Thread 725200602

>>725200602 (OP)
>taking breaks
Couldn't be me. I just keep building towards an aneurysm until I beat it.

Difficultyfags be like "yeah it took me a week and over 200 deaths on this one boas but it's easy once you know what to do. Honestly don't see what people are complaining about they must be bad at games."

>>725200602 (OP)
Why does the idea of maybe taking a break if you're having difficulty with a stage to come back to it with a clear head later make this person so assblasted?

>>725200938
Maybe you should take a break and you'll figure it out.

what if it's just hard as fuck and i spend 2 hours on a boss that should take 5 minutes? what then?

>NO! I NEED T OBEAT IT NOW OR I'LL GET LEFT BEHIND
>NO! SLOPPITY SLOP 7 IS OUT NEXT WEEK!
>NOOOO! NOOOOO!
You don't even like video games.

>>725201234
You're getting a bit riled up, try taking a break.

I find the genre of making seethe images over one person you dislike droll.
Perhaps I will take a break.

>>725201143
Yeah I thought again and I realized that OP is a faggot

>>725200602 (OP)
i don't take breaks and

Difficult games are dogshit for mentally ill people.
I have been saying this since the 80s and have only been proven more correct as time has gone on since literally everyone that has to maintain a company has moved on from "charge the player money for dying" design.

The Souls games are piss easy if you study their systems so don't pretend for a second that those count either.

>>725200836
My first Fatalis (IB) solo took like 3 days.
On my second playthrough a few years later, I beat him first try and even did the Old Fatalis mod easily

So yes, I don't see what people are complaining about they must be bad at games

I will take a break and come back to /v/ later.

>>725200602 (OP)
This. I have difficulty slop fatigue.

>>725201427
Remember, if unsure about an opinion always assume that op=faggot.

>>725200602 (OP)
Sometimes your brain figures the gimmicks out after you sleep and process everything you learned that day.

>>725200602 (OP)
Literally me.

>>725200602 (OP)
When I first played Ys Origin's Toal route on Nightmare, I was stuck on two bosses for hours. I took a break and came back the next day and beat them within a few attempts. It was fun.

>>725200602 (OP)
I've never heard anyone say any of these things when talking about difficult games.

>>725201632
Maybe take a break if you're unsure

>>725200602 (OP)
This isn't even that bad of a caricature. You could make a far worse depiction of "difficulty gamers."
>Hasn't beaten the game but engages in discourse around the game
>If someone has criticism for the game, the "difficulty gamer" will claim the critic has "skill issue" (even if the critic has 100% completion)
>"difficulty gamer" but the game isn't even difficult at all
>"difficulty gamer" but the game they play is so easy that they have to create self-imposed challenges for it

>>725201953
>uses the phrase "the dark souls of X"

>>725201497
>Souls games are easy if you actually learn how to play the game
That's nice and all but most of the people clamoring for easy modes these days don't want to actually interact with the game at all, so your example of what makes the games "easy" is still too much work for them. Every new Souls release brings a wave of people getting mad about there being no easy mode and saying that all games should have an easy mode to make them accessible

>>725200602 (OP)
i love that this image was meant to be a strawman but just makes the portrayed person look levelheaded and emotionally mature

>>725201953
>(even if the critic has 100% completion)
What does completion have to do with a skill issue? Completion is just whether you've completed the content or not, has nothing to do with how well you completed it. A guy that spent 100 hours completing the game because he got stuck for hours on every boss is objectively a less skilled player than someone that beat the game in 20 hours because he beat the bosses quicker.

>>725201490
anon??
ANON????

>>725200602 (OP)
Literal breaks like stepping away from the game to reflect on how you've been playing? or stop bashing your head against the wall and get more upgrades or better understanding of the gameplay?

probably the most blizzard image i have stumbled upon in this website
whom does this pic mock?

>>725200671
Try finishing arma cold war crisis that way

>>725200938
because this image was made by a physically impaired retard who got angry that others can have fun with challenge, while he is forever raped and only relies on dopamine hit based game design.

probably "plays" gachas too, the clown

>>725200602 (OP)
This doesn't make sense.

>>725200602 (OP)
Unironically good advice, especially for any pvp multiplayer game.

>>725200602 (OP)
LETS FOCKING GO

>>725201745
lol

>>725201547
>Worldsperm
You didn't beat Fatalis.
https://myrient.erista.me/files/Redump/Sony%20-%20PlayStation%20Portable/?C=S&O=A
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).zip
https://www.ppsspp.org/
Get crackin', bitch.

>>725202263
I don't know how else to concisely describe what I'm saying. But there are people on reddit that haven't beaten their "difficulty game" because they're so trash, and will deflect every complaint about the game as "skill issue" despite whatever the complaint may be. You could criticize the music of a difficulty game and some redditor that has never beaten the game will say "skill issue."

>>725200602 (OP)
Explain what's wrong with this image without using a strawman.

>>725203050
It insists upon itself.

>>725200671
fpbp
OP probably thinks IWKTK3 is hard

>>725200602 (OP)
As much as it's a storied 4chan tradition, I was never convinced drawing a picture of an imaginary person next to words someone said that triggered the artist actually invalidates the words themselves. Also taking breaks works for me, legitimately

>>725203050
harping on the fact that some people tell others to take a break with a game if they're such babies as to get frustrated, is not a valuable or intelligent, or even logical critique.

the image itself is a strawman

>>725202712
>Freedom Unite
lmao
if you can't solo MH1 fatalis you're a scrub who should just quit the series for good
this is what MH fans really sound like btw and i am one

>>725204005
If you don't crack open the beta for MH1 which has the full base game on it that nobody has ever actually properly datamined, load in the earliest known version of Fatalis, and then beat him with the beta gear, you should probably just kill yourself now.
(Yeah I know I just need more people to play Freedom Unite)
(I'm serious about the Beta thing though and I'm going to start working on it soon)

>>725200602 (OP)
Reminder that this was made by some dude on Reddit who kept getting his ass kicked in Silksong.

>>725200602 (OP)
I like games that feel like a power fantasy. I want to be a badass warlord cruising skulls, not a weakling struggling to survive every encounter

>>725201745
>I've never heard anyone
That's more like it

>>725201745
omg teh rei

>>725200602 (OP)
I look like this and say this

>>725200602 (OP)
You have never played a genuinely difficult game.

>>725200602 (OP)
Best meme 2025 nominee. It's actually true and I can't be the only one who needed to see it.

In hindsight, the "git gud" mentality was a disaster for games as a whole

>>725205376
You'll be a badass warlord crushing skulls after you GET GOOD. But you can't get good. Because you're weak. You can't survive, you can't play with the big dogs.

>>725200602 (OP)
>Make a game difficult
>Now immune to all criticisms because you clearly just need to git gud lmao fuck u scrub

>>725200836
>200 deaths at one boss
This is inexcusable unless the fight requires near-perfect RNG (like some JRPG secret superbosses). Slow reflexes aren't an excuse for that many deaths, because you should already have created a fool proof strategy long before reaching 20 deaths, much less 200.

>>725200836
>boas
LOL! You having trouble fighting a snake?! LOL!

>>725205376
>>725206039
An RPG with level scaling means that no matter how strong you get every fight will feel exactly the same as fighting when you were level 1, just with flashier effects this time.

>>725202712
Nigga I've beaten Frontier up to Z Rank, I didn't start with World

>>725206138
>level scaling
Bad design, don't play that slop.

>>725206118
Alexander please leave

>>725200938
Because what part of having fun with a game involves you deliberately choosing to stop playing it in order to have fun?

>>725202190
It doesn't.
It makes them look like a poser that likes to orbit around a game, but not actually play it.

>>725200938
because "take a break, lol" isn't an actual rebuttal to criticism of a game being too hard for the sake of it to make up for a lack of actual depth. it's the same reason ER bosses get shit on so much, bosses charging attacks for 7 years only to unleash them the exact frame you push a button is just tedious and annoying, not challenging.

>>725200602 (OP)
I just enjoy improving myself and overcoming challenges. In video games.

>>725200602 (OP)
True chads dont take breaks. You die over and over again on the hardest difficulty until you win. Your "Break" is the end of the session when life demands you have to do something else temporarily

>>725207007
Soulsdrones made the bed by yelling "HURR DURR GIT GUUUD" and buying fully into the marketing thinking anyone but themselves gave a shit they beat the game, resulting in an unending spiral of increasingly retarded challenge runs and "you didn't beat the game".
They got everything they asked for.

>>725200671
based vidya enjooyer

>>725200602 (OP)
>not enough time
>i just don't have enough time
>there isn't enough time to do this
>i tried but didn't have enough time
>got pretty far but then i ran out of time
>might come back to this later but for right now i just don't have the time

>>725207553
Don't forget the most common one
>this game is shit, it doesn't respect my time

>>725202190
maybe if you're low T lmao

>>725206103
that's really the issue, midwits look at a difficult game and are too scared to criticize it and lash out at anyone brave enough to do so.

>>725200602 (OP)
NAS niggercoal

>>725200602 (OP)
No strong feelings on that. I tend to come back later after I've finished some optional stuff in the game.

>>725207851
high testosterone males do not play journalist difficulty babby walking simulators, faggot-kun.

>>725200602 (OP)
>lol he takes breaks from gaming, couldn't be ne lol

Anon YOU ARE SHITTING YOURSELF

>>725208291
IAS ARYANGEM

>>725207007
If someone is telling you to take a break it's not because there's some magic improvement that requires background cognition.
It's because you're getting emotional and burnt out and have both stopped learning and stopped performing.

>>725205906
Never finished that one. Favorite character is the dolphin.

It's hilarious to me that the basic idea behind git gud is completely lost on people now
You have to spend time doing the thing
I can tell you all the proper steps and show you the proper form for throwing a ball, but you're still gonna fuck it up a lot before you get it right.

>I PERSONALLY MUST BE ABLE TO REACH THE CREDITS IN EVERY VIDEO GAME
why? if you don't like the game then stop playing

>>725209382
Games are designed to be beaten.

>>725209483
Check achievement/trophy stats for literally any game and come back

>>725209483
They are designed to be played, beating them depends on you, not on the game.

>>725208789
Only noobs and pleb secondaries abandon ship to shit

>>725208789
MOOOOOOOM

>>725209602
>at least 1 person beat the game
Games are designed for that.

Someone make a comic like one guy who hasn't beaten the game is telling someone who has they're filtered.

>>725200602 (OP)
Elden Ring solved this btw

>>725206663
Just because you take a break from one game doesn't mean you take a break from playing all games. Me and my friends would play cs after a few rounds of dota to chill and "reset".

>>725209702
But I don't want to shit myself.

>>725203050
Ever have so much fun with a game that you enjoy not playing it?

>>725210068
Elden ring is a shitty parody of past soula games. The bosses got so flanderized it's unreal.

>>725200602 (OP)
Taking breaks helped me beat baba is you

>>725210087
This is you >>725200602 (OP)

Get out of here break taker, shit your pants or begone.

>virgin credit reachers
>skips cutscenes
>doesn't engage with mechanics
>unga bunga's on Normal
>can't into enemy patterns

>chad achievement hunters
>listen to every NPC and gets every enemy down on the bestiary
>masters mechanics on Very Hard, to get that hitless run achievement
>knows every part of the map down to the collectables

>I'm supposed to hate the cheevo hunter, because they want pseudo rewards, in a medium that's all about handing out pseudo rewards

>>725210086
DOTA is cancer and brain poison, so I don't see how this is meant to be a defense of the idea.

>>725210407
It's so over for me, isn't it?

>>725210493
>deflection
hmm

>>725210410
My friend turned into this. Huge playstation trophy fag. He introduced me to dmc and tales of the abyss back in the day. Now he just 100%s baby games for toddlers just for the trophies.

>>725200602 (OP)
nfs the run on extreme was some of the most fun i've had on a difficult mode
there is only just enough time to hit each checkpoint and it grabs you by the dick each time

>>725210579
>my friends and I took breaks from playing this miserable game we nursed an addiction to so we didn't totally lose our minds
>this means that 'just take a break' as a defense for bullshit game design is good advice
Even gambling addicts know to cycle their time at the casino with stuff like drinking and whoring.

>>725200602 (OP)
My last two played games are Dodonpachi and Animal crossing

>>725210763
I think farming trophies like that is entirely different from doing every alternative challenge in an action game. I know of the people that just look for Free/Cheap/Quick games just to get achievements, but I'm more referring to people who do the hardest mode on DMC, or kill the Skeleton Superbosses in Symphonia.

I'm even 50/50 on "Kill X amount of Y" achievements if it's something that takes more than one playthrough. Or free roam collectables, only okay if the traversal is fun (like Spiderman or Saints Row 4).

>>725200602 (OP)
They also say all this while playing the most casual-friendly games in the genre.

>>725200602 (OP)
I dont enjoy barreling through every level / boss on attempt #1. Its not engaging if i dont have to try. I dont like being stuck on a level or more than a couple days but if i like game enough ill stick it out and do it. Ending d of dod3 took me months and i did it, hardest shit i ever did in a game and ive played all the soulsbornes except ds3

>>725206104
You've never played a bullet hell I see

>>725214110
correct, I'm not an acne ridden perma virgin playing autism bait bullshit

>>725210086
>Just because you take a break from one game doesn't mean you take a break from playing all games.
That's even more retarded. You play a game until you're done with it.

>>725200602 (OP)
Dark Souls ruined gaming for a whole generation. We're just barely clawing our way out of that pit

Any truly difficult games come out recently? I've played Silksong, Hades 2 and I want more. Latest MH was a bit of a disappointment.

>>725200836
It was funny for me back when Elden Ring was the new hot thing, some pajeet posted videos claiming X or Y boss wasn't hard and he was dodge rolling everything perfectly timed and what not.... like bro, how long did it take you to master that for that bullshit video? That is not your first attempt kek. I'm sure anyone can spend a couple hours and learn to dodgeroll at the right millisecond.

>>725216856
This. Everybody who's different is a pussy

>>725217824
Not to mention being purely defensive is less difficult than trying to find opportunities to hit.

>>725200602 (OP)
Why do you guys act like video games haven't been challenging since the day they were invented? You've got plenty of easy games to choose from now. Go play one of them.

>>725200602 (OP)
based difficulty enjoyer

>>725200602 (OP)
I can't tell if the author of this image is a total retard or a genius bait artisan

>>725200602 (OP)
>Gitgudfaggot.png

>>725217824
I want to play Elden Ring again, fresh character. But it's so daunting kek. Such a big fucking game.

But I still remember where to go to pick up the claymore, and that's all I really need baby.

>>725222982
It was made by a redditor who really wanted attention and updoots but is too much of a wholesome chungus to actually make an insulting caricature, and too dumb to do anything other than rephrase the single trait this character has.

>>725200602 (OP)
I really pushed myself to 1st time Shadow Generations with no guides in under ten hours and I did it.

>>725200602 (OP)
LOL

>>725200602 (OP)
Difficulty and challenge are two different things. A difficulty is not visible, you know it is there, but it doesn't always present itself: like a team that deliberately throws the round because it can't stand seeing you win. That is difficult. A challenge is perceptible, it exists based on the player acumen and ability to understand the mechanics: like a game that organized all the meta-strategies into a cohesive winning argument for multiplayer. That is challenging. The difference is always there, but people who deconstruct difficulty are always going to manipulate the difference based on whatever minimal knowledge they have of classic games vs modern ones.

I genuinely can't wait for AI to just beat games for me bros

>>725206104
The best strategy is worthless if you can't execute it.
You see, I suck at any jumping and running.
I never beat Cuphead, and it was not because I didn't understand the bosses (anyone who doesn't understand them right away is a fucking brainlet anyway), but because I just don't jump where I want to jump or shoot where I want to shoot.

>/v/ has got to the point where casuals are openly decrying the very idea of repeatedly attempting something hard
Every single day this board astounds me in just how much it's become every single thing it used to hate

>>725203198
it is doebeitever

>>725201547
>MHfags trying to brag about difficulty

>>725206104
If a boss doesn't take you 200 tries, it wasn't really hard.

>>725200602 (OP)
>get stuck on boss
>give up and go to bed
>try again next day
>do it first try like it’s nothing
Seethe all you want but this strat always works for me.

>>725200602 (OP)
>>725200938
I mean, the whole "take a break" advice is not for people who are saying "I don't want mega difficult games", it's advice given to people who struggle on any difficulty, and make it harder on themselves by continously throwing their head against the wall and getting more and more angry each try.
It's like saying slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
You'll get through a difficult section easier, if you're not completely tilted. So you can either spend the next 40 minutes just fuming at the screen, or you can take 5 mins to make some tea, and beat it with a calmer mind.

>>725200938
Because the entire idea that games are anything but a quick disposable distraction is offensive to them.
Taking a break with and coming back tomorrow is a classic part of learning anything vaguely hard, game or not. If the game is worth taking a break from then that means it was something they were actually supposed to learn and improve at. This is offensive, because they don't want to learn and improve. The mere suggestion that they put in effort of any kind for a videogame is ridiculous to them.

What they want is an empty, shallow, trite piece of garbage they effortlessly plow through to get empty dopamine. At the same time, they don't want to just stick to casual games; they need "hardcore" games to validate them instantly the second they play them. They're the most worthless, despicable form of casuals, the ones that get offended that anything but their casual garbage exists.

>>725226267
>>725200938
I think it's also the fact that some people are raging shitbags, who will never be able to admit that something is partly their own fault. The reason they're so buttblasted is that they keep trying that one jump in that difficult platformer, or that one difficult boss fight, and they're completely mcfucking losing it. Just red in the face yelling at the screen. To the point that their moms / friends / anyone goes: "Hey dude? Maybe take a break or something" and in their mind it's "I HAVE TO FUCKING BEAT THIS LEVEL!" So the Idea of collecting themselves just makes them even angrier, because what they hear is: "Damn it's not the game, it's just you being bad, maybe stop playing for a while to git gud?". So they make strawman basedjack memes, about how people who take breaks whenever they feel agitated are more "not playing the game" than they are playing the game.
But like I said here: >>725226098
They're just calming down when they feel anger, instead of trying to power through it like a retard.

>>725227129
Or some jumps and shots are actually hard. It's okay to admit Mega Man is harder than Mario.

>>725206104
>EXPLAIN this silly exaggerated number you used for comedic effect!

I do take breaks but I also have literal thousands of hours in the games I play, so yeah

>>725200602 (OP)
If it's not mentally draining it's not a real game.

>>725200602 (OP)
>spends his free time taking a break from his hobby

That ones always gets me

>>725229693
based and true

>>725200602 (OP)
this isnt even a good strawman. i play on medium difficulty at best but this is demonstrably wrong, guys who play hard games or pick the hardest difficulty are usually the types to rage out and white-knuckle through. Mike Matei types

>>725210809
So you can take breaks then? Glad we can agree on this.

>>725206118
boas are fuckin strong dude

>>725216856
I doubt you played the entirety of elden ring in one sitting

>>725200602 (OP)
Cringe difficulty is all slop try hard with cheating ai
Sp slop hasn't had good ai since the mid 00s

>>725200602 (OP)
If I'm not worn out by the end of a play session then the game failed to engage me.

>>725209231
Practice is important and accepted in everything we do but hard video games. Even board and card games, people understand that you need to play a while to get good at them. But for some reason people throw this out the window when the thing they are engaging with is called a video game. Then suddenly practice is bad and "sweaty" and "doesn't respect my time" like they just want to be able to everything without any learning and practice.
Imagine if someone said that about learning to play an instrument. "Oh guitars suck because you ether need to sweat or you get nowhere. My time is more important that gitting gud."

>>725231378
than*

>>725200602 (OP)
YOU WILL NEVER BE A WOMAN FAGGOT

>>725200602 (OP)
All the people who are the person in the image replying to it without a hint of selfawareness.

Amazing

>>725231871
You didn't even read the thread

>>725200602 (OP)
this is why fishing minigames are necessary, so you can take a break from the game without actually taking a break from the game

>>725231871
41%

>>725200602 (OP)
You only have to take a break if your the type to smash your controllers/keyboards. Otherwise you can just keep trying. Unless we're talking about taking a break from vidya to stand up, stretch and walk around a bit.

>>725232342
Why don't you close whatever you're playing and boot up a fishing game instead

It's all about IQ. High testosterone and high IQ gamers enjoy high difficulty, and don't need to take a break either. They simply have fun, adapt and beat the game in a reasonable amount of time. Low IQ and low testosterone gamers don't know their place in gaming, and will play at a high difficulty for their ego even though they don't have the IQ to actually beat it in a reasonable amount of time or enjoy it. Lower IQ people should just accept themselves and play at a lower difficulty so they have more fun. They'll never have as much fun as a high IQ gamer playing at a hard difficulty, but that's life and there's nothing they can do about it. Higher IQ people have a higher potential to find greater enjoyment as their brains can appreciate more sophisticated things.

Just say you're bad at games.

>>725232127
It's full of people acting as if it doesn't apply to anyone when most of /v/ is going HURR DURR DIFFICULTY while also going HEH I DON'T EVEN PLAY GAMES I JUST SHITPOST ABOUT THEM
>inb4 those are different people
Well it's not me so it must be you

>>725231871
>MMMH SWEATY, THE MEME IS MAKING FUN OF YOU. MEDIA ILLITERATE MUCH?

>>725233118
Because you can't complete the Nier fishing quest if you close the game.

>>725217561
Hades 2 was a cakewalk. You have to go retro if you want difficulty

>>725200938
>person
Autists aren't people

>>725206104
I think the most losses I ever suffered against a boss was ~45 or so against the final boss of Drakengard 3. It's bullshit to such a degree that I could see someone reaching 200 deaths against it, and neither strategy nor reflexes is going to help much.

>>725200602 (OP)
Like Reggie once said, if the game's not fun, why bother?

I like a challenge, but it has to be well done, it has to feel like a reasonable amount of skill is enough, not absolute mastery.

>>725200602 (OP)
OOOOOOOOOOOO I'M GONNA TAKE A BREEEEAAAAAAKKK

>>725200602 (OP)
>play game
>met with an actual challenge
>overcome the challenge
>overcoming challenges on all fronts paves the path to a successful life
It really is this simple. If you persevere in your hobbies (in this case video games) you're more likely to persevere when confronted with different obstacles in life.
If you're the kind of person that gives up and plays on easy mode and makes cope memes like in the OP, chances are you're the type of person to cope and make excuses for your failures IRL.

>>725206104
If a fight requires “near perfect rng” then the fails/wins ratio can be made arbitrarily large. If there is a 1/n chance of getting the rng required to win a fight then you expect n-1 losses out every n attempts with otherwise perfect play.

>>725236164
If you're the type of person who posts pepe edits on 4chan, you're likely to be EXTREMELY successful in real life

>>725236245
Anything can look like rng if you don't have enough IQ.

>>725203050
Taking a "break" from a videogame is an inherently retarded concept, games ARE your breaks. If a game frustrates, bores or annoys you so much that you need to take a "break" from, uninstall it.

>>725201497
>literally everyone that has to maintain a company has moved on from "charge the player money for dying" design.
are you fucking stupid? this is the whole basis for so many microtransactions and F2P/freemium games. you make the game have a few walls that are near impossible to get past without hundreds of hours of grinding or hundreds of dollars of spending. so many phone games make shitloads of money by giving "extra chances/continues" if you pay for them to get past levels that are impossible to beat without the continues. this type of game design is absolutely still here, in face it is more here than ever.

>>725236589
>i love heavy metal
>man, i've listened to a lot of heavy metal, i could do with some variety and maybe i should listen to some funk for a bit
>guess that means i can never listen to heavy metal again
you are so retarded.

>"I'm high IQ and high testosterone"
>source:me
Sure buddy...

>>725200602 (OP)
these types don't even play hard games like darkest dungeon 1 or spelunky 2. they just play cuphead, dark souls and hollow knight, in other words games that millions of kids have already beaten kek

>>725200602 (OP)
>Man, I love imbalanced game design
>What do you mean the Developers are using a guise of difficulty to excuse the fact they can't design a game worth shit, which you can tell because some bosses are incredibly easy in this supppsedly hard game?
>Well, at least that means the developers instead took the time to actually write a story instead of dropping random lore bits in a random way so that internet idiots would piece it together for them, right?
I swear to god that Fromsoft is the biggest case of Stockholm syndrom today, and that they're just releasing garbage on purpose to see how long they can trick their audience into buying absolute dogshit

I bet no one here has 1cc'd arcade Gradius III

>>725206104
You've never played a difficult boss

>>725200602 (OP)
who makes these fucking things

>>725210410
Experiencing game content that you haven't already consumed isn't a pseudo reward, that's the difference.

>>725237024
This is just me with TF2 until I finally gave up. Never has a game made me more angry and demoralized than TF2.

>>725217561
If recently means over the past 5 years then the only game that's even remotely satisfied my itch for hard gaming was Spelunky 2. I'd also include La Mulana 2 though it's a couple years older.

I dont really take breaks because a game is too hard, it just naturally happens after playing for a long time.

Personally i cant stand easy games, just comes off as playing a walking simulator or a simmon says for adults. If im not genuinely being challenged by a game i just feel patronized and would rather watch something instead.

>>725200602 (OP)
I took a break from silk aing before atarting act 3. Just started up again and got to the coral tower gauntlets. I GUESS ITS FUCKING BREAK TIME AGAIN FOREVER. Seriously, fuck that shit.

>>725206663
Everything is better with moderation, child.

>>725237793
except cocaine

I remember when I was a zoom zoom and had a "everything so easy lol max difficulty always yeeeahh!" phase, then I got older and mature and realized I like having fun.

>>725238849
You right unc getting shittier at games typically comes with maturity

I like playing the hardest difficulty in jrpgs that actually respect the player or make things interesting. I don't want damage sponge bosses, I want to have to employ and switch up my strategies on higher difficulties. Persona 5 Royal is great in this regard since outside of the usual making you deal less damage and enemies deal more damage, it stacks on some unique modifiers that make things interesting.

>>725239092
More like your sense of self worth shifts from arbitrary gaming achievements to plowing pussy and making money

>>725237763
how are people on this board so shit at vidya.
i view myself as mediocre at vidya and coral tower was a one shot "that's it?" moment for me with silksong.

I regularly take breaks from Dispatch. The game plays itself and I've still found a way to add it to my backlog

>>725239169
Neither of which any /v/irgin is doing, least of all you. Cashing government autism checks isn't an income.

>>725200602 (OP)
Difficultyfags are synonymous with guidefags and metafags.

>>725200836
Never that. I've played enough of these titles to know that it's a waste of time to brute force them. This isn't the 90s where kids are trading playground tips and print outs from GameWinners or whatever. Just watch the fight on YouTube, take note of the patterns and tips the uploader notes and then go on and kill the boss in ten tries or less then move on.

>>725239261
The zoomer babes call me mack daddy gamer unc who crashes out. Just because you're a fag doesn't mean everyone else is.

>>725237128
Idiots with massive egos made of spun glass who suck at video games.

>>725201953
>Hasn't beaten but engages in discourse
Oof got me

>>725237330
TF2? Like team fortress 2? I don't understand how.

>>725200938
Crippling autism

>>725239536
I didn't play Soldier, Demo, or cheat as Sniper so I basically didn't get to leave spawn most games, and even when I did I was on maps I didn't like the those I did like and the modes I wanted to play were dead and abandoned. I also didn't like being locked out of 99.9% of customization options for my classes thanks to trader jews hoarding everything remotely nice.

>>725200602 (OP)
this is literally me though, i get tilted, go away for an hour or 2 then come back to beat whatever I was stuck on

>>725239658
I have 2500 hours in TF2, and half of those are on Pyro, not those 3. I genuinely cannot understand this.
I'm not even sure how to discuss this. Like the trading/economy thing is valid, but I don't understand how you couldn't leave spawn. Go medic with uber or Pyro and reflect.

Do you play other shooters? Which ones? I could understand if it's a "I prefer counter strike" kinda thing but I am retarded and autistic, I struggle to imagine playing TF2 enough to get an opinion and that opinion being "no thanks"

>>725239752
Nooo you have to be a retarded monkey banging your head against the wall like me otherwise ... you're the retarded one! If you use any kind of calmness, collectedness, composure, strategy, or used your brain in any way then you didn't beat the game.

>>725200671
Fippy bippy

>>725239948
I have well over 6,000 hours in TF2 and can count the amount of fun moments I've had with the game on one hand.
>Do you play other shooters? Which ones?
These days my shooter of choice is L4D2, primarily Versus and Expert Realism with some Mutations on the side if I see a lobby open. It's a good time.
I can't build uber as Medic without my dipshit teammates opening the spawn door and getting killed by a barrage of rockets and stickies from people spawn camping us, and while I found myself being capable of reflecting as Pyro, I also found Pyro to be the most boring class in the game.

>>725240360
I think I should just kill you.

>>725240930
Don't know what to tell you, TF2 is just not fun for me.

>>725200602 (OP)
>you're not playing this game
>that means you're not playing any game
Are you retarded?

>>725200602 (OP)
I do
and I take breaks
it's enjoyable

I like a moderate amount of difficulty, like if there's easy/normal/hard/ball buster, I'm going for hard. A game being too easy almost always makes me quit, but I can do without kaizo bullshit, too. Maybe I'm boring, so be it

>>725200602 (OP)
You can tell this image was made by someone who starts screaming and breaking stuff they own once they get on a losing streak.

>>725240930
NTA

>Play game with multiple classes
>Get told you need to exclusively play ONE to prevent spawn camping
>Just do X/Y/Z to bypass the game's shit design!

Nah it's (you) who needs to kill yourself.

>>725206663
don't act like a fucking chimp when you die and people won't suggest you need a break.

>>725201490
what the hell happened, he didn't even say candlejack, why did he su

>>725242691
kek

>>725207441
Soulsfags said "git gud" because people saw bosses like fucking Capra demon and cried that they were too hard. it was always a rebuttal to retards who wanted the already easy Dark Souls game made even easier.

>>725206104
Ibis in AC6 took me 209 attempts.

>>725236620
That's mainly a western issue

>>725200602 (OP)
>life is easy?
play a hard game to give yourself some simulated challenges
>life is hard?
play a comfy and easy Stardew-like to relax; and simulate success in life by having a wife, home, and thriving business in the game.

>>725200602 (OP)
Just because something is your hobby doesn't mean you should spend all free time on it

>>725200602 (OP)
I personally don't take breaks but I recommend it to people who are clearly tilting and could use a little break from the game

Depends on how difficulty scales, I guess. For most FPS games harder difficulties just means adding 2x or 3x to enemy health while dropping your damage to -50%, and that's just tedious. If enemy behavior changes on higher difficulties, like enemies taking cover more often or attempting to flank you, that can be a lot of fun.

The concept of failing is so incompatible with the modern gamer that they resort to making images and threads like this to justify their incapability to overcome any kind of adversity

>>725200602 (OP)
Based

>>725246010
>For most FPS games harder difficulties just means adding 2x or 3x to enemy health while dropping your damage to -50%, and that's just tedious.
>If enemy behavior changes on higher difficulties, like enemies taking cover more often or attempting to flank you, that can be a lot of fun.
Halo's AI kinda worked like that. Not so much the difficulty levels, but the actions they could take were re-rolled every so often or something like that (been ages since I read how they worked) it made the AI's actions seem a lot more "lifelike" compared to most other's.

It's a shame they didn't keep following that kind of design. Enemies could rapidly change tactics on the fly depending on difficulty / HP or whatever other variables instead of just running around the fucking corner like a buncha retarded lemmings.

>>725246946
Yeah, I remember that in Halo. I want to say I remember F.E.AR. doing something similar as well.

>>725200602 (OP)
Single player games are designed to be beaten. If you are having trouble you are outing yourself as cognitively impaired.

>>725200602 (OP)
honestly, back when I bought bloodborne on launch, I got stuck on Gascoigne, took a break for like a week and then beat him on my first try when I went back to it. sometimes breaks work

Im playing Hades 2 with god mode on set to like 40% because im not good at 2 compared to 1.