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Difficulty Modes that Insult the Player
- Thread starter ZealousD
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What's funny about this is that they named the first four difficulties after the original but they couldn't even come up with a funny name for the extra one.
The Hermit
Member
so was the poster I quoted and the poster he quoted...
Riposte
Member
lol the dude who wrote that is really upset about all this.
NoMoChokeSJ
Banned
Can't say I've ever been offended by anything in a video game...... it's a video game And has no detrimental effect on anything important in my life.
Damn, look at how strong and cool this guy is.
OpinionatedCyborg
Member
Look at what a puny maggot you are.
If you think you earn anything from a video game, especially self esteem, you should re-evaluate your life.
CaptainGyro
Banned
I don't see anything to get worked up about that post.
You never had a sense of gratification for beating a really hard video game? It's a great feeling.
EmptySpace
Banned
so you played on the easiest difficulty and you felt insulted by the name of the "easiest mode".
get over it.
get over it.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
The chicken hat is dumb? I would play MGSV on super easy mode just to wear that awesome hat. I'd buy that hat day one.
Gratified? Sure. Excited, exhilarated, happy, satisfied, yeah, it's happened.
But getting a self esteem boost? Go experience some real life, get your priorities straight, go build something, improve yourself.
I'm not one of those people that think gaming is a complete waste of time (I spend far too much time doing it myself, it can be highly enjoyable), but it's all an illusion. You've "accomplished" a completely arbitrary set of designed goals that exist to be beat. I mean, it's possible you'll look back on your death bed and think "Damn, I wish I had spent more hours on video games playing them on hard mode. To think, I really could have been someone."
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
You got it wrong, that is the only difficulty on which you should play it. The other four are the extra ones.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
I only just noticed Smough in the doorway lol.
The highest difficulty setting on Wolfenstein: TNO should just be "Daddy's Home" or something. Uber is so generic.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Suddenly, the other ugly extreme rears its misdirected ideals into the fray.
Iz time to pahty!
Haha, yes! Barbatos on Simple is pretty funny.
"Well, this'll be eas-" *Party is wiped out in one attack*
GAME OVER - Continue?
GAME OVER - Continue?
Incitemaybe
Member
Interesting you would actually be real life insulted.
Haha
This is a non issue.
Haha
This is a non issue.
lol ideals
Did I say anything outlandish? Like, is that a totally out there statement?
Did you read the second thing I posted?
Am I a guy?
Do I drink?
Do you know what false equivalence is?
veloxStrix
Banned
Well, it is Easy..... And humor?
3cool5me
Shouldn't you be out getting drunk and trying to get women to pay attention to you or something? Or at least going to the gym and maxing out every day?
3cool5me
Shouldn't you be out getting drunk and trying to get women to pay attention to you or something? Or at least going to the gym and maxing out every day?
BabyFaceKillah
Member
Seriously OP??
they are just video games... get over it.
they are just video games... get over it.
justgames7604
Member
Just seems like youre trying to be cooler and tougher.
His post was nothing to get worked up about, like at all.
zackmorris
Member
It's funny. Lighten up, no need to get offended over everything in life.
Wreck-It Ralph
Member
I always thought Kid Icarus Uprising's 0.0 screen was funny:
Look at that little ghost running away from you with its little white flag.
Look at that little ghost running away from you with its little white flag.
KZXcellent
Member
Gonna echo the opinion that it's just you being too sensitive. I like the idea with a game joking around like this. It won't be stopping me from going with whatever difficulty is most comfortable to me.
The chicken hat is dumb? I would play MGSV on super easy mode just to wear that awesome hat. I'd buy that hat day one.
Seriously, I hope it is an unlock for completing the game on the other difficulties as well. I want to rock that hat
HueyFreeman
Banned
It's a reference to the Ubermensh, neitszche's concept of man becoming an idealized form that the Nazi 's systematically misinterpreted to mean ethnic Germans were better than everyone else.
So it is actually a pretty awesome name.
OP come on, guy.
Kageshinzo
Member
Jesus Christ, get a thicker skin.
It unlocks after you die multiple times or something.
Paracelsus
Member
Maybe they should put a disclaimer that goes like this
Really? We put the mode in here, but seriously, that's not the way the game is meant to be played. How about we directly show you the ending then a clip of all of us clapping our hands at you?
Frankly, I agree more with the guy lagging the guys out of his Dark Souls game than anybody picking very easy. I can see it come in handy if you already beat the game and you're getting the second playthrough achievements but that's it.
Really? We put the mode in here, but seriously, that's not the way the game is meant to be played. How about we directly show you the ending then a clip of all of us clapping our hands at you?
Frankly, I agree more with the guy lagging the guys out of his Dark Souls game than anybody picking very easy. I can see it come in handy if you already beat the game and you're getting the second playthrough achievements but that's it.
MrRudiMentary
Member
I beat Rogue Warrior on "Pussy" difficulty but I didn't feel insulted. Like how you wouldn't feel insulted if a rapist called you an asshole.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Here is the thing, man. That game is easy on hard mode. Also, the key to playing at low difficulty is not giving a single fuck. You're there to fuck around how you want to fuck around and not give a shit about how anyone else thinks you should, and that is how it has to be. You'll get mocking titles, achievements calling you a trainee, low scores, bad end-of-level rankings, mediocre endings, and missing game mechanics, levels, and enemies/bosses. They start from what they feel is sensible, then try to enter the mind of someone who genuinely can't handle it, and they don't understand, so they make something as awkward as training wheels on a bike and put in these little digs to encourage you to take them off and get the more dangerous, yet more free and fun in your mastery, experience.