Current Events > Level Caps are never good

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I dont see the point. Fallout 3 only let you level up to 20. That was ridiculous because there was plenty game left to enjoy after hitting the cap.
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Yeah, not a huge fan, even with prestiging involved.
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I enjoy the way etrian odyssey handles level caps, so i can't really agree with this.
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Oh, did anybody play Valkyria Chronicles? Amazing game, but when I hit the level cap, my jaw dropped. I didnt see that coming. Still, it just shouldnt have been there. Id rather just have enemies level with me (FF8) than cap out.

When I hit a level cap, I basically just stop enjoying the side stuff and finish the game. Its lazy.
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I understand the point of them. The intention of making sure you're not completely overpowered and that there will still be some challenge left to enjoy at the end of the game.

The problem is that it's invariably implemented extremely poorly. Because most of the time when you do reach the level cap, you are completely overpowered and basically just a walking god in the game world. And the few times where you're not overpowered at the level cap, you end up hitting it far too early without really even trying and you've still got a full 1/3 of the game to go.

I genuinely can't think of a single game that has hit the sweet spot, tbh.
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The Realm got it right by having a level cap of 1000 and levels after a certain point not really mattering that much and hitting 1K the game literally tells you you should probably just retire that character

Level caps in MMORPGs are fucking dumb because expansions come out, raise the cap, and make everything before the current cap completely useless.

Speaking of level caps, what about *not* having a cap, and being able to get to fucking level 9999 like in disgaea? >_>
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Fire Emblem without level caps would be quite unnecessary. Why is 99 the perfect cap for every game?
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scar the 1 posted...

Fire Emblem without level caps would be quite unnecessary. Why is 99 the perfect cap for every game?

Most games formulas are based on either the number 225 or... something else. Maybe 99.

The number works well in the formulas that decide damage, defense, etc.
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southcoast09 posted...

scar the 1 posted...

Fire Emblem without level caps would be quite unnecessary. Why is 99 the perfect cap for every game?

Most games formulas are based on either the number 225 or... something else. Maybe 99.

The number works well in the formulas that decide damage, defense, etc.

Source? This sounds interesting. What formulas are you talking about?
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