Ghengis_John
[13] Hero
I get a kick out of the fact that you would do that too. (Was something I found on my own in Morrowind, which should tell you how much I played of that, lol) As for me, absolutely hated the elder scrolls: oblivion for the level-up crap. I play as a good guy and I like my towns to stay populated because I consider the little digital sea-monkeys under my care, so I was none too pleased when monsters started being able to overwhelm the town guards. (Heck one will-o-the-wisp can take out an entire town). And hacking away at the mid section of a Daedra for four minutes to determine a winner was not fun either. No matter how high my levels got I still only hit so hard and my weapon still only had so much hp. Eventually I abandoned the game because I'd done a lot and didn't want to start over and closing oblivion gates was taking me an entire night and it wasn't fun.
Somebody told me some trick about resistances and halving them on each hit and how that can make the monsters killable again, and that helped. I'd link it to you but google is confused by my vague search terms. Needless to say, it's right to say that if you need to look up ways around a mechanic on the internet, it's a bad mechanic. The whole point to leveling up is to make the character feel more powerful. That through their experiences they have learned or grown and are that much more capable. When all the rats and ogres in the world appear to also be undergoing a similarly heroic journey there seems to be little point to continuing to play at all. Not that it wasn't a sight watching a guard fight a minotaur until the poor sod's weapon broke but I'll still agree with the people saying that was a bad mechanic.
And is chuck ever right on that whole "leveling non combat skills making monsters tougher" point. You should be able to play the game however you want. If the focus is entirely on combat whey do speech and mercantile exist at all? And why isn't the combat system better?
I liked it actually (In halo 2, by now I've quite had my fill of it). I've always been a close-mid range scrapper in every FPS. If somebody killed you because you had 14% health and he had 100% it was annoying he'd think he was better than you. In Halo 2 I welcomed the change because it meant it was always a contest of equals and I couldn't have charges of being a "map runner" leveled at me anymore. I used to know where every health pack or medkit or pill bottle or shield belt was in a shooter's maps and I'd never engage with less than a full tank if I could help it. I considered it sound tactics but apparently this was an "underhanded" strategy. I particularly loved how much the regen made my friend Jesse complain. He could never kill me in one go in any fps and felt if he took my life to half he was entitled to kill me next time. The way I looked at it if he wasn't good enough to beat me the first time why should he get a kill for free? We both had the same health, that was a duel. It proved nothing if he could kill me when I was almost dead.
Now that I'm not as good as I used to be in first person shooters though and I'm getting knocked off by teenaged cyborgs who only seem able to fire a bullet if it lands between somebody's eyes, let's do away with regenerating health I say!
