Thread 717105646

Cave Story flew so that every other indie game could roll around on the ground like retards.

How did it then, and continue to, mog every other indie game even ones that have far larger teams and many years of hindsight?

Bait thread.
Faggot OP has been spamming these for a week.
Do not reply beyond this point.

>>717105864
how is it bait

>>717105646 (OP)
inspiration and sincerity. A lot of indies are just gambling for failed millennial who wish to win the jackpot by mindlessly coping some game from their childhood and hoping it takes off. The comparison between Steam and Gambling isn't made often enough but it seems obvious to me.

>>717105646 (OP)
pixel was just built different
someone who is actually good at coding, enough to code a whole game from scratch starting at 1999 is rare enough as it is, but he also
>already was good at drawing
>understood what made games fun
>had a lot of pretty creative ideas for character designs, gameplay features, and general worldbuilding really
>despite having no experience composing, still managed to produce banger after banger (on a DAW he himself created btw)
>and to top it all off he only created the game not for money, nor fame, nor a joke, nor to prove a point but for the simple love of the craft and process
you can at most get 2 or 3 of these traits in any one other famous indie dev you can think of

>>717105864
iliterate faggot

>>717106767
I think of all things I respect about Cave Story, releasing it for free is on top. It's a product of an era of the internet where people would just make things for free for the love of it without any expectation of profit. Before corporations leeched onto everything and started sucking it dry for every last penny. Before the proliferation of hustle culture and "respecting the grind".
This isn't to say that I think modern indie devs are wrong for asking money for their games. I get it. Life is getting more expensive and there are bills to be paid. I just miss seeing cool things being made for the sake of being cool things that people can enjoy and nothing more.

>>717108539
>gambling for millennials

>>717110178
I have no idea what you're trying to say bro

>>717108539
The death of flash was the beginning of the end. These devs no longer cut their teeth on small projects and just shit out overly ambitious and underdelivered garbage, or worse, assetswaps and clones of other games. That last point is really bad even in company-made games. Almost every fucking action game is a soulslike or has soulslike elements in it now just because souls sold so well.

Saw someone comment under a picture of King "is this young Asgore?"

I know it probably be a complete shitshow but god do I want a new cave story game. Let me see my wife again

Outside of the true end, this game did everything right. Seriously you aren't encouraged to look at anything early one which screws you later

>>717105646 (OP)
I don't think it mogs every other indie game. It's rough around the edges for sure. But it has one thing going for it, which is that the story has consequence to it. It achieves that by combining its cutesy art style and characters with jarring deaths and violence. And all of that leaves an emotional impact on the player. There's bitter-sweetness to it. I think that's the most memorable aspect of the game, that a lot of other games struggle to achieve.

>>717106767
Also the whole thing fits on a fucking floppy disc.

>>717113178
It's basically got the same story beats as Owlboy.

>>717108539
I agree, I have a lot of respect for Pixel for releasing Cave Story for free. It is an extremely based move. This is exactly the kind of decision that makes me want to support a developer, that's why I bought Cave Story. I regret supporting Nicalis, but I don't regret supporting Pixel.

>>717112579
Just play Kero Blaster, nigga. ALL of it, not just normal mode.

>>717113262
I haven't played Owlboy, so I can neither confirm nor deny. But I wouldn't be surprised, if Owlboy had taken inspiration from Cave Story. Given that many indie games did.

>>717105864
bait is when good game is called good

>>717113546
Is has the same plot beats of the heroes losing over and over but for some reason it works in Cave Story but not Owlboy.

What are your headcanons? Mine is that the robots don't actually have hair and that they're wigs they have for personal expression. Same with the clothes.

>>717113882
After the game is over, Quote and Curly haves tons of robot sex and have a gorillion children

>>717113882
that Misery used the amulet on the helmet to gain magical abilities but at the cost of following the scientist

>>717113547
Tobias Cocks is such a great video game writer

>>717113882
curly has a womb that accepts the seed of any creature

>>717105864
>we've gotten so meta that liking good game is bait

>>717105646 (OP)
indie games are a trojan horse for globohomo to cover up the success of Cave Story.

>>717113630
>>717115095
dude got mind broken because someone has been making repeated bait CS threads using that same pic for a while.

>>717105864
>Curly poster is too autistic to enjoy a Cave Story thread

>>717113882
Those Curly clones in Wind Fortress are reverse raping Quote when they do that weird pin attack

>>717113547
the radiation fox kneels to the oxism

>>717105864
Bait is the wrong word.
But it is a thread made by a mentally ill discord nigger.

>>717116459
Fucking hate this nigger and his cultists.

>>717116482
Thanks, added it to my filter list

>>717116482
It's a picture from the first page of google. Also, OP is clearly a different tone.

>>717116459
Still puts his characters in there though.

>>717105646 (OP)
check out city of spells if you liked cave story:

https://landoringel.itch.io/city-of-spells

>>717117183
try killing yourself

>>717117183
This looks like garbage and nothing like Cave Story.

onrism gives me the same feelings as Cave Story.

>>717108539
To add to this, dunno if it has already been mentioned, this was back when indie's didnt make ''stream bait'' games to my knowledge.

>>717117780
>>717091948

>>717117836
The first indie game I remember actually coming with a price tag was Aquaria.

>>717117836
Streaming games to an audience on the internet wasn't even really a thing then, so no, there weren't stream bait games. When Cave Story first came out, YouTube wasn't even a thing.

>>717116673
How terrible, him going and telling his fans to go enjoy other indie games. The fiend!

>>717117183
Church is a good place to find a girlfriend? Would she put out?

>>717118301
Cool, so why are they talking about Toby Fox and not the game. "Toby Fox sent me to a youtube page" is not "I downloaded the game and played it." They want to be part of the moment, not enjoy the thing itself and they'll forget about it a day later.

Remember when Zoomers were obsessed with Kate Bush for a week? Or Aeon Flux?

>>717118301
You know just as well as me that none of those people are gonna play the game, or even think about it after posting that comment.

>>717116673
Fans being annoying faggots that can't shut up about swearing their allegiance to their imagined internet daddy wherever they go is hardly the fault of the said internet daddy. It's just the nature of being an annoying faggot. If they didn't latch onto Toby Fox, they'd latch onto someone else.

>>717118527
So what? If even 1% of the zoomers that check out the old thing their favorite e-celeb told them about become actual fans of it, that's cool. The alternative is that they never check out the old thing and nobody cares about it.

>>717119106
But they don't, and they won't. Not to mention the people that come in with that origin are the kinds who make demands of the established fandom. We've seen this over and over again and your idealistic view just doesn't conform to what actually happens.
>The alternative is that they never check out the old thing and nobody cares about it.
The people who get interested organically rather than follow trends of their social-surrogate will be the same quantity and don't cause the damage that the 99% of trend chasers do.

>>717116459
You wouldn't have a tale about an underground without a story about a cave

>>717119681
wtf i hate cave story now?

>>717119681
Technically it's a floating island. Should have been called Floating Island Story.

>>717113529
Kero Blaster is awesome. Underrated gem.

>>717112579
I'm kinda upset that the game lets you save her in the best ending. In the regular ending her dying was the most emotionally potent moment of the game. The fact that you can just avoid that lessens the impact a bit. But I didn't know that the first time I played it, so it was very touching and potent.