Machinist uses guns which DO NOT CARE ABOUT STATS giving Penelo a source of damage at range that doesn’t consume MP. Is the the best damage dealer in my party? No, she’s the healer. But giving her access to guns gives her a secondary skill complementary to her primary job. It’s so crunchy I love it

The 2 class limit also applies a pressure to specialize your party members(or to use a corporate term, make them T-shaped):
For example: in my game I’m using Penelo as a white mage because i want a healer in my party, Penelo has lower than average strength so I gave her the second job Machinist

If you wanted you could make everyone a time mage, I saw someone on YouTube do it even! And since each class plays so differently from the others this system encourages exploration and experimentation because you can respec for free at the hunters guild!!

combinatory optimization problems like this. Each character has different stats and starting abilities and while none are ‘bad’ in any given class they clearly do better in some than in others. This screams high replayability to me because of the sheer volume of real choices this system gives you

I’m playing the Zodiac Age remake that makes a major change from the original from what I understand. This is the License Board. In Zodiac Age you get a maximum of two of these licenses(read classes) per character. This is such a cool system to me. I’m a sucker for

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I guess I should like…talk about game design? I’m playing Final Fantasy 12 right now and usually when I play games I don’t beat them because I’m playing them to learn how they work but like. I’m gonna beat 12. I’ll update this thread with my thoughts about its systems as I go
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Game Designer here, @briamgilbert.bsky.social doesn’t go far enough in his definition of what a video game is in that episode of Um, Actually. if a computer accepts input from a player, and outputs a result based on that input(an interactive experience) then it’s a video game. Eg a Buzzfeed quiz

GDC was neat! Reconnected with several old friends and made many new ones!

phil spencer lying awake in bed at night staring at the ceiling and saying "more like steam DRECK" to no one in particular

Look at that baseball!

It is *very funny* to be in bed all cozy and faintly in the distance hearing the telltale beep that my cat has turned off the air purifier again

Damn I think I only had two good tweets

Thinking bout protists

XCOM 2 is the sims for people who would rather fight aliens than their high school bully

Gonna start posting old banger tweets of mine so people understand the vibe

*taps microphone* Char Aznable

Im inventing a new type of Prayer that will piss God off less than normal prayers do

Every day I read a medieval text, and every day I acquire a new opinion to piss of medievalists: this week Roland and Oliver(Charlemagne’s Paladins) are absolutely in love

I’m the number one Swan Shuttle Hater

After several minutes of rigorous testing I have come to the conclusion that Rashid Street Fighter is neat

Now that my first skweet is officially a bit I can start posting about how I finally got to play Street Fighter 6 and it rewired my neural pathways

Y’all sell French fries here?