The SURVIVAL game challenge thing

So, here is how that works :

1) Pick a game. 2) The game characters are Killed Off for Real. 3) Game Over means restart everything.

It would be like a good challenge for a RPG or something. So, ready ?

World Of Warcraft.

Silent Hunter III, at 100-percent realism. Even with realism dialed down to 45 percent (no, I don't want the preiscope to be rocking all over the place while I peer through it, lest I vomit all over my keyboard; and other things), I usually die in '43 sometime. Dead is dead, restart in '39 at the eve of the war.

Restart everything? That's not realistic enough. Once you die, you have to burn the disk. Either that or tie it to a balloon and let it float up to heaven.

Ghost Recon 2 highest dificulty setting, can´t reuse dead squad members, can´t load saved games,dying means new campaign.MY RESULT:Ragequitting at the Welcome to Juarez mission.

Semi joke,World of tanks, you cant reuse any tank that is destroyed in battle,nor you can reuse any dead crew members and you have to start from tier 1.

Heh. Shaiya on hard mode. MMORPG with insane level grinding AND permadeath.

edited 11th Jul '11 4:32:30 PM by Recon5

Are we accounting for allowing saving and reloading or deletion of saves on failure?

Most roguelikes could be like this although some allow for rezzing of party members through magical means instead of plain DEAD.

edited 11th Jul '11 4:35:43 PM by stevebat

Deus Ex would be a good choice. If you're careful, the game has very little in the way of things that will just suddenly kill you out of nowhere. There's also many places in the game where not saving a character or screwing something up will have consequences later.

If you're good, try Halo on Normal mode. Not Heroic or Legendary, I don't care if you think you're the John Wayne of video gaming, you will die at least once on Heroic. Even on Easy I think I died of something stupid (falling off a cliff or something.)

Well Fire Emblem took that idea and ran with it.

And Pokemon people do this all the time, either by making it so if a Pokemon faints, they have to set it free, or they restrict themselves to only six Pokemon for the entire game.