>>12001180
Artificial difficulty is when you invent some contrived scenario that's specifically designed to trip up the player and make things difficult in a way that's contrary to how the rest of the game plays. RPGs are about incremental progress. Ramping things up at the end a bit and saving the hardest bosses for last isn't out of line but suddenly turning the game into some mandatory marathon session where it becomes an all-or-nothing scenario with a prolonged dungeon run and 5 consecutive boss fights is putting sugar on sugar. It's excessive and not in a "in retrospect we might have got a little carried away" sense. They knew they were piling on and just plowed ahead anyway.

And for some reason this is way more prevalent in RPGs than other genres. It's like the designers are too obsessed with making things le heckin epic challenge that only the most dedicated turbo autist can complete after forfeiting their entire waking life to grinding and restarting and forget it's just a fucking game and not an audition to enter mount olympus or something

>>150169306
There s no equivalent. They're polar opposites. Basketball is so hilariously broken in favor of the offense that no one can actually stop anyone and "good" defense still results in teams scoring 100+ points, and offenses in soccer are so gimped that games where neither team scores is not uncommon.

Wilt put up the equivalent of what an entire team might score in a game. But the average soccer team might score once, so...one goal? It's like asking what the RPG equivalent of Street Fighter II is. The question doesn't even make sense

>>11891610
SNES version mogs them both

>>11890725
>REmake sits in this weird place where everyone acts like it was this incredibly flawed conversion, when it really wasn't. REmake drastically improved the graphics and controls, and kept 99% of the original design but contrarians act like it's worse than the original

>>212991658
>If you’re looking for something “adult” watch Frankenstein or Mr Hyde

Taking this opportunity to shill for Mary Reily as an underappreciated Jekyll and Hide adaptation. It bombed because the typical Julia Roberts crowd was not down with gothic horror but it's really a Malkovitch movie anyway

>>149858204
Cunningham got his own loaded roster in Minesota, he still didn't win shit. Had Randy Moss, Chris Carter and Robert Smith at the same time and won one playoff game with them. Lost at home in the one and only conference championship game he ever made after getting outplayed by the immortal Chris Chandler. He was just not that guy. Lamar 1.0

>>212557475
Yeah, it was cringe as fuck but tbqh Ed was always an annoying sperg tryhard character. I can't fathom anybody accurately portraying that character and not coming off as cringe.

And it was one bit from one scene at he end of the season so the fact that people hated the whole thing really has nothing to do with the kid playing Ed. That was just the cherry on top of the shit sundae

>>149657922
I honestly think 90% of women in sports media pulled a Joy Taylor and fucked some producer to get ahead and they just don't want to tug on that particular string lest someone in the know mention that they were dating Mr. Sheckelstein when she was 27 and he was 75.

Or at the very least someone they work with has probably been in that position and if they didn't say anything then they shouldn't now. You lose your moral superiority when you're talking about shit you've participated in or condoned themselves. Safer to just wait until some player is accused of domestic violence and then they can dogpile on them without worrying about being called hypocrites.

>>11808075
I liked Bonk's Adventure