{"id":44223,"date":"2012-09-04T16:12:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T14:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44223"},"modified":"2012-09-04T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T14:59:30","slug":"assassins-creed-3-dev-slags-off-easy-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44223-assassins-creed-3-dev-slags-off-easy-mode","title":{"rendered":"Assassin’s Creed 3 dev slags off “easy mode”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nevermind DRM, launch day DLC, online passes, hacking, potty-mouthed brats on Xbox LIVE, the secondhand market, Zynga, and Mass Effect 3’s ending – the thing that’s really destroying games today is… easy modes. That’s according to Assassin’s Creed III lead designer Alex Hutchinson, who reckons they’re a very, very bad, bad thing.<\/p>\n

“A lot of games have been ruined by easy modes. If you have a cover shooter and you switch it to easy and you don’t have to use cover, you kind of broke your game. You made a game that is essentially the worst possible version of your game,” he told Edge Online.<\/p>\n

“It’s like if I picked up a book and it said ‘Do you want the easy version or the complicated version?’ [Game designers] can simplify the language, you know; we can make it two syllables.”<\/p>\n

HOW DARE PEOPLE WANT TO PLAY FOR FUN AND SKIP THE HARD STUFF!? Obviously, it’s much<\/em> better to attempt a really difficult game mode and give up after ten minutes and never finish it because at least you tried.<\/p>\n

Source: Edge Online<\/a><\/h5>\n

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10 games you\u2019ll never finish because they\u2019re too hard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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