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« on: 2017-06-04 08:07:21 »
Fraggoso in case you're not aware of how games are structured, you play through a level, it's often repeating patterns you engage in. Jump on those platforms or shoot those incoming enemies. Is it really fun, not really but you still do it because you're looking forward to the reward. You endure the tedious task of killing enemies because you're looking forward to the reward which can come in the form of story or a new area to explore, a good game should be frustrating.
If you want an interactive comic book, Final Fantasy IX without any battles and just dialouge, well it sort of takes away from the experience of playing the game. If I want great litterature I'll read the divine comedy, Don Quiote or the classics of antiquity. Not Final Fantasy IX. When you first play through the game a big part of the game is finding out what the story is about and what the new areas look like. How fun is it to run through the iced caverns in 2 min because you have no encounters with enemies. It's supposed to be tedious, same with memoria at the end. You have got to be maxed out on potions before going through that area, same with many areas in the game.
A similar thing is auto saving, you might say why would you want to die and then have to go all the way from the save point? That's part of the punishment/reward, you should be careful when running through an area because you don't want to die and have to do it again. If there are auto saves you can die at a boss and who cares because I respawn right at the boss location and can try again. To take this to the extreme degree would be to use a cheat that maxes out the character levels, I don't even know why they included cheats in the game. Clearly they're not very bright those philippino boys. Anyway the story and the locations are more enjoyable if it's a challenge exploring it/them.
To run from the start of the iced caverns to the end of the iced caverns, that should at least be 7 battles not 1 or 0. That way there's a chance that Zidane will be without potions and weakened before the boss battle. A boss battle that would be 25% stronger because of the mod. The game is very easy right now, no battles in evil forest, no battles in ice caverns. The boss I suppose is a bit more difficult but not by much. The worst thing that happens because of the low encounter rate is that before you encounter a boss you have to grind levels. Why would you want to rush through the game, come to a boss. Oops I better spend 30 min running around outside of town to level up.
It's stupid and I would not want my buddy to experience the game this way which is why we need to increase the encounter rate.
•Increase encounter rate
•Remove auto saves
•Remove chat icons (You can talk to every NPC in the game anyway, why would you need a huge ugly icon?)
•Change the font to something more medieval
•Disable ALL cheats
•Fix the sound
•Resize the battle menu, we're not using our fingers on the pc
What we don't need is to play as a silent Beatrix who says nothing in cutscenes, what we don't need is to rename Fira to Yuzaboda and make it put poison on people. What we don't need is to switch out all the music to high quality music but which lacks melody, what we don't need is to replace the font with a futuristic space font and make the window graphic an eye soring red color. Changing the font and window theme could be done but then do it for something that matches the setting, a medieval fantasy setting.
Anyway as usual when chatting with programmers I find myself struggling trying to convey basic points to people who likely are on the autism spectrum. I have had these talks before, the math boys wanting something and the artist and visionaries responsible for creating pleasant imagery wanting something else. I bought this game for 20 dollars TWICE, once for myself and once for my buddy. Now it turns out it's riddled with stuff that breaks the game in various ways and nobody seems to care to fix it. You guys do realize there are hundreds of people like me on the steam forum and other places that want the same thing, we don't care for your "cool" changes to the game that disables random battles and makes it possible to play as Beatrix.
I spent two hours this morning changing all those encounter rate values, maybe we could engage in some cooperation here or you just gonna post memes of black people saying boi bai. Some decency please, thank you..
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