More positive death messages, please?

[Star]

Risk of Rain is a rogue-like; a game in which you repeatedly die trying to do the same thing. You are meant to try again over and over until you finally succeed. Then why does the game seem to be trying to discourage me from playing it? Every time I die I'm met with a message such as "That was all you fault...", "They will surely feast on your flesh..." or simply "rekt". Unfair deaths where your health can go from 614 to 0 in a millisecond, a repetitive and creepy soundtrack and these messages create the pefect combination to cause my motivation levels to go down faster than Shaun Murray's twitter activity. Could we please have some better death messages that encourage you to keep playing like "Better luck next time." or "Practice makes perfect!"?



Note: Every time I post an idea on Steam discussions I always get insane amounts of backlash, if I get backlash for trying to give people positive motivation I am honestly going to be dissapointed in humanity.

[JamieCakes]

well i agree. but its like extrem sarcasem right?!?!

[Star]

Originally posted by Jakeducake:

well i agree. but its like extrem sarcasem right?!?!

It's not sarcasm, I'm being serious, we need more positive death messages.

[JamieCakes]

no im just saying thats probs what its ment to be also most game like that have that sort of death msg's

[Star]

Originally posted by Jakeducake:

no im just saying thats probs what its ment to be also most game like that have that sort of death msg's

I know, but I haven't seen any game with messages THIS soul-shattering.

[JamieCakes]

sigh you know if you go into the game folders you can change them to things like "dont give up :D" or "dont get salty little Phantom"

[JamieCakes]

also you have the lest stable state of motavation ever its just a game dude your suposed to die

[Buffer]

Everyone's entitled to feel differently to something, but I don't feel the messages are negative at all. The messages are not serious, they're meant to be comical.

Another perspective, and this is more likely the truth, is that the death messages are being said by the final boss, not by the game. Note how the difficulty ranges from easy to "I SEE YOU" etc. It matches the death messages. So when you read "rekt," that's what the final boss is telling you. And it would be weird to have a villain say, "practice makes perfect."

I can't imagine how you'd fare if you played CS:GO or Dota 2 where players in your own team are so abusive and critical whenever you fail.

[Poznak]

how about you stop being a ♥♥♥♥♥

[Gold♥Shield]

If you can't understand why you're getting backlash, then maybe you should stop posting ideas. If you honestly get upset by the death messages, maybe you should be curled up inside a safe house with some coloring books and crayons.

[Poznak]

Originally posted by Gold♥Shield:

If you can't understand why you're getting backlash, then maybe you should stop posting ideas. If you honestly get upset by the death messages, maybe you should be curled up inside a safe house with some coloring books and crayons.

true though

[JamieCakes]

ok guys dont get too mean :D but i agree with Dapt the most

[Star]

At this point the replies I'm getting have started to feel funny rather than irritating, somebody should make a youtube series where they just browse the Steam discussions. I have seen Tumblr, DeviantArt, 4chan and have played DOTA, CS:GO and League of Legends, I haven't seen this much concentrated cancer in any of them, EVEN TUMBLR AND 4CHAN. I probably should stop posting though, I want to discuss my ideas with respectable people, not redbull and marijuana fueled college students looking for people to roast.

[immunoblocker]

hey mate just don't react to bad messages like "rekt" and everything else. I've played like 50+ hours and I don't feel offended of messages, balance is the thing that offends (you're like shooting 500+ arrows at laughing enemy's face playing as huntress and damaging him as much as a mosquito or a cockroach, and there are many things like this), it deserves to be improved more than offensive death messages, don't you think. and don't play more than 2 rounds (2 deaths, not levels), it should reduce your stress playing the game. helped me a lot to play stressful and frustration generating games.

[Skrt Skrt]

lol dont play if it makes you feel bad. It sure dosnt affect me or most of the other players

[Bordan]

lul git gud. Also I doubt devs would come back to a game they stopped updating just to add some new death messages.