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AMillionMonkeys, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game
@AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world avatar

What could I do? Uninstall.

If you aren’t having fun with it, sure. I was expecting the comments to be people arguing with how you have fun (using the dev console), but fortunately that’s not the case.

Cracks_InTheWalls, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
@Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works avatar

For more engagement: a Doom reskin where you shot balloons at some (to child me) scary af toys that came alive and were ornery. Windows 3.1/DOS era, was part of a shareware collection.

Observer,

Bad Toys?

Cracks_InTheWalls,
@Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works avatar

Edit: You know what I don’t think this was what I’m thinking about BUT I did play this and may be mixing the memory with another shooter in the same collection.

okmko,

Chex Quest? I remember the cereal had a Doom reskin and it scared me too much. I feel like if they had just changed the worldspace default color from black to white it would’ve been less scary.

ViraPyon, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Waku Waku 7, very silly fighter

sailormoon, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
@sailormoon@lemmy.world avatar

Nanosaur

Redacted, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Theres a shitty flash game i spent years playing that ill never find again. Top down worms game very similar to vampire survivors in gameplay, only many years before it.

Strider, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

All games need accessibility options.

And those need to include ‘cheats’.

PlantJam, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

If you want a dark game with puzzle style combat and bosses, I can’t recommend a plague tale enough. Innocence is the first one, Requiem is the second one.

Lembot_0006,

plague tale

I believe I have tried it. Until the first boss, where I was forced to run around him and try to dismantle his armour piece by piece with a sling and stones. Of course he caught me while having the last piece of armour on. Uninstalled and never even considered giving it a second chance.

PlantJam,

I hated black myth wukong and elden ring boss fights, so punishing games really aren’t for me. I finished both plague tale games, though. I usually lower the difficulty quite a bit just to enjoy the story, so maybe the defaults are harder than what I experienced.

Kazumara,

Yeah they are fun!

Also pretty easy I’d say.

ChaoticNeutralCzech, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
@ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org avatar

I’m looking for the name of the 3D racing game my classmates used to play on the school club PC. It came out in the 2000s and ran natively on Windows. The first track in the career mode (as far as we ever got) was dirt and inside an nighttime arena. There were crowds and even some onlookers behind barricade blocks around the track. I don’t think the cars could be damaged, and there were intended jumps over lower tracks sections, that could be enjoyed by driving from below to jump really high. Several views were available including one with a rear-view mirror, and a “blimp” aerial view in replay mode. It looked a lot like the nighttime arena tracks in ATV Offroad Fury (pictured) but with closed-cab vehicles.
https://www.gamegrin.com/assets/game/atv-off-road-fury-4/screenshots/atv-off-road-fury-4-screenshots-45.jpg

kindred,
ChaoticNeutralCzech,
@ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org avatar

You are correct! Thank you!

How did you find that?

Clearwater, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I grew up playing a very specific Minecraft trial world. You spawn on a beach with a single tree. Immediately inland was a large plains biome, but about 100 blocks to the side was an oak forest. In there (still visible from spawn), was a single large hill with a small cave in it which poked though it and made for a good base.

I am rather confident it was a Minecraft trial edition world. I believe I reset that map several times over before discovering how to make the trial last forever. However the trial seed on the wiki does not match for any game version. (It does match a different world I remember playing at least.)

I’ve probably spent about 10 hours over the last couple years periodically going on the hunt for it, and at this point I’ll give out a small bounty for information.

toeblast96, (edited )

what platform? pc/ console?

I know pcgamer had a demo on pc but not sure if that sounds like your description

DeadDigger, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

A round based strategy game with a hex based grid I think there where generic military units like warships u boots pioneers infantry trucks helicopter destroyers. It had a very rudementry 8 bit graphic and it is not Panther panic

SlurpingPus, (edited )

Perhaps the ‘Battle Isle’ series?

P.S. Or ‘Panzer General’ or another of the dozens wargames made by Strategic Simulations Inc. There were quite a lot of hex wargames back in the nineties.

DeadDigger,

Sadly no. The units whee represented by pictograms from the sideview.

But yeah the problem is that there where so much and so many different ones, even made as shareware slop

SlurpingPus,

You could try looking through Category:Computer wargames as to whether any of the titles click.

If the game wasn’t on DOS or Windows, the choice is smaller, but alas I don’t see a list on Wikipedia with platforms. MobyGames might have it. Alternatively, I had a script somewhere that pulled the platform and other info from all pages in a category, but not sure currently where it is.

rozodru, do gaming w Playing Final Fantasy XI in 2025 (or 2026)?
@rozodru@pie.andmc.ca avatar

I’ve played on one of the fan servers and it was fine. if XIV has burned you out, and honestly I don’t blame you, not sure you’re going to find what you’re looking for in XI.

remember XI is a pre-WoW mmo so that means it’s quite difficult when compared to modern MMOs and plays like other MMOs of the day i.e. Everquest, Anarchy Online, Ultima, etc.

You’re not going to find as many new players and other players are going to be literally years/decades ahead of you. I’d suggest you try one of the fan servers first to see if you like it before spending money on the actual servers/game.

_Lory98_,

I did play for a bit in HorizonXI and liked it, but couldn’t find many players around (which made it even grindier than it should be), which is why I was wondering about retail.

I don’t mind the difficulty, that’s kinda why I’m tired of FFXIV. Outside of the endgame “high-end” trials/raids, I find its gameplay a bit too easy to the point of being boring. The jobs in XI also look more interesting and varied, instead of FFXIV’s that feel too samey.

Jela, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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I have one of these! My memory is pretty hazy but he’s everything I remember about it: I played it in about 2003-04, pc rom game, point and click style where you were either trying to help find a series of items in a house or solve a mystery in a house? This was a kids game with a lot of shades of light blue if I remember correctly… Not a scary game, was in the first person, and I don’t remember being in a team of other characters. I remember renting it from my local library a hefty number of times.

SlurpingPus,

Try r/tipofmyjoystick on Reddit. They have a larger userbase.

SlothMama,

We should create an equivalent Lemmy community instead of funneling people to Reddit tbh

Jela,
@Jela@lemmy.today avatar

There’s a reason I’m on Lemmy and not on Reddit anymore 🫣

kindred,

There’s

!TipOfMyJoystick

and I just created !tipofmyjoystick.

slazer2au,

It wasn’t one of the Goosebumps games was it?

Jela,
@Jela@lemmy.today avatar

No not quite 🫤

thepizzaguy,
Jela,
@Jela@lemmy.today avatar

Not quite it was less horror and moreso helping a character… it’s possible the characters were animals dressed as humans

nogooduser, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

I stopped playing Resident Evil 7 because I’d decided that the setting that I was on was too difficult and wanted to knock it down a level. It wouldn’t let me do that without restarting the game so I stopped playing.

I don’t understand why they made that decision at all.

Katana314,

Does sound like laziness. I get the impression it’s because some things change in the game depending on difficulty, like number of items, etc. So, it can’t exactly go back and turn the 3-ammo pile you picked up into 8 ammo.

nogooduser,

Well, it can just increase the amount of ammo you have or it could put an ammo stash just around the corner.

dukemirage,

Project constraints are not laziness.

dukemirage, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results. And which game was it?

Lembot_0006,

Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results.

I am a programmer myself and have an overall understanding of what can happen unintentionally. I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

And which game was it?

“Fear the spotlight.”

anon5621,
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Other idea increase ur health using not game console but with using cheat engine ,find pointer to ur health

Lembot_0006,

The game has red-yellow-green health scale, not 0-100%. It would have taken too much effort to experiment while looking for the correct value.

anon5621,
@anon5621@lemmy.ml avatar

Value if u know how much damage to boss with exact value it can be filtered much faster ,or u can find own health and freeze it

dukemirage,

As a programmer you should know that wonky single-purpose software like a game engine may react chaotically to state changes. I wishlisted the game though.

Tattorack, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

This is me with SHMUPS. Oh, sure, I can find databases of the ones that were popular, but in the early to late 2000s there were so many PC SHMUPS with mouse controls that came on demo CDs or you could get from the front page of any demo shareware website…

Now all forgotten.

Some of them I used to play a lot and want to play again, but can’t for the life of me find back.

SlurpingPus,

You could try r/tipofmyjoystick on Reddit, describing the game as much as you can remember. 2000s wasn’t even really the peak of the genre popularity.

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