General Category > Game Development
What's this? Velociraptors! Cannibalism! Oh my.
x4000:
--- Quote from: orzelek on February 22, 2012, 09:51:30 AM ---Here diff 10 is not like not allowing you access to 1/5th of game features...
In DunDef nightmare is actually 1/5th of game in a away - it's ability to get one more run with campaign for you with better rewards and higher difficulty. Balancing it so that hours of grinding are required to have chance at it (and silly feature that you run on nightmare one of further maps to get items from there to have any chances on others) is simply ruining the game for 80-90% of players.. thats not something that sits well with players.
--- End quote ---
That's what I was worried about -- and so I definitely don't support that decision. If I may, I think that the root of that problem is in the modern sentiment among many game developers that extrinsic rewards are required for every player action. "What do I get for playing on the highest difficulty and winning?" Satisfaction! A feeling of accomplishment! I guess maybe an achievement, if you really have to have something.
But not 1/5th of the game content, or even 1/100th of the game content. Because then you're forcing all the other players to either look on with envy, cheat, or slog through a difficulty that they find supremely un-fun.
keith.lamothe:
DD is a lot of fun for my group of 4, we're still like level 15 though and only play about once every two weeks (alternating with League of Legends; Spikey00 and Lancefighter should laugh if they're reading this).
We just play along, blissfully unaware of how far above the mountain slope stretches, and however many sky-castle-mountains are floating above that :)
tigersfan:
Wait a minute.... *checks previous post again* ... did Keith just say he plays League of Legends?
keith.lamothe:
It was only against bots. And I didn't inhale.
Hearteater:
If you ever want to play non-bot games with less chance of headaches, Dominion is the way to go. Short games, very fast paced, and if the game is bad for some reason it doesn't drag out nearly as long and as painfully as Summoner's Rift can.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version