This comes from three kinds of situations that the game puts you through. In Persona 4, instant-kill abilities are not useless. To illustrate what I mean I’ll use the example of Persona 4 (Yes I know I talk about it a lot. Instead, when you create an ability, you need to make sure to create a situation where that ability is the best option. If the challenge the player is faced with in two situations is different, then the fastest or safest methods of meeting those challenges will also be different.
Remember, in a good game, every fight is different. This might seem to imply that the player will eventually find a single strategy that they use for every fight, but that isn’t the case. If the player has a method of ending a fight that is either faster than what you’re offering them, or safer than what you’re offering, then they won’t use the new ability you’re designing, no matter how cool it is. Fastest meaning ending a fight in the fewest turns (players can be impatient creatures, especially with random encounters), and safest meaning the strategy least likely to result in a game over. How would we fix this kind of ability? To start, we must remember that the player will naturally gravitate towards the strategy that is fastest and safest. This is a case of the person designing the ability having thought that the ability is cool, but not about when the player should make use of it. The problem with this method of limiting an ability’s effectiveness is that now, you don’t want to use an instant kill on a regular enemy, because they have so little health that it’s faster to kill them with conventional attacks, and enemies that have enough health that instant kills would be worth it are immune to them. However, in order to prevent these abilities from becoming overpowered, developers often either limit their accuracy, so they might work the first time, but they probably won’t, or make the most dangerous enemies immune to these kinds of abilities entirely. An ability that can end a fight instantly could easily be overpowered, so there has to be some kind of limitation to keep the player from using it for everything. In order to understand why these kinds of abilities so often fall into this useful-but-useless category we need to think about balance for a moment. Most often, these abilities miss so much of the time that it takes longer to kill an enemy by waiting for the instant-death spell to hit then by using conventional abilities that just deal damage. A type of ability that falls into this category quite often are instant-kill abilities. It is quite common for a game to have abilities that seem interesting or cool, but that you end up never using because there is a more efficient way to get the job done. The simple question you should ask yourself when designing an ability is: “When will the player use this ability? What is this ability for?”.
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What this article is about, rather, is how to make your abilities interesting. I might make one of those another time, though the system seems fairly self-explanatory. This isn’t a tutorial about how to make abilities in RPG Maker.
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