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There are some games that have the reputation to have artificial or fake difficulty. For many people real difficulty is challenging and rewarding, because it feels you are in control, many times you understand the theory but the practice requires you to build skill and you know that when you fail it is because a mistake you did. When you die and feel the game is being unfair to you, it might be a fluke of bad programming in a part, but if you often feel like the game wasn't being fair then it could be relying a bit too much into artificial difficulty. Some examples of cheap difficulty: - A game deliberately spaces more than expected save points in order to force you go through a hard portion of it again. - Missions that depend on luck. - An article that you can only get the first time and otherwise is missable. - Being forced to beat a level with an specific character for not other reason than increase the difficulty. - The boss has a wipe-everyone movement activated by luck. - Changing genres in the middle of the game. - False edges to jump onto, depth perception tricks. - Only being able to pass a zone by trial an error (in essence you'll have to die to uncover the right answer little by little) - Extreme Rubber-band where the AI has to do things that are not possible in order to catch up with you. - Different physics for you and AI characters (for example your attacks won't pass through an asset but theirs will) Do you guys can think of any games with artificial difficulty? Maybe there's a moment that has stuck with you. Or maybe tehre is a game that you know is pretty much known to be difficult through cheap difficulty.

Thank you! Awesome review, and now I'm more stoked than ever! I can't wait (of course, I have to, lol).

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Why is it that every time that most gaming companies come up with a product, they always use the word "innovative"? Bringing back things that were industry standard a few years ago is not innovative at all and it is misleading (talking about EA in particular).

I would definitely be one of those alienated gamers. Aside from the allure of classic systems, another reason I stick to the old stuff, is because it is mostly single player. I think the only multiplayer games I have are early Mario games, and fighting games (MK, SF2, etc.). Other than that, virtually everything I own is single player.

Planetside 2 is actually a very underrated MMO - It had the largest and most epic battles I've ever witnessed in an MMO. We are talking about 500+ players with different roles in the team. Some players just logged in to be the transporter - transporting troops to different bases, every battle wasn't just about numbers, it was also about tactics and wars for control of different segments of the map raged on for weeks/ months. My tactic was always relatively simple - get an aircraft, fly right into the center of the area with the most enemies, jump out of the plane right as it crash into them and take down the rest while jumping from cover to cover so that my team can flank them from another direction. The funny thing is it worked about 80% of the time with the other times being of course not jumping out of the plane at the right time (really embarrassing) or the plane gets shot down before I could execute the tactic.

In Skyrim for instance, the Npcs Magicka Regeneration is far higher than your character which essentially means they can spam spells while your run out of Magicka after casting 5 or 6 spells.

It also reaches a point where it cures your insomnia and you don't really want games to reach that stage...

I would say it would either be Bon Jovi or NKOTB. I listened to both almost non stop when I was a kid. Granted there were other legendary bands, but those two topped the list for me.

Which 80's artist is your favourite? Mine's probably Billy Idol.