This should be easy: Easy Mode Mockery

This is a wall of very small text.

Eh? Iiji Modo? Kimoooi!

Maybe get a picture of something from an actual game rather than fan art?

edited 15th Jan '11 8:35:40 PM by nuclearneo577

"The game mocks you for playing easy mode."

Image pulled.

Why.

It wasn't from any game.

It was pretty weak. And illegible. And it doesn't show the trope.

Blargh. Tried to use the exmple from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, but one of the possible dialogues says nothing mocking, and the other one isn't clearly talking about difficulty levels.

Isn't it common for the "easy" difficulty on first person shooter games to be called something silly? Game select screen with hard medium and pansy, maybe.

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Doesn't look like a difficulty screen, though. Could be a funny questionnaire.

I just had a memory spike. Can someone screen cap the description of easy mode for Halo 3? It says something about the game almost plays its self.Funny.

edited 15th Jan '11 11:15:25 PM by nuclearneo577

The Pope's suggestion is pretty good.

Agreed. the pic doesn't work. (I don't have any ideas though.)

There's SA's easy description (A difficulty level that will put you to sleep. Keep practicing so people don't make fun of you). It's perfectly legible at the scale we use, but, sadly, pure text

I like ROTT's difficulty selection screen, myself. Any good shots of it though? Hmm... "Which part is the trigger?" Or "I'm in my element (lead). (I particularly like the "chew toy" one, but I can't seem to find a shot of that.)

edited 16th Jan '11 11:02:09 AM by Stratadrake

This◊ is what Hylarn was suggesting. We could crop it or something, but I think the Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels which are not Easy-Mode Mockery might be distracting here. It says "Easy" underneath everything else but it might be hard to see.

edited 16th Jan '11 11:09:35 AM by Clarste

Another title screen suggestion.◊

edited 16th Jan '11 11:11:02 AM by boobustuber

That should work.

@Clarste: Oh, so that's what it's called.

Wow, Jazz Jackrabbit. It's been a while.

Best suggestion so far.

^^^^That would do nicely. Visual depiction of the deprecation, no distractions from the other levels.

Actually, looking at both the Easy-Mode Mockery and Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels pages, it seems to me that the difficulty select screen mocking you is not an example of Easy-Mode Mockery. Easy-Mode Mockery requires actual gameplay changes, such as removing content or changing dialog.

Ah. Well, then. How about a shot from I Wanna Be The Guy where the kid has the bow in his hair?

IGNORE THIS

edited 16th Jan '11 11:56:40 AM by joeyjojojuniorshabadoo

I was thinking that too. That would be good.

Of course, having just a screenshot runs into the "how does the viewer know this is Easy mode?" question.