Comments on: Poll Question 147 – Have you ever finished a mod without dying?

By: Dusty_Lions

Dusty_Lions — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:41:18 +0000

Worse than Phillip?..LOL… I’m a shoe in to usurp his position there, just ask him…lol

By: Rikersbeard

Rikersbeard — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:25:32 +0000

Regular as clockwork, no matter how short the mod I always find a way to get that red screen feeling. Sometimes looking up at the gad guys who killed me. I’ve been flattened by a few cupboards and killed by an empty bed frame!

Not very lucky with those new gits, the ‘Hunters’ either.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:39:34 +0000

Back with a bang jjawnte. Good to see you again.
Minerva: It’s after you’ve exploded the facility and the way back when I cannot not die or get so low on life that I know I cannot survive without out going back and doing it right. Back on the surface, no problems. I will one day – determined.
I think I’ll have a bash at the The Citizen next before Citizen 2 is released (please!). The combat gameplay is straight forward enough and I know every move by now.

By: jjawinte

jjawinte — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:33:14 +0000

Good call on those titles Jasper, but you are so not getting through ” Metastasis ” without dying, but I would love to see you prove me wrong ! ( I’m in the middle of a third pass through now. Love this mod ! )

I will honestly reply to this topic by saying that I simply don’t recall if I ever have.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:51:48 +0000

Since this post, I’ve managed C to A and Ravenholm in hard without dying.
Not holding out much hope for Minerva Metastasis and the final fight of City 7 the Toronto Conflict may not be doable.
I may have to bend my rules and go back to an auto-save.
Offshore and Ravenholm are worth a try though.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:12:45 +0000

Heh, I thought you meant development wise. It’s even more impressive starting a mod and actually releasing something that isn’t crap (without dying of course).

By: m82sniper

m82sniper — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:55:40 +0000

This poll could lead to another poll about how often you save.

By: MNM

MNM — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:09:57 +0000

No, but I did it with Ep. 1 and 2

By: WizardExt

WizardExt — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:31:44 +0000

There are many games and mods that I have played and finished without dying. One of them being the mod Joutomaa. It’s short and didn’t offer anything that I wasn’t ready for. Playing through the Half-Life games I have

When I die in mods it’s often due to its weird difficulty setting, pace or powerup placement. In games I die more often, since I am new to the mechanics and the universe. Takes time to learn and games often offer a much longer journey. Boss fights tend to get me killed until I figure them out. Other times, when dying too much, I have just picked a difficulty setting that is higher than my skill. I always play on normal. Only when I replay a mod/game I choose another difficulty to spice things up.

By: Grey Acumen

Grey Acumen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:43:18 +0000

This is another case of ambiguity. I could easily finish any mod without dying, simply by reloading when I take more that what I feel is an acceptable amount of damage and being extra careful on jumps and obvious death traps. However I find that type of play style to be tedious as hell (and i say that as a guy who has taken out the Gonarch in HL1 by finding a safe spot where it can’t reach me and holding down fire button on the hivehand)
Because of quicksaving and being able to play a game over and over again, I have gotten a little jaded over the idea that not dying is really that much of a show of skill. Eventually, with enough practice, anyone is going to be able to do that, it just takes someone who is willing to invest the time into the constant repetition.
In some cases, I deliberately do things that will likely result in my death simply to see if it is possible to do things in a manner that a game or mod doesn’t seem to have been expecting. I like to break out of the defined path, even if it serves no purpose and requires me to brave certain doom with barely any life left. IF i do end up dying, or getting stuck, i can always reload and only end up losing a few minutes.

By: death

death — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:40:39 +0000

I’ve only beaten Get a Life without dying. which was a bit tough, considering it’s 11 hours long.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:57:06 +0000

I got real close in blue shift on hard until the run and jump screwed it all up

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:19:54 +0000

Yes, some people are as bad as me and in some cases worst I fear.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:56:19 +0000

I would have voted no but ‘I suck at games, I’m almost as bad as Phillip’. No one is as bad as that, are they?
And he plays in Easy.
Have a look at some of his screen shots!!
Had to vote Kinda.

By: wayfare

wayfare — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:25:05 +0000

I honestly cannot say if I have or not.. I am sure that I have in smaller mods, but I am not sure about the lengthier ones. I do not feel that dying really matters in a game such as Half-Life as much as it does in arcade type games. I wish I could say yes