21st October 2003, 1:09 PM
How many times must I slap you both before you act right?
Anyway, I loved the difficulty of Nightmare. That thing was VERY hard, but it wasn't random hard (the kind I hate), and it all depeneded on sheer skill. I thought it WAS the good kind of hard. If you could beat it already at your current skill level then it didn't challenge you. A challenge is something you CAN'T already do. I found the first form easy, the second form moderatly hard (essentially I had to get it's weird dashes to form a circle of sorts around the place so I could avoid it, and I think that's the way it's meant to be done, because once I did that I took very little damage unless I screwed up in leading it around). Third form was VERY hard until one time I got VERY angry and just jumped up on the ladder and shot it directly point blank in the face (it was right there) over and over and over again, and with it so close I could pound out missles as fast as I could press the button. It took a long enough time creeping towards me that I actually managed to kill the thing right then and there. That's been my method ever since (though I now realize getting it to do the slow creep towards you think at just the right leve so you can shoot it is a challenge). VERY hard at first, but methods for making it easy to beat exist once you experiment a litte. That's the way I like 'em. I also loved the end boss of JFG for the same reason (perfected jumping over beams in a timed fasion in that battle :D).
Anyway, I loved the difficulty of Nightmare. That thing was VERY hard, but it wasn't random hard (the kind I hate), and it all depeneded on sheer skill. I thought it WAS the good kind of hard. If you could beat it already at your current skill level then it didn't challenge you. A challenge is something you CAN'T already do. I found the first form easy, the second form moderatly hard (essentially I had to get it's weird dashes to form a circle of sorts around the place so I could avoid it, and I think that's the way it's meant to be done, because once I did that I took very little damage unless I screwed up in leading it around). Third form was VERY hard until one time I got VERY angry and just jumped up on the ladder and shot it directly point blank in the face (it was right there) over and over and over again, and with it so close I could pound out missles as fast as I could press the button. It took a long enough time creeping towards me that I actually managed to kill the thing right then and there. That's been my method ever since (though I now realize getting it to do the slow creep towards you think at just the right leve so you can shoot it is a challenge). VERY hard at first, but methods for making it easy to beat exist once you experiment a litte. That's the way I like 'em. I also loved the end boss of JFG for the same reason (perfected jumping over beams in a timed fasion in that battle :D).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)