Difficulty levels in videogames

challengerX · January 20, 2018, 07:40:19 AM

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Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 07:42:01 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 07:40:19 AM

>comparing getting an education to following rigid instructions

why can't you do it yourself though

i thought you were an independently minded smart person or something

because that's what you're saying, you should figure out everything yourself

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on how to play a game instead of doing whatever you want and whatever you have more fun doing

FUCK fun

i AM doing whatever i want

what i want is to play on the difficulty that the developers intended for the game to be played on in a normal setting

that's what i want

big dog · January 20, 2018, 07:42:28 AM

chally couldnt even wipe his ass without his mother and i teaching him

Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 07:43:39 AM

how embarrassing

challengerX · January 20, 2018, 07:48:02 AM

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Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 07:51:33 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 07:48:02 AM

>he needs instructions delivered to him in an envelope from the developers to "play it how you're supposed to play"

OH NO NO NO NO
😂😂😂😂😂😂

Yes

this is all halo's fault, by the way

normally, i'd be content to assume that "normal" is the way to go, because why would you call it anything other than "normal" if that's not how the game is normally played

but then fucking halo 2 ruins that and says "heroic" is the way the game is meant to be played

so that means i played halo: CE wrong, basically

so it fucking sucks to know that i wasted my time playing a game incorrectly, and now i'm cursed to second-guess myself when choosing difficulties, because i don't want to play games incorrectly

challengerX · January 20, 2018, 07:55:31 AM

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Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 07:56:19 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 07:55:31 AM

You can't play a game wrong fucking lol bro what is wrong with you

Did you play the game? Yes? Then there's nothing more to it. You don't have to beat it on legendary, you don't have to play on anything you don't want to do. Just do whatever you want lmao.

what a retarded way of thinking

you realize by telling me to do whatever i want, you're trying to prevent me from doing the ONLY thing that i want, right

because i don't want to play games how i want to play them, i have no interest in that whatsoever

games are art, i want the artist's vision and nothing more or less than that

Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 07:59:18 AM

"this is how i like to play games"
"i don't like how you play games, stop doing it that way"
"how should i play games then"
"you should play them however you want"

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challengerX · January 20, 2018, 08:00:50 AM

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Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 08:01:10 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 08:00:50 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on January 20, 2018, 07:56:19 AM
Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 07:55:31 AM
You can't play a game wrong fucking lol bro what is wrong with you

Did you play the game? Yes? Then there's nothing more to it. You don't have to beat it on legendary, you don't have to play on anything you don't want to do. Just do whatever you want lmao.
what a retarded way of thinking

you realize by telling me to do whatever i want, you're trying to prevent me from doing the ONLY thing that i want, right

because i don't want to play games how i want to play them, i have no interest in that whatsoever

games are art, i want the artist's vision and nothing more or less than that
Shut up. You don't know what its even fucking like to have autism. You think I'm happy that I fucking have it? Guess what, I'm not. I never have been. I've had people tell me "oh you're unique, you're special" Its a load of bullshit. The only thing autism really does is it makes life a fuck of a lot harder. If people in real life didn't give a single fuck about me I would have killed myself ages ago. And that isn't being edgy, that's ending the fucking pain.

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challengerX · January 20, 2018, 08:04:22 AM

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challengerX · January 20, 2018, 08:05:48 AM

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Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 08:11:00 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 08:04:22 AM

Maybe you should stop asking people like a robot and just play the game on whatever difficulty you're comfortable with and if you're the type of person that enjoys a challenge play the harder difficulties.

i can't tell which difficulty i'll be most comfortable with unless i know what the differences between the difficulties are

i also don't care

tell me which one i'm supposed to play on

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Also normal is obviously the default difficulty lol... it's called normal for a reason

tell that to bungie

they should've called heroic normal, and normal easy

because that's what i wound up playing on, and i hate that

Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 08:12:16 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 08:05:48 AM

Judging by how angry, fast, and numerous your responses have been I don't think even you believe this type of stuff anymore.

but your responses are always angrier, faster, and more numerous

challengerX · January 20, 2018, 08:16:06 AM

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Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 08:18:32 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 08:16:06 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on January 20, 2018, 08:12:16 AM
Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 08:05:48 AM
Judging by how angry, fast, and numerous your responses have been I don't think even you believe this type of stuff anymore.
but your responses are always angrier, faster, and more numerous
Eh that's just because I'm better than you, don't worry about it.

uh no i'm better than you actually thanks

do you not see how bungie phrasing it that way—"this is how Halo was MEANT to be played"—gives the player a sense of feeling "left out" if they decided to play on something else?

like oh i guess i'm not getting the true experience now because i reasonably assumed that normal was the way to go

challengerX · January 20, 2018, 08:19:58 AM

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challengerX · January 20, 2018, 08:23:23 AM

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Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 08:23:25 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 08:19:58 AM

Just play the game and see?

oops, guessed wrong, ruined the whole game for myself

oh well!

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Easy is there for kids or something who knows. But I don't agree, all the difficulties feel right. It also doesn't make sense that you respect the developers vision above all but now you're saying this should be that etc.

i'm not talking about how they "feel," i'm talking about how the game itself actually describes the settings

load up halo 3 and look at all the difficulty settings for the campaign, each one has a description

heroic will say:
"Fight against formidable foes that will truly test your skill and wits; this is the way Halo is meant to be played."

in other words, "if you're not playing halo on heroic, you're doing it wrong"

Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 08:25:40 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 08:23:23 AM

Are you talking about this? It's just a stupid description. It's not like they're saying "WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T PLAY ON THE OTHER DIFFICULTIES" lmao

it's a pretty definitive statement

they could've said "this is for true halo veterans" or whatever the fuck, but they didn't

now i feel like i'm not getting the proper experience from the game unless i play that, so i have no real choice

why would i play halo in a way that it wasn't meant to be played? that's stupid

challengerX · January 20, 2018, 08:29:09 AM

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Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 08:32:38 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 08:29:09 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on January 20, 2018, 08:23:25 AM
oops, guessed wrong, ruined the whole game for myself

oh well!
hahaha how?

because maybe (part of) the reason i thought halo 1 sucked ass is because i thought it was too boring/easy

maybe i would've enjoyed it more if i actually knew to play on heroic instead of normal

but i didn't, and i'm not gonna replay a game i didn't enjoy on a harder difficulty just to see if i like it more

that would be a waste of time

challengerX · January 20, 2018, 08:33:54 AM

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Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 08:36:59 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 08:33:54 AM

I doubt it, the game is fun even on easy. It's a great game. If it's not your bag whatever I guess you don't like shooters. You're spazzing out over trivial things.

half-life 2 is the same kind of game, but it's way fucking better and my favorite shooter

borderlands is a different kind of game, but i also love that one quite a lot

it's not that i dislike shooters, i just dislike playing games outside of their intentions

it's why i don't mod, it's why i don't even change controls or camera preferences

nothing about the game is mine unless it's made abundantly clear otherwise

challengerX · January 20, 2018, 08:44:42 AM

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big dog · January 20, 2018, 08:51:18 AM

just kiss already you two

Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 08:58:53 AM

Quote from: challengerX on January 20, 2018, 08:44:42 AM

I found both of these games extremely bland. Halo is so much more colorful with fun weapons and enemies.

halo 1 has no weapons

generic pistol
generic machine gun
cool shotgun that you get to use a lot during the best level
generic sniper
generic rocket launcher
generic plasma rifle (which is literally just called a fucking plasma rifle)
cool plasma pistol that's actually my second favorite, i like how they designed this one
needler which is kinda creative but really shitty and not that fun to use

so not only are there only eight weapons, not counting grenades, only two or three of them are cool

half-life 2 has the cool crowbar
the cool magnum
the bugbait which is fucking awesome
the crossbow which is fucking awesome
the MP7 which is kinda generic, but it looks cool and has a grenade launcher
the RPG which is cooler than halo's because it's fucking laser-guided
the spas-12 which is awesome (but i'm biased because i like shotguns)
a pretty generic 9mm but it's more satisfying to use than halo's
and then of course the gravity gun

and the primary selling point of borderlands is that it has millions of cool weapons

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Why do you think Bungie didn't intend for you to play it on Legendary?

because the word "normal" is there, and that's usually a safe bet

if they called normal "medium" or something, i might have considered legendary

but then i probably wouldn't have beaten the game as fast

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It's not about yours or theirs. Your parents must have been extremely strict or something because this is just a weird mentality.

not really, my parents were actually extremely chill

Verbatim · January 20, 2018, 09:02:56 AM

also, enemies?

what does halo 1 have

grunts, elites, jackals, hunters, flood

i can't think of anything else

half-life 2 has all sorts of shit

Big Boss · January 20, 2018, 09:10:36 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on January 20, 2018, 07:38:33 AM

>he goes to school

uhhhhh just teach yourself how 2 be phycisist yourself you fucking moran LMAO

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moran