Anybody who's ever played a classic Resident Evil-style game knows the feeling of getting to the final monster with all the hoarded ammo for your ultimate weapon (magnum/hunting rifle/flare gun/whatever)... Only for the monster to die in like at most a single-stack of shots because it turns out that the "ultimate lifeform" is weaker than a moderately sized car -_-
Well the game Devs figured you were going to blow through your ammo because only a crazy person with an anxiety disorder would think to learn how to actually use the knife and order to avoid using the handgun until half the zombies in the Mansion were already dead.
Related: I am a crazy person with an anxiety disorder
Admittedly this is really only a problem for me in the first game, as every other game in the series, including zero, gives you more ammo than you need.
That said the first time I played the remake of Resident Evil 2, I figured that since I played the original so many times I could just go straight to hardcore. But I found that the game having limits on how much you could use the knives really fucked me in the end, as I wound up having to start over on normal, because I got my first ever Resident Evil resource based soft lock. As I did not have enough ammunition to kill the first form of Birkin.
If I remember correctly (it’s been 10 years), the final boss in Bioshock I still had a rocket launcher (? Or something similar) I had hoarded for a good while. If I recall, it was only two shots before he was dead. He didn’t even finish his during-fight monologue. I’m very, very bad at video games and was very confused as to why the fighting had stopped.
I was specifically trying to get all the achievements in it in 1 run because I had borrowed it for just a weekend from a buddy of mine at my college. I got to the final boss and just unloaded everything. Fight ended in like 30 seconds.
I told him to check my achievements when I gave it back to him. I get a random Xbox live voice message of him just screaming “WHAT AAAAARE YOU!?” 10/10 would torture myself again.
Nothing wrong with that… Most people don’t need to reinvent the wheel, and choosing a filename extension meaningful to the particular use case is better then leaving it as .zip or .db or whatever.
Totally depends on what the use case is. The biggest problem is that you basically always have to compress and uncompress the file when transferring it. It makes for a good storage format, but a bad format for passing around in ways that need to be constantly read and written.
Plus often we’re talking plain text files being zipped and those plain text formats need to be parsed as well. I’ve written code for systems where we had to do annoying migrations because the serialized format is just so inefficient that it adds up eventually.
I would probably go with VNC or something else instead of Teamviewer for supporting Linux desktops remotely. Maybe set people up with a pointy-clicky script to do a reverse SSH tunnel to a central host, or do it over a VPN connection.
System Shock 2 was brutal with this one. Lots of great weapons that were hard to find ammunition (or maintenance tools) for so the ol’ wrench/rapier kept getting used instead.
System Shock 2 is highly unbalanced where a conventional weapons run will do you just fine even if you have no idea what you’re doing. I think the assault rifle, when using the correct ammo, will kill any enemy in the game within 6 shots except the final boss. And there’s ammo everywhere.
Psi playthroughs make the game trivial if you know where you’re going
we once in high school took a few pounds of soft butter and smashed it on the kitchen floor with our bare feet. it was really fun. we had to mop so many times to clean it up though. His mom was so confused as to why we mopped while she was at work still
For me, that’s not just rare items. I won’t spend any in game money. I don’t care if it’s readily available on the ground, I’ll still treat it as if I can’t get any more money ever.
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