dotHack, which in itself is a good series, four games long, is an evil prick of a series for one small minor detail that can be avoided if you play the game carefully enough.
If you start from game 1, Infection, and play it all the way through to part 4, Quarantine, you can transfer your data from the previous game to allow you to bring your levels and items along with you. A very handy feature.
However, in the game you have the ability to 'Data Drain' from monsters to get rare items or make boesses defeatable, and you can hack into 'forbidden servers', both of which will raise your Virus Meter and when it hits 100% it is Permanent Game Over. You will have to start from the beginning of the disk at least with a new save file.
The smart Gamers make back ups after back ups after back ups just in case they hit that fatal 100% by accident, after all if you're careful enough you can keep the Virus Meter down and/or make it go down by doing certain things.
However one of my friends back home is an idiot.
He has spent the last two years playing dotHack, getting the best levels and the best weapons and Data Draining monsters to get all the right items and all the Virus Cores so he can hack servers.
But he didn't make a backup.
Not a single one.
So, after two years of playing the series, he saves before he goes to fight the final boss of Quarantine, he thinks he's doing the smart thing and that he shouldn't have too much trouble right?
Wrong, he failed to check his Virus Meter...
It was at 99%.
To be able to actaully damage the bosses, you have to Data Drain.
He used Data Drain...
And now has two years of game playing and nothing to show for it.
He had a right go at me this morning when I was on the phone to him while trying to get my purse from my flat after I left it there by accident because I was laughing my head off, but I'd warned him and warned him to watch his Virus Meter, and to make a back up, did he listen to me? Noooooooo.
Muahahaha.
However in hindsight, I've been thinking and there is a few games that I would go mental if they had Permanent Game Over.
The Final Fantasys for example, especially the four disk games.
Thinking about this led me to wonder what games would drive everyone else mental if they had Permanent Game Over.
If you can think of one, please reply to this post and tell me,
I'd like to know what everyone thinks.
Joey
1 comment:
ok Postlethwaite is spelt Postlethwaite not Postlewaite or Posthwaite or any of the other dozens of misspellings.
And perament game over... hmmm... imagine if any of the digimon games had that feature, do you have any idea how far i've gotten on those games 100+hours on 2003, 40+ on world.
And the idoit will hopefully now learn to make back-ups like anyone else with a brain.
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