Games that get better later in time [discussion]

I'm currently playing through MGS3: Snake Eater again and I noticed that it's much more fun since I've left the Very Easy difficulty. In Very Easy I would get the EZ Tranquilizer gun and was able to just put my enemies to sleep. Now that I'm playing on Normal, I have to worm my way around the enemies, sneak up on them to take them out and sometimes I have to setup an ambush.

Have you ever played a game, switched up the difficulty and it actually got even better?

I always start my games on the hardest avalible difficulties 8)

Except Civilization. I still can't figure that fricken game out :P

Mass Effect 2 on insanity was like an entirely new game. It forced you to intelligently build a complimentary team, manually position squadmates, and use apprioprate powers. The Shepard-only, Rambo-style of mindless gameplay was out the door.

I found that Shadow of the Colossus gets better over time. Not from difficulty but artistically too. When you play a myriad of endless FPS and third person shooting games all trying to get the Graphics King title, its only when you go back to gems like SOTC you realise how good it is. It is a game that will defy time. It will always be good. It accomplished staggering scale and graphics with a very invigorating story and all it had was a dead girl a man and a horse. Only 2 characters talked. It truly is an excellent experience

Flight Simulator X. It's hard to believe one game can spawn a whole cottage industry of payware and free add-ons. Even its predecessor, FS2004 is still strong due to all the payware add-ons.

Oh... I came in here expecting a thread about re-experiencing games 5, 10, 15 or 20 years after they've come out... >_>

As for the actual topic at hand, my greatest experience with this would be with The Ultimate Doom and Doom II: Hell On Earth. Back when I started playing Doom II as a kid (at 8 years of age, shortly after it came out), I would only play on "I'm Too Young To Die" and would use cheats like iddqd (invulnerability), idkfa (all weapons, keysand full ammo) and idclip (run through walls) to make playing easier. I would play the game on and off throughout the years up until present... but it was about three years ago I discovered Skulltag (a.wad launcher that adds things like free-aim, jumping and 3D graphics) that I pushed the difficulty up to "Ultra Violence" and started experiencing the "true" Doom experience. It was intense, frustrating and incredibly enjoyable. Though, I have to admit, there would have been no way I could have played on UV when I was that young... my skills were just not that great, and I didn't have as good hand-eye coordination as I do now.