I'm just saying, having to drag around a Bidoof/Bibarel in Sinnoh just so the rest of my team wasn't stuck with required HM's that I didn't want was not a great time
I’ll concede that Sinnoh went overboard with the HM’s. Making them something g other than Normal or Water type would definitely lend to improving them.
I actually like having a life system because it requires me to actually try. It's like a mental thing whenever I play a game with infinite lives; I end up dying way more often and generally doing poorly, versus a game with lives that requires me to not screw up. I end up doing better when I don't have that large a safety net.
Contract law should be taught in high school.
I prefer infinite lives, because I dislike getting kicked out of the game and having to start over. Games are way too easy though with multiple checkpoints, turning down the difficulty when dying, and giving out a bunch of health upgrades right before a hard battle. I want the thrill of making it through a level by being good enough.
Games where lives are given out like candy seem to be the best compromise. You’re forced to practice the first few levels over and over if you keep getting game overs, but you won’t be screwed by random bullshit levels later on where you’ll burn through like 30 in a row.
If you're gonna have 1-Ups it should be limiting enough where it adds some pressure, not just be a number to inflate. On the good end of the scale I think Retro's DKC games do a good job of this, you get a lot of lives, but the game's difficult enough and live cap low enough where a challenging level can make you worry about your live count. On the other hand Super Mario 3D World has such a high cap and it's so easy to get lives that it might as well have infinite continues, lives add nothing to that game.
I think a good balance would be to have extra lives pay for checkpoint respawns when you die, but if you run out of lives you have do the whole level again. It gives the player a chance to practice the sections they're stuck at while also punishing them and hopefully making them want to improve. This would only probably only work for arcade-style or platforming games, since the levels are generally short enough that it's not TOO punishing.
I mean, he's not entirely wrong, but hell, we joked about having Cut and Strength slaves all the way back in Gen I. Flash I hated so much I willingly bumped around in total darkness until I found the exit. Diamond/Pearl/Platinum were the absolute worst for it, though.
Lives are just another way to get the player invested, it can be done in others ways. In a Metroidvania it would be pushing further into an area than you should, get some good stuff, then carefully get back to a save point. Or carrying a lot of souls in DS.
It loads the world all at once. that's it. it doesnt really support "streaming".
There are quite a number of Digimon circle jerk threads that pop up on /vp/ with a good amount of sucking off the newer Digimon games. And speaking of the newer games you have overzealous fans who worship the current director like he can do no wrong.
