10 Updates To Video Games That Completely Broke Everything
1. Difficulty Adjustment Patch Caused Unbalanced Difficulty - Bionic Commando: Rearmed
Almost a year after it was released, cult classic remake Bionic Commando Rearmed received a console patch which provided a number of fixes intended to make the game more accessible.
This included making Easy and Normal difficulties easier, primarily by giving the player unlimited lives and allowing them to respawn as close to their last death as possible.
Bafflingly, developer Grin also decided to make Hard mode even more challenging, resulting in there being a colossal chasm of difficulty whereby Easy and Normal were too easy, but Hard was too damn hard.
The difficulty curve was far more consistent before the patch was released, and afterwards players were forced to either breeze their way through it with an embarrassing amount of ease or put up with a hard-as-nails endgame on Hard difficulty.