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The canonical game about Pain is "Getting Over It", by Bennett Foddy. Truly a masterpiece.

by felixgallo 3y ago

jimbob45 3y ago
Which is weird because I Wanna Be the Boshy puts GOI to shame in the masochistic difficulty department.
- Tade0 3y ago
  I think it's the narration during gameplay which makes GOI so memorable.
  - mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
    That brings back a vague memory of watching a youtuber play it and at some point he was raging more at the commentary than the game because it was so pretentious(to his mind). I bet that aspect to it was probably intended too, which I love
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
  The games mentioned are far too masochistic for me. But at my current skill level, trying for the cosmic ocean in Spelunky 2 feels not only masochistic but hopeless because I will probably never be able to do it. And yet I keep trying. I don't even know why at this point. But I'm not ready to give up on it.
- rcxdude 3y ago
  Games like I Wanna Be the Boshy are generally a different kind of difficult: they have quite frequent save points and fast restarts close to where you last failed (except for on the very hardest difficulty, which is not the intended difficulty). Getting over it is easier mechanically but it's very punishing: in many places failure will put you right back at the start, meaning a retry is very tedious.
  - jgtrosh 3y ago
    This dichotomy about difficulty is described in more detail in this long-winded but carefully thought out essay about a Celeste mod by Patricia Taxxon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX3w4hubVnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX3w4hubVnQ
glenneroo 3y ago
This is great! Thankfully enough Let's Play videos are out there to give me an idea how much I would hate this, at least alone. OTOH I could see this being a fun (and hopefully short) party game with friends in-between more "serious" games, just to laugh our asses off for a few minutes ;) This also reminds me of QWOP[0] and Petris/Bastet/Bastard Tetris[1]. [0] https://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html https://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html [1] https://libregamewiki.org/Bastet https://libregamewiki.org/Bastet
- geoffpado 3y ago
  FWIW, Getting Over It probably reminds you of QWOP because they're by the same developer, Bennett Foddy.
- DoktorDelta 3y ago
  QWOP was also developed by Bennett Foddy, along with the successor games GIRP and CLOP

The canonical game about Pain is "Getting Over It", by Bennett Foddy. Truly a masterpiece.

jimbob45 3y ago

Which is weird because I Wanna Be the Boshy puts GOI to shame in the masochistic difficulty department.

Tade0 3y ago
I think it's the narration during gameplay which makes GOI so memorable.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
  That brings back a vague memory of watching a youtuber play it and at some point he was raging more at the commentary than the game because it was so pretentious(to his mind). I bet that aspect to it was probably intended too, which I love
mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
The games mentioned are far too masochistic for me. But at my current skill level, trying for the cosmic ocean in Spelunky 2 feels not only masochistic but hopeless because I will probably never be able to do it. And yet I keep trying. I don't even know why at this point. But I'm not ready to give up on it.
rcxdude 3y ago
Games like I Wanna Be the Boshy are generally a different kind of difficult: they have quite frequent save points and fast restarts close to where you last failed (except for on the very hardest difficulty, which is not the intended difficulty). Getting over it is easier mechanically but it's very punishing: in many places failure will put you right back at the start, meaning a retry is very tedious.
- jgtrosh 3y ago
  This dichotomy about difficulty is described in more detail in this long-winded but carefully thought out essay about a Celeste mod by Patricia Taxxon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX3w4hubVnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX3w4hubVnQ

glenneroo 3y ago

This is great! Thankfully enough Let's Play videos are out there to give me an idea how much I would hate this, at least alone. OTOH I could see this being a fun (and hopefully short) party game with friends in-between more "serious" games, just to laugh our asses off for a few minutes ;) This also reminds me of QWOP[0] and Petris/Bastet/Bastard Tetris[1]. [0] https://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html https://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html [1] https://libregamewiki.org/Bastet https://libregamewiki.org/Bastet

geoffpado 3y ago
FWIW, Getting Over It probably reminds you of QWOP because they're by the same developer, Bennett Foddy.
DoktorDelta 3y ago
QWOP was also developed by Bennett Foddy, along with the successor games GIRP and CLOP