Thread 717843430

What do retards actually mean when they say "bloated" or "too much content"?

It leads to choice paralysis. It’s a documented mental struggle where if there’s too much to pick from, then people will pick nothing instead (or in this case, play a different game entirely)

>>717843430 (OP)
Minecraft is better

>>717843430 (OP)
Can't think of something to complain so they grasp at straws

ok you're gonna be mad at me for this, i know, but bear with me
imagine you're buying a toolset, it comes with a whole bunch of tools, you're told you're getting real good value for your money, and you're thinking "too many tools can't be a problem", so you get it without looking, open it, and there's maybe a singe hammer, a screwdriver, and then five hundred drillbits. they're all the same drillbit, not different ones either, just the same one. you only need one, so really you didn't get much value, but you can't see you got too little things or that the thing itself has no worth, it's just uneeded there, it's "bloating" the whole package, you would rather have just one extra wrench or something, but you're told "what? ONE measly wrench? you got FIVE. HUNDAH. DRILLBITS. DUDE!" you don't want em, but thanks... i guess...

It overwhelms the weak minded, specifically brown children who actually lost IQ between puberty and adulthood due to Zoomer/Gen A absolutely hopless state of education, experience and basic human development that used to be universal amongst all peoples at all times in all places.

>>717843430 (OP)
>8 bland townspeople to mostly ignore
Desu I'd much prefer that over the ~40 bland townspeople to mostly ignore that we have in the current build of the game.

>>717843430 (OP)
They mean that the amount of content doesn't mean anything. Terraria is at a point where they can't have meaningful progression by adding things, it all blobs together into a mass where you could be doing 3 different things, where before there was a clearly defined setup of moving from point A to B to C. Now we have Y sitting in the middle with no real reason to interact with Y and almost no way for a new player to even know that Y is a thing and they might not even find Y until they have gotten passed it in terms of progression. Now the items from Y are meaningless and don't contribute at all to the feeling of the game.

>>717843430 (OP)
Elden Ring

>>717843780
This but instead of your garbage strawman (why is some alphoid with hollow talon hands and eggshell wrists using toolsets for an analogy? Analogies are already for the extremely stupid) its a nice range of phillips heads with different sizes and length shafts and heads for different uses and those 4 pairs of pliers are for entirely different things and yes the deep sockets are great and no I dont always want some long heavy socket and on and on. What you said is just copying.
What I point out is "bloat" ie too much for a given brain to comfortably deal with.

>>717843780
There's no such a thing as too many drillbits
>t. Had to fuck around with a smaller than what's needed drillbit like 30 mins ago
Also the argument can be reduced to variety
>you would rather have just one extra wrench or something, but you're told "what? ONE measly wrench?
And terraria is by no means lacking in variety of its content

>>717844128
>Your analogy is nice, but instead let me rewrite it so that it doesn't work, ha, now YOUR analogy (I rewrote) is stupid!
Ok imagine this
I give you a pie, you empty the pie contents into the bin and then shit in it and eat the shit pie, then complain that the pie "I gave you" sucks

>>717843430 (OP)
bloatslop

>>717844249
>analogies are for the extremely stupid
>great example why is provided by you
>great example why is provided by me (please craft a coherent and useful response to this jumble of nonsense I know nothing about that Im trying to conflate with some abstract concept I have no understanding of)
>tries a different one
Zoom zoom. Just say what youre thinking directly, bub.

>>717844958
>Zoom zoom
Oh ok, I see why analogies don't work, you can't comprehend analogous concepts because it requires first understanding said concepts and then drawing parallels between them, you can only understand memespeak and buzzwords
In that case I'm not having this discussion, as the kids say, ick boomer your goat has been bathed sksksksk clap on that fleek or whatever
I'm out

>>717843430 (OP)
They mean that there is an excessive amount of comparatively weak content and it would be a better game overall with the fat trimmed. That, or they are just too compulsive for their own good and feel the need to play through optional content even though they aren't enjoying it.

>>717843430 (OP)
Bloated as in 500 red herrings and 2 blue marlins worth of content

>>717843430 (OP)
Install Windows 11 and you'll see

too much content isnt a negative but bloat is
bloat makes it feel like the devs are just padding out the runtime

Ubisoft towers.

>>717843430 (OP)
niggas want to be railroaded on a linear experience because they're too retarded to make their own decisions, thats what they mean

I doubt... you could even imagine it.
>See a bunch of Skeletons guarding a corpse, kill them and find a Poisonbloom in that corpse.
That which commanded the stars.
>See a bunch of Poison Mushrooms guarding a corpse, kill them and find an Arteria Leaf in that corpse.
Giving life... its fullest brilliance.
>See a bunch of Wolves guarding two corpses, kill them and find a Glowstone and a Golden Rune (1) in those corpses.
THE ELDEN RING!!!
>See a bunch of Bats guarding a corpse, kill them and find a Golden Rune (1) in that corpse. Exact same thing happens less than 5 minutes later.
OOOOOHHHHH, ELDEN RING!!!
>See a bunch of Highwaymen guarding a chest, kill them and find 5 Mushrooms in that chest.
Shattered...
>See a bunch of Demi-Humans guarding two corpses, kill them and find 3 Ruin Fragments and a Large Club in those corpses.
By someone...
>See a Giant Miranda Flower and a bunch of small Miranda Flowers guarding two corpses, kill them and find an Immunizing Cured Meat and a Golden Rune (2) in those corpses.
Or something...
>See a bunch of Demi-Humans guarding a corpse, kill them and find a Hefty Beast Bone in that corpse.
Don't tell me... you don't see it...
>See a bunch of Demi-Humans guarding a corpse, kill them and find Crab Eggs in that corpse.
LOOK UP AT THE SKY!
>See a Big Land Octopus and a bunch of small Land Octopuses guarding a corpse, kill them and find a Golden Rune (1) in that corpse.
It burns...

>>717843430 (OP)
>make a giant open map
>copy and paste 200 forts
>have the exact same enemies with the same moves, but slightly bump up their stats as you go
Here's your 100 hour game bro... don't get burnt out and make it feel tedious because you essentially do the exact same thing 90 hours later as you did in the first 5 hours with no variation
Also shoutout to the genre that throws everything and the kitchen sink together, where nothing is really fleshed out, you might try everything once, then never touch those features ever again because killing things is more rewarding and viable than mining/smithing/crafting/farming/tailoring/fishing/cooking/alchemy/forestry/construction/ranching/engineering/driving/horseback riding/etc

they are talking about when they added 10 different 5x5 pixel insects that drop a husk that does nothing
or adding monsters like "floaty gross" that look like they were drawn in 4 minutes in ms paint and serve no purpose
your inventory gets filled with garbage just from walking for 2 minutes

2D Minecraft

Uncs old brains just have an aneyrism when they check the wiki and see that terraria has 5500 items when in reality the game is very linear

More is more. Nuff said

>>717843430 (OP)
>What do retards actually mean when they say "bloated" or "too much content"?
it means they are poser gamers looking for gamer cred, the dont play games and are looking for a excuse not to play a game with a rich amount of content

I miss Fabsol

>>717850160
I never play any game with a runtime longer than 20 hours.

>>717843430 (OP)
I could see it being appropriate for something like Far Cry/ubisoft slop where a lot of the non-story content is just a lot of shit spread out but that all feels dull and the same. Towers and outposts and shit

If 99% of the game content (like in Terraria and pretty much all sandbox slop) is useless then that content might as well not be there, the best games ever made tend to have limited but high quality content

mincrap..

>>717843430 (OP)
>bloatrraria

>>717843430 (OP)
Essentially, where the game has a lot of "content" that doesn't matter at all and provides nothing to the game, but only exists to make the game look bigger than it actually is.
Like imagine if Minecraft got 30 new kinds of ores, but they're only very slight incremental improvements between wood and netherite gear. They have no other differences aside from colour and stats, and only exist to exist, to bloat the game.
Terraria is kinda reaching that point, because everything they're adding is just side content. Although not really bloat imho.