Thread 723020949

There's no reason to lock harder difficulties on the first playthrough. I don't understand why so many games do that

Name a single recent game that has done so

>>723021224
Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart

>Harder difficulties are locked because they are literally only possible to complete with NG+ stats
Aaaand dropped

>>723020949 (OP)
Most harder difficulties are made with the idea that the player is already familiar and experienced with the game to some degree. RE7’s hardest difficulty, remixes item locations, has the harder enemies show up earlier, etc.

>>723020949 (OP)
Because stupid people will pick them and then complain when they lose.

>>723021224
prime remaster

>>723021224
metaphor

>>723020949 (OP)
>I don't understand why so many games do that
crybaby customers, same deal with yellow paint
squeaky wheel gets the grease and all that

>>723020949 (OP)
majority of the games that do this have the locked difficulty balanced for NG+ where you have your entire endgame skillset from the start
>just let me have everything unlocked at the start of a first playthrough
no

>>723023354
name 3

>>723024108
Godhand did that and everyone loved it

>>723020949 (OP)
it's because of game journalists
normal people have the sense to pick the difficulty they want, but if journalists saw the hardest difficulty they might pick it and give the game a low score. or the fact that the hardest difficulty exists would make them feel insulted for playing on easy, so they would give the game a low score

>>723020949 (OP)
>New player sets game to hardest difficulty
>Gets frustrated because of difficulty
>Refunds the game, leaves a bad review, tells others not to buy the game thus affecting sales

For any question you have about why games are worse than they could be the answer is because of the bottom 10% of humanity.

>>723024339
That's made up, journalists play on easiest because they hate video games and just want to finish their wagie cuck job as soon as possible so any difficulty makes them have to work harder for the same pay

>>723021224
Elden Ring

>>723020949 (OP)
I'm not gonna play a game twice

>>723021224
Ninja Gaiden Ragebound before they updated it

>>723024450
Good. Games should have no difficulty settings and no tutorials.

>>723021695
based