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Title: Perma-Perma-Death. Upsilon Circuit
Post by: George on October 13, 2015, 01:05:38 AM
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue0C7iHMwUM#)

Part video game, part science. This game only lets a player live once. 8 players at a time over the entire community.


An ARPG where you only have one chance. What are your thoughts?
Title: Re: Perma-Perma-Death. Upsilon Circuit
Post by: ShirokuTheHusky on October 13, 2015, 01:20:59 AM
Or rather, what are your LAST thoughts?
Title: Re: Perma-Perma-Death. Upsilon Circuit
Post by: Angder on October 13, 2015, 02:35:14 AM
All based around one gimmick? Check.

Limited lifespan? Check.

Reliant on constant maintenance? Check.

If that video is to be believed, only available to a very limited audience (Those able to play at the time of the stream)? Check


If its a genuinely good game, they are crippling themselves with the method of releasing it. If its a bad game, they are trying to sell it purely on the gimmick, the latter option makes infinitely more sense to me.


I give it 6 months. Tops. And then it will either release an "Infinite mode" for the game, or vanish completely, to the same pit of obscurity and stupidity the Flock is in.

Also I reckon you will get a LOT of boring streams of overcautious players hanging back and stalling rather than being fun to watch. Good viewing material should involve players taking risks. That will rarely happen in a perma-death game.

Its possible I am wrong, if so then congratulations to the dev team! But I am highly skeptical, and certainly have no interest in playing/watching it myself.
Title: Re: Perma-Perma-Death. Upsilon Circuit
Post by: George on October 13, 2015, 02:38:26 AM
All based around one gimmick? Check.

Limited lifespan? Check.

Reliant on constant maintenance? Check.

If that video is to be believed, only available to a very limited audience (Those able to play at the time of the stream)? Check


If its a genuinely good game, they are crippling themselves with the method of releasing it. If its a bad game, they are trying to sell it purely on the gimmick, the latter option makes infinitely more sense to me.


I give it 6 months. Tops. And then it will either release an "Infinite mode" for the game, or vanish completely, to the same pit of obscurity and stupidity the Flock is in.

Also I reckon you will get a LOT of boring streams of overcautious players hanging back and stalling rather than being fun to watch. Good viewing material should involve players taking risks. That will rarely happen in a perma-death game.

Its possible I am wrong, if so then congratulations to the dev team! But I am highly skeptical, and certainly have no interest in playing/watching it myself.

All good points, and all similar to my thoughts. XD Still, this is an interesting idea and I'd like to see what others think of it.
Title: Re: Perma-Perma-Death. Upsilon Circuit
Post by: anoni on October 14, 2015, 07:21:24 AM
There's another game, I forgot what it was called, but basically the idea is the game runs as normal but when players die something like 1,000,000 as a whole, the game shuts off and basically the game "ends"
Title: Re: Perma-Perma-Death. Upsilon Circuit
Post by: Angder on October 14, 2015, 08:22:47 AM
There's another game, I forgot what it was called, but basically the idea is the game runs as normal but when players die something like 1,000,000 as a whole, the game shuts off and basically the game "ends"

That's "the flock". Its an interesting idea, but poorly executed.