Why Doom Eternal's Easy Mode Is Actually Its Most Satisfying

Chris writes: "Having wrapped up a playthrough on Doom Eternal I can't help but feel like easy is its best difficulty setting. Here's why you need to give it a try."

[Bismarn]

Easy mode is weird; if you shoot something it actually eventually dies.

[Spurg]

Stop complaining about the difficulty of Doom eternal. The game is hard if you play it wrong and almost all the people playing it are playing it wrong and making ID software question their design which is stellar.
Casuals need to get good or get out.

[jambola]

Forgetting about difficulty
If 'most" people are playing it wrong, then it sounds like they devs probably did fuck up

[Spurg]

No, the Devs did not f**k up. The player has the tools to make the game easy for them. It's up to the player's creativity and skill to make sure they are able to beat the game.
Just because gamers nowadays don't want to put the effort to learn gameplay mechanics doesn't mean the game needs to change to accommodate their lack of attention span.

[Hungryalpaca]

No they didn’t mess up. They make it blatantly clear what the tools are used for and it reminds you over and over.

People just want to shoot only and forget the games toolset. It doesn’t let you forget it.

For example you need to chainsaw enemies for ammo but people tend to forget it even though it’s mentioned repeatedly.

People have been conditioned to play shooters a certain way and eternal doesn’t follow it.

[jambola]

but if it's the only game that "most" players are playing "wrong" then it's the game that's the problem right?
can't blame the players if 1 game is the problem

and come on, don't be so silly, with your "people who can't beat it just have bad attention spans"

[Spurg]

The thing is you're not pointing out where its the game's problem.
What exactly is bad about the game and how does that make the game hard.
I found no issue with the design of the game.

[jambola]

how about this
you answer questions i ask, and then after i answer questions you ask?
instead of me asking questions, you ignore them, then ask me

[Lexreborn2]

Beat it on hardcore, with a busted controller. Next time I beat it I’m enabling ALL the cheats

[REDGUM]

I gotta say, i played it through on the easiest difficulty and am grateful for the option to do so. Not for one second do I criticise them for the option, it is just my play style and a self confessed casual gamer. I finished the game 2 evenings ago and found it very challenging for all the right reasons. It's not that it's too hard on the harder difficulties it's that i'm not that god at it. After finishing it though and after cleaning up all those collectables, I will play it through again on a harder difficulty as it was and is a brilliant shooter.

[jambola]

Oh
I didn't realize
Silly me

[olorin818]

It's rather inmature to expect people to have the same level of skillset as you have, and as such Developers would often opt in for variable difficulties,
If that's an option then, why criticize anyone for choosing it. The 'get gut' mentality is rather toxic and skewd

[Romy1414]

I think up to now, I've completely around 7-8 playthroughs of Doom eternal ( 2 of which were on ultra-nightmare ) and to say that the easiest difficulty is the must amusing is honestly baffling. Now I'm not saying that the easier modes are not fun I'm just saying that when you put in enough time and effort to play the game on the higher difficulties there's really no going back to the lower ones...

[AuraAbjure]

I agree this game is most fun on an initial playthrough below max difficulty.

[Games1st]

Non bullet sponge mode.

[meka2611]

Eh to each their own but I don't enjoy a game that I can breeze through. You gotta have somewhat of a challenge to it.