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15 Times Players Accidentally Made Video Games Harder

Shubhankar Parijat — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:55:22 +0000

Playing video games that are difficult by design is all well and good, but things get really interesting when you’re playing a game that sneakily puts in elements that result in you making things harder for yourself. Whether that’s because of specific gameplay choices or hidden underlying mechanics or even consequences of seemingly unrelated actions, there have been a number of games over the years that have done exactly that. Here, we’re going to talk about a few of them.

SPEC OPS: STEALTH PATROL – SWAPPED DIFFICULTIES

A perfect example of how the lack of post-launch patches (which is something we now take for granted) could ruin a game. Its easy, normal, and hard difficulties were dubbed private, corporal, and sergeant respectively, only in the game itself, private and sergeant were, for whatever reason, swapped. This meant that people who wanted to play the game on the easiest difficulty were unknowingly playing it on the hardest, wondering all the while just why things were as frustratingly difficult as they were. Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol wasn’t exactly the best of games as it is, and this did it no favours.

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, Resident Evil HD Join Xbox Game Pass

Ravi Sinha — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 09:26:40 +0000

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass, which allows players to stream roughly 100 games or so for the Xbox One, has received seven interesting additions to its library. They include Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, Halo Wars Definitive Edition and Resident Evil HD as the bigger releases.

The remaining titles are just as incredible with Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, The World of Van Helsing: Deathtrap, Mega Man 9 and Sky Force Anniversary also joining the roster from November 1st onwards. Conditions apply when it comes to Metal Gear Solid 5 though – it will only be available in the Xbox Game Pass library until January 31st 2018. The other six games will remain forever.

Microsoft did clarify before Game Pass launched that some titles would be cycled out of the library though it didn’t list the criteria for certain games being removed. Perhaps it’s because of situations like this, especially if Konami sees that money can still be made out of Metal Gear Solid 5. Xbox Game Pass meanwhile costs $10 per month so it might be worth checking out.