Anyone know of a game (in the DAoC, EQ, WoW style) where you don't find youself fighting animals all through the levels? I just find it incredible to be completely armored with a big friggin axe and then a bat, or slug is tearing me up! Where it takes me a bunch of hits to kill it, and if there are more than one; even if I am at the max level and supposed to be a super trainied fighting machine ... the animals still are friggin hard.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't want an easy game, I don't mind getting beat up by an orc, goblin or something that I can imagine fighting me back with a weapon or magic, but please for goodness sake no more games where I fight wolves, boars, beatles or birds, that seem to breed like no bunny rabbit could ever breed.

Well let me know if this exists; and if it doesn't exist then dammit some game maker had better read this because I do not think I am alone with this feeling, or am I?

Thanks,

Catt Ironheart

You can try Blood Elves in WOW. You will have to buy TBC expansion too.

 I totally agree. Honestly, did people ever in those days run outside in the early morn to kill a huge spider or bear? For xp?  Maybe for food to heal the wounds, but after 40 levels of WoW I'm still killing animal NPCs? No. Not enough of a challenge IMO

 So most likely this game does not exist? We are too continue fighting animals that become more and more powerful?

Pookie... best rabbit ever. If you don't know who that is, shame on you.

---

Originally posted by Daxx1990
 I totally agree. Honestly, did people ever in those days run outside in the early morn to kill a huge spider or bear? For xp?  Maybe for food to heal the wounds, but after 40 levels of WoW I'm still killing animal NPCs? No. Not enough of a challenge IMO

---

If there was a huge spider to kill, i'd just turn the knife on myself. I mean, I was so glad to hear that spiders are limited in size by the diffusion capacity of oxygen across their carapace. I mean back in the old days where the Earth had more oxygen they can get bigger. Thank god our Earth's oxygen content is lower than in the past or else i'd a pk myself.

Originally posted by C_Ironheart

 Anyone know of a game (in the DAoC, EQ, WoW style) where you don't find youself fighting animals all through the levels? I just find it incredible to be completely armored with a big friggin axe and then a bat, or slug is tearing me up! Where it takes me a bunch of hits to kill it, and if there are more than one; even if I am at the max level and supposed to be a super trainied fighting machine ... the animals still are friggin hard.

What is the alternative?  Would you rather only kill humanoid type creatures?  Do you realize how easy it is to kill a humanoid creature with an axe?  At least, it would be easy to incapacitate them.  The idea that an animal is easier to kill with a melee fighting weapon than a human is a bit bonkers.

In most RPGs (DnD for example) there are beasts of varying levels.  There are dire creatures, for example, that are much harder to kill than your average beast.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't want an easy game, I don't mind getting beat up by an orc, goblin or something that I can imagine fighting me back with a weapon or magic, but please for goodness sake no more games where I fight wolves, boars, beatles or birds, that seem to breed like no bunny rabbit could ever breed.

Most games provide you with a variety of creatures to kill.  I would much rather divide my time between humanoids and  beasts than just kill orcs, trolls, humans and goblins the entire time.  Eventually you have to come to a wilderness environment or the game would seem like a vast collection of camps, towns, and cities.  It would get boring.

Well let me know if this exists; and if it doesn't exist then dammit some game maker had better read this because I do not think I am alone with this feeling, or am I?

I don't share your feeling.  I can rationalize that if I can level, creatures can come in a variety of levels.  This means that in the harsh winter climate of a level 50 zone I expect to see creatures that can survive and should be around level 50.  If you can't imagine this in a world where beings can level and use skill points and maybe even cast fireballs, you might need to work on your imagination.

Also, you might want to find a game that has humanoid creatures and only slay those.  Adapt?

Thanks,

Catt Ironheart

Originally posted by Cryomatrix

 

 

If there was a huge spider to kill, i'd just turn the knife on myself. I mean, I was so glad to hear that spiders are limited in size by the diffusion capacity of oxygen across their carapace. I mean back in the old days where the Earth had more oxygen they can get bigger. Thank god our Earth's oxygen content is lower than in the past or else i'd a pk myself.

best. post. ever.

you win the interwebz Cryomatrix