An Analogy for the Incarnate Trials

You ever seen the show Ninja Warrior? If not, it's a Japanese game show where contestants run a -monstrously- difficult obstacle course. In 14 years on the air, thousands of people from around the world (including Olympic athletes) have tried it. And out of those thousands, how many have successfully completed all three stages to the end?

Two.

And that is awesome. The sheer challenge of the show makes it worth watching (that and watching people fail at various obstacles and fall into the water, that never gets old).

This is how I am looking at the new Incarnate Trials. Yes, they are hella hard, yes I die a lot, and yes, I have yet to successfully complete one. But you know what? I like that. I am enjoying the challenge of it all. I am liking that it takes a lot of teamwork and strategy. And one day, when I do finally complete a trial, I'll be proud of my real accomplishment.

So, thank you Paragon Studios, for giving us an epic challenge. For giving us something we cannot button-mash through. Something that there is no uber-build for. Something that takes effort and perseverance and we will eventually have real bragging rights for completing it.

It's a good start, but I think your analogy needs to be tweaked a little bit before we get people claiming the Trials can only be beaten by elite builds and such:

The Incarnate Trials are like playing a new sport. The first time you play, you might team up with people you played other sports with or you might even find yourself in a team of people who never played. But you all start off and learn together. You will probably lose your first game, but that's because you are still learning the rules of the game and the best techniques on how to score.

After a couple of games, though, you find yourself scoring points with easy and eventually even beating pros who have played the game for years.

Actually... I'd liken them to another Japanese game show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEOz7gaFfmU

Spot the resemblence?

I like a challenge, sure. That's why I work two jobs and try to juggle a social life and a wife (luckily she's light).

In a game, the challenge needs to be much less and much less aggrivating or I simply do seomthing else.

I love Ninja Warrior. I like your analogy even though I don't think these trials are anywhere near that level of difficulty and within a few weeks the ratio of success to failure is going to rise dramatically. But the spirit of the analogy is what I like - do it because it's fun to challenge yourself, to see how far you can make it. And in the trials, you even get some shiny loot to show for it just for trying, as opposed to just getting covered in bruises and muddy water.

Eh, if I had wanted to play a certain game by blizzard, I would already be playing it...