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Difficult levels are one of the defining traits of video games writ large, but often, making an arbitrary choice at the start of the game rarely makes for the best experience, and adaptive difficulty levels are better. RELATED Best Games With High Difficulty Curves Players looking to challenge themselves don't need to look any further than the games on this list that all reach brutally difficult heights. Whether it be a world that scales to the player's level, or subtly influencing the maths behind the scenes to make dice rolls a little more reliable, there are plenty of ways games can subtly adjust their difficulty to adapt to the player. From Bruma To The Capitol Typically, old-school RPG games would have set difficulty levels depending on the area, meaning that if the player wandered into a difficult area, they'd soon know about it. However, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, chose to take a somewhat novel and sometimes controversial option instead that carried over to its sequel. In short, the vast majority of the world in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion scales to fit the player's level. That means they can usually go wherever they please fairly early on with little fear of being absolutely trounced. It's a controversial design decision, but undoubtedly one reason why the game was such a massive success (alongside its litany of brilliant mods). Curse The Dice-Roll XCOM 2 OpenCritic Top Critic Rating: 87/100 Critics Recommend: 88% Anyone who has played an XCOM game will know the extreme frustration of being in point blank range with a shot almost guaranteed to hit, then it missing. That's because everything in the game is based off dice rolls, meaning that it's always possible to miss. Although, that isn't exactly true. Though the exact means are a little mysterious, dedicated XCOM players have found that the game subtly pushes the RNG in the player's favor. That includes increasing hit chance after successive misses, reduced hit chance for aliens after consecutive hits, and a bonus chance multiplier depending on the difficulty level. It's subtle, but a great way to minimize the worst kind of frustration. 6 The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild A Living Breathing World It's almost a certain that when Nintendo were developing the soon to be lauded The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, they had to try and conquer the issue of scaling the world depending on the player's progress. The game doesn't seem to have scaling on the surface, but dedicated players have dug deep into the games files and figured out how it all works. RELATED The Legend Of Zelda: Best Towns & Villages In The Games, Ranked The Legend of
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