Kefka1134
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Well yes Skyrim, Uncharted, modern AC games, all easy targets I know, but that's just my point, even a hipster girls musings..
Actually here's a good example, Life is Strange has better stealth and puzzles than AC3, that's just a fact. LiS admits what it is, pretty much uninterested in making a complete game, and paradoxically ended up a halfway decent almost sorta game, that's more game than the games that say they are games, ya game?
Which reminds me of how I failed to beat Morrowind. I lost track of the main quest early on and just roamed the map. Then I got to final boss Dagoth Ur and he kicked my ass harder than 13 year old no life LoL player. So I got the best weapons and armor you can get in the game, I maxed out all my stats, casted all the protective spells on myself and summoned hordes of monsters to help me fight this God. I managed to drop him into lava which slowed down his regeneration and I used flight to get close and showered him with arrows and fireballs. I managed to get him down to 1/3rd HP before I ran out of juice. I was so desperate I even tried to become a vampire so I get some extra strength before giving up. Later I found out that you are supposed to beat him with some item you got from a quest and with it the whole fight is a walk in a park.
Yep sounds like my experience, I pretty much went on a journey which ended in Bamora where I proceeded to max thieving skills and do a bajillion quests without really leaving it as a hub. I don't think I did a single Blades quest before I finally just hurped it over to Vivec and gave him a this is Sparta kind of speech.
To be honest, I think the VN game reactive of complete despair is actually sort of normal, if you don't like cheat or pre-plan or memorize ahead of time, and try and beat a Zelda game or something pretty well the first time through, it's a challenging experience.
I think what a lot of these things reflect are people's despair at facing great challenges, can't say that's all bad either.
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