~Poll~ Longer fights <Do you want it?>

[Jynx]

The thing is, any such depth and complexity is artificial. No fight with any common rabble-rouser enemy should take more than 10-20 seconds, period.

Do all open world monster need to be reduced to this?


I much rather my open world monsters and "Rabble rousers" as you so call them to look like this.




I certanly don't want them to be killed in 15-20 seconds I mean christ why even bother giving monsters TP moves if they aren't even supposed to survive long enough to kill them.

Have people regressed so far into their instanced shells that they only want difficult unique monsters to be hidden away from the world unless we wave our fingers at a gate to summon them? Is it really so bad to have strong monsters wandering the wilderness with no othe goal than to murder you (and provide some hard to gather loot)? Are people so afraid of something happening outside some confines they control that they just wont let it happen.

Bah I say.

[Alhanelem]

Do all open world monster need to be reduced to this?


I much rather my open world monsters and "Rabble rousers" as you so call them to look like this.




I certanly don't want them to be killed in 15-20 seconds I mean christ why even bother giving monsters TP moves if they aren't even supposed to survive long enough to kill them.

Have people regressed so far into their instanced shells that they only want difficult unique monsters to be hidden away from the world unless we wave our fingers at a gate to summon them? Is it really so bad to have strong monsters wandering the wilderness with no othe goal than to murder you (and provide some hard to gather loot)? Are people so afraid of something happening outside some confines they control that they just wont let it happen.

Bah I say.

The stuff you pictured is not the sort of thing that should be scattered all over the world. If a giant-ass sand worm or plant thing or what have you is encountered, I expect it to take longer to kill than a sheep or a goat or member of the five (current) races.

That being said, I said nothing of instancing, so you're crossing into an unrelated topic. As I pointed out before, the length of an encounter should be porportionate to the rarity, percieved strength and size, level, intimidation factor, yada yada of the monster.

The kind of monster you pepper the landscape over vs big scary bad guy hiding in dark corner of universe. One fight should last longer than the other, three guesses which.