Playing in hardcore mode

Been there done that. Completely real feeling.

It's happened, once.
I learned after that...
HC with FF are still my favorite modes.

I've felt that. You switch of your game, lay on your bed and stare at the ceiling for 10 minutes. Then the full anger hits and you scream.

you don't actually show it case showing it would imply storming the devs servers with an iron mace and slay everyone lol

cause*

That's the truly terrifying kind of furious. The furious where you have the most pure lucidity ever. That's when s*** happens. 😂

But that's kind alike real life isn't it. Things are going great then "Mind The Bus".

I took Rowan’s smirk at the end to denote, “wow, I actually feel something again”

Yeah, not for me. If I'm really pissed, I'd be swearing so hard I'd auto-switch to my mother tongue because English isn't sufficient enough. And I'd still have a sore throat 3 hours later.
Same for celebrating tbh. I lost my voice for a while after I finally managed to survive Radahn.

@@akechijubeimitsuhide If I'm truly furious at a game, usually a FromSoftware game where I've permanently lost a ton of souls/blood echoes/runes, then I get very calm just so as not to damage something. I do swear a lot when gaming in general, so when I go quiet and just save and quit the game then I'm usually absolutely furious about whatever happened.
Yelling myself hoarse because I beat a tough boss is what I did when I finally killed the Nameless King in DS3. It also happened with I killed Mohg at level 79 with a fucked up elbow (I broke it and it didn't get fixed for 8 weeks thanks to worker's comp being the slowest thing ever) without the shackle and without a maxed out weapon or mimic tear (I did have his purification tear though). It still was the most fun I've had in Elden Ring.

Could you not just beat the world record by walling yourself off and just afk, with some food source at hand ?

@@alexgac1801 Traditionally, creepers are generated randomly as well as spawn points, to defeat that.

Imagine if i was in hardcore milions of blocks from spawn kills a warden and did all possible things and dies from a glitch

That also reminds me, Ph1lza 5 year long Minecraft world was ended by a baby zombie.

Yeah but he died to his own stupidity by wearing an elytra in a cave.

Creepers.
In hard core Minecraft, blast protection is much more important.
But they still get me. Somehow.
Maybe from above, maybe just around a "safe" corner.

Boulders gate 3 game crash actually save my honour mode run, ambushed, 5 cries in a row and was out of healing potions for my 2 front liners was not a great combo

This is basically most Zomboid runs: you fight and survive the big hordes, just to get bitten and infected by a stray lone zombie.

Unless its PoE/D4/etc where you get 1 shot from a trash mob because they only know how to make enemy dmg broken as difficulty goes up.

Or doing something dumn like falling when building your base in a survival game.

Indeed.

Disbelief

disbelief*

​@@MicovskiMC yeah, I remembered the correct word later 🤷‍♂

Top notch

I love Ironman/Hardcore/CommitmentMode games. It makes things like Hollow Knight, X-Com and Rimworld have an extra level of whew. But PoE? Diablo 3? Fuck off! :D

@@Buggaton Ahh those diablo 3 memories. I wanted to enjoy hardcore so much but i kept losing characters to lag spikes from the servers or full disconnections untill i eventually gave up. If a game is going to be online it would be nice to have a system in place to recover your character if your death was caused by the server.

Like losing in a battle Royale because someone in the lobby has shit internet which makes anyone near them lag so u die to total bs because someone has McDonald's wifi

Yup, exactly. There is a layer there where it's not about the game at all...

This is so... outrageous...

The calm fury......... Speechless, broken, and too angry to show it.

@@shipso6116 felt that hard, man. i’m not sure if most of the comments are missing the point, or if some of us need to lay off the existential dread 🥲

Yeah, I was expecting the bandits to be higher level than they were prepared to fight. But a dumb thing like lag makes more sense for the point of the sketch. Died for reasons beyond your control.

Just when they got their dream equipment, to rub extra salt in the wound 🤣

Imagine if the bandits picked up the gear, equipped it and you could meet them again in new game. You'll get one chance to take back everything you got, so you're gonna have to do it carefully. That would be the ultimate revenge.

@@faolan2174 I was expecting them to just be too confident, just to get their shit rocked by being stun locked repeatedly.

100 % agreed, armour was really sick too, especially Rowan's. And that effin DRAGON! Production quality is like whoah

this is Path of Exile HC experience..
going going going.. LAG anndd,.. DEAD

Cause Ben is a great actor actually!!

It would have been nice to jump to them at their computers raging like that German kid from all those years ago. Then Ben could be looking to buy an indestructible keyboard or cash in on the warrantee for the one he just smashed in an episode of Bored.

That poor German kid. He was relatively well known in Germany for his humor and mockery of gaming stereotypes (like the anger), but when he went big nobody got the memo that it was all a sketch.

Back in the day my old group would organize PVP tourneys in hardcore where we played with characters on level 9. Winner got all the loot. That was pretty fun, but beside that I could never imagine playing that, because of all the broken mechanics the old Diablo 2 had.

I sympathize, I also played it hardcore, finally got a high level character, only to lose him to a lag spike against scrubs 😒

I would never play HC in diablo because I always used to die to lightning enhanced monsters.

bruh, hardcore on single player offline game is so different from the online game ...

He was just remembering the entire session and processing it. - When gaming is life, you need to mourn at some point.

I didn't even catch that, thanks for pointing it out 😂

Great acting.

Hardcore minecraft aint that hard, i can survive for 100 days without even trying.

But Ben has been in some really powerful and great videos raising awareness about depression. Especially connecting it to and making really relatable and emotional for gamers. An amazing actor for sure!

My world ended because my screen froze while I was in water. Came back in and it was the spectate screen…

​@@lucazeroblueversion9346 Careful! , we got a badass on our hands. Do really need the approval so badly? That's sad

That's cuz Ben's an alpha, that's y him n Rowan clash, two Alphas always clash, except when they're on a team, fckin LOVE the mugger skits😅😅

Then, 2 months later, you've forgotten how it felt to lose the character and want to try it again, because the high you get from escaping death in hardcore is too addicting...

Been there done that.

Free cell has never let us down. Free cell is always with us.

I've died hundreds of times in hardcore mode on many different games, but never stopped playing the games because I died in hardcore mode... even after dying from game bugs\lag. Those who completely give up after dying on hardcore are just weak simps.

@@NTJedi Waow, what a tough guy you are. Impressive!
Do you also tie your own shoelaces or is that next level?
Seriously though, it sounds like you need to get out more.
... What a weird thing to brag about...

They're done by Wyrmwick Creations, awesome prop maker. Kinda pricey but very good quality. It forced me to get back into shape to fit into their armors.

You mean their armour? A coat of arms is a family crest, a symbolic design originally designed to establish identity in battle. Neither of them were displaying one.

@@rei-rei nah mate, a coat of arms is a coat made entirely out of the arms of your defeated enemies. it's right there in the name.

Loved the crossed-wing design on Ben's breastplate.

@@ShuRugal Can't believe he didn't see that when it is clearly in the name. People these days, I swear...

Sleep, Sleep, Bubble Pop! *Greg Stands Traumatised*

I was beginning to think I was the only one who saw it!!

I just stopped playing MW3 Zombies mode for a week because the game crashed on me 4 times in a row. Ended up playing Cold War to get my mind back together 😂😂

When player deaths actually make the NPCs stronger, that's a scary Idea. We also know how people will handle that.

there were mugging em really good.

​@@OmniscientWarrior Ahhhh the Nemesis system from the Shadow of Mordor series.

They just need the Skull of Rahul"

Meh not sure how powerful that sword was but that bow hit that bandit didn't kill him heck it didn't even faze him he just pulled the arrow out and was completely un affected by the fact he just got shot so that bow didn't seem that effective dude should have even got a stealth crit from that hit as enemy was unaware

FYI same result when you log off during battle.

There's probably a logoff timer where if they logoff during combat they stay around for a few minutes so they're dead anyway.

​@@Raynsidewayswhich is such bullshit. If it's not PvP there shouldn't be one.

Improvised? How do you know that, I'm just curious?

​@@seraphimaschannel4001they literally told us at the end of the video.. 😂

@@ndm5354 ah, thanks. I had skipped the end xD

So dark souls

​@@alessandromattioli8937 dark souls kills cockiness in the first hour of play thru 😂

In my experience it’s like: no cocky until that boss kills you with 6% hp left, and then you can’t get it below 87%

The old Diablo games were notorious for this mode

This is true 13 years ago I couldn’t get past Taurus demon ( only played games on easy mode and thought I was good) put the game down and never played again until a few years ago finished 3 runs of ds 1 ,1 run of ds2 , 1 run of bb , And 4 Elden ring runs with my last ring run being 8.5 hours

True, in diablo 4 I had a level 50 hardcore go into a dungeon and the game kicked me out. When I got into the character select, it said he was dead. That's when I stopped playing that diablo 4.

Yeah I really felt Ben's "I'm going to need some time." The sheer sorrow in those words with the underlying rage is just so relatable.

Indeed. I'd be fine with "You died, you can't play that character for a month." Then it's still "oh this is garbage" BUT... not a complete loss.

I've never really liked those kinds of game modes (except sometimes in roguelikes where the entire game is specifically designed around it) - the problem I have with it is that 99% of the time the optimal strategies that minimize your chance of dying are just.. unbelievably boring. I mean, yeah, I could play a game in a way that's safe and I never die.. but it turns the game into such a tedious slog that I just completely lose interest in playing the game. It discourages you from fighting difficult fights, and when you do have to fight anything that should've been difficult it often devolves to kiting them for ages or running away as soon as you take any damage at all and then healing.. and the worst part is that you're incentivized to play that way even against trash mobs, not just against bosses. it's just boring playing that way, but if I were trying to minimize my chances of dying then that's how I would play.

Thatr's what the esc button is for...

​@@ExpatZ266right? I get so bored when games have no stakes. They feel so much more grindy.

​@@asdfqwerty14587 ever try the long dark? Permadeath is one of the core mechanics.
I just find the lack of any real stakes just boring. Like "oh no I might lose fifteen minutes of progress"

Oh heck no, first time you go hardcore, you play your best class! You want to know ALL the tricks, boosts, etc.

Big bang attack

4⭐

G.D. Nappa

"Bent and broken beneath an unconscious naked child, yep I'm done here"
😂

TFS ...the legend that never dies.....

Why anger though? Why are so many gamers so angry? You win some, you lose some

@@Hirotoro4692what a dumb question. Why would you be angry? After losing literal hundreds of hours of effort just for something bullshit and out of your control ruins all the progress you’ve made for nothing?

@@collinanderson2720 Accounting for lag is part of the hardcore experience. You intentionally over-gear so that a lag-spike won't kill you.

@@Reelix I’m not talking lag there’s game breaking glitches, corrupt Dave files
Tons of stuff

@@Reelix Every game has bullshit. Maybe an enemy randomly does 100x more damage than he's supposed to because of some weird bit of spaghetti code no one noticed before release. Maybe a chunk of the map doesn't have the collision it's supposed to, and so you fall through solid ground into an empty void. There's always stuff like that to break you no matter what you do

When you're so mad, it buffer overflows to calmness.. for about 5 minutes. I've felt that feel.

That film was sooooo bad, worst one in the series by far. It does such a disservice to the book.

@@LuMnOsITi I think you might be multitabbing comments and dropped one in the wrong tab there mate :)

@@Zymynca Nah let's all go along with the comment, pretending nothing is out of place and create a story for this horrible film we actually know nothing about.

@@LuMnOsITi I know dude! When they changed it from the zombie train conductor actually being intelligent and behind the whole thing to it instead being the whole train that was an intelligent zombie? Like seriously WTF?!?! Who comes up with stuff like that?

video itself didn't do it for me, I had to read "flashbacks of Diablo" for those suppressed brain cells to kick in and remember the PAIN of what happened to my poor Wizard....

@@ZymyncaSome of us bury our pain deep down to go on as gamers lol

That's how it goes. I've died so many times playing The Long Dark from the simplest things; getting lost in the fog, freezing in my sleep, forgetting to treat an infection. Always leaves me a little shocked.
Although dieing from an enemy is do damn intense!

I remember my seamoth going behind textures when i went out to get alien tablet. I just stared in disbelief until i run out of oxygen 500 meters deep down.

@@isaaco5679 I died day 92 surrounded with loot when I decided to have a kip under the stars rather than the cave a couple of meters away.

@@benlewis4241 which difficulty do you like? I haven't been brave enough to go past stalker.

​@@zrglow4450This nearly happened to me. I was in the same situation, had just enough oxygen and the little seaglider thing you hold that gives you a boost. I was deeper down too, like 800 metres. Luckily I had all the oxygen tank upgrades and my seaglider to get back to surface fast enough. Just barely, my whole screen was almost black when I surfaced.

I play ironman sometimes but never forced (in-game mechanics), I just don't reload myself. I still want an option to reload if there are bugs or I want to go back to playthrough after a death. I generally don't like any in-game restrictions on saves like save stations or bloody schnapps :-))

​@@alexmashkin863 fair enough. I just get bored with games that don't have a permadeath mechanic.
Although I probably wouldn't play a game like that if it requires an internet connection.

Yeah, I considered it occasionally for stuff like say, XCOM, but.. the amount of time I've had people die due to utter ridiculous bugs or weird stuff is just.. yeah, not worth it. Like enemies just spotting and shooting you through a tiny imperceptible bullet hole in a wall in XCOM2, that you can't see THEM through despite being next to it apparently, but they can apparently see you through and hit you through

And THAT is precisely why I don't play games in hardcore mode. Life can suck bad enough I don't need my games to add to the misery.

@@Nammjahtan 👍 x 1,000

@@Nammjahtan Oddly I find that the seriousness with which hardcore modes have to be handled results in a much more rewarding experience, even in failure. Of course, you have to pick your game- grindy games are garbage in hardcore mode, as are most MMOs.
But I've had more fun playing "Dead is Dead" hardcore mode runs in Skyrim than I ever had playing regular Skyrim.

@@Acidica18Yeah I can understand that. There are a couple roguelikes I've enjoyed like Dead Cells and I am enjoying Helldivers 2 but playing that on higher difficulties is always with friends so the difficulty doesn't matter as at that point I'm just there to hangout. Other than the rare exception it's just not usually my cup of tea.