Unlock Hard mode after ending a game is nonsense

Why do game developers make this feature available after ending a game? Just for replay value? I usually end the game once on normal since hard isn't available and don't bother with the newly unlocked harder mode because its the same game all over again with beefed up enemies.

What I would love to see is a game that completely changes depending on the level of difficulty selected. For example, if you play on normal, the game is located on the west coast where as if you play in hard the game is on the east coast making it two completely seperate adventures. It competely changes the game and reasoning behind Hard mode in my opinion. In addition, how about allowing you to continue from where the game ended in hard mode. Don't make us start from the beginning of the game but allow us to continue from the end of the game with new locations unlocked.

Do you guys really replay a game because hard mode was unlocked?

Thoughts? Suggestions?

agree about zelda...

thus.. i play the hard mode in some... especially RE.. why?? well bc i would pry play the game again in normal if hard mode was not there.. and after you bit hard, you get cool guns so :D :P

Thus i get your point, some games should have the hard mode since the beginning, if you try it out and is too hard then you "practice" with normal mode and after you know what you are doing you play hard if you want more challenge :P

For example, if you play on normal, the game is located on the west coast where as if you play in hard the game is on the east coast making it two completely seperate adventures.Lpsquall

That already exists in most games. It's called advancing to the next level, map, zone, or whatever. Super Mario Bros starts you out on easy in Chapter 1-1. Once you beat Chapter 3-4, you progress to medium difficulty and start in Chapter 4-1. Once you beat Chapter 6-4, you progress to hard difficulty and start in Chapter 7-1. It's a pretty cool system of scaling difficulty. It even lets you carry over your score from earlier levels!

GodMode... i don`t think they r many ppl that start right after they finished normal mode... imo... at least i wait a couple of weeks...chang_1910

i totally agree

what i would prefer is to have like say an unlockable character from the game itself (preferably the villian) and be able to play through his side of the story.

Well, hard modes are usually there for those who have already played the game, liked it, and want a challenge, or that it's straight up impossible to win on hard mode without playing through once (I.E. RPG New Game + type deals).

Although it should make sense that hard mode is available from the start though at least. I wish it were for Blue Dragon's NA release, that game is toooo easy, which is its biggest drawback.

I completely agree with this. If I replay a game, I do so for a chance to re-experience the great content/story the game offered, and not for the enjoyment of getting killed twice as many times by boss X or puzzle A. In fact, if I replay a game, I'd sooner do so on an easier difficulty setting than the first time I played trough it, because at that point it is all about re-experiencing the awesome parts in the game. If I want the challenge of a incredibly tough enemies, I want it the first time I play the game, not after I've already finished it. What's the point of challenge to the point of frustration if I've already reached the finish line?

It would be great if developers somehow implemented a properly working auto-scaling difficulty. There have been games which scaled difficulty as you went along depending on your performance, but the ones I've played never really did this particularly well. Perhaps it would be an idea for the game's difficulty to automatically be set depending on your performance in a tutorial level, yet still give you the option to override it if you find the game to be either too easy or too difficult at whatever point.

I agree that unlocking a harder difficulty level is rather pointless. I'd rather the developers just abolished difficulty settings and gave the game a better tilt from the offset. So it starts of easy and naturally gets progressively harder until the end.luke1889

Dont games already do that :question:

I agree that unlocking a harder difficulty level is rather pointless. I'd rather the developers just abolished difficulty settings and gave the game a better tilt from the offset. So it starts of easy and naturally gets progressively harder until the end.luke1889

But balancing it to provide an adequate level of difficulty for many different audiences is hard (look at TP)... and if a game started out really easy but then ramped up the difficulty and got insanely hard, playing through the beginning would be frustrating for the skilled players and playing through the end would be frustrating for the more casual players.

I'd like to see more games with Resident Evil 2 style gameplay/endings. Now there's a beast of a game for replay value.

Chris's playthrough is slightly different than Jill's playthrough. And then when you beat the game, you pop the other disc in to play through the game again with a different map. And then when you beat that you get some mini game/extras gameplay.

So, thats basically 4 playthroughs before the mini games and extras. Solid.

I don't like it much either. There are too many games where once you play through them, I have no interest to play through them again. So having it locked is really meaningless.

I know the devs are giving replay value, but passing the game once really is enough for most people, unless the game is darn good like RE4.

Different difficulty settings are good. Let the player choose, I say. And yes, unlocking hard difficulty by having to play through the game is pointless. Unless the game changes in some significant way.