SHINAN'S PROFILE

My bet on Saint's Row backfired. I had thought it'd be in the mid 70s on legacy alone!

Also finding a "new franchise" game before it's out and one that is not in early access is really hard...

(I have to take issue with "Live a Live" being a new franchise since it's a remake though :P)

author=Darken
Debuffing again I guess goes back to my personal subjective head-cannon of that being reserved for another role like a wizard or warlock type character. Sure stuff like poisons and trickery is very much the class fantasy but I feel like thieves should be more quick and dirty.

I feel like in the traditional party (Warrior, Thief, Healer, Wizard) it makes sense to give the debuffs to the thief because after all a wizard is a DPS AOE Glass Cannon. I can count on my fingers the number of times I've wanted to spend my MP on "silence" or "confuse" over throwing a third level fireball at the whole enemy party. (one can of course fix this by adding a debuffing effect to spells (burn, freeze etc) but it's not like wizards are the ones that need to be buffed. They are too good already)

In the basic jrpg party the roles (at a glance) would seem like the Warrior does a lot of damage (to usually only one enemy) and can also take a lot of damage. The healer... heals (and buffs your buddies), the wizard has low hp but can cast massive damage on (all) the enemy (and is the one that has to deal with MP management the most) and the thief... yeah. In this scenario it makes sense that the thief would go first, do a little damage and add a slow or poison effect at the same time. (and with some RNG stuff like added crit chance and a dodgy disposition. But players rarely factor in the rng stuff to their thinking.)

Banne

I forgot about this thread but also I saw Everything Everywhere All at Once and I can't recommend it enough. Even if it has all the hype in the world and that might put you off... I'm saying that the hype was real and if you can see it in a theater I definitely recommend seeing it in a theater.