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I WANT to like Psychonauts 2, but it plays it too safe. (lemm.ee)
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[–] hasnt_seen_goonies 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I am very interested on what you mean by that.

[–] Tyfud 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I assume he means that there's no way to perms die or challenge to the game from a combat standpoint, that is more story driven. If so, he's right. Double fine specifically built that into their game design. It was an intentional choice

[–] hasnt_seen_goonies 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So the ability to permadie would be a lives system that you could run out of lives? That seems like an old design philosophy to me.

[–] Tyfud 2 points 3 weeks ago

If you watch the youtube series doublefine has on the making of Psychonauts 2 (I've actually never played it, but I'm a hobby game developer and found the whole series a fascinating behind the scenes for how established studios do game development), they had a project lead early on to the Psychonauts dev cycle that pushed for things like "blood gates" where you had to kill enemies to progress, and more challenging combat and more traditional sort of "God of War" style gameplay mechanics.

The core devs, UX, animators, level designers, etc. all sort of rebelled against him and went to Tim (the President of DF and the writer of it) and complained until he sorted things out.

So not having these challenging combat pieces was 100% intentional by the dev team that built both Psychonauts 1 and 2.