It's Easy So It Sucks is not exactly a common complaint with people I know and it's seldom a criticism from me. Mainly because I suck at video games. However, given how much I suck at video games, when a game is easy even for me, there must be something severely wrong.
Now I mostly play JRPG's and to narrow it down even more, I mostly play FF games. Most of these are very easy. Of course YMMV on how easy or hard some are but it's undeniable that a lot of the games are just broken and easily exploited. The champion of this is of course Final Fantasy VIII which you can dominate in the first two hours tops and never worry about dying ever again.
So what I did was I found a forum called Insane Difficulty which makes hacks/mods for people to use to make games more difficult. I loved it. Playing the difficulty mod for FFVIII made it a ton better.
But a lot of people I meet hate mods like this. "Giving enemies more HP and damage output and nerfing your stats is not real difficulty." Um, yes, that's exactly what it is. FFVIII had so many broken abilities that removing them is a good thing, as is giving enemies more health since none of them ever had enough.
Some people suggested to me to try a Challenge Run of FFVIII where I just pretend all these other abilities don't exist. That is absurd and stupid. If a mod exists to make a game more difficult, to place limits on you, why not use it instead of limiting yourself? I honestly think that's the most ludicrous idea. In what world is just running away from every random encounter so you can do a Low Level Challenge fun?
And then there is the third option - "I don't care." Some people don't care a game is too easy and they love that they can break it over their knee. I don't get this but it's a common enough viewpoint.
What about you? What is your solution when a game has no challenge? Or do you not give a crap one way or the other?