Notices by Jari Komppa 🇫🇮 (sol_hsa@mastodon.online)

@dosnostalgic I've played max payne 1 through several times over the years; can't remember the last one though, maybe 5 years ago.

@dosnostalgic I apparently did ;)

@dosnostalgic So why is it broken? Because you have basically two kinds of players:

1) careful, not too good players, who save and load a lot
2) Not-careful, possibly good players who don't save and load a lot.

From the scalers point of view, group 1 never dies, so... they must be great! Up the difficulty! And group 2 dies every now and then (because, honestly, some rooms are total BS) so, drop the difficulty.

Group 1 complains the game is too hard, group 2, too easy. Nobody's happy.

@dosnostalgic I mean, I cheat a lot in games just to get through them, and as far as I recall I didn't need to in order to get through the game... I just gave the difficulty scaler enough data that I suck.

@dosnostalgic but.. you're not supposed to save scum, you're supposed to die a lot. =)