Resident Evil 7 Madhouse mode did higher difficulty right. They did do the increase damage taken/decrease damage dealt but they changed where items were located, changed enemy spawns, added enemies in places that don't have them on lower difficulties, and there is at least one puzzle where you can completely skip getting the item for in the beginning of the game.
Am I cheating myself out of being able to say I truly completed the game? Maybe, I don’t regret it. Previously I was playing Castlevania Aria of Sorrow, getting thru this Waterfall is the biggest bullshit without cheating and requires you to grind one specific enemy most people would probably never pay attention to.
Yea but it had a weird difficulty curve the first couple encounters are hard as shit but after jack 1 the game is a breeze again because enemies still die in 1 shotgun blast
That's literally most old NES games. They give you a game that's addictive enough to poke your curiosity, but you don't know how to beat it. Then they give you the answer key through Nintendo Power or a licensed strategy guide, and you cough up extra money to get that.
I want a Postal game where Postal Dude becomes a cat.
Heh. Greg Coomer.
It's mainly third person (although there is a first person mode to track things), but this reminded me of the PS2 game Dog's Life. I played the demo for it as a kid and I always loved it. I've not played it since, so it could easily be terrible without my childish view.
Taking notes while playing a game is a lost art
I've always wondered why more games don't include built-in note taking, especially for RPG's. Having people write down objectives instead of automatically filling it out would be an easy way to add immersion to genres like that. Maybe have transcripts of all conversations the player has that they can refer to.
Hell, even the first System Shock actually had a form of that. Definitely an underrated feature.
That's one of the things I liked about DS, it made it reasonably easy to do, all on one device, sometimes a game even had the feature built-in.
The Legend of Zelda's instruction manual included a text walkthrough that covered up to the second dungeon. It also included a fold-out map for most of the overworld and the first few dungeons, plus a list of which items could be found in which dungeons, plus a bunch of hints for some of the more obscure bullshit the game threw at you, like how to get to level 9. The idea that the original Zelda involved no hand-holding is based more on nostalgia than reality. Some kids who rented the game in the 80s may never have seen the manual, but Nintendo clearly intended to hold the player's hand.
People used to just say AA games for mid budget, lower price, but jankier games made by independent studios, that market eventually died out but is coming back in the form of Indies. I don't think they'll ever drop the Indie title as it holds some kind of idea of it being a lone developer sticking it to the AAA studios or some other romanticized idea.
Pretty neat tbh. Reminds me of the old CRPGs of the day, which I think Zelda 1 was partially inspired by.
Revisiting HL2 on The Orange Box so far, I'm impressed with its linear level design. Levels are massive enough to feel plausible as real locations, but the game subtly points you in a linear fashion of where to go.
I mean Half Life 1 has the loading screen as well, its just a limitation of Source. There are a lot of tiny gaps to crawl through and dead ends to be intuitive for me, HL1 was a lot less linear but it was always clear where you had to go, even if HL1 also rewarded you much more for exploring. The gunplay compared to HL1 is definetly weaker, though.
