I hate Damage number popups

[mondblut]

NPC health bars are almost as bad. The proper way to do it is to change the apperance of the NPC: make his armor look damaged, show bleeding, limping, dismembered limbs (all this requires more work, of course).

Cool. Now do Black Pudding or Gelatinous Cube.

Damage numbers and health bars are also signs of annoying bullet sponge mechanics; if NPCs were not bullet sponges there would be less "need" for damage numbers and health bars, since the NPC would die much quicker.

Health bars are crap because they don't really tell how many hps we still need to take down before the enemy croaks. Is that 1 out of 10 or 100 out of 1000?

 

[mondblut]

Aethra Chronicles had descriptive text ("you deal a staggering blow").

I remember reading some MUD combat log that looked like this:

Joe *crushes* enemyname!
Pete CRIPPLES enemyname!
Mike *EVISCERATES* enemyname!
...

It was 20 pages long. Much evisceration...

 

[mondblut]

Give me a proper damage window and allow me to look down to focus briefly on it as well as to let me go back and review the battle to see where things went right and wrong:

Playing a game where hit points are measured in hundreds of thousands - that's where things went wrong for you.

 

[Beastro]

Give me a proper damage window and allow me to look down to focus briefly on it as well as to let me go back and review the battle to see where things went right and wrong:

Playing a game where hit points are measured in hundreds of thousands - that's where things went wrong for you.

Oh, I agree.

Only relevent photo I could find dedicating a minute to locating one~

 

[Iucounu]

NPC health bars are almost as bad. The proper way to do it is to change the apperance of the NPC: make his armor look damaged, show bleeding, limping, dismembered limbs (all this requires more work, of course).

Cool. Now do Black Pudding or Gelatinous Cube.

What are those, game characters? If you are fighting a jelly enemy, then maybe damage can be shown in different ways --shrinking, deformation, discoloring, smoke? Bleeding might still work.

Damage numbers and health bars are also signs of annoying bullet sponge mechanics; if NPCs were not bullet sponges there would be less "need" for damage numbers and health bars, since the NPC would die much quicker.

Health bars are crap because they don't really tell how many hps we still need to take down before the enemy croaks. Is that 1 out of 10 or 100 out of 1000?

That's less of a concern to me, usually the rate of healthbar decline shows how much damage you deal. Slow decline: bullet sponge enemy. Fast decline: no NPC health bar necessary in the first place.

 

[Kabas]

Reposting because relevant.

Starting as a weakling with small numbers and then later watching your screen explode with huge numbers can be fun.

In normal RPGs things will quickly get boring after reaching this point though.

 

[JarlFrank]

I rather like the idea the player or mob looks injured, loses limbs, etc though.

Yes.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Reposting because relevant.

Starting as a weakling with small numbers and then later watching your screen explode with huge numbers can be fun.

In normal RPGs things will quickly get boring after reaching this point though.

WTF IS GOING ON IN THAT SHOT!?!???

 

[Kabas]

WTF IS GOING ON IN THAT SHOT!?!???

1st answer: Hakos Baelz has an ult that reduces delay between attacks to 0 seconds on every weapon. Produces funny results with some weapons.

2nd answer: Abyss

3rd answer: This is how most survivor clones look near the end of a run if you built your character properly.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I thought the MC, based on ?his? smile just had a huge orgasm at the slutty barber & lap dance joint. Shaved & Laid!