Do data attributes really matter?

There are many answers to this question, and the most common answer is: Important, if there is no data attribute, how can players experience a sense of accomplishment in self-improvement?

Imagine that you are fighting a chicken with a novice sword in the novice village.

This chick has 100 HP, your character's own attack is 1, and your Novice Sword has an additional 1 attack.

Without any missteps, you'll need to attack 50 times to kill the chick.

Then the chick bursts a peachwood sword with 9 points of attack, and after equipping the peachwood sword, your attack power becomes 10 points, and you only need to slash 10 times to kill another chick.

With intuitive data in front of you, you're stronger.

Although your attack methods have not changed, and although you still don't know how to dodge the chick's fluttering peck, with the bonus of this equipment, you have become stronger.

At this time, you might as well think: after taking off this equipment, are you really strong?

Batman has thought about this problem, Iron Man has also thought about this problem, and Li Weiji has also thought about this problem.

His answer is simple: directly boosting data is irresponsible laziness on the part of game designers.

"When I first started working with video games, I thought data attributes were very important," he says. Li Weiji used his steel sword to remove the stones on the road, "I remember a long time ago, there was a very perverted game, and the monsters in the novice village of the game were particularly powerful, and they couldn't be beaten if they didn't form a team." But,This game has long been out of business.,I'm playing a private server set up by myself.,So I'm the only player in the whole game.。 I can't defeat the Novice Monster at all, but I want to get out of the Novice Village and see the wider world. ”

Gu Hanzhang asked, "And then?" ”

"Then I tried other ways to upgrade in that game, and I found that in addition to fighting monsters, I could also get a small amount of experience by picking herbs, so I picked herbs in the game for half a year to raise the level to level 10. After reaching level 10, my stat attribute naturally followed, and the attack power became more than 20 times that of level 1, and I was able to kill the novice monster with my bare hands, but I wasn't happy at all. ”

Li Weiji walked to Li Yi's side as he spoke, pointed at him and said, "I don't understand why I'm strong but unhappy, so I'll tell Lao Yi about this." He was killing pigs at the time, and he didn't listen to me carefully, but just replied casually, 'I need to practice for a month to kill a pig', and his words gave me a lot of inspiration. When I got home, I rebuilt the game and this time I didn't take any other shortcuts, but instead took a serious fight against the novice monsters. It only took less than ten days for me to completely master the attack procedures of these monsters, and I was gradually able to see their attack movements clearly, and the moment they attacked, time seemed to slow down, and I could completely manipulate the character to get out of the attack range of the monsters. ”

His tone turned proud: "In this way, I sharpened a monster to death with a novice sword. After that day, I realized that equipment can't be without attributes, but it definitely shouldn't be the focus of the game. ”

His proud tone changed as he said coldly: "In other games, it's hard to move an inch without equipment, and the gameplay of these games is almost all about equipment attributes. In order to equip, you have to endure a boring upgrade process, and you have to beat the dungeon day and night. But how can you possibly endure such a boring repetition as a human being? Therefore, in order to be lazy and reduce their workload, these game designers usually infinitely amplify the meaning of equipment attributes, and a set of equipment determines your game level and game status. In order to get this vanity, the player will force himself to repeat these meaningless things. ”

Li Weiji's tone became urgent, as if he was a little angry: "No, in fact, these things are quite meaningful. In the game, as long as you work hard to level up, you will become significantly stronger, and as long as you clear the dungeon, you can get better equipment, and the feedback of this kind of effort is extremely strong and extremely tempting. In reality, there is absolutely no such good thing happening, so we are often willing to immerse ourselves in the improvement of game data attributes. Therefore, when Guild Wars downplays the attributes of equipment, we will feel a little uncomfortable. ”

Li Yi rarely saw him in such a moment of emotional ups and downs, and silently walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder.

Li Weiji, who had just woken up from a dream, sighed and said, "I'm sorry, I'm excited, it's hard for you to listen to me." I'm just angry at why those people don't make games well, but use human weaknesses to lead players astray. Especially those garbage games, as long as the version is updated, the equipment that the player used to play will be completely scrapped and the level will have to be retrained, which is just a waste of the player's life. ”

Gu Hanzhang snorted and said, "Yes, I also dislike this design." The time-consuming and labor-intensive equipment that has been cultivated has become worthless as the new version unfolds, and it seems that someone has stepped on the heart. ”

"In fact, game designers can make the best use of equipment, and not letting the design become a decoration is the greatest respect for the design itself." Jian Bingzhi, who hadn't spoken for a long time, said a sentence in an ugly voice.

Li Weiji agreed: "That's right, in fact, the equipment attributes are not so unbearable, if the design is decent, there are actually a lot of gameplay that can be developed, so I'm looking forward to the game "Guild Wars" to deal with the equipment attribute problem." So far, however, there have been no new highlights. ”

Listening to Li Weiji's chatter, the team returned to the lounge, leaving an empty four-door passage scene on the big screen.

The lounge is surrounded by four walls, Li Yi habitually leans against the west wall and continues to slowly recover his vitality, while Jian Bingzhi hides on the east wall and tinkers with his belongings and backpacks, Gu Hanzhang looks at the situation and occupies the north wall and rolls his eyes on his back.

Li Weiji looked at the inexplicable three people and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Gu Hanzhang said intermittently: "After clearing the mini-game and dividing the equipment, I don't know what to do next, so now is my personal time to adjust my status." ”

"When did you have such a tacit understanding?"

Jian Bingzhi said: "It's not that there is a tacit understanding, it's just that I saw Li Yi resting against the wall, and I felt that I couldn't disturb him, so I hid aside and did my own thing." ”

Li Yi spread his hands and said: "It's not my fault, I'm purely habitually leaning on it." ”

Because of Li Yi's habits, the whole team entered a strange private space atmosphere, and Li Weiji had to find a place to stay alone, but the entrance to rest under the south wall was empty, so he had to sit in the middle of the lounge and close his eyes and ponder.

It didn't take long for Li Yi, who had escaped from the battle, to recover intact, and he asked in a loud voice, "Dear team, what are we going to do next?" ”

"Ask Li Weiji, I don't know." Gu Hanzhang's speech was still intermittent, and he seemed to be sleepy and weak.

Jian Bingzhi was full of emotion, and said excitedly: "Lao Li, didn't you say that you want to come to this amusement park to explore the secret of Lingbao, but this lounge seems to be the end, what should you do next?" ”

Li Weiji looked back at Jian Bingzhi, and under the light of the big screen, he was dressed in rags and took off the image of the Nine Bags Elder of the Beggar Gang.

"Dizzy, did you really transform the 'half-eaten armor'?"

"Well, I feel like the beggar style goes well with the Stalker class. It looks ragged, but it has a kind of freewheeling sexiness. ”

"If you like it."

Li Weiji lowered his head and thought about the next course of action, as Jian Bingzhi said, this lounge seems to be the end of the amusement park, but this end point does not have any valuable information clues, which is not in line with the principles of game design. So the real end must be somewhere else, and the timing and location of this lounge are extremely clever, if I guess correctly, this is the beginning of the end gate, but where does the door open?

With this question in mind, he revisited the lounge, the floor with a faint red light, the walls with large screens on all sides, and the pitch-black ceiling.

He stepped on the floor many times, and there was nothing out of the ordinary. He had knocked on all four walls, and there was nothing suspicious about the bricks he could touch.

Is it the ceiling?

But the ceiling was so high that it would take at least seven Asura stacked on top of each other to be touched, so there was no reason to put the mechanism in such an uncomfortable position.

Li Weiji suddenly looked up at Gu Hanzhang.