Joined: 4/2/2009
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Location: Porto Alegre - Brazil
Actually there are three difficulties:
- Easy
Start with 8 web cartridges.. Enemies have less HP, defeat only 2 enemies to pass scenes 7 and 8, the cavern only has Oc and Liz
- Difficult
Start with 6 web cartridges.. Enemies have normal HP, defeat 3 enemies to pass scenes 7 and 8, the cavern has Electro, Hobgoblin, Venom and you can turn off the lights on scene 2
- Nightmare
Start with 4 web cartridges.. Enemies have more HP, defeat 4 enemies to pass scenes 7 and 8, the cavern has all bosses, you can turn the lights off on scene 2 too, ..and Venom might pop up on random selected scenes, oh and you can play Spidey Pac Man on a Game Gear :v oh and one more thing, you can get the symbiote on your body, it's a detour (too).
Voted No, since Easy is too easy and not challenging to a TAS.
I really don't understand why choosing a slower difficulty would be preferred over a faster difficulty. If it was an 'all secrets' run, I'd understand, since that's the closest the game has to 100%. But for a TAS whose intention is to go as fast as possible, why should I deliberately go slower just to satisfy an archaic guideline? That's literally the exact opposite of my goal.
The idea that Easy difficulty isn't challenging to TAS is complete garbage, since even on Hard you have slowdown and savestates. If you would like, feel free to criticize a part of the movie that doesn't involve difficulty choice. But please stop relying on my choice of difficulty to discredit my work.
effort on the first draft means less effort on any draft thereafter
- some loser
Like Sonic says.
Gotta go fast.
Anyways? Why is this an issue to you?
Because I find hard mode runs much more entertaining; e.g. compare this easy run to this TAS. Many runs on this site would be faster if played on easiest difficulty, but I'd say that makes them less of a superplay.
As the guideline says "it is preferred to play on the hardest difficulty level (for more interesting gameplay) unless the only difference between difficulty levels is enemy/boss hit points", and as Jungon points out, that is far from the only difference in this game.
So I'm voting no here.
