History Main / ItsEasySoItSucks

* Part of the backlash for newer ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' games comes from [[GameBreaker infinite spin]], then there's the purists of older versions of ''Tetris'' (especially the iconic 1989 Game Boy version) that denounce the piece generator in later versions, saying that surviving a wave of S and Z pieces and going 50 pieces without an I piece is what ''Tetris'' is all about. Other complaints include hard drop making the game go too fast, ghost pieces making low-gravity too easy, and hold pieces upending the premise of the game. The one set of exceptions to this trope is the ''VideoGame/TetrisTheGrandMaster'' series...which is seen as too ''difficult'' instead.

* WebVideo/TheIrateGamer invokes this trope in ''WebAnimation/TheFrolloShow'' after [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Frollo]] and [[Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Stocking]] easily kill [[{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}} Jafar]] in the ''Frollo Beats Up Evil Residents'' saga. [[spoiler: [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor The Game Genie grants his wish]]. Jafar is revived into a snake and chomps off the Bores' head in response.]]

This type of complaint can happen if [[SequelDifficultyDrop the game's predecessor was more difficult]].

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* How many times do you hear your parents complaining that you have it "easy"? When one thinks about it, if your life is easier than that of your parents, it is a good sign. It means that SocietyMarchesOn, ScienceMarchesOn, TechnologyMarchesOn and that the fundamental, basic goal of a Civilised world (and the real objective of Human civilisation itself) is being achieved - [[EarnYourHappyEnding to end suffering.]] And to know that this is so after several generations working hard so that it should be - that is a wondrous thing to behold.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' had become the target of harsh criticism from fans for being too easy. Gym Leaders (aside from [[ThatOneBoss Whitney]]) were often simple to defeat and the Elite Four provided almost no challenge compared to the other 4 regional Elite Fours in other games (although this was done so Kanto would have reasonably leveled Pokémon).
** The remakes ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]'' copped flack for not really bumping up the initial difficulty all that much, and because Whitney's Pokémon dropped one level. Never mind that everything after the Elite Four got a boost, many of the Gym Leaders received a level boost as well, rematch battles against Gym Leaders and Elite Four reach into the 70s, Red's team almost hits 90s, Ghost Pokémon no longer work against Whitney and the AI in general has been greatly improved from the original games.
** The main games in general get this accusation from [[SeriousBusiness more competitive players]] who have every last bit of the system memorized. Most fans seem to forget that the series tries to appeal to ''all'' ages, and that contrary to their beliefs, not ''everybody'' plays the game the same way they do.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' some complained about Poison becoming like Burn; you couldn't take damage anymore while walking on the overworld. Also, Burn halves your attack, so Poison lost its own unique disadvantage. You could find a lot more places that sell Lemonades, or [=NPCs=] who were medical trainers, so people complained about it being too easy to get from town to town without fainting.
** There's also ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2''. Quite a few of the claims are that no opponents throughout the story on Normal Mode are a challenge, ''especially'' the important battles. Gym Leaders still only have three Pokémon, Ghetsis' Hydreigon goes from being able to [[TotalPartyKill sweep your entire team if you lack an answer to it]] [[CurbStompBattle in six turns]] to being laughably easy if you have a Steel-type in your party, the Elite Four have basically the same teams they had in the original games (and they're not much higher-leveled than the trainers you fight in Victory Road to get to them), and finally, Iris can be seen as a rather AntiClimaxBoss due to falling to type coverage that's relatively simple to obtain. While there are some who claim [[SequelDifficultySpike it does step things up]], these games have overall taken it pretty badly to this one.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': There's the revised, more generous Experience system, where all Pokémon that take part in battle get full EXP; the fact that your mons get EXP when you catch a wild Pokémon (and there are ''plenty'' of them to catch); the first Gym Leader, Viola, has level 10-12 mons that can easily be dealt with (and she's one of the ''harder'' Gym Leaders); and you get the Exp. Share immediately after (which gives EXP to ''all'' your party, much like Gen. I, but with the aforementioned full EXP for everyone). By the time you reach Lumiose City, which is not much after, you get False Swipe as a TM, which is great to catch wild Pokémon (somewhat mitigated because, among mons you could find before that point, Beedrill and Farfetch'd are within the few that can learn it). All of this is compounded by the fact that the game hands you good Pokémon on a regular basis; if you picked up the game soon after the release date you could download a Torchic with its Hidden Ability and Mega Stone (and it has a typing that makes it useful against the first few Gyms), the professor gives you a Gen. I starter when you reach Lumiose City, you can get both Lapras and Lucario for free, and the game forces you to capture the version legendary to beat the game. It's entirely possible to reach the endgame with a decent team without ever having to catch anything. This easiness seems justified by the ''huge'' number of mons, as it makes it easier to catch and train them.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' are controversial for other reasons, but the games have been noted as continuing the series' downward trend in difficulty. The region is full of [=NPCs=] who will hand you free potions and revives or heal your Pokémon on the spot, but besides that, most areas consist of straight pathways with little to no puzzles and there's (barring a DifficultySpike or two) a very low level curve, exacerbated by the fact that the Exp. Share has been done away with--all Pokémon in your party now receive full experience in battle ''by default'', with no option to turn this feature off.

Be aware with adding examples where people mention about how once they found a GameBreaker, learned to exploit a GoodBadBug, caught the hang of it, learned the way the game mechanics worked, then that they found the game trivial afterwards.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'' more so, since not only is the drifting like Mario Kart Wii, but the star rankings have been made much easier to get and things like wheelies, bikes and much of single player mode have been removed as well.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' was accused of being dumbed down for casuals due to the reworked physics and overall game speed being slower compared to the previous game. WordOfGod stated that Brawl was made the way it was to allow new players to jump into the series without being totally clobbered by experienced players.

* ''VideoGame/DragonBallFighterZ'' caught some flack for this, primarily due to an auto-combo system that can be used by rapidly hitting the attack button. Auto-Combos aren't new in fighting games, but FighterZ's are unusual in that they are ''actually helpful'', and see use even within tournaments. There's the fact that the moves on every single character have the same button inputs. That said, it's still a widly popular game within the competitive scene, showing that this opinion isn't universal.

* ''VideoGame/BlazblueCrossTagBattle'' has been accused of this compared to the previous titles, due to it being in permanent Stylish mode (Which allows for autocombos with the press of one button) while removing the Technical mode, the CPU being too easy, the Story mode being short, and in general, being directed to a more casual audience.

* After several games which gradually raised the difficulty and complexity, culminating with the NintendoHard ''VideoGame/SimCity 4'', ''VideoGame/SimCity Societies'' toned down the difficulty, removed the zoning system, and instead replaced it with a social influence system that would determine whether your city will be made of slums or [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas crystal spires]]. Here's a hint: ''VideoGame/SimCity 4'' was the highest ranked game of the entire series. Now figure out the rest.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall 3D'' gets a lot of hate for this. [[SequelDifficultyDrop Considering how hard the originals were.]]

* [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Compared to]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki its predecessors]], ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' gets a ton of flack for making battles too easy, buffs up physical attacks that they can out damage arts, and barely any memorable boss fights that did give players a hard time. This got worse as the Erebonia arc went on with ''Cold Steel III'' introducing the Brave Order system that greatly broke the game wide open as it allows players to not give any enemy any turns whatsoever, buffed attacks even more, easily break the newly introduced BreakMeter system, and made boss fights a joke overall. ''Cold Steel IV'' somewhat nerfed some aspects but then introduced even more powerful combinations that the nerf was barely visible at all. Part of it is because in previous games, physical attacks were useless unless it's a: a [[LimitBreak S-Craft]] on a critical turn or b: can recover really fast (like Alan Richard) and another part is that the game forces players to use arts that take up so many turns just to cast a magic spell.

* Fans of the later ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' games (especially ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'') are prone to saying this about the original series. The second game introduced the ability to save anywhere in the level. This, coupled with the lack of dragon statues, changed the game into somewhat of a standard platformer.

Of course, there is nothing inherently ''wrong'' with an "easy" game. Some people prefer them that way. Further, depending on the individual, the genre and the game playing setting, the reasons for gaming vary greatly from "overcoming challenge for a sense of accomplishment" to "distracting one from the mundane minutia of life" and everything in between. This trope is the reaction fans have when a game, particularly one from a franchise known for challenging games, presents itself as less challenging than its predecessors or than what one would normally expect from games of a similar genre.

** Ten man raids are turned for people wearing ten man gear. What happens when a group goes in wearing twenty-five man gear? [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Yep, it's too easy.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' ''[[UpdatedReRelease Portable]]''. It removes the Tired feature (a feature where your party members would grow tired as you climbed Tartarus during the Dark Hour, and they'd leave the party when they became tired) so you can proceed as far as you can in one night. It adds a Save option at your desk in school, so you can save before hanging out with Social Links during the day and reload if you make a mistake and do not need to restart from the previous night. Money is ''extremely'' easy to get, so you can abuse the healing clock in the Tartarus' ground floor. Approaching the entrance of the Tartarus floor allows you to start from your latest floor and not just the beginning. The Jealousy mechanic was removed if you choose to play as the male character, meaning you can date multiple of the girls at once without worrying of Social Links reversing. And it took over the battle mechanics of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', so you also can choose to have direct control of your party members as well. Whether all these changes were good or bad is [[BrokenBase debated]] among fans.

* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'': Despite being considered one of the scariest games ever, Dead Space has been commented by many to be surprisingly easy. The enemies can go down quite easily provided you have a good aim, and you'll eventually be able to read when enemies will show up, not to mention multiple GoodBadBugs that can be used for your help, like using doors to execute enemies; because of this, some people complain that the easiness reduces the horror of the game.

* This is one of the most common complains of [[VideoGame/TouhouProject Touhou 13 ~ Ten Desires]] as, [[SequelDifficultyDrop especially when compared to Touhou 12]], it was considered way too easy due to less bullets, simpler scoring system and a system which effectively made players completely invincible without having to use a bomb, as well as the first final boss in the series to not be immune to bombs during her last attack, players also often complain of dying less to bullets and more to enemies bumping into them. Of course, comes Touhou 14, [[SequelDifficultySpike and the fans]] complain it's too hard.

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** A common criticism of ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza2LostLegendsAndTheSecretFairy'' is that once you manage to grasp how the various item crafting mechanics work (which should come very quickly if you've played the previous game), all challenge goes out the window. Just making semi-decent equipment should let you breeze your way through the whole game, even on Hard difficulty. If you're playing on PC, some players will even recommend downloading a save file that has the HarderThanHard difficulties unlocked right from the start, which is the only way the game will pose any kind of challenge for an experienced player.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': There's the revised, more generous Experience system, where all Pokémon that take part in battle get full EXP; the fact that your mons get EXP when you catch a wild Pokémon (and there are ''plenty'' of them to catch); the first Gym Leader, Viola, has level 10-12 mons that can easily be dealt with (and she's one of the ''harder'' Gym Leaders); and you get the Exp. Share immediately after (which gives EXP to ''all'' your party, much like Gen. I, but with the aforementioned full EXP for everyone). By the time you reach Lumiose City, which is not much after, you get False Swipe as a TM, which is great to catch wild Pokémon (somewhat mitigated by the fact that, among mons you could find before that point, Beedrill and Farfetch'd are the only ones that can learn it). All of this is compounded by the fact that the game hands you good Pokémon on a regular basis; if you picked up the game soon after the release date you could download a Torchic with its Hidden Ability and Mega Stone (and it has a typing that makes it useful against the first few Gyms), the professor gives you a Gen. I starter when you reach Lumiose City, you can get both Lapras and Lucario for free, and the game forces you to capture the version legendary to beat the game. It's entirely possible to reach the endgame with a decent team without ever having to catch anything. This easiness seems justified by the ''huge'' number of mons, as it makes it easier to catch and train them.

* [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Compared to]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki its predecessors]], ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' gets a ton of flack for making battles too easy, buffs up physical attacks that they can out damage arts, and barely any memorable boss fights that did give players a hard time. This got worse as the Erebonia arc went on with ''Cold Steel III'' introducing the Brave Order system that broke the game wide open as it allows players to not give any enemy any turns whatsoever, buffed attacks even more, easily break the newly introduced BreakMeter system, and made boss fights a joke overall. ''Cold Steel IV'' somewhat nerfed some aspects but then introduced even more powerful combinations that the nerf was barely visible at all. Part of it is because in previous games, physical attacks were useless unless it's a: a [[LimitBreak S-Craft]] on a critical turn or b: can recover really fast (like Alan Richard) and another part is that the game forces players to use arts that take up so many turns just to cast a magic spell.

* Cellists felt this way in regards to Music/PachelbelsCanon, as the cello part consists of [[PachelbelsCanonProgression the same eight notes]] repeated ''ad nauseum''.

** A common criticism of ''VideoGame/AtelierRyza2LostLegendsAndTheSecretFairy'' is that once you manage to grasp how the various item crafting mechanics work (which should come very quickly if you've played the previous game), pretty much all challenge goes out the window. Just making semi-decent equipment should let you breeze your way through the whole game, even on Hard difficulty. If you're playing on PC, some players will even recommend downloading a save file that has the HarderThanHard difficulties unlocked right from the start, which is the only way the game will pose any kind of challenge for an experienced player.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': There's the revised, more generous Experience system, where all Pokémon that take part in battle get full EXP; the fact that your mons get EXP when you catch a wild Pokémon (and there are ''plenty'' of them to catch); the first Gym Leader, Viola, has level 10-12 mons that can easily be dealt with (and she's one of the ''harder'' Gym Leaders); and you get the Exp. Share immediately after (which gives EXP to ''all'' your party, much like Gen. I, but with the aforementioned full EXP for everyone). By the time you reach Lumiose City, which is not much after, you get False Swipe as a TM, which is great to catch wild Pokémon (somewhat mitigated by the fact that, among mons you could find before that point, Beedrill and Farfetch'd are pretty much the only ones that can learn it). All of this is compounded by the fact that the game hands you good Pokémon on a regular basis; if you picked up the game soon after the release date you could download a Torchic with its Hidden Ability and Mega Stone (and it has a typing that makes it useful against the first few Gyms), the professor gives you a Gen. I starter when you reach Lumiose City, you can get both Lapras and Lucario for free, and the game forces you to capture the version legendary to beat the game. It's entirely possible to reach the endgame with a decent team without ever having to catch anything. This easiness seems justified by the ''huge'' number of mons, as it makes it easier to catch and train them.

* [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Compared to]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki its predecessors]], ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' gets a ton of flack for making battles too easy, buffs up physical attacks that they can out damage arts, and barely any memorable boss fights that did give players a hard time. This got worse as the Erebonia arc went on with ''Cold Steel III'' introducing the Brave Order system that pretty much broke the game wide open as it allows players to not give any enemy any turns whatsoever, buffed attacks even more, easily break the newly introduced BreakMeter system, and made boss fights a joke overall. ''Cold Steel IV'' somewhat nerfed some aspects but then introduced even more powerful combinations that the nerf was barely visible at all. Part of it is because in previous games, physical attacks were useless unless it's a: a [[LimitBreak S-Craft]] on a critical turn or b: can recover really fast (like Alan Richard) and another part is that the game forces players to use arts that take up so many turns just to cast a magic spell.

* Pretty much every musician may feel this way towards a piece if their part is significantly simpler than those of other instruments. A prime example of this is cellists in regards to Music/PachelbelsCanon, as the cello part consists of [[PachelbelsCanonProgression the same eight notes]] repeated ''ad nauseum''.

* One of several complaints against ''VideoGame/ManaKhemia2FallOfAlchemy'' is how easy the game is compared to its predecessor, even in Hard Mode.

** A question that is worth $250,000 or more that is [[NonIndicativeDifficulty way too easy for its level]] almost always elicits this reaction. To name a few:
*** Dan Blonsky's $1 Mil: "The Earth is approximately how many miles away from the sun"? (The answer is [[spoiler:93 million miles.)]] Compare that to his $500,000 question, which asked what celebrity was featured on the cover of the very first ''People'' magazine.

*** Mark Kerr's £500,000 question: "In Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet,'' which of these characters doesn't die"? ''Anyone'' from the UK should know what the answer is as soon as the choices appear, especially since D (Romeo) was a joke answer, which isn't supposed to happen at this level. [[spoiler:He walked away with 250k pounds.]]

* [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Compared to]] [[VideoGame/ZeroNoKiseki its predecessors]], ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' gets a ton of flack for making battles too easy, buffs up physical attacks that they can out damage arts, and barely any memorable boss fights that did give players a hard time. This got worse as the Erebonia arc went on with ''Cold Steel III'' introducing the Brave Order system that pretty much broke the game wide open as it allows players to not give any enemy any turns whatsoever, buffed attacks even more, easily break the newly introduced BreakMeter system, and made boss fights a joke overall. ''Cold Steel IV'' somewhat nerfed some aspects but then introduced even more powerful combinations that the nerf was barely visible at all. Part of it is because in previous games, physical attacks were useless unless it's a: a [[LimitBreak S-Craft]] on a critical turn or b: can recover really fast (like Alan Richard) and another part is that the game forces players to use arts that take up so many turns just to cast a magic spell.

* ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' is a TakeThat against newer generations of games; the manual calls anyone used to playing newer games a wuss. Ironically, NIGORO (the developers of ''La-Mulana'') toned down the difficulty (at least of certain elements, like the save system) for the remake, citing the need to make the game more accessible for more mainstream customers (considering it was originally released for [=WiiWare=], this was a valid concern), [[http://la-mulana.com/en/blog/about_difficulty.html well aware that this trope would be a potential reaction from some players.]]

* A number of ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'' players who originally found the SandWorm EscapeSequence to be [[ItsHardSoItSucks the most frustrating event in the game]] complained of the opposite after Moon Studios released a patch to {{nerf}} its difficulty. Many have also criticized the overall Normal difficulty setting as being too easy compared to that of the first game.

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is often considered by ''VideoGame/HeroesOfNewerth'' and ''Dota'' fans to be a "noob game" due to its lower skill cap and newbie-friendly features at the expense of player skill and the competitive scene. True to this trope, ''[=LoL=]'' went on to become one of the most successful online games in the West while ''[=HoN=]'' experienced very limited growth in it's playerbase after the open beta and was forced to adapt the same free-to-play model as ''[=LoL=]'' a year after it launched. The hostility of the [[StopHavingFunGuys community]] towards new players was likely one of the key reasons for this(though having a price tag for over a year compared to ''[=LoL=]'' being free-to-play the whole time didn't help matters).

** Tabletop games as a rule are divided between players who enjoy them for their strategy aspects [[StopHavingFunGuys (and think everyone else should as well)]] and [[{{Scrub}} players who view strategy as a barrier to "roleplaying."]] The former group is likely to despise almost anything the latter enjoys for this reason.