>hard mode
>just gives more damage and HP to enemies
Fucking bullshit.
>>316806230
what do you wanted?AI with human abilities?
AI cheating?
>hard mode
>everything is the same except you die in 1-3 hits
>Hard mode
>you and enemies have lowered life
>>316806336
I want something like STALKER.
>less HP for EVERYONE
>>316806365
This I can like.
>easy mode
entire chunks of game missing
>spawns more enemies too which essentially does nothing but make missions more boring since they are taking a bit longer
>easy mode
>normal mode
>hard mode
>nightmare mode
>impossible mode
>levels are entirely different if you pick harder mode
>puzzles are also harder
>>316806365
Deus Ex realistic mode
>>316806336
No I want what Ys developers did, every level of difficult in there games easy normal hard nightmare, each one added something new to the boss fight a new mechanic and nightmare difficulty being the hardest had every mechanic
>>316806526
>difficulties are just new game+ with enemy level increased
>>316806526
>have to play through normal to unlock hard and so on
>difficulties just gives free ressources to the AI
Fuck all strategies games.
>games in series get progressively easier
>increasing the difficulty makes enemy AI more defensive rather than offensive as well as giving enemies more health and damage
>slider difficulty
![02560840-photo-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-clear-sky[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0yeAfN5.jpg "02560840-photo-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-clear-sky[1].jpg")
>>316806230
>the hardest difficulty makes the game the most fun
>hard mode
>they're tougher
>they're faster
>they're smarter
>they have new moves
>there's more of them
Aw yiss.
>>316806810
>Ys Oath in felghana and Ys Origins
>hardest difficulty means every enemy takes half a magazine to kill
>>316806230
>Makes a Dark Souls reaction image
>Pictures Ornstein drinking coffee instead of estus or sunny D.
>>316806948
Ornstein isn't undead so where's the joke Buckley?
>enemy have unlimited stamina even in easy mode
>>316806230
>Hard difficulty changes enemy placements
>They release it as a ful priced standalone game
Fuck you B-team.
>>316806230
>Item gives you you a Buff for having low health
>>316806631
not all games have a perfect dev team like ys
>>316806719
I think AoE2 is the only strategy game in existence where default non-handicapped, fair AI is on Hard difficulty.
>>316807405
sad life i only got introduced to the ys games a couple months back by a couple of friends lots of fun if you want to challenge yourself the games controls are insanely tight really impressed me.
>New game+
>Unlocks alternative costume
>File get overwritten
>The rest of the game, including difficulty is completely unchanged.
>It's OK when Nintendo does it.
>>316806626
Sucked ass. Every single fucking mook in that game was a godly marksman at medium and close range and could drop a shot on you at blink speed. Relistic was basically don't get spotted: the game.
Unless the enemies had assault rifles. Then you could just turn regeneration on and ignore them until they run out of ammo.
>>316807527
Dunno, I haven't played enough AoE2.
Empire Earth is full of bullshit however.
Even SupCom has a retarded AI.
>enemies never run out of ammo
>enemies are never handicapped by limbs damage
>you do
>Game is super hard
>But only because of the lack of abilities at the beginning of the game
>The more abilities you get the easier it is to cheese the game
Fuck you SMT4 I should not be able to chat lock an enemy and have my team rape its asshole while we talk
>AI sometimes throws the game's own set of rules out the window
>>316806810
>the hardest difficulty makes the game the easiest
Random scatter and arbitrary miss chance on lower difficulty basically made the game unplayable. You could empty an AK mag into a bandit's face and not kill him.
>>316808106
Let me guess... Dark Souls?
>>316806230
>hard mode
>everyone dies on one hit, including you
>>316808152
>clipping issue is sometimes so bad you can get poked to death through a fucking wall
Well, I guess it can apply to that too
>>316808086
You can do that in SMT4?
I beat it twice, and I didn't know that.
>>316807527
I think Age of Mythology hard AI doesn't cheat either. At least it doesn't feel like it's pulling money out of its ass.
>>316806230
Killing floor 2 gives enemies more advanced/harder attack patterns, I've seen very few games where increasing the difficulty makes enemies anything other than a bullet sponge.
>Extreme mode actually changes up the game design
Lets recap what MGS2 on Extreme does:
- You can no longer shoot out the tarp or light during Olga boss fight
- More bombs to dispose of. 1 added to strut a, 1 added to strut e, and 2 added to strut d.
- Timers on Fatman boss fight are shorter. Bombs are more of a threat.
- Many more semtex controllers on the Shell 1-2 Connecting Bridge
- Snake won't help you snipe until the very last minute in twilight sniping scenario.
- More RAYs need to be destroyed. 20 in all.
- Tanker Guards added to the Decks, Engine Room, and Holds.
- Plant Guards and Cameras added to the struts, bridges, and cores.
- Rations are removed from every possible location, including shaking them off guards.
>>316808252
Happened to me with Crysis.
>covers behind rocks
>takes damage anyway
>I can clip through rocks
>bullets too
>die
>uninstall
>>316808271
I think its Chitchat? Where you can negotiate the demon to talk to you instead of attacking. You can do this about 3 times before they get tired of it but in those 3 turns your team has already obliterated their health provided you know their weakness.
Which means I had 3 turns to find out its weakness and exploit it.
To be fair there are some demons that it just doesn't work on like the trial demon who just goes "Aren't you supposed to be completing this trial?" and just blows at your candle
>>316807929
Oh I loved SupCom AI. Holding on by the skin of my teeth for an hour, then suddenly the rape train stops because the AI simply gave up. Or the AI being utterly unable to estimate anything and constantly fucking its own economy. Or the AI attempting the same fruitless strategies over and over and over again while completely ignoring what I'm doing. It was one of the worst AIs I have ever seen. In was RA1 tier.
>>316808139
>shoot bandit with Macaroni from 2 meters away
>bullets hit a tree that is beside him
>very easy mode
>easy mode
>normal but still easy mode
>literally impossible to win mode
why do this
>very easy
>>316806648
Fucking Uncharted.
>>316806230
>game is only relatively challenging on Extreme mode
>you need to complete Hard mode to unlock Extreme
>you need to complete Normal mode to unlock Hard
>hardest difficulty makes AI smarter and the game much more fun
>you can only save once per mission, if at all
>>316806445
Reminds me of Doom's difficulty scaling. To me Ultra-violence is how the game was designed to be played with the perfect enemy types and placement on each level. Then every difficulty level under has enemies in sections reduced or replaced with easier ones. And Nightmare mode has constant and unlimited teleports of enemies and some invisible.
I hate when game devs think that giving enemies more HP makes the game harder. It just makes them bullet sponges. I had this problem in RAGE. At higher difficulty enemies soaked up more damage and dropped less ammo. Which meant that if I ran out of ammunition I had to punch my way out for the rest of the level. Which was usually the majority of the level. 20 minutes of punching enemies who take 8 hits to die.
>>316808521
More like attack the military outpost with SVD and 200 rounds of ammo and don't kill anything before running out. I still don't understand how someone can like Clear Sky.
>>316808505
Forged Alliance's AI was way better. Vanilla SupCom's AI was laughable.
I remember my very first FA game against an easy AI, the guy started using bombers. He never used them before.
Too bad it shits itself after a while, starts building stuff, and gives up at 95% completion.
>>316808423
So what do you do for health if you get hurt?
Gid gud?
I wish there was a Steam group that comments on difficulty level like that and details them.
>even number of difficulties
>>316808756
I love it when a game with regular human enemies do it. Even better if they're some shirtless ragbandits shooting Uzis and pistols, then somehow withstand a mag of AK rounds to the chest. Like, could you be any more of a lazy cunt when developing difficulties?
>RTS game
>AI just sends out a party of 3-5 shit tier units on a regular interval through the game until it runs out of resources
>>316806230
>finish Blops 3
>"Oh cool! Realistic mode, 1 hit kills!"
>Begin first mission
>You can die after 1 hit but enemies still take the standard 5-7 rounds to kill
>AI acts even more retarded than on Casual mode
>>316809369
>RTS game
>AI running out of ressources
>playing Crysis Warhead
>jumps on a tank
>can't do anything
>jumps from the tank
>lands on its side
>instantly die
I like Mass Effect games but fucking this.
>>316806336
It's nice when they actually remix the enemies. Just played W101 on hard mode, and the first level in, you're fighting giant tanks and shit, which is fantastic because you don't want to be fighting small fry tutorial enemies even if they do have buffed health
>>316809369
>Wargame
>AI regularly sends out parties of 3 great units to suck up your AT infantry ammo and Attack Helicopter fuel
>repeat until you run out of ammo trucks
>slowly sap your reserve soldiers until you realize how to properly prepare for the mission and restart
>RTS
>raises difficulties
>it only makes the AI rushes you
are you guys retarded? having low hp for enemy and you is the dumbest fucking solution. harder difficulty=enemies have new skills/moves. e.g instead of walking they run. instead of acid spit blocking your screen on a direct impact it also leaves a acid pool and etc.
>>316806230
Why can't you just adapt, OP?
>>316810263
>are you guys retarded?
Says the retard who can't use basic English.
>hard AI
>just spams basic units
>>316809932
>raise difficulty
>difficulty lowers instead
>>316811187
Who are you quoting?
>>316811335
>Being this new
>>316811982
Answer the question.
>>316808948
Yeah.
>being able to change difficulty mid-game
>>316812419
>>316811335
hownew.ru
>>316806648
Fucking dmc
>Ai is losing
>starts spamming really hard to counter attacks
>>316807275
>In a turn-based game
>>316806230
>AI enemies spam grenades more than people in multiplayer
>SRPG
>enemy equipment is always one tier higher than you
>chance to steal might as well be zero because RNG
>unless you have the right support ability, even if they have a 30% chance to rend/steal your equipment, it's always above 50% for AI because RNG
fuck i love FFT but RNG favors the AI way more than it should
>Hard mode is actually challenging
>extreme is a completely different game.
>easy mode has regenerating health and all damage is maxcapped to 1
>in hard mode, you're relieved to find a basic health kit
>normal too easy
>hard is pretty fun.
>only way to get to hard with new character is by beating game on normal
i wish you were able to choose to start on ng+ on dark souls.
>>316807275
>Special attack
>Damage exponentially buffs if you are wounded
>1hp may result in a overkill attack doing +1 000 000 damage
>>316807847
Scholar of the First Sin.
>>316808086
Morrowind
The story of a reincarnated elf shitting in the woods getting raped by swamp crabs and his magnificent ascension to litteral godhood
>>316807720
They could perfectly add Master Quest for the new Zelda games as a new game+
It'd be cool if that's what they do with TP HDit would probably be amiibo-locked tho
>>316806782
This is the worst way to handle difficulty selection, same with how Postal 2 has about 10 difficulty options. It's gross. Throws balance out the window in the name of "player choice", as if a new player knows more about the game than the designer.
>>316816254
>le Dark Souls is not hard may may, I can beat it with my eyes closed xD
I love this meme.
>Game has no difficulty modes
>Gradually goes from tutorial piss easy to absolutely crazy impossible
>>316817524
I think you're projecting a bit. He was saying that he wishes DS1 had a mode like DS2's champ covenant that lets the first playthrough be increased in difficulty.
>>316817524
Dark souls isn't hard, come on
Once you get the hang of rolling, basic strategies and a good moveset, you can take on anything
Some guys take on the Asylum demon with the sword hilt and only 1 hp for the lulz
Bur agreed, if you're just playing it casually, it's not exactly an easy game
>>316806230
INFERNO
MODE
>>316817642
>Game has no selectable difficulty modes
>Gradually goes from very hard to absolutely crazy impossible
>if you beat the game without getting hit once you unlock an even harder mode
>game gives you godly weapons after you defeat all the mega bosses
>no new game+ to use them, or any worthy enemies
I hope FF XII HD adds a New Game+ mode.
>>316808423
[percussion beat and horns intensify]
They should have added an improved control scheme to the HD version. Hold ups turning into kills because you pressed the button too much can mess with your stealth and your no kill runs.
>>316808729
Dead space?
>only 2 difficulties
>Supereasy and Superhard
>Supereasy is still hard as fuck
>just 1 life and it's instant Game Over with no continues
T-thanks Treasure, it's not like I really wanted to play Alien Soldier or anything.
>>316818873
Why would you want to play that game anyway?
>>316818668
Are you going to shoot m-EEEEEEIIIIGGHH
>>316817934
>if you beat the game without getting hit once you unlock an even harder mode
What game?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Hard_mode
Ganna love how GW 1 does this.
>>316819006
>>316819006
It's very cool, just very hard.
>>316808187
Did that guy just killed himself ?
>>316819312
Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi.
Technically it's not an unlock, but if you beat the game without dieing, using any bombs while also having a score of over 120 million you will begin the "ura loop" which is a massively more difficult version of the game, and at the end you get to fight the true last boss.Being able to get to the Ura Loop at all is already an insane accomplishment, let alone beating the true last boss. Few have ever made it that far even among the most hardcore and dedicated of fans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNVzN6DagTA (first 22 minutes are the normal run, after that it's the ura loop)
>>316820281
Great. Here go 45 minutes of my life.
>>316807891
>Not using the dragon tooth sword and going to town on literally everything
>Hard mode
>take more damage from enemy attacks
>enemies are more accurate
>enemies move more often
>enemy hp unchanged
The only correct way
>Fallout 4
>choose survival
>get stuck fighting the deathclaw in power armor because I run out of ammo in all weapons multiple times
I even used VATs to crit his head multiple times.
>>316820770
>>take more damage from enemy attacks
No.
>>316820281
What was the name of that game where people found out the last boss only after 1,5 year of playing.
>>316808926
I find that once it gets to T3, it just starts building Experimentals and sends them at you. Don't know if it stops and does anything besides that after you kill them, since I've never let it survive for long.
>>316821187
Ocarina of Time.
>>316821525
My average game lasts 45 minutes. I never saw it using Experimentals.
>>316821731
Haven't played a game in a while, but I think it starts building experimentals after like an hour, at least. My games average about 1h 30 minutes, since I wall myself in and build shittons of turrets before building an army.
>>316821731
It was a SHMUP for sure.
>>316822008
45 minutes here. I usually rely more on units than turrets. Except for air, my strategy always involves interceptor patrolling the no man's land to stop bombers.
Last time I tried turtling, the Adaptive AI (basically the best) ran into my turrets and got killed.
>>316822245
No clue then.
Except for Touhou and a few Steam games (Jamestown, Tyrian 2000 and Co) I don't know anything about shmups.
>Selecting or mousing over a difficulty doesn't tell you what it changes/affect
Fucking why? All it is is just a bit of text. If all it does is tell me that the game is harder on higher difficulties, which is fucking obvious, why not give me details or remove that note altogether?
>>316808616
>Lowest difficulty is Medium
>Medium deems you a pansy and gives you a bow that you wear permanently as punishment.
>difficulty affect enemies' HP
>in a RTS
No.
>Hard Mode
>Reduced Inventory slots
>You need to backtrack more to get required items
>>316822246
>the best
>ran into my turrets
I hear there's a mod or something that improves the AI. Found that on some of the higher difficulties that they receive a spike of energy whenever it runs out or goes negative, probably does a bunch of other shit too.
It's sad just how shit the AI is at managing its economy. I've only noticed that it used bombers in the early game, and only on the small/medium maps as well.
Fucking C&C has better AI. At least it seems that way because I'm worse at it.
>>316822561
What RTS games other than Dawn of War and its expansions do this?
>>316808139
I don't believe your lies skelly
>>316822954
The Sorian AI mod, yeah.
But so far, I'm learning with basic AI before trying the fancy mods. And frankly, that was disappointing. Better start installing these IA now.
The AI does better than me in early game, but midgame, I always catch up to it and totally dominate it endgame.
>>316823083
Starcraft 2. In singleplayer, my units are a shitload more efficient than in multiplayer.
>>316806230
> hard mode
> enemies have more HP and hit harder
> stronger enemies appear earlier in the story
> enemies get their own DT if they are left alive too long
based DMC
Best games for difficulty?
Halo did it well enough, AI had it's quirks on legendary even in HP was beefed.
STALKER obviously.
Fuck I have vidya amnesia what are sum good ones from the past?
>>316823459
The old Tom&Jerry game on Megadrive.
>>316823459
Timesplitters 2, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark
>>316823890
>>316823693
My niggers
I love the ones where they put some effort into making thee missions harder with special enemies, re-worked design and/or extra objectives
>>316806230
>hard mode
>in the middle of a fight your teammates turn evil and fight you
>you can kill them and weaker the overall dmg of the enemy boss but if you do they are dead and can't rejoin your team
>>316808187
why did cool coolman gay bulge himself
>>316824128
what game?
>>316823459
>Best games for difficulty?
The old Thief games.
>normal difficulty
>normal
>hard difficulty
>more objectives
>don't kill any civilians
>hardest
>explore the entire map
>don't kill any living being
