>play easy difficulty >it's hard >play hard difficulty

>>382323891
Name ONE (1) game.

>>382323891
>play normal difficulty
>it's eccentric

>>382323949
S.T.A.L.K.E.R

>>382323949
Valkyrie Profile

>Normal difficulty is normal
>Hard difficulty is normal but enemies have more HP and do more damage
Textbook definition of artificial difficulty.

First time on easy is hard because you don't know the game.
Second time on hard is easy because you know the game

>>382323949
KH2FM on Critical Mode, kinda. You get fuckloads of neat bonuses to compensate for the difficulty.

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>game has two difficulty levels
>hard and very hard

>>382323949
>>382323891
Every rythm game ever made
Expert mode will have you tap precisely to the rythm the way the game was intended
Easy mode is super slow, makes no sense in regards to the song you're tapping to and the rythm mechanic is so off-pace that it punishes you for playing along with the song
t. pro Guitar Hero / Elite Beat Agents / Love Live player

>>382324109
Name one game that does this where a harder difficulty could be implemented in a different way that doesn't completely change how the enemies behave

>>382324396
Try playing worthwhile rhythm games
t.kaiden-1 at iidx

>>382324529
All of them. DMC1 proved a long time ago that changing enemy locations and holding back a few behaviors for the higher difficulties is the way to go. If not for the way it handled its difficulty nobody would remember it as fondly as 3.

>>382323949
The nu-wolfenstein games
Fun though

>play normal
>its brain dead easy
>play hard
>its impossible

>>382323949
Touhou 15, at least for clownpiece anyway

>>382324529
Add different enemy types that wouldn't normally be encountered until later on in the game. This is the least a Dev can do.

>>382323891
>First playthrough of Gears 1 - easy mode
>Tell friends I had a hard time escaping the mansion
>get laughed at


>Play again on hardcore
>escape mansion easily

>beat insane by myself

All happened within a year. Was completely dumbfounded when I escaped the mansion on hardcore, let alone insane

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More like:
>play easy difficulty
>bulletsponge enemies, everything takes a full magazine to die, including you
>play hard difficulty
>everything dies from a sneeze, including you
I cream myself everytime a game does hard difficulty right.

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>>382324346
>game has two difficulty levels
>>hard and very hard
And they are labeled Easy and Normal.