Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140221183807/@comment-1915529-20140416191714

The TRB is made because people don't have enough imagination or care to make it challenging any other way. In fact the TRB is the God of all that is wrong with all games. No imagination? Don't give a crap? Budget as high as a dead ant? Then let's place a TRB and increase the playtime by 50%. Who cares if fun drops 500% two minutes after the player realises he's going to stuck here for 5 hours.

There is nothing worse than playing a game and all of a sudden the path forwards is either blocked or hidden. Regardless of whether it's a good reason or just another TRB, it gets me down. It's annoying when after 5 hours you realise it was obvious.

Of course in a game like Thief it makes sense that you may need to look around for the prize and it’s not going to be on the front door mat of the building with no guards and a note saying ‘please nick me’. But there is balance that most of the levels in DP/MA meet very well. By the sounds of it many FMs are incapable of meeting this balance because they just aren’t any good. They believe they are just because they can work the editor.

I think I will be more ready for Expert next time. With all games I have a desire to finish them to see what happens. However I can see myself enjoying just sitting back and watching the world around me in DP/MA as I attack those Expert objectives. No rushing, no haste and I have a good idea of where to go.

All my guys in FF1 are level 21. So I’ve already beaten all your RPGs :D

I’ve spent thousands of gill on new powerful magic and guess what… I have 39,000gil left (compared to 6,000gil I had the other day). You see you’re right, you need to spend money to become ultra-powerful and only then can you enter new caves with powerful monsters who give thousands of gil. I didn’t go to bed until 00:00 last night. I was just hooked on Final Fantasy. From what I’ve heard it’s not the best RPG on the Game Boy but it sure as hell is fun. In fact the simplistic game of the late 1980’s is a good thing for me since more modern games try to add loads of stuff, making it complicated. I’ve still got to wrap my head around Dark Souls but with a relaxing 4-day Easter weekend coming up in 1 day, I’ll have plenty of time to get my grip on it.

I recently got given Kotor given to me for free. I tried it out but I got bored very quickly. Playing it for an hour or two one night but never playing it again. There was something about the ambience I didn’t like. Perhaps it was the fact that it was a turn-based game that looked like the action packed Jedi Outcast. Just didn’t feel right. I think I have enough RPG on my plate now anyway. Skyrim feels very bland compared to Dark Souls now. I will still play it again, they are different enough to not make the other redundant, like GTA4 made San Andreas redundant, and GTA5 made GTA4 redundant.

The small but important detail that I like in RPGs such as Final Fantasy, Pokémon and now Dark Souls is that it’s not a point and click cluster-fuck. In FF and Pokemon you have to use your head, acquiring an almost limitless combination of attacks that fit your style of playing and then using them in the right way to defeat a hoard of enemies who have different strengths and weaknesses. Pointing and clicking died for me long ago.

EDIT: Below is my story of Runescape. Feel free to ignore it. I thought about this this week when you mentioned how you only ever reach Level 20 in most RPGs.

I made my first account in Summer 2005 called something. I got to Level 15 I think but I then got tricked into giving my password to scammers who changed it and probably stole my prized Black Armour. I had really enjoyed playing Runescape so it didn't take me long to give it a second shot. I then made my current account called Slayr51 but felt like I had to make up for the lost time from losing my first account. So in the space of three days I levelled up to Level 32. It felt really good to not only have surpassed by other account but also I was confident that I was Slayr51 was stronger than the other account would have been had I still had it. So some good came out being scammed :)