Re: What difficultly level do you play one?

On Sun, 07 Jul 2024 14:17:01 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

On Sun, 07 Jul 2024 13:28:35 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>

The way I look at it is: I've done my time banging my head against
computer game difficulty. I've done the hard stuff. I've played Doom
on Nightmare mode. I've flown Falcon 4.0 with max realism settings. I
beat Syndicate: American Revolt. I've nothing to prove anymore. I
shown I have the chops. If I want to go a bit easier nowadays, that's
no problem. I've _earned_ my easy mode. ;-P

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I loved Syndicate and hated American Revolt precisely because of the
difficulty introduced in that expansion. Congrats on finishing it. I
never did.

I banged my head against that one for a long time. It didn't actually
occur to me at the time that the game was actually significantly
harder. I just assumed I wasn't 'getting it' or was somehow missing
out on some sort of obvious strategy. Most likely because --unlike the
first game-- I wasn't really focused on the game in the same way.
"American Revolt" didn't really add anything new, except more levels
(and maybe a gun or two? I forget. It's been a long time). My
lingering impression of the game wasn't that it was /hard/ but that it
was /boring/.

Which isn't to say I was some sort of expert who got through the game
with ease; far from it. I recall a lot of dying and restarting the
levels. I perservered just because that's what we did back then,
before our video game libraries grew so voluminous that we could
AFFORD to quit games long before we'd eked out every iota of
enjoyment. But I put the fault on myself --rather than the game-- for
not enjoying it as much as the original.

Still, I've never made any real attempt to replay the expansion. I've
gone through the original numerous times, but that one trek through
"American Revolt's" levels were enough for me. These days, given its
reputation for difficulty, I don't even /try/.