Rdr2 has a great system for fast travel, it shows your travel
@jakab17412 күн бұрын
The other thing what is brilliant, all those things you encountered are there even if you go there for something else. It feels like the world is made out of "small scenes" that you can discover. And they all give some new info or reward. And the best part most of these scenes have some progression, with chapters or with dealing quests. At one point that guy you helped is dead because seekers are there. Or he is leaving his camp because of orcs. All kind of little story. You can also encounter them any other way, heck you can even kill everyone, and not finnish any of those quests, keep the cross bow. You can do a lot things, and the game lets you do it. You can get the Crossbow by accident, when you search for the eye of innos. And meet Dragomir after.
@jakab17412 күн бұрын
easiest way to beat the troll is run under his arms and always stay behind him, he will never be able to turn as fast as you run so you can beat him lvl1 and bare handed, i did that once, it took like 15 minutes but its funny. (Though its better to save that moment till you learn to skin him)
@SnowyRVulpix14 күн бұрын
Objection. Skyrims fast travel is realistic. If you pay attention, time actually does pass. That said, my favourite type of fast travel is the type used in MMOs. Teleportation magic. Wouldn't work for all games, but does for fantasy games.
@imisstheoldyoutube984517 күн бұрын
I've always said Morrowind was the greatest game i've ever played. Its a book that you play. I don't believe we'll ever see anything as great as that game. Truely a masterpiece.
@lucass-posting22 күн бұрын
Your mic is so ass
@MaccusFNS24 күн бұрын
goblin skeletons get one shoted with fireball scroll
@dustinswiney1474Ай бұрын
Agreed here even though they brought back reynauld I'm not as attached as in the first one
@user-cf9ni6iu8sАй бұрын
My father bought this game when I was around ten years old and I remember playing it. I had to get him to complete the haunted house part I was so scared lol
@MadsvdaАй бұрын
why completely ignore the propylon indecies? it is the most useful way to get around late game. it's literally on the map you used. 13 minutes to to explain something that could be done in 5, and you didn't even mention everything
@joshherrera9034Ай бұрын
The reason they took out perma death is because most of time you DIDNT lose chars from mistakes. You lost them becuase of bad luck. One or two crits and a proc is all it takes at every part of game. A better solution would have simply been a way to resurrect chars. Maybe even limited use but possble just expensive
@hawkbirdtree3660Ай бұрын
Fast travel makes me think the world you created is not worth exploring. You can use the Spencer Mansion or the Dark Souls 1 maps as Memory Palaces.
@sleepshouter5017Ай бұрын
Another cool fast travel system I really liked was what was in Stalker: Call of Pripyat. If you were to come across a group of stalkers out in the world, and if they were on their way back to a settlement, you could tag along with them which would basically just fast travel you to the settlement. The thing is though, you have to happen across these stalker groups, and sometimes they’ll be in combat so you might even have to assist them. This makes it to where the ability to fast travel is something to be found, and not a certainty to come across, making the player appreciate those moments where they can. Because even if the player comes across other stalkers, not all stalker groups are on their way to a settlement and the player isn’t always looking to go to a settlement anyways. It’s a pretty cool little feature and as far as I know, the only game that has it.
@simonklus4222Ай бұрын
The one game that I believe has an even better map is KCD on hardcore mode. Its just a beautifuly drawn historical map, no indicators, not even where you are currently, you have to look around to figure out your location. But Gothics map suits its world and atmosphere perfectly. And it is an actual in-world item which is just incredible, even with an animation of the Nameless Hero looking at it.
@firelordeliteast67502 ай бұрын
In other words, it isn't the loss itself that hurts. it's continuing on after the loss.
@zuuhl37032 ай бұрын
Then fuck off and play dd 1 I think dd 2 is better
@ahmedmanaseer86962 ай бұрын
One time my brother had a man at arm that he grew really attached to he was able to lock on some really incredible quirks he was able to dodge and obviously it was level 5 however he ran into an encounter he did not plan for and the hellion which was also high in lvl got an affliction and killed him I remember how my brother after completing the quest just kicked out of the hellion out of the hamliet I had a semen directions with a party of 4 get dwindled down to one and I cherished that survivor DD! is magical
@karlynn77192 ай бұрын
Did you really feel the need to say that silt striders are fictional..? 🤨
@Kraziel7972 ай бұрын
Nah Dragons Dogma the first one did it better just plant a Rift Crystal and make sure to carry then ferry stones to travel where you plant it
@gabrielandy92722 ай бұрын
skyrim fast travel is only to major citys or when you get a dragon, unless you are a casual player and disable the survival mode, if you disable it then you can fast travel anywhere.
@themount65493 ай бұрын
I haven't played Morrowind, so call me what you like, but I don't think it's that easy. I mean, look at Oblivion's map for instance. The cities are very far apart from each other, especially south of Chorrol. You only have nine cities across a map that's about 2.5 times the size of Morrowind's map, that also includes way more cities and towns. If you want a system like Morrowind's, you need to plan your entire world around that, or it will just be pain to walk everywhere.
@ARGamer993 ай бұрын
I think this game is less about your relationship with the heroes and more about their relationship with others. You are just the stagecoach driver
@wilms23283 ай бұрын
Awesome video! I played a lot of World of Warcraft, which also included a fast travel system that looks a bit like this. I definitely prefer it over instant click travel. World of Warcraft only has instant fast travel with boats and teleportation portals: for the city-to-city travel, you have to watch a (admittedly quite fast) flying creature take you there. It shows you the world even if you're not actively walking yourself.
@Yora214 ай бұрын
The music of this game is sooo good. Quite possibly the best game soundtrack ever made.
@kylemartin92155 ай бұрын
I think another big thing to make a world feel believable is no clear cut good guy and bad guys, the world is rarely the black and white and gothic especially all the main factions have good and evil in them.
@pejgrio18095 ай бұрын
What you're not addressing is that Gothic 2 NotR has probably the worst atribute leveling system that requires a lot of metagaming and even now, nobody made the perfect guide on when to start spending LPs on the ancient language and perma potions. This really makes people hoarding King's Sorrels, Apples, Mushrooms and Thekla's stews just to be consumed at the end of the game.
@pejgrio18095 ай бұрын
And by the way, the gold is worthless as you can buy infinite amount of steel rods from Bennet, so learning how to get trophies is waste of LP (except the Shadowbeast horns, but only if you play as merc)
@GammaFields6 ай бұрын
Its that age old debate of destination vs. journey. Skyrim does well by providing either or, but Morrowind's is like both at once. Dark souls 1 also did well, as you had to earn fast travel. But it is easier as you the player become better. The player learns how to deal with the game, morrowind and ds1 had this cannon/meta explanation for the player becoming better after each playthrough, amazing writing and organic difficulty from both games. What happened, Todd?😂
@MrVecheater6 ай бұрын
Also worth mentioning: the non-instant fast travel options have the same effects as resting. Since you can't rest in cities, you can use them to partially or fully replace renting a bed The fact that magicka doesn't regenerate also helps to not abuse teleportation spells
@evilmanua6 ай бұрын
you missed the point about movement progression. Acrobatics + athletics + spells like jump or levitation, makes the system less annoying long term.
@Akatharie6 ай бұрын
Excellent. As a very stubborn old woman and having played PC games since the days of 5 inch floppy discs I walk everywhere in every game I have ever played so when I got Morrowind in 2002 I loved the silt-striders. Other than Morrowind I still don't fast travel if I can avoid it.
@NikyCROW6 ай бұрын
What I think got shoveled away the most was the feeling that I fucked up when a week was not successful. Sometimes, the RNG fucked you up good, yeah. But most of the times you did things wrong: Not enough bandages, pushing forward without enough torches, using your hands to clear a corridor instead of taking a detour, fighting one more fight. Now I don't feel like I am preparing a team for a difficult task, grinding some expeditions to raise gold so I can buy more equipment, managing the mental health of my adventurers... It's just Slay the Spire but half the fun, double the RNG.
@needparalegal6 ай бұрын
Fast Travel only makes ADHD worse by feeding the addiction of faster faster. Wow understood this and their flight system is extremely slow travel, designed primarily to give players a bathroom or dinner break.
@fido56426 ай бұрын
Something that just happened to me a couple of days ago on a new run od DD1; i wanted to go into a dungeon with a team of 4 crusaders as it was a pretty solid team on a short quest, but i only had 4 Crusaders and Reynauld being one of them was a level too high to enter, so i just recruited a new crusader with good skills and went right on. He died, in fact he was the only one that died and i still remember his name, it was Ferrieres. He didn't made a crusial sacrifice to save the others, nor a last crucial attack nor even was with the party for long as it was his first quest, but it hurt, i magined him as that new and young soldier on movies sorrounded by experienced soldiers and to think that not only did he died but that was also the only one...
@grimmacemack766 ай бұрын
While I personally like limiting my fast travel I also understand the need for it for people who have limited time, ADHD have played the game a hundred times already an don’t want to waste a ton of time getting into a new character build or game so while I personally don’t love to use it I understand it NEEDS to be available, then folks can either choose to use it or ignore it, everyone gets what they want! On a side note I do agree that Morrowind had an intuitive system that was done well
@taklampan6506 ай бұрын
I play Skyrim in survival,, so no fast travel
@TheSuperQuail6 ай бұрын
Imagine using a Destroy Undead scroll on a Goblin Skeleton.
@Venakis17 ай бұрын
When you drowned that Black troll in the lake I thought what a waste of 1k exp and messing up the quest for it's hide! But really in our first playthroughs we messed up alot of things due to lack of knowledge. That is why Gothic 1 and 2 have such a strong replayability value. You always discover new things about them.
@Burnlit13377 ай бұрын
Never played Morrowing, only started at Skyrim. So something like this would be a big inconvienance to my spoil gamer brain. Mainly the reason why I don't play old games (for me anything before 2004 save for RTS games). But I admit that I can see the appeal to this. Immersion is the only reason why I'm literally spending hours just making sure all my Skyrim mods works correctly before I even play. Maybe to bridge the gap, information, like that travel map, should is presented in game instead of having to jump off game to look at a fan made map, since this is also immersion breaking. Then again with how old and how active the modding community in these games are, I'm sure there are mods to address this.
@zardoz80237 ай бұрын
Using fire rain on a single shadowbeast is such a waste though. You're not giving a very good example of how to use one of the rarest scrolls in the game. There's only, maybe, 2 fire rain scrolls in the first chapter, which is where you'll need them the most. And they can help you clear hordes of high experience enemies with a single cast. For example, the valley with the cave near Khorinis that is guarded by 7 wargs and 1 shadow beast - that 's 2400 experience, that you can take right away if you draw them and cast the spell properly before they kill you (might take a few save reloads). Otherwise, If not for that scroll, you'll be having a very hard time clearing that valley before chapter 3. Also, you give bad example of usig powerful transformation scrolls. Transformations are permanent, you only get back in human form when you decide to cancel the spell, so when transforming into a powerful creature you have to make the best of it and kill as many enmies as possible until you health is low enough and you're forced to go back in human form in order to heal. Transforming into a shadowbeast or a dragon snapper, just to kill a few bandints and then wasting the rest of the spell potetial by going back to human form, is a bad use of such spells! There's also a way to enter the old fortress in Gothic 1 without using the transfor into meatbug scroll. Turning left from the gate, there's a cliff you can climb on, to specific spot where the wall is destroyed and you jump down into the courtyard.
@alessandrocurra91307 ай бұрын
I love gothic II but literally this is the game that punish more the player when he don`t play with efficiency and use the scrolls when they are suppose to be used... (I'm refering to the strongest ones like fire rain, of course fire arrow can be waste without any problem). So sorry but your wrong, the problem which is also one of the reason why this game is fo fucking hard is that you need to know the game in order to use things in the correct way, this means that you need to waste some run (i drop my first two runs because i didn`t play the game correctly and i was way to weak to continue it).
@Brahim08017 ай бұрын
Honestly i think MGSV does it best, you can only fast travel to few points, you call the chopper and only travel to specific landing zones and then finish the rest of the distance on foot, horse or vehicle... and using the chopper costs you money. This forces you to not only explore more of the world, but also gives you a better use of the game tools, you will find yourself using everything at your disposal, you'll use the chopper a lot but mostly for evac, otherwise you will end up prefering the horse. Unlike let's say Skyrim, you'll go to a destination on horse one time and then never cross that distance again, and that ofc considering you actually crossed the distance, many people just take carriage to the nearest city at first, i think fast travel should be limited and not for free.
@profounddestroyer54707 ай бұрын
I’d like to point out dark souls has a really good way of introducing and executing fast travel. Only after you play through half the game and complete one of the hardest boss fights, can you then fast travel. But only to specific locations
@Jcorella7 ай бұрын
I got attached to my team in DD1 and it made me FEEL. Without that aspect it feels like an empty game.
@dantecrab47 ай бұрын
you do realize Dark Souls still had consumables right?
@sayuas42937 ай бұрын
Or you can just craft a potion that lets you jump to the other side of the world
@red_3dp9818 ай бұрын
One way I have kept it fun for myself in Skyrim is that I only use the Carriage system to get around, so I can only fast travel to major cities and have to walk everywhere else. It has helped keep it fun for myself lately.
@Randleray8 ай бұрын
0:27 If traveling 20 minutes across the map for a simple task isnt fun, the whole map/world is neither complex nor well designed. The argument of fast travle defeats itself, no matter the game, nor perspective. The only actual argument anyone can bring, which is not selfimploding on the spot, is: It safes real time. Ok well, then we need to apply an equally qestion outside the game: Why do you play in the first place? Because story - well you can watch a movies aswell. There is no argument wether ingame nor outside of it for fasttraveling. The only argument which really is a point from the side of development: We want to have a big world to advertise, but we dont have the means to actually fill it. Best example for exactly that would be Daggerfall or more recent Dragon Age origins.
@RaduP38 ай бұрын
i will see if the information in this video is accurate. i used all of those rain fire 500 dmg scrolls I found. I am 4th circle of magic and am looking forward to the rain fire rune, except I can't find one, vendors dont have it anymore. I hope they will give it to me as soon as I reach the appropriate point or I just lost the rune. hope youare right lol
@RaduP38 ай бұрын
found it got the rune. :D
@inlean32248 ай бұрын
For me personally, DD1 is a Trauma simulator, and it still lives it name till today. I can still vividly remember the day I lost the dismas and reynauld. It was the first darkest dungeon, entered the dungeon with the first team ever. Dismas, Reynauld, vestal, and plague doctor. All was good until it wasn't, the tentacle guy double crit'd my vestal, put her on the death door, the next hit vestal dies, all went downhill from there. Dancing in front of the death door's managed to survive with the healing of reynauld and PD, only for dismas to be killed by heart attack which lead to heart attack domino for the whole team. And then there I am, in the hamlet, staring blankly. Clicked the graveyard, you can see all your dead heroes and all of them four is there, dead never to return again. Meanwhile on DD2 now, you have memorial for the surviving heroes. For me it was this that makes it less "interesting". You have all the time to remember the living, but no way to mourn for the dead. And i miss the caretaker mocking me whenever i checked the graveyard
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Rdr2 has a great system for fast travel, it shows your travel
The other thing what is brilliant, all those things you encountered are there even if you go there for something else. It feels like the world is made out of "small scenes" that you can discover. And they all give some new info or reward. And the best part most of these scenes have some progression, with chapters or with dealing quests. At one point that guy you helped is dead because seekers are there. Or he is leaving his camp because of orcs. All kind of little story. You can also encounter them any other way, heck you can even kill everyone, and not finnish any of those quests, keep the cross bow. You can do a lot things, and the game lets you do it. You can get the Crossbow by accident, when you search for the eye of innos. And meet Dragomir after.
easiest way to beat the troll is run under his arms and always stay behind him, he will never be able to turn as fast as you run so you can beat him lvl1 and bare handed, i did that once, it took like 15 minutes but its funny. (Though its better to save that moment till you learn to skin him)
Objection. Skyrims fast travel is realistic. If you pay attention, time actually does pass. That said, my favourite type of fast travel is the type used in MMOs. Teleportation magic. Wouldn't work for all games, but does for fantasy games.
I've always said Morrowind was the greatest game i've ever played. Its a book that you play. I don't believe we'll ever see anything as great as that game. Truely a masterpiece.
Your mic is so ass
goblin skeletons get one shoted with fireball scroll
Agreed here even though they brought back reynauld I'm not as attached as in the first one
My father bought this game when I was around ten years old and I remember playing it. I had to get him to complete the haunted house part I was so scared lol
why completely ignore the propylon indecies? it is the most useful way to get around late game. it's literally on the map you used. 13 minutes to to explain something that could be done in 5, and you didn't even mention everything
The reason they took out perma death is because most of time you DIDNT lose chars from mistakes. You lost them becuase of bad luck. One or two crits and a proc is all it takes at every part of game. A better solution would have simply been a way to resurrect chars. Maybe even limited use but possble just expensive
Fast travel makes me think the world you created is not worth exploring. You can use the Spencer Mansion or the Dark Souls 1 maps as Memory Palaces.
Another cool fast travel system I really liked was what was in Stalker: Call of Pripyat. If you were to come across a group of stalkers out in the world, and if they were on their way back to a settlement, you could tag along with them which would basically just fast travel you to the settlement. The thing is though, you have to happen across these stalker groups, and sometimes they’ll be in combat so you might even have to assist them. This makes it to where the ability to fast travel is something to be found, and not a certainty to come across, making the player appreciate those moments where they can. Because even if the player comes across other stalkers, not all stalker groups are on their way to a settlement and the player isn’t always looking to go to a settlement anyways. It’s a pretty cool little feature and as far as I know, the only game that has it.
The one game that I believe has an even better map is KCD on hardcore mode. Its just a beautifuly drawn historical map, no indicators, not even where you are currently, you have to look around to figure out your location. But Gothics map suits its world and atmosphere perfectly. And it is an actual in-world item which is just incredible, even with an animation of the Nameless Hero looking at it.
In other words, it isn't the loss itself that hurts. it's continuing on after the loss.
Then fuck off and play dd 1 I think dd 2 is better
One time my brother had a man at arm that he grew really attached to he was able to lock on some really incredible quirks he was able to dodge and obviously it was level 5 however he ran into an encounter he did not plan for and the hellion which was also high in lvl got an affliction and killed him I remember how my brother after completing the quest just kicked out of the hellion out of the hamliet I had a semen directions with a party of 4 get dwindled down to one and I cherished that survivor DD! is magical
Did you really feel the need to say that silt striders are fictional..? 🤨
Nah Dragons Dogma the first one did it better just plant a Rift Crystal and make sure to carry then ferry stones to travel where you plant it
skyrim fast travel is only to major citys or when you get a dragon, unless you are a casual player and disable the survival mode, if you disable it then you can fast travel anywhere.
I haven't played Morrowind, so call me what you like, but I don't think it's that easy. I mean, look at Oblivion's map for instance. The cities are very far apart from each other, especially south of Chorrol. You only have nine cities across a map that's about 2.5 times the size of Morrowind's map, that also includes way more cities and towns. If you want a system like Morrowind's, you need to plan your entire world around that, or it will just be pain to walk everywhere.
I think this game is less about your relationship with the heroes and more about their relationship with others. You are just the stagecoach driver
Awesome video! I played a lot of World of Warcraft, which also included a fast travel system that looks a bit like this. I definitely prefer it over instant click travel. World of Warcraft only has instant fast travel with boats and teleportation portals: for the city-to-city travel, you have to watch a (admittedly quite fast) flying creature take you there. It shows you the world even if you're not actively walking yourself.
The music of this game is sooo good. Quite possibly the best game soundtrack ever made.
I think another big thing to make a world feel believable is no clear cut good guy and bad guys, the world is rarely the black and white and gothic especially all the main factions have good and evil in them.
What you're not addressing is that Gothic 2 NotR has probably the worst atribute leveling system that requires a lot of metagaming and even now, nobody made the perfect guide on when to start spending LPs on the ancient language and perma potions. This really makes people hoarding King's Sorrels, Apples, Mushrooms and Thekla's stews just to be consumed at the end of the game.
And by the way, the gold is worthless as you can buy infinite amount of steel rods from Bennet, so learning how to get trophies is waste of LP (except the Shadowbeast horns, but only if you play as merc)
Its that age old debate of destination vs. journey. Skyrim does well by providing either or, but Morrowind's is like both at once. Dark souls 1 also did well, as you had to earn fast travel. But it is easier as you the player become better. The player learns how to deal with the game, morrowind and ds1 had this cannon/meta explanation for the player becoming better after each playthrough, amazing writing and organic difficulty from both games. What happened, Todd?😂
Also worth mentioning: the non-instant fast travel options have the same effects as resting. Since you can't rest in cities, you can use them to partially or fully replace renting a bed The fact that magicka doesn't regenerate also helps to not abuse teleportation spells
you missed the point about movement progression. Acrobatics + athletics + spells like jump or levitation, makes the system less annoying long term.
Excellent. As a very stubborn old woman and having played PC games since the days of 5 inch floppy discs I walk everywhere in every game I have ever played so when I got Morrowind in 2002 I loved the silt-striders. Other than Morrowind I still don't fast travel if I can avoid it.
What I think got shoveled away the most was the feeling that I fucked up when a week was not successful. Sometimes, the RNG fucked you up good, yeah. But most of the times you did things wrong: Not enough bandages, pushing forward without enough torches, using your hands to clear a corridor instead of taking a detour, fighting one more fight. Now I don't feel like I am preparing a team for a difficult task, grinding some expeditions to raise gold so I can buy more equipment, managing the mental health of my adventurers... It's just Slay the Spire but half the fun, double the RNG.
Fast Travel only makes ADHD worse by feeding the addiction of faster faster. Wow understood this and their flight system is extremely slow travel, designed primarily to give players a bathroom or dinner break.
Something that just happened to me a couple of days ago on a new run od DD1; i wanted to go into a dungeon with a team of 4 crusaders as it was a pretty solid team on a short quest, but i only had 4 Crusaders and Reynauld being one of them was a level too high to enter, so i just recruited a new crusader with good skills and went right on. He died, in fact he was the only one that died and i still remember his name, it was Ferrieres. He didn't made a crusial sacrifice to save the others, nor a last crucial attack nor even was with the party for long as it was his first quest, but it hurt, i magined him as that new and young soldier on movies sorrounded by experienced soldiers and to think that not only did he died but that was also the only one...
While I personally like limiting my fast travel I also understand the need for it for people who have limited time, ADHD have played the game a hundred times already an don’t want to waste a ton of time getting into a new character build or game so while I personally don’t love to use it I understand it NEEDS to be available, then folks can either choose to use it or ignore it, everyone gets what they want! On a side note I do agree that Morrowind had an intuitive system that was done well
I play Skyrim in survival,, so no fast travel
Imagine using a Destroy Undead scroll on a Goblin Skeleton.
When you drowned that Black troll in the lake I thought what a waste of 1k exp and messing up the quest for it's hide! But really in our first playthroughs we messed up alot of things due to lack of knowledge. That is why Gothic 1 and 2 have such a strong replayability value. You always discover new things about them.
Never played Morrowing, only started at Skyrim. So something like this would be a big inconvienance to my spoil gamer brain. Mainly the reason why I don't play old games (for me anything before 2004 save for RTS games). But I admit that I can see the appeal to this. Immersion is the only reason why I'm literally spending hours just making sure all my Skyrim mods works correctly before I even play. Maybe to bridge the gap, information, like that travel map, should is presented in game instead of having to jump off game to look at a fan made map, since this is also immersion breaking. Then again with how old and how active the modding community in these games are, I'm sure there are mods to address this.
Using fire rain on a single shadowbeast is such a waste though. You're not giving a very good example of how to use one of the rarest scrolls in the game. There's only, maybe, 2 fire rain scrolls in the first chapter, which is where you'll need them the most. And they can help you clear hordes of high experience enemies with a single cast. For example, the valley with the cave near Khorinis that is guarded by 7 wargs and 1 shadow beast - that 's 2400 experience, that you can take right away if you draw them and cast the spell properly before they kill you (might take a few save reloads). Otherwise, If not for that scroll, you'll be having a very hard time clearing that valley before chapter 3. Also, you give bad example of usig powerful transformation scrolls. Transformations are permanent, you only get back in human form when you decide to cancel the spell, so when transforming into a powerful creature you have to make the best of it and kill as many enmies as possible until you health is low enough and you're forced to go back in human form in order to heal. Transforming into a shadowbeast or a dragon snapper, just to kill a few bandints and then wasting the rest of the spell potetial by going back to human form, is a bad use of such spells! There's also a way to enter the old fortress in Gothic 1 without using the transfor into meatbug scroll. Turning left from the gate, there's a cliff you can climb on, to specific spot where the wall is destroyed and you jump down into the courtyard.
I love gothic II but literally this is the game that punish more the player when he don`t play with efficiency and use the scrolls when they are suppose to be used... (I'm refering to the strongest ones like fire rain, of course fire arrow can be waste without any problem). So sorry but your wrong, the problem which is also one of the reason why this game is fo fucking hard is that you need to know the game in order to use things in the correct way, this means that you need to waste some run (i drop my first two runs because i didn`t play the game correctly and i was way to weak to continue it).
Honestly i think MGSV does it best, you can only fast travel to few points, you call the chopper and only travel to specific landing zones and then finish the rest of the distance on foot, horse or vehicle... and using the chopper costs you money. This forces you to not only explore more of the world, but also gives you a better use of the game tools, you will find yourself using everything at your disposal, you'll use the chopper a lot but mostly for evac, otherwise you will end up prefering the horse. Unlike let's say Skyrim, you'll go to a destination on horse one time and then never cross that distance again, and that ofc considering you actually crossed the distance, many people just take carriage to the nearest city at first, i think fast travel should be limited and not for free.
I’d like to point out dark souls has a really good way of introducing and executing fast travel. Only after you play through half the game and complete one of the hardest boss fights, can you then fast travel. But only to specific locations
I got attached to my team in DD1 and it made me FEEL. Without that aspect it feels like an empty game.
you do realize Dark Souls still had consumables right?
Or you can just craft a potion that lets you jump to the other side of the world
One way I have kept it fun for myself in Skyrim is that I only use the Carriage system to get around, so I can only fast travel to major cities and have to walk everywhere else. It has helped keep it fun for myself lately.
0:27 If traveling 20 minutes across the map for a simple task isnt fun, the whole map/world is neither complex nor well designed. The argument of fast travle defeats itself, no matter the game, nor perspective. The only actual argument anyone can bring, which is not selfimploding on the spot, is: It safes real time. Ok well, then we need to apply an equally qestion outside the game: Why do you play in the first place? Because story - well you can watch a movies aswell. There is no argument wether ingame nor outside of it for fasttraveling. The only argument which really is a point from the side of development: We want to have a big world to advertise, but we dont have the means to actually fill it. Best example for exactly that would be Daggerfall or more recent Dragon Age origins.
i will see if the information in this video is accurate. i used all of those rain fire 500 dmg scrolls I found. I am 4th circle of magic and am looking forward to the rain fire rune, except I can't find one, vendors dont have it anymore. I hope they will give it to me as soon as I reach the appropriate point or I just lost the rune. hope youare right lol
found it got the rune. :D
For me personally, DD1 is a Trauma simulator, and it still lives it name till today. I can still vividly remember the day I lost the dismas and reynauld. It was the first darkest dungeon, entered the dungeon with the first team ever. Dismas, Reynauld, vestal, and plague doctor. All was good until it wasn't, the tentacle guy double crit'd my vestal, put her on the death door, the next hit vestal dies, all went downhill from there. Dancing in front of the death door's managed to survive with the healing of reynauld and PD, only for dismas to be killed by heart attack which lead to heart attack domino for the whole team. And then there I am, in the hamlet, staring blankly. Clicked the graveyard, you can see all your dead heroes and all of them four is there, dead never to return again. Meanwhile on DD2 now, you have memorial for the surviving heroes. For me it was this that makes it less "interesting". You have all the time to remember the living, but no way to mourn for the dead. And i miss the caretaker mocking me whenever i checked the graveyard
So how long is this break gonna last?