ITT: Artificial difficulty.

>>382943003
It's a 20 year old game you stupid shit. Why is /v/ so dumb?

>>382943112
>came out 5 days ago
>20 years old

fuck off newfag

There's nothing artificial about it. It doesn't throw any curveballs, it demands you not be shit at timing jumps.

>>382943239
this. modern games hand hold to the extreme. is it any surprise /v/ is screaming about how "hard" crash is?

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What even is the gimmick? I can't tell when planks will break or not. Some of the red planks seem to break if you stand on them for too long, others break the second you touch them and I just instantly fall to my death with no idea why.

>>382943112
Because the maximum shilling

>>382943527
I think it's as difficult of dark souls. The darksouls of platformers i guess

>>382943527
Lighter colored planks don't break, red breaks after a while, cracked red breaks instantly.

what the fuck is artificial difficulty?

I never played these games isn't there an easy dificulty or some shit so /v/ can shut up

>>382943112
>>382943239
>>382943390
They changed the jump physics to 3 so if you lose momentum its impossible to recover

>>382943527

the ones broken in the middle break immediately and cannot be jumped on. The solid red planks stay for a few seconds

You can walk on the rope on the right side pretty easily. Made that level pretty quick

>>382944919
A term salty pcfags started using when dark souls came to the platform.

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>>382943003
Exclusive on PS3

>>382945320
>cheating

god you fucking make me sick

>>382943003
GAME..............................OVERRRRRRRRRR

>>382944919
games made hard by something shit such as save points, shitty hit boxes or mechanics.

OP is a combination of all three

>>382946847
The game literally gets easier the more you die. If you can't go through this level is your own fault

>>382944919
its a term for those who cannot properly articulate what they don't like about a game

>>382944919
Its a term babies came up with because they can't cope with the fact theyre terrible at everything

>>382947208
sure, after 50 million deaths and PTSD

More like
> ITT terms we don't understand

>>382947680
Well kids these days come up with retarded terms
Like the one OP is using

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I died on the first bridge level like 20 times, then somehow beat High road in 3 attempts

>>382947925
>20

liar

>>382944919
Its when you make a game hard by having purposefully bad mechanics

>>382949683
"Bad mechanics" meaning "It's not how I want it to be".

>capsule collision box instead of cube like original
That explains all the weird sliding off edges of platforms.

>>382949683
I honestly think the Crash mechanics were an oversight, so by your definition it doesn't have artificial difficulty because the things that make it weren't intended

>>382950078
>>382950448

I'm not even saying Crash is hard. The guy asked for the definition of artificial difficulty and I gave it to him. Superman 64 has artificial difficulty because the game is hard due to bugs and exact timings

>>382943003

I'm starting to think that Crash 2's bullshit parts are worse than anything Crash 1 throws at you. Stuff like the Piston It Away/Cold Hard Crash gems, the occasional bonus stage or some of those obscure as fuck secret exits. On average it's easier but its spikes are worse than Crash 1's IMO.

>Reach Road to Nowhere
>Get vivid flashbacks as a child. Everytime I would game over on that level, I would always have to retry the previous level again as well.
>Could never beat it
>Now about to try it
>Remember people talking about how you can "walk on the ropes"
>Decide to try it not expecting it to work
>Get shocked when it works

Beat the level without touch a board once or losing a single life, man I was a dumb as shit kid.

>>382943003
Is it a joke that people pretend to not know what artificial difficulty is or do people honestly not know at this point?

It's that weird stick figure comic where someone starts acting retarded as a joke but then everyone acts retarded and it turns out that it's just accepted now and the widespread norm.

>>382951075
Shame the rope trick is finicky on the remake. You have to keep jumping otherwise you risk slipping off.

Also, anyone know how you activate those clear platforms on some levels? Seems like I need them to 100% the crates for the areas that use them.

>>382951075

It's also not that bad if you use the D-Pad. It's a goddamn nightmare if you use the analog stick though, and the ropes in the remaster are much more slippery than in the original.

>>382944919
It's a term used by people to describe difficulty they don't like.

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>he doesn't rope-a-dope

>>382945143
>>382944858
>>382943527
There are a few red platforms near the end that with break instantly if you step on them. They are a trap. You have to stay on the turtles.

I always found "artificial difficulty" to mean a game where luck decides when you beat it, and not your own skill.

The biggest and near only example I have found for this is the Chocobo Balloon Race Challenge from Final Fantasy X, trying to end it at 0.0. You can be the best, most skilled player of that minigame in the world, but the balloon locations are randomly generated. So, you can start the race being the best in the world at it, and the game places all the balloons in places where you will get hit everytime. Then you reach the end after playing perfectly, and fail because the balloon locations made you get hit too much. That can be considered artificial difficulty, you play until the game decides to let you win by way of balloon placement.

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>finish High Road
>start Slippery Climb

>>382943003
I can't tell anymore if this whole dark souls thing is just a joke or if there are people who are unironically saying it.

>>382951225
Have you earned any colored gems yet? Each one activates a different hidden platform, don't worry about going back to those levels until you get them all.

>>382951612
It's a meme. It's just shitposting from people who don't own a PS4.

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>>382943003

>>382951225
>shame the rope trick is finicky on the remake

Stopped reading there, wasn't finicky for me at all, ran all the way to the end only jumping when jumping to the next rope, watching my footing the whole time and adjusting as needed. Didn't fall off, not once. Sorry dude, you seem to be bad.

>>382951638
I haven't yet. Got to High Road and figured I'd do some time trial clean-up and crates and the like on earlier maps.

>>382951518

I'd say trying to 3 star a cup in modern Mario Kart games is a good example of this too. You have to get straight 1st placings but sometimes the AI just fucks you with item spam and rubberbanding. Has nothing to do with skill, just praying to whatever god you worship that the AI will behave for 4 races in a row. Getting a gold isn't bad, but a 3 star is almost complete luck.

>>382951225
Certain levels have a special gem instead of a clear gem, and that means you gotta be the level, and get all the boxes without dying at all. However, I did this for the Lost City gem and died in Tawna's bonus room, but I still got the gem, so bonus rooms deaths don't seem to count thankfully. Also to get the two keys, there are two levels in the game with a Cortex bonus room, and they each hide a key.

>>382951586
>that gap between the first elevator platform and the trap stairs immediately before it
FUCK SHIT

>>382951764
Go ahead and get some of the colored gems you missed, just make sure you don't die outside of the bonus stages or you'll have to start all over.

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>>382952001
Slippery Climb is a very apt name, isn't it?

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git gud nigga

Even the change in hitboxes doesn't excuse you fucking baddie

>>382952001
>Go ahead and get some of the colored gems you missed, just make sure you don't die outside of the bonus stages or you'll have to start all over.
Do they force a single attempt for it? Checkpoints have been preserving the crates I smashed prior to hitting it.

>>382952558
see >>382951990
They won't give you them if you die outside a bonus stage

>>382952615
Boy, this is going to be a long road to getting the platinum trophy. Least they give you an excuse to revisit a stage after the fact.

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>those literal leaps of faith for the secret boxes in high Road

>>382951990
>>382952702
You can die at any point before the first checkpoint and it won't count for getting a colored gem.

>>382944919

Good difficulty :

>The enemy has varied attack types. I must learn the patterns and dodge at the correct times.

Artificial difficulty :

>This enemy takes 1000 hits to kill, and kills me in 2 hits that I cannot dodge because there is no telegraphing.

>>382951318
As shown here
>>382953116

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>>382943003
>>382944919

>>382953138
Maybe I'm misunderstanding but Shadows of Yharnam were easy as fuck

Artificial Difficulty is supposed to mean any difficulty that is not designed but rather the result of poor game mechanics.

Such as, bad controls, bad physics, or unintended game mechanics.

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>tfw can't even beat Native Fortress

Why am I so shit at this game? I must've beat the originals over 1000 times.

>>382953007
Follow the fruit, nibba

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>oooowahhhh
>AHHHHYAAHHHHH
>*bong*

>>382953734
Is this the Nintentoddlers response to BING BING WAHOO?

>>382953878
Yes yes, anon. You're fitting in quite nicely.

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>Coco's physics are diferent from Crash's and make the first 2 games jumping easier
what were they thinking

>>382943003
It is a shame that gamers have gotten so young, so casual, so normie that a games like Crash Bandicoot are now considered to be these insanely difficult games.

I had no problem playing these games as a kid. The problem is shit people.

>>382953608
did you become a retard?
what native fortress part you stuck on

>>382954662
I think the last stretch, right before a checkpoint.

I have become retarded, but I also have been playing it drunk.

>>382954387
We're talking gamers who's first game was a free app on their phone, who encourage them to keep paying their way to make life easier instead of waiting/grinding.

>>382954337
I thought she was just a model swap with new animations

>>382945084
Then stfu and do it perfect you fuck

>>382954337
PROOOOOOOOF
maybe I'll start using her

>>382954821
the three fire torches in a row used to get me as a kid
you just gotta jump early

>>382954337
really?

>>382954828
How can shit like that even be considered a game?

My understanding of games when I was kid was you either get really good or you just don't get to beat the game. This is especially true of pre-PS1 games. In fact PS1 games got way easier than what came before.

It is absolutely tragic that standards have declined this much. You can't even call that shit a video game anymore if you can buy your way to beating it.

>>382955243
New generation wants to relax and enjoy, not challenge themselves.

I grew up on the arcades which were generally designed around getting gud to spend less quarters (unless it was a BS game), and NES following that.

>>382944929
If there was an easy difficulty you'd see 100 threads a day bitching about how the game is "pandering" to casuals.

>>382953226
>>382953116
Not him, but lol

He's right.

If you turn a game such as an FPS from Normal to Hard the enemies should become smarter, try to flank you, not run onto grenades, etc. But instead most of the time all it does is just make the enemies take more shots to kill. That is artificial difficulty.

>>382955487
They may as well add an easy difficulty anyways. Wouldn't be much work to convert extra crates into checkpoints and have infinite lives on it, while retaining the rest of the game as-is.

>>382943003
These fucking bridge levels

Just walk on the ropes dumb dumbs.

>>382943527
How fucking bad do you have to be to not stand on each type of plank to see for yourself? My god, you are retarded.

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>>382943003
git gud

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>>382944919
Ignore all the other replies.

Artificial difficulty means you have to get lucky in order to win as there is no way for you to read what will cause you to loose.
Usually either by bullshit rng (like having an enemy by chance kill you by a crit that you could not have predicted and usually not have even prevented) or an unintuitive yet unforgiving learning curve (like if given a choice between multiple doors and all but one will kill you though there is nothing to imply which does or doesn't or an enemy using an extremely powerful attack without a tell that indicates how the move will work). Bonus points if the last check point is a long ways back.

Basically if a loss can be considered thanks to being unlucky or not being foretold by the game it is artificial difficulty. Devs will do it to expand a games length because it is easy for them to do even though it is unfair to the player. Most any game with artificial difficulty is considered low quality because of this.

>>382956029
How long did getting 26 golds take you?

>>382955635
>That is artificial difficulty.
No it isn't, it's just difficulty you don't like.

I'm struggling on the dark temple. How is this game so freaking hard. I beat crash when I was 8...how can i be struggling?

>>382956168
A day maybe. Only thing that tripped me up was the box jumps on native fortress

>>382944919
When a game, or AI breaks the rules or cheats to make the game "more difficult". Crash bandicoot isn't artificial difficulty since ai's are pretty simple, and the game never really cheats to best you.

>>382943003
qq bitch

>everyone complaining about the high road
>nobody talking about the perfect death run in cold hard crash
I beat high road in maybe 20 tries. But this shit is damn near fucking impossible. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet