Elden Ring NEEDS an EASY mode! [2fkeSu8AUJQ]

Elden Ring needs to have an easy mode. As

someone who's played Elden Ring for over

87 hours now, I can still say that the

game's difficulty level is far too high.

I just feel like the game's difficulty is

severely hampering my enjoyment of the

game, and I think it's a real shame

because at this point I feel like I'm

never going to actually finish the game or

get to the end boss and feel satisfied

with my gaming experience from Elden Ring.

I'm just sick and tired of having to spend

all day long trying to defeat a boss

whilst dying over and over again

repeatedly. Even though now I'm level 75

and I've got all this cool armor and gear

and weapons abilities, and spells, I can't

really say that the amount of times that

I'm dying has significantly reduced since

I started off playing the game. I just

really don't understand why FromSoft is so

stubborn about implementing an easy mode

or a normal mode, or maybe even an extra

hard mode for people who actually want the

challenge. Because not all of us want this

challenge. Some of us just want to play

the game and enjoy Elden Ring because it's

a pretty interesting looking game and the

lore and the story is quite fascinating,

and we just want to explore the world.

The worst feeling when playing Elden Ring

is when you're stuck on a boss and you

spent almost all day long trying to take

it down and you haven't made any progress.

And it doesn't really matter if you get

better gear or level up a bit more and get

some extra hit points or get some extra

damage. It's not really going to make a

huge difference just because the boss can

take you out in almost one or just two

hits. The whole get good thing that people

keep saying is just such a stupid thing to

say because I was literally stuck on this

boss all day long. He's called General

Radahn. He's in a desert, and I was stuck

on this boss for almost two days, and I

finally. Managed to take him down, not

because I was skilled, not because I got

good at the game, or because I made my

character more powerful. It's because I

found out some really lame cheesy tactic

to take him down, which basically just

involved resummoning the NPCs that help

you in the fights over and over again,

and I let them do the fighting whilst I

just avoided any kind of damage by running

around in circles far from the boss. It

just really doesn't feel like I earned the

victory when I have to use these cheese

tactics, as they're known in Dark Souls—

in the Dark Souls community, it's known as

how to cheese something by exploiting

exploiting some silly mechanic in a boss

battle and actually being able to take the

boss down easily without really having to

put much effort into fighting. And people

argue that there is an easy mode. It's

called just skipping the boss for now and

then leveling up and becoming more

powerful, getting some abilities or

weapons that enable you to cheese the

boss. And I feel like this isn't a very

good solution to the lack of an easy mode

when all you have to do is exploit bad

gaming mechanics and do some farming and

level up and find out some kind of

tutorial on how to take down a boss using

some lame And when people say that that's

the whole point of Dark Souls games, the

difficulty is what makes the game fun and

enjoyable and challenging, that's like

going to a restaurant and ordering a

really nice fish and it tastes delicious,

but it's full of really tiny bones and

every 10 seconds you've got to try and

pick out these little bones out of your

mouth and try not to swallow or choke on

them. And then you complain about it to

the waiter and then he says, well, that's

the challenge of eating the fish. The

challenge of removing the bones makes the

fish more tasty and enjoyable. I'm pretty

sure the fish would taste just as good

without the little annoying bones that

have to be careful of. And that pretty

much sums up Elden Ring in a nutshell.

It's a really enjoyable and tasty game,

but it's just full of really annoying

things that makes it harder to enjoy. For

example, the most annoying thing about the

boss battles isn't the fact that it's

really hard or challenging, it's just how

annoying it is having to restart the

fight. If you fail one attempt, if you

want to have a second attempt, you have to

run all the way back to where the boss

battle begins. For example, there's this

one boss, he's like this rock scorpion

made out of rocks at the end of a crystal

mine, and if you fail this boss you have

to start all the way back at the beginning

of the cave and run all the way through

the cave again to get back to the boss

battle whilst also avoiding all of the

NPCs and mobs in the cave unless you want

to fight through them again and again

every single time you fail at the boss.

And then you have to go through all the

loading screens. The loading screen from

when you die and then respawn is just way

too long. Sure, it's only 5 or 6 seconds,

but if you're dying hundreds of times,

you've got to stare at that stupid loading

screen for 5 seconds hundreds of times.

It really starts to get annoying. Why

can't they just respawn you at the

beginning of the boss battle? So you can

have another attempt straight away without

having to do all this running and

backtracking. And there are some bosses

where you do start off the fight again

straight from the beginning at the

entrance, but there's some bosses where

they make it very frustrating to restart

the battle. For example, when you're

fighting Radahn, that big boss in the

desert who fires arrows at you, it sends

you to a different location to fight him.

But when you die, you have to start back

outside of that location at the beginning

entrance of this elevator, and you have to

get on your mount, ride down to the

teleporter again, and then transport to

the different location again. Again going

through another loading screen, and then

you have to do that beginning entry bit

again where you have to run towards him

whilst he's firing arrows at you to

actually get back to the bit when you're

fighting the boss. It's just such

convoluted game design when you're

spending 20% of your engagement against

this boss just running backwards and

forwards and staring at loading screens.

Sometimes I gave up trying to fight a boss

just because I got so frustrated with

having to run back to the beginning of the

boss and start it over again that I just

got so annoyed. If they're not going to

implement an easy mode, I wish that they

at least consider making it a lot less

painful having to restart a boss after

you've failed one attempt. And I think an

easy mode would make the game a lot better

because I really don't enjoy being stuck

on a boss and having to do it hundreds of

times. It just feels like a chore at that

point. At that point, I'm not really

enjoying the game anymore, and I would

like to just move on and go on to the next

stage because I'm kind of fed up with

having to do this boss battle. I don't

know about you, but I'm a very busy

person, and I've got a lot of games that I

want to play, and I really don't fancy the

idea of having to plunge hundreds of hours

into Elden Ring just because the game's

not really huge, but because it takes you

days and days to finish some boss battles

just because they're so ridiculously

annoyingly challenging. And I really don't

see what the problem is. Some people are

saying that the game shouldn't have an

easy mode, it's supposed to be hard.

Well, if you want the game to be hard,

then don't choose the easy mode. Then you

can choose whatever mode you want to play

it on. I just think it's kind of unfair

that my enjoyment of the game has to be

reduced just because other people want a

challenge and they have different

standards when it comes to what's easy and

what's difficult. And they say that if you

want the game to be easier, then just

level up and get better gear. Well, my

argument could be, if you want the game to

be harder, then just unequip some gear and

unequip some abilities and spells, and you

can make the game harder for yourself like

that. And I really feel like they're doing

a disservice to themselves as a game

company. You want more people to play your

game, don't you? Not less. And having the

game to be such a difficult game really

puts up this massive barrier to entry.

Why do you want to drive people away from

your game? It doesn't make any logical

sense. On one hand, it's really difficult

and really challenging, but then on the

other hand, it can be ridiculously easy.

So I got stuck on this one castle and I

ended up leaving the castle to go and do

some farming, do some grinding, and I

accidentally leveled up too much and

became too powerful to the point that when

I got back to the castle, the castle

wasn't any challenge at all and it ended

up just 2-shotting everything that was

moving inside of there. So it's kind of

weird because Elden Ring kind of hovers on

both ends of an extremist spectrum of

either being way too difficult or way too

easy. And kind of fails to have this

middle ground. The fact that you can skip

entire bosses or areas and then just go

and grind and become more powerful and

then come back to it later, I think it's a

bit of a flaw in game design. Because in

the same way that the game is not fun when

it's too challenging, it's also not really

fun when there's no challenge at all. So I

really hope that they do implement an easy

mode at some point in the future because I

feel like I'm going to get to a stage in

the game where it's just too difficult, I

feel too stressed out, I can't be bothered

trying to defeat this part of the game,

and I'm just going to quit the game and

never come back it, and I think— I feel

that that would be a real shame if that

were to happen.