Gaming Being able to choose the difficulty for a game kind of ruins it

[Weebhunter3000]

It’s not just my disdain for filthy casuals mind you. It’s more about difficulty settings sabotaging the balance of the game. Sure you could pick normal mode, but when you run into a roadblock it’s tempting to go down a notch in difficulty.

Imagine playing through Dark Souls and you are struggling with the first boss and you had the option to make it easier. Instead of learning the boss fight you instead breeze through it to reach the next area. Then casuals have the gall to claim they beat a game when all they did was play on auto-pilot. Feels like a waste of a good game if anyone can just cheese it.

 

[baqqrih]

but when you run into a roadblock it’s tempting to go down a notch in difficulty.

Just don't, then.

 

[Swede Immigrant]

I hate that hard mode is just the devs slapping a multiplier on enemy stats without changing their behavior. If they tweaked the AI to act differently with each difficulty, it would make playing through higher difficulties rewarding.

 

[Liquid Chud]

Autism: the thread

Big Boss hard on mgs4 was a blast, especially cause I went for foxhound rank so I did it no alerts. Harder difficulties are 100% meant for replays.

I hate that hard mode is just the devs slapping a multiplier on enemy stats without changing their behavior. If they tweaked the AI to act differently with each difficulty, it would make playing through higher difficulties rewarding.

Stranger's Wrath hard mode was cancer. You can't non-lethal any bosses.

 

[Weebhunter3000]

Big Boss hard on mgs4 was a blast, especially cause I went for foxhound rank so I did it no alerts. Harder difficulties are 100% meant for replays.

I’d prefer if the harder difficulties unlocked after you’ve beaten the game.

Just don't, then.

The temptation is too strong and distracts me from fully enjoying myself.

 

[Beeboop]

I hate that hard mode is just the devs slapping a multiplier on enemy stats without changing their behavior. If they tweaked the AI to act differently with each difficulty, it would make playing through higher difficulties rewarding.

TSMT, But I believe that this applies to "difficult" games in general. Instead of adding hard but fair gameplay elements most "difficult" games either have super tanky bosses and enemies that you need to chip away at, or enemies that hit like a truck for no apparent reason. The worst part about these sorts of games is how popular they are on jewtube, which incentives devs to push out more of this slop.

 

[Liquid Chud]

TSMT, But I believe that this applies to "difficult" games in general. Instead of adding hard but fair gameplay elements most "difficult" games either have super tanky bosses and enemies that you need to chip away at, or enemies that hit like a truck for no apparent reason. The worst part about these sorts of games is how popular they are on jewtube, which incentives devs to push out more of this slop.

Tanky bosses can work. I disliked Gungeon because it doesn't feel good to do the same tanky boss every run, but when you beat a tanky boss you gotta admit it feels good. Besides, I like longer games.

What pisses me off are the "hard" platformers that have pixel perfect jumps and what I call spikeslop. Literally just filling shit with insta kill spikes

 

[Weebhunter3000]

Tanky bosses can work. I disliked Gungeon because it doesn't feel good to do the same tanky boss every run, but when you beat a tanky boss you gotta admit it feels good. Besides, I like longer games.

What pisses me off are the "hard" platformers that have pixel perfect jumps and what I call spikeslop. Literally just filling shit with insta kill spikes

 

[Beeboop]

What pisses me off are the "hard" platformers that have pixel perfect jumps and what I call spikeslop. Literally just filling shit with insta kill spikes

Some vidya genres just inherently shouldn't be hard, stuff like platformers and point and click adventure games only work if they are somewhat easy

 

[pinkerton]

I get your point but I like being able to choose harder difficulties, the intended mode is usually way too easy because casuals are bad at vidya.

 

[Otto Ernst Remer]

Just don't, then.

bold of you to assume OP has self control

 

[panchito]

The temptation is too strong and distracts me from fully enjoying myself.

you're just weak-minded then

 

[THE TRUE DIGLET]

Tanky bosses can work. I disliked Gungeon because it doesn't feel good to do the same tanky boss every run, but when you beat a tanky boss you gotta admit it feels good. Besides, I like longer games.

What pisses me off are the "hard" platformers that have pixel perfect jumps and what I call spikeslop. Literally just filling shit with insta kill spikes

 

[1Based Frog1]

I hate that hard mode is just the devs slapping a multiplier on enemy stats without changing their behavior. If they tweaked the AI to act differently with each difficulty, it would make playing through higher difficulties rewarding.

Getting one-shotted unless you grind for eight hours for one material is my favorite part of gaming.

 

[Lord Wenchang]

My favorite part about games with no difficulty slider is when the game thinks it's best to autosave once per dungeon and so when I get wallbanged by the secret hidden boss I would have known if I went to Discord or Reddit, I can take the next 7 hours to appreciate the lack of difficulty slider while I wait for the perfect string of misses and crits to survive

 

[Liquid Chud]

My favorite part about games with no difficulty slider is when the game thinks it's best to autosave once per dungeon and so when I get wallbanged by the secret hidden boss I would have known if I went to Discord or Reddit, I can take the next 7 hours to appreciate the lack of difficulty slider while I wait for the perfect string of misses and critics to survive

Black Mesa would auto-save a second before I died ALL the time. I run the original hl1 with Q bound to quicksave for that reason.

 

[Weebhunter3000]

My favorite part about games with no difficulty slider is when the game thinks it's best to autosave once per dungeon and so when I get wallbanged by the secret hidden boss I would have known if I went to Discord or Reddit, I can take the next 7 hours to appreciate the lack of difficulty slider while I wait for the perfect string of misses and critics to survive

Sounds like a Persona 5 issue.

 

[Lord Wenchang]

Sounds like a Persona 5 issue.

Jokes on you retard, it was a Metaphor: ReFantazio® issue