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.

  • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
    41·
    1 day ago

    I know there’s very few, be it rare, games where developers seemingly hate those who play it.

    But you’re not understanding that maybe that there are some games that aren’t for you. It sometimes is a sucky feeling, when games seemingly look like you’d have a blast playing them, until you try them and feel the opposite. I wouldn’t really say any of the struggles I’ve had in games I played in this example, that I felt like the developers were intentionally punishing me. More like my expectations, standards and idea of fun collides with what that game already established in its own values.

    Like I hate games where anything kills you in one hit, that is bullshit, give me a health bar or multiple chances of being hit. I prefer more games that have at least healthbars.

    • Lembot_0006@programming.devOPEnglish
      27·
      1 day ago

      I am not talking about the game design. I am talking about situations when developers purposefully check if the player cheats or makes something strange and then developers intentionally make things worse.

      • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
        91·
        1 day ago

        Yes you are talking about game design.

        You just said developers check if the player cheats or makes something “strange” then react to it. By game design, they don’t want you cheating in their game.

        So you either deal with it or don’t.