GREATREDSPIRIT'S PROFILE

That's awesome.

Although Prime sure is ratting Rodimus out: All those screw ups occured when Prime was in charge. Damn you Hasbro for killing all the old cool characters :(



Only watch this if you beat Earthbound. Otherwise it loses some of the impact.


What the hell Japan.

I played it a few times a year ago, then almost everybody I played with quit all about the same time :(

I do draw a fair bit of my ideas from D&D though, I really like the mechanics behind it. Hell, I've even divied up my defence mechanics into "Defence" (resist getting hit) and "Resistance" (damage reduction). Element wise though, its a coincidence. I stole got the SPB idea from Vagrant Story and FIE from other games and Acid was chosen since, as I understand it (its been years since I last took Chemistry), its pretty much anti-electricity: It takes electrons instead of giving them.

I'm getting a lot of ideas from D&D, but the element breakdown isn't one of them :P (well, not consciously anyways)

I've got three physical elements:
- Slashing
- Piercing
- Bludgeoning
I'm treating these as more properties of the weapon instead of regular elements. For example, Bludgeoning attacks ignore some of the defence granted via armour while piercing attacks don't, but they deal more damage on a critial hit. Enemies might have different vulnerabilities for each weapon type, but so far I'm thinking "No".

For more magical attacks, I only use four:
- Burning and other hot stuff
- Freezing and other cold stuff
- Electricity
- Acid
These are more like the typical elements: Enemies have different vulnerabilities to each element. Spells from each category also have their own traits based on their element. For example, Electricity atacks don't do any MaxHP damage but more CurHP damage, but Acid attacks deal less CurHP damage but more MaxHP damage.


Too many elements can be a bad thing. Star Ocean 2 was terrible for this. There was a mess of elements, half of which I had no idea what they were or what spells did what kind of damage. Plus most gear didn't protect you from any of it (well, nothing that I remember) which made all the elements in the game really pointless.

I really like FF10 for its whole four elements. It was enough to add strategy and not cause characters to have a slew of spells for assorted elements that were barely used or have elements whose spells couldn't be used by most of the party. Think to FF6, if a boss was weak to Water or Wind, what could you do? Call in Strago, or... just murder the boss and not care. Having characters who can use the variety of elements is important. (wheee tangents!)

I'll have something for RS3. Not sure what though (but I've got a month and a half to decide ;D )

author=ImmortalDreamer link=topic=965.msg14410#msg14410 date=1209966855
I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, but why? Imo, the player should have decided on their party long before they go to exit the menu. I dunno, to me it just seems like a needless hassle to go move that menu for such a small reason.

Its prioritizing what the player can see which relates to what the systems wants the user to input. In this case, its a window where the player inputs if the party they made is what they want, if they want to continue making changes, or screw it all and stick with what you had before. You're showing the Active party (which is important here) and some character's stats (which is low priority information) instead of who isn't in your party which I'd label as more important than some character's stats. You'd show more useful information if what was displayed was the active and reserve party instead of active party and Character X's stats.



Again, it isn't anything critical and implementing it might not even be feasable depending on how the code is structured. Like you said, most people have the party they want when they hit the confirmation screen. I just look for where interfaces can be improved, sometimes to the point of nitpicking.