Fun > balance.
Perfect symmetry in all options =/= fun.
This tbhAnd the colonial struggle between the factions is boring and pretentious as fuck.
Fun > balance.
Perfect symmetry in all options =/= fun.
2019 and people are still arguing against this strawman they made up.Perfect symmetry in all options =/= fun.
Gellarde!This tbhAnd the colonial struggle between the factions is boring and pretentious as fuck.
I didn't give a fuck about their problems
2019 and people are still arguing against this strawman they made up.Perfect symmetry in all options =/= fun.
I think he should be criticized for things he says and does, not for something he explicitly denied he was doing back in 2013 https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...to-the-new-thread.75947/page-544#post-24887972019 and Roguey is still Sawyer's lawyer because he said something to her, once.
I think he should be criticized for things he says and does, not for something he explicitly denied he was doing back in 2013 https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...to-the-new-thread.75947/page-544#post-24887972019 and Roguey is still Sawyer's lawyer because he said something to her, once.
In 2015 I even put together a post of all the times he ever said anything along the lines of "I'm not trying to achieve perfect balance" https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/josh-sawyer-and-fun-discuss.96540/page-8#post-3767259
[bunch of drivel exhibiting the telltale signs of a fellow autist]
This comment in all its verbosity is entirely divorced from the content of Sawyer's talk. He makes no comments about the floatiness of the combat, Damage Reduction, penetration system, or even item balance. You may as well claim he fucks goats and it wouldn't be any less relevant than whatever it is you're saying above.
Be mindful that in denouncing his supposed autism you have actually revealed your own autistic nature. Either that, or you're delusional.
He is trying to offload the autistic and fundamental changes he made to the system to "hardcore fans". When the "hardcore fans" said the PoE1 combat feels floaty because of high DR and armour penetration weapons are objectively better he didn't have to go back to drawing board and make an even more autistic system instead of refining the last one. Completely throwing off even the people who were okay with first game because his streamlining became insolvent.
I'll have to rephrase myself for your special needs.
Here's your claim:
I'm saying that in no part of the talk he tries to offload such changes, and especially the kind of changes you mention, to the hardcore fans. I'm saying that here is literally no moment in the video where you could do such an attribution as you're claiming. To the extent that I respond to your attribution, I am not spinning anything, and to the extent that you claim the above, I consider what you said delusional drivel. You are basically responding to a Sawyer of your own creation.
I am quite well-versed in the development path of PoE2, having followed both games quite closely. I am also quite certain that I'm more knowledgable and experienced than you regarding both games.
I was thinking why I find the combat in deadfire moderately enjoyable despite disagreeing with almost all design approaches sawyer has and the system at place in general. It is because of options of character archetypes and itemisation basically, there are a lot of them and they are different. Especially itemisation, it is everything that the system is not. The system is extremely streamlined, it is all about stacking multipliers to fill a bar of statistics to reach a critical mass of numbers, it is nearly always about efficiency (in itself not a bad thing) above all and overall just feels like a bad mmo. Itemisation on the other hand are opposite, items are unique, they have tangible impact and they are recognisable with their bonuses, they change how things work out in combat and getting thresholds in enchantments is very satisfying and you immediately feel the effects. Imagine if a game existed that actually had a good system that wasn't such streamlined garbage about adding up several 10-15% bonuses.
You are basically responding to a Sawyer of your own creation.