Assassin's Creed 3 designer: 'A lot of games have been ruined by easy modes'

Assassin's Creed 3 Lead Designer Alex Hutchinson recently spoke with Edge about the inclusion of difficulty levels in games and the apparent harm they cause in providing players ample challenge, claiming, "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," he said. "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.".

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