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>challenge runs

why not just play actual hard games?

>>16502984

I do, but it's nice to sometimes make the game you like even harder for additional challenge.

Battletoads & Double Dragon. You pretty much have to make it through the first 80% of the game without using any continues. The last few levels are just sadistic. I did manage to beat it with Jimmy Lee, but just barely.

>>16503563

Pretty much all arcade games you have to practice to 1cc feel like that.

Ninja Gaiden 3 on NES is truly sadistic. I beat the first two quickly enough, but the third is borderline unfun because of the design and limited continues.

>>16503015

Just play against bots in training and wait until the PvE events.

>>16502977

Any RPG with RTWP combat. It's such a clusterfuck of a system. I'm constantly pausing, switching to other characters, micromanaging everything, trying to keep track of tons of shit all at once, paranoid that if I don't do everything myself, the AI will do something stupid and fuck everything up. And even when I succeed, there's no feeling of fun or satisfaction. The stress is so bad that it sucks all the fun out of it. There isn't even a feeling of relief that it's over, just a feeling of dread because I know that very soon, I'll have to do it all over again.

RTWP is awful. Give me turn-based any day.

>>16514631

>Love this game, but somehow never managed to complete it.

I beat it a few times but I can get you. It's sort of like Blade Runner, technically very good but so long it's really fucking boring. Except it's like 16 blade runners back to back. Each level taking over an hour (with like one exception) is exhausting. If you ever work your way to beating it, which it is ultimately worthwhile, you'll probably find yourself doing a single level in 2, 3 or 4 different sessions. The game is basically a pacing disaster but how dedicated it is to that experience is worth something.

The second one isn't any better in that regard either, it's also a good game although clearly unfinished toward the end, but it's the closest a classic game has gotten to putting me to sleep.

>>16507104

That's more a case of the game having artificially boosted difficulty to combat rentals. The Jap version is more manageable.

>>16514471

Oh another tip is to first tell your melee units to move in first to tank and draw agro. Then command your ranged to attack. Usually melee don't need to be micromanaged so all you need to worry about it kiting and casting spells with means you have far less to worry about.

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>>16515396

I can usually get through it. It's just that, like I said before, I don't find it fun at all. It just gives me a headache, and when an encounter is over, there's kind of an empty feeling. I almost feel like I missed out on actually seeing the battle and watching it play out. The only thing RTWP might offer over turn-based is a bit more spectacle from having the action play out in real time, but I feel like I can never really afford to sit back and watch the show. I'm worried that while I'm watching the action, something will kill me because I was too distracted to react to it. For example, I'm playing KOTOR right now. I'd love to enjoy watching my character being badass, blasting people with lightning and spinning his lightsaber staff around to hit stuff, but I can't do that, because there's too much other stuff I need to keep track of.

I saw someone say elsewhere that having fun with RTWP means you need to enjoy automating things, setting up some general instructions for your team and then watching them do it, rather than having fine control over the party's actions. I think that's true, and I just don't find that fun. It's too bad for me that most of the big WRPGs aren't turn-based.

>>16523697

> RTWP means you need to enjoy automating things

It sorta worked in FF12. I felt their was a good balance between automation and being free to give specified commands to each party member. I'm hopping ff7 remake has a similar system. I'd hate to see the game be 100% action

Then just use the metal blade faggot.