Ugh... Just, ugh. I've ranted about that in the past. The Sha-Brytol Earthshakers were the worst. It wasn't fun, and more importantly in some ways, it wasn't challenging, because their attacks were so pitiful they'd never kill me but at the same time it took forever to kill them, so it was more like waiting for the enemy to die than anything else.
In Exile has a point, RPGs and videogames in general are power fantasies http://tvtropes.org/...in/PowerFantasy.
All too often, but should they be?
DA2 got a lot of grief because it wasn't.
I don't think that's true. That is, I don't agree that DA2 was not a power fantasy, and I don't think that most criticism of it had anything to do with that.
It's like they were supposed to be the tanks for their side. Imagine a version of DAI where the enemies had access to War Cry and Challenge.
Well it demonstrated why games rarely have combat encounters of just tanks. Because it's dull.
I wouldn't mind enemies using more of the combat abilities we have access to. But for war cry/challenge, wouldn't we just be able to manually select the affected character and redirect them? Or would there be some mind control aspect where the war cry is a compulsion that we can't end until its duration runs out?
When I think of a "special snowflake" I don't think of someone who's simply good at fighting (especially in an unrealistic fantasy/sci-fi game) I think of someone who is unique in all the world. Someone who can't be replaced and is the only one in existence capable of saving the world (or solving whatever situation the game is about). Someone like the Dragonborn or the Inquisitor. If someone like Hawke or Shepard died then technically some other powerful fighters (including their companions) could just step in and take it from there (ex: in DA2 when you defeat the Arishok, Meredith and Orsino run in right after. If Hawke had died, the companions or those two would have been able to kill him). With someone like the Dragonborn or the Inquisitor, there is something special about them that makes them the only one who can save the world and everyone else no matter how strong or skilled or numerous they were would fail no matter what. I don't like this concept anyway but for such an important person to put themselves in harm's way on a whim, an unimportant diversion, or something someone else would be better suited for (or that underlings could accomplish) just makes it even worse.
It's like they were supposed to be the tanks for their side. Imagine a version of DAI where the enemies had access to War Cry and Challenge.
That's nothing. Imagine facing another Knight Enchanter. It'd be the longest fight ever.
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