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So many comments about how it is meant to artificially extend gameplay, or motivate the player to continue.
Could it not be as simple as the game cartridge only holds 1MB of game data max, and restarting the level from 0 when you die uses less valuable storage space?
ITT we don't to know to program
I use save states fuck that paywall BS
Emulators are great. Just found a Family Guy Game iso for PPSSPP after my original PSP died years ago. Now I can play with my favorite controller.
dark souls would still benefit from difficulty settings
Aye. Unpopular but...that's a reason I haven't touched any of those yet. Fucking respawn. Stop wasting my time. We had that enough back in the days when there only was 1 game a month (if at all). But they must exclude us with not having a difficulty setting. Cheating also doesn't help in this case.
The difficulty settings are your stats. Literally.
Depending on your build and your personal skill level the game becomes easy or hard. The souls games are notoriously difficult because people don't have the attention span to learn boss patterns and want to kill every other enemy they see. The game punishes arrogance and forces you to figure out the mechanics yourself.
Once you get a hang of it the games become really easy. Not even joking. I have a harder time playing Space Marine 2 than I do Dark Souls.
sure but you won't know that as a new player unless you go outside the actual game for info.
You should! The game desperately wants you to! That's why stuff like the messaging system was created, to incentivize the player to player share of information. Yeah, all the messages left these days are going to be trolling, unfortunately, but there's still plenty of videos and info from the era it was released on the internet.
There's absolutely no shame in looking something up when you get stuck and can't progress further, or asking a friend where to go next. That's FromSoftware's intent.
but that's not interesting to me. i want immersion. that's also why their multiplayer aspect seems like such a weird idea.
Then they might not be the games for you. Immersion is probably the last thing I'd really think of for Souls. They're very much a series of videogames that feel like videogames, especially when you realize how many of the assets and animations get re-used from game to game.
I never realized Mario is a metaphor for real life.