#new game mechanic idea

[darkflameweaver]

A horrible souls like game idea

what if we made a souls like game really hard like the rest of souls like games but when you die you have to start over on a new save file and you can't use that character again that exact character is locked away it has to be a different change the hair the skin tone maybe like make the eyes a little farther apart but it has to be different and not the same but the thing is when you die the game keeps track and in the next play through exactly where you did there is a grave and you can pick up a item called warriors memory which increases all stats by 2 so everytime you die the game gets a bit easier and of course if you beat it first attempt you get the achievement "naturally skilled" if you die at all you have to delete your save data like completely wipe any save data all achievements will be gone and stuff but you can attempt 'naturally skilled" achievement again also "naturally skilled" is not required for platinum since it's so unfair

[rockethorse]

The basegame wedding dress has a pregnancy morph??

[selemina]

Cool unique game spotted!

(Please disregard my ability to mis-remember a name, it is FOREVER Winter! ^^')

[thekimspoblog]

Is the video game really subverting its genre? Are you sure it's not just doing clever things within its genre, because otherwise the game would be boring and unchallenging and say nothing interesting? I'm just saying, it's cool and all that the internet allows horror game fandoms to overflow into eachother, but not EVERY 2 hour video essay needs to be spent breathlessly sucking off the devs. Sometimes a game is just REGULAR difficult and REGULAR high-quality.

Besides RPGs made over a decade ago, what is the thing supposedly subverting? Clearly not other contemporary indie horror games, because there is clearly a convergent ethos forming of cosmic horror and beginners' traps; that's just what the genre looks like nowadays.

[oh-meow-swirls]

was looking through old posts and i'm surprised to see that i seemingly didn't have any commentary on anything in 3 in chapter 7, 8 or 9, the posts related to 3's story go from "my first reaction when i saw yopple-bot was 'i love you. but also you are definitely the boss for this chapter-'" to "i have been in hell all day. hell being bada-bing tower." funny to me cuz those chapters are like, the best ones sdfkljsdfjfsdkjlfsdjkl-

[honestlyvan]

I'm not gonna lie, hearing that the Nintendo Switch Online Playtest is identified as a "strand game" has made me more excited than any video game news since Alan Wake 2.

[ravenwolfie97]

all pokemon games are good but they are not all equally as good

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[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

sometimes all it takes is One Silly Talk to suddenly have a solution for something you've actually accepted for the next few years

[steelhazes]

i will never understand it when new players - and emphasis on new players - decide to story skip, and the further the story skip is, i firmly believe the worse it gets. it's not just shooting yourself in the foot lorewise. that doesn't really have an impact on gameplay, if at all. but when you decide to do combat content with other people, how tf do you parse all of the mechanics thrown at you when you skipped the entire learning process it takes to be able to get at the point when you can do so relatively easily??? how do you find fun when you die over and over to a boss and you have no clue as to what's going on or what killed you???

[bistaxx]

I'm still losing my mind over a qsmp digimon inspired au- it just feels so perfect- also please just look at this thing:

[haunted-skitty-doll]

Shirt that says "Ask me about Pokemon Run and Bun." Or booty shorts idk idc. Ask me about Pokemon Run and Bun.

[dan-crimes]

My sibling is trying to out Link me, you DARE QUESTION THE OG!! THE MASTER !! THE HOLDER OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF LINK !!!!!

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

have been trying to make more of an effort to use romance-neutral options/language when the option for romance comes up in a mechanical capacity in one of my games/hacks (whether as an actual function in the game, or just 'here's a table of prompts for the tone a dynamic or interaction might have'). i very much want to incorporate the possibility for romance to be A Part of My Games beyond 'idk throw it in during the roleplay i guess' if a player wants that; but i don't want to push people to include romance in games not themed around it if they don't want to, and i don't want them to be excluded from part of the game if a specific romantic dynamic would be a nope.

problem is, 'this option is called a bond: you can choose between romantic, platonic, familial, or Something Else or you can roll to see which you get' has mostly worked pretty well so far! but when feasible and appropriate for the format, i'd like to try to be inclusive of polyam and other more-than-two options, and i can't seem to find a good substitute for 'polycule' without romantic connotations. hm.

[roychewtoy]

supergiant games are 3 for 3 [sorry bastion..... i haven't played u bastion.....] to me. transistor, pyre and hades BEEEELOOOOOVEEEDDDD

[desperatepleasures]

like on one hand i AM planning to write gisela getting eaten out by conrart BUT in my defense she spends the whole time imagining he's julia. this too is yuri

[vamptastic]

nearing time for annual korekiyo defense essay + halfhearted attempt to analyze what danganronpa is trying to do with its writing but i am sooo sleepy tired. i am going to nap and hope the thoughts are still there for me come morn (8 pm).