Blood's actual source code was never released under GPL. It's still proprietary and being sat on by Atari and Warner Bros. to which Nightdive belong to. What we have with NBlood and BloodGDX is reverse engineering using eDuke32 as a base and the leaked Blood alpha build.
I guess I'm not autistic in the right way for Toby Fox games. The premise seems to be a whole game full of Earthbound style setpieces, but I found the setpieces in Earthbound like Dungeon Man or Magicant to be way more memorable. Toby Fox is way too in on the joke. It's like he's constantly nudging your shoulder
That is definitely part of my problem since people say the game feels timeless it's very mid 2010s feeling. I think the thing most Earthbound styles miss is how things integrated into the world. I don't think anyone stops to tell you how weird something they are doing is as it's just part of what is going on in that area/world.
Yeah. Like how there's a long stretch of Earthbound when you do the 8 melodies where the game gets progressively more isolated, strange, and uncanny, but no character in your party is going to comment something like, "Wow this place sure is creepy!" It's just something that happens slowly in the background until inevitably you realize how weird the game has gotten.
I guess that's part of why games like Yume Nikki or OFF managed to stick, no one really questions or commentates about the world around them, it just is and it's up to you how you interpret these places. "Show, don't tell" 'n all.
it's the subtle and natural progression of the closer you get to giygas the worse his influence gets on the world.
and with Yume Nikki you see all the theory clowns who want to attach what they want to see to it despite how yeah that is how the game is supposed to be interpreted but once again we've seen how troons make everything about themselves. With OFF, the whole meta stuff it does is a little in the background until the end and even then it isn't screamed at you through the whole game.
Such a cool ass boss btw.
I mean, the game is weird as shit since the start
Aww man Megaman Legends. I used to play this so much on my 64. Awesome game
I was not a big fan of Undertale, and the writing was a huge part of why I disliked it, and you're right on the money. Earthbound is a very silly game, but I believe a lot of the comedy comes from how idiosyncratic and understated some of it is. The Stoic Club for instance has a lot of really funny lines, but they still manage to feel like we're seeing something funny as opposed to having something funny 'performed' for us. We're given a sort of window into this world that can be very silly and bizarre, and the writing trusts the audience enough to find the humor in it without needing to be in your face about how funny and weird it is. Or the Happy Happyists- a cult being obsessed with the color blue is obviously very ridiculous and funny, and the game doesn't feel the need to explicitly point out that this is a silly and unusual behavior.
I always hate the difficulty spike there, but the gold mine -> dept store -> moonside -> monotoli building part is really quite good. It's in a tight race for best Earthbound section alongside resisting Onett to get a piece of the meteorite for the phase distorter
It's a running theme within the actual community that most of these people have never actually played the game. About the same with Earthbound because as I've said before these inspired games tend to copy not only surface level of the series but the same things. They only focus on the quirk.
I'd go a step beyond this and say that most tranny-esque games miss the point of their originators. Doom clones, boomer shooters, PS1-horror titles, etc. They all feel like zombies walking inside the skin of a corpse. "Of course Silent Hill 2 was scary because of its PS1 graphix, doi, and not because of its unnerving plot and themes."
Just like trannies miss the point of women. It's a wonder they understand anything. Really, I'm just glad a near-majority of them understands the point of rope.
"Earthbound is so quirky and scary!! it's the darkest SNES game"
Most fandoms are like this today. The vast majority of them are tourists that like something because it gets popular and they learn a few things. They want to be part of something popular but they don't have the time/effort/will to actually get into it or they actually hate it because of X or Y reasons.
You really do see this a lot with how they look at media. They love to talk even though if you look into things it's all just nothing or interpretation since they don't understand what they are talking about.
It's a bit boomerish to rant about this but a lot of them are younger internet age demographics. Growing up with near instant interactions with things and you see that in the media made for them or co-opted. They want things to be simplified and instant where it takes very little effort to complete so they can move onto the next thing that feels like a rollercoaster ride and the next thing so on and so forth.
