For example, I love certain strategy games for the map painting, for the endless posdibilities of building your nation or your kingdom or your dynasty or whatever, depending on the game.
I really enjoy creating BEAUTIFUL stories, with dynasties returning to reconquer lost territories, brother or son getting the throne back, a daughter struggling to keep the vassals loyal, etc
Or a low count, reaching for the stars, wanting to build a New Empire.
Nothing wrong with just enjoying the immersion though, though I do feel that with higher stakes, it’s more stressful, it feels more lifelike
I Agree.
The problem with too higher difficulty is that Im losing immersion too, I mean rarely Everyone wants to get you lol (in real life) and when the difficulty is raised/higher, suddenly Everyone wanna murder my character and he gets sick out of no where Always and what not crazy mechanics a game offers.
Too Unrealistic this way.
It’s like all the Gods are cursing him lol.
A comedy (of sorts) about one of my favorite games:
You play as a medieval dynasty, good luck lol…
no kids (not even a legitimizEd bastard) or Brothers or sisters or something to continue your line , game over.
To be honest, it’s not the higher difficulty itself, it’s the winning that’s soothing.
Some people don’t like playing for the score.
But if I worked all day and I’m tense, I put my headphone loud, the building collapsing, the heavy machine gunning, bombs, grenades and screams of the soldiers are so soothing. It’s like hypnosis. The chaos of it all.
It feels out of control and at the same time you’re in full control.
Battlefield 128 players, full servers on weekends in hardcore mode. Pretty much bullying the other players and becoming best player over and over. Highest kills, little deaths.
It’s like being a performer giving people a good show lol
It’s not people’s fault if you’ve been playing these games for 15 years lol
It’s like Hitman, Gears of war, Soul Calibur, NBA 2k. Games I’ve played since a teenager. My hands and my eyes know the games by heart. I can tap into the games.
It’s like being able to read the future and other players mind at the same time.
After 2 hours it feels like a massage for the mind and body. I don’t know exactly who will be there, random strangers from around the world, 120 of them but I’m going to log in and as if guided by fate, I will win or at least be in the top 3 and then I will quit the game.
To be able to think, I don’t know who I’ll be playing against, but I’ll most likely win. It’s such a powerful feeling lol. Even if it’s just a game. It’s not blind arrogance, you’ve played for years the result is usually the same.
And sometime another player will give you a hard time and it will be a nice surprise for a face off
I played the Hitman series until one of the newer Hitman games (reboot or whatever it was, Idk if it continued after Absolution), then after Hitman 2 (around 2019 or something), I realized that mypc is kinda old and Hitman 2 was lagging and freezing, not fun lol…
I need a new pc lol, anyway, I LOVED, ABSOLUTELY ADORED The Hitman Games, Especially Blood Money.
There was a time when I knew almost everythjng about those games, the story, the countless ways to assassinate a target, how to get from one area to another, the many many clothes that you could take to infiltrate somewhere, the escaping routes, etc.
(nostalgic times lol)
I know the feeling although haven’t played newer games in a while.
Shooters I haven’t really played since almost a decade ago, but I do know the feeling.
Counter Strike used to be some of favorites, Call Of Duty, etc.
@SoulStar33
Absolution was a bit weird.
Hitman 3 is pretty good, it comes with the stories of Hitman 1,2,3 and some extra stuff. Great value.
Yeah, I was not that much of a fan either lol.
It was more action, less freedom, less hitman, Wth lol.
It wasn’t bad, just Not a great Hitman game.
Still, some levels allowed you to explore more and it was an ok game.
The Whole Victoria (was thst her name, the girl he tried to protect) story, Idk, not my thing, but you could say that he was not a robot though, he could learn/develop empathy over time.
I mean, hitman 2, the whole priest deal, i forgot the plot line, but it seems that he always had a soul, despite being an assassin made in a lab.
Not every character needs to be romantic. There’s a bit too much of that character development in games these days IMO.
It’s like half movie, half game. It’s diverting resources away from gameplay.
He is fit, he has a barcode on the back of his bald head, he wears fancy suits and he kills people for money…. And he is the best at it.
Simple story.
Beyond that you ruin the myth, we don’t want to know or relate to him, we like the mystery better.
People don’t need complicated childhood trauma to explain how they became scum bags. They just are.
John Wick, Saul Goodman, Walter White, Hitman, The Joker, all those Narcos series, the writers don’t need to find complex reasons why it’s ok to do what they do. It’s not ok and they do it, because they love the chaos and they are good at it.
Yeah, you’re right.
The coolest Hitman is the calculated cold blooded professional he is.
Maybe the story from Absolution was loosely based on Leon the professional or what was it called.
Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, A Masterpiece of a film.
I think when I was younger I would do the easy setting. But nowadays I highly recommend starting out with normal setting.
Why?
Because, for instance in Nier Automata, if you select easy, you gain lots of perks like auto-dodge among others making the game at times too easy. In Metal Gear Solid, enemy soldiers were too silly on easy mode. In FIFA, it was way too easy to score goals on easy mode. Etc etc.
Actually in FIFA, I kept doing friendly matches on the legendary setting to improve. I would do the same in some WWE wrestling games. Then later I would play with my friends and pretend I’m not that good and then obliterate them lol 
While I do agree with these points, I like starting on easy until I’m more familiar with a game, and yes, it might be silly, but it will be a walk in the park lol, I’ll explore the/a map/level without stressing that I’ll get killed lol, I could take my time and enjoy it lol, enjoy the graphics, relax, observe the mechanics, simply immerse myself in the fictional world that I’m playing, etc.
Later, I increase the difficulty and thus I’m ready for the challenge…
Well, this is my way of doing things. 
Thank God for Easy settings lol.
Bro…
You used “cheats” on those poor souls lol.
Classic haha
Lately I either play very shallow Sport Games like fifa or very deep CRPGs
On the first I like to be challenged, on the latter I like to go for the “explorer” path and just enjoy it as I was reading an interactive book, I kinda do all the quest but I don’t bother minmaxing all the stats and gears, and basically wear all it looks good.
When I was playing RTS more I’d love take the medium till extreme hard route, and grind some online games, but now I rather prefer a peaceful life.
That’s a beautiful approach.
Classic Manhattan ;)
Karen calling the cops on you, even if you did nothing wrong:
It looks like your avatar is Mr Bean imported into GTA San Andreas and standing in the Grove Street 
After years of having no profile photo, it was finally the time… from what you’ve said earlier you are a Metal Gear fan too ? I spent like thousands of hours playing all of them and even today I consider they aged very nicely.
The revolutionary mechanics Kojima added to the video game industry even today are incredible and when I play a Metal Gear game it’s still very shocking how ahead he was compared to other games.
My only regret is not having the opportunity to play Metal Gear Solid 4 online mode, it was shutted down like few weeks before I get the game. Also still waiting for Rising Revengeance sequel, still hopping even if we have very low chance of having it…
We might just appreciate Metal Gear Solid 3 new game, in my opinion this game doesn’t even need a remake or anything like this, the game is literally already perfect but it’s fine, Peace Walker remake will be legendary !
I played
Metal gear Solid on PS1
Mgs2 and Snake Eater on PS2
Then nothing else after
I’m already heavily pushing my gamer colleague to add it to her list of games to play