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Mechanics in games that had the exact opposite results of their intended design
- Thread starter Kaguya
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Same here. I actually didn't mind it existing at all, because I never saw value in anything to buy for real money, but I sure loved making money selling stuff. :D
Although funny enough, easier trading make farming items pointless. Funny how making a simple quality of life change can have such a disruptive effect on the whole game.
The classic unintended mechanic is of course Bunnyhopping, which involves jumping and strafing in order to break the speed cap imposed on you in first person games like Quake and Half-Life 1.
In Half-Life 2, Valve sought to remove bunnyhopping from the game, and they did this by adding negative force to the player when they attempt to bunnyhop. However, there's no cap to the amount of negative speed you can get, meaning if you just turn around while bunnyhopping, you end up going even faster then regular bunnyhopping would've allowed.
In Half-Life 2, Valve sought to remove bunnyhopping from the game, and they did this by adding negative force to the player when they attempt to bunnyhop. However, there's no cap to the amount of negative speed you can get, meaning if you just turn around while bunnyhopping, you end up going even faster then regular bunnyhopping would've allowed.
This thread is making me want to play Final Fantasy II again. I actually loved how dumb the leveling system was.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles:
"Hey everybody, teamwork is great! One brave player must carry the Crystal Chalice to protect the other players from the deadly miasma!"
Reality:
"Hey, bullshit, I don't want to carry the fuckbucket, I did it the last level, you do it."
"Hey everybody, teamwork is great! One brave player must carry the Crystal Chalice to protect the other players from the deadly miasma!"
Reality:
"Hey, bullshit, I don't want to carry the fuckbucket, I did it the last level, you do it."
Star Ocean 3/4 Battle Bonus Bar
The increase to the bar is mostly based on the difference between the average level of your party and the average level of the enemies.
The goal is to force you to fight monsters over or near your level, or disable the bonus bar if you grinded too much.
People just kept 1 character they hate dead and move them in the party to lower the average and make it easy to activate the bonuses.
Being dead, they never level up. The more you progress, the better it is too
(10 + 10 + 1) /3 = 7
(255 + 255 + 1) /3 = 170
The increase to the bar is mostly based on the difference between the average level of your party and the average level of the enemies.
The goal is to force you to fight monsters over or near your level, or disable the bonus bar if you grinded too much.
People just kept 1 character they hate dead and move them in the party to lower the average and make it easy to activate the bonuses.
Being dead, they never level up. The more you progress, the better it is too
(10 + 10 + 1) /3 = 7
(255 + 255 + 1) /3 = 170
The level limit to catching Pokémon in Sword and Shield is supposed to be a way to let them have "Territorial Rotbart" moments in the wild area without letting you catch overpowered Pokémon, but in practice it just kind of discourages engaging with the wild area much at all until you have all the badges. It's really perplexing why they didn't just use the same obedience mechanics that they use for trades.
What made it especially frustrating is that in single player mode, a Moogle handled the fuckbucket, letting you just play how it was meant to be played. Why they couldn't have made that an option for multiplayer, I'll never know.
lol I actually LOVED fortnite when it first came out. Building was used to create big forts of power positions or to traverse up to a ridge or building or something.
And while PC got into the speed building shit console was left relatively untouched until they added new control schemes to allow for PC like super building.
Even from Day 1 of Fortnite my #1 most requested feature was to either increase the building delay or lower the initial HP of walls. I thought it was bullshit I could shoot someone out in an open field and they could just throw up walls x100 to safely get into cover. Instead the game embraced turbo building and its very much in the DNA of the game. Similar to how the devs didn't intend for Gears of War to be about wall bouncing gnasher fights but it became the core of the game.
I'll also add to the list by modern FPS complaints and why Halo is still one of the best shooters around.
ADS and Sprint being shoved into every shooter meant you have the same combat flow plus or minus game specific gimicks. Sprint. LT to aim down signs to slow your character and aiming. RT. Rinse repeat. I remember going back to play MCC expecting it to feel so dated but honestly Halo 2 and 3 are my fav games to play there. Combat feels so much better with being able to freely and accuratley aim without slowing my character down or choosing between running and shooting. Every fight feels like a dance.
This isn't true when your inventory is full of weapons found in shrines.
Pre-Halo 4 games also have a substantially longer TTK, going back to the original Halo trilogy it's a shock how meaty you feel in multiplayer. You can take a few hits from anything but a rocket or sniper rifle (or pistol in H1) and have enough time to react, counter and turn the battle around if you're good. It feels like Halo 4 leaned hard into the "whoever shoots first wins" feel of Call of Duty and sucked all the fun of being a heavily armored super solider out of the series.