I will admit FNF is by far the most casual of the rhythm game genres and when I personally play rhythm games my draw is their punishing difficulty. FNF doesn’t seem to fill that because mods for this game are too easy or they’re unplayable because of engine limitations.
I agree that FNF is for casual players that want to learn rhythm games or just don't feel like doing a finger destroying chart. I've never been into rhythm games (other than a little Osu) until I played FNF, and seeing such an unwelcoming community of elitist shit on a more simple game for that reason just kinda stops me from wanting to try out any other rhythm game with these kinds of people. Also gatekeeping a rhythm game is pretty fucking autistic lmao.
Which is surprising given that for the most part, say what you want about the weebery, rhythm game communities are generally low key. Robeats you’ll never hear someone shutting on you because you’re not good. Clone hero never has elitists and most of the content creators just show off their skill.
Never seen any hate from Robeats. The only big Clone Hero content creator I've seen is Acai, and he's chill af. It just feels like whenever FNF is brought up in other rhythm communities, it's widely agreed upon as a bad game. At least from what I've experienced. I guess most of the hate comes from rhythm pros upset that this unfinished flash game is more popular than theirs. Hopefully all of the engine's flaws will be fixed in the full game to give it a better reputation.
By the standards of dedicated rhythm gamers, this is a pretty bad game. The charts are unimaginative, the timing is so loose as to be useless, and there's not much variety in the merely two dozen songs.
The difficulty is all over the place due to tracks being added which fucked up the original intended pacing.
You also have JasonParadise who plays meme charts and there's others that do pull in a decent viewership.
Oh I know it's pretty mediocre for a rhythm game at the moment. I try to look at it from the developers' point of view though. It was created on a weekend for a small game contest, and it blew up in popularity so suddenly. The popularity is uncontrollable, and they're doing the best they can to improve it based on fans' opinions. It's unfair to compare a game that's only a few months old to more fleshed out rhythm games that have been out for over a decade. They're not claiming that their game is anywhere near the best, but the popularity makes it seem that way. Like I said before, hopefully all of its flaws will be gone when the full game releases.
They’ll also be updating the free version occasionally with samples of songs as they’re being developed
I mean, if you think I'm being unfair, I'd be happy to talk about how Rayark completely changed the entire genre with nearly every release, or how Beat Saber was a similar experimental concept that had become the biggest rhythm game going by this point in it's life, despite requiring expensive hardware. I could even go retro and bring up Amplitude. It'd be pointless, though, because as I said, that's not what fnf is about. Don't take it personally that kids messing around in a rhythm format doesn't appeal to the bemani monsters, and don't close your ears to perfectly valid criticism with 'jealous of popularity lol'.
Nah, I don’t ignore valid criticism of the game. If someone came to me and said “I don’t like the game because the input is wonky, the charting is messy, the timing is off” or something like that, I would completely understand and agree that those are issues the game has. I don’t expect most experienced rhythm gamers to enjoy the game, I just don’t want them to put down others that do. The “bad cuz popular” crowd more appeals to non-rhythm gamers that are just tired of seeing it everywhere I suppose.
ah damn, I was going to put in a dollar to have backer access. I forget to do this way too often.
please ninjamuffin, please release the week 7 source code so i can transfer my mod to it you whore.
