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Difficulty Modes that Insult the Player
- Thread starter ZealousD
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Wolfenstein becomes nothing when compared to this
It's only 3 games (2,4 and 6), but the dialogue for when that happens in usually funny.
They nonchalantly completely drop the plot. There's another boss that just goes "Wow I'm not fighting someone like you seriously, bye" and just leaves as well.
J
JoJo UK
Unconfirmed Member
OP is lucky I'm not in charge of game difficulty, achievements/trophies would be turned off on easy mode if it was up to me except for one which got at the end were you get either a 'mud' trophy rather than bronze/silver/gold (not sure exactly how PS works) or 7 gamerscore points so your gamerscore would be all uneven and the achievement would be 'I completed a game' (not even put the name of the game in, put in just the same amount of effort as someone who plays easy).
Take them apples.
Take them apples.
I'm in the crowd that difficulty settings are archiac are should be abandoned. They serve one purpose and one purpose only; replay value.
Developers instead should spend all their time on develping a single difficulty and truly make it the ideal experience for the game they're making; which is usually what normal mode is. Other difficulties are usually just super lazy changing of numbers in the games code and they rarely offer anything truly different from the normal difficulty; just weaker or stronger enemies. Trash it. Instead make some actual worthwhile replay content.
Developers instead should spend all their time on develping a single difficulty and truly make it the ideal experience for the game they're making; which is usually what normal mode is. Other difficulties are usually just super lazy changing of numbers in the games code and they rarely offer anything truly different from the normal difficulty; just weaker or stronger enemies. Trash it. Instead make some actual worthwhile replay content.
Riposte
Member
Normal was also made by "changing the numbers".
Normal is usually just a slightly less easy "Easy" mode.
This is glorious.
Phat Michael
Banned
I'm just imagining the OP being outraged when that scream came up and writing the creators an email filled exclamation points.
Yeah, it was the same for Mass Effect 3, only 4% of players finished the game on the hardest difficulty, Insanity, it was really shocking to hear it was that low. I think that I have grossly overestimated the skill level of your average gamer.
That's actually works quite well.
sakipon
Member
So that's how you encourage people? Not by helping them out and using carrots to lure them in, but like putting a child on a bike and mocking them until the little sucker rides without the damn baby wheels.
The "ideal" experience doesn't exist. You can't set a difficulty that everyone will find "just right", it'll always be too hard or too easy for someone. The fact that devs sometimes take the easy way out and just alter some stats at higher difficulties doesn't mean difficulty levels are an outdated concept. It would be like saying that third person perspective sucks because some devs are not good at positioning the camera.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
In I Wanna Be The Guy the easiest difficulty puts a pink bow on the player and the extra save points say wuss on them.
breakfuss
Member
Pretty much.
PetriP-TNT
Member
This post is very meta
I was about to ask if those were written by John Romero, then I kept reading and say that they were in fact written by John Romero.
Fordfx2
Member
Here's another good one
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Rise of the Triad
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veloxStrix
Banned
My 68 year old gramps plays Socom 3 on the hardest difficulty. Having never played Socom, I don't know how difficult this is but it looks impressive.
Delusibeta
Banned
Fun fact: every Wolfenstin game (with the exception of SNES and Jaguar ports of 3D, which used Easy/Medium/Hard) had some variant of Can I Play, Daddy/Don't Hurt Me/Bring Em On/I Am Death Incarnate for their difficulty levels.
Specifically, Return to Castle Wolfenstin PC omitted Can I Play, Daddy, but that was brought back for the PS2 and Xbox ports. New Order was the first to have a fifth difficulty level, Uber, which references to the description of I Am Death Incarnate from Wolfenstin 2009.
So, uh, yeah. OP is getting upset over a videogame reference.
Specifically, Return to Castle Wolfenstin PC omitted Can I Play, Daddy, but that was brought back for the PS2 and Xbox ports. New Order was the first to have a fifth difficulty level, Uber, which references to the description of I Am Death Incarnate from Wolfenstin 2009.
So, uh, yeah. OP is getting upset over a videogame reference.
Emperor_EL
Member
For what it's worth, Wolfenstein: TNO is still pretty easy on Uber...
Fuckin noooope! Demon's Souls was the hardest of the bunch. Or at least it had the hardest parts. Flamelurker, Allant, Maneaters. The entire last level was a total bitch. Demon's was hard as shit.
This image always gets me. I can't help it, some folks just take things too seriously. I get that some people prefer a challenge, but there are also players who might want to sit back and just enjoy the experience. Different strokes for different folks, that kind of thing. As for the original reason for the thread, I think the difficulty illustration is hilarious. They're having a little fun with the typically bland difficulty settings, names, and illustrations.
Black Pewter
Member
Next game:
Stick with the baby joke?
Dev: Hell yeah!
Publisher: Nope. We had a lot of complaints and it is reflecting badly on us. Just put in Easy, Normal, Hard.
A small scale example of how creativity dies.
I hope publishers aren't as big of a push overs, but I can see the stagnation we have now is due to how publishers are scared to rock boats. Which in today's "My favourite past time is complaining" society, is so easy to do. So big names just 'play it safe' (zzz).
Stick with the baby joke?
Dev: Hell yeah!
Publisher: Nope. We had a lot of complaints and it is reflecting badly on us. Just put in Easy, Normal, Hard.
A small scale example of how creativity dies.
I hope publishers aren't as big of a push overs, but I can see the stagnation we have now is due to how publishers are scared to rock boats. Which in today's "My favourite past time is complaining" society, is so easy to do. So big names just 'play it safe' (zzz).
Shuggananas
Banned
Are you an actual baby for getting offended by this ?
sleverfunk
Member
Lmao wrong dad!
protomouse
Member
I wasn't insulted back then and I'm not insulted now.
ChamplooJones
Formerly Momotaro
Wow, I never thought people were offended by this.
Leafhopper
Banned
Alien Hominid did.
Not that I take offense to any of these that did so. You guys have very thin skin.
Not that I take offense to any of these that did so. You guys have very thin skin.
TeddyShardik
Banned
I find it far more insulting that you usually have to play games on their hardest difficulty to get any kind of challenge these days. Normal doesn't mean medium difficulty anymore when so many games are just on theme park mode in their standard difficulty modes.
Leafhopper
Banned
Damn shame but, you're right.
xrnzaaas
Member
Yeah, different people age differently. My dad played A LOT of games in his 50s and 60s (probably more than I did at the time) and he enjoyed the hell out of them despite the fact that he sometimes had to lower the difficulty level or rely on cheats/trainers.
Cute naming, but probably embarrassed a great many adults who thought they were 'too good' for kids...
And this is funnier when you realize "Kids" was so difficult they actually added an easier setting in the PS2 release ("sweet"), and there is also two more difficult settings after Adults!
RocketRacoon
Member
I was gonna say something like OP git gud or OP relax it's a joke.
But at least you're playing Wolfenstein TNO. Can't fault you on that one, good ass game.
But at least you're playing Wolfenstein TNO. Can't fault you on that one, good ass game.
User 73706
Banned
"Daddy Issues" imo
n00bsauce87
Member
Just out of curiosity, how old are you OP? By your answer, it may make me more understanding of your stance
BouncyFrag
Member
My all time favorite armor swatting down Lautrec!