Kamiya wants Bayonetta to be “sadistically hard”

Benefits of editing….

As for the game, I really hope there’s a demo. I want to get into it and understand it a bit more.

Gah. Ta.

Ah, right. Okay.

/removes Bayonetta from ‘interesting’ list

I’m going to try it. It has to be “good,” I think.

Thought that was right up your street Blerk.

/adds Bayonetta to ‘interesting’ list.

If it isn’t at least as hard as Devil May Cry 1 or Ninja Gaiden, it can piss off. =D

Bad Kamiya. Bad.
/rubs nose in difficulty settings

I don’t like stuff being purposely stupidly hard. I don’t get on with Devil May Cry, even.

I don’t know why I thought you were like that then. I also don’t get stuff like that.

I don’t generally agree with having so many customisation options in games, but difficulty settings on games where the developer will focus on making the game a challenge, I personally feel it should be scalable.

‘Incredibly hard but fair’ is almost impossible to achieve with current generation AI. (Except for puzzlers)

He should give up now or admit that the game will just be poorly designed and ridiculously frustrating.

Just the news I’ve been waiting for. I was concerned Bayonetta may be made too easy. I’m very glad to see that’s not going to be the case.

@No_PUD: While I agree with it being accessible, if possible as well, my own concern was that it might be too easy.

I’m not sure I agree with the sentiment expressed here which comes across as though making the game hard is done simply for the sake of it.

I’m not against hard games so long as there is balance. Ikaruga is one of the finest hard games out there. To keep the balance you need to keep everthing fair. I don’t want a hard game made harder simply because the camera system doesn’t frame the game action properly, for example.

I’m wary of Platinum Games. There’s a copious amount of style shown in their stuff so far but I’ve yet to see enough actual game to substantiate it. Okami turned out ok though.

Splatteredhouse, thats exactly my point. I’d prefer he started off with making it fair but ‘sadistically hard’ and then it was customisable through scaling basic settings back to make it easier.

Of course I say basic settings, what the fuck do I know about game design?

Just up the HP on enemies.

Well that’s one element I assume you could tweak, but you’re not a game designer either. ‘How do I make this game scalable’ is proabably a question specific to each and every single game that has different difficulty settings.

There’s a strange notion in this genre that the difficulty level needs to start at incredibly hard and work from there. It’s a barrier to entry for a lot of people that just doesn’t need to be there. There’s a lot of fun to be had in getting better and seeing the improvement and if you put people off at the start by setting the default difficulty to “Bastard” they’re just not going to bother.

You could lower the damage the player does.

Or, you could make it so that the baddies weapons hurt you more.

Maybe you could lower the players HP.

I agree with G1GAHURTZ, it will most likely be simply cheap.

albeit I will definetely check this one out.

Or have less ammo.

You can stop now…

My point is, I expect there’s a lot more you and I don’t understand about FAIRLY adjusting difficulty.

My penis is “sadistically hard”

/is hilarious

*smirk*