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author=Craze
if the mooks in dynasty warriors were smart, the game would be fucking awful to play.

I don't know why you play games, but I couldn't disagree more with this. The games I've played have enemies doing literally nothing. They all crowd around you and maybe one or two will swing their weapons. I play games to strategize and encounter resistance. Not mash button to win. Even when the generals show up, they aren't very smart or much of a challenge. They usually just have higher HP and invincibility frames to make the fight drag on long enough to justify playing it. And maybe they can actually block so that you have to stop mashing for a second before you start mashing some more.

If a player gets frustrated because they do poorly at games, the answer isn't to lobotomize the enemies. If there are difficulty levels that affect it, that's fine. But usually there is no such setting and the game is braindead easy until they scale up the dmg the enemies do so it's just as easy except you have to not get hit at all. It also ties into the fact that the enemies have just a few tools and don't have any kind of strategy to make good use of them.

It's possible good examples exist but I haven't seen them. So I can only speak from my own experience. Also I'm good at games, so I have an easier time finding exploits in enemy AI. Maybe that's the difference? (not that I'm suggesting you suck at games haha no) One person might have a hard time beating Crash Man in MM2, but I can make him dance to my whims.

Oh, and I guess turn based battles are ok xD I haven't played much of those in recent years but I still like the concept. I want to make one some day and give it my best shot at correcting the bad AI issue. I think it has to do with effort. Instead of taking the time to code different scenarios, devs just create a basic framework, assign moves within the framework, and that's it. I would want to create all kinds of rules like: (enemy)if your ally is a common target do this buff/guard him, if the hero just cured someone cast silence on the one that did, or if the hero keeps using fire moves increase your resistance to it. And much more, of course, those are still fairly basic. But at least it's not just, use this at random and every 6 turns do this and when low hp do that. To give the enemies some semblance of reacting to your moves, just not acting.

That also depends on the moves themselves. If it's just dmg, more dmg, and dmg plus status/element there isn't much room to be creative. But if you have moves that do more interesting things, there is room to be creative and make the player think about what to do next. Not just about how they can deal the most damage while taking the least.

author=LockeZ

author=Link_2112
Last night as I was passing by a gym I took it over and put my Magikarp up. It's still there.

OK, that's pretty satisfying.

Hot damn, it's still there and it's almost the 24 hour mark. This would be the first time ever that I've been able to keep a Gym for that long and reap the precious real money currency rewards. I'm tempted to drive out there again tonight to check on the Gym and revel in the glory. For the record I'm team Instinct xD and if you don't know why that matters, then you don't play pokemon go.

between Pokemon GO and VarageSale I've discovered more of my city in the past 6 months than I ever did in the past 16 years

My city town village got the shaft, but I discovered much of the nearby cities! I wish I was still in Ottawa when this came out. But I wonder what this Varagesale is...

I never cared about Gyms and I'm not even sure what he's talking about. Even before the update I've never had a pokemon last more than 12 hours in a Gym anyways and it seems like I could go take over a Gym with ease even before the update. Although I'm in the ruralist of rural areas. Cape Breton island.

For me, the update made this game playable instead of an uphill grind fest. I have 1 pokestop nearby, and the next one is a 5 min drive, and beyond that it's at least 15 mins drive in any direction. The fact that I can go to my local stop and catch a ton of pokemon and get a shit ton of items increased what I can do by at least x3.

I think that guys problem, well one of his problems, is that he spent money on this game. What a sap. I got Google Rewards, did dumb surveys, built up 6$ and used that to buy items in the game. All profit.

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