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14th Jun '13 12:19:52 PM Prfnoff

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14th Jun '13 12:34:47 AM Ramidel

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* DiabloIII has this to a lesser extent, though in a rather strange way. Act 2 is more difficult than the first act, with multiple ranged enemies doing nasty things to you, but the start of act 3 is laughably easy, with masses of easy-to-kill enemies trying to swarm you (and failing) while dropping lots of gear. Midway through act 3 you start fighting enemies with an obnoxious ranged attack, but then after that point they go away and the act goes back to being easy again. This repeats itself as you go through the difficulty tiers. Eventually you reach Inferno mode, the most difficult mode when you are at level 60 and the enemies are very powerful, and the elite and unique mobs (the most dangerous - and valuable to kill - enemies in the game) get FOUR random buffs per group. The game is EXTREMELY difficult at this point (particularly before the patches repeatedly made Inferno mode easier), but it doesn't get any WORSE, either - once you get the gear you need (which is quite hard to do, and likely to cost you piles of money in repair costs due to dying constantly) it becomes progressively easier to kill the inferno mode enemies. As you get more and more gear your damage goes up and the damage you take goes down, and the enemies don't really get significantly deadlier. This eventually culminates in reaching Act 3, when the enemies drop the best loot in the game at the highest rate that they ever are going to (act 4 enemies, though tougher, don't drop better loot), the enemies are easy to mow down, there aren't as dangerous of enemies to have to fight elite versions of (for most of it anyway), and you are powerful enough you can beat them. The net effect is that the game becomes EASIER after that point, as you continue to get better gear but the enemies fail to increase in difficulty alongside you.

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* ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' has this to a lesser extent, though in a rather strange way. Act 2 is more difficult than the first act, with multiple ranged enemies doing nasty things to you, but the start of act 3 is laughably easy, with masses of easy-to-kill enemies trying to swarm you (and failing) while dropping lots of gear. Midway through act 3 you start fighting enemies with an obnoxious ranged attack, but then after that point they go away and the act goes back to being easy again. This repeats itself as you go through the difficulty tiers. Eventually you reach Inferno mode, the most difficult mode when you are at level 60 and the enemies are very powerful, and the elite and unique mobs (the most dangerous - and valuable to kill - enemies in the game) get FOUR random buffs per group. The game is EXTREMELY difficult at this point (particularly before the patches repeatedly made Inferno mode easier), but it doesn't get any WORSE, either - once you get the gear you need (which is quite hard to do, and likely to cost you piles of money in repair costs due to dying constantly) it becomes progressively easier to kill the inferno mode enemies. As you get more and more gear your damage goes up and the damage you take goes down, and the enemies don't really get significantly deadlier. This eventually culminates in reaching Act 3, when the enemies drop the best loot in the game at the highest rate that they ever are going to (act 4 enemies, though tougher, don't drop better loot), the enemies are easy to mow down, there aren't as dangerous of enemies to have to fight elite versions of (for most of it anyway), and you are powerful enough you can beat them. The net effect is that the game becomes EASIER after that point, as you continue to get better gear but the enemies fail to increase in difficulty alongside you.

30th May '13 8:07:58 PM TVRulezAgain

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3rd May '13 9:45:06 PM TitaniumDragon

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3rd May '13 9:38:41 PM TitaniumDragon

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7th Mar '13 4:13:55 AM Match25

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27th Feb '13 3:31:39 PM BigKlingy

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Moving my own entry. This is clearly Early Game Hell and not this trope.

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* VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles pretty much peaks early on in Chapter 7, an absolutley [[ThatOneBoss brutal]] FinalBossPreview, but gets much easier later on, when your troops have leveled up and learned how to actually ''hit'' things. Some classes get access to new weapon types at higher levels, the most notable being Flamethrowers for Shocktroopers, which let you OneHitKill enemies in cover and then take the cover for yourself, GREATLY simplifying the game. You also get Smoke Rounds for the Eidelweiss, a Machine Gun that fires ''30'' shots(when even 3 hitting the target's [[BoomHeadshot head]] is enough to kill) and Alicia [[spoiler: awakens her Valkyria powers]] and becomes even more of a GameBreaker than she was before. Early chapters are near impossible to A-Rank without a NewGamePlus, but play your cards right later on and you'll be getting A-Ranks left-right and centre and, apart from a few examples of ThatOneLevel and GuideDangIt, you're unlikely to have much trouble. It pretty much feels like you're an [[LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards army of Quadratic Wizards facing an empire of Linear Warriors.]]

6th Feb '13 1:49:01 AM LondonKdS

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28th Jan '13 9:20:47 PM moderator Willbyr

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