Tim Cain Becomes a Literal Faggot

>stats are hard

get a load of this faggot. who the fuck even is this guy he shouldn't be allowed to touch video games.

>>378727146
He made Fallout

>>378726835
>He's experimenting with creating a completely numberless character system that uses geometric shapes to visualize attributes.
Yeah I remember they did that with DDR

>>378727213
the original fallout? what the fuck happened to this guy then.

Who is this faggot and why should I give two shits about what he has to say about anything?

>>378727294
Pay attention faggot

https://boards.fireden.net/v/search/subject/Tim%20Cain%20Becomes%20a%20Literal%20Faggot/

This is the face of autism. Don't reply, just report.

What's wrong with any of that?

>>378726835
>Literal Faggot
Literally wrong.

>>378727335
It looks like this guy from the OP is the faggot, not me.

Isometric CRPGs suck ass, famurai.

>>378727213
>he made

I know it could be considered splitting hairs, but wasn't fallout made by a group of people? Perhaps Tim always sucked, and was only saved by someone by his side going "No Tim, that's a bad idea". Or the more likely story is time changes everyone, and now this Tim fellow's ideas no longer align with your own.

> completely numberless character system that uses geometric shapes to visualize attributes.
what the actual fuck

>rather than allow players to increase their critical hit chance, they should only be allowed to increase their critical hit damage.

How is this wrong? Stacking crit chance is cancer

>Mistake #4 - Misunderstanding Randomness: Here Tim lays out his frustration with the sorts of people who can't believe they could miss a 95% chance-to-hit attack three times in a row. His conclusion is that when people talk about "randomness", they often mean selecting a token rather than rolling a dice (ie, events can't repeat themselves).

>hey we have players who don't understand math.. that if you roll a number between 1 and 20 you can roll 1 3 times in a row
>thats obviously a mistake in game development, we better make sure our game can pander to the people who can't understand simple math and probabilty

>>378726835
The geometric shapes sounds interesting, but I can't imagine it being better than either a stat bar or just numbers. The second thing just sounds like skinner box grinding shit, particularly the first hit always hits as it just seems like a way to trick the player into thinking that they might be off to a good start and with low hit point mobs would be OP while amounting to nothing with higher HP. The whole which stats to allow players to increase/decrease is a matter of opinion and as I'm not a game dev I don't think my opinion matters much. Mistakes 3-7 seem to be on point.

>>378727830
>How is this wrong? Stacking crit chance is cancer

to be fair if that's even possible it's shitty designed.

we had the same thread a few days ago, in some regard he's not wrong, but it's usually not the people's fault

>game let's you set stats
>80 hours later you figure out the game has the absolute worst balance and your stat dump foes fuck all
>or you can min-max so hard you break the game.

at the end of the day the game sets how the players play it.

>>378726835
Character creation is a little jarring for someone who's never been exposed to an RPG before. You also don't know if the game is balanced in your favor the first time around. I mean, nobody's ever heard of playing Fallout with a charisma build.

>>378728350
>Fallout with charisma build
Charisma is USELESS in Fallout 1, you can beat the game with 2 char and just dumping skill points on speech, there are no char checks in the entire fucking game, only int and speech
I mean I love Fallout and admire Tim as much as the next guy but that game is filled with useless stats like throw or outdoorsman.