You can say “it’s skill issue” or whatever, but I’ve noticed that even when I’m playing some single-player games on easy mode, I’m still being challenged and losing several times, so I avoid playing on normal or hard mode so I don’t end up hating the game.
I’ve already put myself through extremely challenging game modes over the years, like playing Bioshock Infinite on 1999 mode and The Evil Within 2 on Nightmare mode. Even then, some gamers would say “wait till you experience Dark Souls”…. Well, I already know I can build the skill to adapt to a very challenging gaming experience and I’m at a point in life where I don’t want to spend many hours just to beat one boss. I’m happily an easy mode single-player now.
must suck to be noob
You do you. I always stick it on hardest difficulty because make pp feel big.
you're just shit at games
do you want an award or something?
Humiliation ritual thread
I'm 36 yo and usually too busy to play as much vidya as I used to. I don't go for easy mode, but stick to normal. I wanna feel like I'm making progress every time I take a break.
I'm so grateful I don't care about soulslike in the slightest. Played through DeS back when it released and didn't find it as satisfying as people said at the time.
I just want to interrupt the thread to say I never killed the drake in that section. I know he drops a cool sword or whatever, but in a world where drakes are seemingly endangered after being hunted for sport in the past, I find it hard to choose anything but compassion.
Yeah when you realise you can just bruteforce skill acquisition by throwing many hours at it and really you can learn anything in life this way, the appeal of challenging video games somehow takes a nosedive. I think it's because the mystique of the "can I do this and prove my worth?" wears off. You already know for certain that you can after you've done it so many times, so what you're left with is "is this worth the investment of time to develop the requisite level of skill" and the answer is invariably no since some other video game will provide you with the same or better entertainment value for a fraction of the time investment
counterpoint
why is that in rag to riches games that have a distinctive hobo phase, the game takes a nosedive in the fun department immediately after you get out of the hobo phase - unless you give yourself self imposed challenges
>why is that in rag to riches games that have a distinctive hobo phase, the game takes a nosedive in the fun department immediately after you get out of the hobo phase - unless you give yourself self imposed challenges
This doesnt happen.
>This doesnt happen
my experience with stalker cop, neo scavenger and similar games says otherwise
it also applies to fricking dark souls and grandstrat games in my case
i'm far to being the only person like that, either
that makes sense
No one cares about your ~~*experiences*~~ queer
Ignore that rude Anon, I care 🙂
thank you, polite anon.
The brain releases more dopamine in anticipation of a reward than upon actually getting it
Yeah this is how I feel about everything in life, I know I could just be an oncologist if I studied so what's the point. People die anyways so no big deal if we treat shit like cancer. Anyways gotta get going it's taco Tuesday and my mom just yelled down the stairs to tell me it's ready
>I know I could just be an oncologist if I studied so what's the point
but you don't though, the point you're responding to was that playing 30 different hardgaems eventually makes you realise there's nothing special about them, you can't play 30 different oncologies there's only one and it takes a substantially longer time investment to get good at than 20 hours in dark souls
That's great, but you're still a homosexual. No challenge = boring as frick. Might as well just ask the game to play for you.
OP is a gay, what else is new
28yo boomer here and i feel the same. Lately I've been getting into Paradox games and that sense and feeling of challenge returned. Feels good. Don't tell me that paradox games are easy because they really are not, you need hundreds of hours to just learn the basics.
paracucks games are incredibly hard to learn and easy to master. as vast as an ocean and shallower than a puddle
They are worth putting time into. They are incredibly rewarding.
>I’m still being challenged and losing several times on easy mode.
You don't have unpopular opinion, you have opinion of moronic person which is naturally different from normal person. So this thread is not about videogames or unpopular opinions but about you being moron, therefore offtopic. Go attention whoring somewhere else.
>keep inventory after death
>creepers no longer vanishes blocks and items after explosion
>phantoms don't spawn
>pillager neither
>pvp and griefing disable
Yup, it is gaming time!
you should play video games however you like
the people that like hard games are ones that find a victory that's just handed to you to be a hollow one
if you can just press x over and over and win without skill or effort then what's the point of doing it at all? just watch a movie if you want an effortless experience
Games fundamentally, are not hard.
Depends on the game.
>play STALKER on easy mode
>enemies never die even if you shoot them 100 times
>play STALKER on master mode
>enemies die when you shoot them
Eh depends on the game. In some "hard" mode is just tedious and doesn't really add any challenge.
this is a reddit repost
OP already made a thread about it yesterday