That's the thing: I enjoy playing on hard if I've beaten the game on easier difficulties. If the game is frustrating on higher difficulties, I don't play it. However, I enjoy the challenge of the Hard difficulty setting.
Why Play On Hard?
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I like challenge, who doesn't?
Dragon Age is unintresting on normal, fun on hard, and great on nightmare, but if I want to switch mid battle the game doesn't punish me. Difficulty should be for its own sake and without reward or punishment, not as a means through which to gain a shiny badge.
Dragon Age is unintresting on normal, fun on hard, and great on nightmare, but if I want to switch mid battle the game doesn't punish me. Difficulty should be for its own sake and without reward or punishment, not as a means through which to gain a shiny badge.
the only game i have ever really played on hard was kh 1-2...i think if i started to play games on hard when i first buy them they will build up my skills as a player, then again kh2 in proud mode i died against 3 enemies only, that centaur thing with the staff at mulans place the toon town cars, and sephiroth. oh god sepiroth. on hard mode...*winces*
In my case, it's usually to make a game interesting again after having beaten it with a crowbar time and again or to unlock cool stuff. I played through RE5 on the hardest difficulty because playing through with all my upgrades/money/knowledge, I saw most foes rolling over in two or three shots and forgot the game was (I think) about tense survival against rather unfriendly odds, which hard mode provided. I actually feared for my AI companion (or it's fatal fuck-ups, which made me restart AGAIN)as if it was a real comrade, my only friend in a land of impending doom.
But then, that's for a "horror" game. (The back of the box leads me to think that fear was the aim) In most cases today, "hard" seems to mean, well, ever played Saint's Row 1? "Challenge" was apparently defined as giving most of your foes RPGs, sending a wal-mart parking lot's worth of well-armed gang (or cop) cars after you, and demanding that you complete an insane, possibly pointless objective. SR 2 was a bit better about it, but that seems to be how "hard" goes. That's my experience, but I think Yahtzee put it best; "...Trying to knock down a brick wall with your forehead...it may give some sense of achievement, which is just as well, because you'd of lost all your other senses by then" (loosely paraphrased)
Games are for fun, not proving one's prowess to the world... unless you find that fun, in which case, congrats?
But then, that's for a "horror" game. (The back of the box leads me to think that fear was the aim) In most cases today, "hard" seems to mean, well, ever played Saint's Row 1? "Challenge" was apparently defined as giving most of your foes RPGs, sending a wal-mart parking lot's worth of well-armed gang (or cop) cars after you, and demanding that you complete an insane, possibly pointless objective. SR 2 was a bit better about it, but that seems to be how "hard" goes. That's my experience, but I think Yahtzee put it best; "...Trying to knock down a brick wall with your forehead...it may give some sense of achievement, which is just as well, because you'd of lost all your other senses by then" (loosely paraphrased)
Games are for fun, not proving one's prowess to the world... unless you find that fun, in which case, congrats?
I play games the hard mode of games to unlock more features and items as well as to have something to use them on.
For example, where on normal difficulty,things such as strength and defense boosting items, many of the fighting moves and the rings of Time and Mahaa-Kalaa are just fun ways to smack around already outclassed opponents,Bayonetta's Hard mode and Infinite Climax necessitates use of all of them to survive...in the case of the latter,that's just on the prologue!
In Ninja Gaiden Black,the only way to see certain weapons and enemy types such as cat women and ogres is to crank up the difficulty. I guess that it wouldn't have sat right with Team Ninja to make weak versions of those monsters. The were upset enough about putting an Easy mode in at all.
After unlocking items and abilities on hard mode in games such as Mass Effect,one can use them to challenge harder difficulty settings or go back to use them in an easier one if for no other reason but to feel invincible with one's superior abilities and finely honed reflexes and strategies that got one through Veteran/Insanity against guys to dumb to duck.
For example, where on normal difficulty,things such as strength and defense boosting items, many of the fighting moves and the rings of Time and Mahaa-Kalaa are just fun ways to smack around already outclassed opponents,Bayonetta's Hard mode and Infinite Climax necessitates use of all of them to survive...in the case of the latter,that's just on the prologue!
In Ninja Gaiden Black,the only way to see certain weapons and enemy types such as cat women and ogres is to crank up the difficulty. I guess that it wouldn't have sat right with Team Ninja to make weak versions of those monsters. The were upset enough about putting an Easy mode in at all.
After unlocking items and abilities on hard mode in games such as Mass Effect,one can use them to challenge harder difficulty settings or go back to use them in an easier one if for no other reason but to feel invincible with one's superior abilities and finely honed reflexes and strategies that got one through Veteran/Insanity against guys to dumb to duck.
Replay value and a good challenge. As long as you don't put it on the retardedly high difficulty setting. I'm currently playing God of War 3 on Titan, for the Trophy, and for a nice challenge.
i never play hard.Sky Captanio said:
mainly im like " im pissed... EAT MY BLADE.
purely because because i like winning... and don't care how hard really... ( indeed, this ,not idiots, is why i don't play MP games,,, i SUCK
I usually like to try and squeeze a few more gamerscore out of my 360 games, while on other games, I'll play on hard for things like New Game + (God of War 2) or some form of power-up or reward (Devil May Cry). Plus, it helps me learn how I'm supposed to play the game and improves my reflexes and all that fun stuff.
Really the only reason for me. I rather play at medium, tough enough not blow through but not FU hard. But still, if I beat it on hardand get that little *blink* it feels so much more worth itSky Captanio said:
Achievements and braging rights. Nothing says "I'm better than you" then actually doing it. I also gives a great feeling of achievement when you finish it.
Normaly I never play on Hard, Insane etc. I always go on easy first time. If it's a story based game over action then I will usually have the difficulty lower eg: HL2, ME2. However raising the difficulty on action games gives it some more replay value.
Normaly I never play on Hard, Insane etc. I always go on easy first time. If it's a story based game over action then I will usually have the difficulty lower eg: HL2, ME2. However raising the difficulty on action games gives it some more replay value.
now thats what i dont get... surely they can just make an ILLUSION of diffulty (enemies that don't like going down... or what system shock 2 did (you teleport to a certain part of the non-linear level, bioshock was very linear so this was no longer a setback) is the best why of making a game hard.Furburt said:
in closing... don't make it mard, just make me THINK it's hard (my favorite moments in game was whenever your about to die and win anyway, but if i lose AT all that games is off the "fun list" for about a day, maybe two.
and again survival crisis z is exempt from complaint, because its ungodly hard, but i LOVE it for all the other stuff (besides, its death aint a setback really, you just go back in time to your last safehouse visit/zone change)
I like playing some games on easy, like DA: O, as I think that if you are 'The best of the best', you shouldn't spend lots of time trying to kill a group of grunts. On the other hand, in KH2, you are a boy defeating ultimate evils, so having a challenge is kind of expected, so yeah, I play on hard if a) I'd enjoy it AND b) If it 'fits'.
Yeah, that is pretty fun.dazed871 said:
Take XIII for example. There is one level, where you MUST, and I repeat MUST, hover above the enemies for roughly 2-3 minutes, listening to their speech about starting an American-only nuclear war, and then, after putting up with them, you jump down, cap 'em all, and waltz out.
The thing is, your guy slowly moves down, not nough to notice until you're seen and the level fails. It is the BIGGEST pain-in-the-ass level in the game apart from the submarine ones, but when you beat it, happiness and satisfaction galore!