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Ah hell!

So, I just noticed something while posting in the BOTW Party group:

A bunch of old players running around telling newbies to go to hell. That cannot be good for PR. I know it isn't really a bug, but I think it may want to be addressed.

There is another forum about some guy afraid to die in the game. He hears people talking about squishing grapes, but he doesn't know if they are messing with him or not. After dying once, he wonders what happens if he accidentally dies again, after all at 0mood and 8energy, it seems likely.

So maybe Hell might be changed to Hades, The Nine Circles, Tartarus, Kalichi (one of my personal favorites) Infernus, Underworld (Urderworld, Und-Urworld) Abyss.

Well, listing more ideas is kinda mute at this point, either you want to change it or you don't. Just pointing it out.

Another idea might be to have the little rock mention something about hell fairly early on. Maybe have him offer a quest for the glitch to die sometime shortly into the tutorial or just after arriving on Ur, the reward being a full restore of energy/mood and a warning that won't normally happen.

Posted 15 months ago by Lilac Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • This is more of an idea than a bug, so it should probably be moved, but I think the idea of a Hell quest is great. I like Hell being called Hell, but if players had a quest which introduced them to death and Hell early on it would be cool and beneficial.
    Posted 15 months ago by Sid Soloveitchik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, might be better in ideas. Should have thought that out a little more. Meh, what are they going to do about it? Ban me from the game. HA!

    Please don't ban me from the game. I'm sorry. <pleads>
    Posted 15 months ago by Lilac Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 I agree that Hell should be either mentioned early on, made as a quest or the name changed. Names submitted were good ideas.... and the quest title is something like Does it Hurt to Go to Hell? Or maybe Goin to Hell in a Handbasket.... dunno....
    Posted 15 months ago by Kitwryn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, I died very early when I first joined the game.  Most other games, when you run out of energy, you are simply forced to wait until it regenerates before you can do anything interesting, so I wasn't worrying that much about it.  I wish that there was better information about the perils of energy and mood loss early in the tutorials.

    I'm not sure if Hell would benefit from a name change, and I'm not really fond of the idea of Death Quests.  I know that there are Death Badges, but right now my personal goal is to reach level 60 without ever dying.

    There was a previous idea thread about having multiple levels of Hell and Paradise in the afterlife.  If the Devs do something like that, it could be as much fun to explore Death as Life in Glitch, but then there should be more interesting ways of traveling to the after world than through self-neglect or self-abuse.
    Posted 15 months ago by KhaKhonsu Subscriber! | Permalink