What status ailment grinds your gears the most?
>Silence
Berserk
Fuck you Fire Emblem
Stun.
Especially in Pokemon games. 3 - 5 turns of doing absolutely nothing just from one status effect. It doesn't help that most Pokemon games are slow for some reason.
confuse
Blind
Disease in FFXII.
What a piece of shit.
>>321006836
>My party is all healthy and rushing all ogre the dungeon
>Lamia/Cocatrice/similar spawns
>Surprise attack
>Just petrify my shit up
Every fucking time
Charm, fucking Charm.
The worst instance I can remember was in the .hack// games on PS2. Getting charmed could happen really fast and depending on who gets charmed your party can turn on you and kill you off in about 3-4 seconds, sometimes faster if you are all in close to each other.
>>321006836
Mind Control/Charm/whatever that makes teammates hostile. Stop stealing my fucking teammates.Fortunately, it's also my fetish
>SU
>>>/trash/
>>321006836
Petrify...
>>321007418
>>321007224
>>321006928
Fucking these.
>>321007601
Only girls where ribbons anon. Are you a girl?
>>321006836
>Panic
oh now you can fucking aim when its killing your own teammates, fucking xcom
>when the enemy silences the one anti-silence teammate you have
>removing a party member from play
The worst shit ever. Especially heinous when it's permanent.
>>321007694
party permadeath is great but only if the game autosaves
>Suprise attack by Pisacas
>Bites the Dust on protag
>Physical attack on protag
>Mission failed
This happened far more than it should have.
>>321007501
This. Taking one character out of action is bad enough, but having them deal as much damage to your own party as they would an enemy is the fucking worst. It's worse when the ailment causing it has no item/spell to cure it or it targets the one person who CAN cure it.
>>321007694
>Darkest dungeon
>that witch fight
STOP STEALING MY TEAMMATES YOU FAT BITCH
Did getting burned in pokemon always make you weaker? or as that a new thing?
Sap followed by more saps.
Fucking rogues.Good thing they only last like 8 seconds on players now, with heavy diminishing returns
>>321006836
Essentially anything that disables your movement.
>PlayDiablo 3
>Get knocked back and frozen
>Keep getting frozen
>No diminishing returns
Most to least annoying
1. FUCKING DISEASEWound in XIII-2 to a lesser extent
2. Charm
3. Silence
4. Stun
5. Immobilize
Hey guys, what's going on in this thread?
>boss used mass zombie!
>boss used revive all!
>>321007995
It always halved attack
>>321008027
Here's your (You). Now get the fuck out.
>FF13
>monster casts death
>targets Lightning
>GAME OVER
>stun
>confuse
>petrify
>flinch
>knockback
JUST LET ME ATTACK DAMMIT
>>321008027
delete this
>>321008464
Hello?
Petrification, specially on EO games.
>Your Party was blindsided!
>Muskoid x6 used Petrification
>Your whole party has been Petrificated!
>Game Over
>>321008559
DELETE THIS
>Get stunned
>Can use an item to get unstunned
>get seduced
>Can't use an item to get unseduced
Fuck you maplestory
Not to mention some basic attacks count as skills so you cant use them if you are silenced
>>321008787
Hello
>>321006836
>game has shit load of cool status effects
>you can make use of them all, too
>but all the lowly mobs die in one hit
>and all the bosses are immune
>>321008908
This is one of the reasons I hate bosses in DQ, with the other being that they can randomly get the ability to attack 2 times in one turn.
>>321007780
>>321008575
>MC gets Petrified in Strange Journey
>immediate game over
Niggers, video games are pulling their punches.
>Pathfinder
>Group is level 14
>Heading to final boss' castle
>Beating the shit out of his level 5 goons
>Run into magician man
>Party Wizard targeted by unknown spell immediately
>Fucks up his Will save, falls asleep
>That was the surprise round and the Wizard was almost all of our anti-magic shit
>Evil magician guy gets to act first in the proper round
>Casts Weird
>Literally everyone but the Barbarian fucks up BOTH saves and DROPS DEAD
>Including the ONE guy who can resurrect
>Even though Barbarian didn't drop dead he's still stunned
>Magician man attempts to sleep Barbarian
>Barbarian fucks up the save and falls asleep
>Magic cunt walks over to the sleeping heroes and slits their throats
This happened in like 2004 and I'm still mad
FUCKING SLEEP
>>321008908
Status effects are my favorite part of RPGs.
Nothing like stacking debuff after debuff on a boss until it just bleeds out. Much more satisfying than smacking it with a sword over and over.
>>321009229
Extremely bad DMing my friend. That's not your fault at all. A DM should never just fucking stupidly kill their players because of bad rolls. Plot armor works in tabletop too, you know.
>>321006836
>Memen Jewniverse
>>>/out/
>>>/lgbt/
>>>/b/
>>>/trash/
>>>/mlp/
>>>/tumblr/
>>321009031
surely you cant be talking about dragon quest
>>321009229
>shit tier DM
>blames the system
Stockholm syndrome
Toxic is pretty bad. Poison is survivable, it's a little bit of damage you can shrug off until you're at 25% HP, and you can still afford to take a few hits. But toxic? Twice as much damage draining per second makes quite a difference. You either heal every 10 seconds and take NO hits until it goes away, or you fucking eat some moss.
Fire Emblem's Berserk is also pretty fucking annoying, I've had to restart plenty of end-game/final chapters because I had one of my best units 1 space too close to a berserk-wielding Druid who landed the effect on them.
>Mfw Hector, a level 12 Great Lord with max def and a brave axe, gets berserked on the Light and charges head first towards Eliwood
JUST FUCK MY SHIT UP
Zombie in FFV was the worst for me. You couldn't cure it like normal statuses, and on my first playthrough I didn't think to equip angel rings or buy the items that could heal it.
>>321006836
--Poison: nickel-and-dimed literally to death unless you have the antidote.
--Paralysis: Can't use the "cure paralysis" foo, because lol, ur paralyzed.
--Not a status effect, quite, but fuck summoners. Especially summoners who summon summoners.
>>321009556
I still feel like paralysis is the worse status condition.
>>321006836
getting petrified and having to run back to the Cathedrals in towns in older FF games was always a gripe of mine
>Shibaboo
>>321006836
spell class lockouts, you aren't completely silenced but it usually restricts you to bullshit spells you'd never use.
>>321009482
You are thissad.
>>321006836
Any kind of super poison like plague, disease, toxic or whatever it's called.
>>321009556
>Toxic is pretty bad. Poison is survivable
>doesn't even mention Burn
Burn is so much worse than Toxic. It neuters any physical attacker (half damage) and does equal damage to Toxic over the first three turns.
Toxic has no extra effects and it's counter gets reset every time you switch out.
Status effects in RPGs are one of two things. Either you get archaic bullshit like Petrify or Sleep and those other JRPG standbys, or you get something inventive.
Unfortunately, I can't actually think of a goddamn game that includes status effects that are anything other than bullshit. Really, they seem like some sort of (and I hate to use this term) artificial difficulty to the game. A way to override the strengths of a player. Yeah, you're timing your attacks amazingly well on this boss, but LOLPARALYZE. Almost won there, didn't you?
I think the only game that sort of does it okay is Pokemon, but I'm loathe to say so. It still has the stupid silly Sleep and Poison and whatnot, but it at least lets you use them as an offensive weapon versus the enemy. Not a lot of games will glorify a status build. A couple Diablo clones like Grim Dawn will stack disabilities, and in a couple MMOs there's a good deal of bleed builds and whatnot.
Maybe there needs to be a movement to re-invent the system, but I'll be damned as to how to make it balanced.
>>321006836
>Funguy exhales a sweet-smelling breath.
>Hero fell asleep!
>Harry fell asleep!
>Hero is asleep.
>Funguy attacks!
>Harry takes 18 damage.
>Harry is asleep.
>>321006836
Mana drain.
>>321007551
>I hate SU
>>321010339
>liking the new MLP
>>321010045
>status effects don't work on bosses
>regular enemies are too easy for those moves to be worth using
FUCK I hate that shit.
Digimon world 03 confusion. It turns all your actions into nothing unless you manage to guess the 1/6 chance button that will let you perform a regular attack again to end the state. And once ended they can just use confusion again.
>>321010045
>I can't actually think of a goddamn game that includes status effects that are anything other than bullshit.
Redneck Rampage.
Drunk: Too much booze, and interface screw prevents you from actually doing anything. The joke? beer and whiskey are your health potions.
>>321006836
Poison.Because it's never useful.
>>321010045
Pokemon balances it by making only one major status ailment active at a time and you can't override it. You can slap on shitloads of minor ones, but they're easy to undo.
I would start with the major/minor bit for any other system. It also allows players to build around a specific major status.
>>321010379
>>new MLP
Bomb and Stone.
>>321010568
I actually quite like that, because it also means there's 'side effects'. Like for example
>cast Poison
+chance to reduce max health
+chance to reduce max magic
+chance to paralyze (vomiting)
+chance to spread to nearby party members
And so on. That sort of thing would be really neat, but only if it was a big deal, instead of every fucking thing in the world being able to learn it.
Another idea I had is the whole "Insta-death" line of spells that old RPGs tend to like. Why not just make it "So many turns until death" or even "death-like state" where your HP is at 1 but you can still sort of function. Maybe more like a 'cripple' rather than 'death'.
>>321010379
>>321010530
Souls would like a word with you casual
>Disaster Cycle
barney fag not around? Only reason I kept this shitty thread open.
this thread gives me ideas
what is the most fucked up status ailment i can add to my game?
a debuff that permenantely de-levels your character maybe?
>>321011064
A save-game curse that makes it so you can't save until you find a specific person in an obscure part of the world. And then you have to do some crazy dungeon all without saving in order to cure it.
>>321010890
>death-like state" where your HP is at 1 but you can still sort of function
This. And make Danger Mario a viable build.
>>321011064
Demon's Souls had that and it pissed me off because I was fucking terrible vs Allant. Fucker must have drained 5 levels off me.
If it's an RPG, make one that unequips one/all items and can't re-equip them until cured.
>>321011062
>people actually talking vidya
>thread's shit because you didn't get to see one of the dumbest shitposters in recent history pooping on it
>You caught the Plague!
>>321011151
PSO2 has a class called Fighter that's whole gimmick is an ability that reduces your max HP to 25%, but stacks your damage through the roof and buffs your MP gain. So essentially you're even more squishy than a glass cannon, more like a paper bag cannon.
I've always loved the idea of a 'berserk' state like that. All risk, all reward. It's seldom used because it really requires a skilled player, I assume.
>>321011356
We all have our forms of entertainment don't we?
>>321010972
>souls
>not normie tier
>>321011064
Demon's Souls Plague status effect still pisses me off.
>Health drops very rapidly
>Greatly reduces the effect of healing so you can't just heal-tank it
>There is no way to tell how long it will last
>The only item that can cure it is rare as fuck
>>321007551
Thanks Strong Bad.
>>321007780
i'm surprised this has never happened to me, especial since i have died to every mudo thats ever been casted on me
>>321009347
I take it you're a fan of Etrian Odyssey? If not, you should definitely play them if you like using status effects on bosses.
>>321010987
>casts Plague
>casts death's door on the same turn
>equip ribbon
>still get affected by 1 or 2 other status ailments
>>321011792
Took you so long, huh?
>>321011428
It could also be easily broken if the game has any sort of speed stat.
Take FFX with Auron for example. While everyone can end up becoming a god in their own right, Auron can hit for stupid amounts of damage really early with his best weapon the lower his HP is. And getting 1 HP exactly was extremely trivial (kill Auron in a fight, win or otherwise leave, Auron is at 1 HP after the fight is over)
>>321011683
I'm not, but I've been interested in trying the series and much, much more so now. Where do I start?
>>321011428
Well, DMC3/4 have Heaven or Hell mode where all enemies die in 1 hit, but you also die in 1 hit.
Monster Hunter also has an armour effect that buffs you when your health is low.
>>321007692
>not equipping him with anti-silence gears in the first place
>>321011064
Cursed equipment that equip themselves on pick-up and can't be unequipped until you get someone to cure you
Status effect that causes damage taken to be reduced from maximum HP, this can't be cured by magic and is immune to curealls and persists after death
A permanent decrease to movement speed until cured by someone back at the startor can never be cured, fucking OFF
An X-zone type ability that can't be resisted and lasts a while so the party will always have uneven levels
Status effects like forgetfulness that can cause permanent loss of items
Poison but for Mana
Debuff that remaps all your keys at random
Some sort of memory loss debuff that crashes the game when it lands and moves the character to a random spot of the overworld
>>321012026
The heaven/hell thing reminds me of the idea of 'realism' in vidya, where you know, if you get fucking shot or stabbed in the arm, you're liable to bleed out and you're likely not to function at 100%. Unfortunately in games like FPS, status effects are ALWAYS annoying. Even in CS:GO flashbangs and smoke is fucking annoying. Imagine if they added more bullshit like tranquilizers and whatnot.
Petrify.
Fucking petrify.
I'd prefer straight-up instakill, because at least then I'm not playing the "Oh, well maybe he wont' get hi-FUCK" game.
>>321012495
And even better when the status effects continue after the battle, so you have to walk the gauntlet of 'OH FUCK I HOPE HE DOESNT FUCKING DIE ON MY WAY TO THE HEALER' or some other bullshit.
Man. Old school RPGs were fucking insane.
>>321008908
>playing Dungeons and Parties
>have multiple AoE spell that tosses a bunch of random debuffs on the enemies
>slog through the dungeon, saving them to blitz through the boss fight
>finally get there
>it's one enemy by itself
>immune to statuses
>>321007501
you haven't lived until your perfect FTL run that couldn't possibly fail got cut short by a single automated drone with mind control though
Fun fact: Malboros in Final Fantasy Tactics have a hidden move called Moldball Virus that turns the target into a Malboro permanently.
The only units immune are Ramza and any units that can't turn into crystals for story purposes, like Delita.
Toxic is such a giant "FUCK YOU" to the player it's not even funny.
>>321013221
Thankfully it never happened to me. That sounds like a dick move.
>>321006836
Anything that reverses or flips the controls.
>>321013221
Irreversible bullshit like this really boils my blood, unless its done right. Like, something that lowers MP but increases ATK (ie 'Stupid') or something like that.
But, then again, Tactics was full of so much absolute bullshit like this.
>>321006836
Confuse. Especially in FFX.
>attack confused party member to avoid using up remedies
>MISS
god DAMN IT
>>321013668
>Confused character uses cure item.
>Uses it on an enemy.
Love it.
>>321009983
Have you ever played against stall senpai?
>>321013829
I used to run stall. I used Toxic, sure, but Burn was the better choice against any physical threats.
>>321012938
I haven't played much FTL. Drones don't seem that great for how much you have to invest into them. Is there a specific way to do drone runs?
>Confused party member
>Supernova happens
>Confused party member finishes the guy who was about to cast some heals
i love jrpgs
>>321013408
Thankfully it can only happen in a rare few storyline battles.
>>321013561
>enemy Mystic casted Foxbird!
>your Brave gets reduced by 5 for the battle but is permanently 1 lower unless you like spamming brave boosts with Ramza
