Personally my game should start when i open the application, The moment i start playing is when the game should start, not after X hours or even X minutes.
If i have to wait at all to start having fun or get to the real game then it's being done wrong. I actually played UO and never saw the point of grinding skills just so i can play the real game.
Just my opinion of course.
Well said.
People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
Do you mean skill based games -VS- lvl based games..?
Seems to me, you are a tad late on the subject, which has been discussed for many, many years.
Seems to me you never paid attention during any of those discussions, because Skill vs. Level actually has nothing to do with OP's complaint.
You'd also realize this if you played either:
Darkfall, where a strong repetitive progression-grind exists (despite being Skill-based), or
Guild Wars, where hardly any progression-grind exists (despite being Level-based.)
Skill vs. Level is predominantly just a different way of divvying up progression. It doesn't speak to the amount of progression, or whether endgame changes gameplay up, or whether a game has enough fun activities to engage in.
In fact, Skill-based systems tend to commit developers to doing a lot of shitty activities and forcing you to repetitively engage in those (rather than making fewer activities which are individually more deep and engaging.) Although skill-based gaming is frequently associated with sandbox games, XP-based level systems actually give players far more freedom of how they progress (because you can do anything you want and it advances you.)
"What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. [continue]" -John Oliver
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People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
Seems to me you never paid attention during any of those discussions, because Skill vs. Level actually has nothing to do with OP's complaint.
You'd also realize this if you played either:
Darkfall, where a strong repetitive progression-grind exists (despite being Skill-based), or
Guild Wars, where hardly any progression-grind exists (despite being Level-based.)
Skill vs. Level is predominantly just a different way of divvying up progression. It doesn't speak to the amount of progression, or whether endgame changes gameplay up, or whether a game has enough fun activities to engage in.
In fact, Skill-based systems tend to commit developers to doing a lot of shitty activities and forcing you to repetitively engage in those (rather than making fewer activities which are individually more deep and engaging.) Although skill-based gaming is frequently associated with sandbox games, XP-based level systems actually give players far more freedom of how they progress (because you can do anything you want and it advances you.)
"What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. [continue]" -John Oliver