(Oct 26, 2025 04:14 PM)leste Wrote:  dark souls 3

(Oct 27, 2025 09:13 AM)nodes Wrote:  WoW PVP
I was always a raider. I did well in PVP for sure, but nowhere near the top (for raiding I was much closer to an expert level).

I can track cooldowns for 25 people in a raid and keep them alive, but give me a 3v3 arena and I struggle to manage CDs, peel, ints, etc.

(Oct 26, 2025 04:14 PM)leste Wrote:  dark souls 3

(Oct 27, 2025 02:35 PM)Undead Wrote:  I'm not great at Souls games but I still love playing them. I had to give up on Sekiro though because it was just too difficult. The combat in that game is ruthless.

(Oct 27, 2025 10:40 AM)Dalsha Wrote:  Couldn't Agree more , I'm not really a competitive person myself , I'm much more a Completionist , I've played WoW for around 9 years ..

(Oct 28, 2025 07:32 AM)Dalsha Wrote:  It is indeed , its hard to the point the it is frustrating to the players ..
I cant understand how some people have speed-run videos for Dark Souls 3 on YouTube ..
I have always thought that they should change the name to something else , and take recommendations from people who have failed the game a lot of times lol !!

(Oct 28, 2025 10:22 PM)nodes Wrote:  Either that, or they should build out parts of the game at varying difficulty. A lot of games over-rely on leveling systems and gear for difficulty scaling. I've always wanted to see games do a better job of offering different challenges, in a more open world environment. An example would be a road between two cities, and the further you stray from the road, the more difficult it is to kill creatures/etc. Rewards can scale up, and that would allow players of all different types to go on an adventure & through a story, but without forcing casual players or hardcore gamers to go through the same exact experience.

I do think that advanced gameplay should be rewarded with more content, fun, etc. This sounds mean, but if someone has mastered a game, maybe they should get an extra dungeon, or extra sword, or additional areas to explore. That would create motivation for casual players to advance their own actual skills as a player until they're good enough to get through harder game mechanics on the map.

(Oct 29, 2025 03:47 AM)Dalsha Wrote:  Finally, some 1 said it !! A game design idea that rewards skill instead of just grinding XP.. I strongly agree .. ✌

(Oct 29, 2025 06:51 AM)nodes Wrote:  I think a lot of game developers get sucked into stakeholder requirements, profiteering, loot boxes, etc... I think that unfortunately some devs lose their ability to really bring passion & gamer-forward mechanics to games because they are forced to follow task lists of a game designer who worked with the CEO & investors on the concept.

(Oct 29, 2025 08:15 AM)Dalsha Wrote:  Yeah I think that too sir , they are Mauled during the process of developing so they are forced to do something maybe from inside they don't wanna do it ! Some Game Devs in Cons if you ever go to one and meet them , they have something interesting but in game they end up doing what the task Owners want ..

(Oct 29, 2025 08:30 AM)nodes Wrote:  Yeah exactly. Some of the best games were started as indie games. You could say that Minecraft would've never been such a hit if Microsoft had started it, maybe.

A lot of the world's best games started off in a basement basically lol

(Oct 29, 2025 08:39 AM)Dalsha Wrote:  True !! Well said sir ! Or at least they started small and went bigger and better with time ..