>companions not currently in the party gain exp from battles
The people who fought the battles told their party members about it and taught them the skills they learned during the fights.
>enemy party gains experience
>>344381159
Oh yeah.
Explain this if you're so smart.
>dead party members gain exp from battles
>>344381568
They watched the battle from the afterlife and learned what not to do so they can survive next time.
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>>344381568
>>344381059
That's the best way. I hate having to be concerned about b team falling behind in levels and having to grind the switch hitters.
>game is an rpg
>experience doesn't even exist
>>344381842fucking sticker star
>kill an enemy
>gain experience
>kill it again in same fashion
>gain same amount of experience
>>344381816
>not testing the capabilities of each of your companions, making up a party strategy and going with it to the end
Indecisive fuck.
>character dies
>comes back automatically after battle
>you can send companions to town to buy supplies
>>344381957
>not developing a party strategy and then having a back up plan with the other companions to swap in if things go wrong
>enemy uses incredibly strong attack
>character dies for good
>game forces you to use certain party members at times
>they're the ones you've been leveling
>>344382364
Fuck KOTOR 2 for doing that fucking bullshit meme missions
>you die right before the save point
>>344381059
>units have permadeath
>enemies randomly crit which almost always kills a unit
>>344382476
>you die right after saving
>game only has one save file and you're stuck in a loop
>party member dies one then before the boss is defeated
>said party member gets 0 exp despite doing most of the damage
>MentionUndertaleon /v/
>All Hell breaks loose
>>344381059
Experience and levels are incoherent mechanics, so why not give them to the bench-warmers?
>finish random battle
>walk one step
>another random battle
>>344381568
If it's not a permadeath, then the characters don't die, they just get either KO'd or injured/disabled. And since they're canonically surviving, they're learning the most valuable experience of all: how not to get their shit ruined.
The people not in your immediate party still have to travel from town to town to keep up with your party. Surely they got into battles along the way, too, and they got stronger while you were apart.
>>344383136
Nice.
>>344381059
It's a better mechanic than having your benchwarmers fall behind so the game can fuck you in the ass with the mission where you have to use them.
>>344382868
>mentionUndertaleon /v/
>someone calls it out
>frog goes nuclear
>Characters only get exp based on their actions in battle
>Turn order is determined by speed
>The fastest characters end up being the only ones getting exp
what the fuck persona 1
>>344383509
Survival of the fittest.
>can easily one-shot every enemy in an area
>confident
>go to next area
>get brutally murdered
>>344381842
Many tabletop RPGs have no experience points.
>>344383509
Now that's annoying. If it wasn't for the speed thing I'd change the position of each team member so that they could be leveled up evenly.
>>344381497
This happened to me in a shitty Beyblade RPG game. I kept losing to one of the first people you need to beat, so he just kept getting stronger and harder to beat.
>>344381059
>Only characters in your party get xp for that fight
>You're stuck using the same party through the entire game because it's impossible to level them to your current level
>Super fair, super legit
>Get used to playing modern rpgs
>Play retro rpg and the first dungeon pushes your shit in.
>>344381497
I actually love when games do this, you really get that "Oh shit" feeling when an enemy kills your unit and then levels up.
>plot segment forces you to use a particular party setup
>composed entirely of shitty characters you've been neglecting so they're horribly underlevelled
>the main character's basic attack is the only thing worth using in the whole game
>>344381497
>final fantasy tactics
>corner the last enemy
>break/steal their weapon
>break their strength
>sit there healing them while they trade blows with the units cornering them
It was inefficient but fun in its own cruel way.
>>344383509
>Characters only get exp based on their actions in battle
>Healing doesn't give exp
>>344381497
>both sides low
>enemies level up after you've almost beat them
>health restored on level up
>>344383868
That was the GBA remaster of FF2 for me.
>sit there maxing out attack, hp, defense, healing, etc
>4th party member leaves
>wow fuck that
>a new 4th joins
>nah stay shitty loser
>they leave
>HA
>new one joins
>im not stupid
>section of the game where the party is composed of all the 4th members
Not that I didn't just begrudgingly grind their attack, hp, defense, etc up but it was a mild panic moment.
>>344383868
>doesn't matter in the slightest because consumable magic items are downright fucking broken
>>344384170
There's too many good RLM reaction pics.
>enemy uses a move that kills every one of your party members
>it works
>game has yet another oversexualized kawaii anime girl
>>344384458
Fucking hamaon and mamudo should be fucking outlawed where having the main character die gets a game over, I fucking swear.
>>344385084
You missed the husbando thread, barafag.
>>344385176
Are you saying you like generic sexy animu girls?
>>344381059
cute, how much for the night, bb?
>>344385084
i know
they need more obese ugly old men like my husbando x3
>>344385398
Depends, are we talking about Ar Tonelico, Etrian Odyssey, Nepgear generic or foreign catgirl #64 generic?
>>344385084
>She has many costumes you can dress her in
>exp gained: 0
>>344381059
It's implied that those characters are travelling with you, even though you aren't controlling them in the party, they are still involved in the encounters.
Or
It's implied that they are training while not travelling with you, in order to keep their skills sharp.
>>344381497
>Enemies can gain experience
>There is a skill which lets you steal experience
>companions not currently in the party don't gain exp from battles
>Have unskippable battles with party members you never use and are under leveled
Fuck right off.
>>344391193
name five hundred games that do this
>>344382738
This happened to me in Drakan: The Ancient Gates. I paused the game while falling down a cliff so I could go do something and the game lets you save anywhere so when I came back to it I discovered that my brother had saved my game so that he could turn it off and play something else. Never finished the game because of that.
>>344386585
90% sure I've read this, think it's incest.
>>344391434
I don't know about stealing experience, but in Guild Wars, enemies did gain experience for killing you and with that in mind, players eventually came up with the concept of "death leveling". By luring a monster to a resurrection shrine and having it kill them repeatedly, they'd level the monster up to the point where killing it would actually give them experience. That allowed players to achieve max level in a tutorial area where otherwise it would be impossible to gain the Legendary Defender of Ascalon title. It took you months of real time to pull that off if not years. Later devs added alternative ways of earning experience there and the title became much less valuable.
>>344391434
All of the Final Fantasy Tactics games let you do this.
>>344381059
>Okay I want to do the optional boss
>oh fuck a doo I can't without that one guy
>villian is constantly gloating about trying to kill me despite failing the past 5 times
>>344381842
Monster Hunter is great faggit
>>344381497
>you immobilize the enemy at 1% hp and let it get to max level and then kill it to level up quickly.
>>344381059
FF13 does this and it eliminates a lot of mindless grind
>Party Member is revealed to be evil, leaves the party and you fight him
>If you know beforehand, you can take off their equipment before they leave, making the fight easier
>really awesome character
>that character sucks
>you use him anyways because you love the character too much
>end up making things harder for you
>Order party member to use a spell that will heavily reduce elemental damage
>Enemies go first and blow party away with elemental damage.
And that's why White Mages are fucking useless in FF1.
Usually, only the protagonist can't be removed from the party, so by the end, the protagonist tends to be at least ten levels higher than everyone else.
>>344392037
Monster Hunter is the most overhyped clunky boring piece of shit I ever played.
>there are people who pick party members for their abilities rather than for their personalities
>learn a skill at the start of the game thats pretty useless or not as good as other abilities in nearly all situations
>you fight a mirror of yourself near the end of the game
>this almost useless skill is the key to winning the fight
>>344386585
Source?
>secondary villain has been going toe to toe with you all this time, growing at almost the same pace you have
>primary villain has been siting on his laurels the whole time ordering around the goon squad
>secondary villain realizes he surpassed the primary villain already, and doesn't have to take shit from him any more
>>344391719
>>344386585
>no google results
>no duplicates in the archive
Gonna need that sauce senpai
>>344392021I'M GONNA BEAT YOU SO BAD THIS TIME MARIO!
>>344395290
>>344395276
Same.
>Carefully trying to lure monsters away one-by-one in a big group of 8 high level enemies
>Party member runs into the middle of them all
>Party member pulls them all
>party member dies immediately
>party member was the healer
>win the fight
>>344382068
>dies
Except they usually don't die, its a ko or just too wounded to continue
>>344381957
>having an entire roster of interesting characters that are completely unique from one another
>have to use the same lineup the entire game, only switching up when and if you find a new character to swap out because everything else is behind curve
>If you want to do any of the late-game questlines for your bench warmers, you have to grind just to get them up to speed
Commitment is more important though.
>>344383603
Many tabletop RPGs have few to no gameplay mechanics (don't ask me if it really counts as a game at that point).
>>344382738
Draw your sword, Ramza.
>Can't include ALL companions in party
>>344381059
thanks dawn of war 2, you helped me level up that shitter known as thaddus
