YIIK: A Post Modern RPG / Ackk Studios / Andrew Allanson - "I wanted to make a game with a protagonist who was very unlikeable" - From Someone who is equally unlikeable. Currently developing Version I.V (1.5)

[LavaBat]

Hellkrai thread when?

Whenever Hellkrai creates an account and makes the thread himself since he is so desperate for attention.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I brought up those posts because in lifetimedisaster’s callout thread about Hellkrai, one of the screenshots they posted shows Hellkrai admitting to starting shit on purpose. He even mentions that he wanted to create fake outrage against himself, so he can easily disprove obvious lies in order to make himself sound credible while invalidating any criticisms levied towards him and anything he likes.

Sounds like a mentally unstable schizo, even Alex YIIK would laugh at him

This whole drama not only shows how much of a pathetic attention-whore Hellkrai is, but it also shows how stupid and self-destructive the Allansons are. Brian and Andrew have willingly befriended Hellkrai, who is doing everything in his power to make their lives miserable by baiting people into attacking YIIK/Ackk Studios, so he can play hero and protect the Allansons from the “haters”.

Honestly, this is exactly what they deserve. They should have played into the whole "redemption" angle creators like TehSnakerer or RunningShine gave them to work with the community and fix their game without antagonizing the fans further. I doubt that many people would still harass the brothers if they just shut up and worked on the game.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

>"Welcome to the mirror dimension, join me as i guide you"
>quote to random twitter person saying conflict is necessary for change
>Hellkrai says "not all jews are zionists"
>"Hot take, wars is the opposite of poggers"
>Spends the next 30 seconds explaining he was being ironic and subversive and people missing it proved his point

This is the wost first minute i ever seen in a youtube video, It somehow borders on post post post ironic satire. I DID NOT expect this to be about defending jews and it becomes accidentally hilarious.

I tried to listen to the first minutes because I wondered what side of the war it was on, but it's too retarded for me to understand. "Not all Jews are Zionists" though is very much a sign on a jew dick sucking arabs, while the AKTUALY WAR IS BAD is just cowardly fence sitting (if you don't have an opinion don't enter the discussion).

 

[deepfriedfritter]

Hellkrai strikes me as the kind of person who would film himself doing something really stupid if you told him it was subversive.

 

[LucasSomething]

@LucasSomething What I find interesting is that before his meltdowns with lifetimedisaster and their friends, Hellkrai was still seething about us and Viperwave and doing the whole "im not mad, youre the ones mad, quit taking things so seriously?!" shtick.

Do you have this lifetimedisaster callout thread?

>¨"I am not mad"
>"They're asshole and dismissive about my opinion yet they want me to accept theirs?"

No hellkrai, no one here actually wants you to "accept our opinion", stop projecting.

What i find the funniest is that everytime hellkrai tries to look badass the more pathetic he looks. A 30 year old man complainig about "some anime pfp" getting more twitter likes than him is not healthy. This man is a lolcow.

He also doesn't get how to use the word "GENUINELY". He uses it a lot in the video when it's clear he's being sarcastic and this completely destroys any good will, it sounds like cope everytime. "Yeah, i'm 100% genuinely not mad, trust me."

And i agree, yiik devs really bought this upon themselves, they are so desperate for anyone defending their game online they'll embrace a drama magnet autist like hellkrai.

 

[Peru oso donas]

So his tantrum "alright you win" name change was just because some random on twitter disagreed with him? Man what a loser. I still hope he gets into a slapfight so big the Allansons drop him, his meltdown will be glorious.

 

[LucasSomething]

I tried to listen to the first minutes because I wondered what side of the war it was on, but it's too retarded for me to understand. "Not all Jews are Zionists" though is very much a sign on a jew dick sucking arabs, while the AKTUALY WAR IS BAD is just cowardly fence sitting (if you don't have an opinion don't enter the discussion).

I'm reading the tweets right now and i can't tell if he's genuinely braindead or baiting when he defends jews.

No motherfucker, Zionism means "palestine is not a legitimate state and jews have the moral and religious right to take it over by force".

He then backpedals and does a Boogie2988 tier tweet preaching peace and being passive agressive.

 

[deepfriedfritter]

I still hope he gets into a slapfight so big the Allansons drop him, his meltdown will be glorious.

The way I see things shaking out is the Allansons pretending to be unaware of hellkrai's behavior.

I am GENUINELY curious what life after yiik is gonna be like for him. Like what do you do when yiik is just a distant memory to the public and nobody wants to talk about yiik anymore? I guess he would just latch onto a new fandom and be a clown in that. I know he's been trying to get a game dev hobby going, but I dunno how much that'll last before he can make his own yiik.

 

[LavaBat]

Do you have this lifetimedisaster callout thread?

Here you go, I forgot to include it in my last post.

https://archive.ph/yE3qt

 

[30+GameOvers]

Note how the people who took apart YIIK when it came out and criticized it aren't having these retarded twitter rants and attack random people that disagree with them.

 

[LavaBat]

Note how the people who took apart YIIK when it came out and criticized it aren't having these retarded twitter rants and attack random people that disagree with them.

Yup and the only time they ever bring up YIIK again is whenever someone asks them if they're gonna play the updates. Not surprisingly the YIIK fans are usually the ones asking them to play YIIK again.

 

[LucasSomething]

Here you go, I forgot to include it in my last post.
https://archive.ph/yE3qt

>ARE YOU RETARDED??? ARE YOU RETARDED???

Clearly the words of a man who is very sane and not triggered at all

There is something sad but funny that this callout wasn't driven by Hellkrai's years of toxicity but because he suddendly defended zionism on twitter one day. It reminds me that twitter is still twitter.

Yup and the only time they ever bring up YIIK again is whenever someone asks them if they're gonna play the updates. Not surprisingly the YIIK fans are usually the ones asking them to play YIIK again.

I half hope the critics never do another yiik video as that makes it even more embarassing for the developers. The idea that the Allansons spent 4 years remaking yiik around the critics only for all of them to have moved on and not care is the true good ending.

 

[Bob Barbas]

I'm just gonna put this all under a spoiler just in case but I feel the need to post it here because it's kind of funny.

Spoiler: Me posting about a funny actual Yiik fan I've encountered

Has anyone ever seen this "pantslesswrock" loser on the comments section of YiiK videos? I searched his name to see if anyone else ever brought him up and am surprised to see nothing. Figured somebody would've brought him up at some point.
I see him in the comments section of several YiiK related videos including memes and stuff and he's always defending the game and basically insisting everyone was just too stupid to understand the game. I'd post them all but there's so fucking many and I'm lazy. They're scattered across literally dozens of videos but every time he's always defending the game and insisting his own intelligence and that everyone else just doesn't get it man!

(Talking about Running Shine's review of the game.)

He has the gall to call other people pretentious while insisting he's this genius and everyone else is just too stupid to understand the game. Now normally I wouldn't even bother posting any of this but out of morbid curiosity I decided to check his channel and he has uploads.

I'm pretty sure his name is Bobby Lang judging from the title of one of his previous videos. Yes, this is what he looks like.

Gaze upon the visage of a true Yiik fan and despair!

I'm really hoping this at least gets a chuckle out of someone else because I found it fairly humorous. Obviously, blah blah don't go bother the guy I'm not asking you to do anything. I just thought he was a funny specimen.

 

[deepfriedfritter]

Spoiler: Me posting about a funny actual Yiik fan I've encountered

Has anyone ever seen this "pantslesswrock" loser on the comments section of YiiK videos? I searched his name to see if anyone else ever brought him up and am surprised to see nothing. Figured somebody would've brought him up at some point.
I see him in the comments section of several YiiK related videos including memes and stuff and he's always defending the game and basically insisting everyone was just too stupid to understand the game. I'd post them all but there's so fucking many and I'm lazy. They're scattered across literally dozens of videos but every time he's always defending the game and insisting his own intelligence and that everyone else just doesn't get it man!
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(Talking about Running Shine's review of the game.)

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He has the gall to call other people pretentious while insisting he's this genius and everyone else is just too stupid to understand the game. Now normally I wouldn't even bother posting any of this but out of morbid curiosity I decided to check his channel and he has uploads.

I'm pretty sure his name is Bobby Lang judging from the title of one of his previous videos. Yes, this is what he looks like.
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Gaze upon the visage of a true Yiik fan and despair!

I'm really hoping this at least gets a chuckle out of someone else because I found it fairly humorous. Obviously, blah blah don't go bother the guy I'm not asking you to do anything. I just thought he was a funny specimen.

I remember seeing this guy a lot in the RS video. My favorite comment of his, a years old one, basically boiled down to:

"I paid attention in my high school literature class, so I can say with certainty that I know what I'm talking about when it comes to Post-modern. If you think you know better feel free to correct me, but uh, based on your grasp on the English language, I doubt that."

Yiik truly appeals to the friendless retards of the world.

"If Alex can warp reality by being a lying prick, why can't I."

 

[Bob Barbas]

I also want to say I find it incredibly hilarious how these are also likely the same kind of people who call us all stalkers and doxxers when it's always these retards that openly post their own faces and full names online and then wonder how people figure out who they are within like 5 minutes.

It's so fucking hilarious to me, especially because they're almost always pretentious losers like this guy too.
You know what they say. Talk shit, get hit.
Don't be like Bobby here kids.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I was thinking about YIIK yesterday and how so much of the shit, especially with NG+, feels disjointed and doesn't go anywhere. Almost symbolism for the sake of having symbolism. It finally clicked what it felt like: Andrew probably had a bunch if ideas and scenes he jad, inspired by things he'd seen or emotions he felt, but just on their own. The sort of shit that is usually prefaced by "wouldn't it be cool if...". It seems like he wanted to put all of them in the game and, like the sprites, didn't want to throw any idea away. Hence it just ends up with this meandering plot that barely goes anywhere.

There's a lot about YIIK that almost feels like how NOT to make a game. I remember being there for the Lemonade stuff, but from what I know (admittedly not much) it reeks of someone without much talent having full creative control. He couldn't decide if it took place in 1999 or Current Year, he couldn't read the room that a soy-faced hipster douchebag was an unpopular choice for a character, he couldn't write said hipster douchebag, and couldn't own up to his mistakes.

The thing from The Dick Show really is telling, because it shows that's it not that he didn't understand what makes deeply flawed characters likable, it's that he thought he was somehow above it all in character-building.

For someone to be familiar with SNES JRPGs Allanson could've at least cribbed the general idea of Alex's character growth from FFIV, Cecil starts out as "Dark Knight", with this training he has some impressive powers and has done some shitty things in the name of the king, is highly unpopular outside of his friend group, but is still capable of knowing right and wrong; his "awakening" at the Cave of Ordeals ends up changing his entire appearance, so by the end of the game he ends up looking closer to the Nordic Gamer meme.

 

[Bob Barbas]

He couldn't decide if it took place in 1999 or Current Year, he couldn't read the room that a soy-faced hipster douchebag was an unpopular choice for a character, he couldn't write said hipster douchebag, and couldn't own up to his mistakes.

I think the funniest part is in my opinion Alex being a douchebag wasn't even the problem. Running Shine's review actually made me realize the problem is that Alex is just fucking bland and boring at least if he were such an asshole it was entertaining then it wouldn't be so bad. But really that's just one of Yiik's biggest problems in general, everything is so bland and boring.

Like he claims Alex was meant to be unlikable right? Well it comes across like he was too pussy to make Alex too much of an asshole either for some reason.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I think the funniest part is in my opinion Alex being a douchebag wasn't even the problem. Running Shine's review actually made me realize the problem is that Alex is just fucking bland and boring at least if he were such an asshole it was entertaining then it wouldn't be so bad. But really that's just one of Yiik's biggest problems in general, everything is so bland and boring.

Like he claims Alex was meant to be unlikable right? Well it comes across like he was too pussy to make Alex too much of an asshole either for some reason.

Alex being a racist sex offender like in RS's review is just straight up canon for me. Allanson brothers can eat a dick, their input is not considered.

 

[X Prime]

Alex's problem is not that he's unlikable. His problem is that he's unlikable with no attributes that allow people to overlook it.

Many popular characters would be unlikable if you sat down for five minutes to think about it. Cloud Strife for example would be insufferable to actually hang around. However, they cover it up with "rule of cool overrides everything else". Whether it's looks, fighting skills, etc.

Alex has none of the mitigating factors. He's not done in an attractive style that would make fujoshis squee. He does not use his record as a discus that cuts foes to ribbons before it dramatically returns to his hand. And so on.

 

[Bob Barbas]

Alex's problem is not that he's unlikable. His problem is that he's unlikable with no attributes that allow people to overlook it.

Many popular characters would be unlikable if you sat down for five minutes to think about it. Cloud Strife for example would be insufferable to actually hang around. However, they cover it up with "rule of cool overrides everything else". Whether it's looks, fighting skills, etc.

Alex has none of the mitigating factors. He's not done in an attractive style that would make fujoshis squee. He does not use his record as a discus that cuts foes to ribbons before it dramatically returns to his hand. And so on.

That's literally the point though, he brings this up in his tirade on the dick show about how gamers need their flawed heroes to still be beautiful or to have some kind of redeeming qualities.
So from the sound of it he intended Alex to be an irredeemable piece of shit yet at the same time he comes across like they were too pussy to go all in and actually make Alex a reprehensible piece of shit. At least then he would have SOMETHING to make him interesting, but yet somehow he's the fucking most boring man which is also hilarious considering according to the game he's also like the center of the multi-verse or something for whatever reason?