>boss has 2 phases>first phase is piss-easy and designed just to waste the player's time>second phase is the actual hard one and can get you killed in seconds>have to replay phase 1 after every deathWhat do devs gain by wasting the player's time like this?
>>738908326It adds a psychological complexity to the fight on top of its mechanical difficulty. If you're not strong-willed like myself eventually even the first phase will make you struggle. By the time you've mastered the first phase it would stop feeling like a fluke that you managed to get as far as you did and when you manage to finally beat the second phase the pleasure of release is just that much greater
>>738909091>psychological complexityFor me if the first phase is boring and piss easy I just start staring at shorts on my second monitor during it or even just thinking about work and real life problems while I mindlessly beat the boss
>>738908326Money
>>738909269Money?
I think phase twos are too abundant nowadays. Only a few bosses should have a phase two, not every boss should be able to suddenly gain immense power when pushed into a corner. In real life most people die like 5 seconds into a fight anyway so they’d obviously go all out from the start. Are video games real life? No, but.
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Why is Zoolander so popular on /v/?
>>738908326Noob dev hereIt's mostly because bosses are a ton of work for little reward. Today they are most likely used as a "wow" setpiece, so they cannot be on the level of contra anymore. You need tons of animations(attacks, movements like jumps and dashes) and an above room level ai. If you pass this challenge on your first try, it's 2months of work for 3min of gameplay. Madness.So most devs have taken the soul pill, and made bosses unreasonably hard/long to stretch that content. Of course it's even worse when you need to re-fight it later.
>>738909486because life like zoolander, if if yeah
>>738908326Reminds me of that Elizabeth Bartley in Castlevania, first phase is baby shit easy, second is impossible. But as I recall you have to fight Death first-which involves three minibosses first, then two phases of Elizabeth and finally three phases of Dracula after
>>738908326This is because, like many things in modern life, it is carefully designed to infuriate, frustrate, annoy, and irritate you. This is compounded in every aspect of existence and drilled into your head until you snap, go berserk, and add fuel to the flaming garbage heap that is burning away and eroding our individual freedoms and liberties. The goal is to break and enslave you because the powers that be hate humanity. That is why. Kinda silly isn't it?
>>738908326did you guys see manlytears got vanned for soliciting nudes from a minor and now he's "taking a break" from social media for a few months? that nigga goin to jail
>>738911449It's just a game
>>738908326>What do devs gain by wasting the player's time like this?Your time is worthless retardo.You're wasting it right now by shitposting about inane shit and also by playing video games.Don't expect random strangers to care about your 'precious' time when you don't do that yourself.
>>738911613It took me literally 30 seconds to write the OP and less than a minute to read all posts in this threadI take longer than that to brush my teeth
>>738911608He's right.
>>738911449>>738911726Insanely pessimistic view on lifeMost things in life are meant to bring us joy and keep us happy until our time in this plane is over
>>738909579Devs focus too much on bosses these days. Are they just easier to make than fun levels overall, or is it just because the audience seems to want bosses for the dopamine? Imo a challenging level is always way more fun than a challenging boss and you could get away with reusing simpler enemies if you just place them cleverly.
>>738910210Aside from those boss gauntlets, classicvanias got it right. The meat of the game is on the tough levels that you have to learn and not the bosses. CV Chronicles, which is considered one of the hardest, has piss easy bosses but the they are not the main focus of the challenge, which is why I like it.
>>738913750>Are they just easier to make than fun levels overall, or is it just because the audience seems to want bosses for the dopamine?Latter. Also bosses are something you can use in marketing easely. They can be easier, if they are shit. If you wanna make a good boss battle it's pain. It's also something that a team can do better, but a solodev can be swamped into it because every system requires care and time.We talk a lot, but dad of war1 had like 30 copy-pasted troll battels>Imo a challenging level is always way more fun than a challenging bossIt depends a lot from what's expected from a genre. In Mario you can avoid bosses or make very few of them. An hack n slash /soul needs a lot of bosses. An action 2d game without a boss at the end of a level it's lame, so for beu and many genres.
>>738914335Ofc for a combat-heavy genres bosses are a given. But even games that could have done way more on other aspects like dangerous traps and mob placements instead ended up just Ctrl+Ving bosses around and calling it a day, like Elden Ring.
>>738908326You don't kill bosses on the first try? LMAO fucking faggot.
For this reason I skipped beating nameless king and solo arlecchino(lies of p). I also skipped midi because he had absurd amount of hp
>>738909091nobody that browses /v/ and plays videogames is "strong-willed", nigger
>>738908326You forgot about the unskippable cutscene between the two phases.
