Topic: I knew it! Castlevania: Lords of Shadow!(SPOILERS HERE, PLZ USE THE SPOILER TAG)

[corneliab]

I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned in interviews that once you die enough you have to start the stage over. There's probably a life system.

[e105beta]

Probably something like Legend of Zelda. Fall to your death, restart on the last platform, lose some health. When all health is gone, you die.

[uzo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4p65Fry1ZU&feature=player_embedded

In the final moments of this video, the player loses all his health, and it comes to a menu that looks like it says "Resume from Last Checkpoint." So I suppose the game over on losing all life theory is out?

[Dark Nemesis]

unfortunately, most games on ps3, are this way. Having you start from some kind of check point.

[e105beta]

I don't really see what's wrong with that :^/

[Dark Nemesis]

It's making the games more easy to finish. An example is resident evil 5!! It's taking away the difficulty!!

[Dremn]

Lives and Game Overs have been absent from a lot of games recently, it's a trend that will probably continue for games with a massive scale on the big consoles.

[uzo]

Lame.

[Ahasverus]

Now you are complaining about *****g checkpoints? Seriously guys? God, gaming is f**ing dead.

[e105beta]

Live haven't been around for AGES. It's all checkpoints and savepoints. This is nothing new.

[thernz]

I think the slow platforms in the clock tower are more of a problem than lack of lives.

[Ahasverus]

Exactly, that's how things are now, it's not game's fault as people tend to think, and, there's always hardcore dificulty

[uzo]

Check points are fine if you have multiple lives. Save points are fine if you have no extra lives.

If there are no lives, your death should send you back to the save point. Falling off of cliffs should penalize by health and send you back to the last platform or so.

Unlimited retries continuing at the same place just makes the game too easy.

Oh no, I am low on health as I reach this boss! Don't worry, I wont have to use items or skill to pass him, I will simply die and regain my full life and continue right here at the beginning of the battle!

And yes it is the game's fault. They decided to continue the lame trend. It's their decision, and a lame one at that.

[e105beta]

Well we don't know if that's how it works. Perhaps if you die during the boss, you restart at the checkpoint with the health and weapons that you had at that checkpoint.

[Wallachia]

F' you people.. haha, I think I'll get outta here til the game is out