It's always funny seeing a mod for a game releasing with a clear 'This is harder than the base game, whatever difficulty you'd normally play on, pick one lower' warning, and half the comments being 'WHY IS THIS SO HARD ON BALLBUSTER MODE!? DEVS FIX THIS NOW, I REFUSE TO CLICK ANYTHING ELSE'. - ThreadSky

dominictarason.com • 1 day ago

It's always funny seeing a mod for a game releasing with a clear 'This is harder than the base game, whatever difficulty you'd normally play on, pick one lower' warning, and half the comments being 'WHY IS THIS SO HARD ON BALLBUSTER MODE!? DEVS FIX THIS NOW, I REFUSE TO CLICK ANYTHING ELSE'.

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8dx.bsky.social•1 day ago

ok, but what if bustin' makes us feel good?

dominictarason.com•1 day ago

8dx.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly, it's fun for the whole family
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NW8LPgv4NK0&pp=ygUNYmFsbGJ1c3RlciBhZA%3D%3D

phorrums.bsky.social•1 day ago

Me playing the Reversed Starcraft (1) mod and the closest thing to a difficulty slider is the game speed setting.

dominictarason.com•1 day ago

Ha, and all the big Starcraft mod streamers play exclusively on hyper-twitchy PRO GAMER SPEED and then act surprised when things turn on a dime.

phorrums.bsky.social•1 day ago

I knoooow I am extremely bad but the speed is so ingrained in the feel of it all that it makes the game feel buggy playing at a slower speed.

dominictarason.com•1 day ago

Also Starcraft 1 just being uncompromising like that is why I recommend Mass Recall over the original. It has real difficulty settings AND a better interface.

martin509.bsky.social•1 day ago

>download modern doom wad
>boot it up on ultra-violence
>it's hard
wtf??

pileup.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same with graphics settings, set everything to ultra-maximum and complain that the game is unoptimized because it doesn't run well on a 1080Ti.

markiemusic.bsky.social•1 day ago

I did exactly this for a mod I released and some of the reviews are exactly what you'd expect. My favorite is the guy saying he even dropped the difficulty and it was still too hard while describing an encounter that only occurs on max difficulty.

https://www.quaddicted.com/db/v1/maps/0d8d13f3c728852fea02b642aeb7367223d31eec259fbaeb01071874b592371b

twilightvulpine.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a bit rough when you are just seeking mods for variety but the difficulty is baked in, starting at hard and going up to "my clenched jaw is bleeding", if there are even options.

By all means I'd love to pick "easy" but sometimes the modder themself thinks that makes those players unworthy.

dominictarason.com•1 day ago

So many gamers seem to have unhealthy relationships with difficulty. They will actively choose to hurt themselves. Literally pick the 'make my life miserable' option and then immediately lash out, making it everyone else's problem.

Especially singleplayer games. Nobody's judging you. Play on Easy.

jukek.bsky.social•1 day ago

Something I wish for in any game, is a little pop up "Hey, this is the intended difficulty the game was designed for" like Alien Isolation or how Pathologic 2 does it with its customizable difficulty and it's "Imago" mode, which is the intended experience.

dominictarason.com•1 day ago

Yeah, it's nice to know what's the baseline. The whole Halo series mention that Heroic is where you want to start if you're familiar with the genre.

tateer-railcar.bsky.social•1 day ago

play geo mythica

beetlenaut.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I would use a game genie on every single game if I could

junegloom.bsky.social•1 day ago

doom community play on something else besides ultraviolence challenge (impossible)

dominictarason.com•1 day ago

UV-max no saves pistol starts only

junegloom.bsky.social•1 day ago

doing that while blind playing plutonia then posting multiple threads on doomworld complaining about how you don't understand what others see in it

(yes this happened)

dominictarason.com•1 day ago

I am reminded of Godless Night and its EXTREMELY good difficulty selection, giving you a point of reference for how tough each mode is, compared to popular mods.

The lowest setting is 'Vanilla Doom 2 on UV'.

dominic11b4.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, buddy, you're playing a feature that marks you as someone who shows enough interest to seek a feature that most people won't go near made by extreme enthusiasts.

Crank down the dial because the baseline difficulty isn't calibrated for the general public.

reptilianvladeoz.bsky.social•22 hours ago

But then I don't get a cool achievement I can showcase in my profile for beating the game on ball busting difficulty!

thatspacepirate.bsky.social•1 day ago

Play on what's comfortable first, then when you want more of the game, crank the difficulty up!

edditaur.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I remember when Repentance came out for Isaac and I was having a little trouble at first until the dev recommended you start the game at normal to reacquaint yourself with the gameplay. I listened to that and it was genuinely the best advice I’d ever followed. I actually improved because of that

slamsriffscheats.bsky.social•1 day ago

I just want to have fun. Sometimes that means cranking the difficulty up, sometimes that means playing on a lower difficulty. One should always adjust this to the game and the intended experience.

gamingcopywriter.bsky.social•1 day ago

I remember someone leaving a negative Steam review saying:
"Why is this metroidvania so hard?"

The game in question is a precision platformer 😂
Was advertised as a precision platformer.
And it literally has "Precision Platformer" and "Difficult" in its Steam tags.

lukako.bsky.social•1 day ago

I pick insane on Shining Force 3 and go, oh I have to grind for a few hours to get past the first battle? This is awesome

bisky.alyxxtherat.com•1 day ago

RPG difficulty is a different beast.

bagofstardust.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am intimately aware of how annoying it is when a gamer chooses a low difficulty setting and then complains its not hard enough. It's the easy mode, if you want hard do the hard mode it exists ahhhhhh!

beamsplashx.bsky.social•1 day ago

yeah whenever there's a hard game and one downside mentioned about adding difficulty options is "people will choose too high a difficulty out of ego", my response is that difficulty options are not designed to fix humanity

bisky.alyxxtherat.com•1 day ago

I play on hard cause I enjoy the challenge but yeah if it just pisses you off then you shouldn't.

yoh4948.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Gmanlives’ review of Sigil that he eventually deleted

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