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To contrast another post about bad standards, what's something that needs to become a standard in gaming? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by Vantamanta@alien.top to c/gaming@level-up.zone

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I'll go first: playing with other people in multiplayer who are geographically close to you would be very fun.

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[–] WeRelic@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Procedural generation gets a bad rap because of it being used for marketing instead of being a core part of the game. I've never heard anyone complain about Diablo 2's maps, for example.

[–] EtheusRook@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Some genres are just better for procedural generation than others. Like, for a Diablo-like, or a musou game, level design doesn't actually matter all that much, so procedural generation is a great way to get more content.

There's also games with pseudo-procedural generation like Warframe. That is, the individual rooms are all hand-crafted, but the combination and connections of those rooms are procedural. Meaning that it's the best of both worlds.

[–] mrfixij@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

90% of the playerbase of diablo 2 used maphacks back in the day because act 2 and 3 sucked so much.