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I’m surprised by how many people took issue with this post. Like, it’s specifically funny because some games already make fun of your for picking easy, which is far more mean spirited than making fun of people who are good at games and have nothing to prove. Some people have disabilities that make playing games harder, lack the time to get good because of responsibilities, or just plain aren’t good at games. Games shouldn’t be making fun of people who already have trouble accessing them, while people who are good at them often need to learn to take themselves less seriously. It’s punching down (something that already happens) vs getting proud and successful people to have humility. Games was made for gamers, it’s not like they don’t want you to play it.
I’m gonna throw this one on my ever growing pile of “posts that people took way more issue with than I expected.” The throughline for those posts seem to be that people have a hard time with self deprecating jokes and take anything that pokes fun at themselves seriously. It’s a shame, because I’m usually also the target of the jokes that piss people off the most, which is why I get surprised that other people don’t also find them funny.
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Most definitely was funny and I’d most definitely need a recap/“in the last episode” mode for any story games. Otherwise by the time i can play those again, i have already forgotten where the story was and who was who.
The thing is this:
The people playing on easy don’t get angry when they’re called easy-goers, this is not about their ego for them.
But the “I’m the most manly man of them all, I only play on the hardest difficulty!”-types will instantly have their overinflated egos implode when you call them out like that. And you’ll have your game shitstormed by incels.
It’s called cultivating a less toxic audience
also free advertising, having shitheads publish videos of themselves turning red from talking about your game makes the kind of person who frequents 196 go “lmao based let’s buy the game out of spite”
true shit, their cries have actually led me to some things i wouldn’t have found otherwise! like Hazbin Hotel!
Ive heard genuine testimony that Hazbin’s creator is pretty shit. I wouldn’t know too much tho, it’s not my fandom.
Those controversies are pretty baseless, the one thing she genuinely did wrong was providing graphics for shoe0nhead and Blaire White, but she says she didn’t know what those stood for at the time and honstly, they can be deceiving.
That’s why I bought that one game about the trans caterpillar
Seriously all the chuds bitching about the “girlboss” character they added for the new prequel missions in Halo: Campaign Evolved just highlighted that there were new prequel missions.
(Although actually most of the dipshits I’ve seen complaining about her didn’t actually play so they don’t know that she’s not part of the standard campaign, so they’re saying things like, “The game was already good, they didn’t need to add a new woke character.”)
Don’t think I’d cater to incels.
And you’ll have your game shitstormed by incels.
Give it a couple of weeks and they’ll be distracted by some movie with a woman lead in it, and it will all blow over.
True, just cast Lupita Nyong’o in any movie and they’ll forget all about the game.
Left 4 Dead had the achievement What Are You Trying to Prove? earned by completing all the campaigns on expert.
L4D2 had Still something to prove, again by beating all the campaigns on expert.
I was able to get the second one by playing Last Man On Earth, which is single-player, but special infected only. The higher difficulties are mostly harder by having common infected do more damage.
I recently got into speedruning one of my favourite game. While i did beat that game on hardest difficulty absolutely casually, speedrunning on casual difficulty is so much fun
Honestly, I’d still pick hard. Breezing through games just isn’t as fun as having the occasional struggle on the way.
depends on the game. some games hard mode is just fighting one enemy for a long ass time over and over again
Enemy sponginess is the lazy dev’s way of ramping up difficulty. I hate it in FPS especially–oh, this normal enemy just ate 37 bullets, this totally makes sense to the story in a world where guns aren’t made of styrofoam.
And you only have 1/3 as many places to save, so good fucking luck if you die!
I feel like I actually did see things like this in flash games in the early 2000s specifically making fun of 90s tropes.
No need to use that kind of language though
I also oppose English
Would you have preferred it in French?
Was this a joke? Are you objecting to “plowing”?
The language, both visual and written, is clearly discriminative. Feels like a virgin/chad meme
Play on hard, do you?
Nope. I just don’t like bullying others
If you think that’s bullying, you’re in for a stressful life, friend.
