Originally Posted by BGLamb

Nah, you're missing the point.

I'm looking for something with combat, but which uses something else to determine when you die rather than a counter that slowly ticks down to 0 as you take damage.

I just find it pretty ridiculous that my character can be hit in the head with an axe 99 times and be fine, but one more and suddenly he's dead as a doornail.

It's seems to be so ingrained in the RPG genre (as well as many others) that developers don't even think about trying something new. The most you get is 'armour points' which is 'hit points' in all but name. Or things like halo where they make the numbers invisible or regenerative.

Still the writing is pretty much done now. I'll post y'all a link when it's good to go!




Hehe, something like that. but not with the 'die instantly'. There are a lot of different solutions out the if you get creative. It just take some thought. Most developers don't seem to bother. Anyway I don't make games, I just criticise them. I is a writer.