Overweight Manatee said:
Sure, the attacks and weapon functions are different. But there is pretty much always a best one. Different weapons are good, but you only use 1 or 2 so its not like you can switch around for a different battle. The different attacks boil down to 1 that does the most efficient damage and, possibly, one that you use to otherwise incapacitate your enemy.
Although what you said is partly true, I don't think that it's 100% correct. Yes, you can change weapons during the game, but your skill with different weapons cannot be changed so easily. Looking at the conversations in IT's forums, you can see that different people had very different experiences with different character builds. If you have 180 skill points in sword, switching to a bow where you have only 55 points isn't always helpful. If your dodge is not working so well, simply using an armor will not always be enough to save you.
So although there is rather a, ideal "build" for each meeting, the problem is that you cannot just use it whenever you want. Here, you will use your decision-making ability, in which skills to spend your points, which use armor, etc... Wich is much easier in the demo, as Vince said that you get too many points to spend after every battle. It won't be so simple in the game, I hope. Not that I'm saying that the game is very complex, mind you. For an experienced player, I find that the best way to confront their adversaries should be nothing very mysterious.
But I still think that this system isn't
so bad as ppl say it is.
Overweight Manatee said:
So is the entire game going to be fights against opponents who are always less skilled then you? I would hope not.
As far as I know, this will depend a lot more of you than the game. There is no kind of "level scaling", which means that strong enemies are always strong, and weak enemies are always weak. Ultimately, your decisions are going to take you to face a determined combat, so if you're facing an enemy much stronger/weaker than you... It was your choice.
But I understand what you mean. Surely, AoD would have benefited from a party system. Why Vince chose not to, only he can say.