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[quote name="fabio"][quote name="Mischief Maker"]Jesus! I think the reason you hate everything is your mad rush to find the "perfect" strategy, which more often than not turns out to be the most boring strategy. Embrace a little escapism in your singleplayer-only games![/quote] Didn't you <b>just</b> get finished going off on EMERGENT STORY covering for poor strategy design? The next step down your slippery slope of self imposed limitations is not quicksaving until finally you become one of those people who upload sword Zelda runs on youtube. [quote]In all seriousness, though, if you approach SP games with the same hypercompetitive mindset as multiplayer tourney games, playing bullet hell shmups for score sounds perfect for you. <A HREF="http://nyu-media.com/exceed-3rd-jade-penetrate-black-package/">Exceed 3rd Jade Penetrate Black Package</A> is good for beginners.[/quote] You're worse than Sam trying to push those green egg bullet hell games. The difference here is everyone hated them <i>after</i> trying it.[/quote]