Of course it is subjective. Someone who plays those "hardcore games" will find the next one much easier than someone who never played one before. That's why the "artistic choice" argument is bull - you can't make it so that everyone will actually experience it the way you envision. For some it will be easier because of their experience/innate skill, for others literally impossible - and presumably neither is what the "artist" is going for. That's why options are the best choice. An experience player can ramp up the difficulty, to experience a challenge that might otherwise not be there for him, someone who doesn't have the experience or the time to repeat stretches of a game over and over will get a difficulty that will still challenge him, but will be playable for him. Remember, to be a "challenge" it must still be possible for the player, anything else is basically that Dirty Harry NES game that will just lock you in a room without an exit and spray paint "ha ha ha" on the wall.

If you really think difficulty isn't subjective, go play chess against a grand master. I'm sure you'll both have the exact same experience.

I agree. I've spent a lot of time avoiding difficult games. I want to have fun, not frustration :)

It's not a bad thing. But it takes development time to implement difficulty options properly. Unless you want the usual "enemy health/damage -50%" of course, which can potentially lead to disastrous results (as % adjustments often do).

And some devs don't want players to allow to ruin the intended experience they carefully crafted and balanced. Imagine you made an intricate obstacle course, crafted over several years, an array of carefully placed obstacles along the intended path with various traps, jumps and taking an estimated 40 minutes to beat. And then the person you let run your obstacle course decides to walk around the obstacle course, walk through the exit from the other way in 2 minutes and then claims your obstacle course sucked. I bet you'd feel at least a bit disappointed and annoyed.

But I'm sure if you'd pay for the development costs of implementing difficulty options properly, that the devs would oblige. But nobody can fault them for using resources for actually improving the game for the "target audience", rather than trying to pull over a couple from the "non-target" camp. Not to mention that testing a game so that it plays "like intended" is miles easier for one difficulty setting rather than 3 or 4.

Not to mention that you can usually find cheats and exploits online for pretty much any game anyway, if you find a game unplayably hard and still want to play it no matter what for some reason.

If you don't have any Dark Souls, you can't have a Git Gud sale. How can you have a Git Gud sale if you don't have any Dark Souls?



(On the other hand, I don't envy the job of coming up with the themes, titles, art and game selections for 2-3 new sales every week.)

Despite being tired of and considering "Git gud" one of the most obnoxious gaming memes, I love Elden Ring and would be delighted to see it on GOG one day. Been playing it for almost a year on Ps4, but I always prefer a PC version if there's a DRM free one available.

I don't really care about the sale name. Maybe I'm not bitter enough towards GOG or something. :-P

Judging from some of the comments, there's definitely a skill issue here.

"People want to play those "git gud" games, too, but don't want to actually git gud!" from the creators of "People want to listen to cool metal bands, too, but the metal music is too heavy!" and "People want to read philosophic books, too, but said books are too complicated!"

that aside, "git gud sale" without CAVE's shmups or ASW's fighting games? oh well.
UPD: at least, SNK's games are discounted. phew.

SO. HEAVY.

heh, yep.

Sind sie zu stark, bist du zu schwach! ;-)

Thymesia I think technically counts as one.

As others have said. THis sale name highlights a gaping void in the GOG library that needs to be corrected.

Whats worse is that there are some proper titles that would have fit here already on GOG. Lords of the fallen, Decay of Logos, Necropolis, ect.

All this sale seems to have is Thymesia.

But to have a "gitgud" sale populated with the likes of "no possible way of failing Walking dead" dialogue games does not a Git gud make. Its almost as insulting and missing the point as suggesting that Souls games need an easy mode.

Mastering all the button-mashing QTEs without a single frown or growl! ;P

GOG,

The GOG store's main page has the Git Gud Sale with approx 3 HRS left.

If you click through the Git Gud Sale tab, the Git Gud Sale page shows 1 DAY 3 HRS left.

If I click on a game from the Git Gud Sale page (ie Tomb Raider GOTY), the game's page shows 3 HRS left for the discount sale price.

So what is it?

3 HRS left in the Git Gud Sale?

Or 1 DAY 3 HRS left in the Git Gud Sale?

Yesterday I noticed it too. Now both are in sync, then the day+ was the one.
You might want to log an entry here for historical purposes

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_wrong_countdown_timezone_promo_of_gog