[quote]In Exile wrote...
Okay, what the hell are you talking about?
Here is what I said:
"I do admit I have a hard time understand [sic] why people would ever
choose anything other than the optimal path of doing something. "
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I explained several reasons why someone would want to play something other than the optimal path, as you put it, and your argument against each points circles back to "but that's not the easiest, quickest way to win the fight" (or how do you paraphrase "that just leads to drawn out combat" which is
[quote]I don't find it fun to beat self-imposed constraints, because all that
usually just amounts to aggravation (e.g. lenghty encounters). [/quote])
You continue to harp on "I want to be the best at combat" with
[quote]I mix-max exclusive from an RP standpoint. Why would my characters ever prepare themselves in some suboptimal way? That would be like modern soldiers refusing rifles or body armour. [/quote]
and "I don't want to play a character who isn't min-maxed to win the fight the quickest, most efficient way possible"
[quote]This is a numerical game. 20 dmg consistent over 4 seconds is not as much as 100 dmg at once after 4 seconds.
I
refuse to acknowledge the utility of the bow because taking into
account DPS and length of time, I think knockback + melee does more
damage.
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and
[quote]If we are talking about the utility of something, I think we have to
talk about an optimal build. Even the most useless abilities can be fun
for a player, but that doesn't mean they aren't useless. We need some
standard that isn't the highly subjective 'it's fun for me!'.[/quote]
It has been said to you, by others, many ways why someone wouldn't play the way you do, and you've outright dismissed them -
[quote]I think we have to talk about an optimal build[/quote]
[quote]I
refuse to acknowledge the utility of the bow[/quote]
[quote]But if we use useful as 'I think it's good enough' then we're arguing
based on your idiosyncratic truism, which gets is nowehere.[/quote]
In Exile, it keeps boiling down to people giving reasons to you for why they do something, and you responding that those reasons are not compelling to you or not ones that you consider when you play the game or for whatever reason you give as you dismiss each counter-example.
They give reasons -
you say they are not viable reasons when considering (what you consider the most important metric) optimal builds-
people respond back that they find optimal builds boring and unchallenging -
and you say you don't understand them.
OK?
Got it?
I'm not NOT arguing against you-
you are DISMISSING everything ANYONE brings up that conflicts with your own views, because they are not your views.
People, other than you, place importance and value in things that you do not.
Let me repeat that -
People place importance and value in things that you do not.That's your answer. You don't understand - but you aren't trying to. You are trying to take the views of others, with their own interests and values, and trying to make them match your own - and when they don't measure up, you find them incomprehensible.
Because. They. Are. Not. Your. Values.
I'm not setting up strawmen for you - I'm addressing your self-admitted inability to understand why some people don't play the way you do.
You don't understand because any reason given to you is one you don't agree with personally and therefore you deem irrelevant.
You see why you'll continue to never understand?
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[quote]ErichHartmann wrote...
[quote]MerinTB wrote...
I
cannot understand how people have fun playing the game the "most
efficient way always" way myself. That just seems boring... why not set
the game to easy mode and use a cheat code for "god mode"
invulnerability, those both seem the "optimal" ways to win the game. [smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/angry.png[/smilie]
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Because
your definition of "fun" is not universal? And figuring out the best
build is hardly cheating or god mode. That's just silly.
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You do realize you are pulling that out of the context of me responding to -
[quote]In Exile wrote...
I do admit I have a hard time understand why people would ever choose anything other than the optimal path of doing something.
[/quote]
and yet you didn't call that, the mirror opposite of what I said (with what I said meant to be a parody of what he said, but I'm guessing you missed that somehow), as being "just silly" even though it's equally as unreasonable based on the whole - "it's not what I think is fun, so I don't get how people find it fun" kinda thing that is, more or less, my whole point...
the point you try making TO ME...
that one person's idea of "what is the right way to play a game" is not universal?
Mind sharing that wisdom with In Exile, as
I agree with you.
Modifié par MerinTB, 14 décembre 2010 - 11:08 .