Stamets@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoNever understood thislemmy.worldimagemessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1460arrow-down134
arrow-up1426arrow-down1imageNever understood thislemmy.worldStamets@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square65fedilink
minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up158arrow-down7·1 year agoTurns out every game sounds bad if you purposefully describe it badly.
minus-squareAggressivelyPassive@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down5·1 year agoI mean, this is the essence of 95% of GTA missions. Just like 95% of RPG missions are a variation of clear dungeon, kill boss, retrieve item.
minus-squarefidodo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55·1 year agoPlatformers are just running and jumping towards the right and repeating.
minus-squareAlexstarfire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 year agoOld school ones. Anything half modern lets you go left as well.
minus-squarefidodo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoBut the goal is always to the right (counting metroidvanias as their own genre)
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agosuper metroid final boss is left
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoSuper Mario’s boss is right. Both sides are equally bad.
minus-squareAlexstarfire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoNot really. Super Meat Boy is a platformer and definitely isn’t always to the right.
minus-squareDacoTaco@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoSame thing with i want to be that guy
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 year ago“clear dungeons, kill boss, retrieve item” is just “go from a to b, kill x at b, go from b to c”
minus-squareLmaydev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoThe key is making the dungeon/boss fun. The quests are just to lead you through the content. If you don’t like fighting through dungeons and fighting bosses then the game may not be for you. Like with GTA getting to places needs to be enjoyable.
minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoAnd taking out 99% of the rest of the game built around the basic skeleton structure makes it sound bleak and boring.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoStart game Make number go up Become better at making number go up Make number go up more Somehow almost every game ever made
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agohttps://xkcd.com/722/ Hmm, reminds me of Hollywood hackers.
Turns out every game sounds bad if you purposefully describe it badly.
I mean, this is the essence of 95% of GTA missions. Just like 95% of RPG missions are a variation of clear dungeon, kill boss, retrieve item.
Platformers are just running and jumping towards the right and repeating.
Old school ones. Anything half modern lets you go left as well.
But the goal is always to the right (counting metroidvanias as their own genre)
super metroid final boss is left
Super Mario’s boss is right.
Both sides are equally bad.
Not really. Super Meat Boy is a platformer and definitely isn’t always to the right.
Same thing with i want to be that guy
🤯
“clear dungeons, kill boss, retrieve item” is just “go from a to b, kill x at b, go from b to c”
The key is making the dungeon/boss fun. The quests are just to lead you through the content.
If you don’t like fighting through dungeons and fighting bosses then the game may not be for you.
Like with GTA getting to places needs to be enjoyable.
And taking out 99% of the rest of the game built around the basic skeleton structure makes it sound bleak and boring.
Start game
Make number go up
Become better at making number go up
Make number go up more
Somehow almost every game ever made
https://xkcd.com/722/
Hmm, reminds me of Hollywood hackers.
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