This could be a thread in its own right, but in this interview with Ueda he said he makes his games for people that feel they’ve “outgrown” the medium. And personally I’m much more excited for whatever he makes than most AAA titles.
I hope this wasn’t the word he used given the narrow adolescence of his subject matter.
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The problem with Tetris Effect is that the world was ready for a commercial Tetris that rewarded all twists and it let all of us down
All of us
If you’re talking about T-Spins, those have been codified and rewarded since at least Tetris Worlds in 2001. A significant part of my admiration for TGM and Cultris II is that they don’t care much about T-Spins.
A T-Spin Triple clear is an unholy abomination and the single reason I refuse to ever take competitive Guideline Tetris seriously.
I’ve never cared about game mechanics
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Shit dude, you’re right. I was complaining that all twists aren’t rewarded but what I actually meant was just t-spins, which I have never noticed are rewarded in the past 20 years because I am a fake Tetris girl
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I actually don’t know what you meant by twists in this context but I know what T-spins are so I was kind of wondering if it was another term for it, so I’m actually confused what’s going on now
I was originally going to respond to this thread w/ something glib like “I don’t”, but that is true. I have spent quality time w/ zero videogames in 2019 so far. The last time I was into something was zeroranger for a couple weeks after that came out.
I’ve always felt some kind of magnetic attraction to videogames though? I don’t know if this is because I grew up w/ hand me down nes and genesis games and a softmodded xbox w/ a complete snes rom set. I have actually never owned a console within its current generation. I like to think that if videogames didn’t find me I would’ve found them though.
Teaching kids to pirate media is definitely one of the best things you could do for them.
I don’t really know why I play videogames when I do. I think videogames probably do more w/ 3d animation and space than any movie I’ve seen. “This is just a videogame” or “this is a feature length videogame cutscene” is something people say about movies but how often is that ever true? People my age have an understanding of the internet and 3d space that people in previous generations really just don’t, which is to say some movies would probably be better if they were feature length videogame cutscenes.
Idk. I think videogames are as worthwhile a pursuit as any other creative field people dedicate themselves to, or at least some of them are. Using chun li’s stored super to pass through a fireball in super turbo is just a sublime experience period.
When I think why do I play games I don’t really have a central thesis. I mostly think of parts of games I adore, like the laser hallway in max payne 3 or russian roulette in killer7.
I like to think my taste is not fueled by nostalgia, but left alive is something I would and want to play the absolute hell out of because it’s a ps4 game that looks like a 360 game that looks like a ps2 game. The ps2 still has my favorite library easily.
My favorite game is probably shin megami tensei nocturne and I think everything about that game is great. It’s gorgeous and phenomenally well animated and has such a great soundtrack. I have a short google drive spreadsheet titled “games I actually want to play / play again / keep playing”. It has every armored core from 3 on, pathologic, killer instinct 2013, and the cavia ghost in the shell ps2 game on it.
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http://harddrop.com/wiki/Twist
I said, ‘I wish all twists were rewarded’ and Alteriy’s response was ‘When you say you wish you wished all twists were rewarded, did you instead mean ‘I wish the one kind of twist that is rewarded was rewarded’?’
How the fuck could I possible know what a twist was and not know about t-spins? They’re in the fucking tutorial!
Forgot to link the interview https://shmuplations.com/ueda/ and it turns out to not necessarily be a direct intent.
Thanks, I knew about this move but didn’t know it was called ‘twist’.
One big joy I get out of media of any stripe is feeling a connection with someone from a different culture and experience than me. You’d think it would be limiting for games since, for most of their history, the vast majority of games were made by three countries; however, people can be extremely different down to the individual and I can feel this even when I play two different clones of the same game.
I’m also really into certain small games subcultures. I really like the diversity of styles you get with, like, thecatamites, Increpare, and Arcane Kids. It’s one of the same reasons why I gravitate towards comics though games have the edge, for they’re extremely easy to acquire through emulation and digital storefronts.
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I watched the 3rd season of The Tester.
The person who won the Assistant Producer job is now a game tester. ;_;
Egoraptor was amazing. He shows up in episode 1-3 and a tiny bit in episode 8.
Still don’t trust this thread
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I misread your comment completely, but I still responded about as civilly as I could have (“if you’re talking about”, as a conditional, rather than telling you what you’re talking about). I didn’t say or imply anything about you that should come off as condescending.
The idea of “rewarding all twists” doesn’t make sense to me on the face of it because twists are just necessary for basic play and thus inherently rewarding, and I think it would be annoying and confusing for it to constantly announce that you did I-twist S-twist Z-twist L-twist J-twist, especially for a newbie who does them naturally without thinking to, and it would foster incredibly unintuitive and slow play since you couldn’t just hard drop a piece down comfortably anymore without going for unnecessary twists… and since it does do that for T-spins I assumed you were talking about that because that would be a complaint I have stock in and I didn’t even fathom what you insist the world is ready for. I don’t think it is. I’m not, at any rate.
jumping
number go up as i push button
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to get the high score
I wanna know what being able to physically perform this feels like. It does my brain a lot of good to repeatedly throw myself at something crushingly difficult.