Trying to play allowing losses is horrible

[tiberiu]

Originally Posted by ckdamascus

I'm speculating what those guys would say or think. That isn't an opinion.

Opinion, speculation, whatever, the same to me.

Are you saying you aren't as good at Diablo 2 hardcore as you are in King's Bounty?

Non sequitur; However, let's not make this all about my person, ok? Am I that interesting? The point is that Diablo at least offers a challange, while KB does not. (even more so because of it's TBS-fights.)

You posted about initiative in another thread which is not listed here.

And I was very correct in what I posted. The game really isn't about damage. It's about spells, skills and talents. The enemy units could deal 1 milion damage/ unit and it would be a moot point since they seldom even get the chance to act with all the spells (blind, sheep, fear, etc), skills (diversions), unit abilities (flashbomb, etc) completly negating the units from taking action.
And yes, thorns are mathematically better then BD's in damage potential in KB game as can be easily proven. BD do not benefit almost at all from hero bonus attack while Thorns greatly do.

That's really no different from King's Bounty save/reload on a very high level.

No, it's hugely different. To play a fair Diablo game (no killing of the same mob more then 1 time, no Save and Exit if you're about to die, etc) it's actually something that requires attention, skill, adrenaline. Especially if you add up the extra-fairness rule "No town portals", but even without it.
KB you hardly need strategy because the game is so imbalanced. Thank Odin for at least having the possibility to fix that via modding.
Save/Reload is basically a cheat. I won't discuss it because there's nothing to elaborate about it. It's like playing chess and you say, "I made a bad move, now I'll retract it and make a better one" - except the rules of the game prevent that. Of course everybody is free to save/reload every 10 seconds for all I care. Just that it's my birthright and freedom of speech to express my opinion that this thing negates all challange.

You could just as easily say the same about the other (or all video game challenges for that matter).

It would be an error to think all games have equal challanges. Most games are indeed easy because the target audience is not that bright, so it will suffice for the companies to make profit $$. Sure, beating 1 AMAI insane computer in Warcraft 3 is Easy if you're at least hasu, but the challange level of the task is still much greater then finishing all KB games on impossible.

Just how logical is it that you can defeat the Lords Of Hell... naked?

He is naked too I think so it's a fair fight.