9 Video Games Everyone Played Wrong

[@AKevin15]

Yeah but did you know that Ninja Gaiden 3: Razors edge made massive strides in the technical side and far more accurately represents the game it appeared Team Ninja had wanted Ninja Gaiden 3 to be in the first place?

[@OwensShadow276]

Lol glad you noticed it too

[@damiencouturee6240]

Lmao I read this at the start of the video and I was like "Uhh alright that's pretty cool I guess..?" But now I get it lmao. I've gotta give what culture credit, I've been watching pretty much daily for a couple years and this is the first editing mistake I've noticed, that's impressive given the huge number of videos they put out lol

[@AKevin15]

@@damiencouturee6240 yeah they're pretty awesome. They're also human though lol

[@DrMario_666]

I thought I was having a stroke so thank you

[@sdaubs]

@@DrMario_666 I thought that I was predicting the very near future.

[@madisonmcclure8243]

I find that the people who tell me I need to turn perma-death on in Fire Emblem will also reset the level the moment a character dies. I also felt this defeated the point. Plus, I enjoyed the more relaxing play style.

[@marcoreis1064]

I did exactly This in my First play throw and figured that This Just made The game longer kkk

[@paradox3267]

I definitely did reset the fight when i lost a character, and it was annoying at times, but it also pushed me to really think about my actions before going through with them. I brought the strategy aspect of the game to a whole new level and it felt great to get through a hard battle with all my characters still alive. If you want the more relaxing gameplay then more power to you, but playing in classic mode has a completely different feel in my opinion

[@darbling311]

It's just another difficulty slider. Certain strategies are not usable when character deaths are permanent (aka. ALL of the really effective ones). You can play Xcom without the perma death too, but that greatly changes up strategies are viable.

[@fromthelostdays]

You know what happened when permadeath was required in the Fire Emblem series? I restarted the chapter the second a character died because to hell if I'm losing a character. I was very happy when it became optional.

[@morgantaylor84]

"True fans": Why is perma-death optional? Actual fan base: Oh my lord I don't have to waste entire save files just to save one character now because of a mistake I made umpteen hours ago. Shout out to all of those optional character recruits that most players (especially on their first play through) killed and lost out of the story for.

[@angelgu323]

@@morgantaylor84 dumbish logic because perma death on means (i gotts scrub my save) it means that you have to play to keep everyone alive. There are zero stakes if you can have everyone fight to the death and just respawn the next level

[@morgantaylor84]

@@angelgu323 Oh, you're right, I was forgetting that Fire Emblem doesn't also have Ironman. I was thinking in terms of X-Com games where if a character dies guess what, that character dies and you can't save scum save them like you can in Fire Emblem. But in more seriousness, it's hilarious how absolutely gate keepy gamers are about LITERALLY EVERYTHING. I was poking fun at that. "How dare you make a game easier for yourself if you want too. Just git gud scrub blah blah blah...."

[@angelgu323]

@@morgantaylor84 no it's not even about being good. Like play it on any difficulty like the video mentioned. But to play on non perma death just makes the game an autobattler for every fight. Perma death makes the game so satisfying when you are back into the corner with no way out and still manage to keep everyone alive. Kinda like xcom but more forgiving

[@morgantaylor84]

@@angelgu323 So you're claiming that turning a strategy game into an "autobattler" isn't making it easier? Okay then. It still doesn't change the fact that "true fans" HATED this while everyone else was like "Oh neat I can not force myself to have to replay entire missions just because I lost one character at 90% completion. That's cool, I'm probably going to still do that though because it's more satisfying with it on."

[@mrjadversary]

So the only one that made sense was hellblade, sounds like a cool feature that could have been missed out by anyone who just didn't have headphones at the time. All the rest are mostly difficulty preferences or updates which have nothing to do with if someone is playing the game right or not.

[@heroman2372]

The true right way to play Ghost of Tsushima is to play in Japanese with Lethal difficulty and the carnage charm that makes everything bloodier, which justifies why enemies suddenly get drenched in blood

[@Khorganor]

"You should play your games in the hardest difficulty!" Thanks, but no thanks! If I'm actually good enough at some point, I do that by myself. If I don't, that's probably because it's no fun with my current skill set and I'd like to actually finish a game and not abandon it half way through because of frustration. XD

[@davidjsaul]

Especially because most hard difficulty modes are just lazy with the devs simply making enemies sponges with triple damage rather than actually put some effort in to make something challenging but balanced.

[@Khorganor]

@@davidjsaul the 3 pillars of hard modes, more damage, more health, more enemies. XD

[@karthikg.r.s5814]

@Khorganor totally agree with you. Sometimes we just want to have fun rather than getting frustrated and quitting

[@DeadDogInc]

I eventually quit every Souls game I play lol

[@karthikg.r.s5814]

@@DeadDogInc the souls games can be pretty frustrating for a casual gamer 😅😅

[@kikiphallin]

Hard modes that make every single enemy a 5+ minute encounter are a 'hard' pass for me. Witcher 3 on deathmarch for example or GoW on its highest difficulty.

[@TheGhostofMrArthurs]

right? I am 42 now man, not 22. Trying to do the Valkyries on "Give me God of War" is just no. And the Witcher 3 is one of the worst games I ever played, I couldnt wait to beat it to never play it again.

[@lnsflare1]

Honestly, that was my problem with Breath of the Wild's progression system, since the higher tier monsters are more or less identical to their lower tier versions, just with bigger numbers, and Master Mode apparently just adds a gold tier where the enemies have even bigger numbers and regenerate their health if you wait too long between hits.

[@bobhoskins124]

I had to crank the difficulty up on witcher 3. Destroying enemies ten levels above me just wasnt fun.

[@kikiphallin]

For the record, I have beaten every Dark Souls game and Elden Ring (which are just not as hard as people make them out to be) but just so you guys know that I can endure at least a little pain. It's more about boredom lol.

[@kikiphallin]

@@TheGhostofMrArthurs That I can't agree with, I didn't like God of War 2018 but loved Witcher 3 on 2nd hardest difficulty.

[@notoriousbmc1]

Once I upgraded everything, Tsushima was just too easy. Lethal makes the combat SOOO satisfying to play.

[@dreamCatV6]

those voice in your head while playing Senua's Sacrafice really were unnerving....so much part of the total experience.

[@damiancrowley569]

I love this game so much that my daughter's middle name is Senua. If you don't play with headphones you're missing part of the point

[@prarambh1589]

Like dead space 2

[@jifij89]

1000% agree on hellblade, i experience psychosis and it was so accurate i had to take breaks whilst playing to bring myself back to reality. the headphones are essential for the real experience! i hope people playing it gain more empathy for those of us who experience psychosis

[@dorabrooks76]

Truly unnerving, gave me chills multiple times. My grandmother had schizophrenia, and I think it gave me a little glimpse into her experience. I never knew her well, and it's strange to think a video game made me feel closer to her, but there it is. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Thanks for sharing your experience, too. 😊

[@yugenheorte6828]

Does it not mess with your psychosis though?

[@nyuszicsib]

Man...that sucks. I can't even imagine how scary this can be. I wish you get better.

[@jifij89]

@@dorabrooks76 i’m glad the game helped you like that! how amazing that a gaming experience can evoke so many feelings

[@jifij89]

@@nyuszicsib thank you for your kind words!

[@JCOH-TV]

Lethal is one of the most brutal experiences I’ve ever seen in gaming

[@ruanvoda9100]

That feeling when it clicks and you can cut through a group in seconds is soooooo satisfying

[@asseaterbooty6963]

I took a really big poop once, THAT was a brutal experience

[@mikeumm]

GoT lethal can be so satisfying.

[@jasonglasser1621]

Some of these are fair - the headphones thing for Senua seems especially logical (never played it, never will, just not my type of game). The voiced Disco Elysium, also fair, even permadeath for Fire Emblem. A lot of these, though, are "we're including an obligatory caveat line so we can say we're not difficulty gatekeeping, but difficulty gatekeeping" - people can play at whatever difficulty they want, whatever fits their lives, and that's not just "fine because we feel obligated to say it's fine" it's actually fine. Not everything has to be about bragging rights, or accomplishing something hard, sometimes people want to play games to *gasp* play games. (Also, the Sims one, when it's the narrator and only a tiny minority of players that will ever do it that way, the words "right" way and "wrong" way are especially egregious)

[@davidfrantz1504]

Fallout 4 in survival mode. While it's a huge pain in the ass never having fast travel, you do get the vertibird signal grenades in the story. And without it, the settlement building doesn't really mean much in regards to survival. With it turned on you can only save when you sleep, your carry weight is massively reduced, and you can now get diseases that can only be cured by a journey to a doctor or crafting/finding antibiotics, so building settlements becomes important. Throw in that consumables can negatively affect you if not cooked/purified and the damage parity of everyone (the player AND enemies) doing 200% more damage and it makes things much harder at the start and also much more immersive.

[@horrorshiddengems527]

The first twenty levels are a slog to get through, causing you to pick your battles. Even now at level 50 I sometimes run into ambushes that wipe out half an hour of gameplay. I still enjoy it though, and it's made the game a lot more interesting.

[@utisti4976]

Fallout 4 should've been shipped with _only_ Survival Mode at launch. Feels like the whole game is entirely designed around it, even gives the player more of a reason to interact with the settlement system. So much fun. :D

[@michaelferrum708]

The game crashes too much on PC to risk it with the goofy ass save system it forces you to use. I loved the rest of it, but losing a 2 hour play session because you didn't need to rest for a while and the game just crashes for no reason is tiring after the 15th time.

[@evanbelton1297]

@@utisti4976 I feel the same way. Even without power armor, very hard seemed too easy. Survival makes the game so much more fun and intense. Hardcore in New Vegas can be fun, (even though there is still fast travel) especially if you go with logans loophole and stay at lvl 30. Still, I like Survival in 4 much more.

[@darbling311]

I played survival and STILL thought settlements were pretty close to useless.

[@joshalvarez298]

Senua's sacrifice in headphones should be a requirement. It truly makes you feel like you are going crazy when a voice yells "Watch out" and nothing happens, but you freak out thinking that something might hit you. Then the next time you hear "Watch out" and something hits you. Makes you feel like you're loosing it. The heartbreak of a lost one, trying to find yourself. Man it was a truly deep experience and I can't wait for the second game!

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

This is why I stay away from that game. I don’t have headphones

[@KainH93]

Fun fact the game tells you you should use headphones for better experience on the start I did play it with it and was sometimes scary I really like it

[@ghqebvful]

I could have saved myself 10 minutes if you had just started out with "all of these are just play the game on a harder difficulty because harder is better hur-dur... oh and the sims, instead of enjoying the game you should grind out random objectives"

[@CappyLarou]

this list should be "Games you were too afraid to play on Hard, but should have" since thats the answer to every game, play it on hard...lol

[@logansrevenge1214]

Hell blade tells you multiple times to use headphones if people didn't play that way, you really missed out.

[@jk2782]

That's like saying the only way to play an early SMT game is on the hardest difficulty with the HUD disabled because it's the only way to be immersed. I have a low buy-in for immersion so saying that I can get more immersed on hard mode isn't attractive to me. A game actually loses immersion for me if I keep dying and reloading because I get more frustrated with the mechanics.

[@paStLife463]

Personally I play every game on hard difficulty (and sometimes above it) because the challenge keeps me from getting bored and makes me think strategically...

[@k29king1]

With any game that has voice over language choices, I always choose English and don’t worry about immersion as it’s easy to imagine you really are hearing it in its original language, it’s just being filtered for you so your brain can understand it. It’s like that fish from Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy yet it’s just a simple options toggle.

[@favoritemustard3542]

The Babel Fish!! Nice reference lol GG

[@IofSheikah]

I understand that but some games have such cringey English dubs. Dragon Quest 11 and Breath of the Wild are both great examples of sounding much better in Japanese

[@QuestionableLifeChoices]

with you on that one. it's way more distracting for me to keep having to watch the subtitles (or even continually glancing back and forth) instead of keeping my eyes on the characters' faces or settings

[@favoritemustard3542]

Heyo, I might have a compromise: Dubs on 1st play OG on the 2nd ....?

[@DeadDogInc]

@@IofSheikah Naw Japanese is only better if you understand Japanese. All the people saying Japanese is more immersive (not saying you said this) are tripping and just like being with the weebs

[@NucularRobit]

I waltzed through Witcher 3 Death March with Quen + Active Shield. This isn't a brag, it's a broken spell.

[@SSYoung125]

Hellblade senua's sacrifice with good headphones, playing at night, with a large curved monitor. I have never been more immersed in a game.

[@sadowolf]

I love that Hellblade is on the list, because I typically don't play single player games with headphones on but for some reason I did it with Hellblade without being aware of the inherent benefits. It wasn't until I fired it up without my headphones on that realized how much less the voices enhanced the immersion and decided to put them on whenever playing. It's crazy because when you're super dialed in, the voices can really help or hinder you depending on the situation, as I'm sure Ninja Theory intended. Really helps you gain a bit of understanding of what psychosis might be like and how deeply it can influence what you do.

[@incredibleflameboy]

I chose to play ghost of tsushima like that anyway. I read that you're supposed to play as if a single strike can kill you and parry mechanics were the most important part so it was a no brainer. I've been playing it black and white too so it feels like a proper samurai movie.

[@parth_prashant]

You sure did get your money worth

[@underpaidcor]

Similar to fire emblems perma death. Xcom's iron man mode where you only get one save file and it auto saves after every decision. Even playing a lower difficulty is still incredibly stressful

[@chaosflame1890]

Lethal is great for the immersion and focus on deflection, but it also makes some of the sword techniques you acquire somewhat pointless since enemies die as fast as you do. It's sort of like a Heaven and Hell difficulty in DMC

[@filipporapetti9354]

Don't answer to that comment mate, it's a scam. Just a heads up if you didn't know

[@joshrosario1269]

Did anyone else hear her say "this addition made massive strides on the technical side..." Twice or am I going insane

[@JinWoods29]

I was literally just about to ask the same question

[@kairibee7854]

Mass Effect OT. the wrong way to play is to focus on the main quests only, skipping side quests. In ME2 if you ignore loyalty missions you're gonna get a bad ending. In ME3 if you ignore quests gaining war assets you're gonna get a bad ending (yeah ok all endings are bad yada yada). The right way to play the trilogy is to do EVERYTHING

[@brobafett21]

Thankfully, someone recommended playing with headphones to me before I played Hellblade so fortunately I played it the “correct” way and I agree, it’s definitely the best way to play it.

[@Davuf]

This list reminded me of Doom Eternal. Not about what is the "correct" way to play, but how the harder difficulty levels chance the game in my opinion. On difficulty level "ultra violence" and above the game feels more like a puzzle game, as you're required to handle different enemies in a more prioritized order. I absolutely loved this, because i rarely see difficulty increase change how the "game is played". Usually it just means more bullet spongy enemies, at least in 1st/3rd person shooters.

[@BigPoppaCherry]

Me, playing the Sims as an introvert for almost two decades the exact way you mentioned: "Huh....imagine that. Time to work on my career and house again."

[@thomasacord6194]

If Jess tells me it's better to play a video game blind folded with my toes then I'm doing it...

[@yashdhiman611]

Yes, all hail the queen🛐

[@yugenheorte6828]

All hail Queen Jess!

[@becomingsentient1208]

Simpin' ain't easy. And I'm not saying you're wrong.

[@MommiRimiru]

toe fedish

[@yugenheorte6828]

@@redbeardthegamer4998 all hail king Harwell?

[@rehfeldt12]

When I want to play on Hard Mode, I just boot up Bloodborne, DS3, or Elden Ring NG+.

[@Uebermenschman]

5:12 a line so nice, Jess said it twice!

[@DanteYewToob]

The game I played wrong for many hours was FF7 Remake. I was getting my ass handed to me by pretty basic enemies and my friend explained to me that I was playing it wrong.. lol She basically told me I was trying to play it as an action combat game and not a strategy combat game. I was getting mad that the dodge sucks and doesn’t actually dodge anything, the block is way too slow and doesn’t work, and enemies eat way too much damage! So she explained that basic attacks are basically useless, they’re just there to fill your gauge so you can use your abilities, spells and limits and stuff. Also, it’s much more of a turn based game than I hack and slash combat game, you attack, use your abilities, back off and block, take your hits and go back in and repeat. Once I started to adjust and actually utilize my skills and team more, I had no problem! I died on Hell House on easy about ten times before and then beat it first try on normal once I started playing “correctly”. Honestly though, I feel like the game wants you to play one way, but kinda tricks you into playing another way. It’s weird. My only gripe still is the really lame and needy squad. I hate having to constantly switch and micromanage my team, I get overwhelmed sometimes trying to juggle them and I wish that they would at least use basic skills and abilities on their own! I love how Kingdom Hearts games have a menu where you can adjust the team AI, make them more defensive, aggressive, you can choose how and when they use potions and items… I felt like I had actual backup and if they weren’t being helpful I could easily switch a few basic settings and change it! I always had Donald on crowd control with magic, attacking low level enemies and finishing off any low health enemies. I had Goofy watching my back and prioritizing any enemies currently attacking me or locked onto me, and they both would use items regularly while I focus on the major threats. If FF7 remake had a system even half of that… I’d be very happy! It just sucks having to keep swapping characters and losing focus on what I was doing. Anyway, FF7 is a much better game when you play it the way they intended you to play it. I probably won’t replay it because I’m not a fan of the team juggling aspect, but I definitely had fun and really like it much more now. I’m almost done I think, I’m currently on my way to get Aerith and I think part one ends soon after.. I have maybe one or two chapters left.

[@sadowolf]

I ultimately thought FF7 Remake was still just okay, but I made the exact same mistake you did! Action/hack-n-slash games are kinda my bread and butter, and since the game has the presentation of that genre, I naturally just defaulted to playing it the way I would those games, only to come away feeling that everything was pretty unintuitive. Once I started playing it more like I would an RPG it definitely helped the battles feel more satisfying (I wish I had a friend to tell me, and I wouldn't have had to switch up my style little by little haha). Also I think Hell House may be an epiphany point in the game because that's exactly where I kinda hit the wall that that forced me to really evaluate the way I was playing. Totally agree that the game's presentation comes off like it wants you to play a certain way (in action it looks very close to Square Enix's more action-based games) that isn't actually the way you're advised to, and because of that I never fully meshed with it. Ultimately while I did adjust my play style to fight more effectively, it kinda left me wishing the game actually did play more like a hack-n-slash with heavy RPG elements instead of some weird hybrid that ends up not being quite as compelling as either style in incorporates. Unfortunately I think that my biggest gripe against the game though I warmed up a bit more to the combat, I found everything else in the game kinda boring, which kinda sucks as a fan of the original.

[@chikish]

Jess' back must be so sore from literally carrying this entire channel. Bless 🙏🏻

[@Nipplator99999999999]

My cousin is a bit odd but he is a rare example of a human that, against all odds, made it to be an "adult" without being ruined like the rest of us. I had to say this to explain what my example actually means... GTA V... I got a call from him the day after it released, and he asked me to come over and help him because he was stuck and couldn't get past the mission even after lowering the difficulty. When I get there, he opens the door with tears streaming down his face. Through the sobbing he completely destroyed the careful mask I developed as a US Army ranger breaking my heart. He was stuck because he was trying to save everybody, including NPCs, during the opening mission and couldn't understand why it wouldn't work. He was the only person actually playing it as a honestly good person. It destroyed me when I realized that I couldn't help with this simple minor request. Highlighting how we were all playing it wrong. If it's not obvious to you he never had a chance in our world, because of a cruel twist of fate. His development ended as a small child by the abuse of his mother.

[@ers5920]

Not using 'listen mode' in The Last Of Us 1 & 2 is the right way to play those games.

[@Sunprism]

Used to be you could trust Normal difficulty to be the difficulty that designers worked around

[@Giac_of_all_trades]

TLOU (whether part I or II) on Grounded. Not just the difficulty, but the IA and not abusing (at all, because its removed) the listen mode is game changing. Suddenly you're not playing a game, you're surviving.

[@Humbie11]

5:13 said the exact same thing twice XD

[@larryf4180]

I beat Witcher 3 on Death March without using alchemy whatsoever, I instead spammed and completely relied on the shield sign. The Ciri parts were brutally difficult without that crutch.

[@VanitasSentiment13]

I highly recommend playing P5/R on Merciless. Your critical damage goes way up giving you an edge you won't have on the lower ones

[@greengoblin99999]

Im never a fan of hard games, im a low skill player and most games are super challenging for me

[@mattyt1961]

the right way to play any game is the way that you can and that allows you to enjoy the game.

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

The soulsborne genre doesn’t let my preferred play style exist

[@mattyt1961]

@@notproductiveproductions3504 mine either

[@Facebones2391]

Also HARD AGREE on Disco Elysium. It is delightfully obtuse on its own but the final cut was a massive upgrade.

[@Nick-qy3hu]

I think Splinter Cell should have gotten a mention. They give you a bonus for being non-lethal but when I run, there are no survivors. lol

[@liamnehren1054]

The darksouls games have a very good weakness/ resistance system that actually suggests that the proper way to play the games is by switching weapons and tactics depending on the enemy. The second game also awards you for never dying or never using a bonfire... hats off to the people who have done either... and weapon durability is usually tied to resting at a bonfire and weapons that break either require an item or returning to a blacksmith. These systems open you up to an interesting play style where you switch weapons to maintain durability for the parts where you need a certain weapon the most and actually need the weapon repairing items... ever! So stop resting, repair only via dying and blacksmith, this also limits your estus forcing you to fight smart instead of just brute forcing to the next bonfire.

[@ciaralizabeth]

In P5R, they improved Insta-Kill to the point that Mementos is trivial instead of a slog

[@Xevailo]

One really, REALLY important Note about Persona 5 Royal: If you want to actually experience the content of the added semester, you have to max out the two newly introduced confidants beforehand. (idk if both are mandatory or just one in particular, but do both. just do it.)

[@Volyren]

I'm sure fans agree that the correct way to play Bayonetta is one-handed. Lotion on the controller for the hardcore difficulty chads.

[@ashokrohan7232]

Witcher 3: Wild Hunt should be played with the Enhanced Edition mod. That one forces you to prepare well for each fight. Wanna fight a bunch of drowners? Nope, make sure you gather herbs, drink the right potions, apply the right oil, get some food buffs, THEN go fight them. Otherwise you'll be screwed

[@utisti4976]

I got desperate since I wasn't liking base game TW3 at all and ended up completely effing up my game with Enhanced edition. Great mod, shame it's for a game as shitty as TW3 though.

[@mr.pockets8523]

Sound's like a pain

[@romainpascaud3735]

Metal Gear Solid 3. If you haven't played on European Extreme difficulty, it's hard to understand just deep the rabbit hole of camouflage, AI and micromanaging goes. And it's AWESOME.

[@romainpascaud3735]

@WhatCultureGaming On Telegram Sounds like a scam. No thanks.

[@KionneSensei]

Showing Persona 5 Royal ps5 streaming from console was so much of an cheeky bit of shade I love it lol.

[@yuukitenjouin5790]

Perma-Death in the practice fights seems like it'd break my immersion in half. Never played a FE outside of mobile, though.

[@thatll-do7606]

I know I'm pretty late but if you do a commenter's edition, consider the Souls series and how playing without a shield massively improves the tempo and reactivity of players. It's the first thing I recommend to anyone who's struggling and it seriously helps them be in the moment

[@micah4029]

I'd like to add that playing in immersive for a lot of games is fantastic. Just a few games I played in immersive mode or with a limited HUD are: God of War, Red Dead Redemption II, Ghost of Tsushima, and The Last of Us Part II. They were all great experiences, but Tsushima and RDR2 stand out because they had built-in systems to navigate without the use of a map.

[@iangray1980]

Didn't really have a choice with ghost of Tsushima there's no HUD by design lmao. People stay lying on here

[@bybaam]

What u mean about rdr2? I Like to know to try it :)

[@iangray1980]

@@bybaam ghost has the wind. Rdr2 doesn't have anything to indicate where to go without the map lol. I'm pretty sure this guy has never played either of those games and is just talking nonsense

[@micah4029]

@@bybaam If Arthur has another character riding along with him, they give vague directions if you don't have your minimap. I don't think there's an indicator when you're riding solo, though. As for Tsushima, I haven't played the campaign in almost 2 years, so I didn't remember that the HUD was minimal by

[@degle1923]

Rdr2 doesn t work without the minimap, at least not in the story missions. There are points where you are tasked to hide somewhere, or hide a wagon in a secluded spot, but the game wants you to do so in a specific secluded spot, which you can t find without the minimap. This is just an example, there are quite a few moments where you aren t well directed through dialogue or mission objectives. For the open world it s definitely worth removing the hud.

[@NoxicWaste]

So basically summing up the whole video, play all your videos games on the hard difficulty

[@taddyp3456]

5:23 - it sounds so nice, you just had to say it twice!

[@calvinlee8103]

Metro: Exodus was a game that I kept telling myself was incredible. Eventually I realized I just wasn't having any fun. Making it more difficult certainly wouldn't improve that experience. (I did play Metro: 2033 in Russian, but with English subtitles. It's not mind-blowing or anything, but it's a cool addition to the game that's worth trying once.) Exodus, however; as soon as I finished the game I uninstalled it, never once touching either DLC campaign I paid for. I wanted it to be fun, I swear. It just wasn't.

[@awesomesauce5974]

If you don't mind me asking, what was it that you did not find fun in Metro Exodus? Not judging, i am merely curious.

[@tablettablete186]

@@awesomesauce5974 Yeah, I want to understand too. My biggest problem with the scarcity is that the weapons are super cool, but I was barely able to use them.

[@johnhirs8140]

Yeah, Exodus took some time to acclimate to, with 4 large open worlds/regions, one for each season. And carefully traveling, not too close to a lake edge or a mutant shrimp will ambush, or the dragons will attack your car, or you!, and carry you to their nest of baby dragons. But your wife, Anna was utterly charming. Learning to upgrade weapons was a big help for firepower. It was melancholic, no action music, very quiet till something jumped at you. I can see not everyone liking it, then putting it on nightmare mode won’t make it any more enjoyable.

[@utisti4976]

@@johnhirs8140 Wait, there are enemies in Metro Exodus that can pick up your car? 0_0

[@johnhirs8140]

@@utisti4976 Well they’ll try to pick up you and your car, and the first time it happens you’re.not.quite.sure if they can or cannot and it’s certainly unnerving! It’s the large dragons outside in the desert climate that will try.

[@sakib6258]

"You should play Fire Emblem with permadeath" Me who plays XCOM and Phoenix Point on Ironman: *signature look of superiority*

[@rotank638]

Sekiro: everyone who played it like Dark Souls and gave up, you were playing it wrong.

[@e66iu]

5:12 i replayed this because i thought the matrix glitched. Thanks for my existential crisis. 😝😋🤪

[@humanrich]

5:15 - 5:32 Did this edition make massive strives on the technical side and far more accurately represent the game team ninja wanted Ninja Gaiden 3 to be in the first place? xD

[@VAustin89]

Play the Citadel DLC last on ME3. Currently trying to 100% Dragon Age Inquisition and learning how to build the best team with NIghtmare difficulty is a fun challenge in itself, building the AI up to be competent and complements with your class is just amazing fun.

[@disembodiedglances8695]

I’d argue there’s one wrong way to play a video game: the one where you’re not having fun or, at the very least, where you not getting anything positive out of it

[@Chrismosis]

i played through hellblade with headphones in a single sitting, what an experience

[@TheMerlotLine]

5:13 5:23 Glitch in the matrix...

[@television321man]

right? nearly zapped my brain

[@Estorium]

Yeah, that part really messed up my head as I was only half listening at the time and had to rewind to hear it again. I thought that my brain had glitched or something.

[@angbald]

The VO editing matrix will get ya every time.

[@maliyah789]

hey.. how about a count down on old amazing pixar games like over the hedge and finding nemo... those nostalgic games from our childhood... that many people forgot about....😁

[@UnbornDecay]

Caddicarus already did that, though fair warning, he doesnt like Over The Hedge

[@stevenlaverty8044]

Please this!! Bugs life was iconic

[@stevenlaverty8044]

Please this! Bugs life was iconic

[@Morningstar_95]

In the Horizon titles I turn off most of the HUD, and set most of the others to dynamic. Fell in love with that design choice in the orignal trailer for Zero Dawn

[@NBNV]

I saw the title of this video and said, "Man, it was tragic how few people played Ghost of Tsushima the right way." Then I reached it on the list and celebrated, only to have to give partial credit; forget Lethal Mode, the best way to play GoT is in black and white (in Japanese).

[@darthjayder9914]

Man Hellblade was an awesome game for me. I learned so much more about people and I also got a fun (slightly buggy) hack & slash with puzzles that were mind boggling. amazing game and I should have totally played with headphones instead of speakers, would have helped with the realism.

[@Thrythlind]

I don't have speakers on my computer, so I had to play Hellblade with headphones. Didn't realize there was a difference.

[@wolftickets1969]

The definitive way to play Fallout: New Vegas is Very Hard difficulty, Hardcore mode on, with the J.E. Sawyer mod (only available on PC).

[@azureflame125]

Playing The Witcher 3 on Death March now and not even in that difficulty is the alchemy system really necessary. The problem with alchemy is that it's just a hassle. So much time spent on menus. If there was an item wheel, maybe it would have more tolerable but why waste so much time on menus when you can just use signs and your swords, especially when you have to fight the same group of wolves and drowners again?

[@bn-tc2tk]

Yeah, I thought about doing an alchemy build buts it’s far too much work. Hell it’s already a pain in the ass getting enough money to buy or make dimeritium plates for Witcher armor

[@DanteYewToob]

I partially agree. If they made actually using the stuff easier, I’d have used it more. But personally I enjoyed stopping for a minute, checking my Beastiary and prepping for a fight, I felt like an actual Witcher! If they can streamline that in the next game it will be amazing! I actually had an idea for a mod that posted to Reddit a while back to see if anyone would make it. My idea was this, have a quick access Beastiary that looks like an actual journal and when you open it, it slows time in combat or pauses if your safe or by Roach. You can see all your beasts and when you highlighted a beast, you could click on it and automatically apply all of your oils and stuff you have selected for that beast, so long as you have the ingredients. So at some point when you have free time, you go through your beastiary and make a few load outs for the more complicated beasts and bosses and set it up. Then when you’re tracking a beast, you just pull up the journal, click on the werewolf or whatever and Geralt will automatically slam the book, and chug the potions and apply the oils and balms and stuff. One click, ready for a specific fight. Then you could unlock loadout tabs at the top of the journal for quick access so you can make your own general purpose Witcher Preparations. I think that would work well in the game, be pretty simple to implement and be more immersive and let more people appreciate alchemy. Also, for faster pace players who don’t pay as much attention you can basically stumble into a fight, open the Beastiary journal and scroll quickly to the monster you see, click on it, receive your Witcher Prep Bonuses and keep fighting! I definitely think it should only slow time though, it still requires some planning ahead to actually fully read about the beast, weaknesses and set up the Prep loadouts properly. What do you think? Is that better than how the game is? I think so… I’m open to ideas or whatever too!

[@stefantherainbowphoenix]

You can put decoctions into the quick consumable slots lol.

[@damiencouturee6240]

I completed it on death march and I barely used the alchemy. Just quen and dodge, I put EVRRYTHING I could into the queen sign lol, literally nothing in the other signs, it was a total glass cannon build, I think a fly landing on my geralt without quen would have killed him.

[@EscanorChi]

I've just started playing ghosts of tsushima, and I love games but enjoy the story and some difficulty. But with this game I've realised that I'm breezing through enemies and perhaps it was designed to be played in the most authentic way. I'm gonna try it

[@TheBillnyc84]

Best Jess list. Can’t wait to go back through Tsushima now!

[@evanbelton1297]

I feel this way about survival difficulty in Fallout 4. I feel like that's the way the game was meant to be played. Even on very hard the game seemed too easy, even after I chose to not use power armor. I tired out survival and haven't went back sense. The only downside is no fast travel. Thankfully you can ride a vertibird to reduce time.

[@Sunprism]

As a former tester, I can assure you....There are Lots of ways to play a game wrong

[@TizbutaScratch]

Whenever you play sims 4 you must always do this first. Build a trailer and name your sim Mr. Rogers.

[@cppblank]

I agree with Royal having played it before Persona 5. Royal also has easier trophies so you can actually play like you want instead of having to be very careful about who you hang out with if you want the platinum.

[@luukdenotter9372]

Yeah The Witcher definetly. I was level 35 and finishing the game after doing all the sidequests and only figured out that I could craft items because I couldn't find a certain item in the wild

[@rafaelrosas978]

At 5:30 that moment when you realize you've read the same line twice

[@Jseerockhead40]

Most RTS games, well at least the ones i played in the late 90"s and early 00"s like Red Alert 2, dont play with improper planning or you"d get swarmed, play methodically with sound planning and chalk up a ton of wins

[@mikeumm]

My beef with W3 on Death March is how it deals with the difficulty of Human type enemies by just buffing them. And dogs. Jesus, the dogs.

[@AlecRedfield1037]

I consider video games a form of relaxation because of my work. Therefore I always play video games in their default mode (normal difficulty usually). I don't play video games to challenge myself.

[@Jaszi007]

The best way to play cyberpunk 2077 is to not have the Internet on when you first install the game get through the first section with Jackie and then find a spot towards the right bottom middle of the map that has a two perk shard that you can pick up and then go to a drop point quick save and then repeatedly duplicate it. Also doing the same thing with the mission where you can get and expensive real painting that drops down from space and duplicating that so you can sell it over and over. Now you affectively have infinite money in the infinite park shards. After that I updated the rest of the game, maxed out tech, and then I push over 1000 perk shards into the level 20 ability it lets you add damage to check weapons

[@user-ef7gn4jy6v]

I recommand people who enjoyed ffxiii but found it too easy to play the sidequests with crystarium stage 9 only. I had to upgrade to 10 for the 2 or 3 hardest fights personally. It was really fun.

[@johnnymarin5035]

The best way to play Red Dead Redemption 2 is to turn off aim assist, turn the sensitivity of the aiming higher, and use first person mode in the gun fights. A lot of people claim the game is too easy, and they're kind of right. In my opinion playing the game this way enhances the experience and the immerses you even more than the default mode.

[@lnsflare1]

Sonic Unleashed, at least for the people who complained that the Werehog gameplay was very boring because they beat it with just the bears combo, when if you actually unlock a bunch of the moves not only does the combat get easy more fun and flashy, but they also serve as jump extenders that make the platforming way more fun and flashy as well.

[@KBanause]

11:51 You missed to mention that lipsync in Ghost of Tsushima for Japanese is only available in the PS5 version of the game.

[@UItraVioIet]

You actually probably shouldn't play GoT in Japanese unless you understand at least some of the language. The game was written in English, and when it was localised to Japanese, the Japanese localisation team obviously corrected a few things and made it more authentically Japanese. Which means there's enough differences that the English subtitles don't fit particularly well. It sounds so weird to say, but they probably should have translated the Japanese BACK to English and used that as subtitles for the Japanese audio.

[@alexclark4792]

Hellblade, headphones, in the dark, edibles (where legal), 1 session (8+hours). One of the best video game experiences i've had.

[@-_-5470]

Can confirm Witcher 3 on Deathmatch makes you feel more like a witcher preparing for your prey.

[@marcusmanchester1995]

A minor but important change to Mass Effect 3: whatever your Paragon/Renegade alignment at the end of the game is, that is the ending you should choose. No going about being a goody goody paragon and then choosing destroy. A Paragon Shepard is going to do whatever he can to save everyone, including the Geth, including EDI, AND INCLUDING all the destroyed civilizations stored in the Reapers. That's the only way to truly prevent the harvesting cycle from repeating again, by making sure that you are the ultimate power in the Galaxy, albeit a benevolent one. And if you are truly roleplaying as a paragon Shepard, you have to assume that you are only taking control of the catalyst, not the civilizations stored in the Reaper intelligences. Conversely, a renegade is going to look at this and say that the only way to free everyone from the cycle is to destroy the Reapers, destroy the Catalyst and destroy all AI currently in existence because ultimately that's what lead to the Reapers. It's a simpler choice, but it also leaves everyone in the galaxy free to make the choice to build AI again in the future. Synthesis is a cop-out, yes it is the ultimate evolutionary route based on the ideas of the game, but the way it goes down is kinda just, "hey we're all cyborgs now!" If this was a choice for the Catalyst, why didn't it implement the choice? Even so, as an option, this should be the hardest to achieve, available only to a truly neutral character over all three games. I think this would have been the way to get the players to answer the most questions... and to make sure that everyone played all three games trying for all three outcomes.

[@weirdmusicmixmaster]

the new hitman series, add your own roleplay objectives. former kgb target? try to car bomb them. mafioso? garrote has to be the way, etc.

[@Roariken1]

The right way to play Kingdom Hearts 3: 1. Play 1.5+2.5 and 2.8 first. The individual games don't take long to get through and most of them are insanely fun. 2. Play in Critical mode. It was added post release but provides a challenge even hard core gamers can savor. 3. Get the DLC and finish all the data battles.

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

4.) PRO codes

[@Facebones2391]

Disagree on Witcher. Ignores entirely the huge variety of strategies people employ. Death march is hard af but Quen works just as well as it used to, just dodge like hell.

[@jajkomaster]

"There's no wrong way to play a game..." uhm I'm 99% sure I played the OG Fable the wrong way... 🤔

[@ericrubin6875]

Going real old school: Thief and the sequels. Playing on hardest mode bars you from killing human enemies and bystanders. Much more of role playing. You’re a thief not an assassin. Also on some levels hardest difficulty adds content.