Dragon’s Dogma is not an easy game, but word is that’ll change when an upcoming patch adds an easy mode to the title. While we have no clue yet what changes easy mode will make to the game, it’s good to see developers realizing that not everyone out there has reflexes honed by twenty years of gaming practice. There’s nothing wrong with challenging games, but games should be accessible to less hardcore gamers, as well. GameInformer has the story.
There are a lot of people who have only recently found the gaming hobby, and modern games must be quite the challenge for them. We experienced gamers are used to split-second timing, button gymnastics, and combos that make a baroque piano piece seem slow and plodding. Not so the new gamers among us. Easy modes really do help people get into gaming, breaking the myth that games are too hard or require years of practice to get into.
We’ve come a long way since Battletoads.