If this is the case, then what led you to make statements like the ones you made?
Correction-- bosses in most Final Fantasies don't give experience! FF7 was actually the first game to do so, and it makes doing low-level playthroughs a goddamn pain in the ass.
CT does have experience, I guess that was bad phrasing. I meant - even if it didn't have XP, you still tech Tech points, which are separate and advance your characters in meaningful ways that do not add HP or defense.
I'm afraid I don't understand? I stated that I think a game needs to offer either some sort of reward or incentive in order to get the player to participate in battles, whether is XP, buffs, bonuses, what have you. I don't get what you're asking.
No, but you said "most Metroidvanias" or something. I am sure lots of them were going to be action based anyway, but if you discount that it's less work (or that "other games are like this") then you haven't been in game development. :^P I'm sure there are several where combat would have been markedly different if they'd had extra resources.
Speaking for myself, I for the most part tend to overgrind stuff and just facetank through challenges instead of solving them properly, if I'm given the opportunity. Case in point: game called Volgarr the Viking. It's a platformer without progression. You can only pick gear with upgrades on the level but you lose those on hit. So you're encouraged to come up with plans that allow you to not get hit and then work on execution to do it. Compare this to Shovel Knight where you can find and buy ability-granting items which you cannot lose. Those consume mana, maximum amount of which you can increase by spending money. Same goes for max health. This creates much more leeway for taking damage and using abilities in which case you're not encouraged to play clean because you can just force your way through challenges with those resources instead of refining your skills. Which I did. That makes me like Volgarr more cause it actually made me better by not giving a chance to slack.
Won't making attacks do more hits or making the meter fill faster sorta serve the same purpose as increasing attack, though? You're dealing more damage over time, even if you just mash a specific attack sequence without alternating, right?
It doesn't help you die less unless you approach the fight differently, is the thing. You're dealing more damage, but only slightly more, and it's mostly the tanking part that makes difficult bits much easier.
So does everyone. So do I. Because it IS the easiest way to advance in games which allow you to do it. Learning is always more difficult than investing time without learning.
Same problem, it rewards time spent rather than any kind of progression. It requires use of the new spell but I still I wouldn't do it in Indiv.
Maybe, VP had one.
Definitely not for the prototype, possible for the real game depending on whether we feel like we can. I never really liked those because they arbitrarily make certain combinations of characters better, though. Same with like...only certain characters even HAVE Lv3s in MvC3, or something.
Teen, I think. Different descriptors from SG, though.
A lot of parents do actually pay attention to ratings, and let's face it, the aesthetics of both skullgirls and indivisible are magnets for fourteen year olds
Teen markets to a larger audience.
more people can buy your game, and parents won't have problems buying it for their kids.
Yeah but SG never really had a physical distribution. If it was physical then the parents would buy it for them but in digital the consumer can just grab the credit card and even buy Killing Floor if you have parents that don't really care (or can't because maybe they can't into technology nowadays) about what you do on your PC or PS3/xbox. Consoles they might still notice stuff if you're playing in the living room right in their faces.
Well if we're really taking it there ethnicity and awkward girls can rustle the jimmies even with zero fanservice.
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Yeah, reading it again and I think I generalized too much on some aspects.
Obviously. I can't see Skullgirls and Indiv with an higher rating.
VS mode is generally pretty crap in games of this type. It was even crap in Shaolin Monks and that game has EXCELLENT combat.
Why remake a game that doesn't exist? :^P
For a good metric, look at what Symphony of The Night got away with. Some of the stuff in there is a lot nastier then what I've seen in most actual m-rated games. Always find it interesting that it made it with a T.
organs are probably fine so long as they're not shown still attached to a skeleton and it's flesh prison.
The ESRB ratings system is intricate. For example, in Teen you can light someone on fire, but if they scream "Ow ow ow I'm on fire ow!'' then it's Mature. etc etc.
How about I just say "No team junk" right now so you and others don't waste pages speculating, and then are surprised if they show up and not disappointed if they don't.
M-M-Muh techs though
So, kind of like South Park Stick of Truth, how you can use an ability and still use your regular attack, but with a turn meter as opposed to a set amount of actions.
