User talk:Quizzical/Normal Mode

"This being the Internet with so many people unable to type in complete sentences, surely length matters if a word is to be typed." QFT. I see too many people with plain lacking typing skills. Anyways, I always call it "normal" mode when I talk to random people. But when I talk to someone I know that has even just a bit of HM knowlegde, it's easy mode. For me, it really depends on who I'm talking to. And sometimes HM is even beyond HM. Until you change your build and steamroll everything. I like this ^^ --- -- (s)talkpage 10:49, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

On most other games, Difficulty "Easy" is manageable for bright 6-year-olds. Guildwars has no "easy" mode, else there'd be no taxis, ferries, rushes or runs in that mode. The mode you start the game in is correctly called "default mode" since it has no name. "Standard mode" would also be acceptable. "Normal" is a fairly reasonable synonym for both of these words that is at the same time easy to spell and internationally understood. mendel 00:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC)


 * You greatly underestimate how much some players like to get runs. I've seen someone asking for a run through Chahbek Village easy mode, as well as people asking for runs through places that, even if you wish to fight your way through, there aren't any mobs on the path to fight.  And then, of course, there are the people who want runs from Lion's Arch to Ascalon City, even though by the time you naturally get to Kaineng Center or Consulate Docks in another campaign, you're much higher level (and have cleared much harder content) than the content up to Lion's Arch in Prophecies.  Quizzical 00:21, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The reason it was called normal mode in the first place because it was what was before the introduction of HM.--[[Image:Gigathrash_sig_G.jpg]]ìğá†ħŕášħ 02:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Before the introduction of hard mode, easy mode wasn't called anything in particular, as there was no need to classify it. Quizzical 02:32, 1 June 2008 (UTC)


 * No, I don't underestimate that greatly. Most runs are for either difficult or time-consuming tasks, and the first category supports my point. mendel 08:47, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Normal Mode is Normal Mode, and not Easy Mode. This whole rant reeks of wanna-be elitism. The very idea of trying to use logic to support calling it something other than the accepted norm is rediculous. Language is based upon common usage of words. 217.234.226.161 17:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I also called it "easy mode" back when I exclusively played easy mode and hadn't tried hard mode yet, at least after hard mode had been introduced so that it made sense to refer to the different modes. Quizzical 17:16, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

TBH
What the hell does it matter? Normal Mode, as it is called is the normal game play method, hard mode is something they added to make the game harder for those who wish to play it. Your entire rant on the naming of normal mode is really silly, and not worth the time I spent reading it, not meaning to be a ass but you have to admit how silly it is to complain about the topic.-- 09:44, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I heard that opinions are legal - b.r // talk  10:18, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Legal opinions are expensive, though. mendel 11:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * i like nm initials because I played diablo 2 :< you don't call normal level anything there anyways--Relyk 08:22, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

It's called Normal Mode because...
...it's the same as what it was before Hard Mode was introduced. Imagine one who logs on one day and finds that they have two choices- easy and hard. They want to know what they were playing on before- the Normal Mode! AnOriginalConcept 02:12, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


 * You could call it Old Mode and New Mode. But by now, that is merely a historical detail, not a reason to call it that today.  Quizzical 03:22, 2 April 2009 (UTC)