>game has difficulty settings

>>385833431
I like this when they make it obvious which one is normal, but if there's 4 how do I know if the second or third one is normal and not easy or hard?

i always play fps in the maximun difficult

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>very easy difficulty for the spineless gamer

>lose to bullshit part
>the game lowers difficulty without telling you

I fucking hate this.

>Normal
>Hard
>Easy Automatic

FUCK YOU

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>>385833431
>game insults you for picking the easy setting

Just as it should be

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>game changes difficulty to easiest after dying a few times

>>385836025
Nobody but autists notice, though. It is literally why everybody thought Resident Evil 4 was a perfectly designed action game.

If the game lowers the difficulty and then tells you casuals get butthurt, like with God Hand.

>easiest difficulty setting is called "Pussy"
why won't games still do this.

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>>385833431
Why wolfenstein is such a toxic game?

>easy difficulty doesn't unlock achievements and actively insults you for being a bitch

>>385836323

/pol/ butthurt spotted

>>385836323
GAFfot is ignorant of the history of games. Exhibit number: No one's counting anymore.

>>385836520
i don't even know why people say things anymore

>>385836323
Hey, bitch. We're trying to actually have a nice thread here. Think you could take you 8ch faggoty whining back to your site?

>>385836323
>someone actually got triggered by the difficulty screen
I guess in the back of my mind, I always knew someone out there was literally shaking as they saw that but to actually see proof of it is hilarious.

>>385833431
I'm surprised they're actually keeping this in the new one.

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Shouldn't that be the manliest difficulty?

>>385836321
What game does that?

>>385833431

I find it amusing that people got triggered by the baby BJ picture and made tons of articles about how mocking the players who choose Easy mode in games is bad.

>>385833431
what's the pic for 'mein leben'?

>hardest difficulty is the easiest

>>385836874
Wanted: Weapons of Fate.

>>385836874
Wanted movie game.
Average third person shooter with some gimmicks

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>game doesnt let you change difficulty
i have made a terrible mistake

>>385836918
It's expected since the average gamer journalist is a baby.

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what's the "my life" category at the bottom?

>>385833431
Oh hey the face progresses that's pretty AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>385836323
didn't mcintosh also posted on neofag

>>385833431
>game has 3+ difficulty settings
>they just change damage multipliers and accuracy of the bots
fuck this meme
>>385835298
mein leben is the permadeath mode probably unlocked through collectibles

>>385836520
nice regurgitated post shitskin

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>>385833431
>Mein Leben

Is it wrong to play a game first on easy or normal, take in the story, see how it works, etc, then run through it again on the hardest difficulty after? I've always done this, and I find the difficult run throughs are like 10x easier than if I just jump in balls deep on hardmode

What does mein leben mean?

"My life"?

>>385833431
Oh that is so smart, he's death incarnate so he's a skeleton because he's dead

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>>385837265
>001

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>>385833431
>game doesn't warn you about skeletons

>>385837063
I imagine that's the hardest mode that's not available until you've beaten the full game.

>>385837259
>implying /pol/ isn't largely nonwhites larping as neonazis

>>385836025
>>385836285
Ratchet and Clank 2 and 3 did it best. They had a system called "Act Tuning". Each level was split into "acts". If you died a lot in an act, it did NOT lower that act's difficulty. Instead, it lowered the difficulty of the SUBSEQUENT act. Basically, how well you do on the previous act determines the difficulty of the current act. Consequently, it was impossible to notice the difficulty changes, because the part you died over and over and over to never changed. But you'll notice that after all the trouble you had with "that part of that one level", the game would always give you a break afterwards. That was Act Tuning doing its job.

tl:dr: Dynamic Difficulty that affects the next segment of the game, not the current segment.

>>385837398

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I fucking hate difficulty settings. A game should be as difficult as intended without the need to pick a setting that inflates or deflates numbers or otherwise changes the experience you have vs. someone else.

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>>385836323
I'm actually happy they put it in, it's a nice reference

>>385837351
>easy
Yes that's wrong.

>normal
Perfectly fine.

Also of course hard will be easier when you've already beat the game once and know what to expect. You're just cheapening the experience for yourself.

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>>385833431
w...what's the face for Mein Leben?

>>385837351

Nothing wrong, but you're baby if you can't "take in the story" and see how a game works on the hardest or close to hardest difficulty already.

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>>385836323
>Note: Babies should not play Wolfenstein: The New Order

>>385837469
Because you're a casual. Games without difficulty settings are always too easy.

Look at Fire Emblem Conquest, it's an entirely different game on Lunatic.

>>385837351
I almost never replay a game so I choose the hardest difficulty available unless it's a nightmare mode that's designed to be run through with a new game+ save in mind.

>>385837351
I do this, games like dragons dogma are perfect on normal, for first playthrough anyway. Then you get things like bethesda games where you find yourself upping the difficulty every 5-10 levels

>>385837063
>>385837373
It's what the dudes in Wolf 3D shouted when you killed them. I guess it's an allusion to it being so hard prepare to just die suddenly and easily.

>>385837351
Why can't you take in the story on a higher difficulty? Do you forget what happens when you die a couple times?

>>385835298
bottom left corner

>>385837434
Still a shit system. I want to play the game on a set difficulty. If I want hard give me hard. Don't be changing it without telling me and making me feel like a badass when I beat it despite being secretly switched to babby mode.

>>385837434

What if I want challenge all the way through? I don't want the game to go easy on me later on because I had trouble with the previous segment. I wanna overcome the challenges, not get a free pass after I clear one challenge I had trouble with.

>>385837529
Did he die?

>>385837554
>Look at Fire Emblem Conquest, it's an entirely different game on Lunatic.

Then why isn't Lunatic the standard, is what I'm saying. Games should be as challenging as possible to reap the greatest rewards.

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>you can change the difficulty at ANY time

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>>385837524
>>385837373
>>385837265
>>385837063

>>385833431
So will the Mein Leben mode be the Ultra-Nightmare equivalent where you only have one life to finish the game?

>>385836185
What game in that gif?

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>>385837434
>replaying the game when you're older
>"I don't remember there being two strong enemies in this encounter"

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>>385836323

>>385837434
That is retarded, so you die a lot in one part, get better at the game an improve, only to have the next act be easy?

There is no point in improving if the next part will be so easy

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>>385836323
>Why wolfenstein is such a toxic game?

Why is Ninja Gaiden such a toxic game?

>>385837265
W-what's 002?

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>>385837826
They're doing the dead space 2 thing? What a fucking idiotic idea.

The reason permadeath works in games like DCSS and nethack is because the game has immense variety and the first hour is the best part. You're supposed to enjoy dying and replaying it. Wolfenstein is just shooting people.

>>385838032
Not suitable for a christian discussion forum

>>385837987
Japanese people have some serious problems with extreme sexism and misogyny

>>385837824
But Lunatic is much too hard for a blind playthrough. I know, I did one and when you get to the final chapters, you lose because you need a pretty specific setup to win.

You play on hard to learn how shit works, then you play Lunatic.

>>385837987
>Did you guys think "Well maybe the average gamer isn't as good as we thought, so let's make it easy on them?"

>Itagaki: That's right. In other words, there are some people who want to beat the game, even if it means being reduced to the level of a dog; people who are not afraid to shame themselves to accomplish their goals.

>If you play easy mode, the interactions between other characters will change. That is, rather than treating you as an equal, they will look down at you and treat you as a joke In rhetoric and behavior. On top of that, the unlockable accessories you find in the game won't be the ninja costume and accessories, rather you will collect little colorful ribbons to add to your image.

>when asked in an interview in Japan, he said "those who want to play it on easy and expect to get things the easy way should not expect to be treated as an equal."

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>easy modo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT3ZoeG1Gc&t=49s

>>385837949
>return it

Would love to see the Gamestop employee's face when you say you want your money back because the game insulted you.

>>385838138
/v/ is hindu

>>385837985
If you did well on the next act and never die, you'd get the next act harder, until you find a balance where you die only a few times, or not at all and play the hardest mode for the rest of the game.

>>385837949
Stuff like this is more condescending than the game just insulting you.

>>385836934
A pile of ash

>>385838343
True, I guess if the acts are small it makes sense

wasn't there a game where the easiest mode was called "Journalist" mode

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>>385836323
>>385837949
>>385837987
>>385833431

>>385837987
>get a badass ninja ribbon
>somehow this is supposed to be demeaning

>>385838320
More like dindu

>>385838032
https://exhentai.org/g/1084755/e67c9ca696/

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>>385838212
>"those who want to play it on easy and expect to get things the easy way should not expect to be treated as an equal."

This is pure gold.

>>385838409
If not, there should be.

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>>385838531

When I started browsing /v/ this evening, I didn't think I would find myself masturbating to hentai of a toddler being fucked to death by a horse, but here we are.

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We can all agree that this was the worst idea ever, right?

>>385837415
>/pol/ is more diverse than European countries while still maintainsing some kind of order
I guess Natin Socialism does work on image boards

>>385837721
>>385837762
>>385837985
Sorry to break it to you, but the games do more than just tune the difficulty like that.

For example, you know how you can go around the levels, breaking all sorts of random shit to get extra bolts? Well, the game actually keeps track of all the extra bolts you gain from doing that, and quietly subtracts it from the bolts you get from breaking boxes and defeating enemies. As a result, no matter how you play the game, you'll always end up with roughly the same amount of bolts in the end. The entire "economy" of the game was basically faked to make sure the player buys new weapons regularly.

Enemy encounters, difficulty level, ammo drops, the rate at which you get money... everything is adjusted on the fly to ensure you get a smooth ride through the entire game, no matter your diligence or skill level. And it's all done silently, without you knowing about it. There's unofficial developer's commentary for Ratchet and Clank 2 and 3 that talk all about this, done by a couple of guys who worked on the games.

tl,dr: Ratchet and Clank 2 and 3 dynamically adjust literally everything that happens. No two people get the same experience.

>>385838212
>expect to get things the easy way should not expect to be treated as an equal.
Fuckin based

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>Playing New Order on the highest difficulty

What are some games that perfectly balance their difficulties?

>>385833431
isnt that also kind of a reference to the doomguy face when your damaged?

>>385839003
crysis on hardest

>>385837721
>>385837762
>>385837937
>>385837985

to go a bit more into detail: according to the dev commentaries, there's 3 difficulty settings (easy, medium, hard). For every segment of the game, the devs expect how often a player would die in it. If you die less often than that, the game would raise the difficulty (unless you're already on hard), more often than that will lower the difficulty (unless you're already on easy). Difficulty doesn't affect enemy damage or HP, only the amount/type of enemies in encounters (easy mode would have more small swarmer enemies that can only melee you, hard mode would have more ranged enemies that can hit you from afar)
Cerrtain sections like the arenas weren't act tuned, bosses aren't affected because only encounters are modified according to difficulty

I'd also assume platforming deaths don't count towards this, but they didn't mention those at all during the commentary

I'm personally not a fan of this mechanic either, newer games have actual difficulty settings though (easy, medium, hard, an unlockable hardcore more with even stronger enemies) that affect enemy HP, damage dealt to the player, and most importantly, on the higher difficulties enemies will actually track/try to shoot where you are going to be if you move predictably

>>385838212
>>385838563
Itagaki was too cool for this rotten industry, remember how he replied to a woman asking him why DoAXBV was so sexist?
>He said, only ugly women have told me they have a problem with the game
>everyone laughed

>>385838728
Life is mysterious

>>385838212
Pretentious dick. You just made a game hard to stroke your own ego and unwarranted sense of self-worth.

Try playing Battletoads, it's coincidentally hard as a result of endless creativity. If you removed the difficulty there would be nothing left to play, NG would work fine as casual's paradise.

>>385839003
I absolutely fucking sucked at Wolfenstein.

Anyway, I'd say Doom but ultra-violence is way too easy. Nightmare is perfect though.

Also what this >>385839071
guy said

>>385838851
>For example, you know how you can go around the levels, breaking all sorts of random shit to get extra bolts? Well, the game actually keeps track of all the extra bolts you gain from doing that, and quietly subtracts it from the bolts you get from breaking boxes and defeating enemies. As a result, no matter how you play the game, you'll always end up with roughly the same amount of bolts in the end. The entire "economy" of the game was basically faked to make sure the player buys new weapons regularly.

nah, they said in the commentary that they will only give extra bolts to people who missed a lot, they'd never tune you down if you get a lot of extra bolts from multipliers or anything like that

>>385838851
>No two people get the same experience.
Everyone gets a smooth ride all the way through though. That's pretty much giving everyone the same experience.

>>385839173
I mean Doom 2016 btw

>>385833431
>suddenly a skeleton
Fucking gifs.

>>385833431
>raising the difficulty only adds more enemy health and damage

Why do so few games actually make the game harder and not just inflate the artificial difficulty?

>>385838771
I thought it was great.

>>385838212
>Original release for Ninja Gaiden has a lot of exploits to make boss fights easy, leading to the whole Flying Swallow meme. Alongside combat being fairly easy once you get the hang of things.
>BUT there are people who complained it was too hard
>Cookie face instead tries to find and remove those exploits. Adds harder difficulty settings. And more aggressive enemies.
Shame he is a joke now because of Devil's Third

>>385839172
t. Ninja Dog

>>385839173
How were you playing Wolfenstein? If you play it like an old school shooter you get fucked. If you play it like COD you get fucked. You gotta change cover a lot, run interference, make wise use of your grenades, and keep track of enemies so they don't end up flanking you

>>385839285
Because that would actually require effort and time.

Playing Evil Within on hard mode was a nice surprise. Never expected to see a remixed enemy placement and more traps set in the levels.

>>385837434
Holy shit I beat those games multiple times and never noticed. What exactly gets changed?

>>385839285
Because that takes time and money.

Changing things like patterns and placement is not some easy fucking thing like people make it out to be.

>>385839385
I'll play anything, no matter how "artificially" difficult. If I die to some cheap bullshit it just entices me more. He's still a pretentious dick no better than Phil Fish or Kamiya.

>>385839540
But people lose their shit when they're forced to pay extra for a difficulty setting, so what are we going to do about it?

>>385837826
I wish the cutscenes were a little different when you play on the hardest difficulty

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>>385833431

>>385838851
>No two people get the same experience.
Honestly, by your descriptions everyone IS getting the same experience. That is, sure the enemies might be different and different crates would have different items, but everyone's going to end up with roughly the same items and the same money as everyone else regardless.

>>385839389
I've never been good at outsmarting enemies. I couldn't get past the prison where you're running out with wyatt/fergus and swarms of germans come for you in an outdoor area you've sneaked through already. Hitscan enemies fuck me over in general.

>>385839528
amount of enemies/types of enemies in encounters
easy mode might give you a swarm of 5 small critters
normal would give you 3 swarmers, 1 ranger behind them
hard would give you 1 tough melee enemy, 2 rangers

>>385838771
What's bad about it? It created some real stakes while still letting bads get through the game.

>>385838771
I thought it was great. It's the embodiment of a risk/reward tradeoff. If you want to get weapons in the 300+ level as welll as get past the gates that lock on certain difficulty levels, you need to play in the harder difficulties. However, you can't just try again and again if you're not making profit on hearts because the currency system won't let you, meaning you can't just go in guns blazing to 9.0 and eat up a lot of continues. Meanwhile, you can just EZ mode the game on 2.0, but what fun is that?

And the game gets pretty fucking absurd at 9.0 too.

>>385839285
More enemy health and damage is actual difficulty, not "artificial difficulty" you inbred retard.

>>>/pol/

>>385833431
I liked the darker toned menu in the earlier Wolfenstein games including the last games more than this Fallout game with Wolfenstein title.

>>385839758
>What's bad about 99 different settings

You can never find something suitable and the game's difficulty keeps fluctuating on its own anyway?

Nothing worse than playing on 6.7 and coming across a 7 difficulty door. Like fuck you.

>>385838065
>the dead space 2 thing?
You can't be this retarded

>>385836323
>Note: babies should not play Wolfenstien: The New Order
I love how this underage "so randumb xD" type of Borderlands-tier writing has worked its way into so many discussions, it immediately let's you know who to dismiss for being an absolute faggot.

>>385839660
BASED AS FUCK

>>385839937
>Didn't play dead space 2

>>385837879
God Hand

>>385839880
So you're saying 99 different settings don't allow you to personalize your experience to the degree that, say, 3 do. I can't say I follow.

If you're on too low of a difficulty to open a door, you replay the level later at the appropriate difficulty. This creates replay value and incentive for bads to get good.

>>385840009
>Dead Space 2 invented perma-death

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>>385833431
>death incarnate is a spooky skeltal
So what would Mein Leben be?

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>>385836321
>>385836874
Typing of the Dead comes pretty close

>>385838771
Yes, fuck everyone who defends it. Having to pay to play a difficulty is retarded, it literally locks you out of difficulties if you die once. Worst system I've ever seen in any videogame

>>385840146
You absolute fucking retard, did you not see me mention nethack and DCSS which were based directly on Rogue?

/v/'s IQ level really is in the single digits.

>>385840058
But when you're playing the first time you have no idea what to expect. Level 19 on 7 difficulty is much, much harder than level 20 on 9. I might be mixing up the chapter numbers but you know what I mean, the aurum stages are worse than what comes after.

>>385840056

Whoa PS2 that's old nevermind

>>385836918
>tons of articles
One. One person made one article.

>>385840407
You're not wrong about that, but that's part of the charm. You're gambling hearts and potential loot opportunities based on your confidence in your ability to traverse the levels. When you go all in, it makes it real intense, and of course when you come back you can tailor the difficulty to your specific needs.

I suppose I can see why this would be irksome for people with strong completionist OCD, seeing locked doors after already committing hearts might be frustrating, but I think it was overall a really good system.

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>>385840543

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>mfw /pol/ and nu-gamers both BTFO

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>>385840661
FUCK

>>385840661
this

>>385836702
How about you take your Neogaf faggotry back to Neogaf.

>>385840661
They are one and the same.

>>385839203
>>385839709
Everyone gets a different experience, but the same result.

That's the best way to put it.

>>385840804
Source me

I'll never get offended for this kind of shit, but I think it's not the best for the players who starts playing FPS and whatnot.

>>385837814
No, he proved that babies and dogs are a bunch of pussies

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>>385840543

the biggest difference in experience that you can have in R&C3 are from the 10% discount from R&C1 and the free weapons from R&C2
>play R&C3HD on a new account to pop trophies again
>choose not to play R&C1 or 2 beforehand
>actually have to do all the optional content and even grind a bit at the end to afford all weapons
versus
>easily afford all weapons the game throws at you
>end the game with an abundance of bolts

>>385842318
Games today have difficulty modes more subtle than selecting something at the start of the game.

Like using the Claymore in Dark Souls is Easy Mode. That's why it's right there at the start, lying out in the open.

>>385842145
It's funnier once you realize Wolf 3d was basically the first "real" FPS and it had the same baby picture with "Can I play Daddy?" It would have been a brand new experience to anyone playing it yet it still made fun of people who had a hard time playing.

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>>385837434
>Act Tuning
>Acttuning
>Achtung

>>385836323
>pic
fucking retard

>>385842505
well, problem with R&C3 is that you're stuck with those difficulty modifiers
once the game has detected the discount/free weapons, you can't undo that

>>385843224
Another reason to loathe R&C, I suppose.

A lot of roguelikes do this too, hate that shit.

>>385838065
>megabab
>shit opinion
Checks out.
>>>/trash/

>>385844063
>>Another reason to loathe R&C, I suppose.
woah nelly, it's not that bad
the whole detection is still an optional feature at the vendors, you don't have to do it, you just can't undo it on that playthrough

>>385844063
The fuck?
It just means that you get discount prices on items. Whoop de fucking do.
And as for the free weapons, you can just, y'know... not use them.

>>385833431
Mein leben?

>>385839285
it actually does the STALKER type shit in Wolfenstein, you die quickly but so do your enemies

>>385845413
equiv to DOOM Ultra-Nightmare

>>385838212
Can you imagine if this interview happened today instead of over a decade ago?
Game journalists would start a riot and accuse him of being a nazi
Neogaf would be eternally assblasted

>>385838212
Anyone have the full interview archived somewhere?
The original page is down

>>385840543
it is nearing 20 years

>>385846920
Hello Lee.
Ready to get banned again?

>>385839610
You must be really decked out in ribbons

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>>385836323

>it's got a great story

>>385838409
The easiest difficulty in Serious Sam games is called "Tourist mode"

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>>385835298
We've been able to figure out that Bring Em On was Normal for the past 25 years or so, anon...

>>385835298
You just always pick the second-to-last difficulty or the last difficulty if the hardest is locked.

>>385846920
Kill yourself Lee

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>>385833431

>>385833431
There is nothing wrong with offering an easy mode as long as the normal modes and higher do not make the same compromises as the easy mode. While I myself do not use such a mode there is no reason that someone who actually needs it should be unable to enjoy the same game as I can, especially if it's singleplayer only. I do get a good laff when the game mocks players who use it though, I see it as a motivator to get better.

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>die repeatedly on the same part
>game suggests I lower the difficulty

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>People bitch when Wolfenstein mocks you for playing on easy
>People bitch when Furi praises you for playing on hard

>>385839829
>links to /pol/
>post doesn't have anything racist or misogynist or bigoted
>nothing political at all
wtf are you doing family?

>>385847065
Yes it has a great story by video game standards.

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>>385848773
>difficulty only affects combat sections
>it's a platforming section

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>>385848773
>easy difficulty unlocked

>>385837762
> I wanna overcome the challenges, not get a free pass after I clear one challenge I had trouble with.
Holy shit, I picked up the PS2 port of Time Crisis 2 and it is absolutely bullshit in how it handles this.
When you first start the game, you have 4 credits. Every time you use all your credits and game over, it adds another credit to Arcade mode. Permanently. With no option to set how many credits you have for arcade mode. Once you have more than 9 credits, it permanently unlocks free play and you can't turn it off.
It doesn't matter if you only play 1CC runs or if you just want to credit feed but it makes it really annoying to keep track of how many credits you've used if you like to limit yourself to a specific amount, especially when playing two player.

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>game has hard mode
>it's locked until you do a second playthrough

Fuck you, if i want my games hard let me have them hard.

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>>385848795
Imagine the shitstorm if they got their hands on God Hand that does both.
Then again, that would require SJW retards to actually play videogames. Pic related got past them just fine by virtue of being in the third game in a lengthy RPG trilogy so none of them actually played it.

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>>385848773
>lower the difficulty by accident
>can't raise it back higher

>easy difficulty is locked

>>385849492
You have to prove your worth, faggot.

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>>385836520
(you)

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>easy difficulty is too easy
>hard difficulty isnt even hard
STOP ME

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>playing gotta go fast games on anything less than sanic

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>playing through Yakuza zero
>get my ass smashed
>"do you want to lower the difficulty to easy?"
NO FUCK OFF!

>>385850306
>anon must die mode

>>385849926
wtf ff12?

>play on the hardest difficulty
>use cheats liberally
lmao get fucked

>>385848901
As a genuine /pol/ anon browsing /v/ is fun because I always get new links to my home board even if no one is talking about politics.

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>>385849296
>die 4 times on a boss fight that you are underequipped for
>die again one more time 2 levels later because you got overconfident and played it a bit too risky
>pretty princess mode unlocked

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Normal difficulty master race reporting in.

>not playing the way the game was meant to be played

I seriously hope you don't do this

>>385833431
>easy is too easy and normal is too hard

>tfw you genuinely struggle with normal difficulty even though you play video games 24/7

>>385850864
normal difficulty would be a waste of time and you're robbing yourself of stimulation

>>385851080
>I play games for the bragging rights

pleb

>>385850864
I wish actual anime pron was animated this well.

>>385848901
>>385850695
I linked you to /pol/ because you're brain damaged, not because you're talking about politics. The common denominator on /pol/ is stupidity; a total lack of an ability to think critically.

>>385851213

Unless her nipples are lead-tipped breasts - especially those that full and round - tend not to sway to that extreme.

>>385851271
I'm not him retard. Do you not understand how this site works?

>>385837554
>Games without difficulty settings are always too easy.
If you play casual games, retard.

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>>385838065
>>385837826
they're using the same difficult settings in TNO, D44M and Wolf2

>>385851313
Like give a shit that animation is smooth as fuck and my dick agrees.

>>385833431
>>385837524
If "I am death incarnate" has the skull, then what will be the "Mein leben" one?

>>385848434
SW2 developers are pretty cool guys.
I wish they used some more mature jokes like the original game used tho

>>385850864
I used to play games on normal but since I want to make them to last a bit longer, I now always use Hard

>>385838065
>first hour is the best part
fuck that, in DCSS the best part is doing late game areas like hell, pandemonium, slime pits, etc. the beginning of the game is so fucking boring because you do it over and over and over and over and over

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>Game rewards you with extra cutscenes and easter eggs for playing on higher difficulties

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>>385852518

>game stops halfway through if playing on easy and tells you to man the fuck up and pick normal or hard.

>>385852693
>old games that have shit easy ending if you play on easy

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>>385836323
>this game is phenomenal
>I haven't played through all of it

I fucking hate gaming journalists

>>385852693
>beat game on easy/normal
>"Play through on hard difficulty for the true ending!"
>beat game on hard
>"Conglaturation!!!"

>>385848773
>You died multiple times because of one single difficult jump and not because of the combat

>>385836323
millennials need to die already

I remember my first Megaman X game being X8, and when I beat the game I was getting ready for a great ending. Sadly, the game cuts off on Easy, and makes you play the whole game again on a harder setting without any chips or armor pieces from Easy. That's how I learned to man up.

>>385838212
Japan takes vidya too seriously.

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>>385851271
>The common denominator on /pol/ is stupidity; a total lack of an ability to think critically.
The common denominator on /pol/ is politic, you are just linking people there because you are projecting.

>>385852518
>to unlock the bad ending you have to beat it on the hardest difficulty

>>385853940
I am roughly 99% sure the guy you're replying to is a /pol/tard in disguise attempting to flame.

>>385852693
I've been working on a game and that is literally what I added. It even tells you this will happen on the difficulty select screen.

>>385838409
I believe Monkey Island 2 had difficulty settings for its puzzles and the easy mode difficulty had the description "for game reviewers".

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>>385836323
looks like daddy didnt let him play

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>>385847065
it was bretty gud in my opinion

>>385838409
Idk about that. But Spiderman on PS1 has a "Kid" mode

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>>385840661

>>385848434
>for people who don't feel like they need to prove anything to themselves or anyone else
I could have sworn that people played higher difficulties for fun. I can understand the sentiment they use for Shadow Warrior 2 though, because their higher difficulties are fucking dogshit bullet sponges.

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>>385850864
>play game on normal
>love it
>hard mode gives me a reason to play through the game again

hardfags are really missing out

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>>385849926
>easy difficulty is unlocked after beating the game

I'm sure I played a game recently that did this, but I can't remember which.

>>385846920
how

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>>385850306
>Easy mode is too easy
>Hard mode is too hard

>>385833431
I haD a friend that always played every game on Easy
he said he enjoyed the games more that way, because he didn't like to get stuck

the madman

>>385842006
SHIRITSUBO | ASSVASE by Jun

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>>385856428
>Normal is fucking perfect

>>385851008
>easy is omited
>normal is too easy
>hard is easy
>hard+ is pretty casual
>super hard reloaded is almost hard
>XXXL hard is too hard

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>the difficulty is just stats-based

>>385840298
The point of rewarding people for beating it 9.0 is the point that you don't get checkpoints, you have to beat a level start to finish

>>385839829
Next level mate!

>>385856967
You may be right, but that's the way it should be, imo: Easy should be for casuals or first timers just figuring out the controls and normal should be how the devs intended the game to be like. With hard being an added challenge for the most competitive players and those who have beaten normal more than once and want to go the extra mile.

>Blood

Holy duck this game is punishing on what I thought is the Ultra-Violence equivalent.

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>>385856739
>NTR

>>385839003

Just beat it on Uber last night, wasn't difficult at all since you stealth most of the fucking game anyways. Only bullshit part was Deathshed hitting every single shot on you, so you had to overcharge to stand a chance.

>>385858993
>Deathshed
Easiest part of the game for me, you can just throw a grenade at him and he'll recharge his shield and you just run to the AA guns while he's doing it.

It really depends on what genre and how they handle difficulty.

Some shooters are better on higher difficulties because they apply universal damage increases. Some action games are better on hard because they add more enemies to combo off of. Some RPGs are terrible on hard because they just stack health and defense on enemies, or they skew the RNG against you.

Best is when there is no difficulty setting.

>>385837987
I don't get it. What did they do?

>>385837879
Go to hell, you whore

>>385848906
>>385855165
ignore him, hes clearly a /pol/fag

>>385861018
They steal, rape and murder.

>>385861436
Projecting breh ?

>>385839613
>BJ always has a bloodied face and a devious smile, no matter the context
I'd love it.

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>>385861558
that im not so fucking paranoid, crazy and delusional that i think a game about scientologists is actually about me?

yeah bruh

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>>385851660
>The skull is smiling

>>385861904
Breh's projecting.

>>385838065
It's optional you fucking dingus, it's a challenge mode.

DOOM has the same thing.

>>385837434
Does it also happen in the first R&C? I replayed it recently and some parts were harder than I remembered

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>Hard mode is just the enemies take more damage and do more damage with no change in abilities/tactics/variety/etc

If a skele is "I am death incarnate", what's the picture for "Mein Leben!"?

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>>385856428
>Normal mode is too normal

>>385837434
wait what. When did RC had difficulties?

>>385862235
A skelly with national socialist uniform.

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>>385851213

>>385862018
that im not them, absolutely

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>>385838771
Oh god, it was fucking awful. Same with Smash 4. It goes against the very idea behind picking a high difficulty, it alone is probably the reason I never finished KI:U even though I really liked it.

>Hm, so people pick hard difficulties because they want a challenge or to push themselves or maybe they want to prove something to themselves, right?
>Let's like, make it so that if they fuck up once, they lose all their money and they have to grind multiplayer or play the game on baby easy mode for awhile before they're allowed another shot at that difficulty.

Fuck off, if I want to bash my head against 9.0 difficulty for an hour I'll do it, don't take the satisfaction out of it by making it easier.

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>>385862235
My guess is the same skeleton, except without its head, maybe with some smoke around it, like it just had its head blown off.

>>385856428
>Hard Mode makes enemies ridiculously tanky on top of increasing player-taken damage
>Half of the weapons are made useless and it's not very fun, you need to do shit like use plasma pistol
>Normal is still too easy because you don't take the damage you take on very hard

why, halo

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>hard mode changes starting location and objectives

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>game doesn't let you change the difficultly
>have to completely wipe your data and restart to change it

this shit should be illegal
how the fuck am i supposed to just know exactly what difficulty i want to play for the entire damn game before i even play it

>>385833431
>Hardmode is locked behind DLC

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>Game's hard mode removes all HUD elements
>Enemies deal more damage but so do you

>hard mode is easier than normal mode because you get rolling faster with all the OP loot drops

>>385847720
for shooters i just pick the hardest and if it turns out to be BS difficulty just turn it down later

>>385863315
metro best game series for cheeki breeki besides stalker

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>>385837987
>tfw I played dog mode just so I could see Ayane go full femdom

>>385853402
Unless you're over 30, you are a millennial.

>>385848434
>You don't need to play harder difficulties to feel validated
>Entire description of easiest difficulty is just valieating you for not playing on a harder difficulty
Wut

I'm glad they kept the baby face. Here's hoping for more GAF salt over it.

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>Don't have a lot of time to play video games anymore
>Put new game on easy so I don't die and can finish it quicker

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>>385854224
>Even when it's not /pol/ it's /pol/
What a brilliant deduction

>>385862561
>shitty doomguy with gay armour that covers his arms and gloves that aren't just leather
why isn't his helmet grey
why are his trousers armour instead of trousers
fucking stupid cunt redesign I hate you DOOM 3 WAS BETTER AND THATS SAYING A FUCKIG LOT

>>385863315
>tfw I had issues completing Metro 2033 on normal because I kept running out of ammo
>tfw ranger hc pneumatic weapons kill everything with a single shot except gargoyles
The harder the difficulty was, the easier the game got

>>385835298
>postal 2 difficulty settings

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>Set game to hardest difficulty
>Can't take it
>Can't' pussy out and drop difficulty either
>Stuck rubbing your face against sandpaper and ruining the game when you just could have played normal and been fine

>>385838771
Fuck that shit in Smash 4 in particular. So many things can go wrong in """""classic""""" mode that are out of your control, fucking you over

>7v1 player Smash where you can barely see yourself
>bob-ombs spawning in front of your attacks
>master balls
>shitty 2 life per fight limit, instead of 5 lives per entire run so you cant do good on early stages and stockpile lives

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>easiest difficulty is actually the hardest

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Why can't numales into bantz?

>>385864653
get out of here stalker

>>385845938
and he still wouldn't care I imagine. Games journalism has been a joke since its inception and plenty of nips are aware of this.

>>385864712
CUTE

>>385864653
>>385864653
Isn't there a Japanese game where the devs actually switched the easiest and hardest difficulties on the selection screen.

>>385836838
I respect Senior Pink. Him dressing up as a baby seemed ridiculous until you saw his backstory and reason for it, it made me teary eyed.

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>>385862428
Ecchi shit truly is the blue balls of the animu genre.

>>385865745
Well I mean yeah isn't that basically what ecchi means

>>385865912
Might as well be watching ntr while you're at it.
Nips should either just make real porn or kill themselves 2bh.