Try Permadeath, You Won't Regret It

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[@TheAnarchySaint]

Ok fuck it i'm trying the new vegas permadeath

[@dopaminerunner3196]

Random powder charge: Hey you are funny! :D (I tried permadeath in fnv)

[@lmpure_4542]

Try it with the jsawyer batty mod, it’s the hardcore mode intended for the og game (atleast by Josh Sawyer)

[@Mira_Zeraora]

Good Luck on Sierra Madre. 🤠

[@GuguMimi]

I tried Dust perma death run once. And it makes me think more than twice before engaging any enemies (And yeah, I died from dehydration after sleep for too long)

[@fur4xx]

That's not that hard and very fun, am saying that from experience

[@Mustacheoro]

My issue with permadeath is that you can just get screwed over by any glitch. I'm not talking playing poorly, being unlucky, or being unprepared. I'm talking something like walking into a stationary car in Fallout 4 and it instantly does over half your HP. Too many games can have your character get stuck and "fall" to death or some such issue for permadeath.

[@TheButterAnvil]

very real concern

[@TheButterAnvil]

another benefit to the lowered difficulty approach. It doesn't fix everything but it can save you from BS

[@aryabratsahoo7474]

@@TheButterAnvil I would prefer permadeath if the gameplay/ loop is short. Kinda like Stalker Anomaly which has short but intense skirmishes. Even then, i would prefer the soulslike mod, which simply respawns you to the last resting point with little to no gear. Permadeath is good for these types of games where repetition and dynamic events is great like Stalker and Bannerlord but its not that great for a static world with static quests like Skyrim or Fallout or any Ubisoft games.

[@Rangernewb5550]

The pain of getting insta-gibbed by a random car in survival mode is too real. Last time that happened I lost 3 hours of progress it took 2 irl years for me to want to try again.

[@Mustacheoro]

@@aryabratsahoo7474 I agree. I like zomboid, but playing for 300 hours for your character to die to a scratch because he decided to close a window instead of climbing through it. (Same button)

[@Generik97]

Project Zomboid is probably one of my favorite perma death games of all time, spending days, weeks or months on a character collecting gear and supplies only to have some misfortune befall you and having to start again is both really frustrating but also kind of fun.

[@jameskirk3817]

I once spent a year making a nice base ingame only for me to trip and fall out a window to my death

[@BevvRatBites]

People call me crazy for playing full on multiplayer permadeath where you die, you get banned. Multiplayer permadeath feels genuinely like a family simulator for those that survive.

[@Generik97]

​@@BevvRatBites That sounds painfully masochist and now I totally want to try it.

[@Rayven_420]

@@BevvRatBites I love the concept of that, imagine the grief of watching someone die who you've survived months with, knowing you'll never see them again

[@BevvRatBites]

I keep trying to invite people to play pz but youtube keeps deleting my comments lol My đìşc kord is just bevvratbites

[@cykablyat3680]

playing in permadeath means that youll fight only the fights where the ods are incredibly well stacked in your favors and any other fights give you a heart attack

[@lukegibson6044]

Just like real life

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Fight or flight instincts giving you death anxiety from a situation that may cause your (virtual) death, appropriate 😅

[@bryanm498]

Or using patience and strategic thinking to do the impossible.

[@johnernest5843]

@@lukegibson6044 What was the quote "In warfare, if you're fighting a fair fight, you're doing something wrong"

[@arminosas]

Fuck Skyrim then on Master or Legendary

[@Para_MimeProductions]

"I CAN'T RUN 'CAUSE MY LEGS ARE BROKEN" Is the most fallout statement ever.

[@ollipylvanen4666]

Permadeath is fun and exciting, until you lose hours and hours of progress because you got flattened by a car, that was flying at mach 2, because a random small debris landed on it, because physics.

[@Desperado070]

Hes cherry picking, he sounds more like a insane person to me

[@TheButterAnvil]

@@Desperado070 im cherry picking the things i recommend? Do you think the point of the video is that permadeath is good in every game and you should always turn it on?

[@Desperado070]

@@TheButterAnvil You can make everything sound good if you cherry pick. You can make everything sound bad if you cherry pick. You got one game with perma dead, real life, go touch some grass if you so into permanent death.

[@drossant2591]

​@@Desperado070bro its not that serious he was just explainging why perma death can make a stale game far more intresting

[@BobY-vl2oj]

@@drossant2591 What is your problem? just like the butthurtanvil? You two are the insane ones here.

[@duuze4853]

Stalker Anomaly has a mode where if you die, you take control of another random member of your faction. That coupled with the dynamic/persistent war mode is a blast. You would enjoy it.

[@Sleazy.e]

War mode works now?

[@akosacs01]

​@@Sleazy.enever will

[@Deadman420]

@@Sleazy.e i mean, no, but it never "worked" to begin with. it's a lot of fun before the issues start creeping in though. and even without war mode on, taking control of a random bandit after my freedom toon dies is jarring and so cool, it's just like "im someone else now, these are my friends now, this is my life now."

[@user-kw6vh2ls3f]

Fallout 4 also has a same mod, great for a zombipoclypse playthru.

[@duuze4853]

@@Deadman420 I couldn't have said it better myself.

[@Mr.Bronze]

This is my favorite thing to do in RPGS. I stopped worrying about beating the game and cared more about roleplaying.

[@happygofishing]

I've always thought that the ability to reload inherently kills any roleplay immersion

[@_PieceOfSheet_]

​@@happygofishing totally, irl you dont have a backup save

[@happyispoetic]

RPG = Role-Playing-Game

[@Mr.Bronze]

@@happyispoetic I previously didn't roleplay in the aptly titled role-playing games.

[@yourstruly5013]

@@_PieceOfSheet_ but irl you don't get to start again either , being more irl does not make a game fun at all , rpg games are stlll very unrealistic in gameplay and limited choice.

[@Elver28]

You lied to me I 100% regret it

[@koboldbiopellet]

The lengths some people will go to in order to not just find a D&D group

[@Goldenbukkit-ep1vi]

Bro even dnd players generally don't like Perma death. There are always so many layers in between player death that it generally just stops mattering. Oh, the party tpk'd? That one dude you did a favor for? He comes and clears the encounter with some op spell for you. I don't think I've ever died in dnd, and I've played with like 10 different groups. The times when people have died was when they wanted to switch characters. That or the dm was pissed at them.

[@finncole2586]

I would do it, but that would put me in a box that would scare the bitches.

[@popothethird1733]

@@Goldenbukkit-ep1vi Tbf that's because modern DnD is less of a game and more just a medium for people to tell stories through, if that makes sense

[@sabojude]

​@@popothethird1733OSR and classic DnD still has the vibe of playing an old school roguelike but as a ttrpg from what I understand.

[@DantePurgatory]

DnD is a bourgeois game in most of the world. You need to pay a DM, and buy the books. Not every city from every country has a DnD scene. Soo most of latin america (for example) just pays the dm. And thats fine... but it means the game cant be played by like 90 percent of the population. It is not that people doesnt want to find a group. It is just that when it comes to choosing betwen eating and DnD. There is no real choice.

[@cookieproductionsistoast]

when you explained how death isnt meant to be a punishment in permadeath but instead a deterrent, and how you should play on a difficulty less than max, I thought of it differently. Might try this in Ghost Recon cause the idea of being scared to die but not easily doing so is a lot more interesting to me than the permadeath max difficulty you cant move or you die perception I had of this before.

[@TheButterAnvil]

Both can be fun, but this has been significantly more rewarding personally

[@jacobobobo4404]

hell yea, very fresh take on it. Usually it's "permadeath is hard, so it should be on hardest difficulty", but video helps present a better idea. Will be gaming this way soon

[@Gnomable]

This was really entertaining! I can see permadeath being a bit too tense for a first playthrough of a game but a lot of fun once you know the game a bit.

[@coreywilson7326]

Not really fun

[@nj7969]

I was going to argue against this. But I didn’t want to die on that hill with permadeath on.

[@Zman6258]

Y'know, usually when youtube decides to recommend some sub-500 view video by a channel with less than a hundred subscribers, it's actual trash or part 300 of some early-access survival game lets play. I'm impressed, this is an actual well-thought-out video essay, which makes salient points and presents its message in an appreciable amount of time without blowing past it too quickly or dragging it on for too long.

[@maestrofeli4259]

or a meme

[@focusedfox7167]

First half describes this video. Second half is simply your delusion. 😂🤡

[@MichaelParktheFirst]

Im playing Ready Or Not in “Ironman Mode” which is permadeath for not only you, but your SWAT team. Man that game comes alive. I had to literally google and read up on modern cqb tactics, and always had to make sure my squad was in an advantageous position in a gunfight. Its actually quite incredible how good the swat ai are when you treat them like a real swat team.

[@TheButterAnvil]

Haven't played in a while, but I wish they weren't so hit or miss. I did permadeath swat 4 a while back, and it was really cool, but sometimes the AI just does really dumb shit and it's infuriating

[@awsomkid3735]

Now do all of that but it's just yourself

[@johnosborne1873]

I'm utterly addicted to GRWL Perma death mode

[@isaacmacqueen9695]

Me too one day I'll have that gold exosuit

[@alexreitler]

​@@isaacmacqueen9695 getting that is just such a crazy grind, you can literally finish the story 3 times and you're still not at Tier 1

[@grav7616]

whats gwrl

[@alexreitler]

@@grav7616 GRWL, Ghost Recon Wildlands

[@isaacmacqueen9695]

@@grav7616 Ghost Recon Wildlands

[@SapphicJadestone]

Project Zomboid was really what got me into permadeath a good few years back and I've had a similar experience with looking to add it into other games. It's genuinely added in that lost satisfaction I was missing from video games as encounters feel so much more rewarding to win. If you want some true masochism and already have an FNV load order, try a Permadeath Fallout DUST

[@neoshenlong]

Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode run was one of my favorite videogame experiences of all time. Even though the latter part of the game was easier than I expected, I was so traumatized by my 15 failed Act 1 runs that I was very careful and thoroughly enjoyed it, aaand the final battle was worth it, I legit thought I would fail my 70 hour run right at the very end like 10 times.

[@milesgordy6389]

the new vegas stories like it’s a real person is quite entertaining

[@Jorg13]

I adore Stalker Anomaly with Ironman and extra lives granted every 2 days. Because some of the main story missions are so unbalanced for an ironman mode, stacking a few extra tries becomes necessary and solves this problem while fear of death is still ever present. I tried Wildlands ghost mode and while I liked it, going through the same areas and missions multiple times started to feel rather boring. On my third try I immediately rushed to outer areas just to switch up the pacing a bit

[@TheButterAnvil]

Might give that a shot!

[@cloudy6256]

There is an old Sega RPG called “The Shining Force” that I used to play all the time. Originally I didn’t know that you could pay the priest to revive your party members so Each time a character died I was genuinely distraught and each time a new party member got added I got really happy. The worst incident was a battle on some random bridge with a freaking laser gun on it (If you know you know)

[@TheButterAnvil]

I don't know but thats awesome

[@ajackxe4891]

Wow, the timing is actually crazy. I just started replaying New Vegas too. Loved the video as always :)

[@GandolfFireDong]

Id watch playthroughs of games with permadeath. Its always something ive been afraid to try but after watching this I wanna give it a go.

[@thomasantrobus8261]

This video is a banger I can’t lie. At times some of my favourite games don’t quite have that magic I remember so this sounds like a great way to inject life into them. Look forward to watching more of your stuff fella!

[@Broox38]

So glad I gave Mirage's permadeath mode a chance, and I was able to find a lot more value in it than expected. It helped me to view several aspects in a different, fresh light and even made engaging with parts I didn't like a lot a first actually fun, as well as further improving immersion and roleplaying. Nice work here Butter!

[@ttthias]

Before this video i always thought permadeath is a way to make games harder, like if super hard became to easy for you. I never considered that it could make the game more fun and im absolutly gonna try it! Thank you for the idea!!!!

[@davidkrapensits4367]

Perma death on wildlands is and was the best thing in that game

[@skitzswaggy]

that part where you were explaining the demise of multiple nv character was so cool video was a banger

[@samson7338]

Man, I love your vids, I have NO idea how you are so underrated

[@justneedforaclip1155]

One of my fav permadeath runs was actually the witcher 2. I got the mad man achievement, went to delete the saves before the last encounter you have, then i accidentally deleted the permadeath save. So i decided to do it again, but with FCR2 mod installed. Talk about difficult but enjoyable and overall still kinda balanced. It definitely made wm think that every fight i was in was going to be my last if I wasnt careful. Love the books and games, and the FCR2 mod on Insane really brought that feeling of how its like in the books. As in feeling like Geralt is absolutely not invincible and will get cut in sword fights and scrached up with monsters if there are too many. It made me try more games with permadeath. Great video btw!

[@thedayzgod]

that mod list is fire your playthrough looked really cool! I wish I could experience NV and 3 and 4 for the first time again what a wild ride

[@largelouie5400]

Thus video helped me aee lossing stuff in games not as much as a bad thing anymore. I always thought it was boring and angering that you can just pose eveything in a instant to unluckyness, but this helps me see thats the point i suppose to do everything in ur favor not to die. Nice, might try perma on somthing i havent played in a while.

[@MSTR]

I tried it, picked wastelander wino with 1 INT, and their entire goal throughout the run is the feed into the wine addiction. But in turn, i maxed out luck, plus im drunk through the whole run, so it's literally "dumb luck"(0 INT 10 LCK) the character, haha. It's one of the most fun playthoughs I've had yet, cheers!

[@TheButterAnvil]

Did that as one of my early runs, but I died kinda quick so I didn't experience much. I also had a drug addict character and a needs mod that didn't agree with each other, so I literally spawned dead and ended the run lmao

[@barnaclebot1643]

Fantastic video. That cook-cook fight was legendary

[@raimundopilotto2675]

A really nice video. It's a great way to "make your own storys" in every rpg you play. Also, if you like hard games with permadeath, i sugget you to also try STALKER Anomaly, specially GAMMA. You're not gonna regret it..... well, maybe you will

[@frostad8444]

love your last 2 videos man keep it up!

[@megalomic875]

Survival and Bethesda games are always bread and butter, there's so many mods for Skyrim and every other Fallout to endlessly immerse yourself like this, I'm glad this video took the time to highlight the immersion you personally made, everyone should try modding :)

[@natetruehart7562]

Ghost Mode in Wildlands is crazy. I played it just to get the gold exosuit reward because otherwise I’m not a big fan of perms death. It’s definitely not an experience I’ll forget and I have the exosuit to remember it. I will say however that each time I’ve gone back to Wildlands I’ve had to play Ghost Mode since I’ve developed a taste for more challenge. Very fun game.

[@willyom4661]

I love how it just turns into creating lore for the random dead npc you would see on the side of the road with 2 bullets in his pocket

[@SPKRFCKR1]

Great video with some great examples. I subbed!

[@cloudy6256]

Subbing because that storytelling was ELITE

[@WayneDog]

Fantastic video, really makes me want to play new vegas again

[@greendude0420]

Thank you so much, this is what I needed to refresh cyberpunk for myself 😂

[@sigull4192]

Fantastic video. I've got to play some permadeath games now.

[@Vantaz]

Butter Boy Strikes Again

[@Brandon-ff1yo]

this is why DD1 is so good, the nature of death in that game not only uses your attachment to the characters, but actual economic factors to drive you plan ahead. study what you are choosing to face, what its weaknesses are, what characters are good for it, what are bad, what trinkets to take to maybe off set it, calculate risk for a higher reward. its very much a hit or miss for people, and I think that's because many people fundamentally misunderstand what the gameplay of DD1 is, its not like certain other RPGs, where you`re looking for the next big loot stash to get the next big upgrade, and all you need to do is act smart- rather, darkest dungeon almost guarantees that things will go wrong- people will miss at the wrong times, fail a resistance check when you needed them not to, or getting crit one too many times, in DD1 the point isn`t just item stacking or dealing with it, the point is to use skill and knowledge, to not only prepare beforehand, but also make the right action in the moment, specifically to manipulate chances. and that's the fundamental difference between most other games and DD1, in other games you are handling guaranteed attacks with guaranteed defenses, but in DD1 the point is to not remove any chance of failure, but to stack the odds in your favor, maximize your resources, with skill, knowledge, and preparation to know and handle the risks you know you should take and which ones you shouldn`t, because in Darkest Dungeon, there are *always* risks.

[@SkyUnknownstealth]

I load up KZbin after 4 weeks and I see a butter post. Now I’m happy

[@rasmustagu]

Interesting perspective, great execution presenting it! Will give it a go :)

[@dudemgee]

the most fun I had in Fallout 4, and also by far some of the most fun I've ever had in a game ever. was in survival mode and I had the weird want to get all the bobble heads. I ended up getting over an hour or two past my last bed save and was in a part of the map I've never been before, (quincy), was overencumbwred in power armour with danse, and was in the middle of a civil war. it was so tense and exciting I vowed to always play on the hardest or near hardest difficulty

[@Folly_Inds]

Me and a couple of players for my tabletop group played wildlands Parma death when we could meet up during covid. It was a unique way to play the game for sure and definitely made for a nice distraction

[@5Amigos32]

Fallout 4 survival mode is quite good it isn't permadeath but only being able to save when you sleep and not being able to fast travel makes death really impactful. Power armor is now more than just a fun toy, building settlements becomes so valuable as safe places that you can sleep and refuel. Which faction you join matters so much more because the brotherhood offers vertibird transportation and the institute offers teleportation. The brotherhood also becomes a serious threat to oppose they have air superiority they have patrols everywhere and they have power armor. Who you side with or against has big implications on the way you experience the game going forward.

[@thomasrial4444]

The problem I have with it is that it’s parked with the hardest difficulty. I like survival mode but I don’t like bullet sponges because that’s boring. I would rather be weak while my enemy is weak as well (not including mutated creatures because they are supposed to feel terrifying, example the first time you experienced a Deathclaw in fallout 3 or New Vegas). If Bethesda just made survival mode a toggle rather than a difficulty Is what I think it needs

[@5Amigos32]

@@thomasrial4444 survival does make enemies weaker too. It is a lot less bulletspongey in my experience than the main game

[@Porcouomo]

This is the exact reason why I always play permadeath mode in the divinity series.

[@jchat122010]

A cool mod idea popped into my head watching you play New Vegas. A permadeath mod where when you die you can find your body and loot it as a new survivor and the world keeps all the progress or changes you have done in past lives. You died to raiders? The gang now has all your gear and the raider boss is probably wearing that sick armor you died with. You died to feral ghouls, your former self is now an op feral ghoul (I understand thats not how ghoulification works but still) etc etc

[@TheButterAnvil]

It would break quests unfortunately. Maybe you could copy your body to a new character somehow

[@leonderkeck4298]

Aight you convinced me, I'm gonna go unpack my disc of AC mirage for the permadeath

[@StillLearn]

Hella glad I subbed

[@monoclesquid9667]

That second NV character reminds me so much of my high-luck in perpetually-drunk gunslinger build. He had absolutely no endurance, so he relied on a crippling addiction to liquor to have a normal amount of stamina and carry capacity.

[@carnificina300]

No fast travel in skyrim, with a few mods to camp, add the weather and also hunger and sleep made my experience so much more imersive, it made me apreciate the map deeply, connect with its elements more, and just have more fun in general! My character a powerful mage, his vampire wife Serana and his best friend Inigo saving the world! I will surely try this, i had this idea before but never actually tried it, thanks!

[@mandrillsass5687]

This is what makes dayz so special, always do close to lose everything you're been working for for 6/8 hours in a single fight. Gets the heart pumping

[@foxey_7613]

Yes, thats why wow hardcore mode is so good in my book, you need to consider your options even in heated situations, if you die you are dead forever. Adding these to games really should be a recommendation its really immersive. Also it really changes your playstyle your thinking. even tho im not modding fallout 4 just playing it in vanilla rocking the survival difficulty because whenever i die i'll respawn like 30 mins before because i was unable to find a bed to save my progress, the simple enemies can clap me, the random encounters are a menace and can take me by suprise. it is fun. and even that there is no permadeath without a mod, it just really makes the game fun and enjoyable. managing everything on what you pick up, what you use. So i agree with you 100%

[@yuksu8680]

im definitely gonna try this next time i do a cyberpunk playthrough

[@Ronin.97]

This was really popular in the Skyrim modding community way back. I remember Skyrim Ultimate modpack revolving around permadeath and alternate starts. For infinite storytelling and replayability.

[@edjonhadley1]

This is why i love attempting solo flawless dungeons in destiny 2 not only do you get a nice reward but it feels so much more intense and engaging rather than respawning and beating the same enemy a few minutes later

[@RoleplayUnderMaintenance]

This is why I like tabletop without character revives from clerics n shiz. Makes the game so much more tense.

[@gar7266]

keep going man, your content is already equivalent to someone who has a millions of subs, keep consistent! its only a matter of time now :)

[@Taylor-rw4le]

Genuinely this is it. Far cry primal I think is the best example of this. It is so boring when there’s no consequence, but when you have permadeath on it becomes one of the most intense and thrilling games you could play. Always in the back of your head worried if a sabretooth is gonna jump out the bushes and end you before you can react. Being tailed by a pack of wolves as you’re clawing your way back to safety. It has put my actual body in fight or flight more times than I could keep track of

[@ferhadsemseddinli3293]

The thing with wildlands is that there are missions where you have to defend and objective. In those missions you are always surrounded and stealth is not an option at some point. At the hardest difficulties it is up to chance if the enemy will throw a grenade at you then shred you you if you try to run.

[@SSpired]

yea those missions throw off the game for me

[@corduroyisle]

ive been playing ghost of tsushima pc port on lethal difficulty with zero stealth (as i beat it on ps4 already years ago) and its way more fun to actually need to use every single mechanic available.

[@theSwiftest04]

ive been considering doing permadeath for fallout, with the rebalance mod im using im used to dying nearly constantly. this video's what i needed, im inspired. i need to really get into the mindset of a ratty little dirty-fighting scrounge. here's hoping i can actually finish ttw!

[@TheButterAnvil]

I got blown up from full health because a car exploded in DC. I don't give fallout 3 much credit a lot of the time, but the economy is much more hardcore

[@theSwiftest04]

@@TheButterAnvil that's real. game's a bit rough at times but it's got its charm, main draw for me is like you said the economy being more hardcore but also the focus on cqc. so chaotic, and reaaally good for stealth

[@Piman1607]

The only surviving memory of wildlands is sitting on the mountain with a sniper and my friends lining up through the map with the last guy holding a hostage so I could get the world's longest shot. Bullet would despawn unless you had friends loading the map. Last guy was spotter and also held the target still for consistentsy.

[@thiagofod]

The MXR immersive, good times

[@BenthewildchildE750]

A mode that I’ve always wanted in a game is instead of restarting the entire game restart the story you still have all the collectibles and items and stuff but you don’t have any of the character upgrades or story progression.

[@tripalink]

i play games like rust and dayz and love that feeling of paranoia worrying about everything that might kill you and make you lose everything when you die... so its weird that i never thought about trying a permadeath game

[@Holo66]

heroic is the true way to play any halo game, well done

[@Agentkip1]

Agreed, it really adds value to the game. For those that have not yet tried this play style much, you can start by accepting that progress will be slow. But that little amount of progress each time gives a much more valuable experience. If you don't like the idea of completely losing your character, you can also play most RPG's where you just use one save, so that everything that happens besides dying is also permanent. Such as getting caught stealing or something. (Kenshi is a good game for this but you can also do this in Elder scrolls games for example.)

[@ZeSgtSchultz]

Something ive done recently is to try and beat the old call of duty campaigns without dying. I just beat CoD 2 the other week, and it really gives you a new appreciation for the game. Even on easy difficulty there are SO MANY opportunities to fuck up and die causing a total reset from the 1st mission.

[@spinningredchair8092]

One of my favorite moments in my gaming life was me playing State of Decay 2 and losing my first ever survivor. It crushed me having to kill them because i didn't have enough plague samples for a cure. Still sticks with me to this day

[@prometheus7565]

This is such a high-quality video from someone with low subs kinda criminal

[@Dikucow]

Stalker anomaly has some of the best parts of what you're talking about in new vegas! They've got multiple ironman modes, and the game's tense enough already that playing it with ironman doesn't change much. Highly recommended xD

[@HenkkaArtGames]

I love the idea of perma-death mode, and we did try it couple of times in Wildlands. The problem is that the AI can be super unpredictable. In certain missions the enemies can spawn right around the corner or behind you in illogical places (like on a cliffside you just climbed up in order to sneak into a base from its backside). Enemies can also have incredible accuracy: you can be dozens of meters away, sniping from the bushes and a shirtless gangbanger hip-firing a uzi can hit you and kill you and no amount of silencers or ghillie suits will conceal you from their xray vision.

[@sneslive1556]

Iron man runs are great. For me, it's like the final challenge for a lot of games I've played to death. You really do look at the game different if you know you can't just load a quick save. I did a blind iron man run of the base game of Solasta and the amount of times I said to myself, "welp this is it" and then I didn't die were high and surviving those encounters felt amazing.

[@cracatonga]

I remember getting so emotional after completing Wolfenstein 2 permadeath mode... so many fails... lot of practice... I´ll never forget the final moments of the run. Also singing the final credits song like if i was in a live concert :,D

[@SeekNeo]

I think permadeath is too big of a death penalty. But at the same time, most games have little to no death penalty. I think a middle ground is better, like losing some piece of your character's gear, instead of losing your entire save.

[@renegraider]

i did this with skyrim survival mode on adept difficulty because i wanted to test out different factions so i started out as a storm cloak with shield and axe and ofc went with ralof and after spending some time chopping wood in river wood and gathering my supplies for my journey onto whiterun halfway into it i see three imperials with a prisoner and decide to ambush them, managed to kill two and the third one got me with a good arrow to the knee. it was probably one of the funnest fights ive done . second time around tried out to join the legion and after getting assigned my first mission to clear out a bandit camp i ended up on the other side of a two handed warhammer just shy of the last couple bandits left . really fun times 👍

[@Devit42]

2:46 I remember hitting a rock in the mountatins while on motocycle and getting thrown like 400m foward because falling animation is moving player more foward than down

[@gerwrantzpiwnicy3954]

The Long Dark is one game where permadeath is great. It's mandatory, you don't choose to have it on or off. It makes it a true survival game. Also the fact that you're just trying to survive the Canadian wilderness, not zombies or anything. Now they are planning to add the option to "cheat death" where you can respawn but with a permanent negative effect and loose whatever you were carrying. I like that it's an option but the option just being there is always a temptation...

[@taylorrobbins24]

Me and my friend have started this in wildlands, its a really fun and interesting way to play

[@stormy4436]

Literally 2 mins into the video and i already agree, playing tlou 2 on permadrath survivor was the best change in my gaming experince, it changed how i see most encounters in any game.

[@aktamusic2119]

i’ve been doing a permadeath run on Cyberpunk 2077 for 2 years now. one day i’ll beat it!

[@TheCart54321]

You know what the funny thing is, the moment I die in a video game is the moment I feel I’ve just failed everything because realistically speaking this character can’t and shouldn’t respawn. And yet I still want to play the game itself and enjoy it and if I have to completely restart then it’s nothing more than just a pain in the ass.

[@massi9030]

THE PERAMDEATH COMMUNUTY IS GROWING WELCOME TO THE PAIN TRAIN GENTLEMAN but also the most rewarding way to play imo i always recommend going through the game first learning it then hit that solo permadeath playthrough be a man!

[@Justinb1TV]

“Damien the butter anvil orphan 69 shadow the hedgehog wasstopolus” is crazy

[@fiddlestickjones]

Id say the best middle ground between perma death and normal dying is when the game doesnt auto save and only jas manual save points that are significantly apart, like the old resident evil games, and the new ones if you turn off checkpoints

[@TheButterAnvil]

When I played splinter cell as an adult on PC, the ability to instantly save and load sort of ruined it for me. I have to just use the auto saves to have fun these days

[@tommykenning8860]

May i present for your consideration, Farcry 2 permadeath. It is something i come back to from time to time and is a unique and tense experience. The game was not well liked by many at the time, but playing on infamous difficulty i believe is a very different experience. It has a mechanic where you can get saved by a buddy once before dying, and are resurected with low health and a sidearm with some ammo in it. Your buddy then helpa you fight whoever is in the area. These fights are tense, because your biddy can die if you don't have stimpacks, which you can only carry a few of.

[@SoulYasu]

00:29 perfect explanation on most games take on “difficulty”

[@theoink636]

Permadeath makes each step meaningful.

[@Bloodlinedev]

Huge thumbs up from the game design department - everybody ruining their fun by making things too easy/low stakes/looking up stuff

[@BoundlessResolve]

Oh man my permadeath obsession all started with No Man's Sky. It didn't look fun to me until my friend told me about permadeath.

[@thefranken-thing]

I have only played New Vegas on very hard and hardcore for a few years now. I havent done a permadeath run yet, but I almost never die, so it could be a realistic challenge. Deathclaws and the giant cazadores at Zion are really the only enemies I worry about now. Although, I havent played through lonesome road at this difficulty yet. I recommend it to anyone who has a few years of New Vegas experience since it's a lot of fun and really requires you to interact with the various systems in the game like crafting, chems, and special ammo.

[@mapkocc]

"Roguelike" is the best feature you can personally add to most games

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

Roguelike isnt a feature, permadeath is though.

[@LordOfGames666]

When it comes to open world games i always play permadeath even if the game doesn't have it.

[@rachelamanita9301]

Permadeath can turn any game into an immersive rpg and i love it