Have to beat the game to unlock higher difficulties

>have to beat the game to unlock higher difficulties

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name one

Dead Space

Yakuza 0

>have to restart the game and to choose the maximum available difficulty in order to be allowed by the game to finish it, else you are stuck midway on a screen telling you to do so
>there's no difference in terms of difficulty between them, except that the hardest one lets you complete the goddamn game
Castlevania 64 was weird

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Dragon's Dogma (pre dark arisen)

>Have to beat the game to beat the game

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I mean, it is justified in Doom 3.

In the highest difficulty, your max heatlh is 25 HP from the common 100 HP. Even if you get past the max heatlh you receive self-damage until you get back to 25 HP.

However, you have the Soul Cube with you from the beginning, which allows you to one hit some enemies after killing a certain amount of them and also gives you for a brief moment extra health.

The Soul Cube is a key element to the plot, so it is justified that you can only unlock Nightmare after you finish the game.

Max Payne

Mario Dance Dance Revolution

Diabro

Titan quest

>have to beat the game 3 times to unlock the true ending

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Eternal Darkness

>have to beat the game to unlock easy difficulty

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Golden Sun Lost Age. It carries over your party to the new game with their endgame levels.

Mega Man Legends

>have to die to unlock easier difficulty

Pokemon Black/White 2

Ultimate Alliance

>game has dynamic difficulty
>it constantly swings between being trivial and raping you

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God Hand

The evil Within

Darksiders 3

Basically any diablo clone, path of exile included up until FOO patch

>higher difficulties are locked behind achievement completion percentages
>many are difficulty-specific and do not award corresponding lower difficulty versions when completed
>others require specific characters that cannot all be recruited simultaneously
>need to suffer through the game 30 times to complete everything

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>have to buy DLC to unlock Master Mode
Fuck BOTW desu

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DMC

>have to beat game at highest difficulty without losing any lives to unlock extreme difficulty
>have to beat extreme difficulty to unlock secret character

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pyre

>have the beat the game multiple times to earn the right to play as women

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>have to die hundreds of times to unlock easy difficulty
>puts woman's bow on your character's head
>removes literally every enemy from the game
>closes up all environmental hazards like gaps with platforms
>every inanimate object has smiley faces
>music is some weird slow-paced happy lullaby shit
>it's just a long eventless walk to the final boss from beginning of the game to the end
>final boss is harder than he is on hardest difficulty

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>Hard mode is super easy because you maxed out your character the first time through the game.

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