What would you call your difficulty settings?

>Normal (actually Hard)
>Hard (actually Nightmare European Extreme Dante Must Die & Knuckles)

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It heavily depends on the kind of game, but in general I'd lean towards not having traditional difficulty settings.
Instead there would be a single intended experience, plus
>a hidden achievement for completing the game while abstaining from certain features (self-imposed hard mode)
>an accessibility menu, with plenty of features to make the game as easy as you want- but I would make no attempt to balance the game around those features, and enabling them would lock out achievements

>Hard
>Harder
Women and Game Journalists can go fuck themselves.

>Shit nigger why are you even playing this, just watch some gameplay
>Please go with a doctor and/or a psychologist to check for mental retardation
>Easy
>Normal but it's really easy with a bit more mobs and just want to make you feel good about yourself
>Normal
>Hard
>Very Hard
>Souls-like
>"Halo 2: Gravemind on Legendary"-like

Movie mode
Game mode
Autist mode
No gf mode

>You didnt beat the game
>You didnt beat the game
>You didnt beat the game
>The game

New Game

L O S T

>easy = a dog could play this
>normal = easy
>hard = most miserable experience of your entire life
every game i play seem like this

unironically I would like a "developer intended" difficulty indication since so many games the hard mode or harder feel like they should be the normal mode or different modes have actual changes to AI and stuff that isnt just different damage and health

>We Didn't Even Test This
So DooM Nightmare! Difficulty?

>Easy(actually hard)
>Normal(actually hard)
>Hard(actually easy)

Game's Journalist
Very Easy
Easy
Normal
Hard
Give me Deus Ex

If I ever finish my game, I will add a game hournalist difficulty, which is 5 minutes long with npc calling player a "good boy, who is a good boy, you are a good boy"

Subhuman
Human
Aryan
Superhuman

Developers should either do away with using the easy/normal/hard difficulty names, or be better at making things actually hard.
Nowadays when I read "hard" I assume it will still be easy, because there's just so many games that have 1-3 difficulties above hard for no reason.
Hard doesn't fucking mean anything anymore. Games are never actually hard on hard.
Why even name it "hard" when you're gonna have extreme, super-extreme, SUPER-HARDCORE-EXTREME above it too?

There wouldn't be any difficulties in my game because it would be a kaizo game. get fucked

nonexistent, play it the way I designed it or don't at all.

>Easy
>Normal
>Hard
>Three Generals (adds a leader, a brute, and a tactician to every enemy group in the game)
>Impossible Mode (same as TG but every enemy, even the starter ones in the tutorial, are the elite variant)

This.

that one was literally put in as a joke, but it's interesting
>ignores enemy step counters so they have instant reaction speeds
>turns on fast monsters so their projectiles and movement are insanely fast
>makes enemies respawn after a bit of RNG/time

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>game journalist
>women
>normal
>hard (balanced as intended)
>extreme
>insanity mode (made just for long term replay challenges)

Being a joke doesn't mean it doesn't qualify as an example

Anything below the intended difficulty would have only 1 ending and less content (can't prevent death of waifu companion for example)

>adds a leader, brute, and a tactician
I must know more.

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