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What does a good game consist of? (part 42)

Doom 3

Is a very solid game.  Full of cool challenges and so called secrets
to find. When you unlock hellknights on Nightmare difficulty(which if
you want to play, you have to first beat Veteran difficulty), it is

insane challenge time. Definitely worth trying for playing. To make
the basic graphical engine code subelemental display of the game:

void cut_graphics();

Unfair challenge

The main conception (and misconception) about making video games is to
make the game friendly to beginners and low level players. While that
is an absolutely brilliant idea, it however, believe it or not,

actually kills the challenge in the game. Challenges can be unfair and
so can be life. But that's not the end of the world. Unfair challenges
in life, just like in video games can be tons of fun. And that's not

restricted to lowest level difficulties of the game. An unfair
challenge can be a real test for your skills and can make the short
human a total blast. You don't need to put your dreams on hold, just

because your life sucks and gets hard and unfair, and you don't have
to be angry at the game and quit playing because you can't beat it yet
and because it's frustrating. It is fun to advance, to be scared, to

explore extra and extremely dangerous level dungeons. You probably
won't win in the first thousand tries, but the actual "Game over!"
sign is a sign of a good, hard and tough video games. Puzzles aren't

supposed to be easy for anyone, including beginners. Challenges aren't
supposed to make you feel comfortable, even when you're having fun.
The point of playing a video game is to have a total freaking blast.

Doom 3 for example is a cool video game. Try beating it on nightmare
and kill hellknights and bosses. I can promise you, you'll have a
really great time. If your life sucks shit balls, so what? Stop making

it into this terrible thing that you have to escape as quickly as
absolutely possible. Let things go wrong in video games as a test, and
laugh about it.

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