In my opinion, Legendary should be the standard difficulty for Halo / FPS games.

I just finished Reach, and I think it's an overall perfect shooter, I couldn't be happier. It just made me think about how easy other games are compared to it though, and thats why I think it would be way better if the extreme difficulty was the standard for all FPS games, because it intensifies the action and makes you play alot more stategically.

Am I the only one who thinks that games these days are far to easy ? Who agrees !?!

Heck No!

I just finished Reach, and I think it's an overall perfect shooter, I couldn't be happier. It just made me think about how easy other games are compared to it though, and thats why I think it would be way better if the extreme difficulty was the standard for all FPS games, because it intensifies the action and makes you play alot more stategically.

Am I the only one who thinks that games these days are far to easy ? Who agrees !?!

Megaman5364

No.

Making the regular difficulty setting incredibly hard is a surefire way to lock out potential new players, which means diminishing returns on games and potentially long-reaching negative effects on the industry. It'll never happen (or at least I hope it doesn't).

Games are easy because there's no need for insanely difficult/frustrating games. Back in the day games were hard because they were short, so they needed difficulty to add replayability to them.

Legendary wouldn't work for every FPS game. Halo actually has real AI, a lot of FPS don't. They have that cheap AI that knows where you are at all times, have 1000% accuracy and so on. It would just be flat out cheap to the point where it wouldn't even be worth playing.

i died a good bit on normal, so i think i would of never finished the game on legendary, or probably just get annoyed at constantly dieing and never attempted to finish it therefore ruining the gameplay :roll:

Halo: Reach on Legendary SUCKED BALLS. The difficulty wasn't the problem -- that was easy to get by, after you got used to it -- but you didn't feel as a S P A R T A N as you played it. I can't see a member of the Noble Six having to hide behind a half destroyed wall and picking off grunt by grunt with controller bullet bursts -- I see him rushing in and tearing them apart, with melee attacks and assassinations, followed by a couple of grenades and some heavy fire.

Normal was and continues to be my favorite mode for Halo.

Hell to the N.O.

I guess I would never play another FPS game :P.

Making the regular difficulty setting incredibly hard is a surefire way to lock out potential new players, which means diminishing returns on games and potentially long-reaching negative effects on the industry. It'll never happen (or at least I hope it doesn't).

1PMrFister

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Making the regular difficulty setting incredibly hard is a surefire way to lock out potential new players, which means diminishing returns on games and potentially long-reaching negative effects on the industry. It'll never happen (or at least I hope it doesn't).

codezer0

You've never played WaW Veteran have you? That was pure hell...CongressManStan

Haha, the bridge to the Reichstag was basically the road to Hell.

So all it takes is you getting matched up with players of a different skill level for you to dislike the multiplayer? Did you even try to play social or just enjoy the game instead of concentrating on what rank the other players were? Personally, I've rarely had trouble getting matched up with players of my own skill level in ranked matches though, but going in with a party will stretch the pool of skill ranks, obviously, and if the game can't find an exact match up it's just going to keep stretching that pool.

On the other end of the spectrum I've run into this problem in pretty much every shooter ever so I don't see how it's fair to really specifically criticize Halo over this. Considering you never played Reach though it kinda feels like you just came into this thread to complain about Halo(and practically claim a game's campaign you never played was bad)... Not that this would be a first for you.

Oh, and censor bypassing? Cute.

This thread made perfect sense once I saw that OP's icon was Megaman

Yes, it would make much more sense to make a game cater to a smaller percent of the population.

i was dissapointed by reach i found legendary easy which kinda put me off the game it was harder than some but still wasn't what i would call challenging. plasma pistol overcharge+ dmr= easy mode

i looove reach and halo, i really do. but the bad framerate dips make me not want to play legend

This thread made perfect sense once I saw that OP's icon was Megaman

firefox59

Good observation skills. I bet he's fond of Ikaruga, N+ and The World's Hardest Game.

We all know your L33T. But why would they need to do that? seriously people have fun at different levels. To some people legendary is just plain frustrating.

You there are people in this world who do not play video games religiously.....

I think people of all skill levels should be able to enjoy a game and beat it. I think games should stick with what they have going on now, have options for everyone. Besides, one way I master a game is by starting on an easier difficulty and working my way up by figuring things out. I probably wouldn't play a game thats difficulty is insane, and whats the fun in being frustrated while you play anyway?

Why not just keep the dificulty levels as they are, and let the customer select what they are comfortable playing?

Dumb idea locking a game to the most difficult level.

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This thread made perfect sense once I saw that OP's icon was Megaman

iAtrocious

Good observation skills. I bet he's fond of Ikaruga, N+ and The World's Hardest Game.

Legendary for me just ended up being high stress levels as i "hope" i can make it to the next checkpoint. If all games were forced to be played on a difficulty where i had to do that, i wouldn't bother with games anymore. Then again i prefer easy on all games so i can play quick with little time loss and very little frustration. Nothing was fun at all or gave me a feeling of satisfaction from beating Reach on Legendary.

My opinion? You're an idiot.

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This thread made perfect sense once I saw that OP's icon was Megaman

firefox59

Good observation skills. I bet he's fond of Ikaruga, N+ and The World's Hardest Game.

not everyone can handle real hard games.

sales would decrease if that was the only difficuilty

You've never played WaW Veteran have you? That was pure hell...CongressManStan

I usually use campaign to get familiar with the weapons on an easy difficulty and then play online.

Hell no! Only if you want **** tons of broken controllers and tears.

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I just finished Reach, and I think it's an overall perfect shooter, I couldn't be happier. It just made me think about how easy other games are compared to it though, and thats why I think it would be way better if the extreme difficulty was the standard for all FPS games, because it intensifies the action and makes you play alot more stategically.

Am I the only one who thinks that games these days are far to easy ? Who agrees !?!

ShadowDeathX

Agreeing to this is stupid. I will agree that games are easy these days but saying everybody should be on the same page of a small percent is stupid. Secondly Ninja Gaiden II is fairly challenging, but just make sure to unlock the other difficulties.