YOSHIO'S PROFILE

Here's a cliche I really love

bosses with wacky personalities or quirks

nothing pleases me more than running into a boss that acts like a cheesy action cartoon hero (or a power rangers esque team)

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty much talking about almost every boss in the mario rpg games

I also think that Fierce Pork Trooper and Mr. Passion from Mother 3 would qualify (perhaps Fassad as well)

in fact, pretty much any cliche used in the Mario RPGs or Mother 3 I like

This is the name I use on every online site I go to

named after a charecter in a comic series I sorta do from time to time (when I come up with ideas that are actually funny)

make sure you are level 2 and you have at least 2 cherries before you fight him

I believe that my demo http://www.rpgmaker.net/games/915/downloads/ may be ready to be subjected to your poison pen, er, keyboard, whatever

author=Craze link=topic=2479.msg54738#msg54738 date=1231524290
Bosses should drop tangible rewards--toys--instead of intangible rewards exclusively. The reason is that difficulty is ramped up and characters are more likely to die. So, unless EXP is gained despite status, levels are lost. A revived character can still wield a dual-edged +6 voral chainblade, however!

If you think that dead characters should suffer because they died (haha), think about these concepts:

-Your player beat the boss, regardless. That should be highly rewarded.
-The player wants to have a good time, not be punished if the boss whips out some crazy death throe attack right before the EXP is dished out.
-Did you give the player a potentially weak/under-leveled character? If so, when they inevitably die they still won't get stronger. CHAOS: THIS SORT OF THINKING IS NOT A FEATURE THIS IS BAD GAME DESIGN*



In summary: Go play Etrian Odyssey 2 and take notes.

oh yes! I really agree that exp. should be awarded regardless of if a charecter does it or not and have fixed the scripting in my game to allow for this

not only because my game specifically demands for this to happen because of the way I do monster battles in this game (no random battles and the monsters fight you once) it is required to have this or else the player is screwed for the entire game, but I think ALL games should have this, requiring a charecter to be alive when the battle ends in ordr to gain the exp. is just asinine, and if you have an "anti grinding" game, it will kill the type of game you are intending


*This is referring to some terrible reasoning he had a while back involving a boss fight in that western game.

Yes! I agree with this completely

I believe that every game should award the exp. to every charecter when a battle is won regardless of whether they are dead or not

this is the way I have it in my game, not only because being a game where there isn't any random encounters and the monsters will only fight you once, it is required to prevent totally screwing over the player for the whole game, but also because I think that every game should do this. Not giving charecters the exp. because they died before the battle was won is just asinine, and if you are making a game with a "no level grinding" philosophy, it will completely kill this intention, or render the game unplayable, depending on how you go about not having random encounters

also I hate games where I have to level grind