I can't believe Samus Returns replaces Metroid II's Giant Ominous Room and fills it with a giant morph ball maze

That's like... an *iconic* room and they were just like "wow they forgot to put the Game in this room... 🤔"

I love games with relatable characters





she's just like me frfr

Honestly I feel like this sort of thinking about what a metroid should do *mechanically* is kinda why there are so many *whatever* metroidvanias.

Like a metroidvania is good and people start forming cargo cults.

https://twitter.com/SYACVG/status/1790471369613857073

We got to the point when Metroidvanias was "Ah yes, I got the GREEN COLORED DASH, which will break GREEN BLOCKS, and I can find all the spots I missed by checking my map, and it's an ATTACK and a MOVEMENT OPTION--" and like idk at that point the genre was cooked for like a decade

Was thinking about how my problem with a lot of horny stuff is it's not *horny enough*, but I think it might be the wrong word. It's stuff that is horny... but also aggressively sexless. Not like literal on screen sex, but more that it feels like sex doesn't exist in universe That can actually be a powerful feeling to invoke intentionally. That's certainly downright the kink for some people. But with so much stuff it feels like cowardice.

Alright, tomorrow is the last monthy Rev2 tournament I'm running. This time instead of beginners, we're letting anyone in the little community we'ved formed play, including... people in New Zealand and Scotland. 😭 Should be a fun stream tomorrow! we're kinda treating this as a light hearted sendoff, but we'll probably also have some legitimately excellent players like @Rush_SomeDexReq and @RayTheWarrior96 absolutely killing it by the end.

God there is still stuff in Strive that makes me hella roll my eyes like lets simplify a lot of stuff but make Chipp's command grab like +R like oh damn jumped out and got AAed that's suck 🙃 then it's like ah yes the instinct to DP it oh that gets thrown because ?????? and it's not a big deal because eventually you just backdash it and blow it up but it or dumb shit like Sol's S VV are so weirdly dumb

Thinking about how sci-fi with "lost technology" feels weird like 'come on just make the thing, you already have some!!' but at the same time no one can make new CRTs Every time a tech bro replies to this like 'What do you mean, of course they can??' like the factories and skills used in making them are just sitting there to be switched on again make me die inside.

Been playing that TBS Battletech game and enjoying it but its triggering that part of my brain where it's like 'God I wish games that were more conducive to it would have enemies behave like they had any regard for their own life' Regularly going into things with 4 mechs and leaving with 4-12 dead enemy mechs seems so... 'off'. I feel like this would be like ww2 planes where 4 fighters would fight 4 other fighters and then there would still be a good chance that 8 planes would leave.

Someone was like "Look the problem is you're gating basic game mechanics behind things people have a hard time with! Like it would be terrible if you had to do QCF to do a fireball in hollowknight" and I'm here like "... that sounds dope actually" For the longest time I wanted to make a metroidvania with fighting game mechanics and the reason I'm never actually going to do it isn't because it'd be too hard it's because 'hey combo driven metroidvanias end up not having a flow I like' 8D

only in fighting games can you have cretins who are like "The quality of netplay doesn't matter to casual players" in 2020 like imagine someone saying that in any other online game Like if I wanna play -any other game- and I'm here in NY and my friend is in California, we can play -almost anything- without it being a major problem. AMAZINGLY, casual people want to play with their friends!

Yeah this is a big thing I think a lot of people miss when it comes about talking developer intent with games. Like making a game you realize how little control you have, so very few designers have much attachment to their game like IT MUST BE PLAYED THIS ONE WAY!!

https://twitter.com/matt_sieker/status/1211419751391485953

Our values are expressed in what we decide to put in, but if a player plays a game in a way we don't like, that's more seen as a mistake on our end and not the player doing it wrong. IN GENERAL I'm sure there are some designers who are real stuffy but I don't see them a lot.

It kinda bothers me that NES tetris as seen as some sort of pure, fundamental, corrupted tetris while TGM is seen as Tetris for weirdos, when TGM is about focusing on tetris fundamentals and NES Tetris is for people who love tetris but also hate their fingers. NES Tetris players are like the kung fu dudes who drop their hands on a bag of grain 1000 times every day, destroying their hand to create a perfect weapon. But in this case the perfect weapon is mashing left and right REALLY FAST