| Merry Prankster Games | By gdunbar |   |
| Saturday, September 26, 2009 |
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 |   Staffan E GDNet+
Member since: 8/13/2002 From: Sala, Vastmanlands Lan | 
Posted - 9/27/2009 12:59:22 PM | Good read. I would think part of this moving away from freely adjustable difficulty settings comes from the entry of achievements/trophies. Since these are little more than generalized bragging rights they put the requirement that my playing session of a game is qualitatively comparable to yours. Cheat codes and the ability to change difficulty mid-game would make it very difficult to design achievements so I guess publishers wanted these things gone.
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 | gdunbar GDNet+
Member since: 2/22/2006 From: Mill Valley, CA | |
Posted - 9/28/2009 12:17:17 PM | Quote:Original post by Staffan E
Good read. I would think part of this moving away from freely adjustable difficulty settings comes from the entry of achievements/trophies. Since these are little more than generalized bragging rights they put the requirement that my playing session of a game is qualitatively comparable to yours. Cheat codes and the ability to change difficulty mid-game would make it very difficult to design achievements so I guess publishers wanted these things gone. |
That's a good point; I hadn't thought about the achievements angle to the "difficulty slider" feature.
Geoff
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