Interparty balance: Required or not?
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You're assuming that combat is all that matters. Thorg the Annihilator might be able to slaughter orc hoards with a wave us is arm, but a blood-spattered maniac isn't going to go down well at the royal cocktail party.TheFlatline wrote: No it's not fine. It's ass. If that nuke is applicable to the majority of the game's combat, then there's no point in being anything other than the character that can nuke.
Which is to say that the game should not be all about combat.
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FFCC had problems, the use of GBAs wasn't one of them. When you're playing a cooperative video game, having your inventory screen and actions menu somewhere where they won't cover the screen and slow everything down is not a bad thing, especially if it only requires something your friends almost certainly already have anyway. Seriously, there aren't many people who are going to agree to play an 80+ hour cooperative Final Fantasy game with you who don't already have a GBA, one of the most popular and prolific consumer electronics of the early 2000's. Yeah, you need propriatary cables, but that's really it.Psychic Robot wrote:shitty game design especially when you needed GBAs for everyone to participate
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The GBA came out in 2001.
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http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=86Psychic Robot wrote:shitty game design especially when you needed GBAs for everyone to participate
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The original post was concerning D&D. Which is 90% combat. So let's not move the goal posts here without explicitly stating so in advance.hyzmarca wrote:You're assuming that combat is all that matters. Thorg the Annihilator might be able to slaughter orc hoards with a wave us is arm, but a blood-spattered maniac isn't going to go down well at the royal cocktail party.TheFlatline wrote: No it's not fine. It's ass. If that nuke is applicable to the majority of the game's combat, then there's no point in being anything other than the character that can nuke.
Which is to say that the game should be all about combat.
And in your above example, sure BMX Bandit could do some tricks and entertain the audience, but Angel Summoner could just summon a horde of angels to suck everyone off. Which by definition should be heavenly.
And in D&D terms, how is a mage less adept at social encounters than the fighter?
Yeah, ways around it. Still dumb. But I never had to figure them out because in general I don't play multiplayer video games--video games are what I do when I don't want to deal with people. I'm playing the game now because I picked it up used for like seven bucks.Maxus wrote:You still have the option of putting the bucket down and helping out. It's what I always did.jadagul wrote: It cuts your speed roughly in half and means you can't take any actions, but someone has to do it.
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Maybe, but at least he has a point. Needing Gameboys to play coop FFCC does not mean you have to BUY Gameboys to play coop FFCC any more than the game requiring a TV means you need to run out and buy a new TV to play it on. You seriously have that shit already.Psychic Robot wrote:tycho is a long-winded [EDITED] who is desperate to sound more intelligent than he is
Scott Ramsoomair has nothing but a hate-boner for Nintendo and a total lack of ability to spin his hate into anything funny. Seriously. His Mr Potomoto character is all about how supposedly Nintendo's attempts at innovation are only transparent attempts to force you to spend more money. That's bullshit. If you think Nintendo's attempts at innovation are not successful or don't result in any kind of workable system, just fucking SAY THAT. A lot of people did, and still do, as a matter of fact. It's a valid complaint. Nintendo spent the first two or three years of the current console generation of consoles eating XBox and PS3's lunch and this had as much to do with them figuring out that if you came up with an interesting control system, you could sacrifice on hardware power to bring your console in at a fraction of your competitor's prices and tap a whole new market of gamers that aren't impressed with shiny graphics pasted onto a horrible games.* If Nintendo and Square wanted to fleece their customers over FFCC, they wouldn't have used something that had more units sold than the damned Gamecube, they would have come up with an entirely new peripheral that you'd have to buy. They could have done that so easily it's not even funny.
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The original post was concerning D&D. Which is 90% combat. So let's not move the goal posts here without explicitly stating so in advance
It's perfectly plausible to play a D&D game that doesn't have any combat.
The fact that the mage is able to replace everyone is a well-established problem as is the fact that fighters tend to suck. Those are balance problems.And in your above example, sure BMX Bandit could do some tricks and entertain the audience, but Angel Summoner could just summon a horde of angels to suck everyone off. Which by definition should be heavenly.
And in D&D terms, how is a mage less adept at social encounters than the fighter?
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That is when the mage goes it alone,a nd se how much of a game you have...it doesnt work that way...hyzmarca wrote:The fact that the mage is able to replace everyone is a well-established problem as is the fact that fighters tend to suck. Those are balance problems.
The social setup is based on the players social relations...Swordslinger wrote:Possible, yes. Plausible, no. I don't think any gaming group would pick the D&D system if they were not intending on having any combat, given the D&D social set up is terrible.hyzmarca wrote: It's perfectly plausible to play a D&D game that doesn't have any combat.
if the players dont get along, then maybe they shouldnt be playing together in the first place?
Play the game, not the rules.
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Eh, problems with that. Also, I don't like heat.ckafrica wrote:That would be a very reasonably obtainable ambition over here in the Nam.Count Arioch the 28th wrote:If I ever get enough money, I'm moving to Nevada and renting three hookers to play video games with me. That'd be pretty cool, at least when I get enough money to make it happen...Desdan_Mervolam wrote:Count: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/8/25/
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