>player HP: 1500
>enemy HP: 16,200,000
Why do games keep doing this?

I don't see whats so unrealistic about it. I'm 1000 times harder to kill in real life than the average shlup.

>>713948885 (OP)
>barely do any damage to enemy
>have to "stagger" them before they start actually taking damage
why does every game these days do this?

>frog
>retarded
Every time

>1/4ths of health
>change stance
>2/4
>change stance

Uh… game…

>3/4
>change stance
>4/4
>second phase begins

>>713949007
Good luck being stabbed in the ass 5000 times.

>>713948885 (OP)
Because it's kino

>>713949101
Make it make sense if you're so smart.

>>713948885 (OP)
fed pepe

>>713949024
They must have seen staggering in Monster Hunter or something and thought "Wow, so cool." No idea where the "you can only damage during stagger" thing comes from though. Stagger is already inherently an upgrade to DPS in MH since you don't have to worry about dodging for a bit.

Man I hate playing video games. I hate when bosses have so much life that I get to experience the entire fight and don't accidentally miss half of their abilities because they die instantly. I hate getting to listen to the cool OST more and having to think about how it goes well with the fight. And I especially hate actually having to try at video games and experiencing the satisfaction of overcoming a challenge instead of just winning by default. Also I'm retarded.

>>713949437
Damage sponges are neither difficult nor fun.

>>713948885 (OP)
just oneshot them dumbass

>>713948885 (OP)
big health = big damage numpbnuts

>>713948885 (OP)
I find it more annoying when you have 2,000,000,000 health the enemy has 9,999,999,999 health and your attacks do 473,092,575 damage. Just make all the numbers smaller across the boards, when every number on screen has like 12 digits it just becomes noise.
>>713949203
>

>>713949508
For you maybe

Average jrpgs thinkings its fun to whale on a boss for 30 minutes

>>713948885 (OP)
Would you rather
>player HP: 10,000
>enemy HP: 100
>battle begins
>enemy moves FTL and oneshot player with unblockable and unavoidable attack

>>713950325
This isn't even exclusive to JRPGs. Terraria does this shit too.

>>713950095
It's somewhat unavoidable when you have larger power scales, especially egregious in looter ARPGs like Diablo where it keeps going up through levels and then with gear. The numbers can be compressed, but it feels bad to play because it's harder to notice leaps in capability. It's just better to keep the actual numbers obfuscated from players in this case, but that's not something looter ARPGs like doing either.

>>713948885 (OP)
Fuck Borderlands.

>>713949007
but the low hp random shlup is the MC that kills you

>>713948885 (OP)
retards like big numbers, makes them excited.
I'd rather have sub 100 values so those +1, +2, etc.. damage buffs would mean something.

I hated this in FF13 until I realized there was no defense stat, so massive HP pools simulated this, while also making the stagger mechanic and elemental weaknesses and buffs way more important. At that point I came to love it. Imperil is so based.

>>713948885 (OP)
>hit enemy
>damage: 5 quintillions
>barely took 1% of its HP

Evasion

>play stalker on hard mode
>you die to a single bullet
>enemy humans die to a single bullet
>mutants die to a single bullet

>>713948885 (OP)
Because you're the best around and nothing is ever going to keep you down.

>>713954668
If I was really the best I'd have more HP.

>>713949024
Because it's cool

>>713957415
im not saying its not cool, but games like FF 7 Remake that requires you to just keep hitting the enemy to fill a stagger meter, all the while youre doing jack shit in terms of damage to them until then, is fucking lame and boring

>>713948885 (OP)
>Player damage: 981,312
>Enemy damage: 430
Whats the problem?

>>713948885 (OP)
>player HP: 1
>enemy HP: 150,000,000
Chaos Inoculation

>>713957656
I hate this so much. Hitting one button, then occasionally hitting other button, for 5 fucking minutes is not an enjoyable use of time.

>>713958275
But why though?

>>713958275
thats the same thing, its retarded
>>713950095
many games just bloat their numbers for no reason
>>713950676
terraria has an actually coherent/reasonable progression of numbers, its not really bloat
tons of normal powerful/elite lategame enemies have very similar ammounts of health and defense as the player, if not a lot less

my rule general rule is that, when deciding the numbers, it should start from defining what "1" is. suppose 1 needs to be the lowest ammount that matters, for something like a DoT or a chip damage/blocked attack or whatever. If you just have a huge number bloat game, then "1" means literally nothing. If the numbers are too small for the game youre making, "1" is too big and it gets very limiting for making low damage attacks. If you find a good middleground thats a good starting point that makes it easier to figure out the damage everything else will deal, and having numbers feel good and satisfying
hence why when im making an overhaul mod for a game, i often like to do something like double every value, or halven every value, etc so 1 stays in a good spot

>>713948885 (OP)
Because players have a human brain behind them. AI opponents will always be inferior.
This is assuming both sides play by the same rules of combat (they usually don't).

>>713948885 (OP)
Because the player will take measures to avoid/block/mitigate damage while maximizing their output, and at the same time it's infinitely easier to design an enemy that doesn't react to the player attacks and only uses theirs in a semi-random or fully predetermined fashion. It also works for narrative purposes since typically you want the heroes to fight stuff that's stronger than they are, but is technically possible with enough strategy and skill on their part.
There are of course many exceptions, such as competitive games with AI opponents or things like Pokemon, but those are also a good example of how either the AI is allowed to cheat of you will beat them fairly easily once you have a basic grasp of the game mechanics.

>>713948885 (OP)
Because big numbers make brain feel happy, but big numbers confusing when on my character.

>>713949024
Because linear damage is boring af. Imagine playing chess with only pawns.

>>713949024
people are bad at ripping off fromsoft
But even fromsoft fucked that up with AC6

>>713948885 (OP)
Because you have an effective health of 20,000,000 from healing, damage resistance and avoid.

>>713963686
You mean checkers?

>>713964527
You can get a queen in checkers, nigga. The concept is similar to staggering.

>>713948885 (OP)
Games have no decent healing mechanic. Sekiro went the first step in the right direction.

>>713964656
the best healing mechanic ive played is Ultrakill

>>713966739
How does it work

>>713966739
Is it the game with blood? That's indeed excellent, as healing is integrated in combat in multiple ways, too. There's even surface reaction with water.