/v/ - Video Games

Gothic and Savant Ascent

Dragons Dogma.

Mount and Blade.

Deus Ex.

Legend of Legaia. There's a tournament later on where you can fight all the bosses again solo.

EYE. Compare your standard FPS protagonist at the start and a 10 cyberlegs/100 psi build.

Most MMOs.

>start by having difficulty even hurting a slime

>end by killing God

Skyrim

Every SMT, even persona, since even normal enemies eventually include deities of all sorts.

Baldur's Gate

Elex, Gothic 2 and 1

Magic classes in Infinite Engine games. At the beginning you can barely cast a single Magic Missile and at the end you're Death, destroyer of worlds.

>>13891021

>what is sleep

>what is spook

You being shit doesn't mean the low level casters are shit.

>>13890690

For something not often mentioned - Tale of Wuxia. You start as a fag that doesn't know by which end to hold a sword and end up a multidimensional god slayer/drunken dragon master/meme

>>13891040

magic missile was just an example you dumb nigger. I could have put any other lvl 1 spell and you would have found something to whine about

>>13891071

But I agree 100%, it was an example of you being a dumb nigger.

>>13891075

go be 12 somewhere else

low lvl caster are shit and a peasant with a pitchfork can kill them

>>13890806

>Deus Ex.

There is a big different between start and finish but it's not like a 10 order of mag difference, which is kind of what I'm going for.

>>13890951

>Baldur's Gate

End game you're like level 8 with basic bitch gear….Although if you extend to Throne of Bhaal in BG2 then yes

>>13891088

Actually 12 is around the level cap for the original BG which is alright as far as pre epic 2(5)E goes. Hell, if you got totsc and some of the bells and whistles you could even get some 7/9 level spells at least as scrolls. That still doesn't change how you're a dumb shit that's used to muh assfaggot tier nuke-everythingXDDD spells.

>>13891099

>basic bitch gear

You can get STR 20 and +2 +5 gear.

>>13891110

Holy fuck you imbecile, read my original post again.

>you can barely cast a single [insert spell here]

Get it now? You dense fuck. Probably not so let me spoonfeed you.

I used magic missile as a popular example of a lvl 1 spell, but the issue is that you can cast them maybe 1 or 2 times at most.

>>13891122

Again, I agree 100%. You are a fucking imbecile. I mean, who else but an imbecile would waste limited spell slots on a direct damage spell when there are superior utility spells that offer instant coup de grace or simply screw with them so badly, ie fear, that you can pelt them to death with slings or whatever.

Essentially any RPG. Etrian Odyssey comes to mind because you're incredibly weak and vulnerable at the start since you have practically nothing in the way of skills. Metroidvanias are also obvious. They almost always give you some powerful gear near the end that lets you effortlessly destroy anything but the hardest enemies.

>>13891137

Oh god, you can't be so fucking dumb. I refuse to believe it. I spelled it out for you and it still wasn't enough.

Let me guess: you american, right?

>>13891146

Thank god, no. If I was I'd probably find your Thayan routine funny or at least endearing. You refusing you use your brain, picking the most obvious route and then bitching how it's weak? Priceless.

Genetos is neat.

>>13891164

Magic Missile is a name even your normalfag friends have heard, so it's useful to illustrate the point. The POINT being that you only cast spells at the beginning very few times, compared to the end where you have many more options that you can use many more times. Read the thread title.

If you don't understand it now then there's nothing I can do. By all means keep droning about how I supposedly play based on nothing but illiteracy. At least I'm not your teacher so I don't have to deal with this shit every day and try to work miracles.

>muh direct damage

top keke

>>13890690

Any shooter game. When you start you can barely navigate the levels and it takes long time to hit anything. By the time you're almost finished with it, you can keep track of item spawn timing on each map, use every pit and bump on it to your advantage, and can perform a perfect projectile travel deflection on a target you're not even seeing yet, making an estimation based on an estimation and doing it accurately enough to land a direct hit anyway.

Any skill based game actually. Making your character stronger is a cheap and shitty way to emulate actual progression for little kids that appreciate smiting foes with ease rather than appreciate getting your every skill challenged to extreme.

>>13890690

source mods

(not a video game) Go

>>13891292

this

Kingdom hearts starts out with you getting your ass kicked by some random dude on a street, later on you are reflecting entire BUILDINGS at the bad guy who has pretty much gained the strength of a demigod.

>MC starts off knowing basic martial arts, but is still kind of weak

>Bad guy appears a little while later on who has the ability to wipe out humanity right off the bat

>MC is never is sight when he appears

>At the end of disc 1 it turns out that the bad guy IS the MC, but just a split personality

>MC never gets as physically strong as the bad guy though

The game is Xenogears

>>13890892

>Xenoblade Chronicles

one of the biggest leaps i know is Fallout 2. You start almost naked, struggling to defeat rats and snakes with a stick.

By the end of the game you can be inside a power armor shooting lasers at other power armors

Dying Light. You start off having great difficulty fighting any more than 1 or 2 zombies, encouraging you to run away. You eventually become a superhuman mad man able to smash and cleave through dozens of zombies with little difficulty.

Night time is still very difficult though. But it goes from something you can barely survive for any length of time to being able to fight all night.

Any Pokemon game.

Final Fantasy Tactics. You start out barely able to defeat starving thieves and you end up 1 shotting demons.

>>13890917

>get to end of game as level one

>kill the boss

>win

Nice try, everyone knows there's another game that does that better, and that game is Fallout 4

>Morrowind

>Start game on a ship, with no shirt and a sore anus after jiub's "last night storm"

>Can barely hit a rat most times, spells drain your magicka in two casts, slow as a fuck

>End game you're basically a demigod, run super fast, take almost no damage from 90% of the sources, can kill everything with relative ease and you can make potions so strong you can glitch the engine and crash everything

>Having 110 points in enchanting makes your enchanted items have casts at 1 point cost, meaning if you craft a staff with the soul of vivec you'll have several thousand casts no matter how strong it is

>In the lore, you're also ageless

Any RPG that's heavily reliant on stats (level 1 you do 10 damage, level 100 you do 9999 damage).

>>13890892

Sounds like Terraria.

You start with weapons that can inflict a couple DPS, and end with weapons that can inflict upwards of ten-thousand DPS. It gets to the point where you can spawn in earlier bosses and kill them in a couple of seconds while taking literally no damage at all because you have regen effects.

Any game in Disgaea series. At the start you do two digits of damage, after you finish grinding it goes into hundred billions.

Paradox games if you blob

>>13893632

>hit someone

20 pops up

>hit someone else

>200000 pops up

now THAT'S the type of exponential growth that makes games fun

>>13893632

Not enough. I want games where you start with 0.01 damage or less and end with the damage numbers just getting replaced with words like Googol, Googolplex, and Graham's Number.

>>13893956

Well, TECHNICALLY, there's Spore.

When you start out you can only kill nearby bacteria. When you finish, you can blow up planets and genocide entire species.

KINGDOM HEARTS

World of Warcraft Legion

>start doing 100k dps

>current content is 1.7million dps, will end up being 2.5+ million dps

the power creep is out of this world on current year WoW.

>>13890690

Playing Morrowind in Multiplayer really showed just how stupidly powerful high-level characters area. Most of our characters were only around Level 20, and could instantly kill most things in the game, including low-level characters, in a single hit or two. And that was without custom spells and potions.

And of course, with all of the defenses that any high-end Morrowind character like that has, it means that pretty much any attack can be no-selled too, or will inflict negligible damage.

>>13890888

>>13894628

>start WoW at Level 1

>kill Starving Wolves in the forest

>get up to Level 10

>kill Wolves in the forest

>get up to Level 25

>kill Red Wolves in a red forest

>get up to Level 50

>kill Undead Wolves in a decaying forest

>get up to Level 75

>kill Snow Wolves in a snow forest

>get up to Level 100

>kill Demon Wolves in a demon forest

Eh.

>>13890892

Sounds like most SMT games

Any games where your character gets progressively weaker and weaker as you go on?

AoE 2

>Start with a tiny village where the most you can do in terms of military is a few dudes with clubs

>End with a huge economy that can constantly produce bombard canons and paladins, plus a massive horde of infantry to back them up.

Earth Defense Force 4(.1).

>>13890892

>>13891399

>the start

>need 5 minutes to kill 1 level bug

>the end

>one shot 99 level super boss

>>13890690

>Could be any genre.

Typically RPGs are like this

Star Ruler 1 has the best sense of scale of any game I've ever played. Start the game with little shitbox jalopies with a missile bolted on the front skirmishing between solar systems, end the game with fifty-solar-mass monstrosities that blow up suns and can rebuild themselves from scrap, roving Von Neumann carrier fleets strip-mining solar systems to reproduce themselves further, orbital railguns sniping planets from the other side of the galaxy.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. One of the reasons why it's so good, hitting the economy power spikes feels amazing. Removal of tile limits, hab complexes/domes, supply crawlers, advanced terraforming for condensers/boreholes/solar farms, tree farms/hybrid forests and by extension population booms, satellites, clean reactors for your standing army/formers, all of that multiplies and catapults your economy yields into the stratosphere. The leaps in military capacity are big too, though they're mainly limited to jets, choppers and paratroopers coming online and whenever you get new reactor tech. Also getting reliable elite unit access to some extent. Weapon/armor power increases are more of a linear thing once you clear the early game essentials (Rovers, Impact weapons, Plasmasteel armor, ECM, Trance)

My latest third age total war game went this way economically.

Start the game making a few hundred a turn and barely able to support your units, end the game supporting dozens of full stacks while still making a hundred thousand gold a turn.

Ironically enough Darkest Hour is like this.

You usually start with a small amount of divisions but by building more divs and IC you hit a critical mass in which you can just keep making more and more soldiers.

An example for this is playing Mongolia in KR and starting with 5 measly militia divisions. By conquering the chinks you can end up becoming the new Khan.You start having hundreds of motorized and mechanized divisions and start shitting on the europeans.

It's fun.

>>13894799

MGS4

I wish I knew how to do things like that in the game.

Usually if I try to make huge shit it takes 20 gorillion years to be made and still sucks.

>>13897898

Meant to quote

>>13896286

>>13894799

Frozen Throne

Gothic

>can barely kill critters at the start

>end up machinegunning orcs by the dozens with a crossbow of all things

>>13890690

Yugioh

>>13891288

Underrated post.

Morrowind.

You start as someone who was a neet for their entire life and has no skills in anything and by endgame you can jump into the stratosphere and rain meteors of death.

>>13891543

Yeah swiping at some neck nosher with a poxy bit of pipe and scaling a wall to escape is early-game fodder, then a few days in you're attaching flaming electric modifiers to your fire-axe and carving/crowd surfing through blackened tunnels of mad cunts just to get back to sell all the shit you've collected that day.

retail WoW

and probably original everquest too

>>13897898

The game has a real geometric growth rate to economy stuff. If a ship would take ten minutes to build, you're better off spending seven minutes powering your economy and then three minutes building the ship.

>>13891231

>cast sleep

>enemy saves

>enemy fear

>enemy saves

>has no more spells

>gets gutted

Apparently the limit of having 2 spells slots is beyond your comprehension

>>13894940

Looks like total trash.

>>13891005

Ilias was right and Cupid is best girl