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Who thinks a game is made better by locking better gear behind having 20 bimblos, which drop 2% of the time you kill a glomgus (there are only 3 in the game and they only respawn once a week) (also the game tells you nothing about this)

The single biggest reason keep me from playing an Altelier game is that its entire game mechanic is centered on crafting and combining. I really don't like crafting systems in games.

I dont mind the crafting in The Last of Us, as its very basic and just a case of choosing what you want to invest your limited bank of materials in.

Generally speaking, Im not a fan of crafting systems.

Alucard188 posted...

The single biggest reason keep me from playing an Altelier game is that its entire game mechanic is centered on crafting and combining. I really don't like crafting systems in games.

But the crafting in Atelier is actually good, and not anything at all like the garbage other games have

I want an uncrafting system. Take shit and deconstruct it into more shit.

I really gotta be in the mood for it. I'm playing Stranded - Alien Dawn right now, and it's a very in-depth crafting and survival game with a lot of micromanaging. I'm definitely into it right now, it's cool with a lot of neat ideas, but it may be a year before I play another when i'm finished with this. I can't play them frequently, the relearning gets kind of old.

Crafting is fun, material gathering is not.

crafting could be good if there is no bullshit rng behind the required materials
and if there could be an alternative material that could be used to make items

i generally love them, but only when they're well integrated. if they're tacked on just to pad out playtime then, yeah, i don't see the point. but stuff like terraria? i'll play those forever.

I can agree. Crafting in Fallout 4 and NV is a huge pain in the ass.

It depends on how it's implemented. It's probably easier to design a game where, instead of a boss dropping X weapon, they drop material A that either becomes X weapon, is collected or combined into X weapon, or is used as currency where X weapon is available for purchase.

Devs going ham and making the crafting too tedious defeats the purpose.

The_Wheelman1 posted...

I can agree. Crafting in Fallout 4 and NV is a huge pain in the ass.

At least those aren't the core mechanics of the game. You can largely ignore it in New Vegas, and counter it in Fallout 4 by just picking up literally everything you can.