Unlockable Difficulty Sucks

[Haunted Serenity]

i like unlocking bonuses to add to levels but all modes should be availible.

 

[Sentox6]

At the cost of all the shame of knowing you played RE5.

Riiight. Sure, it's not as good as RE4. It's still a decently fun action game, especially in coop.

 

[Katana314]

What might be nice is if you could unlock a new difficulty somewhere midgame. I think some games do this already, like The World Ends with You. But rather than make it a scripted event, let the player earn it through some sort of achievement (Wow! You got 15 headshots in 3 seconds!) then encourage them that they're badass enough to go one level higher.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

the difficulties are pointless just play with it on normal the whole time.

 

[zimtheawesome]

I more or less hate it when say beating "drinking the piss of Satan while Beelzebub rapes you" difficulty doesn't also unlock the bonuses of "an irate kitten" difficulty. I can understand keeping the hardest difficulty unlockable like God of War but non-stacking unlockables for beating that difficulty isn't fair.

Indeed, I hate when games do this. If I finish the game on Hard, why don't I get the Achievements/etc. for Easy and Medium too?

This is what is known as being an achievment whore.

On topic, I dont really mind. If you want to play on a harder difficulty, then it should be an extremely easy feat to get to a harder difficulty. I do agreee maybe on a long game this would be annoying. But if you bought a game, may as well get your moneys worth.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

What might be nice is if you could unlock a new difficulty somewhere midgame. I think some games do this already, like The World Ends with You. But rather than make it a scripted event, let the player earn it through some sort of achievement (Wow! You got 15 headshots in 3 seconds!) then encourage them that they're badass enough to go one level higher.

You just had an incredibly awesome idea. Who agrees?

 

[Aardvark]

Painkiller's hardest difficulty was harder to unlock than the actual game. I swear, I had to use glitches to get some of that treasure. But in the end, it was worth it, not just for the real ending, but for the experience playing without the constant healing and demon powers.

 

[Sir Kemper]

Agreed.

Even though I don't usually go for the "Buttrape" difficulty on my first run, limiting the player from doing that seems like just a cheap and bad attempt to add replay value.

This.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

I aghree. SUre, RE5 wasn't a good game, but it wasn't bad ether

 

[Sentox6]

It's not as good as any other RE game. It's terrible in both gameplay and plot. It descends from a series where and eeeeevil corporation built a secret lab both in the mountains under a massive mansion AND in the town by the mountains under the god damned police station, and stocked both labs with people who apparently had parkinsons disease and habitual memory loss that caused them to write down every god damned thing that came to mind. And it still manages to be worse in every aspect.

The gameplay is lifted straight out of RE4. If you think it was terrible there, then fair enough. What it does lack is the atmosphere of the previous iteration, though. Mercenaries mode is still a blast, if nothing else.

I never said anything about plot or character writing, at any rate. Not saying it's a great game. Just that alleging someone should be ashamed of playing it is patently ridiculous. There's a great many far worse games available.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I disagree. Going through Devil May Cry 3 on Normal difficulty was absolutely necessary practice for Hard and Dante Must Die.

agreed. but depends on style, i always go for ''butrape'' difficulty because after that things will get easier.

I have to admit, when I finally got the DMC3 special edition and went through normal and hard difficulties again, I breezed through them.

Luckily, with the way the game is designed, this just served to make me feel like a stone-cold badass. If something is really easy, the best way is to also make it complex and cool-looking.

Gotta disagree with this one.

You have five difficulty settings with each character (Dante & Vergil) on the special edition. That means beating the game ten times (maybe twenty if you consider how difficult the hardest modes are), just to unlock everything.

Who has time for all that? I only ever had time to beat up to Hard mode with Dante. It'd be better if they didn't put the most interesting content so far out of reach for most people.

Technically, you just have to play through three times as one character to unlock everything. I found that out by going through Normal, Hard, and Dante Must Die with Vergil, and it not only unlocked Easy, Very Hard, and Heaven or Hell, but it opened all of those for Dante, too.

And what do you mean "out of reach?" There's very little additional content in the higher difficulties. Dante Must Die adds devil-triggering enemies and a new attack for boss Vergil...and that's about it. You can unlock the entire movesets and level all the styles in a single playthrough, and Bloody Palace mode is always available.

Then again, considering I've happily played that game twenty times or more because beating the unholy crap out of demons in stylish ways is fun, I suspect we have a disconnect here.

 

[zimtheawesome]

I more or less hate it when say beating "drinking the piss of Satan while Beelzebub rapes you" difficulty doesn't also unlock the bonuses of "an irate kitten" difficulty. I can understand keeping the hardest difficulty unlockable like God of War but non-stacking unlockables for beating that difficulty isn't fair.

Indeed, I hate when games do this. If I finish the game on Hard, why don't I get the Achievements/etc. for Easy and Medium too?

This is what is known as being an achievment whore.

On topic, I dont really mind. If you want to play on a harder difficulty, then it should be an extremely easy feat to get to a harder difficulty. I do agreee maybe on a long game this would be annoying. But if you bought a game, may as well get your moneys worth.

Not just achievements though. Lets say rather then just getting achievements you got costumes for beating each difficulty. Would it not be a pain in the ass if, like many games do, you had to beat each difficulty to unlock each costume rather then just beating the hardest one and unlocking them all?

I see your reasoning. Although rarely is there a really good unlockable that comes from the easiest difficulty. It just makes more sense to be rewarded for completing the more difficult difficulties.

 

[BENZOOKA]

The only games I've played that have such unlockable difficulties are Diablo II and Titan Quest, if my memory serves me right. And it really makes sense because you most play through the normal difficulty to get to nightmare and so on. Even then you'll have a really hard time there, but you wouldn't have even a second's chance if you were not to play it once through beforehand.

 

[ddq5]

Basically a developer dick move. Unless beating the game gives you a BFG on your next playthrough, there's never really a reason to lock the hardest settings.

 

[Sentox6]

RE4 shouldn't have been called a Resident Evil game. It was a good game, but a terrible RE game and in my opinion actually suffered by being attached to the saggy fecal stained trousers of the old games. RE5 pulled them up and just created a massive disgusting mess of terrible.

You...
Now see...
Huh. I can't really disagree with that metaphor.

 

[Naeo]

Dear god, I fucking hate unlockable difficulties. Especially when there are achievements attached to it- GoW2 made me do that twice. One playthrough to unlock nightmare, one more to unlock insane, and then one on insane to get the achievements for that.