Goodbye Volcano High - "The Future of Gaming", The Parody Game of the Beloved Snoot Game Franchise

[Snekposter]

How did that line from Vice City go? "The Wave! Where the boys wear more makeup than the girls!" Wait, does this mean the current LGBT-whatever stuff is just some utterly fucked-up 80's nostalgia from people who were never there?

 

[XYZpdq]

That’s mainly because Axl Rose can‘t pass.

I dunno, I've seen some old trailer cigarette / booze hags who could probably pass as one of Axl's forms or another

 

[UnclePhil]

Then all of a sudden along comes a generation that I guess growing up took the corporate advertising to heart and truly believed that every male had to be the backwards baseball cap sporting "Xtreme" macho dudebro and every female had to be the dumb, hot Paris Hilton style bimbo.

And they acted like this was a stunning and brave revelation that people could be other things too, wow!

I was going to post this too. The entire 'gender nonconformist' fad is founded on a narrow Anita worldview to begin with. Every cis man is supposed to be some meathead chad and woman either a giant titty slut in a corset or virgin dowry gift. No one was walking around looking like that and no one was forcing them to, yet a proud generation has stood up to say, "We will no longer be cartoon stereotypes." What does that say about us? How far we have fallen? A lot more bros look like Rich Evans than Brock Lesnar.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

How did that line from Vice City go? "The Wave! Where the boys wear more makeup than the girls!" Wait, does this mean the current LGBT-whatever stuff is just some utterly fucked-up 80's nostalgia from people who were never there?

More like 1970s. Glam Rock was all about androgyny and sexual fluidity.

 

[The tired cat]

More like 1970s. Glam Rock was all about androgyny and sexual fluidity.

I thought Glam Rock was about dudes singing in a factory that produced sparks and chains, while miles aways girls were busy dancing.

 

[Cubanodun]

Supposedly from the Discord...

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Holy shit Fang is the most deviantArt bio ever. You listen to Evanescence too?

"Branching narrative game with cinematic elements"

Visual novel, is a fucking visual novel you mongoloids stop evading the term because this is the best you can do

 

[Pissmaster]

More like 1970s. Glam Rock was all about androgyny and sexual fluidity.

>when the only musician you can name from the 70's is David Bowie

 

[LegoTugboat]

So, I took the time to download KO_OP's most recent title, Winding Worlds, and I've played about 20 minutes.

I'll quickly sum up my thoughts, but I can quickly condense it down into 4 words.

FUCK ME. FUCK. ME.

The tutorial has this purple wurm which has you spinning the planet around using either the D-pad or control stick of whatever controller you have. It's this surreal thing where you keep rotating this stick image of a planet around until it's done, at which point your character wakes up.

He goes to play with the dog, which goes BORF, for some reason, and while playing ball, this necklace is broken. You move the stick around to put it together, and it's cursed with the giant purple wurm. He transports you to this hub world, where you go into the first level.

It's this chick who has her friend stuck in a windmill, and wants you to cut the power to the windmill so you can get inside. You do so by moving the mound of wires away from the front of a control panel, and shut the power.

The windmill then wakes up, because it's actually a robot windmill, and you get called over by the chick, who tells you she lied, and that her friend is the windmill, who used to be close friends, blowing dandelions together in a cutscene, which you have to position their hands.

You then have to restore power to the town, because while the windmill's awake, there's no power. So you have to put together the heirloom ladder, again by rotating the control stick, at which point you use it to climb onto the windmill robot's vanes which you then move around to get onto powerlines to fix them.

Duly fixed, the power gets turned back on, again by moving the mound of wires away, and the windmill goes to sleep.

The chick does a tearful goodbye.

AND THEN EXPLODES INTO DANDELION SEEDS.

I just. I don't understand. Why is there a giant purple wurm? How can a rubber ball and a dog's mouth break a necklace?

Why does the dog go borf?

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

So, I took the time to download KO_OP's most recent title, Winding Worlds, and I've played about 20 minutes.

I'll quickly sum up my thoughts, but I can quickly condense it down into 4 words.

FUCK ME. FUCK. ME.

The tutorial has this purple wurm which has you spinning the planet around using either the D-pad or control stick of whatever controller you have. It's this surreal thing where you keep rotating this stick image of a planet around until it's done, at which point your character wakes up.

He goes to play with the dog, which goes BORF, for some reason, and while playing ball, this necklace is broken. You move the stick around to put it together, and it's cursed with the giant purple wurm. He transports you to this hub world, where you go into the first level.

It's this chick who has her friend stuck in a windmill, and wants you to cut the power to the windmill so you can get inside. You do so by moving the mound of wires away from the front of a control panel, and shut the power.

The windmill then wakes up, because it's actually a robot windmill, and you get called over by the chick, who tells you she lied, and that her friend is the windmill, who used to be close friends, blowing dandelions together in a cutscene, which you have to position their hands.

You then have to restore power to the town, because while the windmill's awake, there's no power. So you have to put together the heirloom ladder, again by rotating the control stick, at which point you use it to climb onto the windmill robot's vanes which you then move around to get onto powerlines to fix them.

Duly fixed, the power gets turned back on, again by moving the mound of wires away, and the windmill goes to sleep.

The chick does a tearful goodbye.

AND THEN EXPLODES INTO DANDELION SEEDS.

I just. I don't understand. Why is there a giant purple wurm? How can a rubber ball and a dog's mouth break a necklace?

Why does the dog go borf?

It's very easy to explain, you see.

Just replace the blood with dandelion seeds and Boom makes perfect sense.

Dandelion seeds always make perfect sense of everything they are in.

 

[Disc]

I just. I don't understand. Why is there a giant purple wurm? How can a rubber ball and a dog's mouth break a necklace?

Why does the dog go borf?

Spoilers for the plot below. I found this by watching the few gameplay videos there were.

Spoiler: Spoilors

So, the MCs name is Willow. She lives on a planet alone with her dog, and her quest has her heading to other people’s planets.

Each person has some sort of regret about their life. When Willow solves these regrets, they vanish into particle effects.

You eventually find out that the people Willow is helping are dead. She’s helping them resolve their last regrets. Alright, I can follow that logic so far.

Willow herself is one of these people as well. Unfortunately, her regrets don’t make any sense given the game itself. The premise of her regrets is that she puts too much of herself into helping other people, and doesn’t take care of herself.

Which is utter horseshit.

The planet she lives on is her all on her own, except for her dog. She seems perfectly fine being on her lonesome, and it’s only when she gets hijacked by the worm that she starts to help people. There’s no sign of her flagging or struggling under doing too many requests until the world where that’s her problem.

And the Windmill Guy who essentially gives up his entire life to help people on the first planet is seen as doing good for... the exact same thing Willow is doing too much of.

And the dog is just left on the first planet with no one even bothering to take care of it.

 

[Dysnomia]

That’s mainly because Axl Rose can‘t pass.

When I was a kid I thought Eric Martin from Mr. Big was a girl. And now that he's older with short hair he looks like a boomer lesbian. He's actually quite cute for a boomer lesbian.


But it is funny that gender bending 70s and 80s glam did not generate a generation of genderspecials.

Wow. Say that three times fast.

It was just a different time and I am so happy about that. Because today you are totally a transboi if you like wearing pants and having short hair uwu.

I saw the Twisted Sister documenary "We Are Twisted Fucking Sister". And in the 70s they did not yet have costumes. They stole clothes from their moms and girlfriends. They're not exactly a bunch of effeminate hotties to begin with so you can imagine.

Fun fact: Mark Free from King Kobra has been trans for a long time and is known as Marcie Free.

But getting back to this game and vidya virtue signalling in general, it's going to get to a point where all of this is oversaturated enough that it eclipses the actual real life representation by a thousand miles. Well it probably already is. It's like when we were told there aren't enough blacks on TV. Now there are tons and tons but it's still not enough. Nothing will ever be enough for "muh representation". Nothing.

Every single character could suddenly become trans or some other flavor of genderspecial and we would still need more. But you alienate people by forcing it into everything. It becoms a running joke when it's done over and over again.

I like the concept of this game. So I hope that the gender idiocy doesn't eclipse the story so bad that you want to throw these dinos into the La Brea tar pits.

 

[Sun Shihong]

Shame this isn't about this Volcano High.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

Somehow this “game” feels more like of those crappy webcomics with a “totally diverse” cast and furry characters.

 

[Kinotobie]

You know, the idea of a fictional story featuring sentient dinosaur characters coming to terms with their impending extinction is actually a really fucking neat idea. Too bad it'll be wasted here on creepy anthro furry shit, alphabet-pandering, and an inevitable shoe-horned message about climate change.

I doubt it's about that, I'm pretty sure the dinosaur furry characters are there just so the game stands out in some way and isn't immediately written off by everyone as just some generic visual novel.

 

[Disc]

I doubt it's about that, I'm pretty sure the dinosaur furry characters are there just so the game stands out in some way and isn't immediately written off by everyone as just some generic visual novel.

I mean, it does have some thematic relationship with the topic, at least. Even if it didn't, it's still one step above ValiDate.

 

[Kinotobie]

I mean, it does have some thematic relationship with the topic, at least. Even if it didn't, it's still one step above ValiDate.

I assume the only relationship is theyre dinosaurs.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

I mean, it does have some thematic relationship with the topic, at least. Even if it didn't, it's still one step above ValiDate.

Well that’s something we can all agree on.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

I mean, it does have some thematic relationship with the topic, at least. Even if it didn't, it's still one step above ValiDate.

You’d have a hard time finding a lower bar to clear.

 

[Marissa Moira]

You’d have a hard time finding a lower bar to clear.

Text Adventures about mental illness.

 

[Edgeworth]

Text Adventures about mental illness.

So Depression Quest?