, or worse: Game locks you out from the major parts of the game. By which at that point: why even include a easy mode, if you don't want players who purchased the game to use it?
"Practice mode".
Cuphead does this.
Game makers didn't want you to rent the game, see everything that it had to offer, and then return it. By having some of the game locked behind harder modes, you would have to practice to get to it (which hopefully meant buying the game).
@@jdb2002 Greek era God of War locking sneak peaks for the next game behind Very Hard
Because some devs still think (rightly) that not every game needs to cater to everyone. If you want the reward, DO THE WORK.
GIT GUD, SUCKA.
@@lincolnpascual If thats the case, why bother with including such difficulty modes to begin with? Why not pull a dark souls and just...make a hard game without the illusion of being able to decide the mode you want to play on?
Honestly that Spiderman example is just what half the games with voiced protagonists or narrators do these days on any difficulty if you take more than three seconds to do whatever you're supposed to do. It's particularly annoying if you have a puzzle solution handed to you before you even start the puzzle, just because you're exploring a bit.
The funny thing is that I'm 99% certain that the Spider-Man example *wasn't* just on Kid Mode--I specifically remember Spidey hinting that I needed to "get the bomb to a 'safe' place" when I was taking my sweet time, but I don't believe I ever played on Kid Mode. (Admittedly, that was 20 years ago; I might just be misremembering how good/bad I was at the game.)
Yeah, it only really works on games like the Stanley Parable, where the entire point of the game is to annoy the narrator as much as possible.
At this point I just tune it out but it does get annoying after a while
The Pretty Princess mode honestly seems great! I love taking less damage and dealing more damage in games whenever possible, and pink is nice!
"Infantile Mode" in the Super Adventure Box section of Guild Wars 2 is a good candidate for this list. I'm not sure if it's how it fills the levels with happy clouds that spawn rainbows that let you basically skip all the platforming, if the related achievements are called "Baby's First Super Adventure" or... y'know... the name that brings the biggest shame.
The worst part about the shiny leaf is that sometimes it doesn’t help. Like when you keep dying because you’re trying to time your jump right for one of the stars.
Honestly, as someone who likes the color purple and would enjoy dishing out more damage than I'm taking, "The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile's" Pretty Princess mode seems for me! And I'm sure plenty of people in Metal Gear Solid V screwed around just for the pleasure of seeing a chicken hat on their head. XD
Roses are red.
Chocolate is delectable.
You are not worthy as my opponent.
Easy mode is now selectable.
Might conTrolls everything
Goddamnit Vergil is too fucking cool for me to even be mad at him for unlocking Easy Mode.
Why hasn't this been used yet.
Yes
I will freely admit that I play games to relax and enjoy the story... So yeah, I will play easy mode often... If I enjoy the game, I may go back and play it on harder difficulties... But I am no trophy/chieve hunter these days, and can honestly care less about a platinum/100%
So you do care about that 100% yet you play on easy mode and aren't an achievement hunter?
Agreed, I have played some games like Frostpunk where even hard mode you have to get lucky with some things and time a lot of stuff to perfection, play an optimised strategy that everyone uses, it's a good challenge and you can still fail. Then they have extreme where it's all that to the nth degree where even the elite players will restart without a certain starting condition and lose most of the time. Putting modes in that the majority will never complete seems a little silly to me but no-one should feel bad they can't do games that are deliberately too hard even on easy
@@DanMarston117 They said they could care less about 100%.
@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor So they _do_ care, at least a little...
@@DanMarston117 Well, we found the people who don't understand sarcasm.
I remember Ninja Dog mode. I went to stay at my uncle's, who had the original XBox and a copy of Ninja Gaiden Black. I died to the ch1 boss 3 times, and the message popped up. My uncle had never seen it, so he encouraged me to go along with it. He was cackling by the end of it, and I was just kinda shocked at how much of a roast Ayane gave Ryu.
I love it when games let you know right up front how easy or difficult they will be. Remember the Wolfenstein 3D difficulty setting of "Can I play Daddy?". That is fine right up to the part where I find out the kid is ten times better than I. He still doesn't want to play with me because I am "too slow" or something...Brat!
Lol, my dad can feel your pain. Sometimes I let him have a go at Halo MCC because he knows Halo 1 from his experience on the OG Xbox. Seeing my reaction times and ability to bounce through a level compared to him gives him the same impression that his reaction time is going down the drain, without me having to let him know that his are no match for Legendary.
I remember playing Wolfenstein 3D in the mid 90’s with my dad. I played on the “Can I Play Daddy?” difficulty while he played on one of the harder difficulties. When he was playing I would sit beside him and watch him play through a level while I held the booklet with the maps and told him where secret walls and treasure were. Those guards that jumped out and yelled “Spion!” always made me jump! Every single time!
Those are some fond memories though.
As a 5 year old child, I appreciated Spiderman’s kid mode, but replaying a few years later felt like a whole new game!
Imo it's a bit unfair to say that the Spider-Man game is purposefully shaming the player when the kid mode was probably designed to make the game more accessible to very young players (as the name implies).
And it was. I couldn't even figure out how to web swing when I was 5. The decision to make web swinging the same button as jumping for kid mode was lifesaving XD
It does make sense, a lot of young kids do like Spider-man.
It makes sense sure, but it's also super uncommon and generally frowned upon by most gamers, Or at least the loud entitled ones, remember when Nintendo got flak for putting a driver assist mode in Mario cart?
@@christopherjones8448 I'd love to see some try hard's reaction to kid mode, demanding that five year olds should 'git gud' at Spider-Man (2000) XD
@@mar_speedman I want to track down a copy of the game just so I can hear all of Spidy's sarcastic "tips"
Maybe i just have no shame, but most of these seem like I would rather play them than the regular difficulty. Life's hard enough as it is; I don't need video games to make me feel like, even in fantasy, I'm still not good enough.
Also, that baby chick thing seems like it would be a great avenue for hilarity. Like wearing the stealth suit and putting c4 on the backs of the guards in the first Metal Gear Solid.
You don't need a stealth suit to do that in MSG 5. I remember someone made a compilation video of them using c4, a remote detonator and Fulton extraction balloons in combination. Was absolutely hilarious.
@@Chris_Sizemore That does sound pretty good. I actually haven't played 5, because I didn't have a PS4 for a long time and by the time I got one, I had long heard that it was unfinished and bad, so it wasn't at the top of my priority list. It's still on my list of games to play just because i loved the rest of the series, but haven't gotten around to it.
@@michael_mcgowan MSG5 is unfinished, and the "ending" is rubbish. The meat of the game is great. The Fullton Recovery System is one of the most fun mechanics ever introduced to the Metal Gear franchise ever. Phantom Pain is worth playing, even in its incomplete form.
@@Chris_Sizemore OK, cool. Thanks for the info
Lowkey love the “Pretty Princess Mode” I’d play it just cause it’s funny and cute
Remember that MGS 5 learns whatever you use to deal with the guards, regardless of difficulty setting. Sniper ? Guards now wear heavy helmets. Close combat ? Guards now walk in pairs. And other stuff, it's actually very interesting.
Doesn't Batman Arkham city and Knight also use this?
Funny thing is that Even so...
Snake and Batman are still too powerful that they have the tool of every counter...
@@Mangaka_Library those parts in City and Knight are scripted, I think. Not sure if MGS5’s encounters are.
@@MikeP828 there not scripted.. because during the stealth sections if you sneak behind lone thugs or millita, their leader will tell them to stick together..
It's basically the AI Director telling them to counter your tactic..
I know in Metal gear solid 5 all missions and bases Encounters, if you sneak around at bases in night time, the enemies will use Night vision to find you in the dark including adding snipers..
Kinda like how in a fighting game if you win the first round against the AI opponent, the AI tells your opponent to get aggressive (Up the difficulty on them)
I did play street fighter 2 and when I faced Balrog including Chun Li..
Balrog liked To get Close and personal, While Chun Li jumped to the back and she would try to Wall jump attack you...
@@Mangaka_Library the enemies booby trapping gargoyles and wearing heartbeat sensors are all scripted. It doesn’t matter how you played the game they still did that, that’s what he was referring to not the ai reacting in the moment by changing their tactics. He was referring more to the world changing based on your actions as a player and not the ai reacting based on your actions.
Some examples are that in mg5 if you played loud and gunned down every single enemy you see then the enemies started wearing body armor and helmets, if you fultoned a ton of enemies in front of other enemies they would start to recognize what was happening over the course of the game and then cut down their friend before he goes to the moon. If you frequently deployed at night then they start wearing night vision and more spotlights start showing up, if you frequently used the cardboard box to sneak through enemy bases then over time enemies will start checking boxes and eventually just shoot it on sight if they notice it’s moved, etc. what your talking about is technically the same thing but it’s a very primitive version of what metal gear 5 had and I don’t think any other game has done it in at equal or better level then mg5 did
@@MikeP828 yeah it was scripted in the Batman games, doesn’t matter how you play the same tricks show up in the same places
I still remember DMC3 that got most people was Vergil 1:
Rose are Red
Chocolate is Delectable
You are not worthy as my opponent
Easy Mode is now selectable
I can remember playing DMC3, and I could barely get past the first boss, the one outside of the yet unnamed Devil May Cry building, and getting killed by it, and seeing the "Easy Mode is now selectable" message too. I tried not to pick it, because i wanted to prove to myself that I didn't need Easy Mode, but as soon as I got to Vergil 1, and died like, 4, 5 times in a row, I went back to the beginning of the very first mission, and spammed it in Easy Mode, just to get back to Misson 7, and kick Vergil's stupid ass, just to say I did. And I wouldn't stop until I beat Vergil(yes, literally every single Vergil boss fight),on EVERY SINGLE DIFFICULTY setting, even Very Hard and Dante Must Die. Even though I had a hard as hell time fighting those 2 annoying demon swords, Agni & Rudra, but even though I never got to do that, I still beat Vergil multiple times anyways; and I managed to beat the first boss without having to worry about him anymore, and even Agni & Rudra, the only truly challenging bosses in DMC3 were Arkham(after he turns himself into a tentacle blob monster), and Vergil has to help you, and you also can't use Devil Trigger in the fight either, so no health recovery, and Arkham always keeps sapping your health, and recovering his own health, while Vergil just went off and did his own thing, and also, there were exploding blobs too. Really annoying as hell, as if having to accept Vergil's help already wasn't shameful enough,(although I thought it looked cool), especially the cutscene after the fight. But, Vergil 3, is probably the most challenging final boss in the game, (probably in the DMC series as a whole), and if you hadn't died enough (somehow), to get the "Easy Mode is now selectable" message yet(firstly, good job on getting that far in DMC3 to have not died that much). But you'll definitely see that message by either Mission 19(the Arkham Blob), or Misson 20(Vergil 3), the bane of my experience with DMC3.
Its always cerberus for me
Brings back the good ol' days when me and my brother would hover over the "kid mode" selection 1000 times just to hear the different voices say kid mode.
What about the "Don't Hurt me, Daddy" difficulty level in Wolfenstein new colossus? It literally shows the main protagonist in baby clothes complete with a pacifier when you select it.
Covered in a previous video I believe
It was "Don't hurt me," and "Can I play, Daddy?" "Don't hurt me" just had him with a sad look on his face.
Yeah, that was a part of the original Wolfenstein, too. I didn't really mind it then because I was a kid myself, but nowadays I can't be bothered with games that pull condescending nonsense like that lol
@@spiritmuse I dont mind if its funny, but I cant do rise of the triad with what Ive heard about it.
Is it weird that I've never found "embarrassing" easy modes to be anything other than funny?
me: you can't shame me over something not to feel shame about.
Most of them are funny but that damn invincibility leaf genuinely insults me.
99% of the time, I am playing the game for the story, not the combat, so I always go Story/Easy mode on all games. I totally accept being shamed for enjoying my game :)
That's a fair way to play, idk why all us gamrs insist on being masochists for difficulty
@@RickachuCXVI in my case, it’s because I constantly like being challenged
honestly at least i'm not the one shaming people over playing a mode i made.........unlike the people behind these.
@@IamaPERSON so do I,but we practically "gatekeep" people who prefer an easier time
@@RickachuCXVI oh crap, really? Cause I don’t mean to be a gate keeper.
You need to include Killer Instinct SNES's very insulting message for beating it on easy mode!
"Congratulations, you have defeated Ultratech's low end, garbage, obsolete, floor model, weak, on the verge of extinction, barely mobile, only can do a 5 hit combo, pathetic, yesterday's news end boss.
I hope you're happy with yourself.
Maybe you should up the stakes for a real challenge."
i hope as time goes on more games will let you change the difficulty wile playing because sometimes its just one bit of a game that you get stuck at and i dont feel like replaying the entire game on a lower difficulty just to pass one tricky part
Most of the games i play do let you swap up and down, but I guess that might be a jRPG thing?
I've played several games recently with that feature, but yeah, would be nice if it was standard.
Monster Hunter Rise has an interesting take on a difficulty slider. Basically, there are these things around the map called Spiribirds, and they can provide boosts to your attack, defense, max health or max stamina. You can choose to take a couple of minutes to gather some of these along with other small creatures called endemic life, and they can help make the hunt easier. They're also mostly not on the direct paths, so you do have to go out of your way a bit to gather them.
If you feel confident enough, however, you can just go right up to the monster and fight. Nothing is stopping you, but it will be a bit harder because you're losing a bit of attack, extra HP and stamina. The defense admittedly doesn't matter because it's only up to +50 or so when Master Rank sets have over 600-700 defense.
Thank you Andy for calling out the good in easy mode for accessibility related reasons. Great video per usual all!
Once you realize you don't really have nothing to prove to anybody you can play in whichever difficulty you want
If you don't have nothing to prove that means you do have something to prove.
No shame in playing on easy mode. Do whatever you have fun with.
I don't think the white tanuki suit is that bad, but asking if I want Luigi to beat the level for me is downright humiliating., Not as much as the fact that I actually used that once in Mario Galaxy 2.
except that it's at the cost of completion
@@markerikson7423 IIRC in Mario Galaxy 2 at least if you have Luigi finish the level for you, you only get a brown star instead of the normal yellow one, but are otherwise still able to continue the game.
@@markerikson7423 Depends on the definition of completion. Technically you can't get the "complete all levels without easy mode" achievement.... but that's specifically an achievement for not using easy mode, which you used, so yeah. :P (and only gives an additional mark on your safe file anyway)
It is if you want to show that you want 5 stars on your save file. If you even touch the Invincibility Bell in Super Mario 3D World once, you'll only get 4 stars. Plus even if you do use it, it doesn't guarantee you passing said level if you run out of time.
Gotta love Devil May Cry 3's way of roasting you. I'm sure many unfortunate devil hunters have seen "Easy mode is now selectable." Pop onto their screen after dying too many times to a boss, as if the game itself put you in the kiddie pool because you made it clear you can't swim in DMC's deep waters.
Even worse, one person got "easy mode is now selectable" from a freaking door. A door!
1&2 had that too, and you can bet your pancakes I said yes each time!
It's hilarious when the first God of War offered to make enemies weaker if you die too many times in a given stage... including the clunky platforming sections.
@@FoxNinja4000 How in the Red hell did someone get the Easy Mode message from a Door?! Was it DSP?
Ah yes, Easy Mode where you're shamed for having to go that route. For me, it was Circus of Meat from Psychonauts. After failing miserably like twenty times to climb up the spinning web or whatever, I sighed and handed the controller to my Eldest and said, "Could you get me past this, please?" I think she was 12 at the time. And she has never let me live that down.
the meat circus was bullshit though
@@Feasco oooooooohhhhh yes it was! If I ever meet Tim Schaeffer, I'm going to tie him down and yell, "RASPUTIN!!!" in his ear ever ten seconds for several hours.
I remember I got my mom to rent that game for me when I was a like 12, that part took me so long I had to beg her to rerent it twice!
I feel the pain, possibly at the same spot - the camera goes fixed and totally ruins my aim to the next platform while little Oli yells the same 3 lines forever!
still a top fave game tho, I replay it almost every summer
Hey, everyone plays games differently. Some people like dying over and over in order to slowly but surely take down a tough enemy and feel proud of their effort for doing so, and some people like to enjoy playing the game at some point
Shadow Warrior 2's easy mode description says something to that effect. While that's wholesome, I find it a lot more interesting when they go the length to roast the player for picking easy. I mean, the developers designed the game to challenge you and for you to have fun with it. Trashtalk is meant to ignite a fire in you. When the game makes an enemy out of me, I make it my mission to learn the ins and outs of it until I can take everything it can throw at me and make it look effortless in dealing with it all. Sometimes, you just need a little inspiration in the form of a haymaker straight to the ego for you to pick yourself up and persevere.
@@fierysmile2929 That also very much assumes that you have any sense of gamer pride. I’m disabled. I’ve accepted the fact that I suck at video games a long time ago. I don’t care if games make fun of me, at least personally. I don’t think it’s a good thing that some games make fun of you for picking easy modes, because that might really hurt some disabled gamer who needs the easier mode for accessibility reasons. One of the big problems with the gaming industry is that it’s very ableist, as it assumes you can use both hands (this is particularly true for consoles, but I’ve seen it in PC and mobile games too). This is not the case for every gamer out there. I can’t use my left hand. Luckily, I play on PC, so I generally have access to cheats. However, it would be nice to see more one-handed mode control schemes in video games.
@@AlphaWolf096 This is probably gonna come off as insensitive, and I guarantee that's not the intent. Neither a lack of accessibility options nor ableism are why you'd choose easy. Choosing a difficulty level is a conscious decision by the player. You pick what you believe you can beat, disability or no disability. I say that because people like Brolylegs exist. He can't use his hands at all. He plays using his face. He beat Elden Ring not to long ago, and has beaten every Souls game before it. He favors difficult games. But what makes my point is the fact that he beats professional gamers, people who are good at the games and play their hardest all day every day, who don't have disabilities, on the regular and makes it look like he's barely even trying half the time. We're all different as human beings. We all function differently, we all behave differently, we all have different strengths, different weaknesses, and different mindsets. But Brolylegs proves that only that which we _let_ stop us, actually stops us.
@@fierysmile2929 That’s great for Brolylegs. Never knew about him. However, he’s one person. Besides that, that’s really no excuse not to have alternative control schemes for disabled people or having them in mind during design (VR is especially bad for this). Understanding and sensitivity never hurt, either. If a disabled person (or any gamer, for that matter) doesn’t think that they can beat or even just enjoy a higher difficulty, then games shouldn’t be making fun of them for that, because that could potentially be very hurtful to someone.
@@fierysmile2929 I mean not everyone takes games that seriously. Some people just want to chill and have fun without having to have to train like a professional athlete
I absolutely remember using kid mode, as a kid, on that spider man game. I had the PC demo and I replayed that bank mission many times! Never played through the whole game though...
With that in mind, they better officially rerelease the game nowadays.
@@michaelandreipalon359 agreed. More people need to experience Spiderman 2000's incarnation of Venom. It's still the best version of Venom imo
I don't think I'd be saying "Shame on you" after I've been killed four times in same spot by an annoying trick, or something I haven't mastered yet. More shouty four letter words and gestures.
I know they didn't actually mock you for using it, but it reminds me of the Resident Evil remakes with their cheap one shot boss kills, resulting in the game condescendingly asking you to switch to "Assisted Mode". Damn that swinging storage crate!
Ah, yes, immediately getting grabbed after starting the crate movement so that I got killed by it. It is a classic way to go in that game.
@@maliciositygames Yeah, I'm pretty sure Birkin only attempts to grab you when the crate is coming back?? Last time I played on Hardcore, 9/10 times he would never start that move until grabbing me means dragging me with him to the depths.
I’ve played all of these modes unapologetically just so i could learn the game
No shame there
The MGS5 one doesn't really teach you the game with its easy mode though...it just turns off everything about it.
@@kyuven i use that to grind the game wants i get mid way I turn up the difficulty
Some games change enemy behavior on normal, hard, and/or super hard
valid~
various 90’s games would either offer a bad end mocking you for playing on easy, or a screen consisting of a wall of text saying to “try next difficulty”, but often times BOTH will happen. One such instance is everyone’s favorite SNES brawler, TMNT IV: turtles in time where shredder laughs at you for playing on the easiest setting
Devil May Cry 3 doesn’t need to shame you for being bad. All it needs to say is “Easy Mode is now selectable” after Cerberus kills you a few times and you’ll feel all the shame you need to
Whats even weirder is Cerberus is arguably one of, if not the, hardest boss in the game, at least on a fresh save
I will use any easy mode I'll get. I'm not shameful of it.
Amen to that.
Wait, no Shin Megami Tensei IV? You die and you can use in game currency (super valuable) or play coins to be revived. Each subsequent death the assistant to the Death dude gets more and more annoyed and sarcastic plus patronizing with you.
Finally with exasperation he let's you access easy mode. The only way to access this mode.
I always play on the easiest mode first when playing a game for the first time. I want the story first.
Then I usually play a gain on the default mode. And I'll only play on the harder difficulty modes for achievements
It's weird how the chicken 🐔 helmet in MGS is considered cowardly but the stealth suit is fine 🤔
Probably because you have to earn the stealth suit. The chicken hat is given out of pity.
Idk if you mean the sneaking suit (the outfit shown) or the active camo suit, but both the camo and chicken hat make it so you cant get s rank, the chicken hat is just more visually embarassing
The difficulty level selection screen in Wolfenstein: The New Order springs to mind. I believe they put BJ in a baby bonnet with a pacifier on the easiest setting. I think they also use absurd names/descriptions for them just to poke fun at the player for picking easier difficulties. I usually go with the 3rd most difficult setting; it's harder to choose when there are 4 options instead of 3 sometimes. RE7 is more polite with just saying that on they'll take it easy on the player when easy is selected. Considering how I am with horror games, that's the setting I've opted for so I can concentrate on the story and solving puzzles, and being scared, without also juggling fighting enemies that won't stay down all the time.
Doesn't Crash Bandicoot do something with the Aku Aku masks if you die enough? I know people call it a pity Aku or double pity Aku.
Kingdoms of Amalur is one game that will ask if you want to change the difficulty setting if you keep dying in a row a lot. When I first started playing I ran into issues fighting the Maid of Windemere for the House of Ballads faction quest. The game started showing me a little popup after respawning reminding me that I could always change to an easier difficulty. It wasn't patronizing in its wording, but knowing how easy the game is, for the most part, on the hard difficulty setting had me refuse to change the difficulty. It also means no achievement for playing the whole game on hard; have to start on hard and not change it until after you've defeated Tirnoch. Re-Reckoning added a Very Hard difficulty, but it's trash. They didn't balance it. All they did was make the enemies damage sponges without adjusting weapon damage or anything else. After just one or two fights weapons are nearly broken and it just draws things out several times longer without making it fun anymore, so I restarted on the original Hard difficulty and it works like it should.
They did put BJ in a baby bonnet and i started my first playthrough of that game a few weeks ago and was deciding whether or not to use the easiest mode
Wolfenstein's baby bonnet is a throwback to Wolf 3D, which had the same things, back when overcompensation and embarrassing machismo had more of a hold on gaming.
I remember Wolf3d even insulted you if you wanted to exit the game, which was a relatively common trope in those days
@@Checkplease700 Does he actually wear it in the game or is just to poke fun at the player when they're choosing a difficulty setting? I've never selected it myself.
@@wraithcadmus I don't miss those days. I go the medium/normal difficulty on most games with difficulty settings, but I've gotten over feeling shamed for using an easier mode when I feel like it. I've completed BioShock Infinite on every difficulty except 1999 mode. The 3 main modes felt pretty balanced to me, actually. Easy was easy, but it was still fun, and the hard difficulty wasn't overly punishing and not that much more difficult than normal mode.
Being an older brother is like being a walking talking easy mode if your younger brother is on a difficult mission
Being a gamer dad is the same way. When my kids start a game, I know I'm going to end up playing the latter half, as well as any "scary" bosses, lol.
I’m pretty sure “Kid Mode” isn’t humiliating you, it’s literally just a mode for little kids who want to be Spider-Man
Saying that line about putting the bomb in a "safe" place, to imply that you need to take the big bomb and put it in the safe in order to complete the level is actually quite in character with Spider-Man.
@@michealforguson5317 Yeah, sounds exactly like something the ol' Web-Head would say, because he loves making puns and witty jokes like that; constantly.
I'm not seeing any downside to Pretty Princess Mode.
Well now I feel better. I beat Punch Out Wii and didn’t even realise that the headguard was a thing in that game, so obviously I didn’t lose that many times lol
imagine shaming someone for wearing head protection in a sport known for giving it's participants brain damage
Yeah, everyone should be wearing head protection. Or, alternately, not be playing a sport where you punch each other in the head until someone falls unconscious.
The easiest difficulty setting in "I Wanna Be The Guy" is medium. If you choose it, it doubles the number of save points in the game. However, it also puts a giant pink bow in your character's hair and all the medium difficulty save points change "SAVE" to "WUSS" when you've used them.
That's not a real game.
@@RandalfElVikingo it's a playable game with 8 bosses, 3 save slots, difficulty modifiers, a fan base, TH-cam episode series on it, and it's better than 90% of the AAA dogshit that's come out since lootboxes came to consoles. It's a real game.
@@RandalfElVikingo Saying something isn't a "real game" is the dumbest thing i've ever heard lmao
I mean, honestly, the mocking backfires. What's more humiliating? Being taken down by someone 100 times smaller than you, or being taken down by someone 100 times smaller than you wearing a pink bow? It's more embarrassing to the bosses you defeat than to you.
@@kyuubinaruto17 sure, but the bow sits there twitching on the ground when you die
Game designers that tie EXP/rewards to difficulty level in single player modes can go straight to hell.
That has always confused me, players at that level of skill need those things more and people playing at high difficulties will probably love having decreased resources.
@@shadenox8164 Except in the cases where the reverse happens: easy mode specifically gives MORE exp and rewards (and sometimes, is the only change). For some reason this is much less common though.
@@sinteleon I can't really recall an example.
@@shadenox8164 Fire Emblem 4/5: 2x XP on Easy. That's all Easy did.
None of these are nearly as bad as being informed that, "Easy Mode is now selectable."
At least these games aren't like retro ones which let you play around 3 levels, gave you a patronising message about you playing on easy mode and then forced you to replay them on a harder difficultly just so you can actually complete the game...
I'm talking about you Mickey's Wild Adventure/Mickey Mania!
No, I don't have a 25 year old grudge on a videogame, that would just be silly... 😅
Oh boy..... I never even finished that game as a kid, it was freaking brutal. Freaking haunted house levels always tripped me up, even on Easy >_>
Might have to go back and give it a shot I suppose
What is this "shame" you speak of?
and there are games like Skyrim where all achievements can be unlocked on the easiest setting, some of us play games for story and not any impossible challenge
Had that Spider-Man game on N64
I hate when games shame on you for going easy mode when they designed this specific part of the game to be obnoxious
Most games: "So you died to the boss again? Don't worry, now you'll deal more damage and take less."
Souls games: "So you died to the boss again? Don't worry, now you'll take more damage and deal less."
That seems to only be in Demon Souls. Now Dark Souls 2? That's a bit more apt. Die a bunch in DS2 and your character's Maximum HP starts decreasing. Using a Human Effigy will reverse this, and that's why I always have a boatload of them. That and, DS2 is the only Souls game that I go out of my way to try to make every enemy vanish. Since defeating the enemies enough times removes them from the game untill your next playthrough.
Sekiro: “so you died to that boss again? Don’t worry, a lore based plague will make npc’s too sick to bargain with you”
Elden Ring: “so you died to that boss again? Don’t worry, we have more bosses for you to die to”
Ha! Andy said the Spiderman game was 22 years old but I played that when it came out and I'm only 2... Oh My God!
Alien Hominid, by Behemoth studios, a game with origins in Newgrounds, lets you play easy mode. However, you can only play the game up to the first boss before it shows your alien wearing a diaper and bonet, and telling you to play on Normal in order to continue.
I remember Devil May Cry 3 had not one, but two 'mercy modes' unlocked via repeated deaths. You don't have to wear anything humiliating, but you'll know that the game is taking pity on you. You'll *feel* its condescension in every halfhearted swing of the enemy's blades.
"Easy mode is now selectable" will never not be an insult
@@daviddoesstuffandthingigue966 Even more insulting when you die on Easy and see 'Very Easy mode is now selectable'.
Wanna talk about the simple difficulty for cuphead? In this, each boss misses a phase, they take less damage and also, you don’t get their soul contract once you complete it.
A great example of this is “Will You Snail”.
It’s a great indie game about a sadistic AI that predicts your movement in order to kill you and that’ll shame you for being bad at the game to the point we’re they’ll lower the difficulty themselves and make a frankly condescending statement about it.
Needless to say, I’ve been shamed way too many times. :)
The extra kick in the face is that all the difficulties are named different levels of “easy”.
@@cmyk8964 Y E S, I had to settle for switching between “Extremely Easy” and “Very Easy” most of the time, due to my lack of platformer skills.
In Advance Guardian Heroes, any time you died through the earlier levels of the game, you'd be offered a deal that would turn you into an unstoppable killing machine for the rest of the stage...and then make it impossible to actually reach the end of the game, while the big bad guy mocks you.
I loved playing that spiderman game on our old N64... The best part was all the cheat codes to getthe different costumes. Thank you invisibility suit for letting me see the later levels before I was old enough to actually develop skill. 😅
You know I actually really like the idea of kid mode in the spiderman game. I mean yeah it shames you if you're not a "kid" using it but that level of inclusivity in a game is kinda sweet.
They should totally have one in the next The Last of Us.
12:42 “man i really should have come into this sentence with an exit strategy” me, constantly
I love games where you can alter the difficulty on the go. Guess I'm getting old, but I play games to have fun and enjoy the story, not to get fed up and quit because I'm to stubborn to lower the difficulty.
Imy favorite description of easy mode come from Shadow Warrior. Basically it goes, "it's okay to play on easy we're not here to judge. Afyer a hard day you just to feel like a superhero." Cracked me up when i read it.
I remember as a child playing that spider man game and sitting on the difficulty screen for like an hour to hear it say “Kid mode” over and over
Most times I avoid starting on easier modes, because i'm afraid that I will develop bad habits and get crushed on anything harder😂
Never find an optimal strategy in Ninja Gaiden
Thank you for showing me which games I need not play. Developers in the git gud club can pound sand.
Spider-man 2 also had a kid mode that changed the art of Spider-man that you'd unlock after every boss into a small version with a big head.
Sounds hilarious.
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands has an Achievement/Trophy "Our Little Secret" which you get for lowering your difficulty level.
Well, it WAS "Our Little Secret", but I guess not anymore?
Pressing “F” to paying respect for the people who had to get the capture footage. Having the shame online for the world to see.
that's the trick, they're TH-cam video game content producers, they have no shame
I'm not ashamed to say, that I played the Spiderman game on Kids Mode. But also, I was six and this was one of the first games I ever played on the PS1. :D
same, i think i was about 10-11 at the time because i was playing it on a ps2
Jokes on you Metal Gear, I think that chicken hat is ADORABLE and will be dying purposefully just to put it on.
I was going to repeat this joke with the tutu and the ribbon and such but instead I'm just going to sigh that so many of these associate embarrassment/being bad at games with femininity. More chicken hats.
Not going to lie, there's a part of me that wants the l'il chick hat just because it's adorable.
At least when developers do it, they do it with some flare. Unlike the people who act like playing uber hard mode every time is a personality trait.
And they act like you arent human if you play on easy for the story.
I was hopelessly bad at the Spiderman game even on Kid mode when I played it as a kid. In my defence, I had to play it on PC with horrendous keyboard controls, so not entirely my fault.
Well, and you were an actual kid. The demographic that mode was made for!
Wasn't the pc version a watered down, not as good one anyway? Not trying to be mean or anything but I heard the Pc port was glitchy af so it may not have just been you there (Idk though since I never played it)
How can you not mention the classic Earthworm Jim. If you played on "practice" mode, the game was mostly identical to normal except at the end you got Jim reading a script about "what are worms"
I always play on easy. Never understood this obsession with playing on hard mode. I play games to have fun; life is already hard enough as it is.
What about Normal mode?
I get your point though.
It’s more fun when there’s an adrenaline rush
@@notproductiveproductions3504 depends on the person.
This half the time it's just more health and less damage. I don't see that being hard just time consuming
I'll never be embarrassed to play on a mode so easy a toddler could beat it
What I hated was when a Genesis or SNES game only let you play half the game on easy or even normal on some
Easy Mode in Metal Gear Rising basically causes the game to parry all attacks perfectly, even if you would have otherwise messed them up on the harder difficulty modes
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has what can really only be described as a cheat weapon if you're finding the game too difficult. It's called the Fox Blade and it one hit kills normal enemies, and cuts down bosses faster than I could type this comment.
the invincibility leaf also appeared in nsmb2 and it even shows up in cleared levels
I'm never ashamed of easy mode. I play for story, not to repeat the same section over and over to memorize some patterns.
Amen
The story in fighting games comes from ranked matches
Encountering 'Thanks for trying Easy mode, play another difficulty for the whole game' one time as a child made swear off Easy mode forever.
Resident evil 4 had warned me off easy mode since it blocks off two massive sections of the game if you go on easy 😳
It does?!? Which ones??
@@bleh329 The hedge maze-y area in the castle and a couple little rooms you can't get into....
I dont even remember there being an easy mode.
@@jaredcrabb Me neither. I only remember Normal, and Professional. I've played a lot of RE4, never saw an Easy Mode in that game. I played the original GameCube version, the Wii version, the ps4 version, and the Switch version. And nope, only remember Normal; and Professional. If there's an easy mode, I definitely don't remember it. And why would it block off the hedge maze with Salazar's dogs, or some rooms in the castle?
oh, "pretty princess mode" reminds me of a crazy comic book called "i hate fairyland" by Skottie Young.
it has a really cutesy art style, AND extreme gore!
it also has a running gag where the protagonist, Gertrude, KILLS THE NARRATORS!
AND at one point, she gets into a fighting tournament, and the boss is NAMED "pretty purty princess"!
I didn't even know the WII punch out had an easy mode
Me, listening to Andy's intro to 'Splosion Man': Michael Bay's Origin Story...?
As a mother of a six-year old, I'd love actual kid modes for some of my favourite games. Many of them have such cool or lovely environments, where both kids and tired parents would greatly enjoy a casual stroll without timers and violence.
As a very casual gamer, and non-expert in game-making, I often wonder howuch extra work it would be to program an option of turning off everything except environment and non-violent actions.
In some games you can find a console command for "toggle ai" or "toggle combat ai" that does that.
@@persephoneunderground845 Oh that's very helpful information indeed. Thank you!
You forgot the most humiliating aspect of the White Tanooki Suit.... If that thing even shows up at all on a 3D Land play through.
The stars on the file select screen lose their shine. And look ugly....
So, if you're struggling with a level. If you want to avoid this. You NEED to reset your game, and lose whatever checkpoint you had....