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Not much surprises me in game development....not after decades in it and more than that playing computer/video/console games.
That is until today.
It was time to clean out my bank. Best way was to deconstruct all the odd bits of dropped armor I'd gathered over the past month or two. My characters never wear dropped armor. You don't know where it's been, after all and you can't control the look of outfits the way you can with crafted sets. Okay, okay, they use dropped jewelry. They have to as you cannot craft it.
Nothing disturbing at first. There's a pattern that makes sense: each added piece of a set give boosts one statistic and having 5 or so of the set gives an added bonus. Simple.
First up, Sword Singer. Interesting because the set bonus is so specific - for one weapon type in this case.
Other sets were odd in the sheer complexity of their full set bonus. This one, for example. It reads like the fine print on a contract with gain balanced against loss.
But then matters turned toward the weird....strange effects with small chances of the odd effect actually processing.
Clearly the designers here were under a strain to come up with something different. It happens. In games like this you constantly need new stuff.
But then things turned from the conventionally weird to a realm beyond that.
Uh...okay. An imaginary magical something or other appears out of nowhere to aid you. Oh, but wait....it gets even more bizarre!
Oh my. Little Dwemer things are appearing. At this point I could almost feel someone beginning to crack under the strain of devising these armor sets.
Then it was time to deconstruct this one.
What!? Little, savage dunerippers magically leaping out of the digital earth half the time? Sorry but I couldn't help but think, this has truly gone too far. I worried for the poor soul devising these things. What could be going on in their minds?
An intervention of some sort is clearly called for....an enforced vacation at the very least.
That is until today.
It was time to clean out my bank. Best way was to deconstruct all the odd bits of dropped armor I'd gathered over the past month or two. My characters never wear dropped armor. You don't know where it's been, after all and you can't control the look of outfits the way you can with crafted sets. Okay, okay, they use dropped jewelry. They have to as you cannot craft it.
Nothing disturbing at first. There's a pattern that makes sense: each added piece of a set give boosts one statistic and having 5 or so of the set gives an added bonus. Simple.
First up, Sword Singer. Interesting because the set bonus is so specific - for one weapon type in this case.
Other sets were odd in the sheer complexity of their full set bonus. This one, for example. It reads like the fine print on a contract with gain balanced against loss.
But then matters turned toward the weird....strange effects with small chances of the odd effect actually processing.
Clearly the designers here were under a strain to come up with something different. It happens. In games like this you constantly need new stuff.
But then things turned from the conventionally weird to a realm beyond that.
Uh...okay. An imaginary magical something or other appears out of nowhere to aid you. Oh, but wait....it gets even more bizarre!
Oh my. Little Dwemer things are appearing. At this point I could almost feel someone beginning to crack under the strain of devising these armor sets.
Then it was time to deconstruct this one.
What!? Little, savage dunerippers magically leaping out of the digital earth half the time? Sorry but I couldn't help but think, this has truly gone too far. I worried for the poor soul devising these things. What could be going on in their minds?
An intervention of some sort is clearly called for....an enforced vacation at the very least.
Oh, the humanity!
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✭*grabs popcorn*Conan, what is good in life?
Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
PS4 Screen Name: The_Pale_Italian
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bellanca6561n✭✭✭✭✭
✭You people disappoint me
Do you have any idea how hard they work these poor game developers, especially in the States?
Now we have one, or more, who close their eyes imagining mean little dunerippers jumping out of the ground, dwemer devices appearing out of NOWHERE along with magical orbs and goodness knows what else that we've never seen or seen yet.
Oh, sure, at first these things would happen occasionally. But now....half the time!?
Where will this all end? Can anything good come from this, I ask you?
And, @Swomp23, I am proud of all the LOL badges I was awarded here before they yanked that feedback category. Sure, folks were using it to say "we think your post is crap," but achievement is achievement
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✭I guess I am still trying to figure out your point?
Too much "fantasy and spells" in a fantasy game with spells??Conan, what is good in life?
Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
PS4 Screen Name: The_Pale_Italian
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✭✭✭✭✭More so than not having any, this is why I don't have a complete Monster Set of Anything. All the One Piece Bonuses are what does it for me.Enjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.
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✭Now but seriously, where does this duneripper come from if it procs in a building? Or say on one of the ships in Blackheart Haven? Like the first boss fight!0 -
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✭ThePaleItalian wrote: »I guess I am still trying to figure out your point?
Too much "fantasy and spells" in a fantasy game with spells??
Oh no!
How can you have TOO MUCH magic in a game list this?
I'm simply worried about these guys. Just imagine those design meetings where they have to come up with new armor sets.
A long uncomfortable silence descends on the room. Folks avoiding each other's eyes. Then one fella says...
"Wait....how about this for a set bonus...
"When you cast a damage shield on an ally, you have a ten percent...no...make that twenty percent chance to...I dunno...uh, call down a fragment of Trinimac! Yeah! A fragment of Trinimac that heals you and your allies for 3964 health...and damages enemies for 4029 Magic damage...well...in a five meter radius.
"How's that sound?"
Given that most everyone simply wants the meeting to be over, they all agree.
And this worries me....0
