Chapter 79 Controversy caused by difficulty
"Dark Dungeon's results were dismal on the first day, and Luo Bai, the original aspirant, fell off the altar!" 》
"The hottest news in the gaming industry in June is that "Darkest Dungeon", developed by the famous game producer Luo Bai, is now available on Steam.
This game has attracted the attention of a large number of players since it was first announced due to its built-in tags such as 'Meat Pigeon', 'Turn-based RPG', 'Cthulhu', and 'Gothic'.
On June 1, the day it was launched, it attracted countless anchors across the network to live broadcast.
The editor also personally experienced this game for the first time, but after half an hour, I was so disappointed that I immediately chose to refund the money.
With all due respect, what was your original intention?
The initial guidance of the game is shockingly small, the pressure system makes your blood pressure skyrocket, and the number of numerical values in the game is dizzying...
Of course, the most terrible thing about this game is the real-time archive system and the sky-breaking death penalty mechanism.
After the characters in this game die, they are permanently dead!
Yes, you heard it right!
You can imagine that in the game's initial tutorial level 'Old Road', after the two heroes who loyally escorted you to the game's initial town 'Hamlet' were killed by monsters, you could only watch them lying in the cemetery. Do you feel like the corpse inside is in a daze?
I must admit that the new pressure system of "Darkest Dungeon" is indeed very successful, because it can raise your blood pressure as the player in front of the screen!
Moreover, in contrast to this perverted death penalty, is the extreme randomness of this game.
Many times, what determines the outcome of a mission is not how perfect your strategy is, but just a few more dodges or critical hits by you or the monster.
Yes, the number of dodges and critical hits determines everything. It’s an extremely outrageous design!
The editor's fingers were trembling when I got to this point, and that lingering feeling of heartbreak stayed with me as I wrote this short article after I refunded my money.
The sales volume of "Darkest Dungeon" on the first day supports my current speculation. Although I don't know the specific value, the fact that it is at the bottom of the best-selling list on the steam platform is enough to explain everything.
You know, Ori is still ranked at the top of Dark Dungeon!
Luo Bai, who won the TGA Game of the Year award, was indeed in a state of disbelief. Instead of thinking about how to make a fun game, he used the game to torture players.
With all due respect, if my original intention was to start working on Ori 2 immediately after finishing Ori 1, I believe the result would be different from what I see today.
There is no doubt that the original boss made a wrong move here.
Maybe after seeing this, you may think that I am stupid and stupid. Here are some screenshots of my comments in the steam comment area:
‘Don’t call it a dark dungeon, call it an dodge dungeon or a critical strike dungeon’
‘Torture! Torture! Torture! ! ! ’
'This game forces you to become a fucking capitalist. Human life is just a kind of resource, and death is just consumed. Disma, the reliable general who worked hard to accompany me for three hours, was ridiculously killed. I sent it directly as soon as possible, my original intention! I'm CNM! ’…”
The enthusiasm of the original intention and the enthusiasm of the dark dungeon naturally need no introduction in June.
Negative review:
"There is nothing wrong with what the editor said. I also saw this game during the live broadcast.
It was so exciting for me at the time. After seeing the pig nose operation performed by the anchor, I wanted to rush forward and control the thunder and lightning on behalf of the anchor.
But when I actually bought and started playing the game, I felt that the production team had a strong sense of malice towards the players.
The randomness is so disgusting that I don’t want to play it anymore after I die. Anyone who wants to play can play it. The production team is so outrageous. ”
“Did the people upstairs also watch Dai Bian’s live broadcast, hahaha!”
"I really don't know what I want to do in the first place? I've been looking forward to it for so long and ended up with a piece of shit like this? I'm so happy."
Positive reviews:
"The few colored pens upstairs who said the game is not fun are just suitable for playing and reading over and over again. It's fun.
Darkest Dungeon does have the flaws that the editor mentioned, but in my opinion, they are exactly the essence of this game. Being able to simulate actual combat in real time from a 2D perspective and within the framework of a turn-based RPG game is enough to illustrate the success of the Dark Dungeon game.
When swinging a knife on the battlefield, the damage will be greater or less depending on the strength used, the position of the enemy being struck, etc. This kind of randomness is great!
The immersive experience of the game is great! ”
"I am a fan of the Cthulhu Mythos, and the original setting of the pressure system simply hit my XP!
It’s so cool. Seeing my heroes go crazy and start saying dirty things one by one, I feel like I’m going crazy too, hahahaha! ”
"The people upstairs are more normal, I'm afraid."
No matter how players who like Darkest Dungeon and those who don't like Darkest Dungeon attack each other on the Internet, for now, this discussion still only remains on a small scale.
Why? Without the participation of big V, the popularity has not yet picked up.
However, Darkest Dungeon still has mostly negative reviews on the Internet.
Because the fan groups of Mirror and Ori actually don’t overlap much with the fan groups of Darkest Dungeon.
The former includes Sese and Xiaoxiaole, while the latter includes watching scenery, listening to music, and doing operations.
There's nothing you want in Darkest Dungeon, so it's no wonder this is the case.
Fans of the original core base do not support this game.
Didn’t watch Chuxin Fan Base, Erxiao’s live broadcast room didn’t show Dark Dungeon the next day?
It's miserable to say the least.
Er Xiao is one of Chu Xin's biggest fans, not to mention a non-staff member of Chu Xin.
This game was broadcast on June 1st.
Then... I was tortured for several hours.
Compared to the next door Yi Ling De group who was heartbroken and naturally released after the group was wiped out, Er Xiao was actually very high-spirited to fight.
Although the four of them were crazy at the beginning, they still completed the task. But when she returned to the town, she was surprised to find that the economy collapsed.
If you want the characters to get out of the state of torture, you need to use the facilities in the town to reduce the pressure on yourself.
Reducing pressure consumes a lot of gold coins, and supplies will naturally be insufficient.
If you don't reduce the pressure, you will understand the feeling of bringing a pressure monster around to beat up your teammates.
What's more, the second week's copy is more difficult than the initial copy!
Erxiao, who had not yet had a general understanding of the game's mechanics, was tortured to the point of ecstasy.
I can only keep deleting files and starting over.
Arriving at the back, Erxiao saw the old road as if he were going home, it was so familiar.
Leave a sentence:
"Brothers, this game is indeed very beautiful, but you will know how tortured it is after you play it."
It was also painful to broadcast.
"Darkest Dungeon" was a hit on the first day...
(End of chapter)