Thread 717470582

>American version of a game
>"Medium" difficulty is "Easy" for other regions

Why was this so common in the 90s?

>>717470582 (OP)
Huh?

>>717470649
fpbp /thread

>>717470582 (OP)
Culture, Japan was more hardcore into videogames around 199* era. That’s why some Mario games were less punishing and one literally not coming out in the USA because of that

>>717470582 (OP)
I remember reading that in the earlier resident evil games they actually made them harder in the US version to make it so that people couldn't complete the game if they rented it so instead they had to buy it

>>717470582 (OP)
name 3
most games were harder in america, like battletoads and ninja gaiden 3

>>717470582 (OP)
about to start rebirth and setting it in easy mode

dmc 3 was rereleased harder in america
dark souls had to cut the souls it gave you in half in the us version post 1.0
japanese strategy games had to introduce difficulty modes and easy was too hard for the japanese customers and hard was too easy for the american customers they were both for too easy for both the japanese and american gamers
the fuck are you talking about faggOP?

>>717471020
>>717471158
Persona had the encounter rate reduced to 1/3 and XP tripled in the US

>>717470582 (OP)
I always choose medium/normal because that's what the game is balanced around.
If you choose Hard you're gonna end up with balancing problems and tedium multipliers that ruin gameplay experience.

>>717471456
That's not a difficulty decrease, it's just a pointless tedium decrease.

>>717471737
actually halo is balanced around hard (there is also very hard) think hard was called heroic
god of war ps2 games are balanced around the hardest mode that is unlocked after beating the game, needs you to be adept at using everything the game gives you tactically

>>717470582 (OP)
Localizers make all sorts of changes because they think it's funny.
Normally they made them harder though because they were angry that people were renting games instead of buying them. It was basically a "FUCK YOU" to every single consumer in the west.
>>717471020
Jap Ninja Gaiden 3 on the NES is better than the first 2 combined.
They really butchered it in the USA.

>>717470991
It took me fucking forever to beat the original RE1 as a kid. Think I was 10 or so. I must have died a hundred times on my first playthrough I swear to God I still remember how stingy that game was with resources.

>>717471737
This.
Only rare instances of games with difficulty (MGS2 onwards, DOOM) are balanced for the higher difficulties.

>>717474485
no way is that ray fight balanced around harder difficult in mgs2

Castlevania 3 is harder in the US than everywhere else. Seems like you could get just as many examples one way as the other.

>>717474568
>ray fight
It's not that bad, it's the fucking torture scene afterwards that trips me up on the PS2 original.

this is a funny topic.
working designs was a publisher that would bring japanese games, mostly segas weeb games, to the west, giving them a serviceable localization and up the difficulty to make it not be a cakewalk and bore you to death.
nearly every game published by them has had the difficulty modded back to the original japanese version's cause weebs cant handle the difficulty and claim "this is a chill game to relax to while playing with cute waifus"
makes me kek everytime

>>717471737
>muh tedium muh inflated health cope
The battle cry of the shitter. You can cope all you want and say shit like "b-but normal is the intended experience", but the target audience is dumb as fuck and bad at games, and nobody that is neither of those things has fun steamrolling tard mode.

Because Americans are retarded subhumans unlike us based Latinos.