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64 itself was so much worse that Super Mario Kart. The move away from tightly focused circuits to slushy long 'tube' courses was a huge step back. Battle mode was good though!
Its not just me, games used to be better
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64 itself was so much worse that Super Mario Kart. The move away from tightly focused circuits to slushy long 'tube' courses was a huge step back. Battle mode was good though!
the original Mario Kart is the best. The formula didn't improve, it's just built upon what was great already. Current MK games are excellent, sure, but the original one was more differentiating, each character had their own advantages and disadvantages. Donkey Kong Jr. -my fav- was the fastest, along Bowser, but they were slower when accelerating.
Now it's more like there are the heavy characters and stuff but everything else feels the same, like a different character is just a different skin of another character rather than a character you can master and get a benefit compared to using other characters.
Diablo creator harshly criticizes the current state of ARPGs: “Now it’s all about killing everything in seconds, I find it almost ridiculous”
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ARPGs aside, i's a tendency of many modern games to please the player as easily as possible. For instance, I enjoy the new Doom games, but the monsters fear the Doom guy, it's not the other way around. I find that extremely boring.
I want to respect the enemies. Monsters shouldn't have to fear you, it's the other way around. And you don't have to imply that they fear you in the main story, we have Easy difficulty for that. I play games on Easy sometimes to learn, when enemies kick my ass on other difficulties.
I want to respect the enemies. Monsters shouldn't have to fear you, it's the other way around. And you don't have to imply that they fear you in the main story, we have Easy difficulty for that. I play games on Easy sometimes to learn, when enemies kick my ass on other difficulties.
I think it is a matter of taste. Some games explore the concept of being the feared one, others explore the concept of being the one who is in an ugly situation, others sit in the middle.
On the other hand I get what you are saying. Enemy personality is reduced to just target meat. They are barely leaving their mark as enemies.
I think the first Devil May Cry nailed that balance of being a badass character who's badassness didn't come from being overpowered. His badassness came from personality and the player becoming skillful enough with a very specific repertoire of moves.
Demons were aggressive and pushy enough as if oblivious for whoever he is and sometimes not even giving shits. It is why every boss and enemy was memorable as fuck in the original. He wasn't as cocky either as the next games. It was kind of like the survival horror equivalent of bad ass action. Nelo Angelo specifically showed that the enemy had their Dante equivalent to put him in place.
But yes Doom maybe is trying to be a bit "comedic" in a dark way with the enemies or in it's effort to create a flow of gameplay mayhem, Doom guy's personality became the fearsome unstoppable force. Doom characters don't have much of a personality I would say. The game itself is the personality of flowy demon slaying. Doom kind of feels to me like side scrolling shooting games like Resogun turned into a glorified AAA 3D first person shooter.
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I don't think the orginal Doom guy ever showed much fear of the enemies? Mostly look like he was trying to figure out if he left the stove on.
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Want to mod it? Go ahead. Save scum? Absolutely! You can play it the way you want to, rather than being forced through artificial bottlenecks like competitive play, leaderboards, monetization, etc.
It's a great example of how removing features can actually make a game better, which is a breath of fresh air in an industry often focused on bloating its games with unnecessary content."
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Want to mod it? Go ahead. Save scum? Absolutely! You can play it the way you want to, rather than being forced through artificial bottlenecks like competitive play, leaderboards, monetization, etc.
It's a great example of how removing features can actually make a game better, which is a breath of fresh air in an industry often focused on bloating its games with unnecessary content."
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