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So I'm ambling my way through the prologue of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. I come across a room that looks like any other. Suddenly I'm greeted with a pop-up!
In this room, it says with great dramatic emphasis, is an OPTIONAL beast that you can fight IF YOU WANT TO. Well... of course I want to fight it, lol. Dur. But, er, thanks for the warning? I guess?. The game will have several of these types of encounters THAT ARE ALL ENTIRELY OPTIONAL!!! Well, ok, wow, never had a game spell it out like that before, but it's still in the more tutorial section of the game, so I guess it kinda makes sense.
Anyway, of course, I die like a trooper to it several times before thinking eff this for now and get on with the game.
After rooting through the maze a bit longer I acquire some items which look like they are specifically placed as tools to aid in Water Elemental killing. Awesome.
I go back to the Elemental and die a load more times until I finally put all the necessary pieces into place and it dies in a couple of rounds.
Oooooo, the Achievement pop-up emerges at the bottom right of my screen! I've done something worthy of note it seems:
Only 7.8% of players are even playing on 'normal' (AKA Core) (official normal is actually significantly non-normal easier mode) difficulty and were motivated to kill the Water Elemental?
No, wait. It's actually less than 7.8% of players playing on Core, because a lot of those 7.8% will be playing on versions 'harder' than core, or what one might describe as hard-core.
Ah, but then perhaps many are playing a custom difficulty which is basically the same as core but classified as not-core for the sake of achievement triggering.
But then a lot of that 7.8% will just be people killing the Elemental on Core to get the achievement because they know that's how they get the achievement and are likely following a guide for it.
So, let's say maybe 4% or 5% of players were happy to just click Core difficulty and play the game and just do the routine business on a typical RPG monster?
Maybe 4 or 5 per 100 people played the game in the same mindset as myself.
I guess people normally boast or feel aggrandised when they get 'rarer' achievements like this. I dunno, when I saw this as my first achievement it just kinda made me feel small and irrelevant...
And perhaps a little depressed
I've no idea what the rest of the game is like, but, jeez, it baffles me that playing in a way that I would assume was 'normal' is so catastrophically abnormal.
I mean, there are several filters people have to have been sieved through to even start playing Wrath. You would have to be pretty clued up on RPGs generally. It's not like someone would automatically flit from Hogwarts Legacy to Wrath or Zelda to Wrath. The kind of person who would fire up Wrath would most likely be someone who knew what they were getting into, especially as it's the second game in the series, the first already filtering out the majority who more definitely wouldn't like the game.
And yet, even then, after all that filtering, it's still just 4 or 5 people out of a hundred that felt ok to just click Core and bother to figure out how to kill a monster?
TLDR:
What was your experience of The Water Elemental?
In this room, it says with great dramatic emphasis, is an OPTIONAL beast that you can fight IF YOU WANT TO. Well... of course I want to fight it, lol. Dur. But, er, thanks for the warning? I guess?. The game will have several of these types of encounters THAT ARE ALL ENTIRELY OPTIONAL!!! Well, ok, wow, never had a game spell it out like that before, but it's still in the more tutorial section of the game, so I guess it kinda makes sense.
Anyway, of course, I die like a trooper to it several times before thinking eff this for now and get on with the game.
After rooting through the maze a bit longer I acquire some items which look like they are specifically placed as tools to aid in Water Elemental killing. Awesome.
I go back to the Elemental and die a load more times until I finally put all the necessary pieces into place and it dies in a couple of rounds.
Oooooo, the Achievement pop-up emerges at the bottom right of my screen! I've done something worthy of note it seems:
Only 7.8% of players are even playing on 'normal' (AKA Core) (official normal is actually significantly non-normal easier mode) difficulty and were motivated to kill the Water Elemental?
No, wait. It's actually less than 7.8% of players playing on Core, because a lot of those 7.8% will be playing on versions 'harder' than core, or what one might describe as hard-core.
Ah, but then perhaps many are playing a custom difficulty which is basically the same as core but classified as not-core for the sake of achievement triggering.
But then a lot of that 7.8% will just be people killing the Elemental on Core to get the achievement because they know that's how they get the achievement and are likely following a guide for it.
So, let's say maybe 4% or 5% of players were happy to just click Core difficulty and play the game and just do the routine business on a typical RPG monster?
Maybe 4 or 5 per 100 people played the game in the same mindset as myself.
I guess people normally boast or feel aggrandised when they get 'rarer' achievements like this. I dunno, when I saw this as my first achievement it just kinda made me feel small and irrelevant...
And perhaps a little depressed
I've no idea what the rest of the game is like, but, jeez, it baffles me that playing in a way that I would assume was 'normal' is so catastrophically abnormal.
I mean, there are several filters people have to have been sieved through to even start playing Wrath. You would have to be pretty clued up on RPGs generally. It's not like someone would automatically flit from Hogwarts Legacy to Wrath or Zelda to Wrath. The kind of person who would fire up Wrath would most likely be someone who knew what they were getting into, especially as it's the second game in the series, the first already filtering out the majority who more definitely wouldn't like the game.
And yet, even then, after all that filtering, it's still just 4 or 5 people out of a hundred that felt ok to just click Core and bother to figure out how to kill a monster?
TLDR:
What was your experience of The Water Elemental?
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