Darkest Dungeon Review and Critique 

Did anyone try to translate the numbers he showed on screen while saying that. I feel like there could be a hidden message xD

@@budlikycz2445 There is no message

Jokes aside,he's right about the unneeded tedium.Getting killed because of a mistake is fine,losing a key member because rng out of your control is bad game design.

@@bearandthebull2372 RNG can kiss my ass seriously

@ThisIsMyRealName Randomness may not necessarily be bad game design, but it sure isn't good game design as well; else it wouldn't have such backlash against it. Different people have different tastes, and respond to RNG differently - I heavily dislike it, for example, and lower my opinion of practically every game that uses it in an important manner.

@@bearandthebull2372 But then you're also saying that basically every pen&paper roleplaying game is bad because they rely on rng

@@MrMagbrant RNG that can be influence by the choices being made, the one making the choice, their stats and so on. controlled/proper rng is often welcomed in games, completely uncontrolled/unrelated rng is not. Except for in the case of gabling that is

Yeah gotta give him and Ezekiel both credit for 'tough-in it out'... >:) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UwLjt9aMLRg.html

Damn playing a game with this many flaws and mistakes and shitty mehanix. You have to be sadist.

@@budlikycz2445 differing tastes. I play a lot of league for example ;) haha

@@budlikycz2445 why are you so mad about someone saying they like a game that you dont like

@@budlikycz2445 plus this is a 5 year old comment

some changes are exclusive to radiant but still they are good

That actually is a fair criticism, at least for me.

@Yuri Lopes dude i am exactly in the same place as you, i just can´t play games nowadays, get bored after a couple of hours and end up uninstalling the game or just turn off the PC, i just read nowadays, read, watch videos and listen to music, maybe it´s me getting older or something

Friends, that's a symptom of depression.

@@FinetalPies see people tell me this, then I get on benders over games where nothing can pull me away. Games just aren't interesting anymore, and it it's a dropping of standards, not the other way around. Darkest Dungeon gave me that until I started feeling the grind and now I'm here. DDs turn based combat is good with some small hicups, like dots on deaths door, but it was the grind, and a lack of variety that made me stop. If I was being forced to go on, I would fucking hate it.

Whats ya age fellas? I started felling this after i had a job and a overbearing life.

can someone run those ones and zeros through a binary translator

I immediately did, but the only result was "A". I don't think there are enough digits to actually contain a message. A missed opportunity, to be sure.

i found that, too. would have been funny to say 'help' or something

@@thegrouchization Dude, it's a reference to you, the player, the Alpha of the pack! Trust me bro, I'm 14 and I've understood the meaning behind "Inception".

@@salted6422 d E eP

Thanks, that joke killed me

deep

He was going to say "A slow and insidious killer"

Sorry for poor grammar.

Keep in mind that this review came out "2 years ago" according to RU-vid; the game had a lot of updates by the time you got to it.

You shouldn't really let this review talk you from buying it

PlagueNurse I’m glad i didn’t. This game has been phenomenal from start to finish and I’m still playing it and it is as exciting as it has ever been.

@@hoodedman6579 i tried the game around the time of this review and i agree 100% with joseph. Is it better now ? Is it less random ?

I know it's nigh on impossible to finish everything in a complex game before reviewing it but sometimes it's obvious that reviewers have done nothing but a main quest and about 5%of the additional content.

I don't mind if they don't finish...deadlines are a real thing. But they absolutely need a disclaimer about how long they played and how far they progressed. Anything else is misleading.

Not actually their fault, the game critic industry is a meat grinder. They have to hit impossible deadlines. However, I agree that a disclaimer of how many hours you played should be put in.

I dunno. Some games are just patently bad. I think it's okay to say "I had a spoonful of this gigantic plate of shit. I didn't like it and I don't think I will like the rest of this plate of feces." The idea that a critic needs to finish the whole plate to say "yeah this is shit" seems absurd to me. The logical endpoint of this methodology is that game reviews skew even more positive than they already do, since negative reviews also tend to garner more flak.

I disagree with a lot of his opinions but it is really hard to deny that he is a great reviewer he plays through everything and gives his thoughts in a way that is professional while also giving his opinions.

I know this was released way earlier, but the same comment would have been PERFECT for No Man's Sky!

Luca Maccotta I thought he was talking about NMS, too.

Luca Maccotta exactly what I was thinking.

With that reference he made to Cookie Clicker, does that mean it's a bad game?

the game is good if you don't care about finishing it i had good 50 hours of fun with the game, but i only did the darkest dungeon once and i probably didn't come near to killing all the bosses but i had fun, until the grinding became too much recommend on sale and if willing to micromanage your economy to dodge the randomness problem

it's him

bruh

Seeing you here is a surprise to be sure- but a welcome one.

How can you like eating RAW fish

@@iamrocketray Sushi is fucking delicious, you troglodyte. Get in the paddy wagon. You're going to Ugly Jail now, boy.

ah I wanted to write the same. his point are still valid. I like this game. even this boring TBS :P, but I get it. Valid points And Redhook still tries to improve the game. Worth to take a look again, if you finished it in january/february, except one does not like the TBS

Sounds like too little too late if you ask me. They quite purposefully built their entire game around a nightmarish grind treadmill and I fear all trying to walk that back now will do is make the game less balanced and feel less polished.

oh great now ill have another highway man that will miss every single fucking shot and have no trinkets cause my high level squad with my best shit just died, not salty at you, just, fuck this game

Not sure if it's still, but what I last played still falls under this. Heavy reliance on RNG driving game and griiind. Played for some dozen of hours and quit after I sent fairly good group to standard exploration, champion difficulty. While I was in hallway, all of a sudden Void Boss starts. I had no choice over it. I said, screw it, I have all level 5-6 heroes with really good equipment and skills, what could go wrong? Well... Besides Boss being really good against my team, after one of my heroes was on Death's Door, my other hero received critical hit, so that gave latter one heart attack. What usually I would do after I see Deathblow is Alt+F4 game, because if you do it before he disappears on screen and return back, he is still alive and enemy's attack is skipped. (I know, cheater, but F you RNG). But because I left it and game registered his damage, now I'm stuck in permanent loop. Yes, I could cheese it with 3 of them and hope for grave revival, but screw wrecking my nerves, there are a lot less annoying games to play. Instead, what I'll do now is just check for it's ending, I mean, a full scene, better than presented here.

The game got much better than it was before. It had tons of free updates with new difficulties, a couple of new quests like the bandits event and the Shrieker and quality of life changes for free. Now once you know what item does what on the curios you learn it and have it checked in your inventory. You can somewhat bypass the "never again" problem of the last levels among other new things to deactivate. The first Big expansion, The Crimson Court, was fantastic, including a new class, new mechanincs, unique "final level" trinket sets for each class, a new zone, a lot of new enemies and 4 new fixed maps with a ton of exploration like the vanilla game last levels and 4 new bosses. It also adds new town buildings to build that give resources or permanent passive buffs to certain classes. They released a few months ago a mini DLC with a new class, a new mechanic, enemies and quest unique to the class to get the trinkets and see the new baddies. The second and final expansion The Color of Madness is due to release June 19 and for now we know it's more combat focused going for some kind of horde mode with a new zone and enemies and has a new town "shop".

I think one of the important things about darkest dungeon is realising that the difficulty levels are less about challenge and more about grind. Don't get me wrong... Blood moon is awfully tricky, but as a gamer that enjoys playing almost all my games on maximum difficulty, darkest dungeon is probably an exception due to the fact that the difficult is delivered via time invested and dice rolls, rather than rests of reflexes, skills, or knowledge.

I also felt that way about The Curious Expedition. The final release is too easy and has fewer viable strategies compared to back when I played it in EA.

Hell yes. I played 100 hours during the lead up to final release, the game just go worse as it got closer to release. For me it was the RNG, or rather, how completely uncontrolled it is, which I feel is horrible design in any game (and I generally like pseudo-randomization in games). Another example is how something do not feel deterministic or properly systemized (how stress is earned or removed in batter, the hunger stuff, etc.). OTOH, I DID get over 100 hours out of like a $20 (or whatever) purchase - but to see a game go from promising excellence to something more niche than many (including reviewers) claim (in the wrong ways IMO) was really disappointing. In retrospect, I don't care about dollar-per-hours-played, I care more about how, over time, the game made me feel. I wish I never even bothered to touch it - there are other games for "cheap" that provide many, many hours as well. The 1000+ I have in TomE never cost me a thing (well, I donated, but let's forget that for a moment).

BINARYGOD What's TomE?

***** Tales of Maj'Eyel - it's a roguelike (with some features that can make something more of a rogue-lite, I suppose, if you choose to use those options) te4.org/ (free, also with donator benefits) OR store.steampowered.com/app/259680/ (purchase 6.99-15.99, most donator features included-all included)

100% agree. I LOVED Darkest Dungeon. The aesthetic, the narrative, the strategy. But they just got stale long before I was ready to finish the game. I had finally gotten a strong group of heroes to the highest level (and had a B-team that ran dungeons while they rested) and was trying to do all the preparations to run the Darkest Dungeon for the first time. I was a little scared so I looked online. As soon as I realized that I couldn't take the same team in again, that I basically would have to start over (TWICE!) to finish the game, I gave up. I didn't even do the first Darkest Dungeon run. I didn't even see the ending until I watched this video. But, honestly I kind of like it. I understand how "starting over" can be kind of horrific after a game of so much grinding and starting over, but honestly the futility of the protagonists' efforts is a major theme in Lovecraftian horror, so it's pretty fitting.

It's a roguelite and not for everyone but it got too famous so many people think the game is what is not...

Montag Skyrunner Its not that bad, first few several hours of playing his game are pure joy, only when it becomes grindy it starts sucking.

thats no reason to buy a game, thats a reason to play a demo.

Many such cases.

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Tbf, given that it's supposed to be all Lovecraftian-themed, it makes a lot of sense. It would be stranger if you and your merry band of sword-wielding adventurers killed an actual alien god.

but even lovecraft had more going on than it was all just a dream by actually going into the narrators mind and detailing how the event effected him/her at the ends and detailing it extremely well which darkest dungeon did not have that is the follow up of the journey.how does the events effect every character for better or for worse.

avikdas 99 That's a fair point, and one that could only be made by a Lovecraft reader. Which stories have you read?

its honestly why i cant be bothered to play.

Abdullah Al-maiyah I think that the Lovecraft stories are more about the journey as the protagonist is too fucked up by the end that they oftentime has no sane future anyway, and thusly the ending will be unsatisfactory, but how that protagonist got to that point is the interesting thing, oftentimes having no stated end goal helps in this as it doesn't push the narrative toeards a conclusion Take at the mountains pf madness, Dr. William Dyre is merely doing some reconisance for an antarctic expedition when he stumbles upon the Elder Things' city, he goes exploring for the magnificent discovery, not because his escape route is in the city. The interesting part of the story is how he reacts to the alien arcitecture and the shoggoths, not how/if he escapes the shoggoths and how he lives his life afterwards. In the darkest dungeon you have the opposite, you have a stated end goal, stop the elder things. Now the jorney is about building up to the end, especially seeing as the only character with a story to tell is encouraging you to get to the end. If your adventurers had some character behind them then the journey in and of it self could be interesting as you would see them react to these foul things and slowly go insane ect. you don't have it here and you have then lost the only good part of a Lovecraftian story, as the endings always tend to be a bit shit.

They were just as grindy you only had less content to grind through. Like he said people who don't play the game till the end (before the grind) tend to praise it.

You probably didn't play through the early beta then. So many bad mechanics were added for the sake of "muh difficulty" as soon as player figured out a way to get a solid team going. Early access was all about that. See what player do, then add in a mechanic that makes it worthless. Over, and over. Until the game was borderline unplayable and not even fun anymore. Then what solution do you have to make your game works despite all those limitations that you added? Grinding.

Redhook was notorious to bending to the will of the "hardcore" players; they were relentless in trying to make the game more difficult, longer, and more punishing. I remember taking a break from the early access and coming back to the new "corpse barrier" mechanic. I was like... "who asked for this? why am i getting punished for killing something?" It just got worse and worse. What a shame.

This seems to happen so much with early access titles. They have a decent game that people like. But then a vocal minority plays it too much and starts to make demands for more content more challenge etc. The games then get warped around those players and lose sight of what made them good in the first place. Games should be temporary fun, not a lifelong commitment...but some people seem to have trouble moving on.

I’ve watched developer talks and really this game was created in their perfect vision. Through early beta they would find exploits that’s people would do and adjected. They wanted a turn base statagy game where team composition was important and the joy came from grinding up the home base. They have even mentioned that the reason it seems like the dungeons and combat is so styled is because they found that part the most boring of the game and grinding up the base and characters the most enjoyable. When people just started building high first row dps builds, since everyone would move forward, they added corpses so that people would have to build back line dps (a change that was crazy controversial and even had articles written on them how the game was ruined but they stayed with it cause that was there vision). When people didn’t care about stress they added heart attacks, which was also controversial cause before it only gave afflictions so would would just run the same team over and over instead of resting or have stress healers. But they did give the ability for many of these things to be checked off and they even added the lower difficulty and districts which help making the game easier on longer runs.

Having an occultist with bonus damage towards fishmen is a godsend

It really is given one of his critiques was about how some characters forcibly interact with curios resulting in bad outcomes.

this review is like 3 years ago (by the time you commented on it)

@@Yoruharu it's still valid now as it was then

@@HellecticMojo fair enough

DrTheKay That's my impression of it, as well. I like the Darkest Dungeon as a game (albeit with mods), but it runs out of gameplay variety and complexity long before it's actually "over." For those first few hours the game is tremendously fun as you're still getting new heroes, discovering new monsters, building up your town and settling into the atmosphere. The problem is that all of it wears thin after a while. The dungeons aren't as scary, there's little left to upgrade and the initially cool narrator starts sounding trite. In fact, the narrator is a microcosm of everything wrong with the Darkest Dungeon. He starts off sounding cool and scary. After a while, you've heard all of his lines, your heroes are overpowered and he starts to feel annoying. I never finished the Darkest Dungeon. I've tried several times, and simply end up losing my patience when the harder dungeons show up and everything starts to feel cheap. It's not scary any more, just tedious.

I'd say Dark Souls 1 carries the theme of darkness and despair a whole lot better than Darkest Dungeon. Tedium isn't a theme at all, by any reasonable criteria. You may be thinking of futility or hopelessness, which DS again does much better by giving you a frail character that's as good as anyone else and stacking the odds against it. Even the ending is handled better. All while having gameplay that is actually engaging and fair. I realize these are different genres, but it's only to demonstrate that it's still up to the developers to make balanced gameplay instead of hiding behind "artistic vision". There is no bigger cancer in the current gaming industry than undermining gameplay for the sake of some misguided atmosphere instead of synergizing towards it.

God Emperor Chen Goodgulf of Catarina I agree. I'm not a fan of compromising gameplay for the sake of "artistry." You can do a lot to carry theme through gameplay, but you have to remember that you're still dealing with a player, not the protagonist directly. Like with a movie, a game needs to make the player want to keep coming back. If a game's "message" requires it be dull and boring, I'm simply going to pick another game. The problem with the Darkest Dungeon is it takes its own theme too far. It tries to inject the tedium and misery which slowly grinds down its own characters into gameplay directly, which ends up grinding down the player's will to go on. OK, game. You beat me. You just killed my best heroes and put me in a position of having to grind for hours to get back where you were. You win, but I don't feel defeated. I feel cheated.

The irony in that ismany of my friends that have beaten Darkest Dungeon (not a lot of them, about 5 have beaten it) say they dislike the RNG in XCOM, meanwhile they recommend Darkest Dungeon Something about RNG being able to cause a game over while in Darkest Dungeon there is no real game over

@@vsear5911 Dark Souls has tedium. Just look at lost Izalith and the demon ruins. A boring place with nothing new and you're almost guaranteed to do it again because of the boss.

+Kenpachi Zaraki I was with you until "variety of loot, progression system". I'm not sure how 2 trinket slots filled by items, almost all of which are useless is good and am not sure how a system where experience is a negative stat because level appropriateness comes from linear weapon/armor/skill advancement which requires grind is good either. It's very shiny, and attracts fake hardcores who can win at a game they can't lose then spam "Git Gud" at everyone, including the people that remark about how easy it is...

I'm pretty sure they don't even have a "vision", they just wanted some shiny fake hardcore casual fodder for the masses. They got that, and you have quite a few idiots prattling about "git gud" while actual hardcores are just bored and shaking their head. Speaking along similar lines, apparently a LOT of mainstream reviewers take bribes. Not necessarily from them, but definitely in general, and there is absolutely a huge dissonance between how the media speaks of this game, and what sort of user reviews resonate with the public (hint: it's the ones complaining about tedium and grind). Given how shady these devs are, I'd say it's 85% likely.

+Kenpachi Zaraki If the game wasn't so stingy on gold, portraits, statues, etc it would be much, much better. The game doesn't have nearly enough depth for the time it takes to beat.

Or if they praise a game despite its flaws, they're a raving fanboi. Or my favourite "Different strokes for different folks, as long as you agree with me that what you like is trash".

Kenpachi Zaraki I don't think that's true at all. What is it with you people and this "REVIEWS ARE LIES, THERE ALL SELLOUTS." No. Just... no. I think it's more that you dislike a game and then somebody likes it.

Unless you know , you actually like the game and don't feel like every single dungeon is a painful grind. I would be sad too be done after 20 hours on a game I like.

@@Amateur2CombaT idk I kind of like playing a game like this like that. Just playing it a few hours every once in awhile just kind of seems natural for it for me I guess. I'm invested in virtually nothing happening in it anyways and just kind of like the atmosphere of playing at night.

the grind is the point of the game tho, it's meant to feel rewarding after beating all the other bosses and getting into the darkest dungeon.

Same boat here. I, too, love turn-based combat. I don't find it boring; I find it strategic. It's like chess. The problem is chess doesn't rely on RNG. It got to the point where the RNG was so wild, I didn't even *care* to be strategic... and that (plus the visuals/sounds/presentation) was really the only two things that held the game together. What a shame.

headoverheels88 RNG is manageable.

@@girlslaughingjp except when it isnt

PWN4G3FTW which is hardly ever

@@headoverheels88 It's more comparable to something like a card game. And even in that respect I find people more capable of consistent resuslts in Darkest Dungeon than mtg or something.

When you attempt stuns 3 times on an enemy with 25% resist, fail and take a hefty amount of stress damage which causes an affliction, I've recently started playing the game and I enjoy it but moments like that make me furious

Why did you attack a stunned enemy? Why not progress the fight by damaging the enemies that still have turns?

@@valsipstones6871 to whine on RU-vid under Dragon's video. this game contains a lot of RNG. it would be a different game without RNG "bullshit".

did they make the game more fun? or is it still a tedious grindiness

@@TheLegend0Killer they made the game more fun and faster to progress

@@givin2729 I'll give it a try, thanks

I learned to never trust someone that hates sushi.

me too

Yes

I thought it was building up to real life

He would have, had No Man's Sky been released yet.

+thinreaper FTL - enemy fleet - almost every event except Giant Alien Spiders + 200 more sectors, just because. Sounds about right. www.darkestdungeon.com/topic/darkest-ftl/

You can actually have that experience if you want. It's called the Infinite Space mod, which allows the game to continue indefinitely. Although, even then it uses another mod called Endless Loot to make the experience more akin to Borderlands, where you're frequently finding new guns with fancy special effects.

well the game does have a mechanic to stop the ai from just blitzing down one hero its called guard some heros can guard and tank the damage and stress they would normally get

@@lolmanmagee2785 Yeah, and there’s only two heroes in the game who can actually take advantage of this mechanic, the Man-at-Arms and Houndmaster, and one that does a reverse variant of it called the Antiquarian. Even then, there’s absolutely nothing stopping enemies from getting lucky and rolling tons of crits on the guarding hero, and the Houndmaster’s guard is reliant on his dodge stat, which while good doesn’t guarantee avoiding damage.

@@fluorideinthechat7606 even though the hound masters tank is technically rng based. honestly, if the houndmaster has decent hp and he does a reaction guard to a hero getting crit to near death he dont die (from my experience) also you mentioned how antiquarian has the reverse guard. the crusader also kind of has a guard mechanic where he gets more likely to be hit (and more importantly gets prot) but its not as reliable

@@lolmanmagee2785 Yeah, the bargain-bin guard the Leper and Crusader have really begs the question why these weren’t full-fledged guards. And while normal damage dealer enemies don’t really focus down people all that much, stress damage dealers (like Bone Courtiers, Cultist Acolytes, Madmen and Peliagic Shamans) actually do focus on heroes with more stress. I have had many runs ruined by Acolytes going full fucking Ultra Instinct and driving my party members to the point of a Heart Attack.

@@fluorideinthechat7606 i think the idea was that it was a weaker guard that effects the whole party but its dramatically weaker.

BSM, agreed

Yeah I was excited when it came out and then I played it, well the rest is history, I didn’t like my experience with the game.

Yep, while I am trying to finish the game as of late, this is how I played for a long time. Completely agree with you there on the matter of play session mindset

La-Mulana is LEGENDARILY difficult, but it's not tedious. 20 hours of ridiculous difficulty can be a lot easier than 200 hours of basically being a human script.

Wait, what, it actually did damage on a heal? That's some broken shit right there, lmao... yeah, no, I feel your pain.

+Johnny Bombardak I am a masochist and even I ended up hating this game.

if it heals for 0 - 20 of course -33% healing would kill the person potentially

Daniel McLovin -33% means you subtract one third. one third of 0 is 0, not negative 3. that trinket description is objectively wrong

This comment is blatantly lying. This is impossible.

Your avatar is so cringe-worthy.

I've played through the game a couple of times, with DLCs and all, and I can honestly say: The "game" part of the game is shitty. Like the visuals, the music, the narration, etc. - they're good. Awesome even. But the "game" itself is just trash. Now you can say "it's difficult", but it's more like "it's random". And random =/= difficult, only gives the illusion of it. + the grind is horrendous. All in all, DD2 better get its shit together, and not be this.

@@VG-fk6nk It... really isn't. There's a massive difference between a game being about managing probability and a game being "random." The game makes it very clear what you have to deal with and expects you to prepare for it (with the exception of the final dungeon which is actually bad). If you don't prepare for it, you only have yourself to blame.

@@cpugamer1012 I can prepare all day long, and then get double crit on first fight and lose a hero before they even get a turn. And I wish that was a one-time thing, but it's not. On top, I never fight at full power, I fight at "random power". Damage: Between 5-10. With a crit - 20. Well, I'm rarely hitting at full power - 10, and even more rarely - at 20. Now, the same goes for the enemy, too. They fight at random power as well. Difference is, the enemy has X-number of teams to work with. It doesn't need to hit me at full force each time, it just needs to chip me down, little by little. It's like playing Street Fighter or Tekken or whatever. But most of the time, your fighter does average-or-below damage, never letting you fight to your full potential. And then you have to fight, non-stop, against a whole gauntlet of enemies, who win as soon as they K.O. you, regardless of how far you've gone. That's not difficulty. That's randomness. And if it was only in the fighting, it might be OK. But it's not...

@@VG-fk6nk Your perspective, without meaning to sound rude, is just wrong (hear me out, I'm not just trying to be a dick). Obviously there's random elements in each fight... that's how RPG's have worked since before video games existed, and still how they work today. Yes it's a lot more prevalent in Darkest Dungeon because of its difficulty, but those mechanics are still relevant in multiple genres to this day. Specifically what I mean about your perspective being wrong is that Darkest Dungeon is never about one single turn, one hero, one fight, or one dungeon. It's about the process as a whole. If you lose a character to unlucky crits then yeah, the game is hard. But you still have everyone else in your party, plus all your units in the parish, plus the parish itself. Those are all part of preparing for the unlucky crits. Referring to your fighting game analogy (although it's fundamentally a non-sequitur, but I get your point), plenty of fighting games have random moves, too. Really popular ones. The thing is, getting a character or party killed isn't like your opponent KOing you out of no where. Given the larger scale of DD, it's more like your opponent getting the best roll on one RNG move. You're not out of the match, just a little behind. Competitive FGC staples have those random elements, the scale just isn't the same. Lesser note, I'd also say you're looking at damage wrong. As with most RPGs, the max damage of your attacks isn't what you should expect. That damage caps and crits you get are the games RNG in YOUR favor. On a 5-10 range,10 isn't the damage you should be hitting with anymore than 5 is. Over the long haul, you're going to be dealing an average of 7-8 damage. Again, manage probability. Long story short, Darkest Dungeon is a game about the long haul. Over a playthrough, your luck is gonna be a lot closer to average than it will be in any single fight. Preparation is about surviving your bad luck, not just in one fight but in the campaign as a whole. Be ready to heal up, retreat, send out a new team. The harsh RNG doesn't suddenly make the combat bad just because you can't prepare and win every single combat. The harsh RNG is literally what makes the combat interesting, it's the whole reason combat matters. The RNG literally has to be the way it is or else combat would just be... meaningless. Your characters are so much stronger and you have so much more time/skill to think and prepare for the worst, how the hell would enemies do anything to you if they didn't have big swings and long gauntlets? And yeah, it makes you grind sometimes but... that's kinda the whole theme of the game.

@@cpugamer1012 That's my whole point: It's not a difficult game, it's a random game. Random hits. Random trinkets. Random quirks. Random heroes (from the carriage). Random disease. Random dungeons. Random bleeds, blights, etc. (I've had enemies with low blight resist, who've resisted blight skills twice in a row. Again - wish I coud say it was a one-time thing, but it's not.) It's all about that one turn, in that one fight, in that one dungeon. Cascading failures. A concept I learned well from doing Pokemon Nuzlockes. Applied to this game: On one turn, your hero gets stress-focused. Because he's stress focused, his stress is high, meaning it's more likely he'll be focused again. He gets focused again on the next fight, goes insane. Because he's insane, his effectiveness is cut by half. Passing turns, choosing random attacks, stressing even more, etc. Worst case- he dies Now because he's dead, you can't quite finish the dungeon. You don't finish, you stress the rest. Now you gotta spend cash on resting them, + the cash and grind to train a replacement. Because of this you might send a sub-par team to the next dungeon. Which might get them whiped. Cascading failure. From that one bad turn. That's not to say it's not manageable, god knows I've survived this shit - beat the game a couple of times as I've said, hardest diff. But it's just so damn random and unpleasant. At the end of the day, I'd recommend this game to a friend, as a joke. Just to have them try the first hour or two, agree with me that "it's hard" (random), and then drop it to never play again.

You can turn that off on the in game options my guy

@@diogostw7286 This was a year ago. I'm not booting that stress simulator of a game back up

@@sickman9124 try to use Cheat Engine for speed up It becomes fast chess simulator

@@dmitryhookins4654 I should've done something like that. But now that I'm not playing it anymore, I don't feel like having re-visit and learn the game again

I don't think it's that they _enjoy_ it, it's just that they lack the imagination and technical skill to code deep and challenging gameplay mechanics, so they just base everything on simple random number generators. Instead of using randomness to add a bit of variety to gameplay, they make it the core "mechanic" of the game. The end result is bit like roulette: a game of chance balanced to keep addicts playing, but there's really not much _skill_ involved, which means it never feels very rewarding when you win, and you never feel like you've learned something when you lose. Unless you're easily addicted, of course, in which case you probably convince yourself that you have some power over the random numbers, just like gambling addicts do with roulette, slot machines, etc..

Oh damn youre right, xcom sure you something dont hit a 90% shot but you have strategy, what do you have in this game nothing of stratefy if you go against 2 fast enemies you most liable to lose

He's steam reviews brought to life

Are there any YT videos of the head dev whining? Because I'd love to see that.

@@brothir search for the post mortem at the GDC conference. He cries a good ten minutes over it.

Super late comment but weren't corpses added because people were just brute forcing everything with the Leper? And not entirely related to your comment, but IMO a small change that would make this game a lot less frustrating would be making so that Bleed/Blight can't kill a character in Death's Door. Losing a character because he happened to act before your healer in the randomly generated turn order has to be the worst thing this game has to offer.