07-10-2012, 05:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2012, 06:05 PM by FireIceTalon.)
I find more of these monster traits to be tedious and cheezy (especially Invulnerable Minions - in a game where the object is to kill things, nothing should be completely immune to all attacks) than challenge inducing or promoting tactical play. Maybe on Hell difficulty to some degree, but certainly not in Inferno, which is entirely a gear check. Maybe if they were balanced some it wouldnt be so bad, but as it is, there are too many "impossible" combinations that have a high probability of spawning. Vortex shouldn't be able to spawn with Molten or Arcane for instance. Another problem is that the monsters can SPAM these abilities to no end (while many of ours have annoying Cd's), and the damage on many of the offensive abilities is very spiked.
But as a guy in my 30's who came from the 8-bit era, who still recalls having nightmares about the cheezy mechanics of old Nintendo games that drove me and my friends to the point of wanting to take a hammer to the game system, I have a natural contempt for all things "cheezy" or anything that "removes control away from the player".....I thought these mechanics were all but gone, and they have made their way back into modern games. I want control of my gaming experience at all times - if I die, I want it to be something I did wrong, not because the game decided at that time that I shouldn't win (lag not withstanding).
The only monster trait I find exceptionally interesting to be honest is Avenger - the rest are either pointless/too easy, or way too cheesy/artificially difficult. I really enjoy facing this trait to be honest, because it provides a genuine challenge without relying on fake mechanics to troll the player. The fight gets easier as you pick off one monster at a time, yet it gets harder as each monster left becomes more and more enraged as you kill their brethren - and their damage, attack rate, and speed increases. This is a pretty cool mechanic, and I think Blizz should look more into things like this to provide a genuine challenge to the gamers instead of just throwing Velveeta at us.
But as a guy in my 30's who came from the 8-bit era, who still recalls having nightmares about the cheezy mechanics of old Nintendo games that drove me and my friends to the point of wanting to take a hammer to the game system, I have a natural contempt for all things "cheezy" or anything that "removes control away from the player".....I thought these mechanics were all but gone, and they have made their way back into modern games. I want control of my gaming experience at all times - if I die, I want it to be something I did wrong, not because the game decided at that time that I shouldn't win (lag not withstanding).
The only monster trait I find exceptionally interesting to be honest is Avenger - the rest are either pointless/too easy, or way too cheesy/artificially difficult. I really enjoy facing this trait to be honest, because it provides a genuine challenge without relying on fake mechanics to troll the player. The fight gets easier as you pick off one monster at a time, yet it gets harder as each monster left becomes more and more enraged as you kill their brethren - and their damage, attack rate, and speed increases. This is a pretty cool mechanic, and I think Blizz should look more into things like this to provide a genuine challenge to the gamers instead of just throwing Velveeta at us.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)