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Surgoshan:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 28 Mar 2008, 12:06 ---Easy Mode is Too Easy And Hard Mode is Too Hard: I like my games to be playeable. I went through Kingdom Hearts II in easy and normal mode and I only died once. Easy doesn't mean that you should be invincible. It should just mean that the game doesn't kill you so many times you want to chuck your console out of the house. Hard Modes are sometimes fun, sometimes. Generally Hard modes mean there are more enemies and are stronger...I'm fine with that, but when there are twice as many enemies, who have twice as much health, do more damage, and added to that your own health is a tiny fraction of normal mode you have a serious problem.
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Ninja Gaiden avoided the Too Easy trap... by having a normal mode that's tough as balls and a hard mode that will kill your family.
I believe this is the Penny Arcade comic that depicts that, but I'm not sure because their server is down.
clockworkjames:
Hacks, LAG, people whining about cheap shots/camping/melee kills/humiliation.
I play at LAN alot and there are LAN rules or "The LAN Commandments" if you will.
Basic stuff - no AFK in tourneys, no sexual orientation hatred, no dickery etc.
But yeah, LAG is the worst thing in the world outside of gamers control. After that hax but they are in gamers control.
Siert:
--- Quote from: clockworkjames on 28 Mar 2008, 13:42 ---Hacks, LAG, people whining about cheap shots/camping/melee kills/humiliation.
But yeah, LAG is the worst thing in the world outside of gamers control. After that hax but they are in gamers control.
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Here I have to add my own review of this. LAG oh my I agree, do you notice it seems to benefit the other team? They jump around all the time your bullets won't hit, or even register leaving the gun! Such a mess... empty billions of bullets and realise that NOTHING happened except you got hit in the back of the he ad and have died on the other side of the map...
I detest lag... Althouhg my friend educated me on how pings work and how people exploit them, i don't ping he never taught me how to do it (Doubt I ever wold, im a fair gamer).
--- Quote from: clockworkjames on 28 Mar 2008, 13:42 ---I play at LAN alot and there are LAN rules or "The LAN Commandments" if you will.
Basic stuff - no AFK in tourneys, no sexual orientation hatred, no dickery etc.
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Oooh got to tell me more abotu this, lan commandments? intriguing, so im guessing similar antics to what happens with us, glaring at others screens ,insulting each other and of course jerking out controllers...
muteKi:
--- Quote from: Narr on 28 Mar 2008, 12:12 ---I'm not sure I have much of a problem with that personally, muteKi. I know that for me, one of the things that made the Megaman Zero series so fun compared to the other Megaman games is that in order to get all the extra spiffy moves, you had to beat every mission with an A rank. Not only did dying make it next to impossible to get an A rank on that mission, taking too much damage (usually more than your average life bar, assuming you've picked up health packs) made is super hard, too. And there was usually a very strict deadline.
Go back and try playing a game like as you described until you finally CAN beat a stage without dying. Once you get into "hardcore" gaming (as defined by me and my friends at PlayItHardcore.com), it's hard to hate on a challenging yet beatable game.
But like I said earlier, when the game expects the insanely difficult (as in the next to impossible), then I draw the line.
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Well, I think its a problem when the game is designed to kill you 10 ways to Sunday, like Sonic Heroes often is. That would have made the super tight controls a feature rather than an occasional limitation.
Also -- games without fully customizable controls.
Scandanavian War Machine:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 28 Mar 2008, 12:06 ---Easy Mode is Too Easy And Hard Mode is Too Hard:
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Bioshock did an amazing job of avoiding this. the hard modes were much harder but they were actually alot of fun rather than ridiculously frustrating and impossible.
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