/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3942786
>I don't see what the big deal is, if you cheese with it then you're running the compulsion to
I think this needs to be emphasized, if it's entirely the player's decision to do this then it's hardly the fault of the game/mod design. Just because a player CAN do it doesn't mean that they SHOULD.

You CAN go through all of Devil May Cry never once using techniques or the sword or Devil Trigger and only using the infinite ammo pistols to safely dispatch enemies at range, but that's stupid.
You CAN go through all of Mega Man 2 purely buster-only, never once using any of the weapons, but that's stupid.
Same with Metal Slug, Doom 4, and hell even in Doom 1 you can throw away weapons and go through the entire game with just the chainsaw. Hell, there's even Tyson runs for that. But is it the ideal way to play? No.
"But the other weapons use ammo" is one of the most lame justifications. Yes, there's ammo. So use it.

Besides, the entire point of the "infinite pistol" trope (and I fucking hate myself for using the word "trope") is due to a lot of mapsets, especially more poorly-made ones, relying on ammo starvation to act as a method of challenge, to which the "infinite-ammo pistol" method takes care of by allowing the player to fight at a non-gimped capacity.
In an ideal world, we wouldn't need it because all maps would have perfect ammo placement and progression and allow the player to fight extensively even if they waste a lot of ammo.
But it's not an ideal world and there's a lot of mapsets with ammo starvation. So it's what we do to address it.

And that was way more text than what I ever want to post so have some ass.

Recommend me a game to emulate on my phone I don't have an external controller or anything. I like RPGs