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Message: [QUOTE="Pandaprewmaster325, post: 97984, member: 217919"] I thought they died well I'm not into pokemon. I said a challenge a difficulty that puts your knowledge to test it can be brutal sometimes and a bit forgiving at other times I'm not saying badly balanced that's something else. An example of good high difficulty I could think of is call of duty veteran difficulty its beatable but requires careful planning and punishes reckless play like not taking cover or downplaying strength or reach of a grenade. Another good difficulty example is symphony of frost and flame in WarCraft 3 its beatable but requires patience and well timed attacks and raids throughout the map putting everything the player learned throughout the entire journey of WarCraft 3 into one single final epic showdown. Another example of good challenge is the HECU marines from half life not only they are absolutely badass but provide an engaging challenge with their unique AI behavior of squad leaders alerting the rest of squad to your presence , throwing grenades to force you out of cover , taking cover themselves when shot and other maneuvers that make use of cover intensive levels giving the player a test to use their knowledge of positioning and level layout to use to defeat the marines combined with the player high movement speed makes for fun encounters with these durable and intimidating enemies. Another good example of challenging but not absurd are Final Fantasy games where the games (2d mostly) put you early on in a difficult financial position where you have to be wise with how you spend the gils whether you want to invest in equipment or vast amounts of potions , the game scaling is also designed pretty well and accommodates the expected level of the player at that point of the game you won't be too underpowered or too overpowered if you fight a fair amount of battles they can also be extremely punishing for mistakes like when I forgot to equip healing materia on me in cosmo canyon dungeon while being low on potions too ever since that harsh lesson I ensure that I have healing all the time. Another great example of difficulty is counter strike an easy to pick but difficult to master game with the punishment of dying being harsh compared to arena shooters that were prevalent at the time thus players were more considerate and mindful about how they played leading to a more methodical and intense vibe where a firefight can last 5 seconds but results in a team winning or losing due to lack of any respawn. There is a line between difficult that its the type of "stupidly difficult" where the game turns from a fun interaction of a set of lines of code and mechanics to a slog that lacks any sort of fun and feels like a chore instead this is my issue with sudden strike vision system it devolves the game from an engaging and fun realistic ww2 RTS into a tedious routine of officers looking through binoculars and a tank shooting 1-2 soldiers every 3-4 minutes. [/QUOTE]

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