LOCKEZ'S PROFILE

author=StormCrow

(Players) generally won't do the things that are most fun to them ... That's how human brains work.

You're not 100% wrong about everything but this statement is just...I can't. Your thinking is idiotic. I'm done. Peace.

For example, right now, you are arguing with some asshole on the internet instead of watching Classic Doctor Who or playing the Final Fantasy Tactics randomizer. Not because it's more fun, but because something about the situation psychologically compelled you to do so. You've decided that this article is a boss battle and for some reason you need to defeat it, so now you're doing that instead of going off and doing something fun. You're probably going to come back and argue with this post too. However, if the comment section provided some strong incentive to post exactly one comment and no more, you would be less likely to do that, and more likely to give up and go pick a game to play from your Steam library.

Your job is to get players to do things that are fun. That's what game design is, in one sentence.

author=Kylaila

author=LockeZ
Both of these problems can be solved a lot of ways, but one of the more enjoyable ways to solve them is to make it so that leveling up doesn't actually grant you a lot of power, it mostly just unlocks the ability to gain power in other ways. This pushes the game's primary methods of gaining power to being rewards from the game's primary content - bosses, dungeons, treasure chests, crafting systems, etc. This makes all of these things feel rewarding, because they give you almost all of your actual power.

I wholeheartedly agree with this, I just can't see why and how equipment level requirements are the one and only solution to this. These things you mentioned and wish to see the power on usually (crafting, dungeons, other main content) already are the main source of power.

In simple terms, the idea is to make leveling up still feel like a big deal, so the player feels like battles are rewarding. Obviously, an alternative is to remove levels from the game entirely, or make them have almost no benefit, instead providing all of the player's major power upgrades purely via finding them. But if your combat is fun - and hopefully it is - then it's nice to make it also feel rewarding, at least for as long as it keeps being fun. Otherwise a lot of people won't do it. They'll just skip past all the skippable enemies and fight the bosses that give rewards.

It's more important in a game like World of Warcraft where the power-ups come from bosses, or a game like Dragon Age where they come from quest completion and treasure chests, than it is in a game like Diablo 3 where they come from literally everything.

The other idea is to prevent players from skipping 90% of the game in multiplayer games, which is something they'll do given the chance, because if you say "Hey kid you want an awesome legendary sword?" a lot of people are gonna be like "Fuck yeah!" without thinking too hard about the details first. But then that powerup makes the next eight hours of the game not fun, because the sword comes from way later in the game, and is so good that it's essentially an invincibility cheat.

Guys. It's Locke and then Z. The Z is for Znderson.

I even capitalized my name for easy pronunciation. Geez.

author=kentona
lockez is just acknowledging he is one of those people

yeah I probably did start this game 10 years ago by now

author=Darken
this amazingly obnoxious battle system video is 10 years old now

what happened

all the people who started making games like that 10 years ago are still making them

I want to assume that everyone who votes 3 is just trolling me, but someone on my MUD said they pronounced it that way for real.