Funny thing that, because sometimes murdering difficulty can actually be the source of immersion. Games like Shoot the Bullet, which is damn hard for a slow-minded bloke like me, are fun because of their difficulty, oddly enough. Only after 100th retry may I consider giving up for the day. Story-wise your example is quite over-the-top, I agree.Aedwynn said:Unreasonable difficulty;
There is a part in Neverwinter Nights 2, where the thieves guild are trying to silence an informant. When you turn up to foil the attempt there is about 50-odd thieves, assassins and even magi there. All to silence ONE informant, who isn't even a warrior?
Oh, absolutely! I probably should have said 'Improbable Difficulty' rather than 'Unreasonable'. I agree that sometimes extreme difficulty is fine.Incredible Bullshitting Man said:Funny thing that, because sometimes murdering difficulty can actually be the source of immersion. Games like Shoot the Bullet, which is damn hard for a slow-minded bloke like me, are fun because of their difficulty, oddly enough. Only after 100th retry may I consider giving up for the day. Story-wise our example is quite over-the-top, I agree.Aedwynn said:Unreasonable difficulty;
There is a part in Neverwinter Nights 2, where the thieves guild are trying to silence an informant. When you turn up to foil the attempt there is about 50-odd thieves, assassins and even magi there. All to silence ONE informant, who isn't even a warrior?
I'm always very aware that I'm playing a video game. It's not actually a problem.Piotr621 said:BANG you're all of a sudden very aware that you are playing a video game
Bethesda, hang your head in shame. The amount of times I have had Oblivion and F3 crash on me... it's just not cool.Jamanticus said:My goodness.....Nobody has mentioned crashes yet?!
Absolutely the worst immersion-killing part of a game, should it happen, is a crash. If a game I'm playing crashes, I stare at the screen for several seconds before thinking to myself, Great, way to ruin things for me, game/computer.
Sometimes I'll relaunch the game, but most of the time a crash puts me off of it completely for either several hours or the rest of the day.