Games which work better on higher difficulties

[easytarget]

Turning the enemies into bulletsponges improves the game? Perhaps it makes it challenging, certainly doesn't improve them as RPGs.

that's only part of what changed, and while it might of been the primary result in 3, in what he calls 4, which i assume is new vegas, the harder setting adds realism by reintroducing the effects of not eating, drinking or sleeping, which meant you needed to take into consideration elements which any survivalist would actually need to plan for, and it also made pretty much everything at the outset more dangerous and realistically restricted some of your options about where you would safely consider going

[johnhughthom]

that's only part of what changed, and while it might of been the primary result in 3, in what he calls 4, which i assume is new vegas, the harder setting adds realism by reintroducing the effects of not eating, drinking or sleeping, which meant you needed to take into consideration elements which any survivalist would actually need to plan for, and it also made pretty much everything at the outset more dangerous and realistically restricted some of your options about where you would safely consider going

Hardcore mode was independent of the difficulty setting.

[easytarget]

Hardcore mode was independent of the difficulty setting.

True, I still think of it as a difficult setting, it made it more difficult.

[johnhughthom]

True, I still think of it as a difficult setting, it made it more difficult.

Not if you already roleplayed such restrictions in Fallout 3 anyway.

[easytarget]

True. And it's easy to see how you ended up w/ nearly 5k in posts here.

[johnhughthom]

That's the first time anybody has ever commented on my post count, I feel like a real veteran now!

Most of them actually come from the mafia games in the Gameroom (a few forums down), you should check it out.

Mount & Blade is another game that benefits from high difficulty. There is the saving option, as Froggy mentioned, which means you can't reload after a defeat. Well you can alt F4 before the map screen, but that would be lame and I certainly would never do such a thing. The difficultly levels relating to damage also make a huge change, going from kiting around on a horse couching everything on 1/4 damage to full damage and manual block on foot is huge. I enjoyed the game far more when I came off the horse, and again when I discovered the damage level can be changed.

[Fragony]

Thief of course, not being allowed to kill completely changes the game, it should not be played any other way.

[phonicsmonkey]

that's only part of what changed, and while it might of been the primary result in 3, in what he calls 4, which i assume is new vegas, the harder setting adds realism by reintroducing the effects of not eating, drinking or sleeping, which meant you needed to take into consideration elements which any survivalist would actually need to plan for, and it also made pretty much everything at the outset more dangerous and realistically restricted some of your options about where you would safely consider going

I RP'd these restrictions in FO3 and was pleased to see them built into NV, but I would have enjoyed it more if it was harder to find food, drink and places to sleep.

As it is it seems pretty easy just to carry around purified water, bed down on a nearby mattress or eat some pilfered maize and get around the restrictions that way. Anyone know of a mod which makes them more scarce?

Having said that, even with the plentiful supply of each it is still fun to catch yourself saying to someone on IM "I'm just trying to find a toilet to drink out of"