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Default Setting Syndrome

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Default Setting Syndrome	type	FeatureClass
Default Setting Syndrome	label	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome	page	DefaultSettingSyndrome
Default Setting Syndrome	comment	A number of arcade games will provide a variety of stages, characters, and other settings to select. For most newcomers, none of this matters, because they'll just go for the default settings. These are the settings you'll always, always see whenever someone at the arcade tries a game that they're new to, and in bigger cases of this trope, merely picking something other than the defaults is a sign of experience with the game. This can also apply to online multiplayer games and, to a lesser extent, local multiplayer and single-player games. Rhythm Games are a pretty special case. This trope can make the default song scorned, with some people developing the urge to brutally murder any more players who play that song. A form of Complacent Gaming Syndrome, though in this case players aren't motivated by what's the best settings so much as not knowing much about the game or being too lazy to change settings (or not knowing how to change the settings.) However, if the defaults are the best settings, these two tropes can overlap.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_142657fa	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_142657fa	comment	The normal, blue version of the RVR-01 Gauntlet in Thunder Force V; the other versions have to be selected with a code involving the Player 2 controller, which makes them relatively unknown to most players.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_1fc3ec4d	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_1fc3ec4d	comment	Rock Band (the original) has "Say It Ain't So" by Weezer as its first song when ordered by band difficulty. When the developers were testing the game before implementing the song select screen, this was the default song that played every time, reportedly driving many Harmonix developers into madness.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_211315b8	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_211315b8	comment	Star Trek: Starfleet Command: Everyone plays as either Federation or Klingon. Sometimes Romulans, maybe Gorn. Hardly anyone as Hydran, Lyran, or ISC. Probably because the latter three aren't canonical to Star Trek. And does anyone really care about the Orion Pirate cartels? As for the Mirak, how many Trekkies remember missile salvos being used in Star Trek. The Mirak probably aren't helped by the fact that while the Hydran, Lyran and ISC are all from one of the two sources of canon for Starfleet Command, the Mirak are not (they're an expy, due to a complicated rights situation).
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_2d940749	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_2d940749	comment	beatmania IIDX generally averts this, as most players are experienced enough that you never see the default song getting played more than three times per day.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_2f096555	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_2f096555	comment	pop'n music has Enjoy Mode, or Easy Mode in pop'n music 20 fantasia. And within Enjoy Mode, there's 5-button mode, which makes use of only 5 out of the machine's 9 buttons. As of pop'n music Sunny Park, the trope is averted, as Easy Mode is removed and replaced with an Easy difficulty in Normal Mode.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_5d96b889	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_5d96b889	comment	Mario Kart Arcade GP has the Mario Highway course. Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 has Yoshi Park 1 take up this honor instead.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_610c498	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_610c498	comment	In a peculiar example, the Need for Speed: Underground games actually gave benefit to players who stayed default... well, sort of. The second game in particular encouraged you to find and buy new cars often, because the new cars' base stats were higher than the base stats of the starter cars. The newer unlocked cars also looked a lot nicer than the mundane, boxy starter cars. Players smart enough to experiment, however, would realize to NOT switch cars as the game wanted you to— the two best cars in the game were both starter cars fully upgraded, and the BEST car in the game was also the ugliest and had the worst starter stats. In this way, if you did the default (that is to say, change cars) of what the GAME wanted you to do, you'd end up with a worse car than if you stuck with the default you started with.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_629cd094	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_629cd094	comment	Player statistics show that race/class selection in Dragon Age: Origins is slanted heavily in favor of Human Nobles, the first choice listed.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_6322bb8a	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_6322bb8a	comment	Para Para Mode in ParaParaParadise. Most players prefer to play it so they can mimic the routines, something that is near-impossible in Freestyle mode due to the changing camera angles on the on-screen dancer.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_7201bc7a	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_7201bc7a	comment	Most Giga Wing players use the default character, Shinnosuke. To quote one user on YouTube:
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_7257afca	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_7257afca	comment	In Sword Art Online Abridged, when Kazuto finally gets to customize his avatar, he falls right into this because he wants to get to saving Asuna after wasting hours going through derivatives of his preferred "Kirito" alias, ultimately settling on "xVx_k1r1t0_xVx_KillMe". Naturally, this is an in-universe example.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_755b343f	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_755b343f	comment	In-universe example: In the Halo series, when Master Chief takes over a Covenant ship, Cortana finds that she can get vastly better performance out of it just by tweaking the settings. The Covenant believed the ships were holy relics left to them by the Forerunners, you see, and any modification of them would be blasphemy of the highest order, so it stayed on the factory defaults.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_9d34190a	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_9d34190a	comment	According to available statistics and player polls, the "default" race (the one that is pre-selected when you enter the character creation screen) in each The Elder Scrolls series game tends to be the most popular. It also happens to be the native race to each game's setting as well as the primary race used in marketing for each game, so it's Dunmer (Dark Elf) for Morrowind, Imperial for Oblivion, and Nord for Skyrim.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_9f89a5f0	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_9f89a5f0	comment	The PokÃ©mon series has a number of game settings that your average fan has probably never used, and may not even know exist. These include options for speeding up the text speed, turning off battle effects (move animations, weather, status effect animations, etc.), and changing the "battle style" closer to how it is in PvP. All typically speed up the pace of the game, especially battles, but few players ever actually change them because it makes the games feel uncomfortably different.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_a0112f3d	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_a0112f3d	comment	Tekken: The game defaults to the new characters of each game (Xiaoyu and Jin in 3, Raven and Asuka in 5, etc.), thus giving them free promotion for newcomers to see. Those already familiar to the games usually avert this, and even if they do choose the default setting, they tend to browse through the selection first.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_a3eee065	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_a3eee065	comment	Sega Superstars: Only the host in an online room can choose the racetrack in Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, which always defaults to the first track, Whale Lagoon. The thing is that the track is chosen through a sub-menu, not from the lobby, where most other racing games allow you to choose. The result is online play being utterly dominated by races on Whale Lagoon, more so than any other track combined. Its sequel, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, slowly grew into this as the game continued to be played online, making it an inverted case. At the beginning, many players picked all three game modes, between Race, Lucky Dip (randomized modes, including some exclusive to Lucky Dip), Arena (battle mode), and Boost Race (no items, lots of boost pads), but over time, people withdrew from the other modes and focused nearly entirely on Race mode, making it very hard to find opponents in any of the other modes, though there would occasionally be groups of people playing Boost Race.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_a66b3bbc	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_a66b3bbc	comment	DanceDanceRevolution: Most new players tend to not stray very far from the first song on the song select; as a result, when the game first came out, "Have You Never Been Mellow" (from the first US console release of DDR), "Make a Jam!" (from the first US arcade release) and "Butterfly" were the most commonly picked songs. In fact, this lead to a "Death to Butterfly" group on a particular forum. A variation prevalent in the arcade version of Extreme is the Default List Syndrome. Instead of being stuck at the first song that comes up, new players get stuck at the minimized song selection displayed by the default sort. This is because unlike previous arcade games, the default sort only lists the 83 new original and revived licensed songs, making the master tracklist smaller than it really is (in reality, the game features 210+ songs). Accessing older songs requires you to toggle the sort by pressing the left and right selection buttons, which not many newbies would know from the get-go. Thus, "Speed Over Beethoven", "Crash!", and "Love Love Shine" are 99% guaranteed to appear in the Top 10 most picked songs. This syndrome has slowly receded in later games; while licensed songs are understandably presented first, easier song access has made recognition of older songs widespread. To rectify the sorting problem in Extreme, folders of older songs are displayed alongside the new song folder starting in SuperNova.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_ba1083f7	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_ba1083f7	comment	The arcade version of Guitar Hero III tries to avert this by increasing the price of its most overplayed songs. "Slow Ride", the first song on the setlist, is almost always set at the premium price.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_bc907c69	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_bc907c69	comment	Tetris: The Grand Master 3 defaults to World Rule, the game's implementation of the rotation system used in newer licensed Tetris games. As a result, those who don't already play TGM may start off with World Rule and then get very thrown off when they try Classic Rule (a version of TGM rotation altered to accommodate TGM3's higher speeds), not only because of the more limited wall kicks but also due to its version of fast drop (drop the piece to the ground, but not lock it right away).
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_bd310eaa	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, an in-universe example — Newspaper arc "Dan in the MUD".
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_cb70f63f	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_cb70f63f	comment	The Splatoon games avert this by not highlighting any choice by default at character creation. Players actually have to consciously choose whether their squid kid is a boy or girl.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_d2bb929d	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_d2bb929d	comment	The arcade release of Soulcalibur III includes a mode where players fight through the roster to a powerful opponent who is strengthened by how many victories over human opponents the computer has has. While the player can choose this opponent, Maxi is almost always the highest, as he is the character the mode defaults to.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_d4d31eeb	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_d4d31eeb	comment	DJMAX: DJMAX Portable's 4-Button mode. It doesn't help that players who use 4B get used to it, and thus have much trouble progressing to any of the more difficult button modes. "First Kiss" in DJMAX Technika.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_d4e486c7	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_d4e486c7	comment	For quite a while, Alchemist used to be the default pick of a new Dota 2 player. If you were playing at a low level and someone picked this character, you knew they hadn't even figured out how to choose a character yet.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_dda4ea6c	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_dda4ea6c	comment	The Beginner tracks of Daytona USA and Daytona USA 2. Justified in that the other courses tend to be Sega Hard.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_e62c0797	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_e62c0797	comment	This is probably why many of the now-rare Virtual-ON arcade cabinets reported the most scores and plays with Temjin; it's the first Virtuaroid on the screen, though it doesn't hurt that it's also a well-balanced Jack of All Stats.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_f3657100	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_f3657100	comment	Most players in Ghost Squad (2004) never use any weapon other than the XM-2119, and always have their mission difficulty levels at 1. If an arcade with GS upgrades to GHOST Squad Evolution, most people will not notice the extra weapons, costumes, or mission levels due to, again, playing with the defaults, and as a result many players will think Evolution is no different from non-upgraded GHOST Squad.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_f4abd380	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_f4abd380	comment	Who do the character select cursors in BlazBlue default to? Ragna and, that's right, Jin. In general, most fighting games usually have their character select cursors default to whoever is the main protagonist and deuteragonist of the game (Ryu and Ken in Street Fighter, Kyo and Iori in The King of Fighters note but only in select entries of the Orochi Saga, namely '95 and '96, and '98; Iori's a Single Entry character in '97 and each new arc of KOF starting with '99 has its own protagonist and rival/antagonist character, so the cursor doesn't default to Kyo and Iori in those games, Sol and Ky in Guilty Gear, etc.), though there are some exceptions. It also helps that said protagonist and deuteragonists are usually easy to use, often to the point of being Shotoclones.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_f62adb88	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_f62adb88	comment	This is the reason why the original map from Defense of the Ancients: All-Stars is so memetic and ingrained into the genre's identity. The earlier MOBAs used something resembling DotA's map as the default map and have tried introducing alternate maps to the side, but except for the ones used exclusively for for-fun game modes, all of them failed to garner a playerbase and end up getting swept to the side.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_f95a1dc9	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_f95a1dc9	comment	In Space 1889 the vast majority of adventures are set on Mars so most gamemasters will make stories and players will create characters for this environment despite the fact that there are other really cool and interesting places.
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Default Setting Syndrome / int_fa575b33	type	Default Setting Syndrome
Default Setting Syndrome / int_fa575b33	comment	Competitive Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune players—believe it or not—often play versus matchines with handicap left on. The rationale is that in a no-handicap round, the unpredictable traffic behavior combined with the massive loss in speed that comes with a single crash at 340 km/h means that a single mistake will completely screw over the victim unless the other player makes a mistake, resulting in Randomly Generated Levels that are unpredictable and hard, while traffic-less racing games like Initial D Arcade Stage offer room for recovery if one screws up.
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