Any News On The Next Instalment?

[hollowleviathan]

They could potentially re-introduce poor/last-ditch combat into a game if they have NPCs around to inform the player that they are terrible at fighting and should try to avoid it. It wasn't immediately obvious in Penumbra you shouldn't want to kill your enemies.

I remember my first exposure to Silent Hill was trying to knife-fight a dog in SH3, dying and thinking the game was crappy because it had a crappy combat system...How was I to know? Why would they give me a knife with the idea that I should never use it?

I think the best solution, then, is to not have a combat system designed to make the player/protagonist crappy, since it becomes a trap; a part of your game that you're not supposed to play. Making an optional aspect of the game deliberately suck may be true to character, but that's not fun. I think it would be better to focus on the gameplay that players are supposed to enjoy and is designed to be good, immersive, and fun.