TheShampion
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Language continues to be a virus. If you don't like it, you have find the cure, like a better term, otherwise people will just rely on the easiest path to communicate their ideas.
How about "Metroidlike"?That reminds me, you guys owe me a dollar for each time you've written the word "metroidvania."
Symphony of the Night 'quintessential metroid like' what? It's a terrible Metroid game.
My full RTTP review: Symphony of the Night is an amazing looking and sounding wrapper over a weak Super Metroid clone core.
But one of them literally isn't, it does not have souls in the title. It's just shorthand for the whole loose series.Or just call them Souls games because that's exactly what they all are.
I outlined my opinion in detail, with specific examples, you've called on an unprovable 'majority opinion' and offered no actual counterpoint.It's great for you to have an outlier opinion(I think BOTW is overrated) but to act as if the majority of SOTN players at the time and even in retrospect don't view it as quintessential is completely wrong.
But one of them literally isn't, it does not have souls in the title. It's just shorthand for the whole loose series.
I outlined my opinion in detail, with specific examples, you've called on an unprovable 'majority opinion' and offered no actual counterpoint.
You said it was a 'quintessential metroid like' which is utterly ridiculous when it is very, very poor at the Metroid elements. Several of Igarashi's games are better at the actual Metroid formula (Aria being his best).
damn digibro is maximum weeb
"Like Souls" has to die first.
Reminds me of the promising but ultimately doomed pushback against MOBA.I get a good laugh whenever people get into a tizzy trying to fight fate on terms like metroidvania or roguelike.
You need receipts, not fact-free emotional pleas to your own nostalgic experience.You have really got to be kidding me. I'm not wasting time arguing this point. I don't need to provide links. I played it when it came out, I was on the message boards, I read the reviews, and I know the legacy. I have no interest in telling you why the majority of people don't agree that "SOTN is a 6.5 game" or whatever you wrote because it's utterly ludicrous.
Most people consider it an all time classic in the genre, end of story.
It's a term of reference most gamers are familiar with. Not everything in the world is cause for insightful, deep academic debate. Fuck.
It's a term of reference most gamers are familiar with. Not everything in the world is cause for insightful, deep academic debate. Fuck.
You're insane. SOTN is a timeless masterpiece that hasn't been matched let alone topped. Consensus is that it's a classic, end of story.You need receipts, not fact-free emotional pleas to your own nostalgic experience.
Most people into Igavanias now consider it a poor one (though it still has the best graphics and sound). And I have never before in my life heard it referred to as a 'quintessential metroid-like'. The VAST majority opinion in my experience is the Super Metroid is the quintessential metroid-like game, usually followed by other Metroid games, commonly Prime 1 and Zero Mission.
You're insane. SOTN is a timeless masterpiece that hasn't been matched let alone topped. Consensus is that it's a classic, end of story.
Just going by the visuals​ and music he never did. Gameplay is arguable, but SOTN is a complete experience.Eh, I think Iga has topped it at least twice.
Lol you've both said 'end of story' with absolutely no backup of your opinion or backup to your claim that 'everyone agrees with me too'.You're insane. SOTN is a timeless masterpiece that hasn't been matched let alone topped. Consensus is that it's a classic, end of story.
If roguelike is acceptable, so is SoulslikeSoulslike is fiiiiiiiine.
Just going by the visuals​ and music he never did. Gameplay is arguable, but SOTN is a complete experience.
Lol you've both said 'end of story' with absolutely no backup of your opinion or backup to your claim that 'everyone agrees with me too'.
I have linked to a thread where I detailed my opinion and around 50% of the posters agreed it had some serious flaws and had aged very poorly in many ways. Refute the points I or others have made about the game's serious issues if you want to be taken seriously.
I'd refute but that would be like defending Super Mario Bros or Tetris or Chrono Trigger. They are seminal works that while OF FUCKING COURSE got polished in subsequent iterations, they just created the state of the art.Lol you've both said 'end of story' with absolutely no backup of your opinion or backup to your claim that 'everyone agrees with me too'.
I have linked to a thread where I detailed my opinion and around 50% of the posters agreed it had some serious flaws and had aged very poorly in many ways. Refute the points I or others have made about the game's serious issues if you want to be taken seriously.
It's a terrible name.
What would be wrong with "plaform-adventure" or something?
The Youtuber is overthinking this.
Correct. The term surfaced many years ago and just seemed to stick.
Kinda like "roguelike", "JRPG", etc.
Metroidvania is more specific than MOBA. Multiplayer Online Battle Arena can describe any online pvp game.
I all for coming up with better genre names and descriptions. But, it will never happen.
It's a term of reference most gamers are familiar with. Not everything in the world is cause for insightful, deep academic debate. Fuck.
2D exploration platformer. That's still not really covering map iteration though.It's a terrible name.
What would be wrong with "plaform-adventure" or something?
It's a term of reference most gamers are familiar with. Not everything in the world is cause for insightful, deep academic debate. Fuck.
"Soulsborne"."Like Souls" has to die first.
i can't get past the art on his walls
"Soulsborne".
Fuck off with that BS.
I pray everyday From will release another Souls game without the word Souls (or blood/borne) in it.
Not when people are using it to describe any game with non mashy combat or high damage and rolls, both things that existed since forever.Soulslike is fiiiiiiiine.
Not when people are using it to describe any game with non mashy combat or high damage and rolls, both things that existed since forever.