SAILERIUS'S PROFILE

author=Sated
Tbh, if the first review your game gets is a low-scoring one, and the game doesn't already have a lot of momentum behind it, you might as well scrap it because games in this community rarely come back from that. This is especially true because a lot of reviewers won't update reviews even after the game itself has been updated to fix the problems that they raised. It's actually a perfectly understandable thing for someone to do; you've just gotta hope that they take any legitimate criticism forward into future projects.

author=Someoneman
I don't think having an item that disables random encounters is a good idea, because the entire point of random encounters is to force the player to fight whether they're ready or not.

For an example, look at Bravely Default, which has options to increase, decrease, or fully disable random encounters. On paper, it sounds good, since it allows the player to explore dungeons at their own pace. But in execution, it turns into a boring loop of:

1: Turn random encounters off or to low, search dungeon and open all chests

2: Turn encounters to 200% and run in circles to grind until your HP or MP gets too low

3: Turn encounters back to 0 and return to the inn with zero threat to your weakened party

4: Repeat steps 2 and 3 until your levels are sufficiently high


Sure, it's good to be able to explore earlier dungeons without the hindrance of weak and time-wasting enemies, but the fact that you'll never have to worry about dragging a dying party back to the inn while desperately fending off enemies removes a big chunk of challenge and excitement.

Another system that wasn't mentioned in the poll is the one used in Breath of Death and Cthulhu Saves the World: the menu has a "Fights left" counter that goes down each time you win a battle. After 30 or so battles in a specific dungeon, random encounters stop completely, but you can still manually start a fight if you want to. But even that has its problems, as it encouraged me to just stand near the dungeon entrance and manually start battles until all random encounters were done with.

author=Sooz

author=Sailerius
Ehh... I'm not really sure that's true. In a real-time/continuous game, you can do anything you can do in a turn-based game and more. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with turn-based games, but there's a *lot* you can do with continuous real-time gameplay that's either walled off to you in turn-based or is prohibitively difficult to design or implement. A good example is anything involving three-dimensional spatial awareness. For instance, aiming a spell or ranged weapon. While you can switch into an aiming mode in a turn-based game (Eternal Sonata did it), it's always a really awkward context switch because it basically thrusts an FPS minigame into the middle of a menu-based game. It's just not a natural transition.

I'm never sure why anyone thinks it's a grand idea to introduce 3D spatial-based stuff into a 2D medium.