Thread 723786782

Why is Clyde so stupid

he just really likes it down there

Pinky is an input-reading scumbag and I hate him!

he doesn't even have a rhyming name you know that kid's missing a chromosome

He'd rather be fishing. Honestly the most based ghost of them all.

>>723786782 (OP)
clyde is the nortubel of pacman

>>723786782 (OP)
>Targets a tile at the end of a vector double the length and the same direction as a line between Blinky and the tile two spaces ahead of Pac-Man

wut

>>723786782 (OP)
>doesn't even understand why they're there and doesn't really want to be
>refused to play along with the others' faggy rhyming names
>only wants to sow chaos, doesn't even care if Pacman catches him
>makes the other ghosts seethe because he refuses to play by their gay rules
Why is he so based?

>>723787765
Imagine a line connecting Inky and Pac Man, then make it twice as long. The end point on on that line would be exactly opposite of pac man, and Inky aims for that so he'll always have to go through where pac man is to reach where that spot is.

It's like that, but aiming slightly ahead of pac man so he's more likely to block his path

>>723787985
>Imagine a line connecting Inky and Pac Man, then make it twice as long
wut

>>723787985
>reddit spacer redditsplains something he didn't understand correctly

>>723786782 (OP)
he is anxious and shy

>>723787765
The actual answer is Inky aims to be on the opposite side to pacman from blinky. If blinky is on the left of pacman inky will aim to be on the right.

>>723787765
>>723788261
Not sure if I drew it correctly, but this is it.

>>723788570
Wrong.

>>723786782 (OP)
dropped on his head as a ghost baby

>>723788570
>>723788734
yeah I realized where I fucked up. This is what I meant to draw.
There's a great video RetroGameMechanicsExplained all about how the Pacman Ghost AI works

>>723786782 (OP)
It's area denial. a valid strategy

>>723789001
Ah I see it now. that makes a lot of sense.

>>723786782 (OP)
You can tell the order they were created.

>>723789001
Huh, I didn't know the game can actually calculate for direct vectors. All this time I thought Pac-Man still had to calculate per pixel, i.e. through cardinal directions

>>723787765
Just take a webm instead.

Anyway Clyde'a behavior works because it ensures he floats around pacman's radius and can potentially cut off an escape route.

>>723786782 (OP)
Is this why they made his character the stupid one? Kek thats pretty funny

>>723793285
is from the video in question, btw >>723789001

>>723793285
Why did blinky do a circle and let pac-man live?

>>723786782 (OP)

I think people don't appreciate how cool this is enough. The fact that in 19 fucking 80 they gave every enemy a unique AI is wild.

>>723795892
people went to the moon before that. I think you don't realize that.

>>723794914
At that specific moment, Pac-man was actually behind Blinky, so his AI tried to go backwards, but since they can't 180 from their spot(unless they're changing modes) he tried instead to go the long way around.
High level players fuck with the ghosts' AI a lot with stuff like this.

>>723795995

Going to moon is less cool than videogames.

>>723786782 (OP)
a stupid enemy is an unpredictable one
-tsun tsu probably

>>723790251
There is nothing preventing any game from just calculating some basic trig. Except processing power issues but this really is very basic trig and microprocessors are still really fast at the scale of individual calculations, this isn't some vacuum tube room-sized behemoth.

>>723790251
>>723798729
It's not even trig here, it's just basic addition/subtraction of two coordinates.

>>723795892
I think it's because most who've ever played Pacman didn't look into it and just assume the ghosts movements were random. I know I did before reading about it and realising the nicknames given to them are ment to hint at how each one behaved.

>>723786782 (OP)
That was almost my name. My dad really wanted to name me after my mom's granddad.
Ironically, I did still end up kind of named after him. My great grandmother hated the name Clyde and only ever called him John. That wasn't even his middle name; she just gave him a new name.

>>723800132
Only Blinky makes sense, the rest are way too vague. Besides, bashful fits more for Clyde.

>>723787765
>>723788261
if you can picture, imagine a basketball or a small baseball that inflates to be become larger to be the size of a basketball. then quadruple it

>>723786782 (OP)
Clyde is unironically the most likely to fuck up your run.

>>723800132
Which one would you fuck?

>>723800890
Kinky

>>723800319
>Blinky is shaddow because he's constantly shaddowing you, staying on your ass
>Pinky is speedy because she's constantly trying to get ahead of you
>Clyde is pokey because he's constantly poking in and out(?)
That's how I took it when I first heard the names were hints. Inky is the one that doesn't really make sense to me.

>>723801451
NOOOOOO!!! DON'T SUCK MY COCK!!!!!

>>723801451
Slut

>>723795892
>...is wild
>...is crazy
>...is insane
PEOPLE DOING THINGS IN THE PAST, SO CRAZY. TIME IS INSANE BRO, PEOPLE WERE SUCH STUPID NIGGERS BACK THEN BRO, HOW COULD THEY EVER COME UP WITH ANY IDEAS BRO!!!!!!!!!

I genuinely hope the next big war turns all these braindead zoomers into cannon fodder.

>>723786782 (OP)
Clyde is just that based

>>723801027
Pokey is also a word that can describe someone as slow, dull and meandering

Don't they all just switch to Blinky's AI after like 4 rounds anyway?

>>723805842
No? If they did it would make it a lot easier.

>>723802262
Damn this post is crazy

>>723801451
I fucking love the original Pacman cabinet art designs. I wish they'd make a full game that looks like this.

>>723786782 (OP)
Clyde's a better name for the red ghost than it is the orange one.

>>723806737
too sovlful for modern audiences

So was this slop actually any good or what? I tuned out the second I learned it was a metroidvania.

>>723787965
lol

>>723787965
Orange is the superior color

>>723802262
Damn this post is insane.

>>723807013
it has cute girls

>>723802262
Damn this post is wild

>>723807013
>was pacman act zero any good
Lol
Lmao, even

>>723800132
Now that I think about, are their "real" names ever brought up again?

>>723807013
>never heard of this game before
>look it up on Steam
>watch the trailer, mild interest, looks like it could be fun
>mixed reviews
>$30
don't know how to feel about this one.

>>723806828
I know it's because of your sunken cost fallacy from the world games, but doing that completely ruins the joke.

>>723807592
Paulbros...

reminder that there is porn of Mrs Pac-Man getting chomped

>>723786782 (OP)
Because he doesn't exist in a vacuum. Combined with the other ghosts he's very effective.

>>723801451
>effortlessly mogs this pinkette slut
SueGODDESSES, we fucking WON.

>>723786782 (OP)
Reminder that when Pinky catches Pacman she forces herself on him and has violent, aggressive sex with him before killing him.

>>723801451
OWES me sex

>>723800132
People figured out how their AI worked back in 1980 and patterns were devised to take advantage of it. It's part of the reason Midway jumped on hiring GCC to turn their bootleg Crazy Otto into Ms.Pac-Man as people were buying guide books and hogging machines which cost arcade operators money.

>>723793285
Neat

>>723808654
she looks like she has a giant buttchin lol

>>723808098
>chases pac through the whole game when the other ghosts are goofing around with planes and pogo sticks
she's obsessed

>>723801451
>Pinky was male in US media for nearly 20 years
>Even Pac-Land had male Pinky and had Sue there for female ghost rep.
>now Pinky is female in all media and Sue got hasn't been used in ages due to the Ms. Pac-Man IP retardation.so she's probably non-canon now.

HB cartoon also had Clyde as the leader and Blinky as the coward that ran away all the time, like they switched their personalities by accident at some point.

>>723808717
PETAH!!

>>723808654
>>723808717
>>723808897
>This is even worse than the time I sucked off Pac-Man for a power pill!

>>723807013
>>723807486
wait what the hell lol
I skimmed past this a few times on /v/ and never noticed it was supposed to be a Pac-Man game.

>>723808654
Giggity giggity giggity

>>723802262
There is nothing wrong with people appreciating crazy ingenuity in history, anon. It's wild to me that you even felt the need to go on that insane rant when you have no idea how old that person actually is.

>>723802262
Damn, this post is BASED! I agree, king.

BOO!

>>723808654
>I'm happily married.
Welp... So much for that. Time to give Pinky a call.

>>723808654
This is perfectly in character for both of them. I can hear Pac-Man saying that in the dorky-ass 32 year old youth pastor with 2.5 kids who will grow up to hate him voice they gave him.

>>723810993
Pac-Man is a good man, he took the kids after his wife dumped him/kidnapped and sold to third world country by lawyers

>>723786782 (OP)
>pacman thread
/v/ is saved.

>>723807013
It's weird, given the Pac-Man maze segments (bonus levels) it seems to be the remnants of a canceled Pac-Man Championship Edition game with a metroidvania stacked on for other structure

>>723786782 (OP)
SEX WITH PINKY AND MS PACMAN(gonna stop her being a miss and/or missus)

>>723786782 (OP)
Inky is trying too hard, what a fucking sweatlord

>>723802262
damn this post is ultra based, total zoomer death

>>723802262
Das crazy mane

>>723802262
That's fucking crazy man.

>>723801451
She looks like fucks pac-men.

>>723808654
Holy mother of based!

>>723786782 (OP)
If all of the ghosts directly target Pac-Man, the end result is that all of the ghosts will clump up together into single mass effectively making them just a single ghost for Pac-Man to dodge. By having Clyde targeting the lower left area, it makes the Clyde try to attack Pac-Man from a different angle than the other ghosts.

>>723794914
The weak computers don't allow the ghosts to search the entire map for Pac-Man's position. The AI can only try to find the shorter paths to reach Pac-Man. In this case, the optimal path involves moving farther away from Pac-Man and then looping around.

>>723809093
Was in the same boat, but it's the name. Only the O in "Shadow" was shaped like Pac-Man, but easy to miss. The floating pac man is also a back shot. This coming from someone who watched the Secret Level episode.

He knows his performance doesn't matter and he's just punching a time card.

>>723802262
Oh my science what a swagalicious righteous af post. Take all my bacon gentlesir!

>>723819575
all interracial couples

>>723787218
Artificial difficulty. Is anyone else tired of Pacslop?

>>723793285
Can you just draw lines at that time? Is this trace Bresenham? Supercover? I'm a brainlet

What the fuck is this DEI bullshit?!

>>723819823
Yo is that a soi ah reference in 2025? That's shits wild mahn.

>>723820360
I don't think I've ever actually played Ms. Pac-Man even though I've played most Pac-Man games

>>723786782 (OP)
The whole point of clyde is to make it harder to dodge the other two by closing off possible escapes

I'm sorry, what?

>>723788312
newfag

>>723800193
shut up John

>>723800952
im glad somebody remembers Kinky

>>723807419
Actually? First Yars Revenge now pac-man? I thought minus 8 was the only one to lewd pacman
>>723802262
damn man you is acting crazy man, das actually wild shit nigga

>>723822564
pac-man arrangement is my favorite

>>723787965
I bet his real name is some gay shit like Winky, and he said fuck that I'm Clyde

>>723821216
tldr it's a formula that essentially tries to mimic the red ghost's postion, but on a different corner of the map. And as the red ghost moves closer, so does his target destination, and as such, himself.. This gives him the behavior of always trying to flank pacman as red and pink chase him down.

>>723821216
Pincer attack, he's trying to go in front of you while red gets behind you.

>>723807013
I liked it for the most part but since I'm not a big UGCF (I think that's how you spell it) guy, I didn't understand most of the references. I didn't hate the Pac-Man sections though the controls are certainly lacking, they had decent music throughout.
The peak of the metroidvania part was probably Thanatos Valley that had a fun gimmick and reading the Soldier Logs to get the full picture of the planet. That's about it.

What made Ms. Pac-Man such a big deal? My friend always says it made Pac-Man what we know it today but hell if I could tell the difference.

>>723823014
>>723823086
Doesn't Pinky also try to pincer Pacman?

>>723823818
Pinky is just trying to get in front of you regardless of anyone being behind you.

>>723820360
>not ms pacman and galaga
Trash

Which ghost does pacman die to the most? Pinky?

Disregarding the little autistic response of pacman getting boxes in by two ghosts and just choosing which one to die to

>blinky gets faster the most pellets pacman eats
Was this always a thing?

>>723802262
you so cray girl

>>723786782 (OP)
Orange things are always stupid, just look what happened to usa

>>723826095
She lost

>>723806737
>they have holes on their outlines to represent where Pac-Man chomps them
DEEP LORE

>>723786782 (OP)
The purpose of the four different behaviours is to prevent the ghosts from ending up overlapping each other, which is what would happen if they all behaved the same way.

>>723823484
Ms. Pac-Man is the superior game because it's faster. It's like playing DMC with vs without Turbo Mode, you can't go back once you try it.

>>723817738
forsen

>>723802262
God forbid you appreciate the ingenuity of the past

>>723786782 (OP)
Knowing how Clyde works makes it kinda funny when you die to him. Because when you do it's because he wasn't trying to get you, you just ran into him like a dumbass.

>>723801451
I have been summoned.

>>723786782 (OP)
Clydes just like me fr

>>723825087
the ms pacman and galga cabinet actually sucks because it introduced a continue feature the retains score so you can just buy your way onto the high score table