NUQAR'S Kentucky "Nuqar" James XXL said:
iamastrangeloop said:
Please just make the game hard, combat looks too easy on the current build. Those defenders don't put up much or any fight it seems to me, I know it's early still though, just my two cents. Games are too easy these days. I want to feel like those AI soldiers are fighting for their life and will do everything in their power to NOT be sliced by a sword instead of just accepting death. Please don't make it a hack and slash and have some realistic combat, enemies need to parry and dodge as much as they can, often using shields to block which should be hard to break their guard, they are supposed to be fighting for their life! You can bet if someone comes at me with a sharp blade I will be trying to block or dodge before they get that thing anywhere close to me.
A battle should be filled with terror and triumph and rage. I just don't feel that from this siege video, but I know it's early and there's still lots of time. Easy games are mindless time wasters, challenge is good, something to come back to. Not a whole lot of memorable easy games in my book, but the hard ones are worth coming back to again and again until you are victorious, and it will feel great.
Happy week-end people.
Easy games can be fun if they give you well desgined systems to beat your enemies with. Rome total war is probably the easiest in the series but it gives you so many options. No battle feels like a grind because you can approach it in a dozen ways, leading to interesting scenarios. Meanwhile total war attila has so many "hardcore" limitations on the gameplay that every battle is more or less the same.
Warband was more like the latter. It was tedious and grindy in the midgame because there were hundreds of sieges but nothing to break them up or make them more interesting. I would much prefer a game where you can steamroll the enemy 50 different ways than a difficult game where there is only one tactic.
Who said anything about only one tactic? if the game is hard AND designed well you will have to get creative and come up with or find your own tactics that work, if the game is too easy then you are just picking and choosing which way you watch the enemy die. I am too old to enjoy just mindless slashing of brainless enemies anymore, it's been done to death, I don't want to feel like a god in this game, I want to feel like a soldier in an army, and that should feel exciting, and terrifying. I'm not talking Dark Souls or Sekiro hard where you are forced to memorize the enemies moves kind of stuff, but at the very least the combat should feel risky, like the person you are about to encounter could take you out if you aren't careful, haven't we had enough Dynasty Warriors? I am hoping for something a little more realistic. I do agree easy games can be fun, but at least give us the option for more realistic combat. I know modders will be able to make some harder modes but I'm hoping the base game's AI INDIVIDUAL combat can be challenging and not just cannon fodder dummies to slice up.
I haven't played much Total War, not really into RTS games myself so I can't really compare, but M&B is quite different in combat because you are a soldier and not a god looking down on the battle watching everyone do their thing, so I feel it should immerse you in the individual role more, and I imagine any individual that's ever been in a real medieval war would say that it's scary as all hell...to see a massive force of enemy soldiers cresting a hill in the distance, knowing that the choices you and your fellow soldiers make in the next few minutes will decide if you will ever see the sun rise again, that's the excitement and fear that I want to feel for my character. If the game is too easy you lose that thrill of battle from the get go, it's just a micro manager hack n slash. Might as well call it "THOR Thundergod Kill Them All With No Problem and Blade"
Just my personal preference, but I see where you are coming from. Hoping there will be difficulty settings so we can all play the way we want, and of course mods will solve the rest. =)