Comments on: The lost levels http://lookspring.co.uk/the-lost-levels Videogames and things, by Margaret Robertson Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:33:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David Jones http://lookspring.co.uk/the-lost-levels/comment-page-1#comment-11158 David Jones Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:48:27 +0000 http://lookspring.co.uk/?p=208#comment-11158 What about nethack? Where getting one character to ascend probably involved playing 100 to 1000 characters that only reached levels 2 to 10 or so before dying. What about nethack? Where getting one character to ascend probably involved playing 100 to 1000 characters that only reached levels 2 to 10 or so before dying.

]]> By: Rob Williams http://lookspring.co.uk/the-lost-levels/comment-page-1#comment-10627 Rob Williams Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:34:39 +0000 http://lookspring.co.uk/?p=208#comment-10627 There's a website in this, or an iphone app, you'd have to add in your playstation trophy level, and your gamerscore... love the idea though :) There’s a website in this, or an iphone app, you’d have to add in your playstation trophy level, and your gamerscore…

love the idea though :)

]]> By: Rowan http://lookspring.co.uk/the-lost-levels/comment-page-1#comment-8201 Rowan Fri, 01 May 2009 07:15:28 +0000 http://lookspring.co.uk/?p=208#comment-8201 The big question, I think, is what to with party-based RPGs. 20 years ago I rolled parties and characters through the Gold Box Krynn games. Each of those is a good 100-140 levels for characters I created. And then if you add characters I didn't create, like most JRPGs, and you get... Hell, I just realized that each Suikoden game probably adds 500 on its own. That's not really fair. I think you have to toss out party-based games, or have an average included in them. The big question, I think, is what to with party-based RPGs. 20 years ago I rolled parties and characters through the Gold Box Krynn games. Each of those is a good 100-140 levels for characters I created. And then if you add characters I didn’t create, like most JRPGs, and you get…

Hell, I just realized that each Suikoden game probably adds 500 on its own. That’s not really fair. I think you have to toss out party-based games, or have an average included in them.

]]> By: Tom Armitage http://lookspring.co.uk/the-lost-levels/comment-page-1#comment-8182 Tom Armitage Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:28:18 +0000 http://lookspring.co.uk/?p=208#comment-8182 It's all aobut a final number, really, or else you get stuck in horrendous scaling. So: gamerscore of high-four-figures right now. Mid-forties in WoW; mid-fifites (non-prestige) in COD4; can't remember my Halo ranks (but the 2 rank is OK, 3 rank is bobbins). RPGs: I have never got nearly, nearly far enough in any RPG to have anything decent. We could probably throw about 100-200 levels between all my JRPG mains. Including poor Laharl, who's really not been given a chance to shine. Another 100-200 levels from assorted Fallouts/Black Isle games/one or two SSI D&D games/KOTOR/Mass Effect. Level 8 (out of 13) on MUD2. I think my best bet for levelling is actually <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(computer_game)" rel="nofollow">Rogue</a>, on which I must have killed off a couple of thousand level 10-15 avatars over the past twenty years. Given Rogue's about attrition, I'm not sure you can count a single, highest-levelled character from it; it's more about burn rate. A couple more levels from games I forgot even had experience. I think it comes to something low-mid five-figures; the only sensible comparison I think I can make is one of orders of magnitude. Lower than it should be, I think; all I can say in my defence is that I probably transmigrated a lot. It’s all aobut a final number, really, or else you get stuck in horrendous scaling.

So: gamerscore of high-four-figures right now. Mid-forties in WoW; mid-fifites (non-prestige) in COD4; can’t remember my Halo ranks (but the 2 rank is OK, 3 rank is bobbins).

RPGs: I have never got nearly, nearly far enough in any RPG to have anything decent. We could probably throw about 100-200 levels between all my JRPG mains. Including poor Laharl, who’s really not been given a chance to shine. Another 100-200 levels from assorted Fallouts/Black Isle games/one or two SSI D&D games/KOTOR/Mass Effect. Level 8 (out of 13) on MUD2.

I think my best bet for levelling is actually Rogue, on which I must have killed off a couple of thousand level 10-15 avatars over the past twenty years. Given Rogue’s about attrition, I’m not sure you can count a single, highest-levelled character from it; it’s more about burn rate.

A couple more levels from games I forgot even had experience.

I think it comes to something low-mid five-figures; the only sensible comparison I think I can make is one of orders of magnitude.

Lower than it should be, I think; all I can say in my defence is that I probably transmigrated a lot.

]]> By: Gregory Weir http://lookspring.co.uk/the-lost-levels/comment-page-1#comment-8166 Gregory Weir Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:09:46 +0000 http://lookspring.co.uk/?p=208#comment-8166 Do I count tabletop roleplaying characters? What about ones that began at a level above 1? What about ones that I only played in a single, 4-hour game? NPCs I created as a GM? And what about Pokemon? Do I just count the level of my starter pokemon? I'd guess the total for me is below 5000 and above 1000. Do I count tabletop roleplaying characters? What about ones that began at a level above 1? What about ones that I only played in a single, 4-hour game? NPCs I created as a GM?

And what about Pokemon? Do I just count the level of my starter pokemon?

I’d guess the total for me is below 5000 and above 1000.

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