One Life - A Perma-Permadeath game

Apparently it's a post apoc survival game meant to perfectly simulate reality, the catch is that when your character dies. That's it, you can't ever play the game ever again. It's apparently going to be 10 bucks on Steam.

Thoughts?

I've seen the gimmick before, but i didn't have to pay for it.

That is a good way to make people turn away from your game. When you go in blind in these kind of games you are guaranteed to die early and you learn from your mistakes when you fuck up.

As the troper above said, I have seen the gimmick before in free games and in most of those dying is not exactly easy.

edited 25th Oct '15 9:45:06 AM by YoKab

I am thinking the same thing myself.

Didn't people learn from that experimental failure The Flock? A game's kind of useless if you can only play it once, and the Flock's permanent game-over mechanic wasn't nearly as draconian as this.

Dumb gimmick.

So it's an extreme take on the Roguelike genre? I don't see the appeal of buying a game you can only play once ever though.

They did mention that it'd be difficult to die here as well, for there are options to spare the player you defeated rather than kill them outright, making them work for you to make up for their loss, and choose where you can spawn so that you wouldn't get spawn killed.

Wait, "ever again"?

Can't you like start from scratch after dying? When you're dead, you're dead?

Yeah, good luck getting people to play that game in a world that's accustomed to continues and extra lives.

In multiplayer survival games most strangers are paranoid and will just go for the kill option either due to the virtual paranoia or trolling. Besides, choosing spawn points does not mean you will not die early.

This game will be Dying On Arrival.

Yeah, let's not forget people are assholes and in Day Z can kill you in slow ways.

So I get the feeling that this game will not be too popular.

If permadeath were handled on a per-character basis, with someone needing to roll up a new person with new stats every time they bite it, then okay- that has potential to be interesting. But this?

Absolutely. Dead on arrival.

edited 25th Oct '15 9:59:13 AM by Gault

Perhaps if survival was a contest and there was a prize or at least a leaderboard, this could work. But one of those survival-sandbox-MMOs?

Seriously, there will be teams of assholes camping the starting point just to LOLZ over making you waste $10 for 10 seconds of "gameplay".

Wow that's a dollar a second!

A game like that isn't even worth ten cents.

Can't you just uninstall and reinstall the game?

I think it works like Permaban. Fight. Die. Get permanently banned with your account.

It was only a matter of time before someone tried the gimmick at this level.

I don't think it will work, but I admire the ballsiness of the developers.

This is extremely weird. I'm reminded of those "BreaKeys" things mentioned on Toys.

$10 seems like a lot for a game like that.

Actively buying the game at all seems like a lot for a game like that.

Yeah, exactly.

edited 25th Oct '15 8:22:14 PM by SapphireBlue

Jim Sterling did a video on the trailer. According to an FAQ, it suggests thqt you'll have a secure base to start at, which is very different from the usual "start with nothing in the middle of nowhere" format.

The devs said that if you die right after starting the game, it's because you asked for it. Guess we'll see. Because you really can't underestimate the lengths online gamers will go to to piss strangers off.

edited 26th Oct '15 1:08:06 AM by Rotpar

So this is You Only Live Once: The FPS?

(Yep, this idea is Older Than They Think. On a flash game no less.)

This is a concept I've seen a few times before, but they were free, single-player, and making some kind of point

To do this in the age of steam refunds is pretty funny.

and a little stupid. I can't wait to see the devs inevitable breakdown of "People not understanding art" and "People playing the game wrong"