I think classes are great, they allow you to mold a character to your liking. If you wanted to a thief or something, you can easily do that.
Poll: Classes -- Do you like them?
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I don't really like classes, but that's because I prefer to play characters who can do everything and this is often hard to do when you have to battle the preassigned "role" of a class system. Once I've played through a game as the Jack of All Trades I don't mind trying out the Glass Cannon types, though, so I enjoy games where you can make heavy tradeoffs *similar* to the ones in class systems.
But a class system with VERY FEW flexible classes (a la Mass Effect or Jade Empire) just bores me to death. There just aren't any REALLY COOL options to try out once you've figured out how to play the game, so I can't go back and try being that complicated Glass Cannon and unleash the thunder.
The way I see it, if you're going to do classes have a couple easy or medium-easy classes that can do pretty much everything in an okay way, then several very difficult-to-play classes that can just be DISGUSTING if you play them correctly. Or, have unlockable classes that are more powerful than the standard ones. Something so that the game will continue to be interesting.
And [rant] FOR GOD'S SAKE IF THERE ARE TWO CLASSES THAT BOTH CAN HAVE ANIMAL COMPANIONS--NOT FAMILIARS, ANIMAL COMPANIONS--THEN EITHER MAKE THEM STACK OR MAKE IT SO YOU HAVE TWO ANIMAL COMPANIONS, DON'T MAKE THEM REPLACE EACH OTHER BUT BE STUCK AT A CRAPPY LOW LEVEL BECAUSE IT BY GOD NEVER OCCURRED TO YOU THAT SOMEONE MIGHT ACTUALLY WANT TO TRY RANGER/DRUID. FUCKERS.[/rant]
Ahem. Sorry, I'm done now.
But a class system with VERY FEW flexible classes (a la Mass Effect or Jade Empire) just bores me to death. There just aren't any REALLY COOL options to try out once you've figured out how to play the game, so I can't go back and try being that complicated Glass Cannon and unleash the thunder.
The way I see it, if you're going to do classes have a couple easy or medium-easy classes that can do pretty much everything in an okay way, then several very difficult-to-play classes that can just be DISGUSTING if you play them correctly. Or, have unlockable classes that are more powerful than the standard ones. Something so that the game will continue to be interesting.
And [rant] FOR GOD'S SAKE IF THERE ARE TWO CLASSES THAT BOTH CAN HAVE ANIMAL COMPANIONS--NOT FAMILIARS, ANIMAL COMPANIONS--THEN EITHER MAKE THEM STACK OR MAKE IT SO YOU HAVE TWO ANIMAL COMPANIONS, DON'T MAKE THEM REPLACE EACH OTHER BUT BE STUCK AT A CRAPPY LOW LEVEL BECAUSE IT BY GOD NEVER OCCURRED TO YOU THAT SOMEONE MIGHT ACTUALLY WANT TO TRY RANGER/DRUID. FUCKERS.[/rant]
Ahem. Sorry, I'm done now.
You're contradicting yourself. If you pick a thief, that shoehorns you into that role with no way to try new things. In a game like EVE, if you want to be a thief, you play that way. You steal, cheat, and betray your way to infamy. If you want to be a tank, you train up your engineering and mechanics skills, get a battlecruiser or battleship that's well suited for whatever tank you want, whether it be shield or armor, and then set up a kickass tank. Voila. If you ever get bored of being the tank, you can refit your battlecruiser or battleship to output massive damage and you'd just use a buffer tank to slow the damage you recieve. If you want to be a scout, train for a Covert Ops frigate. Want to be a miner? Train for a mining barge. Industrialist? Train up your manufacturing skills. In a game like EVE, you can do whatever you want without having to start another character. You still have to specialize as it's impossible to train every skill, because that would take over half a decade, but it still gives you way more freedom than a class based system does.Flap Jack452 said:
And by the way, what does a thief do in WoW? I mean, why does a thief get special powers? They're just people that lie, cheat, and steal their way to power. Thiefs aren't automatically faster, sneakier, or more agile. They shouldn't get special abilities or anything. Thieving should just be a style of play.