Why Play On Hard?
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Mainly for the challenge. Although some games can be just unforgiving, like the CoD:WaW campaign on Veteran. This also applies to Gears 1 and 2 campaigns on Insane. On the first game I did it just to get the achievement, and trying to kill Raam was just ridiculous. Not helped by the fact I was playing an online co-op game and the other player just got killed as soon as we entered the final stage.
For Gears 2, I did it just for the challenge and what a challenge it was, I cannot remember the amount of ragequits that game caused but it was a lot.
For Gears 2, I did it just for the challenge and what a challenge it was, I cannot remember the amount of ragequits that game caused but it was a lot.
I only play games on difficulty levels that are going to provide me a even challenge. Not hard enough to make it frustrating enough for me to get mad and give up, but not easy to the point that I can just breeze through everything without effort.
As I get better or if I find the challenge begins to slip I will up the difficulty. I will not lower the difficulty once I have raised it however.
As for achievements or bragging rights, frankly I don't give a shit. I just want to ensure to ensure that the game always keeps me on that verge of almost dieing but making it through with a sliver of health through use of cunning tactics or moments of glory.
As I get better or if I find the challenge begins to slip I will up the difficulty. I will not lower the difficulty once I have raised it however.
As for achievements or bragging rights, frankly I don't give a shit. I just want to ensure to ensure that the game always keeps me on that verge of almost dieing but making it through with a sliver of health through use of cunning tactics or moments of glory.
Mount & Blade did the best job with this that I can think of in recent days.Susan Arendt said:
Players have two major options for difficulty, Battle Speed and AI.
Battle Speed is simply that all the attacks and blocks come faster, making the combat more twitch focused and responsive. The real difficulty comes in the AI.
With AI on Poor, the enemy will be generally disorganized and easy to trick. On hard the AI uses tactics and will do a great job of faking out even an experienced player.
And that's it. No Buffs no penalization just a well written AI script that scales.
I only play on hard if I've played the game so much to the point of it being easy, or if I get achievements or rewards of some type for playing through it on hard.
This is actually one of my tests of how good a game is: If I can crank up the difficulty until I'm dying constantly and still be having fun, it's a really good game. If the game starts becoming frustrating whenever I die a few times, it's not that good. COD4 was a pretty good example of a game that's only fun when you're not dying.Sky Captanio said:
That is what I thought playing Dragon Age on normal. There was a part here and there that I would get stuck on, had to change it down to easy, then could beat it. Then I didn't see the point in putting it back on normal. Was fun and not frustrating on easy.Sky Captanio said:
However, games like Tony Hawk I play on harder difficulty (sometimes, like now while I'm replaying through Underground, I put it on the hardest). Left4Dead on easy is just pathetic. I would normally play advanced and sometimes expert just because it was more fun and actually a bit of a challenge. That was before I quit for months, now coming back to it... well... RIP L4D. I'll miss the 100+ hours we spent together before you died. :'(
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2xFurburt said:
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
BlackSite: Area 51
Original Spyro Trilogy
GTA:SA (well, I used cheats so it wasn't challenging, but made it a ton of fun)
And so on...