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Is it bad design to allow a player to create a nonviable character? (Age of Decadence)

Do you think it's bad design to allow players to create failed builds?

  • Yes

    Votes: 54 23.0%
  • No

    Votes: 181 77.0%

  • Total voters
    235
  • Poll closed .

Jack Of Owls

Arcane
Joined
May 23, 2014
Messages
4,279
Location
Massachusettes
The worst build I ever made was for Fallout 1. I had just finished my 1st resoundingly successful playthrough with a male tech build with default strength and immediately wanted to do another playthrough so I built a female tech with default strength. Couldn't even survive my first combat encounter with a single radscorpion and quit soon after. Women are weak as anemic kittens in Fallout but at the same time I was in agreement that the game should have allowed me to make a fool of myself thinking I could play with a vagina. So yeah. I support that an RPG should allow you to go full retard in character builds.
 

huskarls

Scholar
Joined
Aug 7, 2016
Messages
108
Meta-gaming where the energy weapons are and where vault dweller wants your skill points involves no critical thinking, and is deeply degenerate and oriental gameplay akin to grinding. There are skills like toaster repair in wasteland and diving in deus ex where their niche nature is obvious, as well as there being actual content encountered without gamefaqs. Every area or ability doesn't have to be 'viable' but it should have content rather than being a trap, and be able to be used in a manner involving critical thinking. Even viable skills can have bad design, like speech where you just pick a highlighted dialogue option to win opposed to figuring out without prompt to disguise yourself to use speech or maybe using speech to access a puzzle to solve a situation instead of combat.
 

Black Angel

Arcane
Joined
Jun 23, 2016
Messages
2,910
Location
Wonderland
For exotic crossbows you need to be with the Thieves' Guild (despite crossbows looking like an AG weapon) to get access to their private store. As a matter of fact there are a number of crossbows you simply cannot craft.
Now that I'm replaying the game, I just stumbled on the Fletcher merchant in Maadoran and, turns out he not only sells the exotic crossbows that Teron's TG sells, he also sells the schematics to them.
 

RickOmbo

Learned
Joined
May 24, 2019
Messages
221
Yes it's. Most of the time, players don't know what to a expect from a new game. For example, on the first playthrough of VtmB you don't know that the game becomes an action game in the last third.
 

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