Difficulties

[imaloony]

Ah, yes, this has been something that has been around gaming for quite some time, but I believe has become mostly prominent in the last few generations: Difficulties.

You know, Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard, Heroic, Legendary, Recruit, Veteran, Regular, Insane, Impossible, Chaos, Son of Sparda, Dante Must Die, Heaven or Hell, Titan, the list just goes on and on of all these difficulties.

So, what are your favorite difficulty names, the hardest difficulties you've played, and maybe the easiest "hardest" difficulties you've played?

A personal favorite name of mine is Hell or Hell from Devil May Cry 4. It's like, "You're screwed, right now, deal with it."

The hardest is either Veteran on CoD4 or Dante Must Die on DMC4 (I've never actually played Hell or Hell on DMC4, but the name is cool).

As for easy ones, well, I've never really felt challenged in Fallout 3, even on the Very Hard Difficulty. Once I reach the Our Lady of Hope Hospital and get all the stim-paks, I'm pretty much set for the rest of the game.

 

[delet]

'Hell's Finest' is pretty fun, from Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero. The game itself is idiotically difficult even on normal QQ

 

[DividedUnity]

Killzone 2 on elite difficulty. Call of Duty 2 on Veteran or what ever was the high one you got the achievements for.

Theyre the hardest ive come across

 

[nick n stuff]

i swear i saw a game that had easy mode as 'pussy'. don't know what game mind. anyone know?

 

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

I liked Doom and Wolfenstien.

Impossible difficulty is sometimes funny, for the fact that you beat it on that difficulty.

Insanity from ME is funny too. Still damn hard with a level 60 character.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Pft, DMC4 has nothing on DMC3!

If DMC4's difficulty is the equivalent of beating you up and stealing your lunch money, DMC3 burns your house down, turns your family into string puppets and sells their intestines at the local flee market.

And that's not even half-way through the game

 

[Snarky Username]

I liked he hard difficulty of the Half-Life series a lot, especially Half-Life 2.

It's hard enough that you don't run around blasting through the game like a mute God, but easy enough that you don't top the game every five seconds because you died for the 17th time.

Has some very stressful bits, but not many terrible bits.

 

[Cherry Cola]

i swear i saw a game that had easy mode as 'pussy'. don't know what game mind. anyone know?

Wanted: Weapons of Fate.

 

[nick n stuff]

i swear i saw a game that had easy mode as 'pussy'. don't know what game mind. anyone know?

Wanted: Weapons of Fate.

good man

 

[imaloony]

Pft, DMC4 has nothing on DMC3!

If DMC4's difficulty is the equivalent of beating you up and stealing your lunch money, DMC3 burns your house down, turns your family into string puppets and sells their intestines at the local flee market.

And that's not even half-way through the game

Yeah, I know. My friend brought over DMC3 and his PS2 one day, I played it on the normal difficulty, and told him to never bring it again. He himself hadn't even passed the third boss yet.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

Y'know this may be a slight off topic. But switching games to easy does make them generally more fun for me.

In IWBTG theres an easy mode. Just your little guy gets a dummy and pink ribbon,

 

[Rewdalf]

Hm.
I've always liked the "Ace of Aces" difficulty in Ace Combat.
Simply replace "Ace" with some other form of elite warrior, soldier, or whatever and you'll enjoy it too...

 

[CK76]

And you know what, even on their hardest difficulty, I'm not sure it ever matches insanity of the original on NES.

 

[Durxom]

A personal favorite name of mine is Hell or Hell from Devil May Cry 4. It's like, "You're screwed, right now, deal with it."

The hardest is either Veteran on CoD4 or Dante Must Die on DMC4 (I've never actually played Hell or Hell on DMC4, but the name is cool).

Heaven and Hell on DMC4 is where everything is a one hit kill, both you and your opponents (bosses included) but you have 3 lives. So it can both a Heaven and a Hell to play.

Hell or Hell is basically the same as Heaven and Hell, only the enemies lose their one hit kill handicap (you still have it), and they increase the enemy difficulty to Son of Sparda (Heaven and Hell is at Devil Hunter)

Have fun with that. =P

 

[timmytom1]

i swear i saw a game that had easy mode as 'pussy'. don't know what game mind. anyone know?

Wanted:Weapons of fate i think

 

[Outright Villainy]

The hardest game I ever played was Dragon's lair for the Nes, which was so hard I couldn't get past the first frickin' screen. That's not uncommon either, it's the most unfair and stupidly hard, sluggish awful games I've ever played.
The easiest Hard mode I've played was Timesplitters: future perfect. After the nightmarish difficulty of 2, it was inevitable to scale it back, but it was just way too easy, even on the hardest difficulty. I died twice maybe. By comparison I never finished ts2 on normal (robot factory can go to hell and die), and couldn't finish the first level on hard.

 

[Flour]

Pft, DMC4 has nothing on DMC3!

If DMC4's difficulty is the equivalent of beating you up and stealing your lunch money, DMC3 burns your house down, turns your family into string puppets and sells their intestines at the local flee market.

And that's not even half-way through the game

That would also depend on the version you have. The PAL version of DMC3 wasn't hard until I started playing Dante Must Die mode, and it was hard because enemies had a lot of health. The only level I never managed to finish is 19, 20 would be simple in comparison to the final part of the level 19 boss.(seriously, who thought it was a good idea to remove the style option for that part of the fight)

Ninja Gaiden 2 is hard but that's mostly because of poor game design. Almost every attack can break your guard, most attacks have priority over your attacks, bosses always have priority and will teleport out of a stun to start their counter, fucking bats(impossible to hit and slowly remove your health and ad long as they're alive you won't regenerate), and the game has some of the worst enemy combinations I have ever seen.(no cover, ranged enemies with fast projectiles while fighting slow/huge enemies is NEVER good game design it's even worse when the arena is small, like it is in most fights)

(I've never actually played Hell or Hell on DMC4, but the name is cool).

It's Dante must Die for enemies combined with Heaven or Hell for you.(IIRC you die in one hit and a single fight against three enemies takes about 20 minutes) So, yes, great name but horrible game mode.

 

[Instant K4rma]

I always found the Tom Clancy games humorous with their hardest difficulty setting.

Easy
Normal
Realistic

 

[imaloony]

A personal favorite name of mine is Hell or Hell from Devil May Cry 4. It's like, "You're screwed, right now, deal with it."

The hardest is either Veteran on CoD4 or Dante Must Die on DMC4 (I've never actually played Hell or Hell on DMC4, but the name is cool).

Heaven and Hell on DMC4 is where everything is a one hit kill, both you and your opponents (bosses included) but you have 3 lives. So it can both a Heaven and a Hell to play.

Hell or Hell is basically the same as Heaven and Hell, only the enemies lose their one hit kill handicap (you still have it), and they increase the enemy difficulty to Son of Sparda (Heaven and Hell is at Devil Hunter)

Have fun with that. =P

Yeah, I know what the difficulty is, but since I haven't even beaten Dante Must Die yet, I haven't tried it yet.

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

Bioshock 2 was easy on the hardest difficulty. Beat it and got the no vita chambers thingy. I like the hardest difficulty to be very challenging but just under impossible. Also, I beat Uncharted Drake's fortune on Crushing.