Beer Baelly
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Bunch of weirdos
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Making games more challenging for yourself by nerfing your abilities
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Bunch of weirdos
Bartski
Gold Member
I sure do, in a number of weird ways.
In soulslikes I'm all about fashion.
I don't care how much protection a helmet has as long as it doesn't look cool with my pants. It's the 100% opposite of how many people play those games "optimizing" the loadout for damage and different resistances, resulting in a character that looks like he just escaped from a circus. No, my hero needs to look badass and beat those bosses in cool ways, if that means 50 retries due to getting one-shot I'm cool with that.
I'm always aware how much I'm nerfing myself and try to compensate elsewhere.
Buckler parry? No thanks, I'm not gonna run around with that weak-ass looking piece of bent tin. Dagger parry forever, even tho the parry window is 50% of the buckler and is just garbage in practice. But looks better.
I also have this thing of trying to role-play in games that don't expect the payer to role play, and play games that push realism in ways that push the realism even harder, that's a whole other can of worms.
In soulslikes I'm all about fashion.
I don't care how much protection a helmet has as long as it doesn't look cool with my pants. It's the 100% opposite of how many people play those games "optimizing" the loadout for damage and different resistances, resulting in a character that looks like he just escaped from a circus. No, my hero needs to look badass and beat those bosses in cool ways, if that means 50 retries due to getting one-shot I'm cool with that.
I'm always aware how much I'm nerfing myself and try to compensate elsewhere.
Buckler parry? No thanks, I'm not gonna run around with that weak-ass looking piece of bent tin. Dagger parry forever, even tho the parry window is 50% of the buckler and is just garbage in practice. But looks better.
I also have this thing of trying to role-play in games that don't expect the payer to role play, and play games that push realism in ways that push the realism even harder, that's a whole other can of worms.
