>play game
>it's too hard
how do you cope?

I keep playing until it gets easy, it's fun

Lower the difficulty until you get good? It's not like you're streaming your lack of skill to the entire world.

>>717063879
>soulslike
>lower the difficulty

>>717063787 (OP)
I can't really think of a game that I played that was "too hard"
I have played games that were too complex for me to want to put in the effort to learn them. Examples are Dorf Fort and Factario, but it is not like they require mechanical skill. It is just a lot of playtime (or reading wikis/guides) to understand how it works.

I git fuckin gud

>>717063906
aka finding/googline a cheese

>>717063906
Souls games don't add a generic "raise/lower the HP and damage" difficulty slider because they let you set the difficulty yourself.

>using summons
>using meta weapons
>grinding souls
>abusing the AI to instantly kill poorly coded bosses

>>717063787 (OP)
try again or accept the defeat and move on

fucking tower climb man, too hard and autistic for little me

>>717063906
>>717063879
the skeletons in the graveyard kept killing me though

>>717063912
>or reading wikis/guides
if you're not smart enough to derive the info in the guide on a desert island, the game is too hard for you and you cheated

>>717063787 (OP)
>ayyyy my animation locked game is soooooo hard you must learn my ….89s attack delay while you ejaculate with your left toe

>>717063787 (OP)
No ned to cope, learn from better players.

either find a way to cheese it or brute force and play over and over until i figure out exactly where to move and fight

>>717063787 (OP)
by learning the game
it's called "getting good", but that's some kind of blasphemy these days
.
.
.
invade MY gamesphere and expect IT to coform to YOUR bs.......
just
don't
leave it alone

>>717063787 (OP)
simple as

>>717066868
so you could be a chess GM if you wanted?

>>717066868
you're going against the natural order..

>>717066957
it's all cheese strats these days, anyway
the purity is gone

>>717063787 (OP)
I simply drop the game.
I could probably beat Sekiro with enough time and dedication but I wasn't having fun.

>>717067040
that's how i felt with Bloodborne, but then i actually PLAYED Blooodborne
fucking love that game

>>717067176
werewolf tricked me tho. Gotta play it again again
that cocksuck

>play game
>it's too hard
>play it for 100 hours
>know every quirk of the game
>it's so easy it's boring
>think the game is actually poorly designed and not fun because it's so easy
>quit
Happened to the last 2 games I played. Am I just too old for games?

>>717067176
I originally dropped bloodborne too because it was getting a bit too fast and difficult for me (got stuck on the blood starved beast lol)
Then my mother passed away and I had nothing to do to take my mind off of it and just threw myself into the game. All the motherly themes in the game tore me up inside but now it's one of my favorite games of all time.

>>717067270
I don't think old people put 100+ hours into games, on average. Maybe you're just too 'sticky' for games. If you want to put a bunch of time into a game and for it to challenge you, maybe games with a long track record, like chess or poker would be a better fit. Or esports like counterstrike.

>>717067270
You just need to realize mastering a game doesn't make it an easy game, it makes you skilled at it. You've forgotten your difficulties when you first started, and you don't see the solutions as actually good game design.
Math isn't shit because the solutions are logical. Games are designed to be beaten. If they weren't, then they would be shit.

>>717067289
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tAGnKpE4NCI&pp
sorry bout your Mom. Lost mine a couple years ago too
But fuck everything. nothing else matters but what YOU MAKE MATTER
the games they play
nothing
what they say
what they do
it's all nothing
your Mom and mine would call us pussies for thinking otherwise

>>717063787 (OP)
I'm not going to lie, I'm still bothered that he didn't leap back

>>717063787 (OP)
>how do you cope?

Unironically get good.
I'm sympathetic to the people who say games should be easy because they're toys, that's completely valid and objectively true, the "delayed reward" people are also 100% correct though. You have to ask yourself what you're willing to put up with though - I beat Malenia 3 times, on 3 different characters, in Elden Ring because I fucking love Elden Ring, but there's no way in shit I'd put that much work into some random game I wasn't attached to.

Stellaris is a different example of this situation: every other year they release a patch that makes the game completely fucking different. Recently, they released a patch that changed everything about how population/workers/the economy works and I had to sit my ass down and watch a fucking tutorial. I had to take a vocational online course for Stellaris.
I don't even know if I like Stellaris "that much", but I can't stop now.

>>717067635
Ma never held back tho. She'd tell you, whether or not you wanted to hear it or not
fuck, i miss my Ma

>>717068296
nah, i have no sympathy for them. Games are tough and obscure and they shouldve always been so. But you cant stop people from ruining everything by hacking or complaining
They should've never bothered picking up vidya if all they wanted was for vidya to play itself
but that's where we are cause normalfags just have to ruin everyrhing
they just can't help themselves. it's am impulse they can't ignore cause they're impulsive zombies. Just like they've always been

>>717063787 (OP)
I got a lot of friends in the FGC and myself with a hand condition that part of how it manifests itself is my hands aren't dexterous enough to put in DP inputs even with 10s of hours of practice (I also essentially have 200 ms extra ping from the condition for other genres).

Let's just say there's been a lot of bitching, moping, and depression regarding just not physically being able to do it. You don't cope you just numb yourself to the pain.

>>717063787 (OP)
i beat the game out of spite. eventually when i get good, i start to play out of pure enjoyment even when i lose. i used to hate pic related passionately, now i consider it one of my favorites

>>717069069
Or you could just play fantasy strike.

I dont cope, I uninstall and move on with my life.

>>717069020
they just can't help themselves
oh, they'll make fun of crakcheads and methheads, but will rufuse and straight up deny that they're exactly the same and seek things that confirm their biases

>>717068296
i have't played stellaris since they forced hyperlanes to be the only travel option. i can't imagine how much more has changed since then

>>717069132
I'll pass the appeal is bettering yourself with your friends and this looks like kusoge.

>>717063787 (OP)
no need to cope, i'd be very happy

>>717063787 (OP)
If the game is too hard, I have to make a hard decision. Do I want to get better at it, would it be fun enough in mechanics to learn, or would it be ultimately unfun and unrewarding in the end? If it's gonna be engaging to get better at with a killer story, then I can see sticking around. But if it's a slog of a game that gives no good rewards for mastering it's mechanics, or even worse, a game with mechanics that don't even matter because the optimal strategy is just gorilla fisting, then I don't feel too bad about dipping out and spending my precious time on something I am gonna enjoy.

>>717063787 (OP)
I don't cope. I usually just get progressively more sad until I decide to "take a break" and play something else for "just a little bit" (I never pick it up again)

>>717063787 (OP)
I drop it. if I don't get it in the first hour it means it's not for me. it only happened a couple of times so far. you can't be good at every genre.

>>717069598
holy fucking BASED

>>717063787 (OP)
When I open a racing game and it has an unskippable warning telling me not to try it IRL I feel like I'm playing a game made exclusively for retards

>>717063787 (OP)
Perseverance.

>>717063787 (OP)
I think the only time this ever happened was rain world, which I quit and picked back up a few months later

>>717063787 (OP)

>>717071519
if you preserved why did you uninstall?

>>717063787 (OP)
This has never happened to me. Im in general good at all games but dont excel in anything. Which sucks balls since I can make a career out of being really good at a single game.

>>717073898
try ufo50 lots of golds

>>717063787 (OP)
By modding it
>playing lies of P before difficuilty options
>"parry" and "HP regain" system are halfassed and straight up copied in the worst way possible from Souls games
>Had to mod window, damage and HP to make it actually useful and worth doing
>Finally have fun
>still drop it near the end because its still korean trash

>>717075618
test

>>717067348
A difficult game remains challenging no matter how much you play it.
If a game becomes easy after beating it once or twice, it just means it has knowledge checks (artificial difficulty).

>>717078442
icles

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