Alternate difficulties that make games better

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Are there any games you can think of where playing it on a different difficulty made it feel like a different game entirely?

I hate to contribute to the Todd Howard memes. But the example I have is from Fallout 4. I bought Fallout 4 at release. And I hated it

I reinstalled it later when I heard they brought back Hardcore mode from New Vegas but called it something different. "Survival difficulty"

When I tried it out it felt almost like I was playing something entirely different. The difficulty removed quicksaving, and forces you to eat and drink water. It also removed fast travel and made enemies invisible on the compass. Instead of just running and gunning every enemy in the game i noticed I found myself running away from most enemies looking for houses I could save in. I also didn't really do quests as much as saw how far I could keep moving forward in a single direction. Since you could die so easily looking for water/food hours into the game I would just hang around buildings that had beds in them and make them an impromptu player house until I had enough supplies to move forward.

It did make the enemies more bullet spongey though. And I ignored all of the quests in the game. It feels weird that I only liked the game after most of the actual content was made irrelevant.

It's extremely rare I actually play a game where the difficulty selection actually matters and makes me play it really differently. The only one that comes to mind is Doom on Nightmare making speedrunning through the game the basic strategy to surviving.

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The game's still shit, I DOWNLOADED it and I regret the waste of time

What this user says.

Stop being a fag and go play Metro and Stalkan CoP on realistic or whatever difficulty.

I was in the mood for open world games

I like Call of Pripyat but I was a bigger fan of SoC in all honesty.

Plus I've been burnt out on STALKER and wanted something Fallout but without Fallout 3's shit combat.

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THe modern Ninja Gaiden games don't show their true colors until you play the game on Master difficulty. Everything before then is a cake walk, and you are barely forced to grasp to the mechanics of the game to get through.

Every game needs rules, goals, obstacles, and interaction.
If a game lets you break its rules, its not a game.
If a game has no objective, its not a game.
If a game isn't challenging, it's not a game.
If the game stops working, it's not a game.
Funny enough, fallout 4 doesn't do any of those.

No shit you should have waited till you could find it on sale or some shit. I only bought FO4 when I saw it for $28 at my local game store and then pirated the DLC.

I pirated this turd a month or so after release.
I dropped 200 hours before uninstalling.
At least I wasn't playing vanilla.

what?

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any coop game in similar spirit really. On the easier difficulties, you compete for most kills, on the hard ones, you actually have to play the game as intended. And on the hardest difficulty/s, you need a full group of people who know what they're doing, and has mastered how to most efficiently avoid getting hit, while at the same time, being able to take out their fare share of trash mobs, and be willing to do their part in taking down special enemies.

Then fuck off since you're obviously retarded.

A lot of people downloaded it, user, digital distribution is the norm these days.

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You have no fucking excuse, there were 0day cracks for it. Get out and don't come back.

Din's curse. Though it's not actual difficulty, since it's just a shitload of optional options you can toggle when you make a character or a world.

To salvage this thread, I'd say The Boss Extreme difficulty is what actually made MGS4's gameplay worth it, in spite of all the game's problems elsewhere.

Also, why does Snake always have his knife out in this game? Even when using assault rifles?

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Challenge runs for Dark Souls count right?

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i wanted my own judgment, it was shit i still hate fallout 3 the most

not if you paid for that shit game

Way to undermine yourself, fuck off faggot

i thought it would be like Skyrim and good for when im braindead after work and want to unwind on comfy and porn mods but it wasn't. I played it for like 4 hours and then regretted pirating it

I know this thread is somewhat derailed because of getting triggered by fallout 4 but im interested in knowing if there's other games that have alternate difficulties/limitations you can enable

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remember when you had to call out your dubs numbers and then cancerous newfags dropped that and started spamming "dubs!" as if it was something special to get 2 repeating digits without guessing what they would be.
and now cancer newfags are the norm

Other than the fact you bought Fallout 4 release (you fucking cockmongler), i agree with the fact that difficulty nowadays seems to have put no more thought into it other than make enemies be fucking bulletsponge or the player character takes a boatload more damage. But still some games today still do it kinda well, adding unique difficulty by adding certain but not unfair restrictions on the player, here's an example: SUPERHOT
Yes, we all know how short the game is and how the game actually tells you to shill it, yes i know how retarded that sounds but the challenges in it are okay atleast since it puts certain restrictions so that you have to be really creative with what you got.

You must flog yourself in the streets until your skin falls off, heretic.

But to actually contribute to the thread? Armored Core: For Answer. They make the game harder in higher difficulties by adding new objectives to each mission. This works really well in a lot of ways as it adds a twist which combines well with the existing mechanics, as well as.

For instance, there might now be an enemy mech hounding you as you clear the mission. Or your path through the level might be changed entirely and force you to go through tougher areas. It got even better as events in Hard mode revealed more information about the story. Including plot twists in one of the finale endings that the rebellion side against the League was completely fabricated by one of the corporations, just so they could be the first ones who get into space and thus have an edge on the competition.

You should be shot, hung, set on fire, and pissed upon. And not in that order.

Postal 2 in Postal Mode turned the game from a whimsical sandbox with shooting elements into a stealth shooter because every last of the previously unarmed NPCs becomes armed and hostile towards you (not to speak of more general handicaps such as increased damage taken etc.)

Shit becomes so nasty that repeatedly fighting your way through the secret Taliban compound in the city's sewers becomes a preferable option to moving across the city's streets.

neck yourself m8

Is there any modern AAA game that I can play on highest difficulty that I don't have to actively handicap myself for it to be challenging?
I just might be autistic, but there is no modern game that really challenges me anymore.

It doesn't help that in some games the only difference between easy and hard is that enemies get some stat bonuses.

I mean, I didn't die or anything, but it was still pretty tense backpedaling out of town and down the road in the power armour shooting it without getting one-hit-killed

Is there any game where higher difficulties reduce the health pool of both yourself and all enemies?

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Also playing Thief on Expert is THE way to play

yeah that forced encounter with an end game enemy in the starting town is soooo tense

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Anyone got experience with setting up node/npm shit? We can all get together and play pirated Screeps now that the dedicated server is out.

I still don't recommend buying it, though.


fuck me

Do you guys do personal challenges to make the game more difficult?

You guys are fucking faggots and this thread is concentrated autistic cancer.

It's called picking your targets Anons, but nice try attempting to drop this thread. It's not even a terrible game, it has it's merits but it's just an overall disappointment that they left the community to try to fix just like every other Bethesda game
in b4 >defending Fallout 4

With some notable exceptions like the Sims that the goal is just to play around and have fun or make your own goal. I agree, wholeheartly.

Remind me again Holla Forums, who was the dumbcunt that said something about 'exploring video games as a new medium as a narrative immersion experience buzzwords buzzwords aka. turning it into a movie' again. I am going to find a strong tree and a rope, maybe just a flag pole will do.

How the fuck can you be on 8ch and be against gamergate?

What the fuck

>>>/anita/
It might be ironic but I can't tell

This is getting too meta for me

Removing quicksaving in a Bethesda game sounds like a horrible idea. I don't save every few seconds in skyrim and FO4 because I'm worried abiut dying, I save constantly because I'm worried about the game crashing at any point.

you don't have to be an idiot to post here
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It's actually not so bad in Fallout 4 the team actually managed to find out what was causing the majority of the crashes. It crashed for me every two days or so on vanilla instead of every 30mins-7 hours on skyrim. It's also fairly stable with mods too which is surprising, but for the most part it's the community cleaning up after Bethesda Imo as their updates seem to break the mods on an irregular basis.

I wouldn't stay on lefty pol for too long user, but it does exist and I wouldn't put it past them to try to Blue pill everyone. People still try to shit up the gamer gate thread now and again too We won!! Go home gamer gate!! gamergate is dead!! You know.. All that stuff.

Go away and never come back here

Do you guys read filenames or not?

What the fuck.

Hell, can't you detect the sarcasm from the image itself?

Now you are the retard here, I was saying the post I was replying to was bait. Looks like it got too meta for you

Man, I didn't even read the OP, let alone other posts. I'm also busy figuring out why my rendering code ain't working.

No need to call me retarded for posting and coding under influence, mane.

That's funny OP. I just started playing fallout 4 again yesterday because I heard about survivor difficulty. I figured the game would be patched of most of its major flaws by now, and that there would be some neat new shit patched in, like what happened to Skyrim.


And then I uninstalled the game.

It boggles my fucking mind that the game is still so buggy after so long and so many DLC packs. I played for four or five hours and encountered just as many gamebreaking bugs. How do normalfags cope with this?

Welcome to Bethesda games.

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