It's true.
It's true
Making the difficulty super customizable is great for people who are crippled IRL. Imagine not being able to play a game just because some autistic gook wants it to be the same for everyone.
Chad West
customize the game to your level of skill, King
Faggot Jap
we're going to include a fuckload of obviously unbalanced items and weapons that serve as hidden easy mode and make people seethe endlessly about them
Just
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Enemy aggression is a good setting though. I hate games that have passive enemies. But of course they should just be aggressive by default.
East
letting you fuck around with sliders is cool though, i like being able to set my own challenges
Also east
Yeah, blame the cars and not the Asian drivers
east again
Imagine thinking that just because someone is crippled they are incapable of overcoming challenges or functioning and taking care of themselves.
Just max the sliders
west: a functional wall of text
east: a big gay wall of text
tldr both
How is NG+ not just a higher difficulty setting, again?
It takes a ridiculous amount of tinkering for crippled people to play normal games and most of them aren't going to go through the trouble. Also mentally retarded people can have some fun still and even complete games with difficulty customization.
in the same way that fighting the final boss is not a higher difficulty setting compared to fighting the first boss
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Who fucking cares?
JLIODS
i don't get it
You realize both these games are doing the same thing, right?
Fromsoft difficulty uses in game choices. Summoning, grinding, certain builds being objectively easier than others etc. They let the player decide their difficulty in game.
NuDoom is doing the same thing, but the game style doesn't have the same flexibility. So they put a similar amount of flexibility in the difficulty options. Even nudoom players would throw a fit if there were objectively better or worse guns to use (by design, not by poor balancing) or stat allocation or ways to grind and become stronger.
Turning every slider up to max is like an SL1 run, and a no death run in either is a player choice.
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Difficulty sliders just let devs weasel out of properly balancing their game.
cripples get skill diff'd by a fucking staircase. do you have ramps in your house just in case a fucking cripple wants to check out the second floor? no? wow... ableist much?
meanwhile in reality
Why A & B and not M & F?
meet and HUH?
In the Japanese version of Elden Ring it's male/female, so this is incorrect.
The translators were frenzy flamefags, evidently.
Those difficulty sliders are no less embarrassing than having Spirit Ashes exist as a mechanic.
5000? The US is only twice their population but we have 600% higher deaths on the roads? And they still complain we have problems.
Imagine thinking a single player game takes actual skill. It's literally the same as practicing free kicks in football without a goalkeeper or defender; congrats you can reliably score in an empty goal, but you're not a contender.
Only CS 1.6 players, Assfaggots players and such shitty esports have actual skill.
West
makes shit gaym for the third time
East
makes shit gaym for the 8th time
I see your point, OP
I don't care for difficulty sliders, but Miyazaki's way of handling difficulty is also stupid. I have no idea why more games can't learn a thing or two from action games. Take a look at the modern Ninja Gaiden trilogy, for example. That's how difficulty settings in all games should be handled. It can't be that difficult to take inspiration from those games.
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it"
"Shitting is telling poop it can't stay in your butt."
They weren't flaming enough to purge every hint that Body Type A/B were supposed to be Male and Female.
The way the old Doom games handle it is also acceptable
higher difficulty levels usually enable more enemy spawns
but because of the way the game engine works, levels can be set up to disable certain item spawns, replace weak enemy spawns with stronger ones, or disable lights depending on the difficulty
order steak
would you like that steak blended into mush?
no I just want a steak
steak arrives cut into tiny cubes
we had to do that or it wouldn't fit in the blender
but I just wanted a steak
yes but it had to be ready to be blended at any point, you never know when all someone's teeth will fall out mid steak
this steak tastes shitty
we spent a lot of time on the blending prep, so to save time your steak was microwaved
can you just not fuck with my steak
ableist, don't you know there's people out there without jaws?
meanwile Souls have built-in baby mode with summons
Ok best of both worlds. You can have different difficulties, but just name them accordingly.
you actually beat the game mode
whatever you tried I guess mode
you wasted your money go kill yourself mode
stupid crippled faggot game journalist mode
Just make three difficulties
Casual for jurnos and people who dont like games
Normal, preferably almost near your average SNES game difficulty
Hard/Master, more enemies, slight 15-20% increase in HP and Damage for enemies, harder bosses.
Everyone wins this way
i dont think artists should determine their design choices in order to cater to cripples
Heh.
fromdrones pretending that souls games don't have easy modes
Imagine not being able to play a game just because some autistic gook wants it to be the same for everyone.
Now apply this mindset to irl sports and realize that gatekeeping shitters and cripples only ever improves the quality of the game.
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Who gives a shit nigger. I am missing three fingers on my left hand and I have never had issues with fromslop. The only disability you got is mental.
Now watch videos of cripples who move their joystick with their mouths and elbows being in the top 100 Street Fighter rankings while game journos can't even do the shoryuken motion
Cripples have been playing games forever, and they're probably better players than us normies because they don't ragequit since they expect to lose but try to win
Left
A game with little to no RPG bullshit so the game's difficulty itself has to be adjustable.
Right
Typical Japanese RPG mechanics put into everything where the numbers balloon from like 50 to 999,999,999 and you can grind to make the game easier.
"hurr don't want to include a difficulty selection" Shut up retard if it's a fucking RPG then that's the difficulty mode right there, only it's something that requires gay busywork.
See I'm a baseball player too! We had 24 people show to last night's game!
west
we want even the most retarded fuckshit to buy our game
east
fuck you if you can’t handle it
every souls game has a mechanic that lets you get another player to beat the game for you
Because they divide localization between dozens of people
If you don’t see that as a “fuck you” then are you even human?
I like both. HOWEVER - I will say that the wests idea of difficulty sliders almost never works because higher level difficulties are more often then not, health sponges or you doing less damage while taking more damage. So more often than not, I'd rather a highly curated experience in terms of difficulty so it doesn't take me 30 seconds to kill a basic enemy unless the game is something like Monster Hunter.
making shit up
why though
there's only one difficulty and it's meant to be a pretty stiff challenge
I could not agree any more strongly with this sentiment, the western approach to difficulty is easily one of my least favorite aspects of modern gaming, absolutely brain dead normal mode that has no room to challenge the player, and a lazy jank hard mode where the main challenge is the tedium of bloated enemy stats.
think of the heckin' cripperinos!
they should do that for jobs at NASA
It shouldn't be up to the players to balance the game for the devs.
make your own fun bad
I'm guessing the actual problem you have is that they make fun of you for playing on easy mode in FromSoft games.
Because it isn't. For the first few cycles, the difference in endgame bosses will be negligible while early game bosses will be turned into mince meat
Japs take what they get, because they believe the person who created whatever it is knows best.
Americans do what the fuck they want because they paid for it.
makes the game way fucking easier
that's now the default
thanks "east"
They do.
I wish the east would include a difficulty option because like 90% of the time their games are so fucking easy I feel like I'm going to fall asleep while playing them
Difficulty sliders depends on the game imo
If its a game thats 99% story and 1% shit gameplay then I couldnt give a fuck and I'll gladly play it on easy, but if its a game that focuses on gameplay then there should be a base difficulty and just harder modes for replay value
Because it’s not a setting, but rather a part of game progression just like enemies having more health at the end of the game than at the beginning.
Imagine if before you watch a movie, you have to edit it, take scenes out, add scenes in, decide when the plot twist drops, etc etc.
This is how retarded difficulty sliders are. I'm supposed to design the developer's game for them and there's no fucking way I can know what is the best possible choice. It would be impossible even if I knew the effect of these sliders in practice, but even that is missing.
Also I have change the way I look at the game, so my brain sees it as a developer who has to impede myself to have any sort of challenge rather than a player who wants to face it head on.
Brainless retards don't actually care about game mechanics. Give them an easy mode, then add a game journalist mode which is slightly harder so they can talk about game mechanics in their review, then add the actual game tuned to the highest level. After I beat the game, then let me mod it.
People who talk so highly about this trend are people who forget what videogames are and just want everything to be buffet slop.
Americans are obese and are dying younger
Yeah, this is why.
And the Japanese kill themselves en masse. What's your point?
Americans kill themselves just as much, if not more. Particularly white males. Japan does not rank particularly high in global terms. You are just repeating a meme you saw on Anon Babble or twitter.
malformed fetus twisting around upsidedown
guy using a stick in his mouth
yeah this probably settles it lmao
This is the crux of the matter. Difficulty sliders are designed for people who want to say 'I beat the game' rather than experience the game. The developers cant possibly balance every difficulty option. With one set difficulty, everything is balanced around it, which is why Souls games saw so much praise because they were better constructed than most shit with difficulty options. The only exception is hard modes. These should always exist, no exception imo. Replay value is an essential part of most games.
It's also stupid because games have a difficulty curve, from the game ramping up encounters and from you learning and getting better at the game. You're not the developer. You don't know what the rest of the game is like and can't know what that difficulty curve is supposed to be. Fine tuning damage values, speed and everything at the very start of the game blindly is idiotic.
I think both options are fine.
Except the difficulty in FromSoft games IS customizable, it's just done in a much smarter way that lets players make the game easier without feeling like they're cheapening the experience for themselves by actually manually shifting a difficulty slider down. Any moron or disabled person can easily beat Elden Ring with a bleed build and a mimic tear, and they likely wont even realise they're playing on "easy mode"
How'd that happen?
he lost his arm in a tragic basket weaving accident and the only prosthetics his insurance could cover are vortigaunt prosthetics. sad story really
No. Just give people normal mode and easy mode for those who suck at games. That's all there needs to be
west: play how you want, customize the game parameters in a way where you get to enjoy it the most
east: "You WILL play how I intended, filthy gaijin! We know better than you!"
This east > west
New Doom is fucking shit
crippled
They should be used to playing on hard mode by now.
free vortigaunt prosthetics
sad story
On what planet?
Gaming ain't for you anymore chief
fromsoftware literally has difficulty options tho
west: we are too lazy to finish the game. You do the rest
east: pubrishing unfinished game is dishonorabry. Work more overtime!
you can select difficulty levels without customizing them, no?
Kanye West
No. Stop catering to retards who don’t like videogames.
Difficulty settings are a blight on the industry
Miyazaki is the Christ of vidya
Customisable difficulty and accessibility options is fine for plenty of games. But it's repugnant shaming a game that wants to be 'hardcore' into being maximally accessible, especially if that series is valued precisely because it's hardcore. It mistakenly takes value to be totally utilitarian, so it just leads to creative consolidation. Case in point - every game ends up having yellow paint everywhere, and the prestige of a hardcore series disappears.
We all know how ridiculous it would be to force someone to make his horror movie less scary. So why the different attitude toward video games? Just don't watch it
dicks in my mouth
:(
dicks in my mouth japan
:()
Difficulty options would not be a problem if it wasnt just them raising/lowering enemy health/damage and/or lowering/raising your damage
This isn't a problem when they are slightly raised stats, but when devs bloat hp by x2, it's a problem.
That's the worst kind of difficulty option
RIP BrolyLegs
The east has difficulty options just not Fromslop. It should be West vs Fromslop instead.
Miyazaki
Imperial flag
The Imperial Japs would fucking shoot him to death for sucking up to the chinks and having anti Imperialist messages in his themes.
Fucking around with homemade fireworks when I was a kid. Trailer park shit basically.
the only acceptable way to use the difficulty slider in dark ages is to make the game harder
if i turn the difficulty down by 4% nobody will notice.
Terraria has good difficulty options (excluding master). Every game dev should take notes