vendredi 4 mai 2012

Stop Putting These Enemies in Games

By Martin Swanson III


There's a fine line among opponents that provide a challenge and those that are merely frustrating. Actually, this is a lie. The line is actually wide. Think about the gap between our fantasies whenever we first learned about movement controls and the terrible reality that came to pass. It's that wide.

Several enemy archetypes have not been fun in all forms, however they will keep emerging. Why? Perhaps they are simple barriers to put between the player and the finish line, extending the playtime lacking the necessary concern with the quality of the experience. Or it could be a few developers just can't stand us

In any event, video games have been popular for enough time for all of us to collectively know better. Let us get rid of these types of bad guys forever.

Teleporters:

You are hammering a dude, and he suddenly reappears some other place. Great. Do you know what that contributes to the battle? Most likely not tactic. Most likely not enjoyment. Certainly moments of finding him one more time, possibly being forced to then move across the screen for a few not-action-packed seconds, wishing he does not teleport again.

This is compounded in the event the teleporting adversary has a wind-up movement which in turn renders him briefly incorporeal. Your options are going to sit tight while he squanders much more of everyone's time or wail away at his invincible head out of pure annoyance.

Guys With Huge Shields:

Option 1: The guy using the huge shield provides a weak spot that you could attack from the front. Their feet are protruding. He has got a ideally open portal in front of his face the size of a tuna can. Whatever. He's going to be invincible, and the whole time you're plinking away on the little vulnerable position, you will be wondering about how weird it really is that he just didn't cover himself entirely.

Option 2: You will need to get behind the guy using the huge shield and hit him from behind. Each and every time. A bad guy that has been possibly thrown in to the mix to help make things interesting has only added yet another foreseeable and artistically limited element to battle.

If we are going to have dudes with shields, create the shields more compact and require bad guys to dynamically move them before attacks while they move around in combat and engage us in alternative methods.

Tiny Enemy Swarms:

Robo-frogs and robo-mosquitoes in Daikatana. Pygmies in Diablo 2. Duke Nukem Forever's impregnators. Has anyone, anyplace, at any time, enjoyed dealing with a swarm of small fast-moving opponents? No. Of course not. These represent the video gaming equivalent of a laser pointer flickered across the floor in front of a cat. Only, in some way, more demeaning.

Guys With Regenerating Health:

"You have to be simply kidding me. Now Need to hit him all over again? Precisely why? Will he just get healthy again, or perhaps is there some trick I'm neglecting? Wonderful, currently he's restorative healing faster than I'm able to hurt him. Maybe if I use this other attack... oh, he teleported. Naturally."






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