oenoneablaze

Lord Wafflebum and others, I just wanted to thank you for expressing your opinion as steadfastly and clearly as you have throughout this thread—I came to this forum wanting to post something similar but it seems that you have collectively expressed what I came to say much more thoroughly than I would have been able to do on my own. I wanted to share my experience as a relatively casual gamer and someone who greatly enjoyed and played isometric RPGs like BG, BGII, NWN, Fallout, Arcanum, etc. multiple times each: On the Easy setting in the IE games, I could just click on a monster and it would generally die, and then I could move on to the next monster etc. I see no reason why an Easy setting in this game should not be the same. I have no desire to think about strategy or tactics except perhaps with the exception of a boss encounter. Like many of the others who have chimed in, I don't see how providing this kind of "very easy" mode would detract from the experience of others wanting a challenge. I died multiple times to beetles. I watched a video about how to kill beetles and died afterwards anyway. On Easy. I spent two hours trying to figure it out and then I rage quit. I play other games in a variety of genres on harder difficulties and do just fine. Even so, maybe I'm not good at games, sure. I'll be very, very disappointed, though, if it turns out that I can't enjoy the story and art of PoE just because the tactics just don't come as easily to me as it seems they did to others on this thread. Thanks. I hope the developers are aware of these issues.