| rdfs: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. May apply to non-arcade games too, but it's less of an issue because Who Would Be Stupid Enough...? to break into someone's house to watch them play?
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| abstract | - 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. May apply to non-arcade games too, but it's less of an issue because Who Would Be Stupid Enough...? to break into someone's house to watch them play? Rhythm Games are a pretty special case. This trope can make the default song into a scorned Ear Worm, 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. Examples of Default Setting Syndrome include:
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