Mounts: Wait, you can use mounts without PoF mastery? But doesn't that make the mounts shittier?
Story: Quiz based puzzles is just one of many ways a developer can avoid "bash monster" as its only solution to game design. That's the point I was trying to make. I don't buy that pointing the players at a thing to kill is the only way they can make "engaging content".
Shing Jea: Mea culpa. The point is, the Cantha continent is supposed to be more "modernized" (aka big cities, huge building structures, etc.), and the developers could have incorporated the unique terrain into their game's problem. (A game, at its heart, is to create a problem and ask the players to solve it within the confines of the rules...it doesn't have to be combat.) I'm just saying it doesn't sound like the developers are doing anything interesting and are being lazy in designing new content. The fact that they're localizing the majority of the new mechanics on a flat open expanse of the Jade Sea just proves my point.
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Date: 2022-03-08 01:13 am (UTC)Mounts: Wait, you can use mounts without PoF mastery? But doesn't that make the mounts shittier?
Story: Quiz based puzzles is just one of many ways a developer can avoid "bash monster" as its only solution to game design. That's the point I was trying to make. I don't buy that pointing the players at a thing to kill is the only way they can make "engaging content".
Shing Jea: Mea culpa. The point is, the Cantha continent is supposed to be more "modernized" (aka big cities, huge building structures, etc.), and the developers could have incorporated the unique terrain into their game's problem. (A game, at its heart, is to create a problem and ask the players to solve it within the confines of the rules...it doesn't have to be combat.) I'm just saying it doesn't sound like the developers are doing anything interesting and are being lazy in designing new content. The fact that they're localizing the majority of the new mechanics on a flat open expanse of the Jade Sea just proves my point.