FFR 6th Official Tourney Songs Discussion: Round 3

[stavie33]

Originally Posted by bmah

I think what stavie's trying to say is that some people care a lot about difficulties because the difficulties hold the key to some people's sense of accomplishment. Therefore, when you increase the difficulty of a file, doing well on the song is that much more of a pat on the back for said player*. Not to mention, some might say that the difficulty of a song psychologically will affect their performance on it.


*GOOD FOR YOU

it's less the accomplishment and more the psychological aspect I was getting at. Playing a really hard lower level file is harder to do because you get so easily discouraged when you can't do something around the difficulty level of songs you can do and everyone else is doing fine but you don't know why you aren't, when it's really a more borderline file than it lets on. Or a really hard file is much easier and then you overshoot tons of others in that range. Consistency in difficulty is honestly more for developing players than pros, so they have an idea of what to expect and what's in that songs difficulty range, and from there which songs they can and can't do. Pro's have explored the spectrum, so it doesn't matter, but the newer players could easily get bogged up on an FMO stuck in VC territory and feel like it's either just him or the songs misplaced.