Situation: Game. Typical horror. You know the rules: “no weapons, hiding under the tables, occasional puzzles”. But the game was nice enough for me to play it. Until the final boss. Many horrors/adventures still have bosses, but the fight is more puzzlish than just shooting and running. In this case I should lure the boss in the electrified puddle and manipulate with it; and repeat it 3-4 times.
After dying 3-4 times, I started to look for cutting-corners-way. I have found the developer console and it had some options that should make things easier. And you know what? After I increased my health, the boss became literally unkillable. Next time I added a few “medkits” to my inventory, the boss just started avoiding electrified puddles at all.
All experiments led to the situation becoming even worse. I believe that developers made it intentionally. Just for the sake of “fuck you, shit”
What could I do? Uninstall.
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.
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.
Well, it can just increase the amount of ammo you have or it could put an ammo stash just around the corner.
Project constraints are not laziness.
Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results. And which game was it?
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.”
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.
I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)
They could be using player character state as a proxy for player skill.
A player who successfully navigated earlier changes with such competence that they have an excess of health items might appreciate a more challenging final boss.
You may have inadvertently put it into hard mode!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_game_difficulty_balancing
Other idea increase ur health using not game console but with using cheat engine ,find pointer to ur health
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.
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
All games need accessibility options.
And those need to include ‘cheats’.
That’s super based of them actually. A game for everyone is a game for no one as they say. Difficulty options if it makes sense and the game is designed around it, sure. But if a game is designed to be played a certain way and you bypass it you’re ignoring a purposely designed experience the developers made for you, and I think it’s fine to force people on to a level playing field.
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.
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.
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.
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.
