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I think my main problem with Blood was twofold, partly it just being really hard with high hp enemies and hitscanners; and also the first couple levels have an arsenal that, while good, I don't feel really gets to shine. It wasn't until I got the shotgun on skill 2 that it felt like it clicked. Also, I just wasn't using dynamite effectively, which feels like a huge deal. I started episode 2 on skill 3 and I'm having a way better time, now that I *get* the game, and also had the full episode 1 arsenal by like the end of the first level.
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Overbite posted:I usually play on the higher settings because they usually add more enemies. Doom on anything lower than Ultra Violence feels so empty IWAD Doom, absolutely, and I think that's a distinction that needs to be made. The id maps mostly feel fine to me in UV these days. Something like Valiant? Not so much.
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Gobblecoque posted:People should play whatever setting they like but in the early FPS thread they do have to expect some light ribbing for playing on babby mode. "Play on Normal as god intended" turns out to be really horrific advice, especially for the jankier shooters. Like on Doom you should play as high as you can comfortably play, yes. Many games scale up through infinite levels of unfun.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:"Play on Normal as god intended" turns out to be really horrific advice, especially for the jankier shooters. Like on Doom you should play as high as you can comfortably play, yes. Many games scale up through infinite levels of unfun. On the flipside, more games should do like Earthworm Jim for Sega CD where you get a special message from the developers when you beat it on the hardest difficulty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTu4fCxPi8g
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Jan 25, 2019 02:28
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 Difficulty options are good, games that try to shame you for picking the one that's most fun for you can gently caress off.
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Vakal posted:On the flipside, more games should do like Earthworm Jim for Sega CD where you get a special message from the developers when you beat it on the hardest difficulty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0DagHVOapU
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What games would those be?
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Gobblecoque posted:What games would those be? Itagaki with the ol' pink bow if you do easy mode in Ninja Gaiden is one notable gag. Recently played some Mega Man 11 on difficulty level 2, "casual" difficulty. Perhaps the greatest insult yet. Duke Nukem with "piece of cake", "let's rock", that's positive, and delicious, I like that. Random note, the Dragon Bruce Lee game on SNES also has a "piece of cake" mode. He also liked cake I assume. I know that because Mega64 just streamed it.
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Doom is one of those games, I guess? I find it hilarious that anyone's self-esteem would be so fragile that a tongue in cheek riffing (and suitable given the context) would them feel the sads. How dare this game shame me!!!
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Vakal posted:On the flipside, more games should do like Earthworm Jim for Sega CD where you get a special message from the developers when you beat it on the hardest difficulty. Sadly, this message was probably recorded by EWJ creator Doug TenNapel who loves to remind people who he thinks are not the best. (The PC version had red book audio and featured that message as well.) Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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Gobblecoque posted:What games would those be? Heavy Metal posted:Itagaki with the ol' pink bow if you do easy mode in Ninja Gaiden is one notable gag. Recently played some Mega Man 11 on difficulty level 2, "casual" difficulty. Perhaps the greatest insult yet. Duke Nukem with "piece of cake", "let's rock", that's positive, and delicious, I like that. Random note, the Dragon Bruce Lee game on SNES also has a "piece of cake" mode. He also liked cake I assume. I know that because Mega64 just streamed it. Some people got really upset when the lowest difficulty setting of Wolfenstein: TNC (and TNO & TOB, for that matter--although I feel like it didn't get a lot of attention until TNC?) used a goofy "baby-faced BJ Blazkowicz", like in the original Wolf 3D. Somebody even wrote an article about it. Realistically, we should probably be tracking who played those games on that difficulty, so we can throw them in prison for the crime of being bad at video games.
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Vakal posted:On the flipside, more games should do like Earthworm Jim for Sega CD where you get a special message from the developers when you beat it on the hardest difficulty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuYUoLM8BNA
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Some people got really upset when the lowest difficulty setting of Wolfenstein: TNC (and TNO & TOB, for that matter--although I feel like it didn't get a lot of attention until TNC?) used a goofy "baby-faced BJ Blazkowicz", like in the original Wolf 3D. Somebody even wrote an article about it. There's no easy mode... in the big house. - Bob Saget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpZWr28Nd6E
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The games are mocking you for being too sensitive and your reaction is to... be more sensitive? How insecure are you that such a thing bothers you? It's just a joke. The only thing that I can come up with is you're offended because you know in your heart that what they are saying about you is true.
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I don't know, Blazkowicz with a baby bonnet always amused me.  But seriously people should just play games as they wish and not give a gently caress about what others think. Just have fun. I know I can't have fun playing Blood on high difficulties.
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In the future, difficulty selection menus will scan your mind and hit you with your deepest secrets and weaknesses.
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anatomi posted:In the future, difficulty selection menus will scan your mind and hit you with your deepest secrets and weaknesses. Select Difficulty I should eat better I will one day die >I will die alone Its my fault she left
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Heavy Metal posted:Itagaki with the ol' pink bow if you do easy mode in Ninja Gaiden is one notable gag. It's not just easy mode, you have to play easy mode and then die a bunch of times in a row on the first level and then the game offers you super easy mode which comes with the pink bow.
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Every adult is allowed to make the decision of what difficulty they play on, just like how every adult is allowed to decide if they want to wear diapers and carry around a giant rattle.
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false equivalency: i play on NIGHTMARE while wearing a diaper
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I think games should generally avoid mocking their audience, especially about the difficulty levels that the designers purposely designed and implemented. If easy mode is for dumb babies why did you design it that way then huh?
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Linguica posted:I think games should generally avoid mocking their audience, especially about the difficulty levels that the designers purposely designed and implemented. If easy mode is for dumb babies why did you design it that way then huh? Cause they know there are dumb babies out there playing their game.
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That's what I remember liking about Bioshock's difficulty options. It noted during the selection that easy was for people new to FPS shooters, medium for people who have played FPS before and hard for seasoned veterans.
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I can't imagine being so emotionally fragile that a video game calling easy difficulty 'baby mode' could upset you. Life must be loving exhausting to people like that.
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Now that we are talking of difficulty settings, let me tell you me pet peeve: games with difficulty settings but they only have Easy/Normal/Hard and there is a big gap between 'Normal' and 'Hard'. I found a good amount of games where Normal is too easy for me, but Hard wasn't balanced well, instead of say, being 25-30% harder than Normal (what I wanted), it's 70% or even 100% harder. You can imagine how the game was balanced for Normal and then at some point they said 'well, for Hard just double everything, done! in any case that's only for super hardcore players which will be happy with any supertough difficulty'. Surprisingly I found this problem even in Starcraft 2. Strange given Blizzard is famous for their polish. The single player campaign was a total pushover except in the last Zerg mission and the last 2 Protoss missions, just with building all the poo poo you could in a big blob and attack-move your big blog you solved every problem. No need for tactics, strategy, etc. On the other hand the hard difficulty was much harder, designed to be a decent for veteran Starcraft players who know all the unit shortcuts from memory. People who fall between the two settings? Tough luck: :/ Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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The worst kind of difficulty setting is the type in Double Dragon II, where on easy the game just ends after the second level on the helicopter, forcing you to play it again on the highest difficulty just to beat the game.
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Just play on easy and tell everyone you played nightmare. It literally doesn’t matter and no one cares.
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Play whatever difficulty you like, but consider not letting your ego take a hit if a game menu pokes fun at your choice
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BattleMaster posted:Play whatever difficulty you like, but consider not letting your ego take a hit if a game menu pokes fun at your choice
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Dark Souls should not have an easy mode, the difficulty is part of the story and setting.
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Did Bungie ever explain why Marathon difficulty settings are set up such that Total Carnage is often easier than Major Damage?
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What’s the dark souls of classic FPS
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This isn't the 90s, you're not allowed to play games for fun anymore. Difficulty levels are serious fuckin' business.
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So is Half Life to blame for the decline of the rocket launcher? From a mainstay FPS weapon that you've got a lot of ammo for into a slow-firing rarity you horde to use against particularly tough enemies or scripted encounters?
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Overbite posted:What’s the dark souls of classic FPS Blood
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Shadow Warrior 2's difficulty screen is poking fun at goofy macho high difficulty stuff so the OMG snowflakes responses just make it funnier. I think more of a problem with difficulty selection is when it's a permanent choice and it's the first thing you do in the game. You don't even know what the difficulty scale will be so asking someone to choose is kinda dumb. Better to let the player change between levels or something at least.
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Overbite posted:What’s the dark souls of classic FPS Brutal Chex Quest
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There was a lot of stuff about the new GoW that made me mad, but one of the biggest was there not being a cheevo for beating it on the hardest difficulty. Now I don't know which of my friends are fake gamers.
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Turin Turambar posted:Now that we are talking of difficulty settings, let me tell you me pet peeve: games with difficulty settings but they only have Easy/Normal/Hard and there is a big gap between 'Normal' and 'Hard'. I found a good amount of games where Normal is too easy for me, but Hard wasn't balanced well, instead of say, being 25-30% harder than Normal (what I wanted), it's 70% or even 100% harder. You can imagine how the game was balanced for Normal and then at some point they said 'well, for Hard just double everything, done! in any case that's only for super hardcore players which will be happy with any supertough difficulty'.
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Not an FPS but I hated the Witcher 2's gameplay so much its the only game I can think where I set it down to easy.
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