qwertysaur
12-11-2013, 09:13 AM
Sometimes when playing a game, you find tricks or strategies that make game easier or more enjoyable. They can be intentional by the developer, or a happy accident. This thread is not about those at all.
Sometimes, you try and break the game, and the game just says smurf you and punishes your foolishness.
One of my favorites is in various Touhou games the pattern gets more difficult as you shave off the bosses health. Since each attack has a timer on it, outlasting the timer will clear the attack. So if the timer hit's 30 seconds on these patterns, the difficulty instantly goes to the max possible, which is usually worse than just playing normally.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjzx7OQ56ro
A couple other good patterns that have insane difficulty if you don't shoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohfsJ1eFPz0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0FkEZXVqjk
note that for both of these the player has slowed down the game considerably to be able to finish. :p
What are some of your favorite ways games mess with players for trying to break them? :bigsmile:
Sometimes, you try and break the game, and the game just says smurf you and punishes your foolishness.
One of my favorites is in various Touhou games the pattern gets more difficult as you shave off the bosses health. Since each attack has a timer on it, outlasting the timer will clear the attack. So if the timer hit's 30 seconds on these patterns, the difficulty instantly goes to the max possible, which is usually worse than just playing normally.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjzx7OQ56ro
A couple other good patterns that have insane difficulty if you don't shoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohfsJ1eFPz0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0FkEZXVqjk
note that for both of these the player has slowed down the game considerably to be able to finish. :p
What are some of your favorite ways games mess with players for trying to break them? :bigsmile: