/vr/ - Retro Games

This'll probably be tl;dr, but I think save states should be used sparingly, or to make up for where devs failed to recognize places where a checkpoint is necessary.

It ruins a game when you're severely punished just for making a simple mistake (like being forced to restart the entire game, or a half hour's worth of gameplay, because you mistimed a jump or the game spawned an enemy right in your path), or where success depends mostly on luck rather than skill. You get no reward for getting through hard parts and it makes the game feel like a chore. I know we can all think of some NES titles that do this.

However, you lose a lot of tension when you can simply rewind to right outside the boss door/hard part if you die. There's a lot of satisfaction in defeating an enemy after patience and determination, and it's that sense of accomplishment that really defines "beating" a video game.

Take Mega Man 2 for example. If you die on a Robot Master, you're given a second chance at a checkpoint right before the boss door. You're punished for failure by not having your e-tanks or abilities replenished, and if you lose all of your lives, you have to repeat the entire stage or choose another Robot Master to fight: but even then, you don't have to restart the entire game. Any beaten Robot Masters remain beaten. It's probably the perfect example of NES difficulty, because the developers made the game challenging, but fair.

>>940789
>In some of the booklets of famous hacks they sell they still mention items from the original games that were REMOVED in the hack and don't mention new stuff the hack adds.

Can you show me proof of this?

>without the approval of BOTH the people who made the games and the people who made the hacks.

Buying used games yields no profit to the developers.

Hacking/translating roms to begin with is illegal, so get off your damn high horse, faggot.

If people want to waste money, they're going to do it regardless of how mad you get.