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GanonsSpirit posted...

Terrible take. They designed it around hard mode and gave the sliders to make it easier or harder.

Not really if you really think about it.

The developers are intimate with their games systems and understand what would make their own game harder or easier. Leaving a bunch of sliders to the player to determine their own difficulty is worse off because that assumes that the player is familiar enough with the game systems in the first place. And if the player is familiar with those game's systems, then they probably didn't need to make it easier in the first place.

Though of course not all games are balanced well in the first place when easy or hard modes are tacked on, especially where all they do is give the enemies more health.

I think a game that benefits sliders most would be an open world sandbox wear sliders affect resources or enemy spawns. Don't Starve applied this really well.