The absolute state of gaming "journalists"

>the absolute state of gaming "journalists"

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Dragon's Dogma gets so much better when you play on easy mode. Sometimes it's worth it to avoid cheap deaths.

Well, maybe he is one of those games that like "story" in games

>love cutscenes
>hate gameplay

maybe they would like this thing called movies

simple
don't listen to video game journalists

This is why sony is popular

he is not a game you silly

I've seen this sentiment a few times and I agree with it, even with WNO.

Gunplay is just weak. Scrounging for armor + ammo and mashing E is fucking weak.

I can't say anything about the story yet, but the gameplay itself is just not satisfying, unlike say Doom.

I played it on medium and died randomly quite a few times. Game is poorly balanced and often frustrating.

I feel like Wolf 1 and 2 both way better with the difficulty on at least hard. I enjoyed Wolf 1 much better my second play through cause I went to hard.

Fucking pathetic how they try to make being bad at games the new normal. Why don't they just stick with non-interactive media, like literally everything except games, if they want to "experience amazing stories". But nooo, they want in on "gamer culture" and it has to bend to their will.

the absoltue state of reditores

Being bad at games is normal. The problem is they're trying to encourage STAYING bad.

There's better ways to phrase that than "Easy is the new Normal". Something like "Stripping out mainstay features of the Wolfenstein franchise like armor pickups and overcharge doesn't make the game harder so much as more tedious".

Why has no one thought up an industry where you just sit there and watch the story play out with no input at all?
Seems like it could be worth millions.

I'd agree with you guys, except this writer's sentiment is simply that the game was too hard on hard difficulties and putting it on easy let him experience a power fantasy.

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user, I'm a very wealthy man. I have tens of dollars, you and I could go places. We can call them "non-interactive video media".

>Playing on on higher difficulties that use artificial difficulty instead of smarter AI and deeper gameplay
>Just to show you're better than people playing on easy

tbqh I wouldn't want to play a shitty FPS full of hitscan enemies on a hard difficulty setting either

TNO was super easy though. I started out on hard and had to go to the hardest difficulty (I am death incarnate or something) because it felt like there was no challenge.

I must admit, the areas where they swamp you with enemies are legit difficult and I got stuck sometimes.

>range banning the britshits because of banter-related issues
>hurrrgh muh gaymergays rights are being trampled ugghk
The absolute state of 8gag

I played 2 on Terror Billy and I feel like if I turned it up I'd stop enjoying myself. It also got a lot more enjoyable once you get 100 HP back.

That's what I figured.
>putting it on easy lets me feel like even MORE of a badass when bashing the virtual fash!
Why am I still alive?

DESU this is totally true. I watched a football game the other day and the one thing that kept running through my mind was, "Hey, why aren't they as weak and shitty as I am."

They're not qualified to write movie reviews, they have to go for the lowest common denominator.

I played through the game on the default difficulty setting and I don't feel like it was ever unfairly hard or restrictive. I think the problem a lot of people have is just not realizing that the takedowns don't make you invincible. Or just being bad at videogames.

then read the wiki? watch all the cutscenes on YT? Stop calling himself a "journalist"?

This reddit board is as shit as the picture you posted OP, and it has nothing to do with that recent shit

If your game is better on Easy then you made a shitty videogame.

Metal Gear Solid is better on harder difficulties. Same with Halo, early Call of Duty games, etc.

Call of Duty games are terrible at the highest difficulty, even the early ones.

Hardened is great challenge, veteran is retarded and not worth the time.

t. autist who beat them all

And yet, boring art movies are heralded as masterpieces while people who don't like or get them are ridiculed as being stupid or low-brow.

This is actually true.

>used to play games all the time on hard just for achievements/trophies
>play on hard now if I like the game and want a challenge
>usually play on normal as it seems it's the intended way the developers meant the game to be balanced
>still occasionally play on easy because I like the power fantasy

With a game like Prototype, I'll only ever play on easy mode if want to enjoy it. The whole point of a game like that is to feel unstoppable.
With Wolfenstein; Normal, maybe changed to hard if I have a good time.

Sometimes playing on harder difficulties is just bullshit though, like Halo constantly having to carry a plasma pistol for shields and Call of Duty veteran grenades *cough*heartofthereich*cough*

>game difficulty actually affects which enemies spawn and higher difficulties also give enemys a new ability
thanks dante

i used to do the same thing playing hardest for the achievements ive found that hard is usually the best difficulty and very hard/equivelents are usually just bullshit, i feel like normal is actually the easy mode but named normal because nobody picks easy, adding an easy mode furthers this ruse

>CoD Veteran grenades
>Outright had a moment where 5 enemies tossed grenades at me at the same frame
>4 landed in a small square in front of me
>The 5th landed on top to make a little pyramid

I was furious because it was bullshit and I died, but also really impressed.

I play every CoD now on Veteran just to see if there's some sort of challenge when compared to the older titles, but that doesn't seem like the case anymore. There were a couple of parts in WWII that felt hard, but I didn't feel like it was challenging. Ah well, waiting for the next one.

I'll give you this for anything from UA onwards, where they added the corridors of endlessly spawning enemies, turning veteran into "I hope I run to the next invisible check point at the right time". But in CoD 1, where there is always a set number of enemies in a level and you can learn the pattern, veteran is the true challenge.

All of that shit wouldn't have been so bad if there were no infinite respawning enemies. Forcing you to push to invisible points to end the respawns and fcus on the next infinitely respawning enemies with infinite grenades.
I'm curious how newer CoDs handle Veteran, but reading doesn't surprise me.

Opps, I meant UO. The game's United Offensive, not United Assault.

>W@W on second last mission, think it was called heart of the Reich or something.
>Take out AA Canon and go prone behind cover
>Tink'
>Grenade!
>Throw it away
>Eyes full of jelly
>Tink'
>Tink'
>Tink'
>Tink'
>Repeat for hours until fluke through

I love that game but FUCK veteran difficulty

I think everyone who finished that game on veteran still has nightmares about those steps.

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There was a few bullshit parts in that game. I don't remember the name of the mission, but the one in the grass with the japs waiting in the holes. Died a good few times on that one.

Why are game journalists terrible at the one thing crucial for their job? Why are they even in the the industry they work in?

assblasted

the rest of the article is just sucking off the game

I thought that was all journalists?

Game was okay until the enigma code bs and you go kill 1 guy in a tiny 2min playtime map

lame

also needed more americana maps like the texas diner one

you're forgetting that Sup Forums is for video games and video game CULTURE with this would fall under

Because it's a shit game. Don't play shit games.
The solution is not setting it on easy so you suffer less.

Again and again these idiots proven to be nothing but scum, why do you people still listening to what they say?

Games shouldn't have to be difficult to be good, anons. No one has any fun dying instantly to shit you can't control. Many games are just better on easy mode. If life had an easy mode, you'd enjoy it a lot more.

>smart commentary on deep rooted racism
A reminder that libtards literally, unironically, seriously, honestly consider this video game as smart writing. This is their absolute fucking mental level. Jesus christ.

>implying anybody on Sup Forums does anything but mock journos

Also
Here's a classic
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Life has an easy mode, I'm a straight white male. To make things fair I donate to jewish and black organizations and share my wife and her daughters with less fortunate people of color.

I think they've got it right this time in a way and at least for this game, TNO and Doom too, the games are just designed around the middle difficulty with the easy mode being for complete retard polygon tier and hardest being instant/cheap death shit that they put no thought into whatsoever
dragons dogma balance is tied into it's systems which are completely retarded

what game is that?

one of the yakuza games

>Justify playing on easy with "I CAN KILL NAZIS FASTER"

I can't understand what you are trying to imply here by directing this unrelated image of reddit to op topic, are you trying to say that to hate videogame journalists makes you reddit?

That makes no sense, reddit is hardwired to agree with any media opnion piece.

there's no easy mode in dragon's dogma tho
only normal, and hard, which is meant for new game plus

The hard and easy modes for Dragon's Dogma are pretty stupid, but in their defense they weren't part of the original game but patched in afterwards. So all the wacky fucking balance with stuff like hard mode shitting giant bags of gold everywhere wasn't meant to be normally.

i remember some trenches, with infinite respawn enemies and grenades everywhere

There is nothing wrong with liking story

you have absolutely no idea how DD works.
also there's no easy mode.

I fucking hate getting good at games and "hardcore gamers" make me cringe but not even I would suggest playing a shooter on easy.

But I guess I understand, the story is the most important thing about Wolfenstein.

No, there is an easy mode you can switch to if you are on normal or choose it when you start actuall I think it asks you if you want to switch if you die
I meant in general

that's what he thinks. In reality the story is kind of dogshit and he only likes it because he's politically invested.

>hurr im so loyal to my whale gf I cover my eyes while I watch porn
The absolute state of nuMales

>posting furry art while mocking numales

oh the ironing

There are literally people who take Wolf2's story as completely real and use it justify their racism against white people.

>he plays games for story

>Games shouldn't have to be difficult to be good
no, but that doesn't mean difficult games are bad either.

And there are plenty of good easy games like the entirety of the kirby series, so those fucking journos trying to get the few difficult games to cater to their shit tastes is fucking retarded

I knew a guy like this in high school. I'm not gonna say he was retarded but was definitely "slow" but wasn't in special ed classes. He was super religious to the point it's almost all he talked about. He would cover his eyes with his hands just like that whenever a baby in a diaper was shown in class because it was "too offensive". People like this do exist, somehow. Nice guy though.

how media illiterate are you fuckers that yall cant even spot an obvious as fuck editorial? Editorials are not news or journalism of any actual sort. Fucking things are opinion pieces and just that nothing more.

Are yall faggots really that big of loser or are yall really that fucking stupid as to not being able to tell the god damn fucking difference? Fucking shitposting beta faggot retards i swear.

Life on easy is being a female, they just get carried around and leech on things that males build, and whenever big problems happens they just sit around waiting for the men, no wonder lots of faggots are going tranny, they are just switching difficulty, filthy casuals MUST get extra shit.

Female is only easy mode if you're good lucky. Landwhales are arguably playing life on a mode harder than the rest of us.

Landwhales can be SJWs though

>how dare you 'faggots' disagree with them are you dumb?

Why does every video game journalist that gets posted here have the same exact look? Beard, glasses, and faggy hair. What the fuck is going on

I am not sure about that man, i know PLENTY of landwhales married to successful guys who are just living the life.

Just like some old men use the dad surrogate to fuck daddy isues young roasties, fat ladies uses mom surrogate to fuck mommy boys.

telltale games got you beat

I played on Do or die difficulty with Wolfenstein II and outside a few parts that were obnoxious, the game was not that hard. Hell, I thought the normal difficulties on New Order and Old Blood were far worse.

a good story makes a good game better

His wife, at least the last time I cared enough to hate browse his Twitter, was thin. Granted she's given birth since then so...

>she's given birth since then
To Tyrone's baby I bet

nu-male chic

It's just the popular trend of the 2010's. The thick rimmed glasses really piss me off, it's the worst part of it.

>its another Sup Forums vs the media episode
Oh boy, does it ever get tiresome to hate information?

Why are these faggots even in games “journalism” if they aren’t gud?

They can't land jobs in any other field because all those have standards.

telltale didn't invent VNs

>Sup Forums hates video game journalists since forever
>numale cucks invading Sup Forums try to link hating journos with bad things so it's not acceptable to hate journos
Nice try, faggot.

this has nothing to do with politics. Just games journalists being trash yet again.

The only thing that makes it a video GAME is there is a fail state. You are being challenged. Should monopoly have no losers too?

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