2013-01-30, 02:47 AM
Dark Link Wrote:News to me taking hours per level was "hard" back in the day.
I can understand trying to keep your attention and whatnot, but leveling in itself is in no way even remotely "hard".
I agree, but I don't have to spit it out for you: It wasn't hard as in solving an advanced math problem, but hard as in having to bear an extremely annoying math professor and a pomegranatety classroom while trying to solve a problem. Maple Story never took skill, save perhaps jumping quests and memory/omok minigames, but it was still quite a task getting to fourth job. You know what I mean.
DeanNim Wrote:i kinda feel you... every time i make a new character i always end up doing the theme dungeons once im over level 100(for the medal) because questing there will only hinder your progress because levelling can be done so fast without any interruptions. And the state the game currently is right now, level 30 ~ 60 content can be removed without affecting anyone since we breeze past through them.
Exactly what I meant, thank you.
Stereo basically hit the nail on the head. They designed the game so you could breeze through the content with new classes, get to 120, gear up your character, and spend cubes on your end-game equips. It's basically centered around novelty and money.
It's no surprise that they moved all the newbie party quests from level 10 to level 30, and then to level 50. While newer ones are unlocked at 120. Perhaps what they need to do is push stuff like Mushroom Kingdom to a bit higher levels, or completely overhaul the concept of a "Theme Dungeon", making it more like mission maps rather than long questlines. Because the questlines are quite useless if you wanna play the game efficiently. All new events for new jobs are "get to 120 before X date to get cool stuff!", so there's no excuse to say you can just play it slow and "enjoy" the questlines. Ain't nobody got time for that, must get event ring/medal/mount/mask/set at 120!
Well, in the end I think Nexon realized this problem I'm explaining, but instead of fixing old content and balance the game, they went the Nexon way... leave old stuff the way it is, and just ADD HIGHER FUKKEN NUMBERZ.
More potential lines!
More stat boosts!
More hp for players!
More pendants!
More classes!
More damage cap!
More levels!
More trillion hp bosses!
Yeah, that will do it.