What makes me angry is not that some people don't know the basics of character building, but that they insist that it is impossible to learn because they are lazy and don't want to learn the basics. They think they have to figure it out everything by osmosis without any thinking whatsoever.
It didn't really work. Most people who complained about the difficulty in DR played on Hard and didn't want to lower the difficulty. One guy said it would be humiliating [for such a great warrior] to play on Easy. He wanted to beat the game on Hard but he wanted it to be easy. Quite a conundrum.
ego vs brain mass imbalance
Knocking back a glass of scotch and laughing at the absurdity of reviews is part of the AoD experience.
Tell him to git gud. I'm not even good at thinking strategically and I got through FFS.
I feel like a schoolshooter now after reading this.
After some digging, I've found a picture of this fine gentleman.
gotta admire the dedication to keep playing for 184 hours despite hating it
They play it for Militiades's sake.But what if they still hate it, even after 184 hours?
But what if they still hate it, even after 184 hours?
But we had to take it down due to complaints that the mode wasn't awesome enough and the game was still hard.
The guy who wrote it complained endlessly and then tried to get me fired by writing a nasty email to whoever's in charge of Iron Tower Studio.
FWIW, I think the problem is that there are two different ways to look at character building in an RPG. One is that it is a basically a wish-expression of the kind of character you want to play. "I want to be a clever fighter, like the Scarlet Pimpernel. I want to be a tough scavenger like Mad Max." Whatever. From that perspective, the game should make it relatively easy to express your wishes, and should do a good job of interpreting them once they're expressed. If you then play contrary to type and fail, that's the player's fault, but if you are trying to play according to type and fail, that's the game's fault. Another way to look at is that character building is itself gameplay, a min-max puzzle to be solved by careful study and experimentation. In that scenario, the game needs to make it easy to tinker with the variables, and then needs to apply the variables in a consistent way, but has no obligation beyond that. If the player's build fails even at its intended purpose, that's the player's fault (like a spaceship failing in Kerbal or whatever).
well, did it work?
And what happens when you decide to play a seductive Toreador and then discover that the game becomes an action RPG at some point? A character system can't be separated from the overall design/gameplay, but since the player doesn't know what to expect all attempts to play anything other than an awesome fighter (works like a charm in any RPG) becomes a trial-n-error gamble. Thus a
It did. They fired me and I've been shitposting on the Codex ever since.
