• moakley@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I’m all for easy difficulty options in games, but I’m never, ever going to use them. I just can’t motivate myself to play if I’m not accomplishing something.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      2 hours ago

      So you never watch movies because there you also don’t accomplish anything?

    • paultimate14@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Do you feel like you’re accomplishing something by playing a difficult game?

      Personally I do not, and that’s fine. I play games to take a break from accomplishing things.

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        4 hours ago

        This is the thing, everyone is different. What is difficult for some, will be easy for others, and it will even flip for the same people on different games.

        The best option is having a wide array of difficulty options. In stone games I get bored of it’s too easy, in others I get bored of it’s too hard.

        I tend to err on ‘normal’ to ‘slightly more difficult than normal’. But some games I don’t want difficulty at all because I’m there for the ride.

      • moakley@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        Absolutely, yes. Good video games have a reward structure that real life is lacking.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      For me, good story and/or fun gameplay is the accomplishment, whether it’s difficult or not. If it’s too difficult, I just won’t bother. I don’t have time for that.

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      4 hours ago

      As a fan of logic puzzle games (Baba is you being imo the best of these) difficulty levels are a foreign concept ;)