So these interactions are actually traps. It just does not allow you to have stable, non-fucked in the head characters. Except if you do this the game has a 100% chance of saddling your characters with more negative quirks. So you may gamble on reaching a hospital early, get rid of the bad trait, keep the good ones, and come out ahead. However, there are field hospitals where you can pay to have quirks removed. However they can also be crippling, and if it affects a hero you want to use, you may be forced to deal with a very severe setback, or change out your roster and go with a different team. These can be very powerful and even run-changing, such as the ability to get a free heal at the start of any combat round. DD2 does not, any attempt to ease the challenge curve is inherently punished.įor example, all heroes start with a positive and a negative quirk.

All great roguelikes/lites reward observation, learning from your mistakes, and careful play. However, I dislike mechanics that punish players for even trying. Having heroes reset after each run maintains the challenge in a more balanced manner than just having your characters outright refuse to do easy dungeons anymore. I actually like the basic design of DD2, It's a ripoff of FTL, and FTL was great. TBF, the game hardly advertises this retarded mechanic on it's front page. I quit playing after 17 hours, when I reached the second tier of dungeons and all my guys refused to venture into easy tiers anymore. He wasn't wrong about a lot of things in the first game. I remember being accused of being a Celerity alt. This is yet another reason for me why I think Darkest Dungeon 2 went the wrong way. Obviously in case of Darkest Dungeon the already existing design would make this problematic to implement. You could expand on that idea further, maybe even turning it into its own proper system. Jagged Alliance also had personalities and relationships, which played some role in shaping your team. Relationships between characters is yet another element that is supposed to work in a manner similar to quirks and phobias, but the 'lol-random' nature of it turned them into a joke. Streets of Rogue is an example of how traits can impact your playstyle in a big and meaningful way. The problem is, the game itself wasn't able to translate these well into the gameplay so they ended up being irrelevant/boring footnotes at worst or annoying/nice-to-have bonuses at best, rather than something character-defining (as was probably originally intended).

Expendable or not - it still tried to put emphasis on more personal aspects of heroes, such as their quirks and phobias.

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