Yeah they’re not great when it comes to some stuff for returns.

Last year I bought Assassins Creed 1 and 2 on sale. I played through 1 first, had a lovely time, then went to 2 and noticed some annoying graphical issues. Things that seemingly can’t be fixed after I tried with various mods and patches.

I had only played it for 30 minutes so i tried to get a refund and they declined me because I had bought it so long ago, even though I argued that the game was technically too broken for me to play.

I had to just suck it up and just play it on the PS4 with the Ezio Collection.

They don’t have to go all out. Shitty easier/harder difficulties that just multiply or divide values in a basic manner is better than nothing at all.

Devs should absolutely just focus on the difficulty specific experience they planned but nothing is stopping them from doing the bare minimum. And if you have good coding practices, it’s easy as fuck to implement with the difficulty menu itself likely to be the hardest part to implement after the fact.

Then they label the intended difficulty with “recommended” and say that will give the best experience and that if you choose a difficulty higher or lower you might impede the intention of it.

I really don’t see the problem with having options.

Like I love the Kingdom Hearts series and was able to play it and fall in love with them as a kid on normal and sometimes beginner difficulty. As an adult I play critical because it makes me engage with all of the mechanics of the game. But I would have unlikely got to the point of being able to play at that level if I couldn’t work my way up through Normal > Proud > Critical.

The same admiration you have to grinding on a single playthrough to overcome an intended challenge can still be obtained through multiple playthroughs of increasing difficulty.

4s driving and shooting was better than SA but everything else makes SA better. I wanted then to marry the two together for the best GTA possible but they never did and probably won’t ever

Nobody would be putting a gun to your head and forcing you to play on an easier difficulty either

Not if the game wastes your time between boss attempts before you realise you’re not having fun anymore but that your return window has now expired

Then bump up the difficulty

And you wouldn’t be forced to play on a lower difficulty

Options don’t stop you from having those moments in fact they make it more possible for you to find the difficulty for those moments. For you and everyone else.

Difficulty options still allow you to play them at their intended difficulty. Letting someone else play the game easier doesn’t stop you from playing it at a higher difficulty. In fact with options you could make it even harder for yourself than you would’ve done otherwise and feel even more rewarded when overcoming it.

How can it compromise their vision if their vision is still intact with a “normal” difficulty?

And should be the bare minimum of a game

With difficulty options you will still get that, in fact you may get it better. Maybe for a specific game the difficulty needs to be lower or even higher for you to find that sweet spot.

I’m not the expert but it seems naive to think animal testing is the one and only way. It’s just an already established norm with some regions requiring it for eligibility of sale, that’s why it’s still as prevalent as it is

I think he ends up the MCP, he does in Kingdom Hearts at least

Bad Batch was better in my opinion

It does if it diverts attention away from other potential cures, not to mention making the animals’ sacrifices even more in vain

The fact that we are not the animals they test on so they can never guarantee it’ll react to humans the same way it does to the animals? That doesn’t follow logically?

This is one of the reasons why animal testing is not worth the torture the animals go through

That’s called Far Cry