Posted on: March 3, 2021
jammonstrald
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the game plays you
There is good, satisfying difficulty, in which a game rewards you for playing well and making good decisions, and punishes you for bad decisions in a way that is correlational to your in-game actions. And then there is bad, frustrating difficulty, in which a game punishes you with hidden random calculations that may or may not reflect anything about your in-game actions, and rewards you for playing well and making good decisions with hidden random calculations that punish you anyway. If you were playing a game of chess, and every time you captured a piece you had to roll a die to see if you actually captured it, or if instead you lose your own piece, would that make the game more difficult? absolutely. Would it make the game more fun or rewarding to play? Ehhhhh..... This game feels like that. When I do well, sure, I did some things "right", but I never felt like I was accomplishing things more than feeling like the game was allowing me to accomplish things. Consequently it didn't feel "challenging" to me, it just felt frustrating. Oh I missed that mind controlling alien that had no health left and a 95% hit chance? Twice? While flanking it and using strong cover? And then on its turn it takes over one of my guys who then instantly kills off a third of my remaining team with a completely unlikely hit? Well I guess I just need to be better. I have no problems with a game being overly punishing. I love me some stupidly difficult games from time to time. But punishments should have a sense of internal logic and consistency to them. If not, then I'm not actually playing a game, because I have no idea what the rules of the game are. And the developers are on record as saying that many of the numbers shown for chance of success and failure in the game are intentionally not accurate. They did it this way because they wanted to force players to experience specific feelings in certain situations. That's not playing a game. That's getting played by manipulation.
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