Well, for the SW2 skills-farming though, you know in any given stage exactly which officers can give you the skills you need (that you can steal). The only random aspect to it is whether or not you manage to steal it that particular time or not. And if you don't manage to? Reload, try again. You don't have to finish the stage to see if you got it that time.
For the DW games, you not only have to hope and pray that this random item you just got was got an ice orb, but that it's also a level 20 one, too. And you won't know until you finish the stage. Too much random for me. Too many things need to come together in order for you to get everything to max properly in a system like that. I just can't sink that much time into the games, to do what is necessary to achieve the max for everything.
I'm not sure why I just randomly stopped playing SW2. Perhaps because there was nothing tangible and interesting left to achieve after unlocking everyone, all the special skills / bodyguards / horses, and making Honda insanely maxed-out powerful?
It was also just too much, too much, having to play everyone in SW2 each through their own story mode of 5 or 6 stages. Especially with some stages being unendingly long to play (Sekigahara? Osaka Castle? Edo Castle?). SW2 has too many characters now for that.
The lack of an excessive number of stages (and army sides of those stages) to unlock in WO freed up some time to actually achieve maximum for everything/everyone else in that game. In my mind, at least.
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Date: 2007-11-06 05:01 pm (UTC)For the DW games, you not only have to hope and pray that this random item you just got was got an ice orb, but that it's also a level 20 one, too. And you won't know until you finish the stage. Too much random for me. Too many things need to come together in order for you to get everything to max properly in a system like that. I just can't sink that much time into the games, to do what is necessary to achieve the max for everything.
I'm not sure why I just randomly stopped playing SW2. Perhaps because there was nothing tangible and interesting left to achieve after unlocking everyone, all the special skills / bodyguards / horses, and making Honda insanely maxed-out powerful?
It was also just too much, too much, having to play everyone in SW2 each through their own story mode of 5 or 6 stages. Especially with some stages being unendingly long to play (Sekigahara? Osaka Castle? Edo Castle?). SW2 has too many characters now for that.
The lack of an excessive number of stages (and army sides of those stages) to unlock in WO freed up some time to actually achieve maximum for everything/everyone else in that game. In my mind, at least.