First zone has a powerful enemy to instantly kill you

>first zone has a powerful enemy to instantly kill you

Why do games do this?

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so you can come back later and kick his ass, why else?

It's Neutral. The only way it'll ever attack you is if you go and start stabbing it.

Provides a sense of danger and a reason to come back. One of the things I love about ff12 desu.

To give a sense of progression. If you want all enemies to be equally difficult throughout the game or to go up in a linear fashion, then there's no point having a leveling system at all.

To teach you not to be fucking stupid

To remind you that rpg games have never been about skill and no matter how fast your fingers move or how hard your brain works your level 1 ass will never be able to beat a level 99 fucker

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>tfw you finally take down some of the more dangerous predators in ARK
>tfw you tame them and build an army of dinosaurs

Wish someone told Bungie that

Zelda now.

>tfw survival early access open world game
>tfw 70$ for one copy

ive had some good times with my friends, every couple of years we get back on and try to dominate a server, this year was pretty fun because of all the retarded shit they have added for lategame

Holy shit, that really jumped in price since I started playing it. I think I bought it for $12.

The game literally tells you to junction sleep to attack, that iirc can be drawn from the plant monsters there. Then spam shiva on one guy and ice magic on another

Fuck you Sup Forums for telling me I could refund this once it was out of early access

thought it was free?

Depends on the game. You can cheese out a lot of RPGs at absurdly low levels with either some luck or massive abuse of the tools available to you. Like in Xenoblade you can beat the level 130 superboss at like level 65-70 by abusing the gems that increase damage vs toppled enemies.

>Tame my first Argent
>Spend the next few days kidnapping wild raptors and dropping them into random dino pens owned by other tribes

iirc in ffxiv 1.0 players could kill lvl 80 mobs (player cap was 50) solo by using their skills right

>tfw you platinumed 100%ed Ark

Apparently the official servers are a shitshow currently with large clans running roughshod and cheating with impunity.

Although Wildcard banned an entire 150 member clan yesterday because someone got caught hacking on a stream, so maybe things will improve.

I just can't get over the obscene taming and breeding times on official servers. It's like they hate the idea of employed people playing the game.

>TFW therizinosaurs still wreck your shit after you get allosaurs and spinos.

Seriously don't know why the fuck they put that fucking murder chicken in the game.

In the Mario & Luigi RPGs, you never actually have to fight a battle that's not plot mandatory since you can dodge/deflect every attack. AT least one of the games had a special message at the end for beating it below level 20, the lowest you could possibly be with only mandatory battles was 17.

Why the fuck would you play the PS4 version?

yeah official servers are fucked, full of chinese hackers or exploiters, we only play on 10x everything because if not for that it would take literally months to get to TEK

Co-Op Offline mode and I like playing weird ports. I actually was able to get The Center Trophy and not have it bug out. I also collected all the documents and collectibles.

It was only like 20 bucks at gamestop over the Holidays.

It's ludicrous that they made them as powerful as spinos and as common as a dilo. If they were just another passive herbivore or would only attack if you were running around with a weapon out and at the ready, it wouldn't be so bad, but it really fucks up stealth strikes at night when some random chicken bites your ass off when you're hiding in a bush sniping another tribe.

How long did this take? Was it fun?

I love collecting trophies on ps because they can't be hacked in like pc and feel like a real way to 100% beat the game

Yeah it's pretty fun. It's a Dinosaur Sandbox game. You can have no grinding or all the grinding you want. The game has a main quest where you fight 3 super bosses by collecting reagents to summon them. Then after you fight the 3 bosses you fight the final boss and they actually included a real ending to the game. Took me less than a week to do solo. There's like 100+ dinosaurs in the game and Ice Age beasts and it's got some nice areas to explore.

> tfw watching a streamer spend thirty minutes fighting one of the sea scorpions that bugged its way into swimming on land for thirty minutes only to kill it in a couple of minutes because it couldn't easily float between closely placed trees
the game has its moments

It's a shame to hear about all the cheaters in ARK now. I used to be the scout trainer in a big alpha tribe.

I remember us taking hours to trudge through the jungle in full ghille suits (WHICH ARE A FUCKING PAIN IN THE ASS TO MAINTAIN BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO CLUB SO MANY PENGUINS TO MAKE AND REPAIR THEM) to map out another tribe's anti-air/infantry emplacements. We blew up some important ones and waited for the enemy to show up where ideally we could just snipe them for easy kills, but no one came. A while later when we took out pterodactyls and two rockets and got a bit closer to their base to check out what they were up to.

Turns out the fuckers had just tamed a fucking giganotosaurus which is a pretty big time investment and a pretty dangerous advantage over us.

At this point they were busy building an enclosure for it to hide it, but they were less than 50% done. We readied our RPGs and fired the first which was enough to enrage the dino into destroying its enclosure and a decent amount of nearby buildings since they seemed to be basic wooden barracks. We got up and snuck away so we could see the damage and more of the base. After it calmed down, we fired another rocket to enrage it again and opened fire with our rifles to pick off other players and their dinos.

We won the war that night.

content gating and teach the player mechanics
you dummy

Cheesing the Saurian at a lower than appropriate level was the only satisfying victory in FFXII.

The superbosses like Yiazmat don't count. They feel more like a chore than a victory.

>Running away
Stop being such a pussy and hit him with blind spells or blind junctioned to your attack (assuming you can junction status attack at that point in the game)

In Final Fantasy type 0 they do this pretty much at the start of the game, but if you actually practice you can kill them.

This game doesn't run worth a damn. Also it apparently has bosses now. Like, story bosses.

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I bought Aberration the other day, Is it me or this map is poorly optimized for graphics?

whats that even mean

>this map
are you saying it's even worse than the other maps? oh lord.

I didn't buy it because fuck ark and their greedy ways. they started pushing out DLC's before the game was done and now they still haven't finished ragnarok but moved on to Aberration to get more money.
how goddamn greedy can you get?

fucking giant baboons

I love when games teach you that "Run" is actually an option and a viable solution to a problem.

he's way worse in the second one, fucking runs around half the field

The whole of Gormott in 2 is filled with enemies like that.
>Run up a big tree root over Lyta Oasis
>Level 74 Messar Taos swoops in out of nowhere and obliterates me

Fucking
Overpowered
Enemy