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[linchan]

Not that guy, but it's a five-minute-long mix of an obby and a walking sim (if it can even be called either; I use these two descriptors very generously) in which a talking blue sphere gives you platitudes the entire time. People have since gone on to claim this is one of the most emotional games on the platform because the prerequisite neurological disabilities you need to play Roblox intensively have rendered these people emotionally retarded.

This specific video on it that wouldn't fuck off from my recommendations for a bit probably gives the best idea of what Oobja's about:

(Preservetube)

It's also inspired a micro-genre of knockoffs, including but not limited to "Oodja", where the sphere is red and it insults you the entire time. I have no insights on the community surrounding the game myself, so that's all I've got.

THAT WAS JUST A WALKING SIMULATOR

 

[Breadbassket]

this seems more like an allegory for abusive relationships where someone uses disingenuous positive reinforcement to convince people to make permanent, harmful, life altering decisions with no benefit or reward

An experience that is filled with messages to the player saying how much they are loved ending with a suggestion to purchase some cosmetics leaves a sour taste in the mouth. There is no true gameplay here, it's just one of those creations meant to send some kind of message made by those who created it. Definitely could see the appeal for it if you were someone very hungry for positive validation or attention even though in this case at the end of the day it's all false since everything in Oojba is simply programming and code.

 

[Metallic Blood]

People have since gone on to claim this is one of the most emotional games on the platform

That is horrifying.

Granteed, I actually appreciate when a game has a more positive attitude in life (the world probably needs it)... but... are people really this depressed nowadays? So much so that a low-poly sphere saying "I love you" enough times is emotional?

Are Roblox players fine? Do they need help? Don't they have anyone that loves them in their lives? Like a parent? a friend? a relative? Or are they too depressed to see that? What kind of people are they meeting everyday? Even if you're terminally online, there's gotta be at least 1 or 2 online people that you can be friends with...

I'm getting depressed just thinking about it.

 

[Autistic Gunspergings]

Are Roblox players fine

Perhaps I'm wrong on this, but I have the opinion that the type of people who'd like this type of game are narcissistic Pieces of work who need their own safe space to validate how frowny face they are. Even if they are actually depressed and aren't faking it, they sure do love the attention & hug box it creates, preferring it to actually curing their own depression.

Spoiler: sperging about mental illness that gets me mad at the internet

Mental sickness is not analogous to physical sickness, i.e., the cold or the flu. you need to put in your own work to get rid of mental sicknesses like depression. Yet people (psychiatrists especially ) always treat mental health as if its something that'll just go away, they think you can just take some SSRI's like its cough medicine and wait a bit, without any input on your part. This is simply not true. You, and you alone, are the only person who can figure out what will get you out of a depressive episode with 100% certainty. Therefore, you must do what it takes to stop being depressed.

and if you are one of the types that insist that your depression is incurable, I have a dedicated paragraph for your faggotry;

I remember reading Selco's writeups on his experience living through a siege in Yugoslavia. Despite everything, they still took the time to do some sort of family ritual, like small get-togethers between family, or just giving people gifts for Christmas or birthdays. The point I trying to make here, to you, is NOT that you have it easy. (even if you probably do, but I digress) These motherfuckers were living, scared & worried every day about finding food and simply not dying to people trying to kill them, and they STILL decided to do celebrations; they weren't only moping about their situation, they weren't only complaining to their peers about how sad and depressed they are, they STILL tried their best to find some sort of fleeting hope in one of the bleakest situations anyone in the 21st century could realistically find themselves in. he literally notes how important these small moments of happiness were during his time of immense physical and emotional struggle.

Do you honestly think, for a second, that they would've come out of this any better if they had chosen not to? Because I don't think so.
Likewise, do you think you will find yourself in a better situation if you don't do anything to make yourself feel better, if only for a moment? I really don't think so.
Take a moment out of your life and figure out what makes you happy- even if only temporarily- and then do it. even if it takes a day. It is worth it.

 

[Adash]

Maybe oobja? Since this "game" is made by a tranny coomer with a fanbase of vulnerable individuals.

Really? I know what Oobja is and the spinoffs (Oodja, the one where the sphere hates you and the funniest imo, and Ajboo, where you have to comfort the sphere) but I didn't know the dev was trans.
Also, searched up Oobja and got these results. 4th result is.... porn. The jokes write themselves.

one of the most emotional games on the platform

HAHAHAHAHAHA
how 2 make emotional roblox game

• say nice words
• play sad music
• have the player character's emotion change at certain points
• ???
• profit

Ok, i'll stop joking. Is Roblox seriously this unserious that this is the most emotional game on the platform? It's nice to have something supportive, but... really? It just feels weird. Of course, you can't really have a pocket therapist in a Roblox game, but that makes me wonder why they try to put it as such. And then it fucking says at the end "Buy our merch!" because Robux is the solution to depression.

you find one that lets you create whatever the hell you want and play whatever you want. ashamed to say i used to play it a lot in the glory days of 2008 to 2009ish

And that's what Roblox was originally relegated to. It's actually nice. I have a lot of memories mixing multiple Garry's Mod addons to try to replicate a game I liked or create small games myself. However, attitudes have shifted towards Roblox being an actual game dev engine (which is bullshit) so that doesn't really happen since most people interested in creating small experiences get disinterested due to how much competition there is. Whatever people want Roblox to be is already filled by Itch.io.

 

[Metallic Blood]

Perhaps I'm wrong on this, but I have the opinion that the type of people who'd like this type of game are narcissistic Pieces of work who need their own safe space to validate how frowny face they are. Even if they are actually depressed and aren't faking it, they sure do love the attention & hug box it creates, preferring it to actually curing their own depression.

Spoiler: sperging about mental illness that gets me mad at the internet

Mental sickness is not analogous to physical sickness, i.e., the cold or the flu. you need to put in your own work to get rid of mental sicknesses like depression. Yet people (psychiatrists especially ) always treat mental health as if its something that'll just go away, they think you can just take some SSRI's like its cough medicine and wait a bit, without any input on your part. This is simply not true. You, and you alone, are the only person who can figure out what will get you out of a depressive episode with 100% certainty. Therefore, you must do what it takes to stop being depressed.

and if you are one of the types that insist that your depression is incurable, I have a dedicated paragraph for your faggotry;

I remember reading Selco's writeups on his experience living through a siege in Yugoslavia. Despite everything, they still took the time to do some sort of family ritual, like small get-togethers between family, or just giving people gifts for Christmas or birthdays. The point I trying to make here, to you, is NOT that you have it easy. (even if you probably do, but I digress) These motherfuckers were living, scared & worried every day about finding food and simply not dying to people trying to kill them, and they STILL decided to do celebrations; they weren't only moping about their situation, they weren't only complaining to their peers about how sad and depressed they are, they STILL tried their best to find some sort of fleeting hope in one of the bleakest situations anyone in the 21st century could realistically find themselves in. he literally notes how important these small moments of happiness were during his time of immense physical and emotional struggle.

Do you honestly think, for a second, that they would've come out of this any better if they had chosen not to? Because I don't think so.
Likewise, do you think you will find yourself in a better situation if you don't do anything to make yourself feel better, if only for a moment? I really don't think so.
Take a moment out of your life and figure out what makes you happy- even if only temporarily- and then do it. even if it takes a day. It is worth it.

Good spergery my friend.

I dunno, I've always thought that your average narcissist would look at this and say: "Nah, I'm too good for this.", so the only type of people that would enjoy it, are the ones that feel so unloved that they just want someone to hold them and tell everything is gonna be okay. Maybe parental issues, maybe they think that people not accepting their "true and honest" self means that people 100% hates them. Whatever it is, it sounds like you need to be at rock bottom in life to enjoy this.

... But then again, we're talking about the ROBLOX community, so who knows, maybe I'm not autistic enough to understand the narcissism of Roblox users and you might be right.

 

[didelphigina]

Really? I know what Oobja is and the spinoffs (Oodja, the one where the sphere hates you and the funniest imo, and Ajboo, where you have to comfort the sphere) but I didn't know the dev was trans.

For some reason I suspected the developer was transgender from the game alone. It just felt like a game that was a correlation to the creator. Oh, and the fact it had a "He, She, They" option and while that's a pretty gay thing to complain about, it was just that one thing that randomly made me think "Hmm, this creator's probably from flavor of LGBT. I don't know why.", and what do you know, I was right.

Thankfully, they seem decently normal. I hope. I hope they're decently normal. But you can hardly expect that from the trans crowd.

 

[Alfred bigcock]

“Fife is Roblox?”-that one guy from the thing that one time. God bless.

 

[Mr. Bobby Brown]

Not that guy, but it's a five-minute-long mix of an obby and a walking sim (if it can even be called either; I use these two descriptors very generously) in which a talking blue sphere gives you platitudes the entire time. People have since gone on to claim this is one of the most emotional games on the platform because the prerequisite neurological disabilities you need to play Roblox intensively have rendered these people emotionally retarded.

This specific video on it that wouldn't fuck off from my recommendations for a bit probably gives the best idea of what Oobja's about:

(Preservetube)

It's also inspired a micro-genre of knockoffs, including but not limited to "Oodja", where the sphere is red and it insults you the entire time. I have no insights on the community surrounding the game myself, so that's all I've got.

Holy fucking shit, The amount of people in the comments talking about how they almost cried from a fucking roblox game where you walk around a void for an hour while a talking orb says that it loves you is staggering. Roblox truly has the most autistic player base i've seen in a good while.

 

[Digital Thunder]

Mild diversion from the Oobja talk just to be smug:

Pressure’s community server actually does have clear-cut “do not be a freak, and if you’re going to be a freak, GTFO” rules, but I think it’s fair to say the developers are egging it on if the game’s main creator is engaging with them this way.

Between the voice actor choice and his design meeting a number of points that overqualify him as a “sexyman”, this was doomed to happen. It will only get worse, no less in part because of encouragement (no matter how passive) on the dev team’s end.

Oh. LOL. LMAO. The replies to both—but especially the replies to Zeal's tweet—tell enough of a story on their own.

From the replies to a thread discussing a scrapped ending in which players directly kill Sebastian:

(Thread, more implicit seethe if you look through his tweets and replies)

Must feel real bad living in a doomed future you did nothing to prevent!

 

[Every One Procedural]

I tried playing Oobja once, but stopped almost immediately because it came off as annoying and patronizing. Good to hear I missed nothing of substance.

Anyway, this discussion reminded me of a different game I felt was actually good, and didn't try too hard: Journey to the Sun. Rare sight to see a game that's "atmospheric" without being just a walking sim (even if it's a basic obby at its core). I couldn't find much about the creators or the small community, but everything seems relatively normal about it?

 

[Scavenger]

There's a Paper Mario-esque game called Blocky Tales, you can fight the enemies with your friends and it's pretty cool, however, it's only a demo for now.

That game genuinely got smiles out of me.
From references to old roblox to funny little moments that were pretty well written
I hate that faggots tarnished earth bound inspired games with faggotry and despression and bullshit

 

[Stuckinatoaster]

Mild diversion from the Oobja talk just to be smug:





From the replies to a thread discussing a scrapped ending in which players directly kill Sebastian:
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(Thread, more implicit seethe if you look through his tweets and replies)

Must feel real bad living in a doomed future you did nothing to prevent!

> Shipping is a massive nono which "ruined Sebastian for Zeal"

> Mpreg isn't what did that with AUDIO about Sebastian dropping a baby onto a shop floor from his fish cooter. Because why the fuck would it?

 

[Metallic Blood]

That game genuinely got smiles out of me.
From references to old roblox to funny little moments that were pretty well written
I hate that faggots tarnished earth bound inspired games with faggotry and despression and bullshit

Yeah, it's a good game, the only thing I dislike about it is how unforgiving some of these fights are, specially because the timing of most of the enemy attacks are super weird.

The boss of chapter 2 for example is a nightmare, 50 HP, 2 armor, and most of its attacks can poison you and take half of your HP. There used to be a cool strat at the beginning if you were playing Solo, is that if you Guard each turn, you wouldn't get poisoned at all, and I thought that was awesome... but whatever reason, they patched it up, making Guard take an entire turn instead.

Maybe this is a "git gud" moment, but I didn't expect to have a harder time on this game than something like Paper Mario Master Quest. Specially considering i'm just talking about the main campaign, didn't even bother with Hard Mode but I did complete the Pits' demo.

 

[Digital Thunder]

Mpreg isn't what did that with AUDIO about Sebastian dropping a baby onto a shop floor from his fish cooter.

I’d ask what on Earth you’re talking about, but somehow I don’t think I want to know at all.

 

[Stuckinatoaster]

I’d ask what on Earth you’re talking about, but somehow I don’t think I want to know at all.

I'll have you know it's just as awful as you think.

 

[1100_c1]

I'll have you know it's just as awful as you think

 

[Digital Thunder]

I'll have you know it's just as awful as you think.

Enlightening, that was horrible! It gets archived now!

It does let me make an otherwise-unrelated point though:

(Gianni's reply)

Community's fault, BTW. All their fault. Doesn't have a single thing to do with numerous business (and design, but especially business) decisions we made as a dev team up to this point. It's not our fault our game's fans are so feral, and frankly, we don't want 'em either! Nothing we could do!

Spoiler: The clip, 720p

I wonder if the world would be graced with similar snips if they got Brody Foxx (i.e. the Yo Mama guy) to voice Sebastian like they were originally trying to.

 

[jakkufurosuto]

I'll have you know it's just as awful as you think.

him being castrated is not enough. i'm going to have to spend a hour of my life looking at videos of cute rabbits to try to forget the mistake i made today

 

[JesusChristDenton]

Speaking of Sebastian, aren't the developers of Pressure planning on altering his design in the future to avoid stuff like this? I can only imagine the resulting shitstorm from Sebastian no longer being a Tumblr sexyman but instead a horrific deformed mutant.

Oh well, they knew what they were doing when they brought Gianni on to voice him so it's not like I have that much sympathy.