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"We don't consider ourselves a soulslike"

"We are not a soulslike"

if they have to say in their trailers/press stuff

i think a game has ALREADY FAILED

speaking of genres

and everything is too cheap to even try to get close

isaac set a gold standard

we had it way too good peaking with shit like isaac

barely anything changes between runs

i really fucking hate that roguelike has become

as insults

rollslop and parryslop have caught on

i do like calling soulsgames rollslop though

mass produced

which then lowers the stake and the investment of you dying

there's no problem losing if you just come back right away, which is a result of zero down time

lack of downtime also creates an inherit lack of stakes

you do not have to constantly go go go go in a game

and none of them get it right

i think this is so extremely important for any lethal like Spooky Phijkchu and it does a good job managing downtime

using "gem" unironically

it's like band kid tier rhetoric for the internet

i think that rhetoric is genuinely cringe

i will never ever call anything a gem

it doesn't imply bad

it's just a mass produced descriptor now

before friendslop

many years

because slop has been in our vernacular for

i think it's a normie or autism thing

so negatively

people take slop like

the group Minecraft puzzle maps are the same core concept

it's genuinely the same thing

Minecraft puzzle maps did it first

the big walk concept is not new

i also wana say

and its not because lose = bad

but if you asked people if they actually wanted to do pvp its probably no

and i think pvp shooters are a symptom of that there wasnt many other options and they filled that social niche

people enjoy playing stuff with friends but theres barely ever games that cater to that

or stuff like how zombies when it existed blew up massively back in the day

why

i think friendslop is a good showing of

i just think that the fact pve is much harder to do and its much easier to push out a ladder and competative angle that pvp does well

hottake

pvp games

i dont think anyone has actually ever liked

their entire brand exists as "how can we make xyz marketable to socal normies

valorant is a clone