Playtesters

thesuperkillerxxx · Post by **thesuperkillerxxx** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:45 pm

a slight spin-off of the Ibara port thread.

people complaining about difficulty and poor balance!

Do these companies have the ninja playtesters that are ungodly good at the game test it before the location tests, or do they tweak it afterwards when it is obviously not for humans?

For them (cave) to release a game that is not balanced doesn't make sense to me. If it is just hard, fine, give people time to get better at it. If you are making a game difficult just to be difficult, and your play testers can't get throught it, then that is just dumb.

Please discuss, because I need a better understanding!

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:54 pm

For figthing games, yes. For shooters, they usually just come up w/ the game, have a few location tests, read players feedback, and then make tweaks if they deem necessary.

MOSQUITO FIGHTER · Post by **MOSQUITO FIGHTER** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:24 pm

Surely Ibara is not impossible. To compare Battle Garega is no pushover either. Only 2 people have an all clear on the Battle Garega high score charts here even though the game is older and has four pages of scores submitted.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:07 pm

One word: Hibachi. Hibachi on DOJ.
Uh, and don't forget Doom...

Who decide that this stuff is possible to do?