You know what I didn't like about Trauma Center: Under The Knife? - by <Username>
<Username> on 4/8/2008 at 15:57
The seriously unbalanced difficulty curve. Sometimes it just takes a bit of skill and concentration to complete an operation. Sometimes things get so ridiculously difficult you have to repeat a single operation for 30 times of even more often before you finally get lucky. And you before that, you always fail in the last seconds of a five to ten minute long procedure. Rinse and repeat. The experience of this is about as enjoyable as getting stabbed repeatedly in the gut with a rusty scalpel.
It took me more than fifty retries to finally beat the second-to-last operation in the game and - of course - I finished the last one on the first try. This lack of balancing is the poisoned and mortal wound of the game. It drains all enjoyment out of an otherwise interesting concept.
Koki on 4/8/2008 at 16:29
It's an Atlus game where you can't grind forever to make your character better, duh.
Also you goddamn handheld kids, I was ripping people's insides out back on Amiga in Life and Death without any hot nurses around or even a storyline
Rogue Keeper on 4/8/2008 at 16:33
Quote Posted by Koki
Life and Death
That was good, at least the second one.
The_Raven on 4/8/2008 at 17:52
You didn't play Operation, Koki?
<Username> on 4/8/2008 at 23:07
Quote Posted by Koki
It's an Atlus game where you can't grind forever to make your character better, duh.
So how does that work out in your brain, responding to a post adressing a balancing issue with a worthless snide remark about an entirely unrelated subject? I'm curious, really. :D
Quote:
I was ripping people's insides out back on Amiga in Life and Death without any hot nurses around or even a storyline
You don't remember Life and Death that well, obviously.
Inline Image:
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3440/lifeanddeath02sm9.pngI'm engaged in a pointless internet argument, weeeee!
Koki on 5/8/2008 at 05:12
Quote Posted by <Username>
So how does that work out in your brain, responding to a post adressing a balancing issue with a worthless snide remark about an entirely unrelated subject? I'm curious, really. :D
It's an Atlus game. Atlus games are defeated by having twice the level your opponent has. You can't level in TC. So there.
And redheads ain't hot. Assuming she's a redhead, hard to say on 16 color palette
DaBeast on 5/8/2008 at 05:22
Quote Posted by Koki
It's an Atlus game. Atlus games are defeated by having twice the level your opponent has. You can't level in TC. So there.
And
redheads ain't hot. Assuming she's a redhead, hard to say on 16 color palette
I couldn't disagree more.
<Username> on 5/8/2008 at 07:40
I'm so glad Koki derailed this thread because otherwise I wouldn't have stumbled upon this screenshot from Life and Death 2.
Inline Image:
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/1771/lifeanddeath2mj0.jpgIn this game, after you fail during an operation and you patient dies, you get this animated screen of the crew eating pizza next to the corpse. Wait a minute, why are they eating next to a dead guy? I wish Trauma Center had displayed this kind of creativity once in a while.
Rogue Keeper on 5/8/2008 at 07:47
Medicine students do worse things in autopsy rooms.
