Do games get easier when you lose?

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I don't get much time to play (2.5 years on Assassin's) but it got me thinking.

Do battles/fights get easier the more times you lose or die?
Or do you just get more practised and predict the patterns and movements better?
 
Düber said:
I don't get much time to play (2.5 years on Assassin's) but it got me thinking.

Do battles/fights get easier the more times you lose or die?
Or do you just get more practised and predict the patterns and movements better?
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You're specifically talking about a single player game so it would depend on the A.I they use because dynamic game balancing is a thing.

For example in pretty much any RPG if you level up the enemies you encounter level up with you and in Mario Kart if you are in last place the game gives you better items but it's probably the latter of you just getting better.
 
Soul Assassin said:
For example in pretty much any RPG if you level up the enemies you encounter level up with you and in Mario Kart if you are in last place the game gives you better items but it's probably the latter of you just getting better.
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I have never played online so only against the "machine" as it where, other games like "Hitman" and the Ratchet and clank's your weapons and damage factor increase as you play, whereas in Assassins creed they don't.
It just feels a bit like the attackers are not as enthusiastic the 6th or 7th time around, it almost feels a bit patronising.
 
Düber said:
I have never played online so only against the "machine" as it where, other games like "Hitman" and the Ratchet and clank's your weapons and damage factor increase as you play, whereas in Assassins creed they don't.
It just feels a bit like the attackers are not as enthusiastic the 6th or 7th time around, it almost feels a bit patronising.
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Is it Origins, the one that was free the other day?
 
In single player yes, in multiplayer perhaps, if you can start learning other peoples reactions, the problem is as you get older your reactions get slower :-).
 
Lupus said:
In single player yes, in multiplayer perhaps, if you can start learning other peoples reactions, the problem is as you get older your reactions get slower :).
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Slower reflexes, or maybe more a case of not having as much time to spend playing as you did when you were a teen? The amount of time I have to play is not nearly as much as in my school/university years. Sure, reflexes will get slower with age, but I'm not sure if it has as much of an impact than a lack of playing time.
 
Hmm might be, I know in GTA V if you keep failing it eventually changes the mission slightly and if you still keep losing you get offered the opportunity to skip it.
 
KT-B said:
I believe you actually get better. Practice makes perfect etc. You learn what works and what doesn't.
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Until you lose your patients in things like Splinter Cell or Hitman and just run in with the biggest gun shooting everyone like you would in COD or Battlefield.
 
From personal experience, no. I go on ''tilt''.

Tilt originated as a poker term for a state of mental or emotional confusion or frustration in which a player adopts a less than optimal strategy, usually resulting in the player becoming over-aggressive.
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This is most notable in multiplayer PVP for me. I become overly aggressive to try and force good results and I end up playing even worse, prolonging my losing run.
 
Düber said:
I don't get much time to play (2.5 years on Assassin's) but it got me thinking.

Do battles/fights get easier the more times you lose or die?
Or do you just get more practised and predict the patterns and movements better?
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Some games do. I think on WC3 single player missions if you lose one and hit restart the next run will be easier.

I also once read that for XCom EU and EW if you play on the easy difficulty once your squad is half gone the aliens accuracy drops by 20 to 40% or something to try not have you lose the whole mission. So some games do compensate for you struggling or losing. Still, I would imagine the learning from your mistakes angle is pretty big too.
 
gamer16 said:
Until you lose your patients in things like Splinter Cell or Hitman and just run in with the biggest gun shooting everyone like you would in COD or Battlefield.
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Lol now I don't do that. I enjoy the enemies being really tough - otherwise you should just play on easy difficulty. I used to love the difficulty settings of Duke Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein, etc
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Cius said:
Some games do. I think on WC3 single player missions if you lose one and hit restart the next run will be easier.

I also once read that for XCom EU and EW if you play on the easy difficulty once your squad is half gone the aliens accuracy drops by 20 to 40% or something to try not have you lose the whole mission. So some games do compensate for you struggling or losing. Still, I would imagine the learning from your mistakes angle is pretty big too.
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Certainly doesn't do that at the harder difficulties :) in Xcom that is.
 
Lupus said:
Certainly doesn't do that at the harder difficulties :) in Xcom that is.
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Yep, it was only on easy. Iron man impossible is a brutal way to play. The one time I tried it ended in disaster. I am playing a campaign now and I do admit to save scumming a bit when things go very wrong!
 
Strictly speaking, yes. Unless you are a vegetable. The more you try, the more adept you will become. Muscle memory, reflex, trial and error, blah, blah... blah.
 
Cius said:
Yep, it was only on easy. Iron man impossible is a brutal way to play. The one time I tried it ended in disaster. I am playing a campaign now and I do admit to save scumming a bit when things go very wrong!
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Yeah I played Iron Man once, half my squad wiped out halfway through the mission, most of the countries left the Xcom project cause I couldn't get funds in to get satellites sigh.
 
Do not forget about training, you do tend to lose your newly acquired skills and abilities over time.
 
Some games ask you if you wanna downgrade to easy. I probably seen that message a hundred times while playing Dante Must Die mode.
 
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Then there is burnout... try too hard or too much and you will turn yourself into a vegetable.
 
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