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Nah, it's just how these games are. The first two fire emblem games on GameCube/wii were merciless in the same way on the normal modes. 80% hit chance sounds g
by csydas 10y ago
Nah, it's just how these games are. The first two fire emblem games on GameCube/wii were merciless in the same way on the normal modes. 80% hit chance sounds good until you miss and the entire battle goes south because of it. Since these games had permadeath, a miss could mean restarting if you didn't just hit reset mod battle.
Sometimes those odds are just those odds. A lot of gaming which uses pseudorandom had given a lot of people the gamblers fallacy as their understanding of probability. In some games it perhaps makes sense; in league of legends I believe the Critical hit chance is pseudo random to feel less swingy, which is probably healthier for a competitive game. Diablo 3 weights it's unique drop rates to ensure that players get a steady supply of relevant uniques since there is no trade economy in d3 anymore. This also makes sense in isolation.
Other games though that don't have as strong of a reason to fudge the roll give a really bad impression of random to players.
- foota 10y agoYou might consider using a term other than pseudo random for that, since pseudo random number generators generally try to be uniformly random, as opposed to the sort of thing you're talking about.
- madenine 10y agoThe term comes from the games community - its what they call it. For example, in DotA: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Pseudo_Random_Distribution http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Pseudo_Random_Distribution
- foota 10y agoInteresting, thanks for making that point. I think it might be best to refer to one as a prng and the other as a prd (generator vs distribution) although implementing a prd creates a prng, some prng attempt to target a real random distribution.
- csydas 10y agoLate reply but thanks for the heads up - I wasn't aware that prng was a term that I could be using as opposed to prd. The above comment is accurate in how I first came across the term as it's pretty commonly used in a lot of games in a lay person's fashion.
- slavik81 10y agoMost Fire Emblem games have misleading hit percentages. When it says 80%, you really have a 92.2% chance to hit. http://web.archive.org/web/20141004060133/http://old.serenesforest.net/general/truehit.html http://web.archive.org/web/20141004060133/http://old.serenes...