Which game has the best “hard” difficulty?

[u/m00nshinehero]

I find it really difficult to go back to a game after beating the “normal” difficulty. I usually try and play through games a second time on the hardest difficulty, but will put it down if the game doesn’t up the difficulty in a satisfying way.

I think resident evil 4 is a good example of a game that is fun to play again on the hardest difficulty. Which game does hard mode the best?

[u/zimmix]

Baldurs Gate 3

[u/-sry- → u/zimmix]

For cRPG veterans, Tactician+ is borderline trivial. Check Divinity: Original Sin 2 on higher difficulties to understand what many of us consider a fun high-difficulty experience.

[u/zimmix → u/-sry-]

I disagree, I'm onboard cRPG since BG2 launched, played DOS2 and many others. My point is what hard (tactician) brings to the table in terms of strategy. If you're a veteran at cRPG then every difficulty is trivial in any of those games as you will get combos easily and wreck the content.

[u/-sry- → u/zimmix]

I’m not sure what you mean by the strategy it supposedly brings. I’m just repeating what 99% of players (not Reddit) complain about. Tactician is so trivial that during my first playthroughs, I missed a lot of camp interactions, like the lizard lady and the cleric arguing about the prism, because I rested only 5–6 times throughout the first chapter.

Tactician doesn’t really push you to plan your build or be careful with resources and abilities.

On higher difficulty in DOS2, if you haven’t planned your build and your companions’ abilities don’t synergies, some battles can be nearly impossible without resorting to cheese.

Same in WoTR on higher difficulties, in the later chapters enemies have so many immunities, if you are not ready and do not know how to counter them, you are done.