>>741910930
the real question is why there's difficulty at all? if you can't keep up then stop playing.

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>Harder enemies
Translation
>Health bloat, damage multiplied by 2

Easy mode is for babies

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>>741910930
one of us sucked at games so much he decided to project his anger and frustration into a strawman mspaint comic

it ain't me

>>741910930
Where did the narrative that only losers enjoy challenges come from?

>>741911750
Video games is still considered a 'loser' hobby in society.

>>741910930
>Why don't devs stroke my faggotnigger ego for shitting on their game?
truly a mystery

>>741910930
i put all my games on hard mode now
yes i am unemployed

>>741911965
only if you play on easy

>>741910930
>I'm compensating for my complete lack of social life
I look like this and say this.

>>741910930
>having le heckin' girlfriend is the biggest achievement in life

>>741910930
the hardest difficulty is the developer intended difficulty

>>741910930
>dogshit game that is bad at balancing anything
>enemies become bulletsponge the harder the difficulty is

Risk of Rain 2 by hotpoo has to be the worst roguelite ever made. I'm going back to nuclear throne.

>>741910930
>Sorry, I'm too busy PLOWING my GIRLFRIEND to play this game.
Sex does not take that long. Also you forgot the ascended/gigachad not playing any games.

Modern games do kind of do this, games don't really make fun of you for playing on easy anymore. Very easy is now often just called "Story mode" and shit like that, to remove condecending vibes.

Always hard, unless there are 4 difficulties then I will pick third one.
"normal" or "recommended" is always balanced around the lowest common denominator AKA game journalists, at that point a game isnt even worth playing.

>>741911750
You know how, whenever people lose in a multiplayer game, they call the guy who won a sweaty tryhard? Same mentality, but for single-player stuff. If they lose, it can't be their fault, and those who won are the real losers.

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>>741912539
>ascended uberChad
I play games in hard mode in my mind while I fuck my girlfriend's mother, and I make her dad watch. And he takes notes. And a camera is sending everything to the four corners of the earth as I do a live commentary about how I'm beating the video game boss in my head.

>>741911750
difficulty in majority of games just means how much time you want to waste on trivialities
it often doesnt fundamentally alter the game in any way except something like needing to eat twice as often, half healing, enemies do higher damage with more health, lower ammo count
its all bullshit
>t. video game god that only chooses normal difficulty after many years thinking i was cool for playing hardest mode always (it was a gay waste of time)

>Survival horror games
Always the hardest difficulty, dead space is best on impossible and re4 is best on professional
>RPGs
If its a normie rpg like baldurs gate 3 ill go hardest if its more of an enthusiast rpg like pathfinder wrath I go core difficulty
>shooters
Usually hardest unless the game makes enemies extreme bullet sponges. Sometimes second hardest like halo which is best on heroic
>RTS/Strategy games
hard/hardest. I find starcraft 2 the most fun on hard but sometimes playing on brutal is also fun even if it restricts some strategies you can use

>>741912992
Adding tedium/just upping numbers is kind of lame I agree. But lowering the margin for error does add challenge. Complex AI takes a lot of time to make so there is a happy middle ground between just numbers and redoing the AI.

>>741910930
game journalist made this comic

>>741911750
it's just a coping mechanism

imagine telling a prospective mate that you play games on story mode

her ovaries will go into lockdown, her pussy will go into emergency dryness mode

>>741910930
because top buys games and bottom doesn't

>>741912539
>sex does not take that long
Are you having sex with someone or just using them as a sex toy?

>>741911489
4pbp

>>741910930
Insult their core constituents? Gee I wonder why games wouldn't do that. It's almost like if they did that, their audience would abandon them, they'd lose all their money and the other two secondaries wouldn't have any interest. Me on the top btw.

>>741910930
if you're too busy fucking your girlfriend, then why are you playing a videogame in the first place?

>>741910930
Sex is sacred chad! Marry your wife(s) before having sex so they cant have sex with other men!

>>741913565
yeah I'm sure she will be horny if I tell her I play on the hardest difficulty bro

>>741911750
From losers who don't enjoy challenges.

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>>741912347
>select "Sorry I'm too busy PLOWING my GIRLFRIEND to play this game" difficulty
>game quits to desktop

>>741915353
I talked about DmC with this one girl and she saw my rankings and unironically was impressed. Unfortunately she was a tranny so it didn't go anywhere.

>>741912624
Everyone better than me is cheating, and everyone words than me is a nooblord.

>>741910930
performative normies getting into gaming for their grift ruined video games

>>741911750
Because on the scale of "things that are important to git gud at," video games are pretty low on the list, with the implication that you failed at/didn't try anything more worthwhile.

>>741912424
holy skill issue batman!

>>741910930
Insult the player? Several

>>741912992
>it often doesn't fundamentally alter the game in any way except making you pay more attention to everything in it
good enough
i used to play on normal but i just put them on the highest difficulty these days. turns out it's not all that hard unless it's intended to be picked at ng+ in some rpg

>>741916940
Truth nuke. Being good at bing bing wahoo doesn't get you money, health, friends, or pussy. It just shows you put too much effort into bullshit.

>>741914420
Normies use video games as a socialization platform. It's basically a virtual bar, which is exactly why shit like Roblox, Minecraft, GTA, NBA 2K, FIFA and Fortnite are so popular.

>>741917489
I got my last two boyfriends from being good at vidya though?? :3

>>741912992
higher damage depends
if the game has an in depth parry/dodge system the the difference between higher and lower damage is the difference between if you actually have to engage with that system or can just ignore it and face tank

>>741910930
probably because nobody who makes games thinks you're a loser for playing their games

>>741917662
If man: Faggot. It's extremely easy for gay men to fuck other men.
If woman: It's extremely easy for a woman interested in nerdy stuff to fuck a man.

>>741911750
Many people do not like the idea that there are other people in the world that are basically them but better in every single aspect possible, with a better life, better relationships, better sex, taller, bigger, stronger, faster, charming, more handsome, and just straight up better in every way possible. It's all about IQ. There are angry, frustrated zoomers out there that are ashamed of their mediocracy and below average testosterone and IQ. Struggling in games, having to play at lower difficulties that don't allow for more onteresting gameplay. Just having to suck it up in their own lame lives with their boring mediocre gaming experiences, not having as much pleasure masturbating as high testosterone men do, and their lonely penises never ever feeling the touch of a woman. They will die single and alone, forever a virgin, from life to death, as an eternal virgin. They also get emotional and angry at any opposition or difficulty, being unable to learn and improve. They are angry, they are concious of their anger inhibiting them from ever advancing in anything, but they can never do anything about it. For they will always play in normal or hard difficulty, never going through a playthrough with any of the fun handicaps or legendary difficulty. Never having the more advanced AI. Never playing at a difficulty that necessitates strategy. They will always play at a level where there is no strategy, just being limited by their motor skills and reaction speed. So lame, boring and pathetic they are.

anyone that wants a challenge doesn't have sex
got it

>>741910930
because that's retarded

>>741917885
TL;DR: Playing easy and normal mode = no sex loser. Playing hard mode = sex testosterone god
In reality it's the opposite.

>>741911750
Your mom.

It's always funny to me how much the definitely very successful terminal 4chan posters look down on people who are good at something.

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why did this mindbreak so many people

>>741910930
Many games have difficulty options

>>741910930
Holy fuck unc, 2005 wants its stigma back. Gamers are athletes now, don't you know? It's called e-SPORTS.

>>741918259
this board is mostly populated by people that literally derive their personality out of beating or investing time on videogames.
they have pride on their hobby, thinking they are special and that people wouldn't be able to get to their level of "gamer skill" without the amount of time and effort they put in.

Think if everything could draw and paint extremely good without trying hard, some (not all) painters would think painting is dead because you don't longer have to spend time to get good at painting and they would get defensive about how bad the easier difficulty is for the world or something.
Just wonder how a world would be where we could do things easily

>>741917885
>angry, frustrated zoomers
You almost exclusively see this "videogames are for sweaty nerds" rhetoric from 30+ year old losers and dads that are too old and decrepit to play videogames with their atrophied hands.

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easy: small boob
normal: normal boob
(penis) hard: big boob

>>741911750
The people who say they don't care and just want to enjoy games actually care a lot. There are legions of them that wish they could be better at games because being better just makes most games way more fun.
There's also the dad gamers and people who used to be good at games when they were younger but don't have time anymore because their lives are too busy. They hate their jobs or kids or whatever and project all that resentment outwards when they see someone their same age that never lost their touch and has more time than them for vidya.

>>741918563
>Think if everything could draw and paint extremely good without trying hard, some (not all) painters would think painting is dead because you don't longer have to spend time to get good at painting and they would get defensive about how bad the easier difficulty is for the world or something.
>Just wonder how a world would be where we could do things easily
I know what you're trying to pull AIjeet

>>741910930
I'm married, have children, an ok job and as a principle I always play on hardest difficulty possible
I have literally zero social lige though
FUCK "GAMER" DADS
FUCK INCELOIDS

>>741918563
>Think if everything could draw and paint extremely good without trying hard, some (not all) painters would think painting is dead because you don't longer have to spend time to get good at painting

This is literally AI art. You are describing reality today.

>>741918619
gemerald

>>741917885
Damn, I’m happy there’s no one better than me.

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>>741910930
I always play on hard because I’m a genuine masochist
>>741911750
Dad gamers and casuals need to cope when people say “you didn’t beat the game” and “get good”

>>741916940
>>741917489
>You're not allowed to have fun if it isn't furthering your career
Boomer slave mentality.

>>741916940
That same excuse is used for everything.
>I could totally become a pro athlete/novelist/movie star if I wanted to...

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>>741918808
I'm intrigued by the picture and I would like to know more.

>>741911404
Easy mode is good for FPS like doom & quake to familiaritize with the maps, then increase the difficulty later.

>>741912414
True

>>741911750
It's an expanded cope argument meant to shame people into silence for going against publishers and megacorps.
They love to flirt with long-time gamers when digging up random fucking IPs to make unrelated games for.
They fucking hate those same people when it comes time for people to actually play the game.

>TFW 33 year old virgin
>Turning 34 in November
>People never believe me when I say I'm 33
>Look at me like a deer in the headlights
>Convinced most people assume I'm gay
>5'4 manlet
>Wouldn't even pass a femboy/twink because I'm chubby yet have a soft looking face with longer hair.
>Charismatic, but apparently not enough to entice women.
>Think I'm somewhat attractive, but possibly just narcissism.
>Stopped caring about six years ago
>Numb to it all
>Can fap as much as want
>Still feels really good

Maybe some would say I'm insane, but I'm genuinely happy living this way. When you stop caring about sex and romantic conquest...life just feels more relaxing.

>>741916940
You can make more money by being good at video games than most things you have to go to college for.
>NOOOO ESPORTS DOESN'T COUNT!
cope

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>>741911750
>Where did the narrative that only losers enjoy challenges come from?
People like you taking personal offense to a tedious afterthought because the basis of playing it is directly tied to your sense of self worth.

>>741920309
Okay, but I beat the game. You didn't.

>>741910930
Too heteronormative desu

>>741920368
And it is again apparent that this is an ego thing for you and you don't actually enjoy the game you just want people to think you're cool online.

>>741919980
You didn't beat the game. Now it's too late to ever beat it. You only had one shot and you messed it up.

>>741911750
There is literally nothing challenging about video games you retard. Learn an actual skill.
You probably don't even understand wtf I'm even saying tho so nevermind

>>741911750
An xbox live message.

>>741920918
Is that why you always play on easy?

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>>741920656
now try to beat sunder in UV-max tyson

protip, you can't.

>>741921067
I used to always play on hard until I finally went outside and had sex. Now it depends on the game and whether or not it makes playing on hard fun or engaging.

>>741920181
RIP anon. It really sucks that you lost the genetic lottery like this. Do you really feel at peace or are you just coping?

>>741918808
Roulette? I choose not to play.

>>741922151
It's hard to put into words. It's just something you...experience? I was pretty depressed and anger for about 5-6 years straight, though never to the point of being suicidal. I was obsessed with finding a girlfriend and I think I truly was an incel or went deep into the pits of the mentality of an incel. I started to hate women and view them in a negative light. Once I turned 30...it's like something mystical/supernatural happened. I just...stopped caring. I'd say the last 3-4 years of my life have been the happiest I've been since I was probably in high school. I think some men never reach this state, and others do. I don't know what causes it, probably several factors and environmental circumstances. I think you just eventually find peace in being alone and enjoying your own company. There are people that genuinely can't live alone and don't like solitude.

>>741910930
cause it's readditt tier

>>741912992
>i-it's not hard it's t-tedious, okay?
I'd rather kill myself than post cope this transparent.

>if you're good at video games it's impossible for you to be good at anything else in life
Interesting cope.

>>741923191
If you're successful in the rest of your life why is it so distressing for anyone to suggest that you aren't cool for playing a game you don't enjoy for social accolades?

>>741923472
>playing a game you don't enjoy for social accolades
Is this what actually happens or just projection?

There’s no point in playing an easy game. There’s at least a sense of accomplishment when beating a hard game, even if it’s balanced poorly.

>>741923632
If it wasn't happening you wouldn't be upset right now.

>>741923773
Projection it is.

>>741923901
Technically, you're right.
Not in a way you'd be happy about, but you're right.

>>741918583
This. Don't forget the ones pushing this "old games are unfair/quarter munchers" lie are almost all geriatric millennioids and gen Xers. They got raped once in a video game and made it their life mission to smear them for the rest of their lives while calling anyone else losers lol

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>>741924535
>Nobody could ever have a point that beating terribly designed crap is not something to be proud of
>We all know there's only us cool guys and this specific group of losers, right?

>>741924646
You can't do it =/= it's terribly designed
This retarded argument can be used to downplay anything. Video games, painting, playing a music instrument.

>>741924792
Most old (as in, really old) games are purposefully designed badly to compensate for a lack of content. Trying to deny that just makes you look like an idiot.

>>741925156
The games these faggots go after are games people can beat in one credit sometimes on the first try. It's all lumped under one umbrella because old = bad.

>>741924792
I'm not sure how to tell you this.
But when someone points out that you're making a blatant false dichotomy as an ego defense, it doesn't work to just waggle it again like a baby rattle.

>>741910930
>normie
opinions discarded.

>>741911750
What I'm more curious about is this behavior where they call everyone who is good at a hobby a loser, but also spend their days on a board dedicated to that hobby to convince said losers to acknowledge their existence. Definitely something for the better, more fulfilled man to do.

>>741911750
>>741926118
high on copium. most humans are complete dogshit at everything. they're stupid, incompetent and they are losers. Truth like this doesn't work on a large scale in the broad society, which is why every smart, talented, competent, etc. person is usually humbble and hiding the true powerl level. So the mouthbreathers like OP are always the loudest animals and the normie society is built to cater to the needs of that fucking retard. Bread and circus, and all that. ball feet and other nigger ball bullshit keeps the animals calm and distracted.
Do you know how butthurt and mad the subhumans get whenever their absolute inferiority is highlighted? Can't have that. Why would you make apes hate you and be aggro? Give them the pacifier and leave peacefully.

TL;DR: The world is not for the smart people. And if you're really smart you're hiding your true power level.

>>741926591
This is a really funny post.

>>741926591
>Do you know how butthurt and mad the subhumans get whenever their absolute inferiority is highlighted? Can't have that. Why would you make apes hate you and be aggro? Give them the pacifier and leave peacefully.
I've witnessed this too often. I guarantee if it's not video games then it's proficiency with a brush, a guitar, some craft. Jealousy is a bitch.

>>741926591
midwit post

>>741926741
it is the truth
>>741926754
doesn't have to be a skill. apes will always find a way to hate you. could be as trivial as your height or the amount of hair you have. but the worst offense of them all is having a good life and enjoying it.

>>741926945
>normies admire my academic achievements and expertise in mathemathics
not leaving the house, ever, is one of the ways to hide from the apes.

>>741911750
Because a real challenge is climbing a mountain or building a business or raising a child. Beating a difficult video game is a pathetic way to prove your efforts.

>>741927181
What if someone enjoys both? What if they just like the game at that difficulty level?

>>741912992
Good games have a speed up button.
Examples stellaris or rim world.

>>741927181
>raising a child
is why the normie world is total fucking shit and not getting better, while technology does. Also, explains why you're retarded just like all the other manchildren are.

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>OP's face when he wrote this

>climbing a mountain or building a business or raising a child
Things the anonymous poster crying about video games is definitely successful at.

I miss the days when games would openly mock you for lowering the difficulty.

>>741927697
>select start game on an indie game
>the cursor highlights the highest difficulty by default
it's not much but it's a start

>op plays on easy
Got it. Have fun.

>>741927697
Didn't God Hand say something along the lines of
>I thought you were better than this

>>741911379
You can just dismiss hard modes that do this. The devs didn't bother so why should I?

>>741927106
The post was midwit for it's length, not content. Could have just said "Average person is too stupid to be courteous, competent, or ambitious. Getting good at anything, no matter how trivial, will enrage normalfaggots.".

>>741928075
you've lost the depth. important. the world is built to suit the lowest common denominator. the reason why there are so many shitty video games.

>>741927830
I didn't play God Hand but the timeline fits. Ninja Gaiden Black treated you like a bitch for it, saying you'd abandoned the way of the ninja and making you wear a pink ribbon or something.

>>741910930
I'm so glad Kamala lost

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>>741929212
>Playing games in your 30s.
Just kill me at that point.

>>741917885
You bring Iq and testosterone yet the best Souls player in the world is a biological woman.
The second best is a chubby brit.

LowTierGod got humbled by a tranny.
Carmack is both manly and his Iq is well beyond wizard levels and he doesn't engage with videogames.

>>741929212
>>741929547
I am dating several woman
Bought a car
And beat Doom Eternal on Ultranightmare, Halo 3, ODST, and Reach on LASO.
Beat Halo CE SLASO Maw Deathless.
I am considering cosplaying and beating Elden ring with a guitar but before I am going to take guitar lessons (not necessary but why the hell not).
And I am nearly 40.

Easy mode is just insulting to me.

>>741929989
Based LARPGOD.

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>>741919980
why is it people online pretend UV is easy?

>>741911750
Cope from people who can't get good. Rather than admit they are too low skilled to deal with the added difficulty they defend their ego by attacking anyone who "wastes time" getting good enough to deal with the difficulty.

Hear me out
>easy mode ist just enemies having 0.25x health and being retarded. The final boss also has unique dialogue in which he mentions what a weak, dumb bitch he is
>Normal mode is just what you'd expect, normal enemies, normal dialogue, normal drops
Hard mode enemies have 2.5x (or whatever number you want) more health. However, the game also drops new items that if you use them correctly, are extremely overpowered. Hard mode also has secret, super hard bosses.

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>>741910930
because you cannot deny such a universal truth of the universe.

>>741934825
>Game only has a single difficulty mode by default
>Easy mode is a paid DLC

>>741922459
My story is almost exactly like yours in that I entered a zen mode once I hit 30. Then I foolishly watched 2 animes: Kaguya-sama: Love Is War because I stopped like 6 episodes in and wanted to finish it, and Toradora! because an anon recently recommended it to me because of it's sweet ending. Both those gushy fluffy animes instantly brought back all those feelings of missing out and tfw no gf. I was legit so depressed for almost 3 weeks straight I would just stare at the ceiling in my bed thinking about those happy animes and how I never even got a taste of it. I'm better now, but my point is that I think we just pushed those feelings waaaay down, but they're still there and could explode if triggered properly. Maybe you're better off, but just saying it could happen.

>>741911404
I think people who feel they have to play a specific difficulty to make others happy are extremely mentally immature.

>>741913565
odds are she doesn't even know games have modes

>>741911750
You misunderstand. Only losers feel they MUST do a challenge when to appease others and only losers demand others go for a challenge when they do not want to. In most cases people play hard mode so others respect them and not "for the challenge." Beating the challenge is an exchange for respect and recognition.

>>741911750
brown people

>>741927830
Easy:
>What, you want me to hold your hand or something?
Normal:
That's what I expected from you
Hard:
I can't remember lol. Maybe Gene just shouting YEAHH or whistling? Most I ever did was normal Kick Me

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>>741910930
>I'm a brainlet and that's a good thing actually!
(Thats why the game keeps me at the lowest difficulty/level for CHADS)

>>741918089
so bro wrote all that shit to cope?

>>741911750
Normalfags act like being get told to "git gud" at anything at all is a capital offense

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>>741910930
>Play VR combat game
>Immediately need to whack it up to full ""impossible""difficulty because it's been balanced around 35 year old, broken down fatties who live in shorts and t-shirt like a 4 year old
>Beg game developer for a way to increase enemy damage so that they'd kill me in two hits, because the only challenge I get now is having to dodge all of their attacks while I tear them apart
>Developer of my favourite game listens and adds a slider

/fit/bros... We won...

>>741911750
normalfags coping about not being able to handle failing at things in any way whatsoever

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>>741917885
>Many people do not like the idea that there are other people in the world that are basically them but better in every single aspect possible, with a better life, better relationships, better sex, taller, bigger, stronger, faster, charming, more handsome, and just straight up better in every way possible.

This is why the secret to being beloved, and I'm telling you /v/ros this so that you can steal it and do it too, is to become really fucking smart, talented, ripped and lean, and then downplay all of the work it took to get there. Don't mention it at all.

People fucking LOVE when you're good at things.
They are completely willing to accept that you're better than them.

But they absolutely HATE being reminded that it's their fault for not trying hard like you did.
They want to believe you are just a different breed, born that way, and a pretty chill guy they get to say is a friend of theirs.
They don't want to hear about how hard you work, they don't want to compare themselves to you, and subconsciously know that they are too lazy or undisciplined or distractible to do it too.

Get really good at stuff, including sports, and then downplay how hard it was, like it's boring. Like you got good at it years ago but don't do it anymore. People fucking love that guy.

>>741911750
"Loser" in this context comes from the fact that if you are hyper-competitive and win a lot of the time or overcome very difficult things in video games, that must mean that you have "no life", that all your priorities lie with just doing this over and over again untill you are able to perform this well, rendering inert your social status, life, economic status, etc,. In the eyes of a normie, this is considered a negative thing, since society obviously has tried to drill unto us that having a high paying and respectable job, a wife, and a family, and being athletic and doing outdoors activities is the model we should be all striving for. And if you dedicate this much time doing this, and not being a normie, you are a loser.

I mean, it's people trying to justify to themselves or others the fact that they just fucking lost, but not because they were worse than someone else, or because someone else was better than them, but because the other person is a degenerate for being this good at something, specifically.

>>741911750
College

>>741918641
>The people who say they don't care and just want to enjoy games actually care a lot.
Yeah, I've seen the "just want to relax" crowd get really mad online.

>>741911284
this

>Story (Emphasizes the plot. Bosses have less moves, continues revive you where you are, unlimited continues)
>Canon (The intended experience, the true difficulty of enemies and bosses, etc, continues start you at the last checkpoint, limited continues before game over)
>Challenge (Bosses have more moves, no continues, you instead get a game over and must reload from a save)
>Unfair (Everything hits harder, bosses have higher stats and move faster with expanded movesets, no continues. Has a disclaimer that this difficulty is untested and may actually be unbeatable, so you are warned)

>>741934220
if you're talking doom eternal, nightmare on first playthrough is admittedly quite difficult. but after mastering TAG1 both the main game and TAG2 feel like a joke. the master levels are the most difficult content in eternal.

health scaling is whatever the fuck the dev feels like nowadays anyway
>"hard mode"
>"enemies have 200% hp!!"
>they disintegrate as long as you can keep the crosshair on them
this is clearly the intended difficulty

>>741915810
>she
anon...

>>741910930
project zomboid does this

>>741936870
nigga in most cases people play hard mode because they've played the games so much easy and normal don't do anything anymore. the pianist has no reason to NOT push himself and play things beyond baby shit if cares about his hobby. the whole thing about respect and recognition is just normalfag projection because everything they do in life is indeed about those
>demand others go for a challenge when they do not want to
any time this happens on this board it's because one person made a misinformed claim about some game. this is the same as some cocky /ic/ faggot being asked to post their work

>>741911750
Working hard is for the slaves

>>741911750
You're spending hours overcoming an imaginary challenge, like sorry dude, it is what it is. You could be seeking to challenge your body and mind in a more practical sense, like testing your physical endurance or learning something new, but you're not.

>>741944912
Are you doing all of that by spending your days here?

>>741944912
Spending the same time avoiding said imaginary challenge is more pathetic.

>>741945070
>>741945117
upset

>>741944912
And what will you have in 100 years? Don't even bother saying a lineage because we've seen how easy those are to subvert.

>>741945292
Lol, you tucked right back into your shell.

>>741945565
>you can only respond to a question if you embody the answer
i dont need to be a winner to understand why people think we're losers

>>741912992
This.
Also in most cases if you kill a boss down to 90% you may as well just skip the rest because its needless busywork anyway.
Same with games about farming resources or survival crafting games. Many of them limit the items/minute income on some resources specifically just to waste your time, so easier to just spawn in unlimited of something you've obtained once.

>>741945773
>you can only respond to a question if you embody the answer
Yes. Because why would >>741944912 deepthroat some virtue he can't achieve himself? Because he craves the social respect? In that case making fun of people doing challenging things "for the recognition" makes him a hypocrite lol.
>people think playing video games is for losers
>still try everything they can to be part of the hobby and gain "gamer cred"
The normalfag mind works in mysterious ways.

>>741946364
>if I'm such a loser, why would Elon Musk pay people to make it look like he plays video games?
idk anon maybe you're both faggots

>GOD TIER
Higher difficulty forces you to use every tool the game gives you to complete it and you must learn to execute on different tactics, adapting to changing challenges.
>King tier
Higher difficulty forces you to become mechanically proficient in the game.
You can specialize in a playstyle to win.
>Merchant tier
Higher difficulty forces you to use deficiencies in the AI to win.
>Peasant tier
Higher difficulty forces you to abuse a small set of unbalanced mechanics.
>Shit tier
Higher difficulty forces you to play in a specific way, making all other playstyles weak on that difficulty.

>>741911379
>>741927863
This is the only kind of difficulty that competent devs would bother with.

Idiots thinksthat devs should put effort into making 'different' AI for each mode, but in practice that would mean the vast majority of your effort is spent making the hard AI, and so the best thing to do given this is to keep the cool AI you made for the hardest mode, and cut down the enemy threat in lesser modes by reducing HP and damage.

People say they want otherwise, but that's only because they don't understand what they're asking for.

Goldeneye style extra objectives are cool though

>>741918808
This feels genderswapped.

>>741911750
Gaming journalists that are only gaming journalists because they couldn't get hired by anyone else, followed by fags that play video games because it's trendy. Neither of them actually enjoy games so any kind of challenge is just something that gets in the way of them beating the game and sharing their opinion on it.

>>741944912
>you are not spending your leisure time efficiently enough
and then 105 IQ geniuses wonder when it stopped being a video and started being """content"""

>>741911750
Trend chasing casuals who routinely waste their money on FOTM games that are beyond their skill level.

>>741910930
>>741912992
>>741916940

>making your game easy is bad and im going call you an incel loser for it even though im actually more miserable than you because i have to vent this type of nonsense to feel better about myself

i have never seen such a pathetic class of people like the ones in this thread

Normal is the intended difficulty experience if there are difficulty options in a game. It's called normal for a reason and it's the middle option of making the game baby mode and inflating the enemy stats and making the player as soft as a toilet paper.
Argued with a retard that insisted that the highest difficulty is the standard. All bosses are easy because he cleared it on the highest difficulty. Said retard also stated to use cheese builds because it's intended gameplay experience.

>>741948231
i know you are but what am i?

Women can impregnate themselves and do all of the child rearing and raise autistic morons for all I care.

>>741910930
The bottom option should just instantly quit the game

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>>741918641
>that wish they could be better at games because being better just makes most games way more fun
I've seen the people who are great at games and I've never seen people angrier about playing games in my life. The "fun" is being moderately okay with winning, and when they lose or misplay or misclick or their timing is off by 0.1s they scream and rage and seethe and have long rants prepared about how they woulda coulda shoulda but <insert 100% copium here>.
Little kids "playing" with their controller unplugged are the only people I've seen having consistent fun no matter what happens.

There's a deep lesson about your soul here anon. Make sure to think deeply before replying with more bullshit arguments.

>>741946963
most games have bother with "AI" behavior to begin with, only laughably obvious state machines you now remember braindead drama about elden ring's "input reading" or RPGMaker-tier rules that govern combat
at that point devs should not bother with alternate difficulties at all, and have the single canonical experience (sans postgame modifiers or other fun stuff), because fanboys will still find new ways to say that X or Y is ayckshually the intended easy mode as if games never had busted strategies

>>741913565
>>People are actually seriously replying to such blatant bait.
Holy fuck this place has gotten even worse, wow.

>>741949335
the equivalent to "woulda-coulda-shoulda" assfaggots cope of great gamers is
>actually i wasn't even trying i am just juggling my newborn and tax returns and wfh overtime while playing this game
which is the "i wasn't even using my main" fighting game cope of uninvolved gamers
i think it's got little to do with any skills or responsibilities, and everything with personal temperament
just like some people are weak to gambling, others are prone to rage or excuses

>I play on easy because I have a LIFE and just want to get the game over with so I can do more important things like not playing video games

>>741945908
well if yo uwant to get reductionist about it, yeah video games are a waste of time.
especially now theyre all gambling simulators aimed at brown children

>>741910930
Choosing the third options skips straight to credits. You finished the game and can enjoy more life.

>>741948738
if the devs left those cheese builds in the game then wouldn't it be intended? and if those builds counteract the inflated enemy stats and player disadvantages then wouldn't that balance out the "highest difficulty"?
i don't know what specific game you were arguing with the other guy about, but these days there are definitely games where the highest difficulty is meant to be the standard. when you start a new game it is the highlighted option, and it doesn't feel that difficult even when you're inexperienced with the genre. try sprawl zero and you'll see what i mean

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>>741915910
>Everyone better than me is cheating, and everyone words than me is a nooblord.

>>741910930
Because it's offensive to nolife virgins or something

>>741911750
Because simply owning things while sitting on your ass rather than creating anything is how people get rich these days.