Hey I'm not trying to add fuel to the fire I'm trying to end it, Not in a nice way - so they can feel it back what they do to me.

It's still doing such with the language used, and there's also PMs or other threads for that that wouldn't cause this thread to careen off the track any further.

You said it KiNgBrAdLeY7!

Calling him names just provokes a reply and keeps the derailing going.

Also I sympathize for your health problems and past but what does that have to do with this thread?

If you want to vent take it to PM with me or anyone else....but please leave insults and personal histories that don't pertain to threads by the wayside if you possibly could.

The thing is, the preventable problem is the game developer's fault, not the player's in this place; the way to prevent this would be for the developer to not put that point of no return in the game in the first place.

This is also an issue with weapon durability; some games (Elder Scrolls series being one example here) handle it poorly. Either it should be used as a balancing factor, or it should not be present at all.

No, it is the player's job to pick what they can handle/play and not the devs....no one has to cater to anyone's(even my own) taste, as it's not a human right.

If I may offer a bit of criticism, you seem to be in the camp that people shouldn't have to improve themselves(or much) and that others should be responsible for other people's well being most of the time. To me that's just not a good idea......I think it needs to be a shared effort.

I have this sort of issue in certain arcade style games, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time. In that game (and many others), in single player you have to start the level over if you die, while in multi-player you just respawn and can continue. Consistent mechanics please!

Also there are some party based RPGs where a character can learn a full revive before learning a full heal, or not learn the full heal at all (Dragon Quest 8 has one character like this), or there might not even be a full heal in the first place even with a full revive (Final Fantasies 6, 8, 9, and 10 are all like this with magic, I believe).

With that said, sometimes this sort of mechanic can be interesting, particularly with finite lives (see Zelda 2, where sometimes dying to restore your magic is a good idea, but you only get 3 lives before being sent back to the palace at the start).

Except for the fact that often, it's not clear that there's a point of no return until you've invested double digit hours into the game, particularly when it's in a genre where one does not expect such things (RPGs or Metroidvanias, for example).\

My point is that games should be sanely designed.

That brings up another thought I have had: Gameplay is more important than story. Therefore, if there's any point where the story would hurt the gameplay (like having a point of no return, or denying access to a strategically interesting character), then the story should be changed so that doesn't happen. Change the story to fit the gameplay, not the other way around.

My biggest jimmie rustler is how devs are actively pandering to screeching NPC mobs and "going woke" with their games by degrading and/or censoring them.

1st bit: Fair enough, but some games nowadays either have guides warning of such one can look at that don't spoil gameplay/plot much while telling of such points(made by the devs or others) or they tell you in advance about it to some extent(Like games with boundaries clearly marked as such or warnings and asking for conformation to continue or not).

For the former people should practice due diligence and common sense and research to avoid such problems, and for the latter the games give ample warning usually so one can avoid such points until they are ready(in most cases).

2nd bit: Agreed.

3rd bit: I actually like story a bit more, and I would rather they keep such and people find other games that better suit them if they don't want to change major plot elements or their own vision for some reason.

I am praying to god CDPR aren't going to do this to CP2077 what Info I've gleaned doesn't look good though I sure as hell hope they don't screw it up!

Ion Fury walked it back so there's some pushback.

To be fair, I am not against such themes in games....I am against those who like such telling others not to put my own favored content in my consumed media.

Speaking of the (lack of) importance of story, I would actually consider a game's music to be more important than its story.

Maybe in a game about music, perhaps.....games without stories can be good, but in a genre that plays on how good it's story is it is one key element needed to pull such off right and keep me engaged/drawn in.

I've found that, if a game has a story, I need the gameplay to draw me in before I can get interested in the story. In particular, games that start with story exposition bore me before I even get to see what the game itself is like.

(Also, remember that "it's" = "it is"; if you're looking for the possessive, it's "its" (no apostrophe).)