Try Tales of Maj'Eyal. It's free or about a fiver on Steam. The first thing you do after making a char is go to the skills screen so you can see how the different points affect the skills. There's stat points (mag, str, etc), talent points, category points and generic points, and they all interact somehow to produce your dmg values and skill effects. Everything in the character sheet has info on mouseover or you can just check the formulae for everything on the wiki.
Playing it yourself to actually see the values pan out would probably require you to get past level 10 or so, when your char feels like less of an empty generic shell and you start amassing some points.
Another +1 for ToME. One of the best games I've ever played, bar none. I have quite a few wins but I've been playing it for like 12 years now. The pre-Steam days were wild.
TOME has such an autistic amount of crunch I love it even though I'll never invest enough effort to truly get an understanding of the system. Which hasn't stopped me from beating the game with several classes.
I haven't played it in a good while but I have 4 figures in hours of playtime over the years. I'm by no means a master of it and never beat it on any difficulty beyond Nightmare, but have plenty of wins on Normal.
Every time I remember it exists, it steals a few hundred hours of my life until I get burnt out or frustrated. Last big frustration point was that I can't get the random drop which unlocks the extra class in the last xpac I bought.
Try Tales of Maj'Eyal. It's free or about a fiver on Steam. The first thing you do after making a char is go to the skills screen so you can see how the different points affect the skills. There's stat points (mag, str, etc), talent points, category points and generic points, and they all interact somehow to produce your dmg values and skill effects. Everything in the character sheet has info on mouseover or you can just check the formulae for everything on the wiki.
Playing it yourself to actually see the values pan out would probably require you to get past level 10 or so, when your char feels like less of an empty generic shell and you start amassing some points.
Another +1 for ToME. One of the best games I've ever played, bar none. I have quite a few wins but I've been playing it for like 12 years now. The pre-Steam days were wild.
Oh shoot, ToME, what a blast from the past. I gotta go dig that one out again.
TOME has such an autistic amount of crunch I love it even though I'll never invest enough effort to truly get an understanding of the system. Which hasn't stopped me from beating the game with several classes.
I haven't played it in a good while but I have 4 figures in hours of playtime over the years. I'm by no means a master of it and never beat it on any difficulty beyond Nightmare, but have plenty of wins on Normal.
Every time I remember it exists, it steals a few hundred hours of my life until I get burnt out or frustrated. Last big frustration point was that I can't get the random drop which unlocks the extra class in the last xpac I bought.