Also I don't QUITE know why people are comparing generalist to incompetence.
Turning generalist from "Can do everything, but not as well as a specialist" to "Doesn't know enough to do anything"
Depends on the specializations. Specialization wins every time if nothing goes wrong.
It depends on everything honestly. I just brought one situation where a team of nothing but generalists beat out a team of specialists.
As well generalists have the advantage of sort of pooling their knowledge together.
Do you purposefully incite people? Stop that. This happens in a vast majority of Neonivek-created threads; don't ask a question and then try to convince people they're wrong as soon as they give you an answer
It is because when I asked the question. I asked it with a definition of average in mind.
Yet everyone here came with their own definition. So I had to step in and steer it until we can get to the genuine discussion.
Since if I honestly thought average meant that someone just had no real skill, no real advantages, or really any way to compete in any viable way... Then I'd honestly never create this thread because it would be a ridiculous question. It would be silly, I might as well ask "Hey what games does sucking mean you are actually amazing?"
Yet I am dealing with this incredible barrier of common perception that unless someone is highly specialized in a single field that they are vastly inferior to a specialist. Which is indeed how modern thinking generally works but it doesn't apply in all situation.
As well as the fact that a "Jack-of-all-trades" suited to a situation COULD be considered a specialist on their own.
I am not trying to antagonize anyone, but I am finding it impossible to convey my thoughts in a way anyone understands or where they can burst through the impenetrable wall of "Average = bad inherently".
The main advantages in my mind about being "average" is flexibility and variable defenses. They are able to answer any situation and recover from any situation. They do not replace specialists but in many ways "Being average" is its own specialization. Someone who can jump in and help in anyway at anytime.
I want to know games that take this idea of being very general as an advantage... rather then a disadvantage.
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As for what you said Darkmere. Yeah Golden Sun counts. The fact that they are basically 80% of every role means that Isaac is the one meant to adapt to the situation while the others are basically stuck in their roles. He in many ways is the strategists.
Mass Effect 2 and 3... no idea.
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Whatever forget it... It is knowledge far outside the human capability to communicate and I'll close the thread. Before I just antagonize everyone again.
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