>jrpg
>knocked out party members receive no EXP
>they did most of the work

>>714853040 (OP)
I'm playing etrian odyssey right now and this is literally me

>characters all start the same level, are in the party from the start and gain exp at the same rate
>1 character goes down in some fight near the start of the game
>for the rest of the game their level ups are staggered from the rest of the party
tickles my autism in a bad way

I like every mechanic that makes death/KO in battle more significant, but without going all the way into the permadeath meme.

>jrpg combat
>female party member waifu gets knocked down
>starts getting raped and receiving +1 sex from strangers stat notifications
>cant stop them until you defeat all the goblins

Just use a phoenix down

>>714853040 (OP)
Has there ever been a game that allows you to give EXP to downed party members? It feels like something at least once game would’ve tried by now.

>>714855412
you didn't beat the game

>>714853040 (OP)
Should be gradual. Doing damage or heal for x and gain xp.

>>714855805
That just punishes you for being conservative.
>I don't need to heal right now, need to save my mana for the tough fights
>healer never gets xp

>>714855884
Or the opposite way around, it's very exploitable because you can overheal every turn but you cannot deal more damage after you already killed the enemy.

>>714855805
Absolutely fucking BASED and FF2 pilled

>>714855980
FF2 was absolute trash to actually play.
If anything it's the definitive proof that game design is about figuring out what feels good in practice, not just what sounds cool in your head.

>>714854756
hate this shit

>>714855274
I want a EXP bonus gimmick that works like DBZ saiyans: surviving a battle with extremely low HP nets you bonus EXP. But now that I think about it kind of sounds abusable.

>>714854756
This shit is why I don't play jrpgs anymore. Fuck this fucking shit. Or, even worse:
>you pick up party members at random times
>go through the absolute autistic trouble in actually getting their levels and xp to the same or as close to the same as possible by using KOs and whatnot
>they all have different leveling curves and need differing amounts of xp to level up anyway

FUCK. OFF.

>>714855678
ff7 remake does. even levels up party members that arent currently in the party

>>714856819
sounds abusable
Even Vegeta abused that mechanic.

>>714856819
Abusable systems are fine. If there's some autist who tries to get low health every battle, let him
I'm tired of single player RPGs going NOOOOOO THE BALANCE

>>714856819
It could work if you also increase the likelihood of receiving a critical attack at low health, balancing the risk vs the reward.