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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For some games, where hardship and strife is a genuine core element of the creative vision, a single level of difficulty doesn't just create a striking apprehension of the genuineness of that hardship, it also allows the developer to tune that difficulty with great care, further pushing that choice to serve the intended experience.

The game is only "just better" with difficulty options if you have implicitly accepted the idea that you should be able to complete any game you buy. If you don't feel that way about, say, books you purchase, please investigate that feeling.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

For some games, where hardship and strife is a genuine core element of the creative vision, a single level of difficulty doesn’t just create a striking apprehension of the genuineness of that hardship, it also allows the developer to tune that difficulty with great care, further pushing that choice to serve the intended experience.

This is all a very flimsy excuse for annoying gate keeping.

Pretending that difficulty tuning has to suffer if there is more than one difficulty is absurdly nonsensical.

Of all the parts of a game that take significant effort, this is not one.

Studios literally already tune their games for a specific difficulty firstly usually, and tune up or down from there.

You are just imagining that magically one difficulty means higher quality difficulty.

The game is only “just better” with difficulty options if you have implicitly accepted the idea that you should be able to complete any game you buy. If you don’t feel that way about, say, books you purchase, please investigate that feeling.

This is such an absurd prick opinion that makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

Who in the fuck buys any media they don't intend on being able to finish. What????

You think people are buying books they think they'll want to stop reading half way? Movies they'll want to walk out of?

How did you get so deluded you even thought you were making a cogent argument here.

Jesus Christ.