I've been following this project for a bit now, and have been routinely browsing the forums here to see what suggestions the community has had. Up to this point, I hadn't seen much from the community that would solicit a response from me. For the most part, I feel like the community as a whole is making good suggestions, and polls are leaning in the direction that I agree with. However, on this particular issue, I simply -have- to respond.
Let me start off by saying, if it's an option to turn off these tags, that are on by default, then fine. But they most definitely -should- be there.
People play RPGs for different reasons, and different types of people play RPGs. Some people play RPGs to act out the role of someone smarter, stronger, faster, or simply more interesting than they are as a person. Leaving these tags out calls for the -player- to have the high wisdom, charisma, etc, when their entire point in playing was to step outside themselves and into a role in which they weren't completely depending on the blessings they were born with.
Unlike extremely competitive games like FPS's and DOTA/LoL clones, RPGs appeal to people who aren't just seeking the most challenging personal experience available. I, personally, don't like my games super-challenging these days. I don't want to fight the same battle more than 2/3 times. If I have to, I will become frustrated with the game fairly quickly. If I wanted an enormous challenge that I'd most likely fail at, I wouldn't play RPGs. I'd make an OS and try to directly compete with microsoft.
P.S. I only read the first page of responses to this thread. And for the record: I play all of my games on default difficulty settings. I don't set them to easy, but I don't increase the difficulty either.
I've been following this project for a bit now, and have been routinely browsing the forums here to see what suggestions the community has had. Up to this point, I hadn't seen much from the community that would solicit a response from me. For the most part, I feel like the community as a whole is making good suggestions, and polls are leaning in the direction that I agree with. However, on this particular issue, I simply -have- to respond. Let me start off by saying, if it's an option to turn off these tags, that are on by default, then fine. But they most definitely -should- be there. People play RPGs for different reasons, and different types of people play RPGs. Some people play RPGs to act out the role of someone smarter, stronger, faster, or simply more interesting than they are as a person. Leaving these tags out calls for the -player- to have the high wisdom, charisma, etc, when their entire point in playing was to step outside themselves and into a role in which they weren't completely depending on the blessings they were born with. Unlike extremely competitive games like FPS's and DOTA/LoL clones, RPGs appeal to people who aren't just seeking the most challenging personal experience available. I, personally, don't like my games super-challenging these days. I don't want to fight the same battle more than 2/3 times. If I have to, I will become frustrated with the game fairly quickly. If I wanted an enormous challenge that I'd most likely fail at, I wouldn't play RPGs. I'd make an OS and try to directly compete with microsoft. P.S. I only read the first page of responses to this thread. And for the record: I play all of my games on default difficulty settings. I don't set them to easy, but I don't increase the difficulty either.
