It sounds like it would be a “feel bad” mechanic for many people and thus would have difficulty being mass-market successful
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Jun 2016
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Reply to a comment by Malurth on 'Why hasn't there been an indie clone of Pokemon?' on /r/truegaming:
I like interesting battle systems. Is there some place that documents what are the best things about the Pokemon battle system for someone who doesn’t play the games?
Dec 2015
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They don’t feel out of vogue. Off the top of my head, turn-based games I played within the last year: Persona Q, Disgaea 4, Divinity:OS. Bravely Default, Fire Emblem: Awakening, X-Com, Civ 5 (okay, I play Civ every year). I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting.
Edit: I also played Banner Saga and Shadowrun Returns Dragonfall, thanks to the replies for reminding me
Aug 2014
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If you don’t think the content is worth the cost, then you don’t buy it ne? No real loss there, except maybe for the publisher/dev
Dec 2013
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I was around 10 when I played and finished the first Legend of Zelda; probably 15 or 16 when I beat A Link To The Past. ALBW is easier than both of those, I think. You might just not be giving younger you enough credit, kids are surprisingly good at games.
Aug 2013
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As a programmer who had a 2600 as a kid, this was great to learn
Jun 2013
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Time and effort and cost (assets, etc.) and the story all factor in. Some stories are stronger when told in a straight/linear fashion.
The term laziness here upsets me for some reason (nothing personal). Might be because I’m a programmer and I understand what it means to need to cut content or features or avoid feature-creep in order to meet budgets and schedules. It’s not like “branching paths” are on a standard RPG checklist and developers are just “naw, fuck that”.
That being said, there are still a lot of very nonlinear RPGs around. The Fallout series and the Elder Scrolls games come to mind, and I think the Witcher series offers a lot of choice too.
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Posted on r/truegaming: Why hasn’t Nintendo come out yet with a Mario game that includes a level editor?
I was playing LBP and I was thinking it would be pretty sweet to have a level editor and community-created levels for a Mario game. It would legitimize all those romhacks that create fun or impossible stages, etc. Why hasn’t Nintendo done something like this?
May 2013
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You dont need the new Xbox to be nostalgic for old-school gaming
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While I have fond memories of it (and still have a copy at home), it kind of bothers me that late game always devolved to having one uber-hero with a stack of doom and a bunch of other heroes to assist him by moving troops and items and resources around. I’m not sure if this has changed in 5 or 6.
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Reply to a comment by FrozenVegetables on 'Let's talk about Heroes of Might and Magic 3' on /r/truegaming:
They are very different types of games, though they do share the universe/lore.
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Turn-based RPGs, for example, really have nothing to show in terms of gameplay. I suppose responsive menus and quick responses to button presses, but past that it gets pretty hard to improve the gameplay aspect of it.
Wat. I take it these type of games aren’t really your style. Skill trees and builds, ability choices, enemy balancing, equipment choices are all gameplay elements.
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Gameplay.
Feb 2013
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It’s not backward compatible, no.
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Posted on r/truegaming: Are RPGs costlier to make than other genres?
It seems like there’s a lot more assets that are needed given the amount of content typically packed into an RPG. That means a lot more story, characters, items, balancing, models, voices, videos, etc compared to something like an FPS, which translates to higher effort and thus higher costs. Is this a valid assumption? If yes, then why do companies keep making RPGs, are they more profitable than other genres? If no, what other factors go into the cost of other genres?
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People enjoy different things.
That being said, try to challenge yourself every so often, maybe you’ll learn new things or grow somehow.
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the use of “Kangaroo War” instead of “Ragnarok War.”
I found this hilarious lol
Jan 2013
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I consider myself ok in terms of strategy like spacing, pokes, mind games and the like, but my problem in general is poor execution; it’s most probably because i dont want to put in the effort to memorize and practice combo strings and stuff. Like in sf4 i can pull of fadc’s occasionally in training mode, but i dont have any hope of pulling it off in the middle of a heated match. For this reason i tend to rely more on short bnb combos
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Reply to a comment by grumbel on 'Where do people stand on respeccing in RPGs/aRPGs?' on /r/truegaming:
Sid Meier once said that a game is a “series of interesting decisions”. When your decisions have no consequence, the decisions become less interesting and meaningful. If your decisions don’t have consequences, why bother having the decisions at all? Why not just give the player everything all at once, since that’s what it essentially comes down to when you can respec at will?
I remember when I was playing Kingdom of Amalur, you could respec at any time for a small gold cost. The gold cost increases gradually every time, but it never becomes a very high value such that respeccing was practically free. That means there was no point investing in the Crafting skills since at any point you could decide “I’m going to do all my crafting now”, respec to the best crafting build, craft your stuff, then respec back to what you normally have.
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It’s a problem of balance. If the RPG isn’t well-balanced, it may punish the player for decisions made early on (i.e. he chose an ability that didn’t turn out to be as useful as he expected), and having no respec option at all locks him into that choice. I agree that there needs to be some level of consequence to your choices and we can’t expect the game to be balanced 100% with regards to character choices, but the problem is that for a new player playing a new game, he will almost invariably be unable to judge correctly whether certain choices are good or bad.
So my answer is: I’d prefer not having respec options, but I understand the need for them. Maybe not have respeccing be so easy or something would be a good idea (i.e. need to complete some quest that gets harder every time you want to respec)
Dec 2012
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That was the old limit. They changed it a while back so that the limit is now 2 machines
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This is a bit like saying you dont want to buy a laptop because in a few months a better laptop will be available.
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These are all very different games. Super Meat Boy and VVVVV focus on difficulty and twitch-gaming, while Braid and Trine are more of puzzle platformers. AYIM I didn’t like at all lol.
When I say a Mario-like game, I mean something that focuses on exploration I guess? Trine is probably the closest among the ones you mentioned.
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Posted on r/truegaming: Why haven’t there been any Mario-level platformers outside of Nintendo?
I’m asking about this because I have friends who got the WiiU simply because none of the other consoles has a Mario game. Sony has Little Big Planet trying to be the platformer of choice for the PS3/Vita, but that doesn’t really seem to come close to the Mario experience. Xbox has…well I don’t even know if there are platformers on Xbox. If you really want to play Mario or something that provides a reasonably close experience, are you really forced to go Nintendo?
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How is that relevant to the question? The same thing can be said for franchises like Call of Duty, Madden, etc.
I like Mario games, I’d love if it something similar came out on the PS3/Vita
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I’m in SE Asia. Outside of shops, I’ve never seen a 360 in person. I don’t personally know anybody who owns one. Of the gamers with consoles at the office where I work 50-70% have PS3s, while the rest have Wiis.
Oct 2012
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Saying all games should have a certain trait is a bit like saying all movies should be the same genre. It’s ok that there are games that are hard - theyre not for casuals. And complaining that not everybody gets to experience those games or their content is a it like complaining that not everybody gets to enjoy twilight. Surprise - different people like different things!
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A game’s story isnt just the one told through cutscenes - it’s sometimes told through the gameplay and the difficulty therein (see the long discussion about dark souls in this page).
Sep 2012
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Have you considered open world games like Skyrim?