>Game calls you a pussy for choosing the easiest difficulty

as it should
if you dont want to engage with the videogame why don't you read a book or watch a movie?
those media have no barrier to entry

Good

>>712522692 (OP)
God Hand.

>>712522692 (OP)
>game shits all over your opinion and puts you on the hardest difficulty no matter what you select

>>712522692 (OP)
No one does this anymore, even ninja gaiden bent the knee retroactively changing ninja dog to 'hero mode' including in the latest reddit gaiden 4

I don't understand why Doom changed its easiest setting name but in my schizo brain I know it has something to do with Gaza and the genocide of Palestinian children.

>>712522692 (OP)
As god intended

>>712522692 (OP)
Good

>>712522692 (OP)
>game's easy mode is called "accessible"

honestly, if i made a game based around a specific difficulty and for whatever reason had to make a nerfed version of it, i'd call anyone who plays it like that a pussy too

>>712527546
That is why you aren't a dev.
You would make games for a very specific audience that is not large enough to support the project.
You would put yourself in a position to fail and do just that.

>>712522692 (OP)
>Game calls you a sissy for using cheat codes
>Game sarcastically calls you Jesus for playing it non violently
>Game calls you a psycopath for playing it as intended

Which modern games do that?
Anyway, I would just not put an easy mode. For me it's
>Normal - the game is balanced around this, you are meant to play it on your first playthrough and learn its ins and outs, but you aren't forced to
>Hard - everything is designed to kill you as soon as you start, very few or no mistakes allowed at all, the game won't hand you any free win short of playing extremely well, not 100% optimal but you have to know what you are doing
Everything else is bloat.

>>712528413
Wolfenstein games I think

>>712522692 (OP)
That's hecking problematic!

>>712522895
Nooooo making me try at all is literally a hate crime

>>712528413
I don't understand why anyone would play on anything lower than normal. Normal IS easy mode playing for intended experience before going to higher difficulty levels that make you try. Why would someone even play a game if they don't want to actually play the video game?

>game calls you a tryhard for choosing highest difficulty

>>712529270
I dropped to easy mode in Avowed in some instances because I avoided all side content so I was very underlevelled.On hard and even normal difficulty shit took forever to kill.Easy in my case felt like Hard mode in an average modern game.

i never choose the easiest cause i don't want to be bored while playing

>>712529270
>Why would someone even play a game if they don't want to actually play the video game?
A mix of power fantasy and escapism where they just want to feel like a badass protag kicking ass while exploring cool places, as well as people tying their identity to vidya despite not actually liking to play them for various reasons(e.g. journos).

The issue is that the meaning of "videogame" nowadays hardly has anything to do with "game", it doesn't need precise rules, hell it doesn't even need fail states, the minimum requirement is making it interactive and with the purpose of entertainment.

>game uninstalls itself if you lose

>>712522692 (OP)
>game tells you it's suicide if you choose the hardest difficulty

>>712522895
>Implying some movies/shows don't have difficulty

>>712529708
The problem here is that you played Avowed

FACTNVKE: All games should force you to play on hardest difficulty but you can lower various difficulty options by injecting estrogen.
Even in Dark Souls for instance, kindling bonfires requires 1 estrogen shot per bonfire.

Easy mode use the same game but scrub enemies don't take half your health pool when hit.

Easy is true realistic difficulty

Games should be balanced around the hardest or second hardest difficulty. If you're interested in making the game easy you don't care if the game is unbalanced in your favor.