Tedd Video Game Opinions - 025 - HD
Added 2021-06-29 05:29:11 +0000 UTCOther options.
Commentary
Intent is not a prerequisite for rudeness. I'm not saying it doesn't matter or anything, just that you can be rude by accident, and I can understand not liking the whole "let's have slowness happen via magic weight gain" thing.
There are a few reasons I decided to address this in the comic itself, one of which being I like Tedd's temper tantrum (that is effectively poking fun at myself), and another is that it segues well into what I want to talk about next.
The bottom slider option is inspired by at least one Saints Row game (I can never remember if it was in just one game or not), plus the simple fact that plenty of people would prefer it not be binary.
Speaking of the sliders, height change would be another option for slowing down enemies, and I believe shrinking was even mentioned as a way to slow them down earlier. I didn't consider it for the previous comic, however, because I was thinking of changes that would affect a single variable, and I think a significant height reduction would affect more than just movement speed.
Comments
For many AAA games, the target audience is "everyone", because they need to sell at least ten million copies in order to justify the production budget.
ijuinkun
2021-07-02 04:42:07 +0000 UTCWhat about weight that shouldn't be part of the body but is? I know, that's cancer. I'm not asking you to identify what it is. Transforming someone to have cancer isn't so evil if it all goes away and they're fine when the transformation is over, right?
Some Ed
2021-07-02 03:22:51 +0000 UTCCome on think about it! If you give them a turtle shell you run the risk of giving them training similar to Master Roshi’s Turtle school regimen. You don’t want kid Gokus and Krillins running around all over the place!
Reynna Romero
2021-06-30 20:55:48 +0000 UTCAnother way to do "slow" effects would to be a change in material. Going from flesh to say stone might be just as effective. Or maybe just make it how they behave rather than appearance. Moving carefully or clumsyly. Stumbling or such. And of course there is always "that" kink. But I think the best option is all of them. Put the player in charge of how there status effects manifest.
Dragon Quest 3 or 4 in 2024
2021-06-30 19:31:16 +0000 UTCTo my mind that's too general. People are going to get hung up on the details not the theme. That's Susan's point about why you might not want to do weight gain for slowness. That overweight players might not like it. My counterpoint is if your game tiptoes around every demographic that could possibly be triggered by a specific transformation, you won't have much of a transformation game left. Avoid gratuitously alienating your core player base first then see what you can reasonably do for everybody else.
John Trauger
2021-06-30 17:21:41 +0000 UTC"How big is the target audience with an unusual fascination for transformation, how much public backlash do we risk, and will the backlash attract more customers than it sacrifices?"
Klaus
2021-06-30 07:21:30 +0000 UTCWould it be rude to make a character look heavier, give them a Charisma boost, and say "I've added weight to my words"?
Klaus
2021-06-30 07:20:12 +0000 UTCI do like the idea of a turtle shell spell as both a buff and a debuff depending on circumstances (slows the target down but also adds defense)
Jared Fattmann
2021-06-30 06:24:03 +0000 UTCYou can't win once you start fretting too much about who your game will annoy. At some point just about anything you do with a game is going to annoy someone or cause some other problem. Weight gain as the slow spell f/x will bother some people. It will delight others. A turtle shell will be fine for some, but evoke eye-rolls from others, perhaps annoying those few terrapin players for playing to the "slow turtle" stereotype. Just *having* a bust slider is going to annoy a lot of people. Just ask yourself a simple question: (which seems very difficult for some real-world game, TV and movie-makers these days): "Who is your target audience? What would they like/dislike?" And rank everybody else's concerns a notch or more below.
John Trauger
2021-06-29 18:29:01 +0000 UTCI don't know who those settings were for before Tedd started changing them, but I like them. :) But I understand where both Susan and Tedd are coming from on this one.
M.
2021-06-29 12:25:27 +0000 UTCNo no no, max is relative. You see, the character always start at the middle when initially created or when the menu is open. Like you open their slider and move it up halfway then close it. When you reopen the menu the slider is set with the new size as the middle. Or maybe not. It'd be easier to say you can temporarily go over max slider size with the spell, or it just doesn't work on exceptionally busty ladies.
Serith
2021-06-29 10:33:53 +0000 UTCbut what if the bust slider is already at max? EDIT: or in other words: "Bold of you to assume the bust slider isn't already at max."
Chordat
2021-06-29 09:55:52 +0000 UTCYou could turn the bust slider all the way up instead. Huge boobs would probably slow ya down, or at least distract you. They'd probably distract anyone else nearby too. Then you stealth.
Serith
2021-06-29 07:04:09 +0000 UTCOr enormous elephant feet...
David Fenger
2021-06-29 05:37:36 +0000 UTCTHAT'S CONJURATION! (Flails arms impotently)
Dan Shive
2021-06-29 05:33:47 +0000 UTCI suppose you could add weight that's not part of the body, like a barbell.
Stephen Gilberg
2021-06-29 05:33:10 +0000 UTC
