Death penalties ARE NOT ABOUT THE INVIDIVUAL ENCOUNTER. It makes the game hard if you have a death penalty.
I suppose technically you could argue that only permadeath actually makes a game harder. Other deaths just extend it.
NO. It only makes the game long and boring.
If you lack the skill to kill the boss in hard mode, you cannot do it whether the DP is 1 gold, or 1000 hours of level time.
Death penalties don't make it hard in a sense, you are correct about that. Lack of death penalities make it much easier though.
Its like playing Contra with the konami code. Its the same game, but you arent really punished in any meaningful sense for dieing so you become careless & the players don't value their success as much. But people are so mired in the treadmill chasing the carrot don't really notice it.
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Death penalties don't make it hard in a sense, you are correct about that. Lack of death penalities make it much easier though.
Its like playing Contra with the konami code. Its the same game, but you arent really punished in any meaningful sense for dieing so you become careless & the players don't value their success as much. But people are so mired in the treadmill chasing the carrot don't really notice it.