SailusGebel
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What is your favorite\preferred difficulty in games? To add to that question, do you like more challenging, hard games or more relaxing ones?
HardcoreWhat is your favorite\preferred difficulty in games? To add to that question, do you like more challenging, hard games or more relaxing ones?
I doubt developers think like that. It's just easier to do, especially in strategy games.I exceptionally hate when developers think harder difficulty means the AI is cranked up to 11, given unfair advantages next to the fact it overshadows human thinking speed, reflexes, or whatever else.
For rts games I may even accept that approach. So okay, fine. But there are genres where it is a BS excuse, like in FPS. For example, FEAR, released in 2005. It still has one of the best AI in an FPS game to this day. After more than 15 years... It is pure lazyness, incompetence and/or corporate greed that developers do when difficulty comes into question.I doubt developers think like that. It's just easier to do, especially in strategy games.
I agree.For rts games I may even accept that approach. So okay, fine. But there are genres where it is a BS excuse, like in FPS. For example, FEAR, released in 2005. It still has one of the best AI in an FPS game to this day. After more than 15 years... It is pure lazyness, incompetence and/or corporate greed that developers do when difficulty comes into question.
Then there are racing games where the AI on harder difficulties drive like a macihne. Literally. Like in Forza. They do not make mistakes. They are Elon's dream of a tesla on steroids. Or in some games they simply ignore your presence and ram you like they are in a demolition derby yet you didn't load up FlatOut... And then the rubber banding effect like in most NFS titles... and I could go on a way longer rant than neccesary.
No need to dunk so hard on people like me who are a bit more simple, okay? I have struggles in normal difficulty with CiV6 and with most of the Total War titles... the last RTS I was good at was maybe Cossacks. The original one. And some Hungarian games like:Seriously though, I play with highest difficulty in RTS games, then slowly choke my AI enemies out of their supply routes...sending small armies to conduct raids, perform assault missions, or just plain leave them isolated then send reinforcements for that pure, non-sensical, RTS side-action.
(Before destroying the enemy bases through various means.)
CiV6? Total War? I took inspiration from those games in creating my character's tactics.No need to dunk so hard on people like me who are a bit more simple, okay? I have struggles in normal difficulty with CiV6 and with most of the Total War titles... the last RTS I was good at was maybe Cossacks. The original one. And some Hungarian games like:
Imperium Galactica 2
Haegemonia
SWINE
Codename Panzer
War Front: Turning Point
Damn... Now you made me remember all the old RTS games I loved to play when growing up... and probably suck at them now.