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Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games (media.piefed.world)

submitted 6 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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[–] Klear@quokk.au 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I had read some posts on Usenet back then with some players saying UV wasn't as tough as they hoped it would be. (...) I thought "Oh really? Ok then. You're all dead." (...) It wasn't meant to be fair, or even finishable. I can't even get past E1M3 in nightmare. Any level with backtracking would be almost impossible.

- John Romero

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There is a secret level in Doom II described in the biography Masters of Doom by David Kushner. It was made as a prank, where the boss had the face of one of the Johns and moved at 200% faster speed than the player. I’m not sure if this made it into the retail or shareware versions they shipped.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 8 points 6 days ago

You don't see this kind of attitude as often in games these days. Maybe indies.