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extremebuff
Jun 20, 2010

Evil Eagle posted:

I agree, I typically don't like dynamic difficulty if it's not explicitly shown to you like in God Hand. RE4 is nice enough to reset the difficulty to a base level after bosses iirc so it's not too bad. Of course professional mode is the way to go since it's set to max difficulty no matter how much you die.

yeah i was gonna mention if you don't like the game pulling levers in the backend, the pro difficulty just cranks everything up to the extreme and doesn't give you poo poo if you die 100 times.

i wish more games had halo skulls, adds a ton of replayability

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ArfJason
Sep 5, 2011
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im not gonna watch this because i havent played ds3, but the guy did a randomized use what you see run of ds3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qwubh_o0Q

mysterious loyall X
Jul 8, 2003

extremebuff posted:

i did 3 heart runs of almost every zelda. twlight princess was kind of lame since you're basically invincible in that game unless you break your shield and even then every enemy gives you 3 minutes to avoid their attacks, it was a fun challenge for the others though

3 heart run in every zelda game means you can be hit 100 times

mysterious loyall X
Jul 8, 2003

ArfJason posted:

im not gonna watch this because i havent played ds3, but the guy did a randomized use what you see run of ds3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qwubh_o0Q

even before starting ds3 you'd see a steam overlay that you could "use" to play a game that's not a piece of garbage

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

mysterious loyall X posted:

even before starting ds3 you'd see a steam overlay that you could "use" to play a game that's not a piece of garbage

Might I suggest Ken Levine’s Bioshock Infinite - the challenge run is to see if you can stop yourself from playing such an amazing game

sector_corrector
Jan 18, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

I.N.R.I posted:

ive always thought games in general should pay more attention to difficulty and challenge. easy normal hard mode doesnt really work in my opinion, i think 1 difficulty which the game is designed around and a bunch of extra options to add or remove different types of challenge to a game is a better idea. for example in isaac how theres those secret seed codes you can play which make all doors spiked etc. theyre just a novelty in that game but its also the type of challenge a player cant just impose on themselves too, i think its a good concept.

this is just about the only thing i like about Bastion

ArfJason
Sep 5, 2011
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the god idols in bastion was really cool yeah

sector_corrector
Jan 18, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo
spelunky's super secret eggplant run is loving insane
http://spelunky.wikia.com/wiki/Eggplant

ArfJason
Sep 5, 2011
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oh man i forgot about that bananasaurus guy's solo eggplant run, i remember watching some of his attempts live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGrPeu5NWk0

Thank you for reminding me of this, because it's kind of the same as the Dark Souls randomized run only better: It's another display of absolute mastery over the systems and mechanics of Spelunky, to the point that by using the right glitches and the right edge cases in the right ways, you can complete something that should only be possible with 2 players. Really good poo poo.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

ArfJason posted:

oh man i forgot about that bananasaurus guy's solo eggplant run, i remember watching some of his attempts live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGrPeu5NWk0

Thank you for reminding me of this, because it's kind of the same as the Dark Souls randomized run only better: It's another display of absolute mastery over the systems and mechanics of Spelunky, to the point that by using the right glitches and the right edge cases in the right ways, you can complete something that should only be possible with 2 players. Really good poo poo.
It's my favorite challenge run of anything I've ever seen.

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Expect My Mom
Nov 18, 2013

by Smythe

ArfJason posted:

a thread for posting cool or interesting ways to play a game as a self imposed challenge or some other thing. speedruns too i guess since we dont have a speedrun thread here

heres a guy playing half life but the maps are upside down and he has to navigate the roof's geometry in weird ways and use every single trick imaginable to proceed skip to 7:30 if you dont want to see the intro lab sections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5VTWEQdVhA
this loving rules

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