>he doesn't always pick the hardest difficulty

Sometimes I just feel like blazing through stuff on easy.

>he likes fighting against bullet sponges

>Hard difficulty is locked behind normal mode

What now, OP?

>>383272337
Reptiles are shit. barely above fish and insects as far as value. They are literal vacuum cleaners of the animal world. They are not even as intelligent as rats or even a mice. They have no feelings, they lay eggs, sex is only a means to an end, and almost all of them are cold mindless killers. Pathetic creatures really.

>>383272541
In that case, normal would be the hardest difficulty that you're able to choose form.

the only games i have played on the hardest dif are halo 1-3.
legendary is pretty well designed

The patrician option is hard enough that the game becomes engaging. Difficulty is a tool of immersion.

>>383272549

i never understood people that have them as pets, what do they get out of it? Do they enjoy watching their little leather pole eat helpless animals assuming they live feed, like most of those faggots do.

>>383272337

Depends, games with action oriented combat I always play on the hardest.
I recently tried to get into CRPGs and played them on normal because I have fuckall experience with them. And I still found the combat to be a slog. Not my thing.
If at least their stories were good because they don't really have much else to offer over other games in this day and age.

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>>383272337
>When the difficulty gets increased the damage and health inflate
What type of fucking autist decided this was a good idea

>He has something to prove

>>383272896
they're soft and do't stink like mamals
they look pretty sleek too

>>383273095

It's the fucking worst when devs think "Difficulty increase = Turning enemies into damage sponges and instakillers"
Every BioWare game does this and Dark Souls does too, apart from DkS2 because at least there brought some surprises into NG+. 3 didn't bother because Miyazaki is a hack.

>>383272549
The only animals that 'feel' are certain mammals. You are gay if that's what you look for in an animal

>>383273309
This is the reason why mods exist

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>>383272337
I don't always pick the hardest difficulty. It depends on the game. Some of them are autistic shit where every single decision or button press is make or break. I don't like staring at a loading screen more then the game itself.
That being said I never pick the easiest options.

>>383273227

why dont they get a pet rock then
its because they cant watch it eat baby hamsters?

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>>383272337
>play yakuza zero on hard mode
>kiryu constantly getting surrounded by enemies and stunlocked, even with retaliation ability
>game becomes tolerable when youre mishima because he can actually deal with crowds

>>383273376
No, mods exist to play dress up and marry waifus

Most games are very poorly balanced at the highest difficulty and tend to make you have to abuse specific mechanics, turning the game into an algorithm rather than a free-form of strategizing.

>>383273459
this is why containment boards like /a/ exist

>don't feel the need to measure my e-penis everytime, so usually pick normal in most games

>>383273437
rock aren't soft
and they're not cute

>>383272337
>Puts get at max difficulty
>Game is still too easy

Most of the time, enemies just have so much life it's a battle of you getting bored to death or not. The only time a triple A game proved me wrong on increasing difficulty was Xcom enemy unknown.

>>383273518
Or /tesg/

>>383273581
play call of duty
they have the best way of increasing difficulty

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>playing this game or any fangames of it in impossible mode
Good luck with it

>>383272896
Live feeding isn't even really good for the snakes either.

>>383272896
You get a cool looking pet that depending on what you get, doesn't mind getting picked up or held.

>>383272437
Yup, if I have a decent backlog or don't care about the series/100% the game I'll breeze through on normal to get a gist of the story

>>383272337
>Hardest difficulty is actually the easiest
What now?

>>383272337
I either play on medium, or just below the hardest difficulty. Games should be fun, not a chore.

>>383272549
Found the rat

>>383273715
more grenade spam? lul

>>383274008
don't forget instant hit by enemies so you have to cheese it /play it like R6

>>383273717
Yeah cause those games are bullshit pixel perfect game, and I wanna be the guy in particular is more bullshit than that. Atleast the fangame are mostly pixel perfect bullshit, but I wanna be the guy? It's basically surprise attack like apple/ryu where you have to memorize them, no way to know them beforehand.

I wanna be the boshy is better anyway.

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>>383272337
>play game on hard because people claim it's more realistic and immersive
>have to repeat every other section of the game 10 times

immersion broken

>>383274301
>Boshy is better
Better than the original maybe, but that's not saying much.

>Master the game on normal
>Get ready for a perfect playthrough on hard
>Get utterly fucked
>There is another difficulty above it

>>383274643
that's because the end of the game is sometimes easier than the beginning because of the weapons like in doom

>Play Nier Automata
>put on easy mode
>get into fight
>literally put down the controller and watch as 2B dodges and kills everything

why is this even a mode

>>383274937

I think Bayonetta has that too. Never played easy but it's called "Easy (automatic)" and that would explain what it means.

>>383273792
name a game that does this

>>383275239
stalker ?

I usually always pick normal/the middle one/whatever
if i feel like replaying the game seriously (very unlikely) then i might go with a harder difficulty or find some mods that make the gameplay more complex/interesting (not just harder though)
besides, most of my favorite games don't have difficulty settings at all

>>383274450
this, dying breaks immersion, so if i'm immersed into the story i usually pick whatever difficulty i don't need to die on but there's still a challenge (or an illusion of)

>>383272549
looks like we've got mice on /v/

>UMVC3
>he uses Normal instead of Simple mode
compensating, anons?

>>383272549
t. mouse

When I play a game for the first time and I'm given some choice like

>Easy
>Normal
>Hard
>Very Hard
>EXPERT MANIAC LEGENDARY NIGHTMARE LMAO

I'll just pick regular hard. I always assume Very Hard and on are meant for people who have beaten the game at least once and already know the best strategies to beat it without taking any hits, which I won't know on my first playthrough.

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Fifa 11 legendary its impossible

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>>383276819
>sports games
>"legendary" difficulty setting

is this what's been going on inside this shit genre all these years

>>383272337
>hardest dif makes enemies hit sponges and removes ALL your hud so you dont fucking understand shit

>getting old
>always pick easy because I just want to see the story now

this old dog has not time to "git gud" anymore

>>383272337
I like to play on normal first, then hard. And then, once I've sufficiently mastered the game, I play on easy because it feels like I'm invincible.

>game has an even number of difficulties
>they aren't labeled easy normal hard etc
>can't tell which one is supposed to be normal

>>383272337
I always play Normal because to me the name implies it's what the developer intended for me to experience. Or Heroic if it's Halo.
Hard mode only comes if the game's worth replaying and I want to challenge myself

>put game on hardest difficulty
>get into fight
>turn off screen and spam the "counter" button
>turn screen back on when the noise stops and everyone is dead

""games""

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>Tfw I started Xcom 2 on legend ironman thinking it would be easy
>It's the first Xcom game I ever played
What the fuck where i thinking?

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>he doesn't just cheat through the game or watch it on youtube

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>>383272549
lol

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>>383272337
>hardest difficulty is locked behind lower difficulties

>>383272337
Cool snek, but I prefer animals screaming Japanese words. Like yameroo frog. Can we post that?

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>>383272337
Always play on normal difficulty first time though, as it's usually the way the game is intended to be played, and it never feels like the other difficulties have any thought put into them. It's, for the most part, simple stuff like just boosting enemies health, which doesn't make the game harder, it just takes longer to complete.

>>383278339
>hot hot hot hot hot hot hot ahhhh :^)

>>383278732
this

higher "difficulties" are literally just a tool by developers to get autistic sheep to play their games for longer and feel good about themselves for beating HP sponge enemies

either games are inherently difficult by design or they're not, simple as that

>>383272530
>he hasn't played STALKER

>boss does 600 to 700+ per poke on normal
>slide it to hard mode
>boss does 9k to 11k per poke
Chill Nigga, chill
>game gets a nightmare mode as dlc for free
I dont want to know the damage from that

Depends on what actually changes. If its just increase enemy hp and damage, fuck that.

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>play FPS on hardest
>enemies become wallhacking terminators who shoot you in the head across the map the nanosecond you leave cover

>>383272337
Go play Terraria lets see how far you fucking get.

>>383273309
I thought they know that it is shit but developing actual good Ai or a good in game mechanic/system is just to hard to do for these nu males.

Also most normies don't even want a challenge but some brain dead entertainment after they finished up slaving away their work labour.

>>383274643
>Normal is too easy
>Hard is too hard
Half-Life 2 was pretty bad about this.

>>383274937
>>383275158
IIRC they're designed to be played with one hand. The design ethic should be obvious.

>>383275239
Any RPG that scales XP gain with difficulty.

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>>383272337
>he doesn't mind his own damn business

Moderately hard difficulty gives the game a sense of challenge, but a game being too hard CAN kill immersion and atmosphere.for someone.

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>>383272549

>>383274301
Boshy didn't capture the same feeling, atleast for me it didn't.

>>383281019
Not always
Furi did it well