Videogame designers also innovated gaming with such thoughts as: "Y'know how cool it is to find new weapons? Well, what if they broke? Just real pieces of shit your guy keeps having to chase after. Maybe in the sequel your swords can give you AIDS if you use them. Y'know, for fun." - ThreadSky

jazzhandmedowns.bsky.social • 158 days ago

Videogame designers also innovated gaming with such thoughts as: "Y'know how cool it is to find new weapons? Well, what if they broke? Just real pieces of shit your guy keeps having to chase after. Maybe in the sequel your swords can give you AIDS if you use them. Y'know, for fun."

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vox-dei.bsky.social•158 days ago

I can't play games that do that. I'm the guy who never uses consumables in case there's a boss in the next room, so if my sword becomes a consumable I'll run round using the shittiest sword I have so I can save the good one for when it's needed. This is not fun.

luizspfc.bsky.social•158 days ago

And then proceed to not use any in the boss because maybe I will need it in the next boss and continue like that till the end game

zoroark.ca•158 days ago

And of course by the time you need it that sword you were saving is now the shitty sword creating a miserable cycle of always using the bottom of the barrel garbage and spending 2-4 times as long beating on shit you had no reason to make as difficult on yourself as you just did.

vox-dei.bsky.social•158 days ago

Yup, exactly! I mean, it's a sword. Maybe it needs sharpening occasionally and I can imagine it might break if an opponent hits it the wrong way, but it shouldn't fall to pieces because you hit something with it 51 times instead of 50!

zoroark.ca•158 days ago

I was always of the opinion that if a game has a durability system, the item cannot be irrecoverably broken. Even if the cost to repair it is difficult to pay, you should be able to return the item to a like-new state or it ruins the excitement of finding a good one.

iscored.info•158 days ago

You use consumables on bosses?! But what if there’s a harder boss later??

I inevitably finish every Final Fantasy with like 40 megalixers and 99 turbo ethers. You know. Just in case.

vox-dei.bsky.social•158 days ago

Only very grudgingly and after five attempts. 🤣

cocaineowlbear.bsky.social•158 days ago

This is the second thing I mod out in a lot of games, if possible.

The first thing is fishing mini games.

eyoiro.bsky.social•158 days ago

Felt like games like Botw and especially Totk did it pretty amazingly cause your weapons don’t last you have a good incentive to explore and experiment with how you use your weapons, i also found it annoying that games like Skyrim have so many weapons that you never use/have an incentive to use

zaphodsaysfroody.bsky.social•157 days ago

Ahhh....Dayz

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