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What do you think?

Yes 22 56.41%
 
No 17 43.59%
 
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ice on 17 October 2020
Spade said:
Yes, but trust me it's embarrassing when you have 99 lives and attempt Stormy Assault on livestream to a bunch of assholes and they roast you the whole time and after about an hour you lost all 99 lives and weren't able to beat the level :/.

Pls get rid of lives.

Ooof Dude you should’ve kept this in the drafts 😂😂

OT: 9.9/10 it’s not needed, except for certain indie games where that is the challenge and fun. 



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Spade on 17 October 2020
ice said:
Spade said:
Yes, but trust me it's embarrassing when you have 99 lives and attempt Stormy Assault on livestream to a bunch of assholes and they roast you the whole time and after about an hour you lost all 99 lives and weren't able to beat the level :/.

Pls get rid of lives.

Ooof Dude you should’ve kept this in the drafts 😂😂

OT: 9.9/10 it’s not needed, except for certain indie games where that is the challenge and fun. 

You should keep those shitty games on your profile privated dude. 

Goes back to playing Neptunia :) 

Edit: I got Lucky in my profile, I can't really talk :( 



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ice on 17 October 2020
Spade said:
ice said:

Ooof Dude you should’ve kept this in the drafts 😂😂

OT: 9.9/10 it’s not needed, except for certain indie games where that is the challenge and fun. 

You should keep those shitty games on your profile privated dude. 

Goes back to playing Neptunia :) 

Edit: I got Lucky in my profile, I can't really talk :( 



Zkuq on 17 October 2020
sundin13 said:
For the most part, yes. Lives add no value to most games. They exist to make you replay more of the game than you want to and artificially extend game length. I think there could be slight exceptions if the lives mechanic is used cleverly, like a rogue-like game may award you extra "lives" to let you not fall into permadeath when you die, but as a general rule, they suck.

/thread



The_Liquid_Laser on 17 October 2020

Depends on the game. People like to use lives in Smash Bros, for example, or Street Fighter. I'm playing a lot of Super Mario 35 and I basically get 1 life. It's an extremely fun game.



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Dulfite on 17 October 2020

So in SNES and NES games, I find myself suspending software and creating suspended points that I save, and I do it like ALL the time. I hate having to start part of a level over, or a whole level, or getting a Game Over. I wish modern games could be suspended and stored like the old ones on Switch haha.



Bofferbrauer2 on 17 October 2020

It always depends on what game you want to make and what you want to use the mechanic for.



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OneTime on 18 October 2020
Dulfite said:
So in SNES and NES games, I find myself suspending software and creating suspended points that I save, and I do it like ALL the time. I hate having to start part of a level over, or a whole level, or getting a Game Over. I wish modern games could be suspended and stored like the old ones on Switch haha.

Search YouTube for  "Beat-A-Game Button"



Dulfite on 18 October 2020
OneTime said:
Dulfite said:
So in SNES and NES games, I find myself suspending software and creating suspended points that I save, and I do it like ALL the time. I hate having to start part of a level over, or a whole level, or getting a Game Over. I wish modern games could be suspended and stored like the old ones on Switch haha.

Search YouTube for  "Beat-A-Game Button"

Not sure what you are getting at here. If it is that I shouldn't play games, if I can't tolerate what I described above, and that I'm spoiled, uh... okay?

If something else, please expound.

Thanks.



pikashoe on 18 October 2020

Obviously no. Lives suit some games and don't suit others. Just watch the video posted in this thread.