by Lujo on Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:29 pm
Heck, I learned from watching your video's, but I was a bit freaked out because of all the times I complain about something and someone shows up with "oh, it's fine, I beat it purist". When I see a comment like that, I don't exactly think it's supposed to mean "oh, it's fine because 2% of the existing content can beat it", I think someone's telling me that I'm missing something. Then I feel like I need to go and reevaluate my strategy, look at the big picture, see what I've missed.
But when it turns out that it ment "it's fine because you can beat it with a GG rogue / zombie gold BM / cb Wizard / trisword whatever" - it makes me go "Hell, no! I knew that, you can't balance around that stuff!". Now I didn't go on about NL in my playthrough notes for no reason - it's really, really hard compared to other places, and being able to beat it with that sort of cheezy stuff doesn't justify it's power level for various reasons. Nor does it's existance justify the huge power gap between those things and all the other stuff. You can actually play this game like a very fun, very even expirience with nice increments of difficulty and if you do NL last - BAM - suddenly you're either knee deep in cheeze or knee deep in sh*t, your call.
And it's not like you don't have anything to teach people who don't know stuff that you do - that's exactly the thing. Make more vids, do a round around other VICIOUS, don't limit yourself to purist. If you want to show of a crazy combo - show it off. Who cares about badges? "Showing" people how to get them this way is the least thing someone can learn from your play...
I almost got pwned by Shifty Brickwork!