David Dovel

I am a Christ follower. I like programming, games, programming games, music, cooking and fountain pens.

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@SereneQueen02 @DragonsDogma IMO not being able to heal all your missing health unless you find a town or campsite is SUPER cool, maybe the best upgrade in DD2. It makes your party feel tired after a long adventure. But the EF sabotages that a bit.

I'll throw mine away, but I'd rather not have to.

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@SereneQueen02 @DragonsDogma I see where you're coming from, but I'd argue that not all inconvenience in games is bad. Making fast travel a consumable resource gives you just a little reason to forego it sometimes. Reducing the temptation to just warp to town, rest there, and warp back with no consequence.

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@DragonsDogma Having 6 skills instead of 4 sounds like an amazing change though. There are lots of fun skills I could never justify having before, so thank you!

Travel, camping, & eating are so fun in this game, but if you give people an easy skip button they'll miss out on the good parts.

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@DragonsDogma Guys please! Everything dies before I can do anything cool! Please make the game harder, make enemies stronger as you progress the story. Ferrystones are super cool, they're not the problem.

It's like "easy mode" is a punishment for enjoying the game too long.

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@DragonsDogma “Eternal Ferrystone” AGAIN??? Blast it all, guys, you already had one of the best immersive fast travel systems ever built.

All I was hoping for is for the game to not force my pawns into being strong enough to solo every combat after just exploring a little…

[Signal @signalapp]

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[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

[2/2] Since I don't ever make this kind of video, I'm sure it could be done a lot better, but hopefully it gets the point across. I'd love it if people who specialize in this kind of video started looking at the broader issue.

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[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@MHFZZEnjoyer Wall bangs felt cool, I’d love to see something like the marionette spider version from Sunbreak come to Wilds MR. Tenderizing was an experiment that we now see a much better version of with wounds, and with a little more work I think wounds will be awesome.

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@valigo Yeah, I tried installing the Zen browser on nix once and it decided to compile all of Firefox on my laptop. So…. no, sadly nix doesn’t fix that.

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@I0C0NN0R1 @FrameworkPuter Nice! Thanks! I missed a lot of the announcement due to a meeting and couldn’t find it on their site yet.

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@Moth865 I hope that a happy medium can be found because I think there are incredible strengths of both styles. The creative problem solving in the wild era could still be so cool with more traditional unlocks. My favorite Zelda is still Oracle of Seasons though.

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@UNKNOWN_BFW Tigrex is one of those cases where I really didn’t love his fight until experimenting with different weapons in World led me to the Lance. I’m still a Funlance/Swaxe main but Tigrex gets the pointy end from now on.

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@mil000 Because colleges refuse to for some reason.

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@arturontheradio Focus mode: convenient way to make attacks face the camera but probably should’ve had an angle limit during attacks like TCS.

Focus strikes: meh

Wounds: 11/10 fantastic idea to fix the softening mechanic from Iceborne, I hope they keep wounds around and iterate on them.

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@GenAI_is_real You know, I wonder what the cost is just in electricity for all these poorly optimized tools & electron apps…

[Hermit Gamesmiths @HermitGamesmith]

CHOP SHOP IS OUT TODAY!!! 🥩🔪 https://t.co/QELi4luAEn

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@wujak_ I will 100% give SoulQuest a look, that sounds amazing! If you haven’t yet we’d be thrilled if you tried our game: https://t.co/XloUPT5mQx

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@datnofact Careful, next come the hardware laws with forced secureboot signing so you can’t install an unapproved OS…

[David Dovel @DavidPDi]

@Indie_Gamer_01 I'm working on a fast-paced arcade platformer with @HermitGamesmith. We'd love you like to take a look! https://t.co/XloUPT5mQx