I agree FF style turn based combat is boring. I mean games that have an auto button that plays it for you are admitting it.
That’s why I like games that have more creative combat that blends different genres. Undertale has some turn based, some realtime bullet hell. Battle network has a real time grid based with card game elements.
There’s so much you can do but so often devs fall back on choose from menu watch cutscene.
Haha I have thought about that too actually. Mainly because my career path and favorite hobby were both decided by small random moments. It’s definitely made me more open to new experiences.
I also hate grinding but sometimes I get addicted to it. Like my lizard brain likes watching the numbers go up. I recently loaded an old save in final fantasy and saw my level at 99, health at 999/999 and gold at 999999 and was like “I don’t remember grinding any of this”. It happens in a trance.
I agree these games made big improvements but I still see them as bandages to the inevitable problems that came with random encounters. There’s no undoing the interruption of flow you know.
I think it’s a tradeoff though like I said. Because I don’t know how you can have a combat system as cool and creative as say Undertale (blending turn based and realtime bullet hell) or battle network (blending turn based, real time and card game) without it being completely separate from the overworld.
Good point. I guess it is 2 things I’m talking about.
I think battle transitions are a tradeoff. They free combat but at the cost of interrupting flow. If you don’t do anything with the freedom they give you and you just make the same tired pokemon style choose from a menu combat it’s not worth it.
I haven’t played any CRPGs and I’m not familiar with them. Any recommendation of an intro to the genre?
But many of your points are still familiar. Trivial encounters feeling like an annoying waste of time, items or abilities that control the encounter rates, etc.
I think making regions safe is a great idea but I would want it tied to a challenging side quest. Like maybe you can intentionally fight a harder version of an area’s enemies to make it safe?
That’s a good point. Trivial encounters feel like a grindy and annoying waste of time. I guess it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way though.
I also think Final Fantasy falls too much on the old turn based choose from a menu, watch a cut scene system, when there was room for something more interesting. That’s just taste though I guess. I haven’t even played any other than Final Fantasy I and Tactics Advance maybe they changed.
Because demographics
I think the cgp grey video about thought germs gives a high level overview
What do you expect? You’re on lemmy. Half the userbase is doomers, dude.
It is high but not annoyingly. Don’t let it bother ya
Why is everyone saying passwords are encrypted? I thought they were hashed?
Again with this defeatist attitude huh.
Maybe you’d find chemosynthesis more interesting. Bottom of the ocean, using Earth’s heat, independent of the sun.
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Look at that beautiful [answered]. I forgot lemmy lets you edit the title of posts. So many embarrassing typos avoided
Maybe wait a little while haha. This civil war is dragging on and we might be more than one country by the time it ends.
I live in Qatar. Will be moving to Germany soon hopefully.
I don’t really feel qualified to say what the media gets wrong about Sudan because like I said I didn’t grow up there and I’m not a political scientist. Sudan is not talked about much in the western media and when it is, it’s never good news. Usually because another coup or killing, and it’s more accurate than most media in the middle east. But if you want an example of western media getting something completely wrong here’s Fox News calling Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo a reformist. He’s a genocidal warlord with ties to Russian Wagner. I suspect that article is propaganda because he’s been known to hire PR firms to clean up his image.
Ok. Enough of the depressing reality. What food are we known for? I don’t know actually. We share some of our culture and foods with our much more popular northern neighbor Egypt, but that culture is mostly attributed to them. For example we also have pyramids but not many know that. We also make Falafel, ful, mahshi etc.
We do have many foods that only we make but it’s not known to outsiders. Usually Ramadan food: traditional stews eaten with gruels or fermented bread. There’s some traditional drinks too.
One of those stews, is a food other Arabs know because of a funny coincidence: part of its name in our dialect means “male whore” in other dialects.
For sure, enemy variety is important.