Board 8 > Were 90's FPS games as hard as Blood?

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lihlih
12/31/20 7:31:08 AM
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Fuck, I'm literally dying every few mins. I have to save after every encounter, so I can keep getting a crack at it.

I beat Doom when I was little, and I recently beat DOOM(2016), but Blood: Fresh Supply is fucking brutal(I'm on medium difficulty). Did I just get shittier at FPS games, or is Blood just a super hard game?
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BlackMageJawa
12/31/20 8:05:31 AM
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Blood is above average difficulty, but yes, that era of FPSs was frequently brutal in general.

The main issue was enemies with hitscan weapons- basically, if they could see you, you took damage. The cultists at the beginning of Blood all have hitscan machine guns that can rip you to shreds, and there's not a lot you can do to avoid them. Later enemies that are supposed to be more dangerous have modelled projectiles that hurt like buggery when they connect, but can be seen and dodged.
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Mr Crispy
12/31/20 10:57:54 AM
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It's just the expected gameplay loop back then, instead of expecting you to try to get from checkpoint to checkpoint uninterrupted.

quick save -> walk into room -> get shot to death from some enemy that you can't see from the entrance or came out of some monster closet after you pass it -> quick load until you get past it without losing half your health -> quick save again.

the difficulty in Blood was also infamous for being bugged to hell. If you played on the lowest difficulty, the game actually loaded the health/damage stats for enemies from the hardest difficulty instead due to a pointer in the code pointing to the wrong place in the table. And as you'd expect from that, playing on the hardest difficulty being easier than intended for the same reason (pointing to the tables for medium difficulty.) Though I hope that would be fixed in the remastered version.

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