I thought about that one as I was typing that!
), but... so is the red mushroom, perhaps more iconic actually! The thing here is Nintendo actually showed this exploit on one of their Directs (or at least released the video around the same time as one, can't remember for sure), this one being easier to do than previous ones too I think... it's almost like they agree with us on the lives bit, but think they'd best add them in anyway to avoid any shitstorm from fans... Mario 64/Sunshine made us collect 100 coins for a Star after all.
Play the whole game again? That's irritating. Play the whole level again? Now that's different. Would you give up if you died in a level and had to start it over again? I should hope not. Since nobody has seemed to have read it, I will share my story of Super Mario Bros. 3 again. And then you can tell me where the difficulty stops and the irritability begins.
Play the whole game again? That's irritating. Play the whole level again? Now that's different. Would you give up if you died in a level and had to start it over again? I should hope not. Since nobody has seemed to have read it, I will share my story of Super Mario Bros. 3 again. And then you can tell me where the difficulty stops and the irritability begins.
I remember when I first played Super Mario Bros. 3. I would die every few levels. I remember in world 3, level 8; I died 22 times. No bullshit. Boss battles were another thing. On average in my first playthrough, I'd probably died 3 times on each boss. But after six/seven months of playing, (or longer; I forget) it was on a Saturday morning at 10 when I reached the first level of World 8. My sister had been playing this with me; she'd gotten through a bunch of levels I couldn't. Anyway, we went ballistic with excitement. And then, that was when the real dying started. We tried many, many times to get through the fortress after the first two levels, but we just died so much that we finally used a Lakitu's Cloud to skip it. And we did this in future playthroughs as well. Then, there was the final fortress, where we died countless times. Obviously, we'd gotten past the ship that came after the first fortress, for which we were greatly relieved after dying so much in there. Then, we died countless times doing Bowser's Fortress. I remember the first time when we got to Bowser's chamber; we were ecstatic. Of course we died, but we knew how to get there. And after many more failed attempts at defeating them, we finally did and rescued the princess. We were crying because we were so happy.
Are you referring to my game or Super Mario 3D World? If it's the Wii U game, then I agree. But in my game, I became very irritable after dying more than 4 times doing 1 level; it was just that difficult. And don't tell me you never died while playing Super Mario Bros. 3; that'd make you one of the biggest liars on the planet. And just the fact that you died would make you irritable; just imagine how irritable you would've been if you'd died 4 times. And please explain to me how my 22 deaths in World 3-8 was because of irritability and not artificially created difficulty. You really think I died just because I was irritable? My girlfriend's breaking up with me had left me so irritable that I died 22 times in that level? Do you realize how high the level of bullshit is in this idea?
Has no lives system? Every game has a lives system. I have never seen a game where you start out with 0 lives.
And even then, a game with 0 lives still has a lives system; it's just... unheard of and sounds very weird. Anyway, what you mean to say is that you have one life throughout the game. It reminds me of Metroid Prime, where Samus has only one life. But, you find power packs which extend the energy bar by 100. And yes, I did feel like a hero after I'd defeated a boss and got an energy pack that boosted my maximum energy. Useless grinding: I know you're not a fan of grinding in RPGs, so I can't say much here. But I can say that when you plugged Super Mario 3D Land into your U, you assumed the role of Mario and tasked yourself with rescuing Princess Peach from Lord Bowser. You didn't care how many times you died/didn't die; you just wanted to rescue her. And yet, you found it offensive that you could extend your life meter by eating the green mushrooms. I bet you did an awful lot of complaining when you found a power pack that extended your life meter from 200 to 300 in Metroid Prime. I mean, lowering your chances of death in the game is just so annoying; it makes the game easier to beat, which is, again, so annoying.I liked having save spots/checkpoints before boss battles; I'd have no way of knowing how many times I would die before I'd beaten the boss and it would be nice not having to grind 4 or 5 times from my last save point. In these kinds of games, I've gotten used to dying in a level at least once.
Of course not. And for a short insight into lives in games, read my response to Guild; there's something there about lives.
Has no lives system? Every game has a lives system. I have never seen a game where you start out with 0 lives.
And before you come in here with your "but it's 240 lives" argument, let's say that the amount of lives you get in a game is directly proportional to your chances of winning the game. The game will be easier to beat if you have 102 lives instead of 48. You might not need those extra lives, but they're there in case you do. And it would be a tribute to you if you got that many lives and never lost one during the duration of the game because, lets face it, losing lives in a game is not fun. I don't know people that like dying in a game. And if you've never died in a game, then you can't relate to this at all.
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