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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9212316" data-attributes="member: 6684958"><p>When asked, most players do say they want the Safe, Easy, Protected with no hardships, real challanges or anything negative like character death. </p><p></p><p>Basically most players would say they want a Happy Comedy Slapstick Action Adventure: Generally what you see in most TV shows and movies. Much like the D&D Honor among Thieves movie or Disney and most Marvel movies.</p><p></p><p>And at least half of the players that say they want the above, really only want the above fully and truly.</p><p></p><p>But then there is the other half. They will say along with the crowd' that they want the above.....but it's not exactly all that they want. And sometimes non of what they want. </p><p></p><p>These players will find they live the difficult, hard ("impossible") game with harsh negative things in it like character death. I lot of players get bored of "amazingly" and "easily" completing yet another adventure while their character only took a couple of points of damage.</p><p></p><p>The play style of "well, your characters have already completed this adventure we have not run through yet and won the day....but lets run through it to see how your characters complete the adventure" works for a lot of gamers. But not all. </p><p></p><p>Hard Fun Failure is a big draw to some game styles.</p><p></p><p>Though it's rare to find players that just "like" Hard Fun. Unless they have played such games before.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 9212316, member: 6684958"] When asked, most players do say they want the Safe, Easy, Protected with no hardships, real challanges or anything negative like character death. Basically most players would say they want a Happy Comedy Slapstick Action Adventure: Generally what you see in most TV shows and movies. Much like the D&D Honor among Thieves movie or Disney and most Marvel movies. And at least half of the players that say they want the above, really only want the above fully and truly. But then there is the other half. They will say along with the crowd' that they want the above.....but it's not exactly all that they want. And sometimes non of what they want. These players will find they live the difficult, hard ("impossible") game with harsh negative things in it like character death. I lot of players get bored of "amazingly" and "easily" completing yet another adventure while their character only took a couple of points of damage. The play style of "well, your characters have already completed this adventure we have not run through yet and won the day....but lets run through it to see how your characters complete the adventure" works for a lot of gamers. But not all. Hard Fun Failure is a big draw to some game styles. Though it's rare to find players that just "like" Hard Fun. Unless they have played such games before. [/QUOTE]
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