Casual is not "baby mode." Just that phrasing itself suggests that you have some sort of issue with playing on lower difficulty settings for reasons known only to yourself.
My impression is that you don't find turning the difficulty down satisfying purely because you have issues with appearing like a baby or a child. Ditch the issues, enjoy the game.
CCCs are not something that you have to use, and most of the classes have non-specific self-combos.
Zan Mura:
They aren't "game settings" as long as FF is tied to Nightmare. And anyway as I've been saying all over the place here, this problem isn't even tied to difficulty. The whole mechanics in the game are different from DAO's in that the players work under different rules from the enemy. Differen't HP's, different damage, different spells etc. It feels highly artificial and unrealistic with regards to how this world should work.
You're completely mistaken. DA2 is a game. Difficulty is a setting in that game, AND NOTHING MORE. No one is going to ridicule you for being a baby if you choose to play on Casual, and if they do, they're not worth paying attention to, anyway.
Friendly Fire is one of the set of pre-coded variables that run in Nightmare. Increased enemy HP and Resistances and Damage are other variables related to that setting.
You're also mistaken if you think that enemies in DAO work under the same rules as players. They almost never have the same skill sets, their HPs vary more depending on difficulty SETTING, not character level, and they never use Spell Combos.
As for fighters needing mage support, and vice versa. Not quite true. Due to the potion mechanic of increasing drops when potions are below 4 (again, totally artificial), warriors can make do reasonably well without mage heals. More importantly, I KNOW how a 2h works in Nightmare. I've made my Fenris do it. Singlehandedly defeat many random mob encounters with nothing more than Cleave + 3 attack abilities. Ooh there's a nice little Chain Lightning CCC you can use from that STAGGER. But it's not even needed because those mobs will die to the next swing anyway. Even the BRITTLE mechanic is dubious since I rarely ever even need it aside from bosses. Warriors have very little need for a mage, the mage is a bonus. But mages on their own are damn near useless without support and someone to set up CCC's for them to use.
You mean Fenris can defeat a bunch of Normals by using four activated abilities? How interesting. Have you tried using the same number of activated abilities for a Mage? Arguably, you should consider more, since Mages generally have more activated abilities, and more mana as well.
Regarding your argument about applying personal handicap to your warrior on casual to make the mage feel superior, I would actually agree normally. I love applying personal handicaps to craft the game to my liking. But BW itself already proved they do not agree, when they completely nerfed the mage from DAO. Most other people seem to agree as well. In DAO you could just as well have said "take the difficulty to casual, that way your warrior and rogue can be useful even without the use of mage". It's almost exactly the same situation... only in DA2 I do admit the mages are far closer to balanced than the warriors and rogues were in DAO (they were totally gimped by comparison there).
If you were planning to run without Mages in DAO, then turning down the diff level is, indeed, the way to go. If you do run with Mages, then you'd have to use them in profoundly bad ways for them not to dominate combat in any setting, even if they're your NPC, and even if you underlevel them. The disparity is that great.
Mages in DA2 only seem "nerfed" in comparison because Mages in DA:O could solo the game at the highest difficulty settings without much of any actual difficulty.
Compared to that, ANY kind of balanced anything would be "nerfed."
As for the insecurity on casual thing and gaming cred. If that was a serious suggestion, then no. I openly admit to cheating and exploiting where I feel like it to craft the gaming experience I like, granted in most games I never need to, but in DA2 I do that constantly. I don't care one whit if my "rep" or whatever drops in some random stranger's eyes I don't even care about. Seems more likely to me though that you're just projecting with that suggestion. Basically trying to say "I like Nightmare because I am skilled, better than you, and I deserve admiration. But you can't, so admit that you are inferior to me because I want gaming cred for myself." in a patronizing tone of voice. No?
Nope. I actually don't like playing on NIghtmare. It's too much of a grind for me, even with a party setup. I like to outfit my party based on what looks pretty, not on what's optimized, so I generally run with a pretty unoptimized party.
I change the diff settings freely based on how the game feels. I started off all my playthroughs on Normal. I only moved them to Hard before the Deep Roads expeditions because I was getting bored with obliterating everything wholesale.
That includes my Mage playthrough.
Modifié par Roxlimn, 28 mars 2011 - 10:44 .
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