Wow, I just lost a long-term hardcore game because I'm stupid.

[tential]

I always feel like those are the people who can only afford a couple games a year and have lots of time to play so they want them extra difficult for them to last. I'm with you. I'd rather enjoy my time and buy a new one to finish.

I can afford as many games as I want a year. I just don't care to play that many games. I like a challenge as well. If a game seems like it should be that way, that's how I'll play it. XCOM is one of them that I feel that if you lose the game, that's it, it's over. You do NOT get to reload a save to try and fix your mistake. My first play through, I lost. I didn't go to a previous save and try to fix it, I started all over again.

That's just how I like to play games. When there is a fear of loss, the game is more fun. I honestly got really upset when playing bioshock because of how the save worked. I wanted it to be more harsh when I died.

 

[tential]

I agree with you mostly..... But it could be dependent upon what you are looking for....

I NEVER wanted KOTOR 1 to end. NEVER.
XCOM Enemy unknown (the last one)
CANT WAIT FOR THE END..... Begging for it....
In fact, as per steam I have not touched it in a month and apparently I am pretty close.

To me, hardcore mode the END game is the prize.
You are not playing it to explore new worlds, or tactics... FINISH is the prize.

So I can see the OP point...


(WOW was that wishy washy enough for you????)

I'm surprised with the XCOm thing. The original was MUCH cooler to me. As a little kid though, It was VERY hard and challenging. But enemy unknown was great for me. I literally didn't put it down. I remember at midnight saying "Just one more hour". 6 hours later I hadn't even ?NOTICED that time had passed. It was insane lol.

Edit: I'm not like OP though. I would only start a hardcore game on something I know nothing about. YOLO.
I wanted to do a hardcore of Darksouls but meh, I'd just end up farming so much to beat everything and the game is trollish in itself with it's terrible controls, etc.

 

[BladeVenom]

Naw, I'm not going to say what game it was. I don't feel like getting trolled about the game itself.

It was My Little Pony, wasn't it? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[Via]

It was My Little Pony, wasn't it? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

How did you get a look at my HD, hacker?

 

[Maximilian]

Naw, I'm not going to say what game it was. I don't feel like getting trolled about the game itself.

I will say it's in the RPG category and it's not a newer game. I died because for some idiotic, moronic, foolishly inane reason I felt compelled to clear out an area that I hadn't completely finished before heading to the end game, and I forgot about something that happens there.

This--^

Prolly died to oblivion knights iron maiden or something. Or he went afk outside the rogue camp and a zombie came along and slowly chipped away at his health.

 

[Geosurface]

I've been gaming since the early 80's and I'm so glad I've never had that desire a lot of people do to get the high score at the arcade, or play through something with no deaths... or play Diablo on hardcore or whatever...

I've just never been a competitive person at all, and while that may not have served me well in terms of leaving some great mark on the world... at least it means less stress in areas like gaming which are meant to be fun, not stressful.

I'll walk away from a game without a second thought, and if I think the only way I'm going to even possibly make it through is to play on Easy? I'll do that especially in recent years.

The only game I can really remember ever playing through on hardest difficulty, was Halo 1. I actually beat it on Legendary a couple of times. Very out of character for me.

 

[JTsyo]

Depends on how long the game is. A short game like FTL it doesn't bother me. If I was playing a game that took 40+ hours, it wouldn't be as fun losing.

FTL only has hardcore mode

Thought the OP was about D2 but guess not.

 

[clok1966]

Lol "people climb mountains to prove they are better than you"

Personally i cant stand to be around ppl that have the need to prove anything.

I didn't say what you are quoting there, who did? you? then you don't put in quotes like I said it..not grammar police (I suck at it) but don't want it looking like i said that.

you missed the part of my quote where i said "When your done YOU feel like you did something. No reason to tell anybody else, they wont get it."

I never needed to tell anybody why i do something (the part about -ME- feeling like i did something has nothing to do with anybody else and what they have done), they wont see I the same way.. be it climbing a Mountain, winning a hot dog eating contest, running 5 miles a day for life, opening doors for people all the time or playing a game on the hardest setting.. somebody will think they are better, or you are lesser and find a way to bitch about it (thanks for proving my point ).. hence i said , why tell anybody? they wont get it..

but in a small way i agree with you some.. i have no time for people who think they are better then somebody else.

how did this degrade from a Hardcore setting in games to this? forgive me thread...

 

[gorcorps]

Naw, I'm not going to say what game it was. I don't feel like getting trolled about the game itself.

I will say it's in the RPG category and it's not a newer game. I died because for some idiotic, moronic, foolishly inane reason I felt compelled to clear out an area that I hadn't completely finished before heading to the end game, and I forgot about something that happens there.

Really? You started this thread and won't even give us the story behind it? I was hoping for a good story based on the title but now I'm wondering why you even bothered posting something so worthless...

 

[Via]

Just let it go, man.

 

[JTsyo]

Just let it go, man.

hah, you didn't post the game because you thought you would get a hard time about it. Now you're getting the same treatment for not posting the game. :hmm:

 

[serpretetsky]

Playing a game in hardcore mode is not about being competitive or about being better than other people.

I loved diablo2 hardcore mode online.

Every time I have leave the main town, shivers go down my spine. I know that I may not come back to the warm little campfire and the company of deckard in this raining dark forest. But I must leave, I must fight to find out what is corrupting the forest.

Every time I see a non regular monster I get nervous. I run around him a couple of times, seeing what he will do. I try to hit him once from a far, see how much health he has. I come in for a quick fight, and he hits me. DEAR LORD HE HIT ME! RUN AWAY!!!

Check my health, that didn't seem so bad. Let's go in for the kill. In the fight he uses an attack I hadn't seen before. From the corner of my eye, I can see my health has taken a noticeable hit, and I panic. Adrenaline shoots through me. RUN AWAY MODE!!!!! The monster is now chasing me. But i have to temporarily stop to create a portal back to town!!! I do it fast.
I stop
(oh god the monster is catchig up)
I open the inventory
(he's coming right up to me now!!)
I open the town portal
(HE'S NEXT TO ME AND HE"S ABOUT TO ATTACK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD)
i step through the portal. GIANT SIGH OF RELIEF


40% hp!!!! In any other game I would have been happy with 40% hp, but in Diablo2 HC mode, this is not tolerable. I'm getting sloppy, and I'm nervous. My hand is shaking. I go back to town to calm down a little bit. The campfire is so inviting. I have a little chest with my personal belongings by the campfire. I browse through it. I realize every item in my chest is just another "thing", and that at any moment I could die in this game and all of those items will be gone, even the super unique ones i've been saving.

This does not relax me at all, but then I see something that does. My friend joins the server, he also had a hardcore character. A smile crosses my face when I realize I'm not alone in this rediculous game that I am volantarily playing. We both stand by the fire, chat about what part of the game we're about to go. We exchange some items we found for eachother. He shows me a rare rune we've been hoping to get. We both share our collection of runes and gems, either one of us can use them as we please. I show him a wand i found for him. He takes it and uses it. It satisfies me immensely that I have found something that could help him from dieing. We leave the village to go fight the monster together. Maybe together it won't be quite as scary.

 

[aigomorla]

I experience that every time i see and pay my CC bill.... why would i want it in the game?

1. the suprised shock of seeing how high it is...
2. the sadness and loss of having to dish out the complete payment.
3. the emptiness when all that money is gone.. never to be seen again..
4. the addiction of repeating it over again in a never ending cycle..

!!!

 

[gorcorps]

Playing a game in hardcore mode is not about being competitive or about being better than other people.

I loved diablo2 hardcore mode online.

Every time I have leave the main town, shivers go down my spine. I know that I may not come back to the warm little campfire and the company of deckard in this raining dark forest. But I must leave, I must fight to find out what is corrupting the forest.

Every time I see a non regular monster I get nervous. I run around him a couple of times, seeing what he will do. I try to hit him once from a far, see how much health he has. I come in for a quick fight, and he hits me. DEAR LORD HE HIT ME! RUN AWAY!!!

Check my health, that didn't seem so bad. Let's go in for the kill. In the fight he uses an attack I hadn't seen before. From the corner of my eye, I can see my health has taken a noticeable hit, and I panic. Adrenaline shoots through me. RUN AWAY MODE!!!!! The monster is now chasing me. But i have to temporarily stop to create a portal back to town!!! I do it fast.
I stop
(oh god the monster is catchig up)
I open the inventory
(he's coming right up to me now!!)
I open the town portal
(HE'S NEXT TO ME AND HE"S ABOUT TO ATTACK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD)
i step through the portal. GIANT SIGH OF RELIEF


40% hp!!!! In any other game I would have been happy with 40% hp, but in Diablo2 HC mode, this is not tolerable. I'm getting sloppy, and I'm nervous. My hand is shaking. I go back to town to calm down a little bit. The campfire is so inviting. I have a little chest with my personal belongings by the campfire. I browse through it. I realize every item in my chest is just another "thing", and that at any moment I could die in this game and all of those items will be gone, even the super unique ones i've been saving.

This does not relax me at all, but then I see something that does. My friend joins the server, he also had a hardcore character. A smile crosses my face when I realize I'm not alone in this rediculous game that I am volantarily playing. We both stand by the fire, chat about what part of the game we're about to go. We exchange some items we found for eachother. He shows me a rare rune we've been hoping to get. We both share our collection of runes and gems, either one of us can use them as we please. I show him a wand i found for him. He takes it and uses it. It satisfies me immensely that I have found something that could help him from dieing. We leave the village to go fight the monster together. Maybe together it won't be quite as scary.

Thank you for that

That's the type of story I wanted from the get-go that wasn't delivered

 

[Via]

Thank you for that

That's the type of story I wanted from the get-go that wasn't delivered

I'm glad you're leaving satisfied. Bye.

You are leaving the thread, right?

 

[TheUnk]

What game

 

[chalmers]

I'm glad you're leaving satisfied. Bye.

You are leaving the thread, right?

Someone's getting defensive.

 

[SithSolo1]

WoW Ironman:

http://wowironman.com/rules