>ITT games for pseudo-intellectuals

I just thought it looked pretty

One of the best games ever made.

>>715184613 (OP)
>no combat
Lame. 2nd game is much better

>>715184804
Everything about the game is pretentious. From the glossy faux-storybook artstyle to the meaningless orchastra music with the Irish lash singing the equivalent of lalala.

>>715185041
what is it pretending to be?

>>715185041
>Everything about the game is pretentious. From the glossy faux-storybook artstyle to the meaningless orchastra music with the Irish lash singing the equivalent of lalala.
dont know about all that but it was fun

>>715185105
Deep and meaningful. Mario or Cave Story has more integrity.

Doki Doki Literature Club

>>715185348
>Deep

it's deliberate very simple and on the nose

oh man this game is sooooo goood
>Total playtime: 2.3 hours

>>715184613 (OP)
I'm sure you meant to post this OP

>>715186848
Baba Is You always reminded me of a book of crossword puzzles. How is it even a videogame?

>>715185348
It is one of the most generic and simple stories imaginable, especially the second game. At no point is it trying to be deep. All this game is trying to be is pretty and emotional

>>715187815
The game tries to be a redemption story for the genocidal owl.
It fails at that, because her fixing the problems she created in the first place isn't redemption.

You are right that the message of the story IS shallow as fuck. But the game, via the pretentious presentation, wants the audience to think that it is deep. It tugs at the audience with sad music and emotional manipulation so you turn off your brain and don't think "Wait, that owl bitch murdered thousands of Ori's relatives, burned down the forest and extincted species like the Gumon, and now we're supposed to be happy that Ori is taking care of her kid and has a happy mural of her in his house honoring her."

If you found any part of Ori emotionally moving you are a certified idiot.

MGS3 is his best game but also his best story, precisely because it's straight up James Bond with fantasy elements. All the rest drips pseudo intellectualism.

>>715185348
my cock in your ass has more integrity than your post

>>715184613 (OP)
Wdym?
It's just a pretty plateformer with good music and fun powers
Second one has really good combat
There's literally no 2deep4u you shit

>>715186848
The "mechanics" are obnoxious, rely on trial and error, and end up punishing emergent gameplay in favor of what the dev intended which is the opposite of its marketing as thinking outside the box.
It's essentially the video game version of pic related. A game by and for midwits who can't distinguish between intelligence and magic.

>>715185348
It's literally a game you play with your child
It had a beautiful children's book art style

>>715184613 (OP)
the zoomer, much like women, can't imagine people liking something quietly instead of having to pose and bounce their opinions back from online society to build their persona, because they have no actual personality.

that said, it is a pseud game, but only really because of the gay fanbase, which should always be ignored anyway

>>715187042
at least it engages you mentally.
people like to pretend that VN are games, that is much worse

>>715190027
Tell me about it. I hate the devs for patching out creative ways to solve some puzzles because it wasn't the intended way. Fucking retards.

>>715188692
You are literally retarded story is simple and pretty
Kuro's tale wasn't heroic it was tragic and yeah saving and raising her child was the right thing to do atleast in children's book

>>715190330
personally I don't care what people like but I will still look down on them for liking things I think are bad.
I'm not going to imply that they shouldn't like it. I'm not going to argue with them over the perceived quality of the media they consume. I'll just silently judge them and avoid being around them, because I view them as stupid. The way I see it, if someone likes slop, that reflects badly on their character.

>>715190416
Only 8.4% of steam players have "finish the game" that's the bare minimum of completed puzzles. 22 (Twenty two) fucking puzzles out of 250+ that the game has.
Eight fucking percent. It does a bad job at engaging mentally.

>>715190573
Tragic like the Columbine Shooters. Peak Toxic victimhood. And the game unarguably presents it as sympathetic. If you at any point felt a shred of sympathy for the owl you have pudding brains and are easily manipulated.

You keep saying its a children game as an excuse, but why would you want children to learn bad messages?

>>715190523
Truly a shitshow. Despite being antifun and anticreative from the start some people managed to abstract some rules and make their own fun, and additional ad hoc rules were added (just arbitrarily bypassing the previous mechanics) to prevent that.
Truly a peak of midwitry in video games because it isn't just the script of a story but the core gameplay itself that is pseudo-intellectual.

>>715190874
Bad message such as there's more to people and their actions and you shouldn't continue the cycle of revenge?

>Music manipulation
Yeah dude that's how music world goodfellas uses cool shots and music to make henry look like a cool guy

stupid sexy ori

>>715190712
i agree with you on that.

i was more saying that the impression that a game like that is for pseuds, comes from judging a fanbase of people who like to posture online about the things they like and acting like they are special for liking it, by talking a big game about nothing.

but the fact is there are dozens more people who just played it and liked it for what it is. those people aren't pseuds

Mixing platforming with metroidvania Is not a good idea

>>715190840
it doesn't do a bad job at it.
most people are too lazy/retarded to fully engage with anything.

also this has no bearing on the point I was making. completely irrelevant

How does this even pretend to be intellectual? It's a metroidvania with a children's book story

>>715190712
>The way I see it, if someone likes slop, that reflects badly on their character.
I've never known an unapologetic slop gobbler that wasn't an immoral piece of shit desu.

>>715191254
I love it
Tickles my adhd brain
You can go back and forth and become familiar with places and get cool new skills

>>715188692
you're just an autistic virgin loser getting upset at nothing

>>715191184
The problem with Ori 1 is it can't decide if Kuro is supposed to be a force of nature or a character. A force of nature doesn't need forgiveness or reason, but Kuro is shown repeatedly to be choosing their actions and ultimately "redeeming" themselves with a noble sacrifice.

And its wrong, sometimes this isn't more to people than their actions, if their actions overwhelm everything else about it. Kuro genocided Ori's race, the Gumon race, destroyed the forest and only changed her mind when her own interests were threatened.

Its not a message about not continuing a cycle of revenge, because Ori was never after revenge at all, and Kuro got everything they wanted revenge-wise until the very end.

>>715191475
How embarrassing you posted that

>>715191375
you can tell a lot about someone by their preferences. What a person likes and gets enjoyment from speaks a lot to who they are and the values they hold.

i just like metroidvanias, man

>>715185348
You are such a faggot.

>>715184613 (OP)
It's a platformer. There's nothing pseudo-intellectual about it.

>>715191957
its a fucking bird and the gameplay is good who the fuck cares