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Think of a game with no combat
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the ps1 1997 cult classic moon has no combat, and it releases today in English on Switch.
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[GENERAL INFO] Publisher: Onion Games Developer: Love-de-Lic (original release), Onion Games (Switch release) Platform: Nintendo Switch Release Date: October 10, 2019 (JP), August 27, 2020 (WW) Price: $18.99, €15.99, £14.49, CAN$24.99, ¥1,980 Supported Languages: English, Japanese Game Size: 1.3...
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Just give them a disc launcher and I'll pretend I'm dueling in Tribes 1.
Umm, Microsoft Flight Simulator came to mind.
Now adding Combat to it opens up a few different ideas you could go. In my case, WW1 or WW2 with this ground detail and during something like a bombing mission. Either as a pilot or bombardier and actually seeing a city you are about to bomb with this much detail to it would give me pause.
Now adding Combat to it opens up a few different ideas you could go. In my case, WW1 or WW2 with this ground detail and during something like a bombing mission. Either as a pilot or bombardier and actually seeing a city you are about to bomb with this much detail to it would give me pause.
False. True. True.
I've always wanted like a cute cave type experience (similar to Stardew) in Animal Crossing. Would be neat.
I thought of Abzu. And no, it's meant to be a relaxing exploration game. Combat would just create unnecessary tension.
Descending into the seedy underbelly of my CIties Skylines Megalopolis to fight crime would definitely make the game 1000X better.
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
- With combat, we would definitely be able to play dogfights and have a serious competition with Ace Combat in a hurricane / monsoon.
- Clubhouse Games 51: Worldwide Classics
- With combat, I would love to see nice twists on Combat Chess, Battle Shogi, or Exploding Mancala
It's exactly what they've done as the follow-up to previous versions of Flight Simulator.Umm, Microsoft Flight Simulator came to mind.
Now adding Combat to it opens up a few different ideas you could go. In my case, WW1 or WW2 with this ground detail and during something like a bombing mission. Either as a pilot or bombardier and actually seeing a city you are about to bomb with this much detail to it would give me pause.
Kerbal Space Program: Arguably, better with multiplayer and combat, simply due to more wacky fun to be had.
VVVVVV: Possibly worse, though not sure if being able to destroy some threats before they kill and respawn you would matter.
VVVVVV: Possibly worse, though not sure if being able to destroy some threats before they kill and respawn you would matter.
Any game without combat could be better with combat, the thing is that the premise of the thought experiment makes you immediately assume it would be a bad implementation of combat instead of adaptating a system that would work in harmony with how the game already works.
Harvest Moon.
If it has combat its Rune Factory.lol
I don't know if its better, but its certainly not a bad thing
If it has combat its Rune Factory.lol
I don't know if its better, but its certainly not a bad thing
Well, no. Not every game. The quality of implementation does not matter, the question is whether the final result would be better or worse as a game, the sum total of the experience. Adding combat to fundamentally combatless games meant for relaxation, or most puzzle type games, would only degrade the experience regardless of how well the combat aspect was implemented.
The thing is that combat is just a building block to a game same as soundtrack or puzzles or tactics, or leveling up. There's no inherent quality to it that would make it not relaxing for example, or even demanding at all. In fact marvel puzzle quest is a game that has it's combat made up of match 3 puzzles for example.
Phoenix Wright with combat would be funny for like 5 minutes but it would absolutely be a worse game.
Bullshit
Let enemies have crazy missles and weapons that are Megaman tier creative and you only have the Portal gun and your wits to clear the room.
with good level design (Portal's strength) This is cash money
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The first Portal already, technically, had combat. In one very specific room you have to destroy a missile launcher by redirecting its missile back at it. Portal 2 had many instances of blowing up turrets by redirecting
Well yes, combat is a building block. However, it does not mean that whether or not it's present at all, does not influence how well the game succeeds at its intentions. A puzzle game like Klocki, where you have to find intricate ways to manipulate various pieces to make paths between points, would not necessarily have any application of combat that would make it better as a puzzle game. Rhythm Tengoku, and all games of that series, would not be any better if they had some kind of combat system where an opponent can hurt you or interfere with your progress through the challenges, though now that I think of it an entirely different kind of game built on that principle could work, in multiplayer, similar to versus tetris and puyo puyo.
The question is not whether or not a new game could be made by adding combat, the question is how would a given game change if it had combat added in.
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Depends if you consider what Split Second did as combat. Because that was really good.
Animal Crossing would be way better with combat. Like, the Stardew Valley caves. That would complete the game.
I can't think of a single example that would be better with added combat.
Games without it are that way for a reason.
Games without it are that way for a reason.
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball.
.....so it'd just be.....Dead or Alive.
.....so it'd just be.....Dead or Alive.
Didn't they make a game based on the song Black Rock Shooter, meaning they made a game based on Vocaloid involving combat?
Spiritfarer doesn't have it and I think it works well, and also fits better with the themes of the game.
Gone Home. Would be an entirely different game. The things it teases at the start would have to cashed in.
Inside. Sorta has combat, but the obstacles it asks you to contemplate on would lose their effect if you can outpower them, I think.
Celeste. Absolutely worse. The central message of "You can do this" would be diluted if it becomes "You can do this... by punching things."
Inside. Sorta has combat, but the obstacles it asks you to contemplate on would lose their effect if you can outpower them, I think.
Celeste. Absolutely worse. The central message of "You can do this" would be diluted if it becomes "You can do this... by punching things."
