Lembot_0006Dec 21

Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

https://programming.dev/post/42726241

Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game - programming.dev

Situation: Game. Typical horror. You know the rules: “no weapons, hiding under the tables, occasional puzzles”. But the game was nice enough for me to play it. Until the final boss. Many horrors/adventures still have bosses, but the fight is more puzzlish than just shooting and running. In this case I should lure the boss in the electrified puddle and manipulate with it; and repeat it 3-4 times. After dying 3-4 times, I started to look for cutting-corners-way. I have found the developer console and it had some options that should make things easier. And you know what? After I increased my health, the boss became literally unkillable. Next time I added a few “medkits” to my inventory, the boss just started avoiding electrified puddles at all. All experiments led to the situation becoming even worse. I believe that developers made it intentionally. Just for the sake of “fuck you, shit” What could I do? Uninstall.

Show threadnogooduserDec 21

I stopped playing Resident Evil 7 because I’d decided that the setting that I was on was too difficult and wanted to knock it down a level. It wouldn’t let me do that without restarting the game so I stopped playing.

I don’t understand why they made that decision at all.

Show threadKatana314
Does sound like laziness. I get the impression it’s because some things change in the game depending on difficulty, like number of items, etc. So, it can’t exactly go back and turn the 3-ammo pile you picked up into 8 ammo.
Dec 21 at 12:34pmWeb
Show threadnogooduserDec 21
Well, it can just increase the amount of ammo you have or it could put an ammo stash just around the corner.
Show threaddukemirageDec 21
Project constraints are not laziness.