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Tangents
Aug 23, 2008

hosed up they would just call them by the wrong name like that

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Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

hot hot hollow knight search action

Mega64
May 23, 2008

I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.
I like the Search Action Roguelike called A Robot Named Fight.

mycophobia
May 7, 2008
roguelike doesnt bother me nearly as much. probably because it doesnt sound really stupid

hatty
Feb 28, 2011

Pork Pro
The problem with roguelike as a genre name is it doesn’t say what it is, it sounds fine though

Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


Roguelikes need to leave the indie space for the same reason open worlds need to leave AAA. They're boring now.

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




Walla posted:

Roguelikes need to leave the indie space for the same reason open worlds need to leave AAA. They're boring now.

Play good ones

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

WarpDogs posted:

in a Character Action game all that action is coming from a character, whereas in a Search Action game... well, let's just say it's coming from the search...

:hmmyes:

American McGay
Feb 28, 2010

by sebmojo
bump

Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


If smups are now STGs does that make beat em ups FTGs?

mycophobia
May 7, 2008

Walla posted:

If smups are now STGs does that make beat em ups FTGs?

that apparently is a term but not as popular?

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post

flavor.flv posted:

Play good ones

mycophobia
May 7, 2008

mycophobia posted:

that apparently is a term but not as popular?

and its a term for versus fighting games rather than beatemups

LawrenceFriday
Nov 2, 2009

I am an elemental spirit summoned up from the Land of the Dead itself and given one purpose, one skill, one desire: To DRIVE. Or, to change oil or adjust timing belts if no driving jobs are open.
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1428728976055300099

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1428729165461659652

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1428730857016070144

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1428731020333895688

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
That's wrong, walking sims would be estherlikes

Chev
Jul 19, 2010
Switchblade Switcharoo

Khanstant posted:

"search action" is the "immersive sims" of "too easily broadly applied to anything" genre titles of metroidvanias abroad
I mean, even Metroidvania is too easily broadly applied! The term originally only applied to games of the Castlevania series and it had to be redefined at least twice before it included Metroid itself.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

what are you even talking about

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Ciaphas posted:

unironically beats the poo poo out of "metroidvania"

metroidvania is good because those are the only good games in the genre.

Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


mycophobia posted:

and its a term for versus fighting games rather than beatemups

Well that sucks. Beat em ups they are.

DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.

Walla posted:

Beat em ups

BEMUPS

Chev
Jul 19, 2010
Switchblade Switcharoo
Fisticrawlers

Mega64
May 23, 2008

I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.
I'm fine calling Hollow Knight a Zeldalike.

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




But the only hollowknightlike zelda is minish cap

bone emulator
Nov 3, 2005

Wrrroavr

Map Exploration Platformer Action Game Wherein The Player Acquires Upgrades That Allows Access to Different Areas of the Map

Looper
Mar 1, 2012
I'd read that ln

Chev
Jul 19, 2010
Switchblade Switcharoo
The toastyfrog wiki definition from the old days was "2D side-scrolling action with free-roaming exploration and progressive skill and item collection to enable further, uh, progress"

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat
Gonna start calling FF14 the best Ultima Online-Like

Already calling Advance Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics an Xcom-like

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
once again it is clear that nihon is simply more advanced than amerikkkan "gamers"

Sailor Goon
Feb 21, 2012

Chev posted:

The toastyfrog wiki definition from the old days was "2D side-scrolling action with free-roaming exploration and progressive skill and item collection to enable further, uh, progress"

imagining how this would sound being read by Jeff Goldblum

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Hollow Knight is an awful bideo jame

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

I can't wait to be a huge piece of poo poo :actually: nerd to people who still call them "metroidvanias"

Barudak
May 7, 2007

super sweet best pal posted:

I can't wait to be a huge piece of poo poo :actually: nerd to people who still call them "metroidvanias"

As long as you beat up people who call them pathfinder games or keyring platformers your way is just

Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


What's the best zeldalike?

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Walla posted:

What's the best zeldalike?

There was this one sci-fi Zelda clone I remember playing a decade ago. Forget what it was called. It was about a spaceship that crashed on an ice planet.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

super sweet best pal posted:

There was this one sci-fi Zelda clone I remember playing a decade ago. Forget what it was called. It was about a spaceship that crashed on an ice planet.

Oh Endless Legend, yeah that was a good one

fadam
Apr 23, 2008

super sweet best pal posted:

I can't wait to be a huge piece of poo poo :actually: nerd to people who still call them "metroidvanias"



Me refreshing r/games looking for noobs using the wrong vocabulary.

Mirage
Oct 27, 2000

All is for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds

Whizzing Wizard posted:

Map Exploration Platformer Action Game Wherein The Player Acquires Upgrades That Allows Access to Different Areas of the Map

MEPAGTPAUTAADAM (pronounced "me-PAG-tuh-POW-taa-drat")

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
Which is all your guys favorite Metroidvania? Mines the third one.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Barudak posted:

Oh Endless Legend, yeah that was a good one

No, that's not it. It was some indie freeware game that was pretty obviously LttP inspired.

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Black August
Sep 28, 2003

I call them Metroids

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