That moment you die because you fall from the sky as you try to mount the boat.
Or that moment you get stuck in "slow walking to your horse while ghouls hit you to death" because your horse moved 10 feet away from you.
And there is that moment you die because the NVIDIA drivers crashed,
and even tho your screen is frozen - the game is still continuing because the game didn't crash but it will after you are dead (or after 10 seconds or so).
... That special feeling you have after being so careful for 50 hours and you died because NVIDIA driver crashed in middle of a fight and you died because of that.
99.99% of your deaths won't happen because of the aforementioned things.
99.99% of your deaths will occur in battle.
Again, don't worry about people wanting this feature - you aren't losing anything if this feature is available.
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People who dont understand hardcore gaming, will never understand hardcore gaming, and thats ok.
That's not okay when they argue against the feature.
The idea of "I don't like it/won't use it, therefore no one should have it" is ridiculous and selfish.
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I understand it, I just don't want to do it when I've already had my game screen frozen because NVIDIA drivers crashed now 10 times at least and this only need to happen once in a fight. Plus I've also died to several bugs like stuck on walking to horse that ran away and being walking thru nest of ghouls.
Then don't use the feature! It's clearly not for you!
But why argue against it?
I would want the feature, bugs or not.
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You can easily use self control to restart the game anytime you die from a non-bug reason. If you are insane enough to want to do so, that is to say. And no, perma death and wasting hundreds of hours does not make for hardcore gaming. This is an RPG, hardcore gaming on it would be sticking to the character and making all of your decisions as best you can to what he would do even if you suspect or know the outcome will not be pleasant. This isn't a hack and slash.
You can't "easily use self-control" any more than you can hold your hand over a hot stove; anymore than when you decide to take shortcuts through the neighbor's lawn; anymore than you just "can't help yourself" - that expression exists for a reason.
There is no free will, there is just a cost-benefit analysis/programing in the brain that is mostly instantaneous and subconscious. There is absolutely no guarantee that a human being will be able to "easily use self-control" every time they die in the game. There may be a really silly death because you had to sneeze during the fight, so you may think to yourself that that death shouldn't count so you just continue fighting.
We don't put criminals in jail because all they have to say is "I am sorry, I didn't mean to. And I will easily exercise self-control in the future" now do we?
No.
There is a deterrent. And if you commit a heinous crime - you go to prison.
If you die on a permadeath mode - you start from the beginning without the frailty of the human element involved.
Plus, just deleting your saves and starting over is not proof that you had actually beaten the game on permadeath mode.
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