>tfw you have to switch to Medium difficulty mid-playthrough because Hard difficulty got too hard
>>322175664
lol pleb
I only do this if the game is poorly designed and excessively cheap and/or unfun at hard.Unless there is a achievement for it, but I still regret keeping it on because it'd be more fun on a lower difficulty. It's usually games that simply crank up damage and HP that are unfun on hard+
>>322175664
Kingpin is insane, I'm getting rekt by fucking rats on very first level
>muh gamer cred
>>322175664
I play on normal/medium until I get bored. Then straight to easiest to get through it. I haven't played a game on hard in probably a decade. Fuck that shit.
>>322175664
Afraid I dont know that feel friendo.
>put game on hard
>it is actually hard
Woah
>>322177130
It's just they started to call baby difficulties "hard" even before you were born
I don't play on hard unless it's a game like Revengeance or the new Wolfenstein that is infinitely more fun on higher difficulties.
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>>322175664
the only time it is acceptable
>tfw you want to switch difficulty mid-game but the game doesn't have that option
>Play game on hardest difficulty.
>It's hard as shit.
>Forced to restart and play on normal.
>Go on /v/.
>Everyone says it's piss easy.
>Later on in the years, I figure out the truth.
>No one on /v/ actually played the game. They just watched the anime.
>install jedi knight 2 because nostalgia
>put difficulty jedi knight
>low health all the time pretty much slugging myself through the first mission
>tfw no get behind wall and just let your health regen like baby games these days
>Higher difficulties just scale enemy health/damage
>no other differences
>Play game on hard
>It's easy
>Play sequel on hard
>It's actually pretty hard
>>322175664
>Normal is too easy.
>Hard is too hard.
>The AI and yourself take/deal the same amount of damage
>when you gotta switch from Normal to CasualMass Effect 1 and all shadowrun games halfway through
Maybe I'm shit a games and just wanna see the story's end
>>322178019
Gungrave?
>tfw you have to switch to easy difficulty right at the start because the game is too fucking hard
Blood, man. Shit's insane.
>>322175664
>Having to switch to Easy on the second-to-last boss because the design is pure garbage.
I'm still pissed to this day
>>322178019
Www..w.w.ww-w-w-w----whaaaaaaat
>Fallout 4
>want to play on survival difficulty
>first death claw fight
>kills me faster than stimpaks can heal
>hide in building
>use up all ammo
>its still not dead
>nice
>play game on hardest difficulty
>all fun has been systematically removed
>keep playing for fear of being a labeled a shitter by /v/
>>322178725
Playing anything but the default difficulty in a game where the only thing the difficulty change is monster health is stupid.
>>322176038
I have had two more levels of Spider-man Shattered Dimensions to finish for ages, but haven't bothered because hard difficulty pretty much accentuates the games flaws ten fold. On the other hand I've already beaten all the other levels on hard, so I might as well finish it on hard. Whenever I can find the fortitude to suck it up & finish it.
>>322175664
this literally never happens
>>322178108
That game makes you earn your regenerating health by putting points into Force Healing.
>Play on normal difficulty on first playthrough
>play on hardest difficulty on second playthrough
If you don't do this you are literally playing games wrong
I almost did that with butcher bay, bullet sponge enemies that can one hit you when you walk around a corner
if it wasnt for quicksave i would have switched it down
>>322178502
Mass Effect is just fucked up in terms of progression. You hit that first boss & it's next to impossible at the level your character is at on normal.
>>322178725
>playing a Bethesda game on anything but normal
Why? Their higher difficulties just lower your health and raise the health and damage of enemies. It's retarded.
>>322179116
Sounds like it makes the game more of a chore than it already is.
>>322179223
That's exactly what it does.
>>322175664
>The only effect of increasing the difficulty is increasing enemy health and damage
>The hardest mode of the game can't be used first play through
>You don't get all the rewards for the lower difficulties when playing on a higher one
Why are all of these still allowed?
>>322177029
Same here. I can respect people who manage to drudge through modern "difficulty" but I just can't be assed anymore.
>>322178945
Other way around, man.
Super hard first, then normal to unwind and take frustration out on weaker enemies.
>>322179429
>that last one
Holy shit why?
>switch to hard difficulty midgame because normal is way too easy
>dont get cheevo for beating it on hard because you switched
>have to beat game on hard again to get cheevo and unlock very hard
>>322179637
>>dont get cheevo for beating it on hard because you switched
That's completely understandable though
>turn the difficulty up if it gets too easy on Normal
And that's all I've done since Twisted Metal 2 called me out.
>>322179637
>pirate game
>beat on hard without switching the difficulty
>don't get achievement and unlock nothing
This happened with me when playing Tales of Zestiria. I was generally playing on Moderate but there were a few bosses where I had to drop the difficulty a level because they were essentially nothing but HP sponges tanking everything and throwing me around.
>>322178019
Minus the years part, this happened to me literally this Monday when I made a difficulty spike thread.
>>322176325
>not playing rags 2 riches mod
plebtier
>>322179439
Objectively incorrect
Normal the first time to experience the story without issues, super hard afterwards for a challenge now that you know what's coming
>people tell me GEB is way too easy
>try to solo it
>can't even get past that difficulty 2 mission where you have to fight a gboro-gboro, a chi-you, and 2 kongous all at once
>have to bring gina along to serve as a distraction
Most games recently have a tier between normal and ULTRA hard.
Witcher 3, Ninja Gaiden 2(not recent but an example), Halo, etc
Normal is easy, hard is normal, Heroic/Extreme/whatever is hard, and then Master Ninja/Legendary/Impossible is the wiki/savescum/call your friend difficulty.
These are facts.
>>322179637
>switch to hard difficulty on the final level
>get the cheevo for beating it on hard and get super hard unlocked
>>322175664
just did this with arkam city. I had an existential crisis as a result. then I realized /v/ says a bunch of gay shit that is never on point and everything was ok again.
>tfw easy mode is too hard
>>322180706
This is correct.
>>322180706
Halo is a joke. They never recovered from being whining about Halo 2 Legendary being too hard.
>>322181029
I'll give you 20$ on paypal if you can finish three missions in Halo Reach on LASO without dying.
>>322179637
>giving a shit about cheevos
I feel like I'm the only one that posts about this game on /v/ but Crypt of the NecroDancer had a great difficulty model.
>Game takes 5-60 minutes to complete for experienced players
>Initial characters are forgiving, slow paced, or powerful
>Completing the game unlocks new characters
>New characters are much more challenging to use
>Final characters to unlock are very challenging
Opposed to like, Fallout 4 where its literally >Easiest you do 2x damage they do 0.5 Legendary they do 2x '' '''
I'm really pleased with this game. I play it once a day and enjoy it. It's not really a binge game where you stay up until 5am playing it until you are physically sick but its fun as fuck and I can play it every day.
>>322180706
lol witcher 3 is not that hard on death march even using a controller. Now new order has a ramped up Uber difficulty that I had to switch to keyboard and mouse to even play. It was a nice change of pace for sure.
>creating your own challenges since the game only has one difficulty setting
>>322180706
>witcher 3
wat, seriously, wat
2 is actually kind of hard in some areas, especially on the very highest difficulties.
>>322180561
I enjoy the story plenty even while being killed 30 times per checkpoint.
>tfw you always play on the easiest difficulty, because any form of challenge that you don't immediately excel at sends you into a self loathing rage.
>>322175664
>Hard Mode
>just increases enemy health to ridiculous amounts and makes the game more tedious
>>322183074
>thanks bethesda!
>>322183031
It would not be a challenge if you excelled at it before mastering it. That's what makes it a challenge.
>>322175664
thats how I felt with RE5
I was all super confident because I just beat RE4, boy did that game fix me up
>>322183340
Even basic tasks are a challenge for me. I still struggle on easiest difficulty sometimes.
>>322175664
>Not just playing on default difficulty unless there is a developer statement about a difficulty above default being the "intended" difficulty.
Unless there is something to be gained from harder difficulties such as skill carrying over to multiplayer, game content or a story related thing.
There is no reason to ever not play default difficulty as other settings probably aren't even balanced or thoroughly tested anyway, it's literally pointless.
More often than not Medium/default is too easy anyway and you'll just want to get the game over and done with.
>>322183074
>you're still autistic enough to feel like you have to play on the hardest difficulty, just so that you can tell everyone you did it
>there's no one to actually tell it to
>>322183031
That just about sums up 99.9% of people who play Video games these days.
>>322184169
this is worse when Very Hard or whatever the hardest difficulty is too easy. Im looking at you new vegas. Also games where the hardest difficulty is balls to the walls insane but the 2nd hardest is easy as fuck. Test your games please developers.
>>322181589
I don't ever buy armor in ratchet and clank because of this
Happy New Year
>>322184292
I have a friend who plays on the highest setting in everything and bitches forever how it's bullshit.
It pisses me off because I don't know why he puts himself through that if he can't fucking do it without getting angry and complaining to me for hours.
I couldn't give a shit what difficulty he plays on, but him bashing his head against a brickwall for no gain just looks seems fucking retarded.
Big whoop, you beat it on hard, did you unlock anything? No? I beat the game a week ago on normal and got the exact same result, well done, you achieved nothing of value.
STALKER is the only game I know where hard difficulty actually made sense. every other game, and the enemies just become sponges or you die from hitting your head in a tree - it's ridiculous and a waste of time.
>you stop going for an 100% because the game starts getting too difficult and you prioritize finishing the game over the 100% grind
>>322184643
>getting fucking zapped from across the level by a bandit because something did something to piss him off and he was looking your way
Master difficulty was the best though hands down.
>not playing every game on the hardest available difficulty
What are you, a casual?
>>322184845
No I'm just not a retard wasting him time on something that gives me absolutely nothing.
Give me a reason to play on highest difficulty.
>>322184956
It is more satisfying. Why not just play on easy if you don't want a challenge?
>>322184845
>Harder difficulties are poorly implemented and do not offer additional challenge
>Unskilled in the game so it'd just make it worse to play because you'd be punished severely for not having prior knowledge
>Relaxation
>>322175664
>tfw you have to start a new playthrough because current difficulty was too easy
>>322185093
I do want a challenge, but I want a well designed challenge, not scaled bullshit that doesn't matter and wasn't really tested.
If a developer is like "Yeah we actually designed the game around hard difficulty" then I'll play at that difficulty, but 90% of the time default difficulty is what the game is designed around.
"Oh you gimped my character to give me a challenge on very and boosted everything around me" Fuck off with that, make the game actually challenging in creative ways and not by weakening the player.
Lowering the difficulty pretty much entirely depends on how death/respawn works.
Like using Spec Ops and Uncharted as examples, Uncharted has no loads and puts yoh at the start of whatever gunfight you died in, so high difficulties are fun, while Spec Ops has like, 40 second load times and checkpoints are often before a scripted event you gotta redo every fucking time.
Set backs on death depend on how often and easy it is to die. I dont mind dying in say Dark Souls, cause the deaths are pretty spaced out while in a shooter you can die pretty fast after respawn in some parts.
>>322177130
Because you don't play on anything past normal.
>RPG on hard is too easy
>Can't change difficulty modes without starting over
>Next difficulty level up is designed for newgame+
>Don't know if that will be challenging or just plain unfair, don't want to invest time on it only to find out it's unbeatable first playthrough without grinding
I hate RPG difficulty settings, you can never be sure whether you're getting artificial bullshit or genuinely well developed difficulty without risking invested time.
>Difficulty automaically lowers when you die
>only way to change it back is to restart the level
You'll never have this much fun playing video games ever again
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3jvad6_fun-while-gathering-infinite-orbs_videogames
>>322179637
>last mission is a cut scene and fifteen seconds of game play
>play the last mission in all difficulties and get all of the achievements.
I put every game on easy so I don't get stuck. I play to finish a game and find out the story not get stuck and frustrated.
