I would love to play an RPG where roughly 80% of my time isn't spent repairing gear, crafting, and organizing my items.
Grimrock. Most JRPGs. Most non-Bethesda RPGs, actually.
Even ones I like to play, like Dragon Age, spends a good deal of its time involved in money-making schemes and weapon/armor upkeep.
And Kingdoms of Amalur was such a crippling disappointment all around.
This is Origins you're talking about? Because I don't remember any of that.
Yeah, Origins has like a billion different armor grades and classes, plus a billion more unique item sets, and it just becomes a chore keeping up with them all, especially if you're prone to being a completionist.
I really don't recall having any trouble with any of these things. Just didn't register with me.
The DLC with Warden's Keep mitigated some of the trouble with item limits by giving you a storage locker, but even then you're constantly fiddling with loot.
I have a weird thing about loot in RPGs. I like loot, but I don't want to spend all my time looting, and I don't want to have to sort through tons and tons of junk all the time.
But I also think crafting and herbalism are largely broken mechanics in almost every game they're presented in.
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I would love to play an RPG where roughly 80% of my time isn't spent repairing gear, crafting, and organizing my items.
As much as I found it kind of a jarring change. I think ME2 and 3 ditching the inventory / upgrade system of ME was one of the best decisions they could have made.
Oh god yes.
The most frustrating thing about the first mass effect (after the Sisyphean task that is managing your inventory) is that you play commander shepard - an N7 graduate, XO on the normandy, a special prototype ship and a candidate to become the first human Spectre. But you can't hit anything with any weapon because you apparently made it to this point in your career with a rough idea of which end of the gun is the dangerous one and little else.
Thank god they eventually got rid of that nonsense.
I want the rest of the Nova Corps to be play by other stalwarts of British comedy alongside Peter Serafinowicz. Steve Coogan, Kevin Bridges, David Mitchell, etc.
God, imagine Mitchell as a Nova Corps administrator.
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ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
Marvel's space stuff was best when it was in British hands. DnA, that's all.
Its funny how many amazing stories actually were taking place under Marvel UK without getting much press over here. And I'm not just saying this as a huge Alan Davis fanboy. Finding those Marvel UK titles after I'd been collencting for a while was like stumbling on buried treasure.
The Marvel UK Transformers title was amazing, when it wasn't running godawful crap from the American Marvel Transformers comic. Simon Furman and Geoff Senior making mythology and awesomeness out of toy robots. Fucking Death's Head, a character so amazing he now makes an appearance whenever a UK writer gets his hands on a Marvel book and is able to write a scene in space, because everyone who was a kid and who read stories with that guy fell in love forever.
Marvel UK is having some sort of crossover event that he's in.
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kaleeditySometimes science is more art than scienceRegistered Userregular
I think hellgate: london might have had the worstest loot system
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ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
I want the rest of the Nova Corps to be play by other stalwarts of British comedy alongside Peter Serafinowicz. Steve Coogan, Kevin Bridges, David Mitchell, etc.
God, imagine Mitchell as a Nova Corps administrator.
Yes. If we get a Nova movie, this needs to happen.
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
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Alpha Protocol had that issue too. Supposedly Sega made them tie guns to a leveling mechanic.
AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
What about a crafting/leveling mechanic where you get more spendable credits for expanding your breadth of skill in the game or completing certain cheevos? It seems like that would have you actually use the game's thesis itself to improve your performance in the game (given the caveat you think games AREN'T about constant organisation and crafting).
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I want the rest of the Nova Corps to be play by other stalwarts of British comedy alongside Peter Serafinowicz. Steve Coogan, Kevin Bridges, David Mitchell, etc.
God, imagine Mitchell as a Nova Corps administrator.
Yes. If we get a Nova movie, this needs to happen.
Is it bad that I'd rather have a Captain Marvel movie?
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The DLC with Warden's Keep mitigated some of the trouble with item limits by giving you a storage locker, but even then you're constantly fiddling with loot.
I have a weird thing about loot in RPGs. I like loot, but I don't want to spend all my time looting, and I don't want to have to sort through tons and tons of junk all the time.
But I also think crafting and herbalism are largely broken mechanics in almost every game they're presented in.
Oh god yes.
The most frustrating thing about the first mass effect (after the Sisyphean task that is managing your inventory) is that you play commander shepard - an N7 graduate, XO on the normandy, a special prototype ship and a candidate to become the first human Spectre. But you can't hit anything with any weapon because you apparently made it to this point in your career with a rough idea of which end of the gun is the dangerous one and little else.
Thank god they eventually got rid of that nonsense.
"we have wormsign the likes of which GOD has never seen!"
But if such a system is too open it rapidly becomes unmanageable
So basically there needs to be a non-tedious way to optimise, and I tend to think it's worth sacrificing some flexibility for that purpose
Marvel UK is having some sort of crossover event that he's in.
Yes. If we get a Nova movie, this needs to happen.
I feel this is a mistake.
shouldn't it be "LeBron has advice for Romo; fan of Manziel"? Or is that usage of the comma fine?
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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I wish I lived in the Fortress of Solitude.
That's exactly what I'm saying!
Waited for 8 entire minutes.
Burn it all down.
Is it bad that I'd rather have a Captain Marvel movie?
Or can it be both?
@Atomika will create the new thread
@Shazkar Shadowstorm is backup