What games have well designed difficulty settings?

Well, you could've hid in that house, and see if that helps.

Seriously though, on grounded there were many parts I found infuriating and had to rage quit on occasion. The hospital most notably, you just have to book it past all the guards as there's nowhere near enough supplies to put up a sustained fight. I finished grounded, but think survivor is around the best overall difficulty to meld gameplay and narrative perfectly.

Don't have PSN+, so never got into MP but I hear it's great.

Not sure good, but Goldeneye Remake had it's higher difficulty play with player health bars and health packs scattered throughout the level (along with the extra objectivies). It was certainly interesting,though I'd say it worked because it was initially made like that in the first place.

Proper build up to a high-stakes climax, I feels you.

I like games with multiple difficulty settings. Most games only have three, and I think that is way too little. At minimum, games should have five difficulty sets to pick from. Ideally, they should all strive for six.

Very Easy

Easy

Normal

Hard

Very Hard

Extreme

A nice set of difficulties for every kind of player. Games like Ace Combat and Wing Commander get this right.

I also like games that do a new game + properly. I think more games should do that

Silent Hill 2 & 3 had this really cool idea of separating the difficulty of puzzles and combat. I really enjoyed that.

Also question to SW:

wyb?

@FrozenLiquid:

Well, reminds me of this chick "named" Serenity whom I slid a limp one into back when I was 20 and thought a pity **** was a noble thing.

So at one point, yeah I suppose so.

Mmhmm, hate getting a game where all the cool upgrades I only get to use in like the final fucking hour. Let me go ham now with these mechanics.

Starcraft 2's campaigns have a really nice set of difficulties. 4 modes ranging from "babby's first RTS" to "holy shit 500 apm go go go!" Plus there are lots of little bonus objectives to shake things up even more.