Leif wrote: "“Choose how you want to start the game,” these words usually flash up on the screen when you press start on a new game. It then gives you a choice whether to start the game in Easy, Normal or Hard mode. These are the common difficulty levels that the game gives you. So why does this matter? And why would people prefer one over the other?"
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
I always go with the default difficulty... Too many games, so little time, besides, the default can be difficult enough for me at times as it is!
I never play on hard. I play games to have fun, not to get frustrated and stressed out. I don't care about my skill level, I care about enjoying my experience. I'll usually start out on normal, because that's the default, ideal experience, but if that's too hard for me I have no problems going to easy.
I'm the same - i only play on hard if i really love the game and i want to platinum it on my second run through. eg. Witcher 3
I always play on normal, if I like a game enough to replay it I usually up the difficulty the second time through.
It depends on the game,I mostly play on normal but if that get's tough I will choose easy in a heartbeat.I want to enjoy the game not to be frustrated & stressed out.