Game Theory: Hard Mode is a LIE! (Sekiro Easy Mode Controversy)

DDA was actually one of my first lessons as a game dev, showing how important it really is in games. It also heavily affects RNG- if a player flips a coin on tails too many times, we start increasing the chance of it hitting heads. We rarely use "real" RNG for anything.

Truly less controversial

I don't care about the difficulty

its a pretty easy game i myself started sekiro as my first souls and not just the main story line i did all the ending and also 2 of them on the demonbell and kuro charmless difficulty including all the gaunlets so i would say if u thing its hard(for me its moderate difficuly) its bcs u are 90 or 9

gaming is meant to be a hobby not a job. Thats why I like picking easy mode, I got other things to do.

god of war ?
what a great movie ....
oh! sorry it's a game ?.... oh i didn't know about it......

bioshock lies to you about your healthbar and darksouls lies to you about the enemy healthbar

Aaaaaa the OG game theory openings brings back so much memorys😢

Oh this video reminded me of shadow fight 2 I swear the game just changes difficulty in same round it messed up

Dacco hearing this right after he beats ucn 2050 mode:
Insert gif of pure rage here

Judging by the thumbnail thought you were calling Kratos a baby

I 300% percented cuphead 3 times, what about it?

I didn't want lower game difficulty because I suck at games. I wanted lower game difficulty because I'm an adult with a 9-5 and kids 😭

My say is that every game is way too easy. I beat every single assassin’s Creed on legendary difficulty with ease.

I feel this to a degree, i recently bought Neir Automata and its tricky even on normal, all easy did was turn on auto heal and auto dodge

Im gonna miss this man 😢

So what your saying is easy and normal mode are easier than hard mode?

I love this video I really do… but, the souls games are literally made to make you quit, if you can’t beat a boss then you can’t it’s unfair and I love them

Possible hot take: if developers want to make a hard game they're allowed to make a hard game.
They just need to advertise that its not for causal players.

Well they still get complaints? I think we've been on the internet long enough to know that answer but at least its a way to make everyone who can be happy happy.

As a bad gamer and a sekiro fan I do think that making a game without a difficulty slider forces players into harder situations then they would put themselves in otherwise which makes for a more satisfying gameplay. As a bad player I always choose normal mode and I would’ve never realized that I like it better when the game is harder even if I die 10 times to the same boss it makes the game more satisfying.

So, it's shrinkflation for video games?

Imo its better to have it than not, having an easy mode doesn't hurt if you just eanna have fun

God hand on ps2 is the only game I know where dynamic difficulty is officially part of the game mechanic and shown openly to players as a level meter. If you do better, level increases and enemies become smarter but no changes to their health. And you can use a special move where the main character literally begs the enemies to restart the difficulty meter to zero

Then there's absolute psychos who download LMTSR(Sekiro Harder than Hard mode where you go ful Animu) and Very Very Hard Mode DS3(NG+7 difficulty...at NG+0 with NG+0 rewards, have fun).

Yeah easy mode should not exist

I miss him and hes not even gone

Youngpat

My only opinion is DDA's should only be applied on easy nerfed in medium and not applied on hard.

gitgud peasant

Where's the DDA for real life? Looking for a friend

Why can’t Pokémon do this

I’m gonna tell you right now, sekiro was so hard I nearly gave up , but in the end beating that game was such a great achievement I’m so happy it was that hard.

Me who plat trophied the game: make it harder.

This brings a whole new meaning to no death runs 😂

I have a PC. I'll just mod it and add an easy mode. If I pay for it, I can play however I want.

I remember playing Simpsons Hit & Run for the PS2 when I was younger. If you failed too many times at a mission, a promt would literally just appear and ask you if you wanted to skip the mission. It had mainly a child audience, so it made sense, but I guess it's not a very subtle method of going about it. I have however noticed it in a few games, and once had a theory like this that games may do it on the sly, but figured I was overthinking it.

The most impressive dynamic thing I've seen on a game (not difficulty related), was on We Love Katamari (PS2). I was on a level, and suddenly the game just glitched. I can't quite remember what happened, however, the game realised it had glitched, then a prompt came up, apologising that the game had glitched and then respawned me. One of the coolest mechanics I've ever seen in a game, seeing as the game is able to recognise when something happened that wasn't meant to happen.

Its called Balencing LOL

If I pay for a game, I want to see the ending. I have never being a goog gamer, so I have no problem in using easy mode, or the game adjusting the difficulty.

I believe easy mode is basically practice mode and the more times you play it you should intense the difficulty to get better at games

Skill issue

Other games: reduces damage dealt to you and offer for you to change the difficulty
Sekiro: HESITATION IS DEFEAT

At certain points in RE4 remake you can immediately feel the DDA take affect after 3 deaths so much so that you feel cheated of an experience and satisfaction of completing it.

here is some random persons take:
keep the normal difficulties and the difficulty scaling, just add one difficulty. . . that throws all logic like that out the window, and then doubles all enemies for the memes. a "masochism mode" so to speak
(say in said game you have 11 health when the hud says 10 (last health counts for two) , in masochism mode you only have 10)

The interesting part of this video, is how all video games you named are trash imo. WHat i mean is this only work with certain target audience only, which may be majority, but still.

All this did was make me want to play Crash Bandicoot somemore

bro skipped sekiro in a sekiro video

I'm god of war 1 when I died 5 times it asked me if if anted to change to easy mode

Looking at ark: survival evolved, who lets the character spawn inside an alpha carnotausus lol

sekRO...... EXCUSE ME