Techokami

thumb-up this person's existing issue if you care about this too i guess. doesn't seem like many people do
https://git.srb2.org/KartKrew/RingRacers/-/issues/40
watching someone play the special stages was what pushed me over the edge into actually wanting to bother learning this game, and i'm quite disillusioned with 1. knowing that the cool part of the game is intentionally gatekept and 2. the idea of having to deal with the inevitable "but what about the people without the wrist hurt disease who already unlocked things in hard mode, haven't you thought about their feelings" and i am simply too tired for another lap on mr. bones' wild ride

#drrr #dr. robotnik's ring racers

liffy 💜@lifning5/25/2024, 1:48 AM

the issue was closed with no comment.

edit: all the suggestion issues were closed without comment https://mb.srb2.org/threads/ring-racers-suggestions.41815/

#drrr

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Mr. Encyclopedia @mrencyclopedia5/13/2024, 11:59 AM

There were a few games back in the day (Panic on Funkotron and one of the Tiny Toons games comes to mind) that intentionally truncated the game when you played it on easy mode. They were like "Well that's it for easy mode. Now go back and play it on normal for the actual game!" It annoyed me as a kid and it annoys me now. I wanted less of a challenge, not less of a game.

liffy 💜@lifning5/13/2024, 4:08 PM

sonic frontiers even did this shit - abruptly skipping a final-final boss (and lore dump) unless you were on hard mode for the final titan fight. at least there you could bump the difficulty setting up right at the end and still play the rest of the game as normal

@rypofalem5/15/2024, 7:25 AM

It's pretty wild to lock the special stages behind the difficulty, especially strange since in 2.2 they renamed the difficulties to encourage players to adjust to lower difficulties if needed. I take that as a sign this may change though :)

Also annoys me a bit that cpu difficulty is tied up in the kart speed. I wouldn't mind lower cpu difficulty sometimes but gear 1 is unsatisfying slow to me. Anyway I thumbs up'd the issue thanks for bringing that up!

(edit: Now that I think about it I wonder how viable the special stages are in gear1 as-is. I know there are sections where you need some speed to progress and I've failed in gear 2 to make some jumps unless I used rings or boosted)

liffy 💜@lifning5/15/2024, 4:35 PM

yeah i think I'd want to bump up the speed to gear 2 for (at least) that. maybe the actual answer is make the CPUs behave like relaxed on intense

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invertigo hayfever @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi5/25/2024, 1:51 AM

So like I must be the only online sonic fan not playing this game but I take it from the sounds of things this is some MKDS snaking kind of thing?

liffy 💜@lifning5/25/2024, 1:55 AM

sorta, but more sophisticated and not accidental. the game just requires a decent amount of APM and has demanding score requirements for letting you do the neat emerald-chasing special stages that gate unlock progress past a certain point.

invertigo hayfever @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi5/25/2024, 1:59 AM

OK yeah all signs point to me finding this game incredibly annoying if I actually do try to play it

liffy 💜@lifning5/25/2024, 2:03 AM

it's a shame because clearly a lot of heart was put into it by a lot of people, only to be ruined by baking casual ableism into the difficulty settings like it's 2017 again

Techokami @techokami5/25/2024, 4:38 AM

You're not the only one, I'm not playing it because of all this stuff like lifning's posts that I'm hearing about on other parts of the Internet. Sounds like something that would just frustrate me to no end.

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