Micolithe
Agender
36 years old
Philadelphia, PA
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Last Login: 08/30/2007

Agender Enby, Trans, Gay, AND the bearer of the gamer's curse. Not a man, not a woman, but instead I am puppy.
I got a fat ass and big ears.

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Yes I did the cooking mama Let's Play way back when. I post alot about Tech (mostly how it sucks) and Cooking and Music and Television Shows and the occasional Let's Play video
💖@FadeToZac

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We all do what we can ♫

So we can do just one more thing ♫

We can all be free ♫

Maybe not in words ♫

Maybe not with a look ♫

But with your mind ♫


last.fm listening



nex3
@nex3

"soulslike is when a game is hard"

versus

"soulslike is when a game has good design"

fight!


margot
@margot

"soulslike is when a skeleton has a sword"


micolithe
@micolithe

soulslike is when i have to use the L1, L2, R1, and R2 buttons to attack or defend with my little guy that's made of rotting flesh


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in reply to @nex3's post:

soulslike is when a game is 3D over the shoulder and punishing (not hard), with single character continuity and a combat design that is well thought through. often has environmental storytelling

arcade games drive for coin drops. their core characteristic is how they are designed around coin drops, this usually means a difficulty ramp that might let you get in a minute and a half or so of play before the real skill demands come out at an unfair pace. '

'hardcore' is a game mode which usually has difficulty variance/risk where permadeath is enabled, and can be layered over many games, although most typically is over games with RPG (esp. wizardry-like) characteristics and/or survival characteristics

roguelikes are punishing, typically with limited resources and typically with permadeath. they often play with uncertainty in the tools given to a player in a specific playthrough (identification, variance)

roguelites are less punishing but share the same rough shape as roguelikes. they often have a meta-continuity that means that a lost run is 'global' progress for the player, even if the run died

good design is an anytime food

tldr: hades is not a souslike, neither are mario games, neither is gradius, neither is metal slug

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