>I start games on the hardest difficulty

>>381548089
Normal difficulty is a fucking joke nowadays, you have to play a harder mode to get anything resembling engagement.

>>381548089
What you gonna do about it, faggot?

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>I'm an adult who has been playing video games regularly for 10+ years, but I still play on easy

>>381548089
What ever happened to that kid

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>I play with the HUD turned off because it's more immersive and challenging

I play the coolest games in the best way possible (i.e. maximum player numbers, maximum difficulty settings, without continuing in arcade games, and so on).

Deal with it.

>>381548142

>uses a guide to get off the first level

>>381548142
these days, Normal mode might as well just be called "Fischer Price" mode

How can you feel a sense of accomplishment knowing you're playing on an easier difficulty than what's available.

>>381548602

>I could never finish 8-16 bit era games

>>381548587
>certain HUD elements are very useful, other elements are worthless
>can't turn them off individually, only all or none

Fucking Breath of the Wild.

>>381548089
It's better to play on one difficulty harder than normal. Normal is too easy most of the time.

>>381548630

By having a career and a good looking girlfriend. I only play harder difficulty on my second play through if the game was good.

>>381548089
the constant difficulty whoring on this board is genuinely fucking autistic
>LE GID LE GUD XDD
>HURR I AM SO HARDCOAR
>U R LE CASUL XD FAGIT ROFL XDD BAZINGA XDDXDDDD
i guarantee most of it is just shitposting but there are genuinely peepole here who think everyone is obligated to be a turbo ultra autist who plays games for "the challenge" rather than the story or just to chill out and relax

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>>381548089
>Everyone that is better than me is a loser.

>>381548837
Most people who play on hard aren't even that good

>>381548630
Depends on whether you want to experience in a game. Challenge is one possibility, but some people might be more interested in experiencing a game's visuals or writing without worrying about dying and restarting for example.

>>381548908
*What you want to experience
Goddamnit I'm a retard

>>381548089
>easy
Not even playing a game at that point.
>normal
Cake walk
>hard
A game but not really engaging
>(insert adjective which implies extreme difficulty)
Borderline impossible.
Why can't difficulties in games be better?

>>381548587
Nier:A did that right.
Every HUD element was a plugin chip you could equip/unequip as necessary.

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>>381548623
>

>>381548880
>WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
This thread is full of defensive babies.
What kind of retarded nigger gets over something as trivial as game difficulty? "Haha, that guy plays on a harder difficulty in a game, which is meant for entertainment and will have little to no effect on my life becuase I can play on whatever difficulty I want."
Pathetic.

>>381548954
You sound like you're insecure about your gaming abilities.

>>381548908

This.

Starting on the hardest difficulty is almost guaranteed to miss shit in the game unless you use a guide which defeats the purpose of even playing on hard, unless you just wanted the completion I guess.

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>>381548503
>tfw 27
>been playing games since I was 5
>always play on easy mode on first playthrough
>hate challege/difficulty

I 100% every game I play. Take Kingdom Hearts for example. Every playthrough I complete, I...

>get all 99 dalmations
>do every trinity mark
>complete every Olympus Cup
>beat every optional boss
>Synthesize every item
>complete the journal
>collect every weapon
>fill every item inventory slot to 99
>get every party member to lvl 99
> play until my time is at 99:99:99

Anything less isn't enough of a challenge, honestly.

>>381549031
Literally everyone agreeing with OP is.
Why would anyone that is worth anything give a shit about something like what someone else is doing with a pile of pixels on a box that projects light?

>Enemy health +900%
>Enemy damage +900%
>Player health -99%
>Player damage -99%
>Player attack speed -99%

Wow so hardcore, this is how EPIC video games should be. REAL gamers only.

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>i play games on easy because i care about the story and not the gameplay

>>381548954
This is one of those things that is impossible to get right for everyone.
On the one hand you have the casuals that have trouble to press 3 different buttons in the time span of 5 seconds, on the other hand you have turbo NEETS training 24/7 that finish the game without leveling and upgrading their weapons and still call it piss easy.

>>381549059

Qt in top left corner is dtf

>>381549182

>carefully select the next game I play

>>381549207
What gets me is they'll spend hundreds of hours in a game and turn around and call it easy. yeah no shit nigga

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>Anybody who plays multiplats on consoles are plebs

By far the most fedora shit on the internet

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>>381548503
WEW LAD
knew a guy who actually did this.
he said
>i dont have the time to play on hard difficulties because i work and want to beat as many games as possible.

>>381548782
>having a career and a good looking girlfriend
You have already fucked up. Choose the path to enlightenment before it's too late.

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>>381549368
>haha wow he has priorities and responsibilities, what a fucking tool! haha how come everyone isnt an autistic neet like me? so gay bro!

>>381549358
said the nigger who stole those games.
i know that hand was left in the picture for the purpose of disclosing their race.
fucking nigger troll.

>>381549358
does this nigga just go to walmart and ask if he can buy everything on their shelf?

ITT: difficulty snobs who measure their own worth in how frustrating their game experience is

>>381549197
Infalting numbers do work to some extent. Matching elements for better damage will not work if you can just shoot whatever and still kill everyone. Some mechanics require challenge to make you use them.

>>381548089
This was cringy as hell when I was a kid, but as an adult I enjoy the challenge and excitement of playing on the harder difficulties. It makes things more suspenseful.

>>381548994
WHY IS HE HOLDING IT LIKE THAT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>381549197
Agreed that this artificial difficulty sucks ass, but can we agree that higher difficulty = higher enemy damage is actually good?

I feel like that's how difficulty should work, not just making enemy's bullet sponges.

>>381548089
Hat tipping fag here, Use to play hardest difficulty almost every game.. desu the hardest difficulty's have to cheat to complete, which i rationalize is game breaking and unfair, as im stuck playing vill, while autistic bots playing another.

If AI's wicked smart, Definitely would play hardest mode all times.

>play on normal because that's what the creators intended

>>381549641
stop giving them (you)s and they will stop with the b8

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>Normal mode is piss easy, can literally skip to the second half of the game within two hours
>Hard mode has actual challenge and is generally superior, but requires tedious potion and ammo grinding for some bosses since they're far more unrelenting
Am I just a pleb?

>>381548089
The best way is to play second highest difficulty on your first playthrough. Highest difficulty is usually where artificial difficulty starts showing itself, and anything below the second highest difficulty is usually piss easy.

>>381548973
I always like when games have an explanation for your HUD.

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>>381551236

>i don't play games because im not a child

>>381551608
this is literally a board for discussing video games

I literally can't beat Gunstar Heroes on the hardest difficulty. But I refuse to lower the difficulty because I wouldn't feel like I really beat it if I did that.

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>>381551685
>He thinks /v/ discusses games

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>>381552165

That's a mental disorder. Beat it on normal a few times and try hard after that.

>>381548782
>By having a career and a good looking girlfriend.
oh ho, you really showed us.

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>he can't enjoy a video game for the experience

>he's so addicted to supernormal stimuli he needs artificial difficulty

>>381549630
this lmao

>>381548089
depends, is the hard mode just an "enemies have 10x the health and deal 5x the damage with literaly no other changes" episode? then no I don't want to play hard since 95% of the time sponge modes aren't even hard they're boring

I really do, since I'm not into playing the same game over and over again. Might as well play the game with all it has to offer.

>>381548994
ya, sure, kid.

>>381549207
>This is one of those things that is impossible to get right for everyone.
Have any games in recent memory copied the Perfect Dark difficulty model? For those that don't recall, the difficulty setting in that game made the levels deeper/larger and added more enemies, and there were a few endgame levels that could only be reached on the highest difficulty. It was basically designed to be played through starting on the easier setting and then working up to the higher difficulties over multiple playthroughs unlocking more and more of the content.

I always thought that was a cool idea. Like the easy mode wasn't easy because their was more ammo or because the enemies had less HP, it was easier because the levels were literally shorter and more straightforward to solve.

i'm not gud and i don't want to git gud

name FIVE (5) games that actually change with the difficulty instead of doing shit like
>lol enemy hp is now 100000 and you only have 1 hp and deal 1 damage

>>381549003
This desu, I play almost exclusively fps and every game I start (with some exceptions), I start from hard difficulty or higher, because it's really fucking satisfying to survive a difficult shootout and it gives you a real sense of "oh shit, better get my shit togheter", that said, if you criticize anyone for the difficulty they play in, you're a massive fucking faggot.

>>381553245
Perfect Dark's higher difficulties did result in you dying faster (whether its because you have less health, or the enemies being stronger im not sure) as well, but limited HP meant the extra objectives were harder because you had to last longer. Smaller mistakes could add up and cost you. I love the system it's my favourite game and I wish more games had it, but it would only work in a system where cumulative mistakes can kill you, not a system like cawadooty where you can just get your health all back by the next objective.

Who /2ndhardestdifficulty/ here?

>>381551236
This is actually true.

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>>381549368
He has a point

>>381553583
Right here
>just want a challenge without all the bullshit

>>381549368
>beat
More like walkthrough

No point playing combat focused RPGs on anything lower than hardest difficulty available.
When your build works on tuned down enemies it's not as satisfying.

>>381553574
>not a system like cawadooty where you can just get your health all back by the next objective
COD might be a bad example, because on the highest difficulty it was basically one-hit-kill. At least in COD4, that was the last one I played. The pacing of the levels actually made it into something bordering on a shooter puzzle game, where you had to approach each room in a super specific way to not die. Recommend trying it out if you like that type.

>>381553797
Generally agree, although it definitely depends on the player. I know W3 combat only became interesting with the difficulty turned up, where you actually had to think about monster weaknesses and use all those wacky little subsystems to come out ahead. On normal it was just a button masher.

>>381553482
>5
I can't. From the recent memory only Nier: Automata comes to mind.
Besides the enemy attack / HP boost (some anons also mentioned more aggressive behavior but I'm not sure if that's a fact) you lose drone auto targeting, can't equip certain training-wheels chips.
Last of us had sparser supplies/loot with higher difficulty, more sensitive enemies (could notice you from larger distances), sparser checkpoints, no 'super hearing' that allowed you to see enemies through walls. On the highest difficulty there was no hud so you had to count your bullets or take time to check guns in inventory.

>>381552872

He asked me a question. I would never say one of my accomplishments is video game related. That's just dumb.

>>381554207
I don't think even I can name 5 I was hoping I'd get some recommendations all that comes to mind is Terraria expert mode and thief where changing the difficulty added new enemies and objectives to the maps

>buy Wolf TNO when it was on sale
>play through the whole thing on Uber
>has some spikes but generally feels perfectly reasonable

Can't believe this is the fucking game that had people bitching about the Very Easy mode mocking you for picking it. If you're so terrible that you need to play on this you deserve the ridicule tbqh.

>>381548089
I tried this with wings of vi and realized I might be shit.
Or it's the game.

>>381553482
Touhou 6
Touhou 7
Touhou 8
Touhou 9
Touhou 10

>>381554059
Yeah. Problem with witcher 3 is that it has pretty awful late game balance. You struggle in early game and it's super fun in my opinion but once you get your shit online mobs just die without much effort.

Is there any JRPG that doesn't only add more grind on higher difficulties?

>>381549358
"Black hand gesturing towards a stack of PS4 games" is a solid meme.

>>381555684
Literally all of them. You only grind if you're too bad to beat the game on the higher difficulty without grinding, in which case why are you playing on the higher difficulty?

>>381554459
>I would never say one of my accomplishments is video game related. That's just dumb.
You're already posting on /v... wtf are you on about? Not saying that pride in videogame accomplishments makes sense objectively, but if we're all crazy, then you're right here in the madhouse with us anon.

>>381556120

Im definitely not normal. I just don't think it's healthy to consider video game prowess an accomplishment. I'm not even against hard mode. I just think people unnecessarily torture themselves and miss out on shit starting on the hardest difficulty.

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>playing on anything lower than Hard
>ever