Why did they bother putting so much effort into the combat?

[tsjanith]

Really...the combat in this game is fantastic, but what's the point when it's a minor feature of the game at best? They put painstaking effort into making the combat feel smooth and fun, creating dozens of stats for both offense and defense, gorgeous and powerful combat arts... carefully balancing everything so hardly anything can be unfairly exploited and nothing is ineffective.

But why bother when the game consists of puzzle, puzzle, platforming depth perception puzzle, side caves consisting of puzzles, massive puzzle dungeons consisting of countless time-intensive, precision-demanding and often counter intuitive puzzles? At one point there are three enormous puzzle dungeons consisting of exactly the above one after the other after the other with nary a break in between.

The combat mechanics and vast combat system went entirely to waste in what is for all intents and purposes strictly a puzzle game

[tsjanith]

Publicado originalmente por EdgarAllenSwole:

It's almost like these "why isn't X good?" threads have a clear pattern to them.

Indeed.

Someone steps in and drops an unbelievably idiotic non sequitur like this "your question sounds like this:
"why making something well done when you can make it mediocre?"

after all is already said and done, displaying not only the ability to comprehend context but simultaneously showing some undue arrogance

[Ernsteen]

If the question in the thread name was purely rhetorical, and this person has missed that, then maybe you can just tell them that instead of making musltiple hostile replies, thank you very much.

[Blinkdog]

it's called making a good game and being a competent dev. steam got you used to all those pos (mostly) asset flips "games" and you forgot what a real game looks like.

[tsjanith]

Publicado originalmente por Frick:

If the question in the thread name was purely rhetorical, and this person has missed that, then maybe you can just tell them that instead of making musltiple hostile replies, thank you very much.

I hear you, and of course that's logical. But frankly, in Steam forums and Steam forums in particular there's this recurring issue of people wildly misrepresenting my position and insisting I said what I didn't say, as once again seen above. That cumulative consistency has me very frustrated, and hell, this is the internet. Directing some hostility onto the ones who perpetuate this phenomenon won't affect my sleep.

Publicado originalmente por Blinkdog:

it's called making a good game and being a competent dev. steam got you used to all those pos (mostly) asset flips "games" and you forgot what a real game looks like.

Illiterate and arrogant is a very bad combo

[wervyn]

tsjanth you need to cool it. This thread is a wreck and it is basically entirely your fault. Do not re-open this discussion.