perhaps after gamedev has been around for another 20-30 years game developers will solve the impossible problem of letting you compare the stats of a one-handed weapon + an offhander in combination to a single two-handed weapon. It's an impossible task that no one could ever hope to figure out but I believe, in the future, perhaps with the help of 70 different LLMs, we can get there
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General Adversarial Networks are perfectly designed for this job!
the solution is simple: no game should ever have visible stats on a weapon. you have to kill a guy with it and go on vibes
fun fact: this is how dredmor was originally designed and it was miserable lmao
Pretty sure that’s how Madou Monogatari works.
(And one other CRPG whose name I have no chance of remembering but I’m certain appears in The CRPG Book.)
solution is simple: one-handed weapon wielding and two-handed weapon wielding are completely different classes with completely different roles and movesets
omg have had WAY too many debates about this <_<'
The question is: Would LLMs side with the systems-brained designers and throw all the stats up - and I mean ALL of them, or with the "normal" peeps who just want to know which is better in simple terms?
Or, more likely, half promise both in ways that don't actually make sense? (and not in a sensible compromise way. Both extremes. At once)
This is a solved problem! Just apply numerical values that can be compared (they are calculated based on ad hoc internal formulas built around things like "motion values" and "impact" that also can't be compared and so the numbers end up being both meaningless and subject to infinite amounts of bullshit theorycrafting)
