Duralux for Durabux
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Origins was better because of pharaohs and Ancient egypt, it's such a fertile non-exploited ground for a good game.
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Yes, Witcher 3 also has terrible RPG mechanics suffering from bloat and inconsistent HP pools (level 20 goblins being stronger than early game griffins, give me a fucking break, HP scaling like this is the worst kind of "RPG mechanic" out there).
If all your "RPG mechanics" lead to is HP bloat and end-game enemies taking 20 hits to kill while you are also tanky as fuck and take 20 hits to kill, it's not fun.
This has been the case since forever, always.
In fact, Irenicus would have had his ass handed to him by regular bar patrons from Throne of Bhaal.
moon knight
Matt7895's alt
Odyssey is a piece of shit, not only in the RPG aspect of the game (if we can even call it like that), don't compare it to TW3.
Also LOL to the fact that this new direction of Assassin's Creed is "damn good". Previous Assassin's Creeds, with all their faults, at least handed to the player the tools to express their creativity through gameplay, be in the parkour (and that si expecially true in the first 4 games) and the actual assassinations. Parkour in Odyssey and Origins has been dumbed the fuck down and it's not a gameplay feature anymore, just a way of traversing the map, and the assassinations are basically non existant.
Duralux for Durabux
Guest
Assassin's creed was innovative before origin because they tried at making a sort of stealth,parkour( even if it was far from perfect) game but now everything is copy paste( not in the good way like you said) from witcher 3. There is nothing new except landscapes and graphics.
Which is a bad mechanic and shows that horizontal character development is often more fun than excessive vertical development.
But D&D gets a pass because high level gameplay tends to be different enough from low level gameplay: a lot more spells (BG2 had epic mage duels), powerful magic weapons and armors with special effects, etc.
In Assassins Creed Odyssey, combat works essentially the same at high levels as it does at low levels, but it takes a lot longer to take down enemies (or be taken down yourself) because of excessive HP scaling that stands in no relation to damage scaling.
I recently started playing Fallout 4 and it's a reasonably enjoyable action RPG, but it has the same issue. I'm at level 15 now and raiders at my level range take a lot longer to take down (and they take a lot longer to take me down, too) than they used to at low levels. It used to be that 3 close-up shotgun blasts would kill a lightly armored raider, or one stealth headshot would take him out, or half a dozen rifle shots at mid range. I was also a lot more vulnerable myself, being completely shredded by a single grenade, losing half my health against a close-up shotgun blast, etc. But now at mid-level the tension is gone because combat turned from a deadly dance to a lengthy war of attrition where you and your enemies slowly chip away at each other's huge HP pools.
I installed these two mods to make the combat fun again:
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/24313
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/24626?
The issue here is that health gains per level are far higher than damage gains per level, so combat becomes less deadly and more about attrition grind. Usually this also lessens the challenge because when player and enemies are equally spongy, the player wins due to an overabundance of healing items or better tactics. In games with such bogus levels of health scaling, combat stops being fun at high levels, and you stop feeling powerful because it takes ages to take down enemies when it used to just take a couple of hits at low levels.
Again, D&D solves this by giving you plenty of spells that either deal massive amounts of damage, can instakill, can massively debilitate, etc, so combat doesn't lose its tension. But when your system doesn't give the player tools like that and combat essentially plays out the same way it did on low levels except numbers are bigger, it turns into a boring slog and you wish you were back at low levels again because back then it was fun.
Odyssey also had a rebalance mod that un-bloated both your and the enemies' HP (sadly the modder went awol and the mod doesn't work with the most recent patch), which should tell you that the HP bloat was a major issue.
RPG systems that don't have infinitely scaling health are much better than those which do. That Fallout 4 mod that ties health to constitution and severs it from level for both you and all enemies makes the game so much more fun because you no longer encounter bloated enemies that take 500 shots to kill, and if you want to increase your own survivability you must invest your points into constitution (you know, like you're supposed to in an RPG - if you want a thing to increase you invest points in it, to the detriment of other things you could have increased instead).
PrettyDeadman
Guest
If it was the case, why he was played off as some kind of dangerous villain? 1 guard should've been more than enough to take care of a wuss weaker than average tavern drunk.
Can't believe how shitty bg2 plot was...
The problem isn't the plot, the problem is ridiculous levels of power scaling (and applying that to random tavern patrons in a high level area rather than just to appropriate NPCs and monsters).
Duralux for Durabux
Guest
Assassin's creed needed to be a Thief-clone with murders instead of a Witcher-clone.
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moon knight
Matt7895's alt
More like Dishonored. Unity attempted something like that by returning to the Assassin's Creed 1 roots, but it was half assed (like the rest of the game).
Unity and Syndicate were pretty decent if they hadn't been so buggy and rushed. But instead of refining their formula, Ubisoft decided to switch genres and turn Ass Creed into another generic action RPG whose only RPG credentials are that numbers go up.
Oh well.
Oh well.
CrunchyHemorrhoids
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At least she has a nice beard.
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moon knight
Matt7895's alt
Dual wield axes, lol, I'm not even gonna watch this shit
sullynathan
Arcane
This is not even Assassin's Creed at all. How are they going to shoehorn Templar vs Assassin BS here
Duralux for Durabux
Guest
The lore doesn't makes any sense anyway.
It can't be worse.
The final move with the hidden blade was p. dope gotta admit.
But aside from that this looks dime in a dozen. Luckily Youtube recommended me a far better trailer afterwards
But aside from that this looks dime in a dozen. Luckily Youtube recommended me a far better trailer afterwards
Duralux for Durabux
Guest
Does the name change if it's a female or stays the same (Eivor doesn't seems to sound female at all)?
Still sticking to the retarded Templar meta thing.
Other than that it was p. cool. Not a single Viking was black, not a single soldier was female.
Inb4 backlash and half the Nordic army stunningbrave black femyn.
Other than that it was p. cool. Not a single Viking was black, not a single soldier was female.
Inb4 backlash and half the Nordic army stunningbrave black femyn.
Lord_Potato
Arcane
Hopefully they won't. It's time to dump this bullcrap, together with Animus.
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