Three Ideas for Balancing Summons

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[Fionordequester]

Whereas I fundamentally disagree - if a reward is useless, then it's not a worthy reward, especially if the price of the reward is facing a boss as cheap as Dullahan.  Why bother fighting it?  Once you know how pointless the reward is, then there's no point in even bothering unless you're doing a completionist run.  Might as well have been given a crumpled piece of paper saying "you beat dullahan, good for you", since that would be equally as useful as a reward.

Exactly.  It'd be like how Deadbeard's Demon Mail is like, the most worthless thing ever (and is, in fact, actually detrimental, since Elemental resistance trumps raw Defense).

[leaf]

Considering the whole point of beating bonus bosses for many people is to say they did it, I think it's fine. The reward is knowing that you were able to beat the game's superboss, which is honestly a better reward than *any* item you could give the player at that point. Something awesome but impractical is *preferable* for this kind of situation, since the player isn't going to have anything left to use it on anyway.

[Rolina]

Eh, easiest thing to do is make Iris useful - a 6-7 djinn cost Iris does that.  At double the cost, it's pointless.

[leaf]

No, the "easiest thing to do" is to leave it exactly as it is. Too many designers get worked up about giving every possible quest a gameplay-related reward. Sometimes, it's better to give the player a reward in the form of feedback - a cool cinematic, some story, etc, rather than something that directly impacts the gameplay. In a lot of cases, this feedback reward is more valuable to a player than getting a new shiny weapon. For many players, Iris is just that - it's a cool cinematic with an "apparently" broken effect.

And for the small segment of the playerbase that manages to beat Dullahan but somehow falters on the Doom Dragon, it's very practical to summon using your second party. If you put the djinn on standby beforehand, you can turn 1 Iris after a wipe. It's conventionally more useful than any other 7+ djinn summon in the game.

[Rolina]

We're just not going to agree on this then.

[Fionordequester]

I actually agree with Rolina on this...but it's not terribly important either way.  Endgame rewards liek those are such a minor part of the game, that's it's like "oh well".

[Fox]

January 20, 2019, 06:29:27 PM

Fox: That would be cool to have, yes. Where the text in the ROM is uncompressed. - The huffman compression used in the gba games is not used in the nds game, so perhaps that may be one reason it wasn't done. I think it is some generic compression thingy. If someone did do it (and make the entire ROM uncompressed), perhaps I would be more inclined to work on my dark dawn editor. Hm?

[KyleRunner]

January 15, 2019, 05:38:01 PM

KyleRunner: Could someone please create a GSTOOLKIT compatible with Dark Dawn? I'll try to translate that one to my language as well (as I did with the first two games).

[Luna_blade]

January 09, 2019, 02:39:00 PM

Luna_blade: I wonder when true death will strike

[Misery]

January 08, 2019, 03:00:02 PM

Misery: That is true

[JamietheFlameUser]

January 07, 2019, 06:08:38 PM

JamietheFlameUser: so this place is pretty inactive

[Salanewt]

December 17, 2018, 06:43:36 AM

Salanewt: Okay, minor announcement I guess. We just looked over some pre-release footage of GS1, and noticed that one of the unused and unlisted animations we discovered in GS2 (and GS1) plays in that footage. "Brine" is actually an early Fizz.

[Fox]

December 15, 2018, 01:06:23 AM

Fox: :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFmr_TZLpS0

[Fox]

December 15, 2018, 12:58:01 AM

Fox: A banana for you, a banana for me, a banana to your face. Your face is mine! A face for you, a face for me. A face for the banana too. Who wants to feed the banana?

[Fox]

December 09, 2018, 07:43:31 PM

Fox: A banana for you, a banana for me, let's all open a banana and enjoy!

[Drake baku]

December 08, 2018, 09:48:52 PM

Drake baku: ba... ba.... bana.... bana.... banana.... nanananananananana..... and now back to doing normal, kinda

[Luna_blade]

December 07, 2018, 05:43:02 PM

Luna_blade: Hey I forgot the christmas theme

[zman9000]

November 29, 2018, 09:01:09 AM

zman9000: ded

[Drake baku]

November 19, 2018, 11:05:28 AM

Drake baku: Good day to ya all

[Atrius]

October 30, 2018, 09:45:58 PM

Atrius: There used to be where I got the battle sprites for Kraden, but that site doesn't exist any more.

[Infitek]

October 26, 2018, 01:31:40 PM

Infitek: Do you know if there any custom Alex battle sprites available on the internet ?

[Infitek]

October 26, 2018, 01:31:01 PM

Infitek: Hey everyone

[Salanewt]

October 13, 2018, 03:23:06 AM

Salanewt: Updated it to provide more info that I forgot to mention.

[Salanewt]

October 13, 2018, 03:16:48 AM

Salanewt: I'm still trying to iron out IQ 2 but I'm pretty sure it's entirely random targeting.

[Salanewt]

October 13, 2018, 03:16:29 AM

Salanewt: Oh yeah, I posted some more info about enemy IQ.

[Fox]

October 12, 2018, 09:51:27 PM

Fox: The HTML5 project is too small to count

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