Poll: Health in games votey vote time!
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I liked Republic Commando's system: similar to the original halo, you have shields and health, but when you die, your sqadmates can heal you, or you can order them to finish the enemies first. You can heal them too. If the entire squad's downed, mission over.
Oh, and the shields don't protect that much, they're mainly a warning that you're being shot at.
Oh, and the shields don't protect that much, they're mainly a warning that you're being shot at.
And they don't with the Regeneration system?Railu said:
Both systems have their merits which avail to each type of game. Regen rewards, evasive techniques while maintaing a highly pace game, while health packs reward more slow and steady, while punishing guns blazing.
I agree but I like the health regeneration to be very slow. Can't stand the wait for 5 seconds behind a door, i'm fine mentality because it promotes 'Crazy play' and makes people who have no gaming skills think they're good -xXGeckoXx said:
"check my skills."
"Dude, I had to save you every 20 seconds."
"That's because I was killing everyone"
Eurgh.
Thats what i mean (health regen should be very slow). I hate people who think they are really good if they have to get picked up every 3 seconds especially in gears of war (a game i am not particularly fond of). So you killed everybody but if it leads your teamate to his death to save you its no good.
That seems like a great idea. I was hoping they were going to do that in Fallout3 as you can target certain body parts, but apparently three shots in the leg does kill a raiderDavey Woo said:
The regen system annoys me though because a person could just run away and within seconds come back at you as strong as ever, when i enjoy a sense of knowing how close to death my opponent is. I like the regen packs though so i'm not completely opposed to some kind of health increase.
Regenerating health is just one of the many ways gaming has become more childish in its difficulty, it takes away just about every single challenge out there, making the games much to easy to play through.
But easy seems to be what the newer gamers like, having games that offer no real challenge, so i guess the gaming companies are just catering to their newer and younger audience, though me as a gamer of old think its kinda stupid to remove the challenge from games, that was one of the great things about what gaming used to be before graphics stole the show, a nice challenge that actually gave you a good sense of accomplishment once you had completed it.
But easy seems to be what the newer gamers like, having games that offer no real challenge, so i guess the gaming companies are just catering to their newer and younger audience, though me as a gamer of old think its kinda stupid to remove the challenge from games, that was one of the great things about what gaming used to be before graphics stole the show, a nice challenge that actually gave you a good sense of accomplishment once you had completed it.
I like the way it's done in L4D. You have limited health packs, and you actually have to stop and heal yourself for it to take effect.
But it really depends on the game.
But it really depends on the game.
I've thought about this before. Depending on the game, it should obviously vary. For "realistic" games how about something like this:
If you get hit, it hits a certain spot on your body (let's call this game COD7 No One Left to Kill). If it hits your arm, you have to either go in your med. pouch, or scrape one off the enemy in order to find a bandage or something. You have to apply it yourself if you want to stop the bleeding. If you don't, then your health ever so slowly drains. If there happens to be a medic around, he can do a field repair on you (taking out the bullet, bandaging) which will prevent you from losing anymore health.
If you get hit square in the chest, face, neck, groin, you die.(lots of arteries around the groin area)
You can get shots of morphine that won't impact your ability to shoot, move etc. If you don't get something though, then you slowly die. Make it real. Most people don't live through battles where you're fighting hundreds of people.
Most people would cry about going into COD5 with this sort of system. Make the story one long campaign where you don't get warped from location to location with each level. Just keep the missions going. Your squad slowly dwindles if you suck and can't kill the enemy. You can take "breaks" and heal up your squad after you've killed those around you. The game doesn't have to have a trigger being pulled every second. I'd love to see a jungle *veitnam* style game that involved patrolling and finding people in the bushes. Real patrolling, not walking along a set path with enemies at predetermined spots.
That should cover most of the idea...
If you get hit, it hits a certain spot on your body (let's call this game COD7 No One Left to Kill). If it hits your arm, you have to either go in your med. pouch, or scrape one off the enemy in order to find a bandage or something. You have to apply it yourself if you want to stop the bleeding. If you don't, then your health ever so slowly drains. If there happens to be a medic around, he can do a field repair on you (taking out the bullet, bandaging) which will prevent you from losing anymore health.
If you get hit square in the chest, face, neck, groin, you die.(lots of arteries around the groin area)
You can get shots of morphine that won't impact your ability to shoot, move etc. If you don't get something though, then you slowly die. Make it real. Most people don't live through battles where you're fighting hundreds of people.
Most people would cry about going into COD5 with this sort of system. Make the story one long campaign where you don't get warped from location to location with each level. Just keep the missions going. Your squad slowly dwindles if you suck and can't kill the enemy. You can take "breaks" and heal up your squad after you've killed those around you. The game doesn't have to have a trigger being pulled every second. I'd love to see a jungle *veitnam* style game that involved patrolling and finding people in the bushes. Real patrolling, not walking along a set path with enemies at predetermined spots.
That should cover most of the idea...
A mix of both is what makes the most sense... Health packs magically restoring you to full health is stupid, and no health packs but hiding behind a rock after being shot six times is stupid, too.
