Is it a good dungeon design?

Is it a good dungeon design?
Can it be improved?

typical simple map design for casuals by shitty american devs
just look at average japanese dungeon

JRPGs again show how superior they are

>14 areas in a row without any branching paths
Fucking trash

>Can it be improved?
Yes.

Ideally, you would want things interconnecting or reconnecting onto themselves, generally with new abilities or the ability to "unlock" a path and connect areas. Doing that allows for it to feel more like a large organic world, where things are in some sort of space with relations to one another, as opposed to "stages" from a menu selection screen. What you have shown works fine for a game like Mega Man X, which is intended as a linear challenge of skill and the setting is purely aesthetic. But it doesn't work as a dungeon you are trying to progress and find your way around.

the DC metro extends outside of DC proper, right

yes

muh nostalgia HNNNN I need to go back

t. lived this map for 6 months

What job did you get?

The job were I live off of savings until it runs out.

Who else /Dunn-Loring/ here?

DC is lightly populated and skyscrapers are banned, doesn't need as much rail as megacity Tokyo

Buses do most of the work too

Must have been a good amount to be able to live in Tokyo for six months doing nothing. Should have lived somewhere else, you could have stretched it out longer.

I like this one. Not too easy, not too hard.

The random encounters suck, though. The musician NPCs have all been replaced with beggars.

the point wasn't starting a conversation about urban planning

That's fucking gay. Unless you're dying, that was a waste of time. Even if I enjoy Tokyo.

In the new patch because some faggots cried about it to GMs until it was changed.

I lived in Chiba for a bit, unless you are a Ken-sama tier weeb Tokyo is the only city thats worth it.

Provincial Japan is boring and empty, the only stores that even sell Otaku shit are in a handful of bigger cities and the selection is slim. A lot less food options because people eat family dinners for the most part and you are made to feel way more awkward as a howaito piggu outside of Tokyo and Osaka.

If you had some close friend who let you stay in his traditional style home and you were learning something like martial arts or flower arranging it would be fine, but you would be bored to death unless you just like nature walks.

This isn't vidya.

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Friends of mine and I are going to Tokyo in the fall.

Is there anything we should do beforehand that isn't usually said? (Vaccines, etc.)

Is there any cool ass small shops that you've ran into?

Someone post TTC so you guys can laugh at us

Why not?

Pic related was a good game

Is the Government Center stop still under construction?

>Lived here for 5 years and know it by heart.
My station is here too but it's a really small one. Only 20 mins from Shibuya.

Is this an eroge?

This one is basically all modern games

There is an urban legend about the circle. It was built because Stalin put his coffee mug on the plans and the architects were too afraid to mention it, so they built the whole thing.

Casual designs are the best

>tfw home city has the best and most satisfying loop

You people think complexity means something is better? You're retarded.

I want to move so fucking bad. all I want is /subway/ in my life.

Visited NYC and I could have spent the whole time just riding trains.

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we heard you like riding a train 4 hours to the airport for $2.

We got u senpai

Naw that was over nearly a year ago. They are now trying to be cute by doing things around City Hall even when everyone is saying to just build a new fucking place.

I believe this to be the best dungeon design

Shows how long I was in Boston last.

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But Tokyo is pretty much the Mecca for Ken-sama tier weebs.

>Vaccines
kek. you dont need them its not Africa.
Bring souvenirs from your country, cheap snacks and candy works well. Give them out with abandon to Japs you get to know. Bring warm inside clothing for lounging and sleeping because Japan doesn't into central heat and electricity is high so in the fall its going to be chilly inside every building.

>shops
Roppongi is full of foreigners and blacks. Shadiest creeps can be found there, avoid unless you trying to find western food and grocery. Or bars with lots of English speakers and Japs who want to jump on foreigner dick (they are usually unstable)

Ikebukuro is my favorite mainline stop. Really nice booming development with Animate, shops, and cafes. You can find almost anything there including anime pachinko machines.

Akihabara you should visit once or twice, lots of niche otaku shops and game centers. Visit icafe internet cafe (they have english information sheet) and pay for a couple of hours to read manga, browse online, play online games and access unlimited drink bar. Its part of the experience. There is on up the main street in Akihabara.

Sky Tree is a superior experience to Tokyo Tower these days, if you only plan on doing one. Its much taller and very nice shopping around it.

>all this noobs not playing transregional dungeons that take a literal day to go from top to botom
Just fucking GIT GUD!

Where do you live user? Seem they are trying to get new trains but everyone is dragging their feet hoping another blizzard doesn't fuck everything up again like a few years back.

This is a badly designed map. There's plenty of linear paths which don't connect to other paths, and the one area where some paths connect causes the game to lag, not even considering that it's unoptimised in general. There's also many areas on the map which you can see but you cant reach via the paths provided. At least it's a step up from the old design where they had a bunch of DLC on the map which they never intended to make.
>Baby Park

I live in Maine. The colder cousin of Massachusetts (Fun fact, we used to be Massachusetts at one time, flip flopping!)

Ken-sama hones his katana craft and collects rare men's kimono while sleeping on traditional tatami flooring. All of this is hard to do in Tokyo.

I prefer north suburbs. Much more laid back and cozy. All the North Yamanote line stops are pretty nice.

Hahahahahaha

Came here to post this.

Feel sorry for ya with that insane governor of yours.

RIP Ken-Sama.

Press F to pay respects.

It could stand to have some shorter alternate paths so backtracking for loot isn't such a pain, and also FOR FUCKS SAKE HOW HARD IS IT TO KEEP THE RED LINE RUNNING AT RUSH HOUR WMATA, SOME OF US HAVE REAL JOBS

mad just by looking it

Whenever someone says "We are fucked under Trump", I just tell them we already have a real one and he literally unhinged.

Like threatening a lawmaker over comments he said about him. AND SOMEHOW HES STILL GOVERNOR! WHO IS WORSE? US OR HIM?

One note though on climate and what clothing to wear, if you're going in the summer get prepared for some nasty ass tropical humid heat, the kinda wet heat where you walk out of the shower and everything feels the same. And remember most indoor shopping centers (actually most places in general) have no AC

t. Uncomfortably sweaty gaijin

YOU GUYS VOTED FOR HIM TWICE!

At least we only voted in Romney once and kicked him out as fast as humanly possible. Baker is pretty good honestly even if I disagree with a few of his ideas. He at least is willing to work with our lib state unlike Romney.

>WMATA in charge of optimization

Not him, but I just got back from Tokyo. You don't need any additional vaccinations than you should already have if you grew up in a civilised country.

Small shops... I assume you mean video games specifically? If you have something specific in mind you may find it, but you should know the prices aren't drastically lower than what you find on eBay. Also, don't spend your time moving from shop to shop in an electronics district for the best price. At best you will save like $10 and have lost a lot of valuable time over there. If you see that Kirby game you want and it is a price you are alright with, just buy it.

Explore smaller streets in the shopping districts and keep an eye on upper floors of buildings for some of the less traveled but nicer foods. And try anything.

If you want clothes look in second hand stores too, you will get great brands pretty cheap and in great condition.

On topic here, Beijing has a great rail system, I wish I had used it more when I was there instead of walking all the time because it is very clear for those not knowing the language and very efficient.

>Shadiest creeps can be found there, avoid unless you trying to find western food and grocery. Or bars with lots of English speakers and Japs who want to jump on foreigner dick (they are usually unstable)

Part of why we are going to Japan is to get away from shit we can do at home (like eat mcdonalds). Of course we'll feast o n weeb shit and play arcades, but if we are sitting in an English-mainly bar, we're doing something wrong.

>Ikebukuro
My friend suggested that, so we are looking at that to chill. I will toss what you said to him.

>Akihabara
Of course this is on the list.

>icafe internet cafe
I'll add this one the growing list.

>Sky Tree
Adding as we speak. Thanks user!

>tfw get invited to come train in Japan at the hombu dojo for my martial art, every summer
>just thinking of doing what we do in heavy cotton gi's in 40 degree heat

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE

make the red line stop breaking down once a month

make metrocenter and chinatown less fucking crowded all the time

make green line less full of nigs

A good game and a great book. Came to post your map, proud of you son.

>Also, don't spend your time moving from shop to shop in an electronics district for the best price. At best you will save like $10 and have lost a lot of valuable time over there.

Im not so much bargaining shopping, so much as finding a cute little shop and just 'taking in' the atmosphere.

Also I mean more of like small but cool electronic shops run by middle aged men.

>Dungeon maintainers go on strike. AGAIN.

We heard you like paying $5000 a month for a glorified prison cell

Welcome to Jew York

>Glasgow is literally the Baby Park of subways

>Also I mean more of like small but cool electronic shops run by middle aged men.

Well there are a lot of very tiny stalls right outside Akihabara station where old Japanese men sell electronic components, security equipment, HAM radio equipment and electrical testers and instruments. I ended up spending a good amount of time in there and picked up a used Fluke multimeter in excellent shape and far cheaper than I would get at home.

>simple
>enjoyable
>functional

The best.

Fall is pretty nice, it should be perfect temperature wise. Summer is fucking hell though, glad I never staying past June. My weeb friend's first and only time spent in Japan was during the worst part of the summer in a particularly humid area. It was so bad she doesn't ever want to go back.

>keep an eye on upper floors of buildings
Oh shit this for sure. Make sure to always check the building kiosk to see what shit is on what floor. You will miss a whole lot if you only go for the ground floor.

Speaking of small shops, you can trust ALL the food in the Japan, no matter how shady, small, or run down it may look. Japs are incredibly fastidious and clean but their property are just run-down and small because its made of rice-paper. I have never once gotten sick or anything close to food poising from anything in 6 months of eating out and trying weird shit (except once at a kebab stand that was run by a filthy Turkroach)

Try street vendors if you can find them, particularly takoyaki, yakisoba and crepes. If you see a tiny restaurant with only like 10 seats at the bar and it looks packed with salarymen its probably really good food.

Speaking of lines, if you ever see a big line outside of a food place, join it. Don't even worry about what it is. Japanese are very discerning and if they are lining up for something you know its probably really good in either price, quality, or both. Avoid large chains that look empty.

Thats what I'm talking about, man! It's fun to me to find those little gadget shops.

Can't wait to go there. Something new.

Pathetic

If you want to live on Yamanote, but some of us want a house. So that's what I did, bought a house near Kichijouji. It's a great neighborhood that's all residential and quiet but only a 5 minute train from everything you need.

Yamanote living is for extremely rich or the tiniest apartments, I find.

Not a good thing to be honest, it attracts fucking hobos and generally weirdos riding the thing all day as a hang out. Been a long ass time since I was there though.

How many zones in did you get, Sup Forums? I always get fucked in Zone 3, 2 and 1 are just too tough for me.

The red and blue line isn't finished yet.

Get fukt paki

it's gonna be 3 dollars now

That yellow line is JUST, and they're spending billions to change the Scarborourgh line to be compatible with the rest of the system. Some guy on /n/ always talks about the Toronto Subway.

t. Davido-kun

Yellow is actually the best of the bunch.
JUST is the Scarborough RT.

I love Chicago's because it's above ground and below ground. So fucking comfy, I'm actually on the train right now.

Oh and pick up a few pleasentries to use when you shop or eat. a lot of people around the big cities know small amounts of English to understand that you enjoy or are thankful for the food, but they are also very worried that foreigners won't like Japanese food. Oishi is the word for delicious and it makes the old chef and his wife beam when you say it after eating their curry. I wish I had learnt it earlier but was taught it very late in my trip by an expat I met.

The people are generally lovely, unless you are on a train or in an elevator. Still, they are very passive, but it can be overwhelming when no one says a word but just packs the elevator like a can of sardines and then a stroller somehow also gets in there.

kill me

Do all metro smell like piss or is this a parisian feature?

It's a feature.

Is this a good dungeon design?

mfw the grey dungeons are dlc

S-surely this game will be good when it comes out, all games with a 20+ year development cycle are good, right?

>make metrocenter and chinatown less fucking crowded all the time
They're transfer stations in the center of the city what do you expect

The main metro lines are actually pretty easy to learn once you're there. It's only a pain in the ass if you're traveling to some small little station on the other side of the city.

How about this? Is this a good design?

>took the train to get across the river
>destination is still 20 miles away
t-thanks

I wish our rail systems could be as fast as those in shanghai or beijing
t. Singaporean

That's Poland alright, you better be in shape mate

r8 this dungeon design

Toronto tier

>tfw casual metro

>living your life instead of sucking corporate dick is "gay"
Capitalism everyone, what a great system! Remember to wait until you're too old and decrepit to enjoy yourself to actually stop working and enjoy life

This level dungeon tries too hard to be funny, saw a bunch of NPCs in their underwears a few days ago

how do you guys feel about this abandoned subway

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>Retail WoW dungeon design

Neat. I was just there on vacation.

R8 the mexidungeon

>Provincial Japan is boring and empty,
Because youth people prefer live in Tokyo, countryside is for the boring old people

>the only stores that even sell Otaku shit are in a handful of bigger cities and the selection is slim.
Amazon JP exist, why you want a physical store of anime goods? except if you are a tourist that want genuine Akibahara experience