Thread 719249748

>number goes up
It's incredible how that system is in almost games now yet it's meaningless in most of them

>>719249748 (OP)
>almost games now

>deal 2 damage against enemy with 6 HP
>30 hours later
>deal 2000 damage against enemies with 6000 HP
Bluds this game is evolving hard

Dog goes up

>>719249801
dogs don't type the best, cut him some slack or he might ruff you up

>>719249848
>the enemy is still the same basic zombie

>>719250035
bro, its a dire basic zombie. and later it'll be dark basic zombie.
cinema

>>719249748 (OP)
Ascension is realizing the GDP is the final boss of pointless number go up games

>>719249748 (OP)
Is Almost a good game series?

>attack
>red bar above enemy gets smaller
When will they invent something better?

>>719249801
OP's whole take completely decimated by a single typo, that's ruff

>>719249748 (OP)
Here's a fun game without the "numbers go up"

>>719249748 (OP)
This is acceptable for turn based four niggas in a row but for anything in real time combat this is atrocious.
Give the enemy new moves or skills or something, make them more aggressive just force the player to do something new.

>Level 1
Why it's always level 1? When will they invent something better?

>>719249748 (OP)
like in reality
>gdp number goes higher
>quality of life fall down

>>719252024
>new things happen
>number of options goes up

>>719252087
level 0?

number go up is the best feeling.

>>719253040
That'd mean there's no level. Just emptiness.

>>719249748 (OP)
"number goes up but means nothing" is everything in life

>>719249854
Like a rocket?

Let's hear your ground breaking, industry redefining idea

>>719252087
>Game start
>Level 90
>bunch of skills unlocked
>top tier equipment
>main story is almost completed and everyone knows each other
>And by almost I mean you still need 20-100 hours to finish it
>No retarded progression reset
>Unlock new mechanics all the time
>New NPCs and allies with their own stories
It's that easy, shame I only saw it happen once

>>719253110
exactly. then, you get experience or something important happens in the story and you become level one.

>>719253386
>no paper shredder specifically for a scenario like this
low aura

>>719253351
You start as demigod and kill gods at the start but the world is in entropy and all the numbers go down until you have to kill rats in a sewer with a rusty dagger.

>>719249748 (OP)
You should try incrementals.

>>719253460
Something can't come from nothing, at least not levels.

Numbers up is great, but indeed they're meaningless most of the time
Take souls games, for example, having a good upgraded weapon matters more than having high strength/dexterity, as long you've enough to use the weapon

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>>719249848
Do people actually keep track of damage values in games like Borderlands where it goes from 10 damage -> 67 damage -> 7501 damage - > 15719 damage or do they just need "number go up" and that's all the strategy and dopamine they need

>>719249748 (OP)
Product of our post-industrial society. Everything has to be quantified. Everything has to be categorised. Everything must be numbers. And numbers must always go up - that signifies growth and development. And can be faked/manipulated too.

>>719254247
They only care about number go up, it's why they start min maxing to find the perfect weapon with the best RNG.
And then they stop playing because the game is shit and number go up was the only reason they played

>>719252087
A few games allow you to roll from higher levels. I know Neverwinter Nights, Dragon Age: Origins DLCs, Silverfall 2 allow you to make higher level chars from the get-go.
It would be nice to start a game as a non-scrub. Imagine an in-depth char creation, like in Daggerfall, where you can give your char adventages, disadvantages, curses, blessings, and thus be able to start a game with an almost 100 in one magic school, but crippled to not use any weapon other than a staff. Or the opposite - study the blade, but be incapable of any spellcasting, not even enchanting (still can use enchanted items though, but not scrolls).
Or eliminate levels entirely, and make the distinction be in stats/attributes and skill levels.

It is not hard to make a good system. Its very hard to convince people already enslaved by "numbers go up" to give it up.

>>719253047
nah, enemy numbers go down is the best feeling