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wackyteen
02/01/23 3:05:36 PM
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If that is the only way the designers can come up with for an enemy to deal damage to you?


Specifically when an enemy stuns you then locks you into a cycle of stuns, either the same kind or variety, so you cannot heal, attack, or otherwise do anything to the enemy as they kill you.

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MedeaLysistrata
02/01/23 3:06:56 PM
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Fair... difficulty? Do go on

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party_animal07
02/01/23 3:08:03 PM
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If there's a way to counter it for both skilled and unskilled players, then it's fine.

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meestermj
02/01/23 3:08:59 PM
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Any game mechanics that removes a players control is frustrating.
Examples:
Stun in Monster Hunter
Charm/Berserk in turn based rpgs
Lengthy grab animations (looking at Elden Ring here)

Are there ways to avoid them? Sure. They're still frustrating and borderline unfun.


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Runeboggle
02/01/23 3:09:13 PM
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If the player can do it, it's fair for the enemies to be able to.

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TheGoldenEel
02/01/23 3:12:53 PM
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Whats the difference between an enemy stunlocking you and taking away half your health, or just doing one attack that takes away half your health?

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Questionmarktarius
02/01/23 3:14:13 PM
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TheGoldenEel posted...
Whats the difference between an enemy at unlocking you and taking away half your health, or just doing one attack that takes away half your health ?
The first one is "cinematic" or something.
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codey
02/01/23 3:14:37 PM
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Runeboggle posted...
If the player can do it, it's fair for the enemies to be able to.

One thing that always drove me crazy about turn based FF games was that your spells that inflicted status effects like petrify, doom, berserk, that kind of thing, always had a way lower percentage of actually inflecting the status when you cast them compared to enemies.

At least, that's what it felt like when I was a kid,.

Edit: also, all the amount of enemies that were immune to practically every status whereas you could block maybe one with an accessory.

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MedeaLysistrata
02/01/23 3:14:39 PM
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Runeboggle posted...
If the player can do it, it's fair for the enemies to be able to.
Until you can't do it to the enemy for some reason

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ZeroCredibility
02/01/23 3:42:09 PM
#10:


Runeboggle posted...
If the player can do it, it's fair for the enemies to be able to.
different take (players&enemies)...
to flee/survive? fair = yes
to defeat/win? fair = no

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Kloe_Rinz
02/01/23 3:43:13 PM
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usually, any punishment that involves taking the control away from the players is bad game design.
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HHH_is_the_game
02/01/23 4:00:16 PM
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The amount of enemies that can trap you in unescapeable combos in From Software games are my biggest frustration with the AI so I voted no

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