Spelunky, recently compared difficulty in games to tolerance for spicy food in his most recent Game Developers Conference (GDC) talk.During a tangent on the talk about Spelunky 2 (thanks, PC Gamer), Yu said that “It can be hard for people who don’t like spicy food to understand why spicy food fans love it so much.
If you’re just starting out on your spicy food journey, you can’t taste the flavor, just the heat. And the pain.”“Similarly, spiky games generate a lot of enthusiasm from their fans, but for people who aren’t there yet, they can just seem hard” he adds.To Yu, ‘spiky’ games refers to ones that he often sees people think of as punishing and difficult.
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