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UltimaterializerX posted...

Then dont use shards you think are too good.

Eh, I see this type of argument a lot and I understand it, but I can't get behind it myself. I feel like it should not be my job as a player to decide what character builds are "too good" and make me too powerful. That means the character building is no longer a series of interesting strategic choices, instead, character building is just another difficulty slider.

This is a weirder point: And, on a more general level, I want to buy video games that are fully designed, I don't want to have to fix the game myself. If I have to intentionally add rules to make the game more fun, I might as well make my own game at that point. In games where I have to tweak it to make it more fun, I feel like I lose my personal connection with the "artist's intent", so to speak. It makes me feel like I'm not playing what the designer intended, it makes me feel like I'm not playing what my friends are playing. It feels like I'm playing some game I invented myself in my closet. It makes me feel lonely, in a weird way.

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I agree with some of the changes, not sure about all of them. Character choices should all be trade-offs, is my opinion. If a shard is just plain great, then it should at least be hard to find--that's my problem with "Welcome Company" in particular, the paintings are sooooo common you're guaranteed to get a huge stack of that shard.

I'm not familiar with a lot of the shards listed though, so can't speak to most of them.

And I have to admit, having some shards being better than others IS pretty cool game design, because it rewards those who experiment with all the shards they get. So hopefully they didn't nerf most of them too much.
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