Open Thread for February 3 - 10

NancyLebovitz

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The reason I stopped playing single-player computer games.

That really depends on the game. Take Ninja Gaiden, or Super Mario Brothers, or Castlevania 1 - the difficulty ramps steeply but your characters' abilities do not ramp at all. Zelda levels generally get harder faster than you get tougher (with some exceptions).

In some games, choosing the right advancements is a major part of the game. It's seen most clearly in Epic Battle Fantasy 2: over the course of the game, you get 10 abilities (and only 10, out of a long lineup); picking the right ones (and ensuring that you qualify for them) is a lot of the challenge... (read more)

2NancyLebovitz12y

Do you mean it was an insight which hit you hard enough that you stopped playing immediately and completely?

2Nornagest12y

It's sort of darkly funny that my second Google autocomplete suggestion for "Progress Quest" is "progress quest cheats". (The usual caveats about autocomplete apply, of course.)

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Open Thread for February 3 - 10

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Open Thread for February 3 - 10

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