“Balancing often involves a lot more than just game mechanics, and it can influence everything from pacing to story and can even change what platforms the game is made for.”īalancing a game is, no doubt, one of the most difficult tasks game developers undertake, especially in competitive video games.
“Game Balancing is what makes game design difficult in general,” states Estevan Lopez, level designer for Radical Impact.
In reality, not only does it take time and resources to patch a game but there are also gameplay design and balance issues to be considered. For many, it is as simple as changing one line of code. In an age of Internet-connected gaming consoles, gamers have come to expect video games to be patched quickly to fix bugs and gameplay imbalances, and developers have become accustomed to releasing products earlier and fixing them later through patches. Top Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Morrigan player Chris G Two years after release, Wesker is no longer considered king, and has since been replaced at the top of the tier lists by Morrigan, a character thought to be underpowered when UMvC3 was initially released. However, is it possible that these gamers and developer NetherRealm Studios jumped the gun? After all, players said the same about Wesker from Ultimate Marvel vs. Players got part of their wish in a recent update for the game, which saw Deathstroke’s guns hit with the nerf hammer.
Some players have requested that the character and stage interactions be “patched” in a future game update or even banned from future Injustice tournaments. The game has only been out a little over a month now and players have been constantly complaining about Deathstroke and his rain of bullets, calling him “cheap” and even “broken.” The same is being said of the game’s intractable stages, a controversial mechanic among players even before the game’s release.
I am not talking about “Call of Duty” I’m referring to the character Deathstroke from “Injustice: Gods Among Us,” released on April 16. This is something numerous online gamers have been facing recently, forcing many of them to throw their controls in rage. Imagine yourself fighting an opponent you can’t get close to because he is constantly firing a stream of bullets at you from a far off distance. Who can keep up with all of Injustice’s changes anyway? The games are discussed based how they were on May 31, 2013. Excludes: Alaska/Hawaii, APO/FPO, US Protectorates, Angola, Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Comoros, Cape Verde Islands, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Western Sahara, Ethiopia, Gabon Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Lesotho, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mayotte, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Senegal, Saint Helena, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Swaziland, Seychelles, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Georgia, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, South, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Aruba, Anguilla, Netherlands Antilles, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Barbados, Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Martinique, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Turks and Caicos Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands (U.S.*Note: This article has been tweaked and updated with new quotes, including a few from Reepal “Rip” Parbhoo, as of June 6, 2013. Updates pertaining to new developments in balance made to the games mentioned are not included.