10 best games that change difficulty based on how well you play
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It is a poor show when games use artificial difficulty, or strictly HP/Defense/Attack modifiers in order to make it more -challenging-. Rarely do these feel authentic, they are just more tedious and I, like many others, find myself leaving these types of examples turned down a bit from the level of challenge I really want in order to continue to enjoy the experience at the cost of wasted time and frustration.
The new GoW seems to handle this quite well, as each step not only modifies those enemy and player settings, but each step closer to -Give me God of War- exponentially ramps up the AI cunningness and cooperation, giving you the feeling of fighting intelligent and realistic foes. The older GoWs suffered from several implementations of artificial difficulty with trial and error being your teacher with new mechanics or terribly unforgiving platforming sections that didn't give you the chance to survey your next move. Impromptu QTEs were a giant nuisance as well, coming when you wouldn't expect it and would often be attempting to combo only to fail a QTE from your inputs and were punished severely for it.
Just used GoW so that way a single series got both ends of the spectrum and to show how any franchise can evolve to provide a better gameplay experience that is challenging and rewarding to all levels of players.
Date: 2022-03-21
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Comments and reviews: 9
Joe
No Final Fantasy 8 Love? I haven't ever played another game like it in terms of how you can determine how you want to play through the game. (I know a lot of people crap on FF8 but I loved it!) Every level took the same amount of experience to become stronger, and every enemy in the game scaled to your level. The items they dropped, magic they had, and attacks they used were all different if you were in the 1-30, 30-70, and 70-100 range. Really added a different depth to how you wanted to tackle the games challenges!
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No Final Fantasy 8 Love? I haven't ever played another game like it in terms of how you can determine how you want to play through the game. (I know a lot of people crap on FF8 but I loved it!) Every level took the same amount of experience to become stronger, and every enemy in the game scaled to your level. The items they dropped, magic they had, and attacks they used were all different if you were in the 1-30, 30-70, and 70-100 range. Really added a different depth to how you wanted to tackle the games challenges!
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Premium
What fallout 3 and NV do is called level scaling, and it started with Oblivion 2 years before and has been in almost every Bethesda game since. Regardless of that glaring mistake, leveling up in an rpg doesn't mean you're better, so those games don't even count. Also, the original version of RE4 doesn't have whatever you're talking about. I played through the game literally dozens of times as a kid and got to the point where I was doing no-hit speedruns, and enemy placements and amounts never changed.
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What fallout 3 and NV do is called level scaling, and it started with Oblivion 2 years before and has been in almost every Bethesda game since. Regardless of that glaring mistake, leveling up in an rpg doesn't mean you're better, so those games don't even count. Also, the original version of RE4 doesn't have whatever you're talking about. I played through the game literally dozens of times as a kid and got to the point where I was doing no-hit speedruns, and enemy placements and amounts never changed.
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jismerai
personally i think the system mario kart uses i one of the best. if your really good you can easely have your oponents bite your dust as you give them a completely crushing defeat, but if you want to challenge yourself thats also possible, and in both cases the difficulty adapts to the difficulty settings you have set (the rubberbanding is much worse on a higher difficulty then it is on a lower one). this gives you a bit of control over the difficulty, all while still adapting it to your skill level
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personally i think the system mario kart uses i one of the best. if your really good you can easely have your oponents bite your dust as you give them a completely crushing defeat, but if you want to challenge yourself thats also possible, and in both cases the difficulty adapts to the difficulty settings you have set (the rubberbanding is much worse on a higher difficulty then it is on a lower one). this gives you a bit of control over the difficulty, all while still adapting it to your skill level
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Eric
Dynamic difficulty definitely needs to be used in more games! While no one should be surprised Mario Kart is on the list, the rubber banding is a feature I-m not a fan of simply because of how it affects the item boxes. There-s a good variety of items, but when you-re in one of the top spots it-s annoying to ONLY get green shells and bananas(and coins if you-re playing 8)! I think there needs to be at least a rare chance to get all the items.
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Dynamic difficulty definitely needs to be used in more games! While no one should be surprised Mario Kart is on the list, the rubber banding is a feature I-m not a fan of simply because of how it affects the item boxes. There-s a good variety of items, but when you-re in one of the top spots it-s annoying to ONLY get green shells and bananas(and coins if you-re playing 8)! I think there needs to be at least a rare chance to get all the items.
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J.
It's like going to woodshop, being reeaallly bad at it, and the instructor still giving you a pass and lowering the standards to make their students -feel- better.
Ime: Titanfall 2 was the worst offender.
I literally stopped fighting and died at every opportunity, and the game made it impossible to lose and would drag my corpse though the campaign. It was embarrassing. Shut it off and never looked back.
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It's like going to woodshop, being reeaallly bad at it, and the instructor still giving you a pass and lowering the standards to make their students -feel- better.
Ime: Titanfall 2 was the worst offender.
I literally stopped fighting and died at every opportunity, and the game made it impossible to lose and would drag my corpse though the campaign. It was embarrassing. Shut it off and never looked back.
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S.
I think you missed Destiny 2. The stronger your setup gets and the higher you lvl is, the higher are the enemy stats. And the behavior of the enemy ai changes according to your behavior. I've noticed this because of the times I've played it with my parents who are very bad at fps games. When I played with them I only died because I fell of the map and I wrecked the enemies and bosses.
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I think you missed Destiny 2. The stronger your setup gets and the higher you lvl is, the higher are the enemy stats. And the behavior of the enemy ai changes according to your behavior. I've noticed this because of the times I've played it with my parents who are very bad at fps games. When I played with them I only died because I fell of the map and I wrecked the enemies and bosses.
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AcePhoenixGamer
Oh ffs. MarioKart 8 DOES NOT EMPLOY RUBBERBANDING! That mechanic is exclusive to older versions of the game, and it has been proven that it does not exist in 8. The time difference between a person playing at there best and not playing is because of items, which you also got wrong. MK8 items are determined by the distance from first place, not your rank in line!
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Oh ffs. MarioKart 8 DOES NOT EMPLOY RUBBERBANDING! That mechanic is exclusive to older versions of the game, and it has been proven that it does not exist in 8. The time difference between a person playing at there best and not playing is because of items, which you also got wrong. MK8 items are determined by the distance from first place, not your rank in line!
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Peter
My gripe with Mario Kart is more the fact your actual skills of driving and using powerups is largely irrelevant. You could do everything flawlessly but the game is so heavily dependent upon luck, and your luck dwindles as you do better. IMO, the Wii version was the last good one, where there was rubber banding but I didn't find it too frustrating.
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My gripe with Mario Kart is more the fact your actual skills of driving and using powerups is largely irrelevant. You could do everything flawlessly but the game is so heavily dependent upon luck, and your luck dwindles as you do better. IMO, the Wii version was the last good one, where there was rubber banding but I didn't find it too frustrating.
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Sid
I hate dda when it lowers the bar, because its like its saying -oh! You suck, well ill just let you win you little scrub.- Taking any challenge away. They should have it where it starts difficulty low and only increases or stays on the level until you improve.
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I hate dda when it lowers the bar, because its like its saying -oh! You suck, well ill just let you win you little scrub.- Taking any challenge away. They should have it where it starts difficulty low and only increases or stays on the level until you improve.
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