Progression arc in this game is unbalanced.

[76561198046838937]

Not sure why this game is so overwhelmingly received. The game is fine if everything is going according to plan. You could spend hours building up your house, progressing through the different weapons and looting more stuff. However there are occassions where you can lose all your best gear in an area far from your home thats difficult to get to. You die, re-gear up with lower tier gear to get all your stuff back from before. You end up dying again.

Now you're at a point where you literally have nothing but a huge house (which is kind of redundant at this point since all you have to your name is copper starter gear). There's supposedly so much content in the game, I don't see why it needs to be padded with repetitive stuff like collecting everything all over again

Maybe it's different in co-op, but in single player progression is hit or miss.

[just.nuke.em]

Stop playing medium core if you can't handle it.

[Jourvence]

+1

[The_Technomancer]

Craft extra armors and keep extra weapons around just in case or change to softcore.

[Saver Sigonith]

Originally posted by just.nuke.em:

Stop playing medium core if you can't handle it.

Exactly that.
The game expects to be played in softcore the first time around - and if you don't enjoy harsh penalties for mistakes I don't recommend medium or hardcore at all. They're just to give the game a more rogue-like element, offering different playstyles for different people!

And remember, you not enjoying the genre isn't the same as the game being bad! :P

[jonasaboo]

Then maybe this game isn't for you.

[AI Sin || SinNoAria]

Definitely not something I'd consider a real reason to not give a positive review. There are multiple difficulty options and one of those options makes things much easier.

Believe me, your issue is fairly minor in comparison to some of the potential issues. A worm raid on your home (I ended up building some crazy stuff in the vita version of the game) being a fun one in the semi-early game.

Probably the thing that irritates me the most is that you basically need the wiki up all the time until you have basically everything memorized, but updates exist so...

[Boboscus]

Originally posted by SinNoAria/Arkia/AI Sin:

Probably the thing that irritates me the most is that you basically need the wiki up all the time until you have basically everything memorized, but updates exist so...

You don't need the wiki since guide tells you about every craftable item if you show him the materials.