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Note: You have 2 votes in the poll. The first is to select what difficulty you prefer, between extremely easy, easy, normal, hard and extremely hard. The second vote is to choose the difficulty type that you prefer in games. If I made the poll in a retarded way, please let me know. It is quite possible I did.
The topic of the difficulty setting in RPG games but also in video games in general has always been a central one. A good base difficulty setting can make a game very interesting and give it high replayability. On the contrary, when wrongly tweaked, it can break a game.
I would love to read your thoughts on:
1) How hard do you like a game to be?
I personally like to play games that are quite challenging. An example was Dark Souls. I know that people got to the point where they finished the game as lvl 1 and with no hits taken, but for the vast majority of us, starting out this game was a big challenge. Even almost unfairly so. But once you started finding patterns in the enemy attacks/behaviours and reacted accordingly, the game became possible to finish.
Another example was soloing Baldurs Gate for the first time. This is another game that can get quite hard if you aren't well versed in the magic system, and how D&D works. Also there are mods that increase the difficulty by a lot. Finishing the game solo for the first time with no cheats/cheese gave me a feeling of achievement. So I do like challenging games/ but not unfairly so.
2) What kind of difficulty?
Difficulty can be increased simply by increasing the number of monsters, or giving more HP to bosses. However making the enemies smarter, seems to me to make the game much more interesting. As an example, there are mods in Baldur's Gate that make spellcasters smarter, almost like how a human opponent would react. I personally find this more interesting.
An example of a game with more artificial difficulty: Diablo 1 with the Hell 2 mod. I loved the mod and its additions, but its difficulty was in the number of monsters and the damage they did. If you get to a point that you can't progress the game, what you have to do is to start new game to farm/grind more xp so you can get to higher levels.
I've made a poll below. Would be interested to see the Codexian's answers
The topic of the difficulty setting in RPG games but also in video games in general has always been a central one. A good base difficulty setting can make a game very interesting and give it high replayability. On the contrary, when wrongly tweaked, it can break a game.
I would love to read your thoughts on:
1) How hard do you like a game to be?
I personally like to play games that are quite challenging. An example was Dark Souls. I know that people got to the point where they finished the game as lvl 1 and with no hits taken, but for the vast majority of us, starting out this game was a big challenge. Even almost unfairly so. But once you started finding patterns in the enemy attacks/behaviours and reacted accordingly, the game became possible to finish.
Another example was soloing Baldurs Gate for the first time. This is another game that can get quite hard if you aren't well versed in the magic system, and how D&D works. Also there are mods that increase the difficulty by a lot. Finishing the game solo for the first time with no cheats/cheese gave me a feeling of achievement. So I do like challenging games/ but not unfairly so.
2) What kind of difficulty?
Difficulty can be increased simply by increasing the number of monsters, or giving more HP to bosses. However making the enemies smarter, seems to me to make the game much more interesting. As an example, there are mods in Baldur's Gate that make spellcasters smarter, almost like how a human opponent would react. I personally find this more interesting.
An example of a game with more artificial difficulty: Diablo 1 with the Hell 2 mod. I loved the mod and its additions, but its difficulty was in the number of monsters and the damage they did. If you get to a point that you can't progress the game, what you have to do is to start new game to farm/grind more xp so you can get to higher levels.
I've made a poll below. Would be interested to see the Codexian's answers