The so called "no-loss" concept (whole game) is wrong and stupid.

[hrafn]

Do a no-loss game with no reloads. Then I'll be impressed.

[Zechnophobe]

Originally Posted by hrafn

Do a no-loss game with no reloads. Then I'll be impressed.

No reload challenges can be fun too, though combining with no-loss is pretty frustrating. The idea that you'd have to start the game over just for having some mage cast fire arrow at a bad time is... ugh.

[sethmage]

From the moment I saw the topic I knew this will drag along quite nicely, but overall you guys have to admit the moderators are pretty laid back here: people justifying pirating the game on the official forum, luck of respect for fellow player/poster, … yeah the more things change the more stay the same.
So let me put 2 cents here: I chose to buy the game and after hard day at work I will chose to go no-loss on impossible (well I will try it) and I don’t give a damn what everybody else is thinking. Everybody is entitled to their opinions; there is a matter how you come across with it.

[Fatt_Shade]

@zechnofobe

No reload challenges can be fun too, though combining with no-loss is pretty frustrating. The idea that you'd have to start the game over just for having some mage cast fire arrow at a bad time is... ugh.

Restart game , why ? You have autosave in castles, and after traveling to new islands. No need to new game, just reload last autosave from getting to island you are currently at.

[sethmage]

@ Fatt_Shade – cue words here are: no reloads of any kind.

How about new challenge: turn off monitor!

[oas]

Some achievements are only available if you lose units (at least one).

[tiberiu]

Originally Posted by sethmage

From the moment I saw the topic I knew this will drag along quite nicely, but overall you guys have to admit the moderators are pretty laid back here: people justifying pirating the game on the official forum, luck of respect for fellow player/poster, … yeah the more things change the more stay the same.
So let me put 2 cents here: I chose to buy the game and after hard day at work I will chose to go no-loss on impossible (well I will try it) and I don’t give a damn what everybody else is thinking. Everybody is entitled to their opinions; there is a matter how you come across with it.

Yea, I get you. But what's wrong with justifying piracy anyway? You have to test your car before you buy it, right? Just to make sure it works, that it... it doesn't have, you know.. bugs.

As for the lack of respect. Everybody gets as much respect as they deserve.

I tried to do no-loss too, but the Necromancer nearly killed all my units, which was a happy encounter for me.

What I argued here was something different then what most understood - and I am responsible for what I write, not for what the less intelectually inclined understand. For the 1000th time, it is perfectly OK for the player of the game to TRY to not lose any units. The fact that the Game lets him be successful in this is the problem. A problem of difficulty. What is the point of calling a difficulty "Impossible", if it can be done without ever losing even a single unit the whole game? The problem is that this is hugely boring for anybody who wants a true, real, hard challange. Being able to do no-loss whole game just proves the game is extremely easy. Absurdly easy - not to mention they give you infinite money, infinite xp, infinite crystals and runes.

[sethmage]

Originally Posted by tiberiu

What is the point of calling a difficulty "Impossible", if it can be done without ever losing even a single unit the whole game? The problem is that this is hugely boring for anybody who wants a true, real, hard challange. Being able to do no-loss whole game just proves the game is extremely easy. Absurdly easy - not to mention they give you infinite money, infinite xp, infinite crystals and runes.

I love that sentence, and the answer is simple, it’s all about proving how good you are and bragging rights, besides impossible sounds better than really hard

Originally Posted by tiberiu

Yea, I get you. But what's wrong with justifying piracy anyway? You have to test your car before you buy it, right? Just to make sure it works, that it... it doesn't have, you know.. bugs.

oh don’t get me wrong, I won’t confirm nor deny my piracy activities, I just find it amusing that somebody obtains game/movie/song by “illegal” means then will complain to developers/producers about quality of their products.

[Bhruic]

Originally Posted by tiberiu

Yea, I get you. But what's wrong with justifying piracy anyway? You have to test your car before you buy it, right?

Just to check, do you often steal a car to "test" if it works?

[Zechnophobe]

Originally Posted by Bhruic

Just to check, do you often steal a car to "test" if it works?

I think the issue is more like "Do you ACTUALLY buy the game if you like it?" This isn't really the place to discuss piracy, and the topic is pretty complex anyway. But I think it is often fallacious to think you are just previewing a game. That would be fine, if you actually purchased the game once you knew you liked it. But it is rarely true.