10-30-2006, 09:15 PM
Hi,
Item glut in D2? Try hard core, using only items you find or buy and never repairing them (just toss or sell when they wear out). It does take some of the 'easy' out of the game and the vendors do become your best friends:) Combine that with some non-optimal builds, and the game can stay interesting for a long time.
As for me, I've long since given up all hope that any major game company will build games for hard core gamers. I've even quit posting to suggestion fora for games in development, since the ideas I suggest (equipment that wears out, limited number of resurrects, harsh penalties for dieing, games with real dificulty levels that the vast majority cannot 'beat' at the highest level, etc.) will never be implemented and only draw flames from the vast sea of game groupies who are terrified of thinking or facing a challenge.
Minesweeper is a better game than most now sold. It takes some thought, it takes some skill, and it can actually be lost. And that is indeed a sad commentary on the modern computer game.
--Pete
Quote:Diablo II was marketed on the basis (*I* believe, anyway) that people enjoyed the treasure-hunt aspect of Diablo I. Good<Better<Best is EXACTLY what the game was trying to accomplish, not balance, or paper, rock, scissors, which is my major beef with it. Blizzard abandoned what I would consider "good" qualities in a game in exchange for giving people what they *think* makes a good game (but does not).All too true. However, for each person looking for a challenging game there appears to be hundreds looking for a way to waste time through instant gratification. Those time wasters are the true market of the game companies, since they are the only audience big enough to fund the cost of developing a modern game. And so, for those of us looking for an interesting game the choices are to look at mods; to look at independent games (e.g., Angband); or to play varients. To complain that mass produced games are produced for the masses is a tad bit naive.
Item glut in D2? Try hard core, using only items you find or buy and never repairing them (just toss or sell when they wear out). It does take some of the 'easy' out of the game and the vendors do become your best friends:) Combine that with some non-optimal builds, and the game can stay interesting for a long time.
As for me, I've long since given up all hope that any major game company will build games for hard core gamers. I've even quit posting to suggestion fora for games in development, since the ideas I suggest (equipment that wears out, limited number of resurrects, harsh penalties for dieing, games with real dificulty levels that the vast majority cannot 'beat' at the highest level, etc.) will never be implemented and only draw flames from the vast sea of game groupies who are terrified of thinking or facing a challenge.
Minesweeper is a better game than most now sold. It takes some thought, it takes some skill, and it can actually be lost. And that is indeed a sad commentary on the modern computer game.
--Pete
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