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Vampire Crawlers....

It's a little mean because it's not like everyone in the generation is a monolyth but I've been calling the baby boomers 'The worstest generation' for a while.

ah. So I'd likely just be annoyed on occasion like with spider man 2, rather then annoyed constantly like Hollow Knight and Metroid Dread.

Luckily the person grading got a kick out of it. I learned from then thay my problem is I know what i like writing and if I dont have creative control my brain tries to strangle itself.

Fun fact number 2: a prompt on the SATs I got was to write about meeting a character or historical figure. I had actual executive dysfunction level writers block about it and broke through it by turning the prompt into me and an anime character having a meta discussion talking shit about the prompt.

Fun fact: I didnt know i liked and was talented at writing until I was put of school because my Audhd ass hated learning random grammar rules and hated every prompt I was ever given. Online role playing chatrooms locked me in on creative writing. My grammar is still ass tho. Not a good editor.

The transphobes are bad, but they wouldn't have the impact they do without the circle of people around the fighting pit, body blocking people at the edge and watching trans people and the bigots fight while saying 'why are those Trans people so angry and dramatic in their death match?'

You know what is the most bitch made weak ass discrimination I've experienced? People in an online role playing chat literally saying they dont talk to trans people because its 'too much drama'. Just admit you are a bigot and save us all some time.

Thus the entire casual gimmick (leveling up/exploration providing power progression as a pressure valve for difficulty) breaks down. Its like how the dynamic enemy scaling in oblivion completely fugged its difficulty balancing.

I feel like dark souls era design is tuned for 3 to 5 mistakes on average (not counting healing but heavily restricting healing) with tricky boss patterns and that sneaking into otherwise casual series is the problem. Metroid dread no matter how many health tanks I picked up would ramp up damage.

How's the overall balancing? I mean you can block in plenty of games with parrying its mostly down to how many mistakes you can make with actually eating a hit before the fight is lost and how aggressively the enemy is tuned to catch those mistakes (tracking attacks, purposeful delay to mess timing)

Damn shame, before they started pooping the bed with the main franchise I was with Steph sterling in thinking of the warriors franchise as peak casual brawlong progress quests....keep grinding on the Zelda side games I guess.

Thanks for the warning. I was kinda curious about its quality after they patched in the 'play as a lady' feature (im very sick of playing as generic self insert male protagonist as a trans) but if they are doing the spider man 2 bullshit then we are talking.....5 dollar sale not even 10.

Or people who dont have the patience to try the same boss 6 times until they get lucky.

The problem isnt the mechanic itself, its that the designers have become arrogant and assumed that due to current trends they no longer have to design, playtest, and balance for players who arent seasoned action gamers with a neurotyoical teenager's reaction times...

With special venom for Sony's Marvel's spider man 2 which had both parrying and perfect dodging with attacks that only could be avoided by one or the other. Just because they thought it was fun to add split second color recognition to the mental stack on top of the timing challenge.

I pretty much exempt any game that had parrying before the dark souls popularity spike from criticism because the mechanic isnt a problem for existing, the assumption that the player would be any good at it and thus its fine to cut their effective HP to 1/2 or 1/3rd of what it was beforehand is.

It annoys me because I didnt have any problem with dark souls style game design until it became a trope. Now parrys feel as overdone and forced to me as quick time events used to be and the winner of the video game difficulty discussion seems to be 'we dont play test anymore. Suck it up.'

I think the meme of Sauron from the X men saying 'but I dont want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs' is a good example of the move. Go campy and comedy, simple on purpose villain, then pivot to making your protagonists the complicated and moody one for a change.

Im thinking of stealing some really repellant and stupid people like Vince McMahon for my writing to help with this problem, but yeah its the reverse problem of being unable to properly write a super genius when not one. Very hard to write a shitty asshole as an even remotely cool person.

"I hear its amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap jaw space does a raw blink on Hari Kari rock." INS 6:1

Your stupid fun stylistic choices, your mood setting, your set up and payoff scene to scene, this is the only window the story will be seen through. Your process on the other side of the window as a planner cant compete with you being able to put something in front of the window to get a reaction.

One thing that makes me respect Hideo Kojima and Yoko Taro's creative visions despite their flaws is their understanding of writing as a performance art. A lot of writers will get in their own head about 'crafting the perfect puzzle/setting/narrative' but the story is in the telling.

Lol. One of the cats in my party in Mewgenics just rambled off the pulp fiction fake bible quote, can he lead the US war effort too?

The more I think on it the more it pisses me off. I seem to remember a bit kf his where he acts like he resents trans people for getting too much too soon in the civil rights field as if him being a black celebrity made him a gatekeeper. 'Hey at least it wasnt the helicopter joke! Wakka Wakka!'

So no, you assholes dont get to say that modern games being 'not for me' is fine until you can keep your try hard nerd asshole game designers from forcing those fucking trends into every fucking game they get their hands on without consulting the casual player base.

Metroid Dread and Sam's returns just broke my whole ass brain when It came to the game difficulty discussion. I was fine to live and let live on some games being 'not for me' until a new dev rolled into one of my favorite franchises and added in parrys and annoying bosses that fucking felt like shit

a girl with blonde hair and a shirt that says peace Alt: Anime girl surrounded by sparkles with her arms crossed looking smug.

Im just going to say something to gamers and they are going to have to deal with it: it takes more skill as a game designer to design multiple difficulty levels for multiple potential players then to make a hard for the sake of hard game and blame players for not being stubborn enough to win.

When I was growing up I had these fantasies of the levels of simulation, larger scale game mechanics, or variety of potential experiences that the future of gaming might hold. Instead most games are something I could have played 15 years ago with extra graphics that tries to beat me up or rob me.

Game designers even outside of triple A lately just dont actually seem to have me having fun on their list of priorities these days. Ooh balancing player retention with monetization. Ooh gotta make sure our game is engaging to watch on stream. Gotta show well graphically.