So here we go, ranting time.
I have came to the concrete conclusion that video game companies lack the ability to create an enjoyable gaming experience for player who want to play on a higher difficulty than “Normal”. Here is why:
Take Alien vs Predator for instance (the game I am currently into), I am playing through on the Predator campaign on Hard. Normal difficulty of course is a cake walk, with virtually no challenging parts, with the exception of boss fights and some puzzle solving. I completed without dieing for the most part.
Now lets take Hard difficulty for instance.

*Thinking to self, Do-de-do I’m an invisible Predator sitting in this tree 50 feet off the ground cloaked there is no way this marine is going to see me while I’m not moving and invisible*

Cant see me here in this tree, while I'm invisible...

*Marine walks under me, starts to walk past me with his back turned, I’m thinking sweet I’m going to get him, then Marine suddenly swings around “I FOUND HIM IN THE TREE!”*

Ok what the fuck, maybe he can...

*A true WTF moment pulses through my head, as the Marine spins around and beast shots me out of the tree with 5 bullets from his 99 round magazine*
*I think to myself, OK maybe it was a bug or something… And then it happened, again… and again…. and again. By this point I still stuck on the first enemy of the level wondering “OK Seriously WHAT THE FUCK?”*
So herein lies the problem with today’s video games, instead of making an enjoyable difficult game, it feels like a chore to simply beat 1 level before ripping out you hair in frustration. What should be done on higher difficulties is make the AI more intelligent, not give them screen cheating so they can see my invisible, in the dark, in a tree, across the map. It is just stupid. I can understand giving them some more damage for there gun, but now days the jump from difficulty levels is insane. It goes from the game being mind-numbingly easy on Normal, to “THIS IS FUCKING STUPID! As you slam your Keyboard/Controller on the ground in anger” on Harder difficulties.
In conclusion if a game developer is reading this, please rethink your ideas for gaming difficulties, because this is getting to become plain out stupid.
It is getting to the point were, most players cheat or abuse an exploit just to beat a game on Hard, or higher difficulties, just so they can beat it. I know this isn’t what game companies had in mind, when players were cheating just to beat their game. I mean I can cite 5 games off the top my head that are like this: Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty: WaW, Halo 2 Legendary (Yeah fuck that), Halo Wars Legendary, and AvP Nightmare Difficulty (one death and you start the level over, think Halo 2 Legendary with Iron Skull). Notice a trend? Yeah it is the same damn companies that do it every damn time.

So don’t get me wrong here, I love ALL these games, especially AvP with a passion. But I mean really, It took me under one day to beat all the campaigns on AvP on Normal. And, it was FUN, I enjoyed playing them. And, I still go back and play them for fun. But, it took me an HOUR to beat ONE level on Hard, I haven’t even tried Nightmare yet. It is repeatedly “Trail & Error” it is stupid, I don’t get why companies do that, why make a game so HARD that when you try to beat it on a tougher difficulty you want to throw your game out the window.

So here I am dragging this on, I’m done for now.

-Juno out.