|
SelenicMartian posted:Spec Ops: Just loving Turn Back. Undertale is basically Spec Ops where you can turn back, if you think about it Anyway for THREAD CONTENT, fun SA-adjacent podcast Extra Credit did an episode where they read from summaries and reviews of awful hentai visual novels: https://thefmin.us/get-your-head-in-the-game/
|
![]() |
|
![]()
|
# ? Jun 10, 2024 19:12 |
|
Sorry Toby, I played your game and lusted for everyones death but actually got bored killing and stopped playing it so I guess I learned a valuable moral lesson or something
Barudak fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Jan 28, 2019 |
![]() |
|
Barudak posted:Sorry Toby, I played your game and lusted for everyones death but actually got bored killing and stopped playing it so I guess I learned a valuable moral lesson or something I told myself I was going to go into it only attacking people who got on my nerves. There were no survivors. I don't think I have a high tolerance for twee monsters.
|
![]() |
|
Barudak posted:Sorry Toby, I played your game and lusted for everyones death but actually got bored killing and stopped playing it so I guess I learned a valuable moral lesson or something my valuable moral lesson was, listening to other people's recommendations is the fastest way to waste ten dollars on something i won't like it's a good thing i knew about the "don't kill things" beforehand because there is no way i would've played it twice.
|
![]() |
|
I enjoyed undertale, though I understand why someone would get annoyed with its optimism and sincerity. I don't like the word twee though because I feel like it doesn't really even mean anything. Like, what *is* twee? As far as I can tell, just based off of everything I've seen twee thrown around to describe, it means "anything I don't like that was made by a young person" ![]()
|
![]() |
|
Barudak posted:Sorry Toby, I played your game and lusted for everyones death but actually got bored killing and stopped playing it so I guess I learned a valuable moral lesson or something END ME SCOOB posted:I told myself I was going to go into it only attacking people who got on my nerves. The White Dragon posted:my valuable moral lesson was, listening to other people's recommendations is the fastest way to waste ten dollars on something i won't like my people, i've found them at last
|
![]() |
|
FirstAidKite posted:I don't like the word twee though because I feel like it doesn't really even mean anything. Like, what *is* twee? As far as I can tell, just based off of everything I've seen twee thrown around to describe, it means "anything I don't like that was made by a young person" ![]() I mean, tell me I misused the word.
|
![]() |
|
twee is stuff that's so sugary and sweet it makes you want to loving barf. so sappy you'd be blowing your nose with a pancake.
|
![]() |
|
Twee is like porn you know it when you see it.
|
![]() |
|
I liked the random monsters and thought papyrus was sweet. Sans, horrible anime dinosaur and war crime goat dad I didn’t click with.
|
![]() |
|
Cowcaster posted:my people, i've found them at last https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydNyVod0uOU
|
![]() |
|
Cowcaster posted:twee is stuff that's so sugary and sweet it makes you want to loving barf. so sappy you'd be blowing your nose with a pancake. Saccharine
|
![]() |
|
it was godawful boring. thats my undertale story
|
![]() |
|
Twee, postmodern ludonarrative dissonance. Gaming's ambrosia.
|
![]() |
|
SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:Saccharine schmaltz
|
![]() |
|
I also knew about going straight pacifist beforehand and then did the little extra for the true ending and well I hated about 99% of it and assume that it's aimed at today's kids who are apparently insufferably "random" and have zero attention span. The last boss looking like a magazine ransom note was kinda cool/creepy though I guess. RatHat posted:That's because it was designed by Everdraed, a goon. The Joe Man fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jan 29, 2019 |
![]() |
|
The Joe Man posted:The last boss looking like a magazine ransom note was kinda cool/creepy though I guess. That's because it was designed by Everdraed, a goon.
|
![]() |
|
Undertale is a very good game. It's also not for everyone.
|
![]() |
|
END ME SCOOB posted:
It has a definition yeah but idk, I'm sure you probably used it correctly but I never really understood how twee became like a derogatory thing for something to be, but that kind reaction bugs me in general because the definition of twee doesn't exactly come across as a negative imo
|
![]() |
|
FirstAidKite posted:It has a definition yeah but idk, I'm sure you probably used it correctly but I never really understood how twee became like a derogatory thing for something to be, but that kind reaction bugs me in general because the definition of twee doesn't exactly come across as a negative imo That definition clearly means falsely overdone cuteness, so that does pretty much make it a negative thing.
|
![]() |
|
Yeah but when I see the word twee applied to anything that's positive or optimistic or sincere then it kinda loses that aspect of the definition a bit doesn't it? e: not saying whether twee was used appropriately here or not, I just mean in general because maybe it's just me but I feel like I've seen that word used a lot more often lately.
|
![]() |
|
FirstAidKite posted:Yeah but when I see the word twee applied to anything that's positive or optimistic or sincere then it kinda loses that aspect of the definition a bit doesn't it? I have never seen twee used in a positive manner. The closest I have seen was basically condescending. Deadguy2322 fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Jan 30, 2019 |
![]() |
|
Twee is basically 'cute' and 'quirky' taken to grating and insincere extremes in lieu of an actual personality or creativity. "Tee hee, aren't we having fun here?' and such. The kind of thing that's a comfort zone for insufferable people who aren't quite aware of their brain problems. Undertale goes well beyond that into outright weird, and the creepy bits aren't just jarring for the sake of it but generally meant to demonstrate the monsters are people, with their own problems and dysfunctions and traumas that have made them into what they are, as well as being supernatural beings who are really weird. (and in turn find humanity really weird) I feel a big part of being twee is that at no point will there be a genuine attempt to portray or tackle people's actual problems that isn't handled with the thickest kid gloves or most condescendingly humorous attitude. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Jan 29, 2019 |
![]() |
|
Quicksilver6 posted:I liked the random monsters and thought papyrus was sweet. Sans, horrible anime dinosaur and war crime goat dad I didn’t click with. ![]() Undertale was pretty decent, IMO. The date with Undyne was probably the high point for me.
|
![]() |
|
So what you're saying is, that Undertale ISN'T twee.
|
![]() |
|
The Joe Man posted:it's aimed at today's kids who are apparently insufferably "random" and have zero attention span. ![]()
|
![]() |
|
I thought it was cute and sweet ![]()
|
![]() |
|
Whatever you think of it it does not belong in this thread
|
![]() |
|
![]()
|
![]() |
|
This thread's OP specifically asks to talk about hilariously bad games and not about your opinions on how a popular game is bad. You can post about that in like every other thread in the subforum. Stick to disasters that make you go YIIKES.
|
![]() |
|
Maybe it's time to let this thread die, or at least remove the sticky. It's not that bad games are harder to find- in fact, the problem is that it's too easy, what with game-making tools being available to everyone, and Steam Direct being such a diaper fire. You'd need to make a real effort to find the real turds among the 1,000,000,000 Russian achievement spamming hentai puzzle games out there, and who's got that sort of time?
|
![]() |
|
Eh that's my bad.
|
![]() |
|
CommissarMega posted:and who's got that sort of time? ME. https://store.steampowered.com/app/887550/Dimetrosaur/
|
![]() |
|
I'm the fat guy
|
![]() |
|
"Similar to retro games".
|
![]() |
|
Wow, that is a really ugly metal gear rip off.
|
![]() |
|
I pretty sure I remember this from a shareware demo disc circa 1993.
|
![]() |
|
Oh my god in heaven the walk cycle
|
![]() |
|
Is my Click'n'Play license still valid?
|
![]() |
|
![]()
|
# ? Jun 10, 2024 19:12 |
|
You know, if "Grade 9 Games" is actually someone who is 15 or whatever, then good fuckin' on 'em. I know I made a lot of Klik & Play/Games Factory projects when I was at that age that probably looked and played a lot worse.
|
![]() |