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8439863 No.8439863[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

"Game overs" should not exist in home console games. They were only a carry-over from arcade games designed to eat quarters. There's no reason to make you restart the entire game because you made too many mistakes.

>but then the game would be too short!
So stop being lazy and make more levels/content instead of artificially extending the game's play time by forcing the player to keep restarting it.

>> No.8439876

>>8439863
Release a 1,500 level game with infinite continues, anon. Be the change you seek.

>> No.8439998

>>8439863
>press right to win
>no time limit
>"2D open world exploration in a minimalist, ultra-linear environment"

>> No.8440003

>>8439863
>There's no reason to make you restart the entire game because you made too many mistakes.
Who says game overs have to take you to the very start of the game?

>> No.8440008

the objective of the game isn't to reach the end, the objective is to reach the end within 5 lives. The way you;d approach challenges could be completely different under the context of infinite lives vs limited lives. Out-of-the-way secrets/items/powerups are no weighted against the risk of death, where as a game with unlimited lives has no such risk

Not every game has to have game overs of course, but you'd have to be pretty short sighted to think there's not a place in game design for it