BattleMaster posted:

GlyphGryph posted:

Some games who implement the "simple" solution also manage to do so in a way that is so bad there are actually egregious balance issues at pretty much every level, especially the hard ones, because lots of devs somehow either make the higher difficulties result in things being easier somehow past the first ten minutes, or confuse "hard" with "tedious" and the harder difficulties just make things more boring instead of harder.

Both of those are also a problem in skyrim-style RPGs, and the general lesson I take away from those games consistently loving every conceivable way to implement adjustable difficulty is that most RPG developers are actually exceptionally bad at designing good gameplay and have a very poor understanding of what makes things difficult or easy (which might well be part of why they are choosing a genre where being exceptionally bad at that particular thing isn't usually all that big a deal on account of genre conventions being "make skill and difficulty irrelevant and replace it instead with time investment")

Although you're right that there are also a lot of folks who whine about "I picked the hardest difficulty and it was hard", and there's a reason why "only offer harder difficulties to players who demonstrate they can handle harder difficulties and otherwise don't point out its adjustable" is a pretty common addition to the formula.

infraboy posted:

I wish the inventory was just a little bigger or at least let me use some Neuromods to make it so.