Why is the normal difficulty called "normal"? are the others not normal?
>>729919808>abnormal difficulty
>>729919808also we get very easy and very hard but never very normal
>>729919808Because it's the difficulty the game was designed around That's why easy and hard feel unbalanced by comparison
>>729920849I wish more devs were open about which difficulty they spent the most focus balancing.
>>729920906The label is irrelevant; whatever difficulty the game was designed around is the "normal" one.
We shouldn't have difficulty modes. Fucking commit.
>>729921118What if the game is too easy?
>>729921249get worse
>>729919808I miss when normal meant normal.
>>729922540Normal>conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected>the usual, typical, or expected state or condition.this is weird when talking about difficulty
>normal is hard >hard is very hardYay...
>>729920906alien isolation huh
>>729920906Some are, and you can tell it's an outright lie because mechanics don't make sense at that difficulty. Where Winds Meet on difficulties below Legend and Assassin's Creed Shadows on difficulties below Nightmare are two examples of this where you're told what difficulty the game is balanced for and you can see it's clearly not.In WWM's case you are functionally invulnerable in combat and get free auto parries on any of the lower difficulties meaning you don't even learn boss or even enemy movesets at all, and you can tank everything even without a tank build. Legend disabled those mechanics and forces you to consider tank builds or parrying to fight bosses and even basic enemies.In AC Shadow's case it outright tells you Normal is the difficulty they designed the game around, but then you actually play it and you're functionally two-tapping everything, stealth has no purpose since Naoe can run around slaughtering everyone with her katana, all weapons are equal meaning you just pick the biggest number and passive buffs are pointless, you're borderline invulnerable, and enemies are as dumb as bricks. Then you go to Nightmare and weapons have a clear hierarchy, stealth actually matters and enemies can actually detect you sneaking around making the silent walking engraving make sense why it even exists, Naoe has a very clear damage difference to Yasuke instead of steamrolling enemies, and she dies quicker than Yasuke who can tank stuff.Nowadays it feels like anything but the hardest difficulty is made for people who just want to sleep through the game, and then you coin flip if the hardest difficulty is just damage sponges or where 95% of the mechanics even matter at all.
>>729921249There is so such thing as too easy or too hard
>>729919808Yes. You're gay.
Game has two difficulties. What do you call them?>easy and normal>normal and hard>easy and hard
>>729923215Not so hardHard
>>729923012>In AC Shadow's caseYou are glossing over that the game might have been designed to be easy for maximum amount of players being able to beat it.
>>729923215You won't die a lotYou will die a lot
>>729919856>paranormal difficulty
>>729923253They advertised the game around the stealth upgrades pretty heavily, but they don't exist on anything below Nightmare. Like, straight up none of the seasonal differences remotely play a factor on lower difficulties. Winter's crunching snow and icicles falling is the same as if you were running around in spring's torrential downpours i.e. you are functionally invisible.
>>729919808>are the others not normal?Of course not you dumb fucking stupid
>>729923370neigh, I do not like it
>>729923432they're weird
