>>333154051
Do a balanced run or try it out and then start a new game with all the stats you need.
>Name your character!
>No defeaults
I feel you, OP.
Whenever it comes to stat allocation I'm retarded. Also since I know I'm so bad it makes me uneasy whenever I get stuck in the game because I don't know if it's because my build is so god awful or if I just need to try harder.
I find games that rely on stats boring. I want this shit to be purely skillbased, to show the game I've learned to play. Not to grind because otherwise I'm in a disadvantage with the game regardless of actual skill.
>>333154051
git gud, almost all real RPGs start with assigning skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znc1m36BYng
>>333154051
>You fuck up your skills
>The game allow you to respec
>game has a tutorial
>quickly levels you up to 2Similar to how some anons quickly lost their virginity in a sad wayletting you know that the game is going to spoon feed you
>you don't know how viable any of the stats are yet and it would be a complete waste to invest any
>game doesn't let you hold onto them for later
Simply the worst. I also used to think games with softcaps were missing out on potential until I played a game without softcaps on stats and it breaks the mechanics. It was a random 3D porn game and you'd run around diablo style killing everything and then you'd tear off the clothes of the girl at the end. Repeat that 12 or 13 times to get extra outfits for the h-scenes. It was a pain in the dick because the game tied attack speed and movement speed to one stat and you start out really slow. You could invest in Health regen to get back any damage caused by everything and literally walk through the mobs. What was funny was with the movement speed it had no cap so you could become something akin to the flash if you invested enough stat points.
>>333154623
>you don't know how viable any of the stats are yet and it would be a complete waste to invest any
This is the single worst thing in any stat-centric RPG ever.
I can't play Divinity: Original Sin because of this. Also reading that half the skills aren't even worth using.
>>333154130
>dex, strength, magic, other attack methods
>Balance them all
>Severely gimped in them all
Fuck it.
Personally I also hate redoing anything.
I played divinity up to a point where I met a fucking cat I couldn't talk to because I didn't have enough skill. that's enough bullshit for me to nope out.
>>333154845
Then stop bitching here and play the game with your shitty stats.
Git gud
>>333154243
>I'm retarded
I used to think this, but no longer after playing replaying through RPGs or looking up stat guides for optimal following runs or hell, sometimes I'll figure out in my first run that y-z skills are completely fucking useless or trash in comparison to another skill/perk/trait/ect.
I don't mind dealing with being weaker in combat, but the medical skill or engineering skill or what have you had better have more than a handful of uses in the game and it had better not be made completely useless by items every build has access to.
Age of Decadence did so well with making every skill you could choose matter. I wish every game had encounters (both combat and non-combat) that allowed you to forge ahead with that build idea that sounds cool and actually works out due to good quest design.
>>333154051
>go strength and endurance
>game is biased towards mages and thieves so you're slow as fuck and deal shit damage
>go intelligence and willpower
>game is biased towards thieves and warriors so you're squishy as fuck and can't cast enough spells to be useful
>go agility/dexterity/speed/whatever
>game is biased towards mages and warriors so you get instakilled by everything
if RPGs were properly balanced it wouldn't be a problem but more often than not there's a lot of bullshit
>Game is not very difficult and single player only
>Still compelled to minmax like an autist
help
>>333154051
> Dark Souls 1
> Surely Resistance will be handier than Vitality!
>>333155018
That is balancing you retard. Have you not played Rock paper scissors, or were you the faggot to make up rules to it so you could instantly win?
>>333155018
>early game is hell for magic users, breddy gud for melee
>late game is cake for magic users, hell for melee
I just look that shit up in a guide when I start playing. Then again I rarely play games where investing skillpoints is a factor; most games nowadays just assign them automatically which I am fine with.
>>333154051
>MMORPG starts with assigning skill points
>Have to do the grind again if you fucked up your character
>>333155185
>didn't read: the post
>>333155365
>Respec costs real money
>Literally no one will play with anyone using a suboptimal build if the game is a little bit old.
>>333154051
I like games that level up stats based on what class you are then all you have to worry about is combining perks to get boss combinations, but i also have never really had trouble with games like dark souls where you allocate your skill points to make your class.
>he only uses """best""" builds found on internet
>>333155174
I watched a friend pour tons of points into resistance and he just couldn't get past Skinny and Chubs. He spent hours grinding to make up for it but he still couldn't do it. He eventually started again, leaving behind 150+ hours of game time, biggest kek I had in a long time.
>>333154210
EO games kill me.
