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Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games (media.piefed.world)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 71 points 1 year ago (10 children)

God: .... I'll make a game ... random spawns ... one life ... no instructions .. no directions ... open world ... play as you want

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[–] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And your game difficulty is RNG.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

... and you happen to spawn during a period when a game wide PVP session is happening

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[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Sounds sick

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[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah, may I introduce you to No Man's Sky permadeath mode?

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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which is unfortunately far easier than you'd think it is. I've gotten to the core in permadeath.

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[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I've gotten to the core in permadeath.

Before or after you figured out the game?

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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago

I've had it sinse day one. I've had to refigure out the game many many times.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you've never gotten it yet, get "Shattered Pixel Dungeon" on your phone. Completely free game. Most of what you speak of, and you'll feel like you've really pulled some shit off after you beat it the first time.

If you beat it the first time.

My first win was around attempt number 45.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

SPD is proof that I'm just bad at vidya. I've gotten to floor 10 once. There's clearly come meta I am missing, but I've read strategy guides so I'm just kind of lost at this point.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

It's just fucking hard. All the random builds and bad guys. The best hint is to use small walls to your advantage and to sometimes run away and avoid creatures. After you die and die and die you start to learn how all the baddies move around. You can eventually get good. It took me 45 attempts to get my first win, but I had 10 more wins by attempt 70. I was hooked on that game hard for a while.

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