No!

Git gud!

Go play another game then you filthy casual.

But the games aren't even that hard. My flatmate, who has never owned a console and has only played FIFA and COD, finished Bloodborne twice. People are just lazy.

No.There's plenty of other games out there that will hold your hand. Souls need to keep its identity

Souls games cater to a specific type of gamer. It isn't for everyone - and that's just fine.

New players looking for a solid RPG with serious challenges will find themselves in front of the wall that is Soul games. You can overcome the wall (and become better for it) or just back away and do something else.

Sounds obvious? It is that simple. There's no need to compromise on a middle ground to suit everyone. If that was the case, the market would be full of boring, unfulfilling games - like your typical, yearly, generic shooter games.

This lame argument again. It's not an elitist attitude, it's people not wanting the game changed because the challenge is intentionally set by the developer to make the game great. Alter that, and you're giving in to the whiners and people who are too afraid to even try and succeed. You only hurt yourself if you cater to the minority of babies; to me, this is akin to giving into terrorist demands.

Git gud bro!

I shake my head in disgust, should super mario have a mode with blood soaked violence and sexual content for a more adult ordinance? No!Then dark soul should never have a easy mode,it is what it is leave it be

Man this really fries my chicken! So sick of what could only be casuals complaining about this game being too hard for them to enjoy. It's true if you want to experience so bad than dammit GIT GUD!
It's as simple as that. So sick of people wanting everything changed so they can be included.

There's tons of easy mode games literally tons! But that's not good enough dark souls exist but I can't play it cause I suck I demand you add an easy mode right now.
The nerve of this generation of so called gamers that have many excuses for not getting GUD!
That's not FROM SOFTWARES problem that's your problem.

For the love of God stop begging for an easy mode these games are not many they exist for the few of us left who can appreciate a challenge this ain't candy crush this is something you either learn to play or leave it alone and consider a different hobby that you can have exactly the way you want all to yourself.

Dark Souls already has an "easy mode". Its called summoning people/friends into your game to help beat bosses. If you cant even get to the bosses, well then Dark Souls is not for you! Simple really.

The problem isn't that Souls/Bloodborne games are too hard, it's that other games are too easy. It's more old school in its difficulty. Don't water down what makes it special.

Do not bring that "every little league team deserves a trophy" mindset to video games... Please!

I honestly don't see a problem with an easy mode. It's just an option. No one is forcing anyone to use it. The people who want the difficult experience get it and people who want to play it but don't want to constantly die all the time get that too. How someone else plays a game literally doesn't affect anyone but that person, so people getting all hostile when this come up doesn't make any sense to me.

No,why every game must be watered down this days? leave game developers alone,don't ruin their vision

Doing that would ruin the allure of the game. It's like anything else in life that presents a challenge, knowing that so many give up while you succeeded increases the satisfaction. Who would care about climbing Mt. Everest if it was only 10 feet high and even a child could do it?

No.

It doesn't need an easy mode, if you lack the patience and ability to learn simple patterns, Dark Souls is not for you.

I really want someone to explain this game to me...I've never played, I've seen snippets of game play and it reminds me a little bit of like DMC, but I could be wrong...I personally am not a fan of RPG's, RPG elements don't bother me. I enjoyed the witcher 2 and mass effect but I don't like games like oblivion or final fantasy, turn based etc, I get bored too fast. I like games like devil may cry, is this anything like that? Also, is it overly Japanese influenced? I know people get angry but I really dislike DBZ, Pokemon, final fantasy etc so if it's anything super Japanese I know I won't like it. I also am not a fan of anything super super hard. Ninja garden black? had me ready to pull my hair out and will most likely end in a broken controller. Any thoughts?

but isn't the reason people like these games because of the difficulty and the risk reward? remove that and your left with an empty shell.

Wanna play dark souls 3 on easy? Watch a playthrough on youtube. That will no doubtedly make the game easier.

The first playthrough in my opinion is the easy mode. Only with every ng+ does it get harder.

I really enjoyed the difficulty stone in ds2 that made the game much harder. Im hoping that returns in ds3 😼

BLASPHEMY

Can we plz just have our 1 hard game, plz. Just this one. Why do you need to alter everything for everyone?

Not everyone gets a trophy. We're not all the same.

Play Mario Carts.

If you want a easy version of DS then play Bloodborne. That's easy mode for ya.

good god, no. don't like that it's difficult? then don't play it or just get better at it - it's not that hard when you have a really good grasp on the mechanics of the game.

edit: or, as someone suggested above - summon help. that's the game's "easy mode" right there.

Back in high school I was first string on the B team in football, but what they really should have done is made making A team easier so everyone could handle it. /s

You want to hang, you have to want it enough. If you don't want it enough, why are we even having this discussion? It doesn't make sense to me. 😒

I consider myself a hardcore gamer. I game a lot and buy a lot of games, and I DEFINITELY appreciate a challenge. The payoff from accomplishing something difficult in a video game is massively rewarding for me.
However...
I'm not exceptionally skilled. To me, normal mode in games can feel like hard mode, and hard mode can seem crushing. Dark Souls is supposed to be a game with crushing difficulty... But to me, the difficulty goes beyond that to not fun or even possible. Please understand that I like a challenge, and have no issue with a boss taking dozens of tries to defeat. i just think their should be an "easy mode" so that people like me, and others, can enjoy he difficulty. I know that doesn't make much sense. What I'm saying is that for me, the souls games are too difficult to play through. If they were a little easier, they would still be extremely difficult to me, but enough that I could still progress through and enjoy them.

Also, how would how someone else plays a single player game affect your enjoyment of it? How would a mode that makes the well designed soul series accessible to less skilled players affect the game at all for others?

You know what?
I agree, they should make an easy mode. They should release it as DLC and charge you a further £20 for it, you whinging cry baby.
With gaming you get as much out of it as you put in, or at least that's the way it should be.
Those of us who started gaming in the 80s put the effort in to complete some of the most difficult games ever made and the Souls series is the probably the only series where we can get that kind of challenge any more. Just because the games are popular doesn't mean that you NEED to play them, if you keep getting your shit handed to you so much that you need to baby out and cry for an easy mode then they are not for you. Simple as that.
There are literally mountains of games that are casual friendly out there because devs are essentially hen pecked into making their games "for everyone". The Souls games are ours, don't like it? Then get out.

My only problem with souls games Is not the difficulty but the punishing aspect of the game like losing souls when you die. Now remove that from the game and It's a 100 times a better experience.

Having multiple difficulty's would screw up the multiplayer.

What's wrong with the idea that someone could enjoy the game on a lower difficulty? Variable difficulty is something that's been one of the great equalizing elements of gaming. There's no easy mode to help a player in a real sport. You either have the physical skill to play or you don't. But with gaming, anyone can jump in and have fun. All of you jagoffs that say it's the equivalent of participation trophies clearly don't know what it's like to have diminished visual acuity or inadequate manual dexterity. But there are many gamers out there that do and adding an easier difficulty level would allow them to enjoy it. And those are just a couple of examples of market segments that get opened up with a variable difficulty. Or would you rather them not be able to play the game? I say a variable difficulty level would be a boon to Dark Souls and bring in even more revenue to allow From Software the financial means to continue the series.

No, why not add a hardcore, blood soaker, gore soup, sexually fuelled Super Mario Bros. mode for the God of War croud? As it has been said, it's like someone who wants to get to know the classics but doesn't read them because of the "old" English, or doesn't watch old movies because they are in black and white.

There is nothing wrong with difficulty levels, it's just that these people can't differentiate between an option, and lowering the difficulty across the board. Only one of these actually impacts them.

New gamers don't need cuddling jeez I wonder what they would think of playing Contra, Ghouls and Goblins or ninja gaiden. Games used to be way more challenging and FromSoft games remind of the days when games needed some kind of skill to play. Anyway with a little patience and practice DS3 is definately beatable.

I think what the author is trying to say is that it should be an OPTION to have an easier mode. To allow for gamers who wouldn't otherwise play it -- to play it and enjoy it.
I still disagree with that though. The game is already clearly popular as is. If it isn't broken, why try to fix it?
Adding a lower difficulty would just dilute the experience imo.

For godsake its optional. There's nothing WRONG with putting an easy difficulty in the game if its OPTIONAL. Play your game the way YOU want. Give others the option for it. Not everyone has the skill to play these games.

Tired of the whiny priveledged "its my game" bullcrap.

That is what makes Souls in a league of there own. You put an easy mode on it, it sours the series.

Its not that we want to ruin the game for anyone else, but......we just rather you not be apart of the Souls group. Go back to playing The Witcher 3 where you can pause the game, save your game two seconds before a boss fight and when you lose you can reload right back up again, go look at your map to show you everything and don't forget to keep checking your objective list so the GPS can point everything out for you.

As a Souls player, this article/man affends me. LOL

Not really, but I get kicks out of hearing people complain about the series. Its always the same story too. No difficulty level and losing there Souls/blood vials when they die.

If it was up to me........you wouldn't even get that one chance to get your Souls/blood vials back. You die, you lose. LOL. Just kidding again. I need that one chance to get my Souls back.

Right now I'm stuck on Dark Souls, New Londo Ruins is the area, the ghost house is kicking my butt for two days now.......and I love every second of it. Its challenging. I even went to The Deaphts first, got cursed on purpose so I could visit the NPC in New Londo Ruins to cure me. I could go get that certain stone to cure me, then I would get full health back and probably beat the ghost house on the first try, but whats the challenge in that. The NPC is on top of the ghost house, I just have to clear it out first and get two or three drops while I'm in there.

I'm getting better at the area each day, LOL. I love that the game is kicking my a*s. It makes me more hungry and right now I'm starving.

Back in the day when I had a NES there was no such thing as easy mode or even be able to save the game to continue later on.

Games like Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, Bionic Commando if you were out of lives and continues, you needed to start from the beginning. You had no other option but to be a man and grow some serious gaming skills oh but the satisfaction when you finished one of those game was priceless.

I say the more options the game devs gives gamers the better, as not all gamers play games for the same reasons, and this superiority complex many gamers have about completing games, well, being nice, many gamers don't play games for that reason, and you really don't get to dictate to others how they should play or enjoy games, so to me if they did have an easier difficulty mode, how would that affect your gameplay? Answer: it would not, and would be welcomed by many. I will gamefly this one.

Souls series, from the beginning, was aimed at a specific segment of gamers. They were not trying to be the popular guy with everyone.

Take that out from the Souls series and is not anymore a Souls series. I get some people would like to play the game at an easy difficulty but this game is not for you then. This game has become so popular because of the segment of players it is aimed at and because it brings that satisfaction of really working out your skills and where your bad actions have real consequences.

Is the same as saying: oh, the preparation to be a doctor is so difficult and have so many years of study. Give me an easy difficulty so I can be a doctor without having to sacrifice myself like the others.

No way. Play another game.

Seriously, those games aren't even that hard. The "easy" mode would be to summon players to help you or play coop with a friend, or to just grind a bit.

I don't get it why would they put in a easy mode difficulty is a part of dark souls identity. They shouldn't compromise their vision to accommodate more people. I suck at grantorismo but I don't think they should turn it into an arcade racer to please me every game shouldn't be for everyone

Souls game desing revolves around challenges and overcoming them. Remove those and you brake the desing. And i don't want to hear complaints that Souls games are boring or mediocre because you hack threw them on easy mode.