Define artificial difficulty with 4 words or less

Only enemy stats rise

bullet sponge

More health, less skill

Based and also redpilled

Fetid
Rotten
Cursed
Dungeons

alternatively
Bloodborne FRC Chalice Dungeons.

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Early Game Diminished Returns

w o o w

op is a fag

Difficulty independent of skill

I love FRC dungeons though.

Complete and absolute bullshit

Bullet sponges

I love them but they're bullshit sometimes.

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kill trannies and niggers

Dark Souls And Sekiro

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

changes that solely make changes to the amount of health enemies have and the damage you deal

an example of true difficulty is smarter ai

these posts contain more than 4 words

Running to bossfight.

Castle Crashers Insane Mode

Cawadoody veteran difficulty

Lv1 Critical Mode

PC souls games excuse.

>Not intended by developers
All intended difficulty is by its nature not artificial difficulty.

designed to steal quarters

Anything I'm bad at.

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More time not skill

dark souls 2

"Trial and error"

The game just constantly throws you curveballs that don't make sense and the only way you'd know how to deal with them is by knowing that they were coming in the first place.

Bullet Sponge Enemies, Ahoy.

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self-imposed challenges

>Define artificial difficulty with 4 words or less
excuse used by casuals

Singleplayer grind.

This one's the best I've seen. Makes some logic out of the meme word at least.

it does not exist
also
fake crutch meme word

This.
This one's alright but some games are built around that loop.

Dark souls el tres

game says "fuck you"

Inflated Stats
>More HP
>More Damage
>If you and the AI have identical equipment, theirs just works better
AI does not follow the same rules you do
>Absurd Discounts
>No stamina
>Can see through FoW
>Unlimited/Secret Income
>Lower Research Times/Cool Downs
>Reading Inputs
>Your attacks hurt allies, but their attacks don't hurt their allies
>RNG manipulation
>Rubber-Banding
>Hit-Boxes/Shockwaves
>Ignores limitation that the player has to face
>Auto-Aim/Directional change mid-attack

>4 words

Player fights against game

it's a shockwave.

Damage down defence down

random number generation

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I don't know.
Maybe
"Failure despite your efforts."