Now that I'm in my 30s, I've been slowing down and playing more games on Easy of Storymode. My senses just aren't what they used to be. Anyone else like this?
Now that I'm in my 30s, I've been slowing down and playing more games on Easy of Storymode.
No, I'm in my mid-30's and play on harder difficulties than in my teens and 20's. Git gud old man.
yea but you're a neet
>he brags about being slave to big nose shekelstein goldberg
lmao
im 32 and i play games on hard and i work full time. i play maybe 2 hours of video games a day. sometimes i might make 30 minutes of progress in those few hours after getting my ass beat but that's okay, im playing the game for the moment to moment gameplay. i dont play them to look at the end credits.
Nah. If you can't stomach a basic b***h video game, chances are you're the basement dweller.
casul
Casual? I used to be highly ranked in Starcraft, 1. But now that I'm in my mid-thirties, games are just hard now.
Yes and no. I enjoy playing easy games more, like Anno 1800 or Planet Zoo, but I still like hard stuff too. Like right now I'm trying to get all the achievements in Nioh 2, and that's one of the more difficult gaming things I've ever done. And just last year, I 100%d the Batman Arkham trilogy. Knight had some brutal challenges at the end.
This. I still like difficulty but I can appreciate easy games more than I could before. I used to be one of those absolute Black folk who screeched “everything but Dante must die is a tutorial and not the real game” but I’ve realized what horseshit that is and am able to enjoy roflstomping everything AND dying 20 times to learn a single fight because I realized I’m still getting 100% of the game experience either way and nobody else’s opinion matters.
I’m also getting into racing games - bought a wheel and pedals and chair - and suck so much fricking ass it’s ridiculous. I’ve been in actual race cars and done track time, I’m even planning to do the BMW Nurburgring experience next year, but I can’t corner in GT7 to save my life even with every assist on. I know it’s the game, because they disable shifting unless you’re in full manual which no cars do anymore, but still.
Turn the assist shit off, it's not helping.
the frick is with people who need to write at length in defense of how they enjoy a game? i've noticed the same thing with people emphasising how slowly they play a game like Elden Ring how "they take their time" and dont rush the main quest as if they are some kind of enlightened being for taking 30 hours to finish Limgrave.
influencers,streamers and social media make them self conscious about how they play games.
This, same with forums in the 2000s constantly riding people not playing on the highest difficulties
ER is a pretty bad example for your argument. That's a very obvious pushback against the "You didn't beat the game" homosexuals.
Its because they aren't actually happy with themselves for playing on easy and need to be comforted and reinforced by strangers. Kind of like how homosexuals constantly shout their "pride" mantra while being shamefilled.
Some people just like to write even when it isn't necessary
>some guy writes a fricking bloated novel on his opinion instead of getting straight to the point
>writes an essay as a reply to something that was initially just a single sentence statement of an opinion
>any time they want to talk about a game it's like they have to write an entire review for it before they can proceed
because they get the feeling that everybody else is doing the opposite due to too much social media, get socially conscious and feel the need to defend their actions from nobody
because developers adjust future content/projects based on what players liked and didn’t like.
for example, FFXIV had some decent dungeons for the ARR launch, but they where lengthy and after doing them 100 times players developed strategies to rush through them as fast as possible.
the devs saw this and began designing future content into corridors to facilitate the speedrunning their players so enjoy.
so it’s worth mentioning once in a while that some players aren’t in a hurry.
>to facilitate the speedrunning their players so enjoy.
Sort of
What they really did was design dungeons in a way that the tank can reasonably enter it without having run it previously or recently and still do fine.
In ARR launch tanking was rather involved as the expectation was on you knowing the skips or how much to pull in every single dungeon. Otherwise you'd be in that dungeon single pulling for anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes. Design started implementing more progression walls where you can't pull further and now in this current age all dungeons let you go from "wall to wall" without worrying about overpulling.
Maps like Aurum Vale were always superfluous though. Two paths through but everybody and their mother always hugged the left wall rendering all that enemy filled space pointless.
Essentially they had good maps for single player dungeons that are at odds with the reality of an MMO where 2-3 other entire people are with you and have different schedules with which to do content.
they want to go on a pilgramage to make all games have easy mode.
Those people don't enjoy the games they just experience fomo and don't want to be stuck on a single game for 100+ hours
It's cope.
I play on easy and use cheats/quick save. I also avoid any game that's obtuse or too difficult to enjoy. Losing in games makes me feel unbearable frustration. Like Popeye, I am what I am.
This. I tried Factorio and couldn't get into it. I don't have a mind's eye and think in concepts, so playing the game was basically impossible to figure out how to make an efficient factory. Quickly dropped it.
You literally think like an animal. Whats it like being subhuman?
No but I now prefer turn based to real time whenever possible, I don't like the stress and need for twitch reflexes anymore and having time to think over your tactics is more comfy.
i dont care why are you even censoring his name wtf IS THIS SHIT? GO BACK Black person
>twitter thread
Your opinion is invalid. Keep sucking dicks, homosexual OP.
>op pic
Why did he have to announce that? Nobody actually gives a shit how you play (except for fromdrones, but they are b***hes and must be ignored)
If not why'd he get so many upvotes?
I've actually gotten better, but I can't play too many harder games at once because it fricks with my muscle memory.
Dude probably made an ugly kid with some ungrateful hoe and only has 30 minutes per day to play video games
Sad but deserved
Skill issue
>Bio Inf 1999mode
>TEW2 nightmare
Woah, what a hardcore gamer. Especially Infinite is a bad joke with the mod that "freezes" your healthbar upon using your hook giving you full Iframes for 10 seconds or so.
If you use any mods at all in games that aren't built for mods (Like Skyrim) you're cheating already so your opinions on difficulty for that game are worthless. You might as well be using CheatEngine or GameShark.
console Black person detected
You're in a thread about difficulty and you're saying "if you mod out the difficulty, things become easy." No shit, you moronic casual. Name your favorite hard video game and I will call it easy after turning on God Mode and beating it one-handed.
didnt ask for your cope, console Black person.
Reflexes get slower with age, puzzle solving abilities go down.
You find games harder because your brain is slowing down. Why else do you think nearly all esports stars are 15 year olds with only a few outliers at older than 30?
People peak in athleticism in their early 30s. Some people are still monsters in their 50s.
If you're slowing down in your 30s, the problem is your lifestyle.
Hate these posts where people rationalise their casualismo.This is unironically a skill issue. He sounds like he has been playing video games for a while so if anything he should just be getting better. I'm almost 30 and I play literally every game on hard mode first playthrough because I have just played so many games that shit is like second nature to me. There's not even a noticable difficulty increase. In pretty much any game, basically the only really difficult stuff are optional objectives/areas/bosses or difficulties you unlock after completing it once (or where the game clearly warns you it is unfair), which you probably won't worry about if you're this guy anyways. And if you DO want to do those things, just get fricking good
It has a negligible effect on single-player games where you can take your time and try the same thing over and over. Esports stars are young because they played fast-paced multiplayer games where quick reactions actually do matter. Not the case for singleplayer.
>puzzle solving abilities go down.
Not if you keep your brain active, they won't, people don't become dumber with age unless they have dementia, they become dumber because they stop engaging with their brain and their job is menial tasks and their free time is passive enterteinment
Intelligence declines after age 10. If people were a danger of still learning things schooling would go longer than it does.
Schooling going on for as long as it does is just feminization and profiteering. Feminization because women have a tendency to infantilize and try to keep the kids in the nest for way longer than they need to be. Infantilization is one of our biggest modern problems. Teens make mistakes, but that's also the time to be making them, rather than when you're 30. They should be in the shop getting used to independence and looking for a marriage partner at 16 years old, and dad (a well-rounded man in his mid-30s, having had 20 years to hammer that out himself) should be right there giving sane advice. Then their kids will be healthy and the parents won't be 60 years old when the oldest kid turns 18. Profiteering because schools make more money by keeping you in there for longer, even if it's not what's best for you. Need to justify a tax hike or why you shouldn't be laid off from your overstaffed school? Just spread two years' worth the math classes out over eight years so that you have more students! Everyone who challenges you is a backwoods hick who just hates education! Listen to the cheers from the infantilizing women! Neoliberalism, everyone!
You can still learn shit after the age of ten. You can learn shit at age 50 if you've been learning your whole life. That's a dumb statement.
funny enough all "e-sports" games are pure garbage and 15 year olds love garbage
30 year olds are also already established financially so they don't need to "git gud" at some shit hole game like fortnite or shooter #249284723452 to make a living screaming in a microphone and making themselves look like a clown on live streams so little timmy can use his dads credit card to dono
Holy boomer wagie cope
t. ranny
>Reflexes get slower with age,
That's true but it doesn't get to the point where you can't compete. Otherwise it'd be illegal for 40+ year olds to drive.
puzzle solving abilities go down.
I highly doubt that
Not him, but I think that if you've spent your whole life stacking boxes and watching television and then you try to pick up electrical engineering at age 55, you'll probably fail. Your ability to form new paths in your brain does decrease with age.
If you've spent your whole life writing programs and playing games that include critical thinking, that's not as true. Old engineers can be exposed to a novel problem and still figure it out.
tl;dr: Use your brain or lose it.
Alright that's fair enough but anon made it seem like you just lose your shit with age rather than if you don't use it you lose it.
Yeah when you're 70 not 30. I don't play easy mode but I rarely go for the most challenging mode on games anymore. I have a career and family and limited game time so I am past the point in my life where beating my head against a boss or challenging segment is fun at all
Nope, I still play on normal and still include sweatlord games in my lineup.
Why do people share this moronic shit publicly on a place with accounts?
Are they that desperate for attention?
If I ever feel the need to start playing easy mode, instead of just not playing videogames in the first place, I want you to kill me.
I play normal in most games because usually difficulty options are fricked up and just up the tediousness or remove viable options.
In games where I tested higher difficulties and they are fine, I'll choose the hardest one, Devil May Cry's DMD for example.
The hardest difficulty is for tryhards who want to look cool to their friends.
36, playing on hard without issues.
skill issue
phone posters have to be stopped
Stop killing your body with shitty food and alcohol
I always played on hardest difficulty and played tons of pvp games well into my early 20's, though around 25ish, I started to slow down to the point where all pvp games became a frustrating experience I could no longer partake in. Now I'm 30 and have to play videogames on normal or easy because the rot has consumed my brain. I can't even remember more than the most recent show I watched, yet in high-school I had near perfect retention and never had to study. It's like I have early onset dementia and my Iq went from being psychiatrically tested at 147 age 18, to 96 at age 30.
Ganker does that to you
lol
To be fair, I hated being smarter than everyone else and they seemed happier in their incapable ignorance. So I blasted myself with weed 24/7 for about a good ten years, I'm very sure I'm so moronic now because of that drug abuse. Not that I mind, I'm pretty happy.
For many people turning 30 is a convenient excuse to be lazy
Love how 7th gen was so mindmeltingly bad and easy that now being able to die at all means the game is super hard and niche. Yes calling you soulsgays out.
yep i got filtered by demon's souls when i tried it. someone had me try dark souls and he said "enemies can kill you in as many hits as you can them, so play smart"
then after getting FIREBOMBED three times trying to climb the stairs to undead burg, it clicked for me and i begen playing like it was hardcore mode on CoD or master mode on stalker or something. once my approach was figured out, the whole game's difficulty was just learning boss attack patterns
Life is hard enough as it is OP.
You go ahead and enjoy that easy mode.
I will always play on normal for reaction time things as mine were never good but anything else I tend to bump it up now more than I did because my brain actually can form coherent thoughts now which it couldn't until I was like 25
homosexual pussy.
that may be a brain tumour anon, I'd get that checked out. getting old shouldnt be making you dumber. if anything games should be getting easier as you get older
I turn on Ganker
I get reddit
i play on hard on most games still but games like rimworld that send 15 well-armed opponents after your colony of 2 hobos and their shitshack... no thanks. i'll drop it down to medium.
You are all weak and will perish in the coming collapse.
God, I hope so.
Nah, I turn 36 next month and I still play on second to highest difficulty where possible. AAA games are the exception, those I usually play on Normal because harder modes are tedious bullet sponge modes.
>Hard mode
>Enemies take half damage, you take double damage
It's crazy how many games still do this shit. I wish more games were like Ninja Gaiden 2 or the old Doom games where combat encounters actually had more, new, or stronger enemies in them rather than everyone just becoming a fricking sponge.
helldivers 2 does this, more enemy objectives to engage with, more elite enemies, higher tiers of enemy units, enemy stats remain the same
Too bad I don't like multiplayer only/live service games.
shame
Yeah, the last game I can think of that actually made difficulties interesting was The Evil Within 1 where hard difficulty actually changed enemy spawns and item pick ups.
Then you also had Akumu mode which was hard mode except you have 1HP so essentially forced no hit run.
Then a stealth centred DLC had Kurayami mode instead that disabled all lights and made everything pitch black except for your flashlight.
I still don't understand all the negative opinions this game had on release, outside of dogshit PC port that was quickly and easily fixed with mods it was a really solid game.
Then TEW2 released to much higher acclaim and hard mode just ups enemy health and nothing else, how thrilling...
>it was a really solid game
It was really not.
>Enemies take half damage, you take double damage
one or the other is the hyper-lazy-developer ideal. there's no reason to do both and end up with a quadruple discrepancy
>boomer still reminisce back on the old days when he was on a LAN with several other people and he "dominated" them in Quake, Starcraft and other "hardcore" games
>in his mind this made him a god gamer and much better at gaming than all the zoomers playing Fortnite and other "crap" today
>other than that time he has never really once done any kind of competitive gaming or played against others
>to scratch the itch of his coursity how well he would compete against these zoomers he downloads a games and tries to play Online
>he gets absolutely WRECKED by the zoomers that actually play the game and has become good at it
>"The hell.... could it be that I was never really good at video games or/and I've not really played videogames seriously for over decades now that's the reason I'm bad at them..."
>"n-no it must because I'm "old" and my reflexes are bad!!! Has nothing to do with that I'm inexperienced!!"
having fun playing pretend, anon?
That's a fine argument but I haven't really seen anyone use the age cope so far
Games were never equal in how difficulty settings in each game works. Generalizing, like redditgay from op or morons from this itt did, is poinless.
I hope not. When I turned 30 I got paranoid about it so I just ran through a bunch of shit to make sure I still could, and I could. I'm 31 now and still feel the same.
At 30 you should be in perfect physical and mental condition, so there's no excuse.
It's only from the age of 45 onwards that decay really starts to happen in a noticeable way, and from then on things really start to get worse in every way. But complaining at 30 is homosexualry, or a totally moronic lifestyle with drug abuse or shitty diet.
Video games rely more on brain skills and hand eye cordination which is still linked to brain skills because if your brain is 2 moronic to maintain proper care for yourself that yuor hands and eyes suck as you get older from all the junk you shove in your body then ur moronic and have low brain power dumbass stupid moron idiot dumbass
man i wish i had high brain power like "yuors".
ur brain power can always expand and improve u just need to focus on ur self u dummass moron IDIOT i take pity on low brain power ppl like u becuz ur just a product of ur enviroment poor basterd
My dad is 61 and plays games on max difficulty. Legit skill issue. You dont become a crippling old man when you are 30, you become one when you are 90
Any 'hard' mode is moronic because it's just pumping health/damage. There's no change in AI-behavior, no addition of enemy abilities, no new/changed enemy placements, no combinations of different enemies as teams -- nothing. There's nothing that is inherently harder about 'hard' mode. It's just broken, because the game isn't balanced around those numbers to begin with. This kind of stuff only appeals to legit mentally challenged and masochists. Give me a game that actually changes something other than health/damage in 'hard' mode.
baldurs gate 3 does basically all of that on tactician and honor mode.
>troony gate 3
no thanks
>guys im thinking about trannies again
They force themselves into everything, everywhere.
i have 80 hours in bg3 and i haven't encountered any troony characters
>trans women ARE women you cant tell the difference
Isnt that what they said before? How do you know if you saw one or not?
are you in act 3? there are some in act 3, but the one I encountered was a circus freak so maybe the game is saying something about the nature of trannies huh?
haven't gotten there yet. but if there is any trannies i can just kill them on the spot atleast. if this was a Todd game they would be immortal
Anon you literally lose the game if you kill the homosexual mage companion
nta but orin killed gale in my game and literally nothing happened what are you talking about
>hes still playing the unwinnable save file
Rip your time.
>However, if you take three long rests without reviving Gale, his corpse will rise into the air as the Netherese orb inside his chest detonates without Gale alive to control it. This will immediately cause a game over as Gale's body destroys both Gale himself and everything around him - including your party.
What do you get out of playing dumb about easily found information? The homosexual is essential but on a timer.
You're not wrong but the homosexual weirdo will be disingenuous like all troons so ignore him
>game has troonys
>but youre the one thays wrong for noticing, not the devs for putting those freaks there in the first place
lefty bros, i cant keep up the cognitive dissonance needed for these arguments
Have you tried not playing aaa movie games?
There are several games that do this.
name 5
*disappears*
Viewtiful Joe's hardest mode removes the training wheels and is pure kino. You'll only see all of Seven Force's forms in one playthrough on Expert in Gunstar Heroes. I can't think of any others right now.
Not that anon but Skyrim, Cawadooty, Halo, Gears of War, and DMC all did this
I use save states on emulators
>im happy to do this
>but I'll go on my social media and seek validation for this decision
>I will write a paragraph how actually its fine to play at lower difficulties and how im totally fine with it
>because if people agree then im definitely happy.
Hes fooling nobody except maybe other redditors.
The end goal of every game should be to eventually test your limits against the most difficult variation of it. Theres no shame in not being good at some games or not enjoying them, but it doesnt change the fact that youre bad at that game. I dont see why you should start a mental gymnastics competition with yourself online to defend it.
it's too early to write it off as attention seeking.
OP needs to post the comment section too.
When I love doing something I will post it, and then go back doing the thing without reading and replying to other people.
Unless there is a reason to do so (such as an unlock) I always play my games on normal or harder if it interests me enough. What getting older has meant is my tolerance for bullshit in vidya has dropped dramatically. I don't mind a challenge but cheap shit I tolerate very little of these days.
Everyone talked about how you “slow down” in your 30s but it hasn’t even affected me yet, I’m 34. I think your diets and exercise might just be shit.
Depends on how the game handles difficulty.
>Enemies get lazy inflated health/damage with little to no increased rewards
Gay.
>Altered enemy types, behavior, and encounter
>Optional: Increased/alternate rewards for overcoming greater obstacles
I will now play your nightmare mode.
I now play games on the hardest difficulties and use self imposed challenges a lot more, and acknowledge full well that I dont go into games expecting to finish them anymore so try to milk the gameplay from them as much as possible from the outset. I prefer games that are open ended and not story driven because of this.
I aim for higher difficulties now that I'm in my mid 30s.
It's a single player game, if you get stuck or proves you are bad. AND HOW THE FRICK ARE.YOINNAD AT YOUR HOBBY.
The amount of time you spending playing games.prpves there is no excuse to ever fricking play on easy mode. I'm fact all games should remove it
i dont even like playing games anymore
OP on reddit: please jizz in my face!!
redditards: *circlejerk intensifies*
OP: OH YES PLEASE GIVE ME MORE OF THAT SWEET MAN SEED
that's basically what this thread is about, isn't it?
>censoring the name
I used to play on easy as a kid but now I will never play on any difficulty other than normal. I also don't play moviegame slop. Hard games become easy once you git gud, if a game is too hard for you just grind until its not. I'm playing through kannagi usagi now, its kicking my ass.
No, I feel like I'm much better at games now than when I was a kid and I tend to prefer harder difficulty modes as long as it's not some gimmick mode. Lack of challenge often makes games boring. This even applies to competitive online MP, like I used to really suck ass at RTS because there was too much to do all at once. I'm certainly not great at this point either, but I'm at least average and I don't feel like I'm struggling with the most basic skills the game expects me to have.
I wish I used cheats (mods) and looked up some guides on Noita instead of wasting my time.
Anon playing video games IS wasting time. Thats the point of the entire hobby. But having to cheat to get through the easy part of the game is just sad, since you didnt even overcome a challenge you arguably wasted your time even more than some shitter banging his head against the hiisi base.
Try making the gameplay fun instead of having 3 boring biomes full of nothing. Luck isn't fun in a game that wastes your time this much to get a run going. Hiisi base isn't even a problem. Later areas go much smoother because you can't even go there if you aren't strong enough anyway, assuming you don't just rush to portals for whatever purpose.
Hiisi base isnt a problem but its also the biggest roadblock for bad runs. Not that you would know since you already said you cheated to beat it.
I didn't beat it because I didn't cheat. The real roadblock is realizing you're wasting time every time you get a shitty wand or spell. You don't even need to progress that far to know you're fricked.
You already admitted to cheating. Why the backpeddaling?
I didn't say that, I just regret my time waste in that game. I'd use wand tinkering everywhere if I could because I didn't even know going through worm paths and then into next stage's shop would block that ability which fricked my good run and I lost the motivation.
>Anon playing video games IS wasting time
Spending time enjoyably isn't a waste.
guess his brain is deteriorating very quickly then
Actually, it's the contrary for me, I'm 36 and I have found that, I have played so many games my skills have increased and I can actually beat games in hard mode, also I'm more patient, I can remain calm and think of new approaches to a problem or roadblock when playing, something I simply could not do when I was younger, back then I would simply say frick this and play something else or lower the difficulty.
I'm near 40 and do prefer single player more but I don't ever play on easy I usually default to hard
I play on the highest difficulty the game offers as long as its not total bullshit. Bad balancing between options, unwinnable rng, instadeath if your dick touches the wrong pixel on a frame, forced to exploit AI patterns, the game is more for story than gameplay, whatever.
If all you want is to play hard games then cut of your fingers and stick them up your ass, now the game is harder.
>I play games on hard!
>But only when hard mode is not that hard =(
troony....
>I play bad games why dont you also like bad games :~~*((
The troony who made this post is a big H3H3 fan, plays fortnite, and posts tiktok/family guy videos to reddit which perfectly encapsulates the kind of person with this point of view.
Almost 40 and lmao no. I do however have zero tolerance for shit that doesn't respect my time, and there's a LOT of that.
It's not age that made you worse, its the fact that games are getting easier. I've been going on an NES tear lately, and I sarted off playing like shit but somewhere along the line I realized I had become notably better.
if all of these people felt secure in their choice they wouldn't feel the need to broadcast it for validation. they know they're missing something with this strategy.
31, only play on hard difficulty, I just don't want to pick up bad habits in playing in a more forgiving difficulty.
I used to play on the hardest difficulties. Nowadays it’s not so much a skill issue but a time issue. I can’t be sinking in months into a single game anymore. I have a backlog of 1000 games and I’m going through each on normal/hard (not nightmare mode) considering each game is just you mastering however shitty the game was programmed. I can beat souls games no issues but I gave up on an S ranking for one of the challenges in Spiderman for being too fricking difficult.
I dont get it
If you dont want to be challenged in even the slightest bit then why even play the game.
Just watch it on youtube at that point.
Its not even about difficulty but many easy mode games are so easy you dont even need to engage with the systems of the game.
Easy mode is kino when paired with drugs.
Huh? Hwhat?
I always start out on normal, since difficult will vary depending on genre, game, developer, etc., and there's really no way to know for sure what you're getting into before you've played it. On top of that, different games have different appeals. I love Half-Life, but frick playing that game on hard - it just turns everything into a bullet sponge. On the other hand I'd never play Doom on anything but Ultra-Violence, since it would just be boring. I wish more games had a Bastion-like approach to difficulty, where you can tweak it during gameplay to push yourself a bit extra for a greater reward
It's all about finding your personal sweet spot that lets you enjoy the game the most, but as a rule of thumb: too easy > too hard
>but as a rule of thumb: too easy > too hard
I disagree
The problem with too hard is that it can sour the experience. If you're making an arcade-like game that's probably not an issue, but if you're telling a story it can be detrimental. Of course, if you make a game much too easy, that can also ruin the experience, since it can feel like the stakes don't matter when the enemy is incapable of wiping their own ass. If anything, it's really just an argument for having difficult selection in the first place: let the player find their own sweet spot
the chance of souring the experience is worth it. when the player quits the game because it's too hard the game will still remain intriguing and there is a high chance the player will return to it for the mystique of unbeaten game alone. when you quit a game because it's too easy there is no such mystique. when you think about trying the easy game again you're reminded of the boredom. hard games genuinely have higher player retention than easy games.
Void Stranger is an excellent game that has both an intriguing story/world building and high difficulty.
There are many who got filtered by the gameplay because they cant into pushing blocks.
I think its a good thing. The devs didnt want to hurt their vision by giving people an easy way out.
They couldve sold out and gotten much bigger just by making the story easy to access but they chose not to.
>cant into pushing blocks.
I remember Catherine. People needed fAtlus to launch an easy mode DLC for that.
I was able to finish it without ever dying, and I don't even play puzzle games.
Videogames were better when they were more niche, since they didn't need to appeal to morons.
The game has to be balanced around something. I get the feeling that the next step in your argument is that it should be balanced around the majority, which in your mind, means the dumbest people. And then the next step is to question whether the harder difficulties are necessary, because it's just a minority. And then the next step is to declare that the harder difficulties have to go because only toxic manbabies care about that.
Enough with this push to dumb down games. No, it doesn't ruin the story if the player has to push through a challenge to get through it, and I don't think that devs should feel obligated to make their games so that literally everybody (game journos included) can clear it. Because that'll make the game boring to a sizable portion of the rather large audience of people who play games. If you have to choose between grandma being able to beat it and your actual customers having fun, choose the latter.
If you are telling a story you need to FRICK OFF.
>story
lol
might as well just watch it on youtube
I agree with
I can't even play Nintendo games. Kirby and shit is just so fricking braindead for anyone but children that you might as well be staring at a wall. I get nothing out of them anymore, but a hard game at least gives me something even if I give up on it.
I'm 33, reaction time is the same. But I just have less energy for games
I'll only ever play normal (or whatever difficulty says "the way it's intended by the dev to be played" or similar).
The number of times I have to damage an enemy, the number of times I can fail at dodging danger, the time I have to complete tasks, what's accessible to me and at which time, anything about the game really, it's all handcrafted and tweaked to be enjoyable on normal.
I've tried too many games on harder difficulties, most don't get harder if you can already complete normal, they just artificially last longer or have some bullshit checks that I don't care about.
I'm 34 and still play fps games like a quake autist. I just find it fun. If you feel like you just wanna come home and chill on easymode do you dude. Idk why people need to be validated over how they spend their free time.
This is why gacha/GAAS is so popular. They require no skill or coordination to play. You just login, feel good for 30 mins, and get off.
No easy mode is still too easy in my 30s
I'm mid thirties now, but for me it hasn't changed - I play every game on some mid range difficulty first, and if I really enjoyed it then I play it on the hardest one again.
No, I became a trophy/achievement autist in my late 20's and now at 31 enjoy permadeath/hardcore modes.
If you are having these problems at thirty, you probably have a poor diet and inactive lifestyle. You should take this as a sign to change things.
30 has become the new "im getting old" age. Youve got a bunch of people hitting mid 30s or near 40s and then saying "Maaaan im getting old I think its time to change"
Its because millennials are the least creative generation of them all and were the ones that killed everything, so they need some way to feel validated. They are more rabid than boomers at generational warfare politics.
Maybe your senses are deteriorating because you don't exercise them on babby mode. Vicious circle.
>''I AM PLYING EASY GAMES AND I AM TOTALLY FINE AND HAPPY AND NOT SEETHING IN FACT YOUUU ARE THER ONE SEETHING YOU FRICKING TOXIC GAMER!!!!''
Every single time.
The default is hard if there's 3 difficulties and second-hardest if there's more than 3
For most cRPGs I will go normal difficulty cause harder ones usually ramp up shit so much it's only really viable on a replay with meta knowledge
I'm 41 and I play all games on Hard. Games are just more enjoyable when there's a challenge to overcome.
>30s
>old and slowing down
I have gotten better as I age, when I was a kid I sucked at everything. Also you shouldn't write a post on the internet coping because you suck a games and care what others think past the age 18.
>I have gotten better as I age, when I was a kid I sucked at everything
Yeah, this is massive cope. The amount of inherent skill / muscle memory along with just knowledge and familiarity with game mechanics should give you a massive advantage as an adult compared to being a kid who didn't know shit and probably wasn't even smart enough yet to understand how games worked. It's just cope. It's true that your reflexes might degrade a bit but that's the sort of thing which matters if you're some top 0.1% competitive player, not a way to justify to yourself why you want to play on easy mode since SP games are often extremely easy in general.
I too mostly just play games on easy more
My main problem with a lot of the easy mode people is that they demand that games get easy modes.
As dev(sfo) said.
>if you dislike an element of game i like then its "not everything is made for everyone and if i dislike an element of game you like its gatekeeping
its aight to play on easy mode but if you demand games to have them then you are a c**t so have a nice day.
>Sterling used to be a character, a purposely exaggerated obnoxious caricature of himself. Now he’s turned into the joke he was pretending to be.
A lot of these people weren't playing characters. When people out themselves as morons who are simultaneously elitist, sanctimonious, tasteless, and stupid with a disdain for their audience and are legitimately offended by people having fun with things that they don't like, people should pay attention instead of just writing it off. That is not someone that you want having influence over your hobby.
Adam Sessler is another example. At least he was actually funny at one point. I don't understand what anyone ever saw in Jim Sterling. He was always annoying and condescending to his audience.
My reflexes aren't that much worse, really. I don't have as much time to dump in competitive games as I used to, that mostly affects gamesense.
For single player I've had more total years of experience and games are easier nowadays.
I wish game devs still put the real endings and stages behind very hard difficulty today just like many did in the old days.
I love seeing these "guys it's so heckin' wholesome to play on keanu chungus easy mode" posts because you know they're absolutely fricking seething about something they got filtered by within the past few hours
He said he sometimes loses several times on easy anyway, lmao
I wonder if he actually does or if he just says he does so no one can say he isn't being challenged. Kind of a self-own either way.
I once fell off a platform in Journey and had to go back up which took 23 seconds
This challenge means I now always play on very yeasy
I can't really relate. Games are in general easy enough on normal that it wouldn't matter if I've "slowed down". The issue for me is that I have limited time, and redoing sections I'm poor at or a game that thinks hp bloat is difficulty is just a disincentive to play it at all.
my senses are better than ever, I am just too used to a lot of these games and can predict everything they do
so I zip thru the first hour on the easiest difficulty and decide then if I even want to keep playing
sometimes I play strategy games on easy mode as I am a brainlet
just you old man, I'm 34 and I'm still playing on hard
harder difficulty never makes it more fun or challenging it always just makes the experience more tedious
People who say this are incapable of explaining how to make something more challenging AND fun while also NOT making it more tedious. The usual cop-out response to this claim of mine is "hard mode should give the enemies different movesets" or something, but that doesn't explain how a moveset that kills you more frequently wouldn't still qualify as "more tedious."
>I'm allowed to play on easy because I once beat BioShock Infinite!
>I was literally the best gamer you've never met and probably could have one shot a Dark Souls lvl 1 unarmed run
>I die a lot playing on easy mode now because..... uhhhhh.... BECAUSE IM OLD AND VIDEO GAMES AREN'T IMPORTANT OKKKKKK????!?!?
>GET OVER IT CHUD!!!!!!
why do people go online and post boring and pointless blog entries? why do turbo homosexuals here screenshot those boring and pointless blog entries? why is this world so fricking gay?
Bioshock infinite 1999 was way too easy. Even the ghost b***h which is arguably the hardest fight in the game was barely a challenge
No, I play on harder difficulties as I get older. Pattern recognition got much better so it's easier to suss out solutions. I haven't seen any decline in my reaction time to the point where I can't play on hard any more. I don't think you need that much to play games.
>playing on easy mode due to muh time issues
Why not just watch a youtube playthrough of the game at that point? You get the exact same braindead gameplay experience but you also get features such as 1.5x speed and being able to skip the boring gameplay sections
video games are the most brain dead activities how can anyone feel slowing down playing them
What sedentary lifestyle does to a mf.
And what no pussy does to a mf as well.
And they're also playing low effort RPG slop for thousands of hours on top of both of those.
If you played multiplayer (you) didn't beat the game.
In my 40's and always played games on normal or hard, depending on game. If an action game like DMC, I start on Normal and go up to the max difficulty because the point of those games is to replay them on harder difficulties.
For me, it feels more like a "time issue" instead of a "skill issue".
>Be me in my 20s
>Work a shitty retail job
>Occasionally hang out with friends
>Can sustain self of fast food or frozen pizzas thanks to metabolism
>Can power through a day on 4 hours of sleep
>Only have to keep my tiny apartment clean
>Be me in my 30s
>Work a corporate 9-5
>Still occasionally hang out with friends
>Tastes changed and want to eat healthier
>So cook most of my meals which takes more time + more clean up
>Need at least 6 hours of sleep but still feel exhausted
>Have a house and small bit of land to upkeep
>Got into gardening and trying to exercise more
>Also went back to school to try to make a career jump in the new few years
In other words, the amount of free time I have to dedicated to games has decreased as my focuses shifted and I had new needs in life. In my 20s, I didn't mind spending hours upon hours to gitgud, top charts in PvP, or 100% games because I didn't have too much else going on. Now that I'm in my 30s, I want the couple of hours I have here-and-there to feel somewhat productive. So I've grown to favor more casual, easier games even though I still do like being challenged. I still play most games on normal difficulty. And when I do want to play something harder, I wait for a day where I can play completely uninterrupted so I can focus and actual learn to gitgud but those days are few and far between.
It's 100% a time issue, neets still flourish in their 30's but someone with a busy schedule isn't going to have time to keep their vidya skills honed and people that go from one fotm to another are going to play on easy to get through it before the next new game they play 20 hours of before dropping comes out.
Even people that play games all day will think their reflexes have gone to shit if they're mostly playing games that don't require quick reactions, stuff like mobile games and card games come to mind. Then they play one that does require reaction time and they blame being old instead of being "out of shape".
Tank I know in MMO is in his 50 said he doesn't have good reflect like he used to but he tank end game raids. He's software engineer, married, got kids, work full time too.
I play normal modes and if I like the game I'll try hard mode.
Never let your age define your vidya enjoyment. Fight against the tides of time. Strive to be an 80 year old man who can keep up with the youngins in Counterstrike.
Now that I'm older I understand why harder modes exists. When I was a child I played all games on easy because all I cared about was to beat the game. As an old man now I play them all on their hardest difficulty because is just more fun that way. Games are supposed to be challenging in some way if not then they lose their purpose. Just watch a movie instead and stop wasting time playing games just to go through the motions.
>clock ticks
>vidya skills stolen
Why is this allowed?
World of light in smash is actually the gayest sp mode ever made and should be played on easy
Nah
World of light is fricking atrocious but there's still the occasional fun 3~4 star fight
Playing the mode on easy would make it so that every single fight ends in one single hit, basically turning the entire game into a 1 star fight marathon
It shouldn't be played at all
>t. actually beat Abadango once so I'm more authoritative on Smash than you, and never played WoL after like the first eight stages
if its not good dont play it at all.
Nope. 35 and I've felt more inclined to start on the harder modes for a sense of CBT and a good laugh.
No. I'm 34 and on six figures. I will not waste my time on a game which focuses on story. If you're playing something where storymode is an option, then you are a zoomer homosexual playing gay shit.