2012-05-19, 06:34 PM
Polantaris Wrote:Hard and lengthy are not two correlating values. How do people fail to understand this? Hell, SEGA has problems with this concept and Phantasy Star. You can make a boss hard without making it take hours to kill. Once a fight lasts more than 30 minutes, the players get bored. The more the players are bored, the less likely they will stay interested in playing. Why bother bossing if every boss takes days to complete? That's just retarded.
Plus...people have lives. Expecting people to be able to fight a boss for 2+ hours is expecting far too much as a developer. People have better things to do. Making bosses take a long time is just asking people to quit.
I repeat, you can make a boss hard without making it take hours to kill.
I'll elaborate; I like hard AND lengthy. It's only in a long-term battle that you get the real adrenaline rush. A constant battle to stay alive for hours at a time where one mistake screws the entire party. This is good for two reasons; one, for weeding out the terrible players because nobody will party them after the first few times they cause a failure, and two, it will cause stronger bonds to form between the more skilled remainder.