The people who say there’s no activity tend to be lurkers and they mean post activity not comments.

If you’re on a big community that’s usually not a problem but for the small ones it is. If you have a hobby, then chances are its biggest lemmy community still doesn’t see enough new activity to feel alive.

We’ve been burnt before

Uhh you’re welcome?

What are you thanking for?

Yeah that was a letdown for sure. Still better than releasing it as a mobile game I think.

If you haven’t heard they recently released the source code of C&C generals and zero hour and there’s multiple efforts working on a community patch.

I’ve been watching the competitive scene of zero hour for a few years now. It’s really exciting and now that the source code’s out, sky’s the limit on what we can achieve.

Heheh.

Well if it helps, a lot of these are sequels the user was anticipating because they loved a predecessor, so you can go and play that :D

I should give it a try for sure.

What disappointed you most?

I’m a battle network fan and never played Legends but I feel for you.

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I took like multiple months off because I deleted all distractions apps on my phone as I was busy with something, then was too lazy to reinstall. Feel bad though I missed a lot. I’m back now!

https://youtu.be/VrTVeYm4iIM?t=49m47s

YES! THIS IS NOT A DRILL

THIS IS NOT APRIL’S FOOLS

Kinda wish we got the month though.

Edit: here’s the clip

Yeah sorry I meant to post in a community linked to from here.

For sure, enemy variety is important.

I agree FF style turn based combat is boring. I mean games that have an auto button that plays it for you are admitting it.

That’s why I like games that have more creative combat that blends different genres. Undertale has some turn based, some realtime bullet hell. Battle network has a real time grid based with card game elements.

There’s so much you can do but so often devs fall back on choose from menu watch cutscene.

Haha I have thought about that too actually. Mainly because my career path and favorite hobby were both decided by small random moments. It’s definitely made me more open to new experiences.

I also hate grinding but sometimes I get addicted to it. Like my lizard brain likes watching the numbers go up. I recently loaded an old save in final fantasy and saw my level at 99, health at 999/999 and gold at 999999 and was like “I don’t remember grinding any of this”. It happens in a trance.

I agree these games made big improvements but I still see them as bandages to the inevitable problems that came with random encounters. There’s no undoing the interruption of flow you know.

I think it’s a tradeoff though like I said. Because I don’t know how you can have a combat system as cool and creative as say Undertale (blending turn based and realtime bullet hell) or battle network (blending turn based, real time and card game) without it being completely separate from the overworld.

Good point. I guess it is 2 things I’m talking about.

I think battle transitions are a tradeoff. They free combat but at the cost of interrupting flow. If you don’t do anything with the freedom they give you and you just make the same tired pokemon style choose from a menu combat it’s not worth it.

I haven’t played any CRPGs and I’m not familiar with them. Any recommendation of an intro to the genre?

But many of your points are still familiar. Trivial encounters feeling like an annoying waste of time, items or abilities that control the encounter rates, etc.

I think making regions safe is a great idea but I would want it tied to a challenging side quest. Like maybe you can intentionally fight a harder version of an area’s enemies to make it safe?