Famicom Dojo Podcast: Only Mostly Dead

by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Famicom Dojo Podcast, Podcasts on May.02, 2012

Injuries in video games tend to be minor annoyances rather than the game-stopping events they should be. But wouldn’t having to heal from actual injuries be a sure way to kill gaming fun? Vinnk and Sean discuss how injury has been taken out of games with the advent of armor and shielding, and on the other side of the spectrum games that are all about healing. And somewhere in between, there’s the worst offender of the blurry line between life, death, and severe crippling injury: RPGs. Also, we give out copious amounts of Phoenix Downs.

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http://www.facebook.com/adamrulz69 Adam Gardner

With regards to your comments about different colour pills reacting differently, research into the placebo effect has shown that it has a greater effect with certain colours, so while it’s not part of the actual medical effect, there is an actual difference based solely on the colour, as the placebo effect, while created by the mind, can have measurable effects.
uglyjoe

The Mutant League sports games for the Genesis had permanent death. It was a cool feature, because you would have to learn to manage your roster during the season so that all of your good players wouldn’t be dead by the end of the season. Was also fun to win a game by making your opponent forfeit by killing off most of their team 😀
Crade Lit

I like the sound effects, but when the voices are the right volume, the sound effects are too loud! You must normalize! 🙂

Funny, I just bought the Leisuresuit Larry collection on ebay and installed it on my phone. I would much prefer if Al were making a new game, even without a fancy license. I’d pitch in a bit for that, but I don’t even like the VGA remakes of those classics, I certainly don’t want to see another remake now lol it probably wouldn’t even run on my phone!

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

But it IS normalized! In fact, I turned down the Omnislash because of how loud it was. :/

Crade Lit

Maybe it was just the health potion sound… Or maybe it was just me, lol that sound kept hurting my ears for some reason.

uglyjoe

I think the potion sound effect is simply grating, regardless of the volume 😀
http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

Yeah, we can always do better. Next time!

http://discord-inc.tumblr.com/ James Fletcher

Hope this isn’t a too late, but I just listened to this episode and thought of one games that make some attempted to simulate actually being injured.

The first is Metal Gear Solid 3. In Snake could could get injured beyond just getting shot, and it could affect him by slowing him down or reducing the maximum amount of health you can recover. It’s still a very video gamey system though, since all you need to do is go to a menu to apply bandages, but it adds to the survival aspect.

Beyond that the only other titles I can think of are older PC RPGs or some Roguelikes. I can’t think of specific examples, but I can see some of the move sim heavy ones making you treat injuries.

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

The aspect that it’s so easy to heal the injuries is definitely the most “game-y” part of that, but I do tend to better enjoy the ones that have more variation than a blinking heart piece… not that I don’t love blinking heart pieces! 😀

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