/ub/ - Überhengst

>>6038
Maybe the large project I'm trying to write is too ambitious again and has too many moving parts and political themes. So many characters, so many topics to cover. It started life as a low effort shitpost but then I started putting effort in. Now it's huge. And it's nothing like the simple uncomplicated easy premise I started with. I could split the chapters up and release each chapter separately so I can adapt to audience requests and critical reception, but when writing something like this can you really just "bugfix" writing as casually as you could patch out bugs and adjust the power level of game enemies? What if the critics don't criticize my execution of the story's ideas and instead just attack it for not being commie propaganda? I'm not writing an alternate ending where the hero betrays his people or fails to save anyone just because that's what Goblins want to see.

It would be easy to write commie propaganda. It's so normalized in the public's consciousness that it's damn near impossible to go too far with that shit. The commie Far Cry demonized America's treatment of gay-killing commie cuba for the fall of communism and blamed a fictional "fashist" dictator for all of communist cuba's crimes. And also demonized Canada for trading with commie and fashist cuba violating America's restrictions. Watch Dogs Legion pits you against the British Government and "Albion", because of course the alternate name for Britain and her people is used by the mostly white Police State PMC arming and releasing white football hooligans and sending them to attack blacks who dindu nuffin so the evening news can cover the violence and blame blacks. Children too young to watch Doctor Who are brainwashed to believe guns are bad and WW2 Germany equals Dalek. The average idiot thinks "Daaaaa-Lek" when he sees someone who wants to save the people of "Ama-Lek" as the Jews call us. I won't care if idiots despise my story because Jimmy Saville's BBC's goyslop told them guns are bad and it's wrong to use violence to oppose an authoritarian government's dictatorship hell bent on genocide unless you're pretending it's whites who run the world and Amazon sponsored BLMafia thugs are the "resistance". I want to grow in skill as a writer.

It would be better for my wallet if I betrayed my people, but I will never betray my people. Not even in the little ways. Even if it would make me famous for minimal effort I won't write the story of a farmboy who is discovered by Not Gandalf and promoted to Prince because of his superior half aliendragon genes when their peaceful agrarian ideal european homeland and its impossibly peaceful 70% blackness is threatened by the most nazish looking demonic force possible to the point that demonic decorations get in the way of the functionality of vital military equipment. The heroes answer violence with violence and eventually fire a nuclear laserbeam into hell that destroys hell, ensuring everyone gets to to heaven now even the worst people possible. Idiots would love that. Especially if the villain is Vergil, Lord Farkwad, Senator Armstrong, and Leo whitefang's lovechild dressed up in Hugo Boss's finest. If he can't go ten seconds without quoting Hitler or barking at an irrationally devoted morally conflicted subordinate for not sufficiently loving him and their country it will be everything they're used to. It's extremely stupid. And it would be better recieved than anything that speaks openly of wanting to save your people from annihilation. I could get rich writing for the Goblin but I won't. I'm writing for me.

My story is a story of heroism in the face of impossible odds. A story of triumph over evil. A story with a protagonist who isn't an overpowered cunt this time. It's not just the story of one man any more.

Writing this story is an immense challenge, I'm taking it seriously, and I won't give up.

>>6042
>Writing this story is an immense challenge, I'm taking it seriously, and I won't give up.
Godspeed, Anon.
Remember that Autism is both your greatest strenght and weakness. It's a matter of discipline and direction. I trust you can harness it to create something greater with it.

Writing this story will take a long time. And I will need to grow as a writer before I am ready to complete and perfect it. Many revisions and rewrites will be needed over a long period of time. In the meantime, I should experiment with smaller, simpler, less ambitious tales. Better to get those smaller story ideas out of the way now, make them the best they can be. My girl looked through my sketchbooks with me and saw my monster girl art. Nothing fucked up. I don't draw fucked up shit. Just anatomy studies and character design ideation mostly. I like drawing with a pencil. No idea if I'm any good, but I like doing it. She really liked this one character... A rejected design for the protag's adopted little sister during the draft where she was going to be a horse girl and not a wolf girl. This horse girl should get her own story. Something simpler with a smaller number of political topics, something more accessible to newcomers. A nice black and white tale.

Talking about the story feels more interesting than talking about the gameplay side of things now. I know what I like and what I'm after when it comes to fucking with numbers. This might not be perfect but I can fuck with numbers to get them closer to what I had in mind. I know how the changes I've implemented push for tactical resource management to survive seemingly unbeatable odds in the moment with your backs against the wall over waltzing in with a paired up solo cheat unit while everyone else watches or grinding for 20 minutes to 2 hours per map between important story beats holy shit how does anyone have the patience for playing fire emblem that way? Get OP and that isn't a strategy game any more, you're pissing on the chessboard to push enemies off the board. But I'm proud of three gameplay innovations in particular. One, a mystery gimmick unrevealed for now. Two, shields. And three...

I start the story with a chess match. War Chess. Emblem Chess. Advance Chess. Chess Emblem. Emblem Wars. Name pending but I'm leaning towards Emblem Wars. A brief tutorial on how "the game of emblem wars" is played in universe after the most recent rule patch familiarizes new and old players with how the unique units on my board work. Character learns how to play chess, player learns how to play the game itself. Including how the new characters work. It would be weird for a childhood friend of the protag to spell out "I am an archer, I move 5 spaces per turn and shoot foes between 1 and 3 spaces away while denying even point blank counterattacks from melee foes unless they are also using ranged weapons like Javelins and Throwing Axes, also my range is enhanced further based on my Skill stat so I can eventually snipe foes from half the fucking board which is good because archers have one job and suck balls at it without these buffs".

But in a board game played by the protagonist early on? It makes sense. Just like starting things with a flash forward to action in the future or better yet a dream sequence full of action. Easy combat to give the player a taste of godhood they will intentionally never feel ingame outside of dream sequences. And sandwiching this tactical chess gameplay between scenes of worldbuilding helps put more action in the opener before the war starts.

I intended to use the idea of a chess tutorial for a moment where the protagonist of my big story learns emblem chess quickly and beats some guy at a bar for food money, letting his foe put extra pieces on the board in return for a bigger reward if the hero wins. But explaining abstract videogame concepts through the visually familiar language of board games before they are needed for primary gameplay seems like a great idea. It can work there. It can work here.

>be protag training swordfighting techniques
>bitchy rival tells you to come at him
>hit him hard
>he fucking stabs you
>call a healer over and get healed
>the cunt stabs your healer
>nonfatally but still holy shit
>healer heals herself
>kick cunts ass because he was not healed
>this combat tutorial covers attacking, getting counterattacked, healing, and the importance of protecting your very squishy healer

That's moment is definitely going into the game. But a chessboard tutorial lets me explain everything all at once and promise the player there will be unique classes and gimmicks, even ones that have no reason to be on characters that will be playable early on.

By the time the war starts, the player does not need to have their ears stuffed full of shit like "Archers are better than they will ever be in Flier Emblem: Three Non Dragon Riders aka your dancer and healer and lord" or "Healers can promote into Combination Healer and Offensive Spellcasters, Armoured Healers on a Horse, and Armoured Healers without a Horse".

One retarded roommate I'm forced to live with disconnected my mini-PC from my TV because "It was fucking with the TV signal!" then threw a tantrum when I asked who did it.
Everyone else I talked to was confused when they saw the PC disconnected. But this guy? His tantrum, he takes it personally and makes retarded excuses for his choice to fuck with my stuff, it's him.
And this fucking guy... Imagine thinking a turned-off old office PC can fuck with a television signal in any way! The fucking thing isn't magnetized or magic!
I know he hates hearing "No" almost as much as he hates hearing "Here's why you're wrong", but holy shit, what he believes to be true is not physically possible.
Bad weather has fucked with our TV signals for brief periods of time before, and bad weather will fuck with our TV signal for brief periods of time again. It has nothing to do with this small PC.
It is not physically possible for a HDMI cable plugged into an old office PC switched off at the plug to fuck with a television signal.
I told him he's wrong, and he got huffy yet cautious. He's far more aggressive with the other men and women in his life, but with me... He fucking knows. He knows not to push me too far. He knows there's a limit before he is forced to tone down his wannabe tough guy persona even more than usual to avoid a broken nose or broken finger, but he's also not smart enough to realize why he hesitates to go full retard around me. So he half-heartedly half-asses his usual violent cowardly negroid persona.
Why do subhuman "White Negroes" like him with IQ lower than most breeds of dog and ape view Technology as this mysterious magical black box that you can never truly objectively know anything about?
The superstitious retard saw his precious TV signal get fucked with, it hurt his ability to watch Dangerous Real Cops: On The Front Lines Of The War On The Poor or whatever catchier title it's got, and he started unplugging and switching off random bullshit around the room until the bad weather passed. Then the retard made the connection in his "brain" and isn't willing to be told no lying down.
I'm the guy who put this PC together. I know its fucking capabilities better than a superstitious ape. Sure, all I did was replace some parts with slightly better ones, but when I was fucking with its internals he was looking at me with a mix of the confusion and awe of an ape watching a card trick for the first time and the hesitancy of a sober man watching his overconfident drunk friend fuck with an IED. Asking me if I know what I'm doing, if I'm sure this will work, like he expects the fucking thing to explode. He should watch fewer soap operas about old shouty whores and more factual shows about how things work and how they're made.
He expects to always have his way. Even when he's being completely fucking unreasonable. If you disagree with him, he starts saying some obnoxious sentence starter with a loud clear authoritative tone, and then he pauses to let his brain catch up with his mouth and try to contrive an excuse for him to think he's right. He's so pathetic and huffy whenever he's questioned, even for a second. So agitated, so aggressive, so growly and whiny. He's not used to being questioned, and he thinks he's being fair when he huffs and puffs stabbably and claims he "Doesn't want any arguing". Is that the way his mother talked to him when he was six, his mother told him to take a bath, and he wanted to whine that he didn't want to? That's how childish and feminine he is, but if you call his bluff and say "If you want your argument with the facts to end, respect reality and understand why I'm right" he'll run away from the big man as fast as possible. He'll run with his tail between his legs. Then he'll hoot and howl and smack objects around in his pathetic bedroom. It's scared someone before, probably, but he knows what trying to fuck with me will get him. His pillows and shelves and door don't fight back, so he runs to them. I talked to a girl he was "dating" (he takes her to dinner, she eats then leaves, he tells himself this relationship is going well) and all she wanted to talk about while he was on the shitter upstairs (he's not using my toilet, alphas don't let betas use their toilets) was what a total faggot she thinks he is. She didn't even want to talk about my videogames. I felt bad for him just hearing her vent her frustrations about him, and all the silly stories about the scenes he caused for her at restaurants while she wished the floor would just swallow her whole. There was a moment where I thought she was coming on to me and I told her I'm taken but she rolled her eyes, she wasn't coming on to me lmao oops. Anyway she dumped him. He sulked and listened to gay emo shit and growled about hating women despite his virtue-signalling about "the incel threat". fag.
His father never spanked him as a child, so he dares others to remind him he's not invincible. But he can smell danger on me. He knows he'll never be able to look at himself in the mirror if he ever sees himself with cotton up his nose. He's the most negatively, toxically feminine guy I've ever met. Even if he was a sexy woman I'd want to leave him, because that's how unbearable he is. And he's not a sexy woman, he's an ugly narcissist obsessed with the gayest clothing imaginable because deep down he knows the expensive clothing is all that makes women think he's a higher-status male than he is before his cringe beta "cry in a bathroom because college is sooo stressful and the teacher told me i'm wrong, I fucking HATE! HER! and I hope she gets molested!" stink drives them away. Yeah, that's the kind of shit he says when crying to people who really expected more from him. Can't imagine why they would. Everybody who knows him wishes they didn't. I fucking hear the regret in his mother's voice when he loses his temper with her and shouts platitudes at her, and if he could hear it too maybe he'd stop thinking he's God's gift to women.

I'm not an inherently violent guy. I'm not the type to be hostile towards someone for no reason. I'm fine not being the dominant force in the room. I don't like hurting or intimidating people. I'm good in a fight, but that doesn't mean I go out of my way looking for fights. I'm not a helpless man. I'm not a toothless gutless coward. I'm a good man. His niggery behaviour, especially when he starts trying to make his inability to handle adult feelings your problem... He's not a good man. Or much of a man at all. He's used to people rolling over to avoid upsetting him because he's used to soft people, and he can sense I'm not one of them. He's never been cornered and forced to fight his way out of a bad situation. He's never had to fight for his life despite his injuries. It's been a very long time since I've ever had to fight for my life. Sometimes I wonder if I'll forget how to go into that mindset some day when I need it. But I'll never forget how those moments felt when I was there. I don't like how that mindset feels. How it feels to just push everything personal and emotional back like pushing hair out of your eyes, to just focus on solving problems. Weighing choices. Looking around for escape routes and tools. It doesn't feel like some magical powerup straight out of an anime. It feels cold. That's not who I want to be. I'll be the problem solver for somebody I care about if that's what it takes. But I've been there long enough to know it's not something worth composing songs about. There's more to a good man than what he must become when his life is on the line.

Another day of hard work and hard exercise. When I took my underwear off the sweatmark my cheeks left looked like a dick and balls! I'd take a picture but pictures of underwear are lewd so I can't ever do that.

It's kind of weird to make notes on my phone for later when I am out in the wild. Here I am on a big hike and what do I do? Write ideas for book stuff and game stuff. I'm always thinking. Even when trying to take time off to relax, what do I do? Hike for hours, come home at practically fucking midnight freezing my adorable cheeks off, and write my ideas on my phone when resting. When I confessed to my girl I feel guilty when I take time off to read recreationally, she said that's one of the saddest things she's ever heard and I should make the protag of my book say that. But about himself, not about me, of course. My protag doesn't know I exist. He grew up reading fictional books that are doubly fictional to me. Because it is FUCKING WEIRD when alien elves in an alien otherworldly realm use human slang terms and tropes and cultural concepts in conversation. The alien who has never read a single human novel shouldn't say his holy grail is the bluepilled white whale that Batmanned his parents and scapegoated him and sent him down the rabbit hole. At that point you might as well make Hitler talk about Fortnite and the mating dances of flumerian blorpos on blozarko prime. He has no fucking reason to know what these are. Elves 4000 years ago have no fucking reason to make a Jojo's reference or a Shakespeare reference.

My notes are a schizophrenic mess full of abbreviations. Barely any organization. Tragic writing about how "Granddad died working down the mines, told his son on his deathbed to never mine and make sure his kids never mine" and "Dad doesn't believe in son" and "Hero has accepted some of the lies of society and believes he is worthless if not sacrificing himself or helping somebody, dad takes it further and views the purpose of life to sacrifice for a system that hates him, big dad wrongfully encourages his smart son to give up on being smart and striving for better things" right next to "earth beats lightning beats air beats earth" and "in fights faster guy should get another attack in per 5 speed points he has over attacker? Or just when faster guy initiates combat? Reduce power of each extra attack made? Test later".

I am sure the greatest innovation in MMORPG game design will come when they stop trying to be world of whorecraft and start trying to be manlier games like Dark Souls and DMC and Monster Hunter
AND
introduce a system where you can fill slots in your party with AI companions just as good as the average human player.
You will never struggle to find party members to run dungeons with you. No egomaniac tanks or healers who view dps as brainless replaceable subhuman automatons to compensate for their own inadequacies. You won't find yourself unable to do dungeons appropriate to your level while your friends are 2 months behind you in power and everyone else is 6 months ahead of you in character level or gear level.
The only people bothering to play with other people... will be the people who WANT to make friends and enjoy the game with others.
Make the social aspect aka interacting with humans as optional as the antisocial aspect aka killing players of other humans.
Games make these dedicated pvp battlegrounds and pvp enabled zones and places where you can kill other players but get punished for it, because they dont want to dedicate themselves to being full on always-pvp games.
MMOs are retarded because in good games like Dark Souls and DMC you must mitigate incoming damage through evasion or blocking while killing the enemies, healing yourself if you fuck up. MMOs take the duties a single man can handle and split them up amongst 4 or 5 or 10 or 20 or 40 players, maybe more. Everyone gets their own bite sized portion of easy gameplay. Just click the glowing icons when they glow because of RNG based talent trees filled out with the meta picks dictated to you by youtubers, and your character will handle minimizing incoming enemy damage by getting as much of it as possible on the tank, negating that damage with heals, or damaging foes so they die before your healer runs out of mana or some Enrage Timer triggers godmode for the bosses or you're kicked out of the dungeon for taking too long or somebodys IRL bullshit fucks the raid up.
MMOs assume there will always be millions of idiots willing to numb their brains on the same game out of 100s with the right combination of classes and right level of power on at the same time speaking the same language. But the progression treadmill design of these games means that if you start playing new guilds that take the game as seriously as you and play with you during the times you can spend online might not want you until you're already better geared than them, know more of the game than them, and have more hours grinded and cash wasted ingame than them. No wonder so many guilds end up full of egomaniacs Discord moderators would laugh at. These MMOs try to hook whales with the fear of missing out so they can never stop escalating numbers. Player skill is redundant in these dumb gay games for babies. I am prejudiced against MMOs because they remind me of world of warcraft. But also because world of warcraft is gay it's holding the genre back.
Watch Josh Strife Hayes. I don't know if he hates Jews or not but I like his videos on MMOs. Almost every mistake in these MMOs comes from trying to be the next WoW, the next Minecraft, or another typical piece of korean grindshit. Fuck grinding. The only thing a man should grind are blades and his wife's ass. Why do the koreans love grinding so much? Grind for muscles, not imaginary bitches in Isekai Demon Waifu and World of Whatever Online. MMOs are full of mistakes made trying to imitate warcraft instead of iterating on and improving it. Nobody wants to be the better warcraft for smarter people. They want to be the gayer warcraft for dumber whales with fatter wallets. The cash shops and other disgusting forms of monetization aren't mistakes, they're design decisions. And affronts to God. These gay retards dont know how to design good videogames but they chose to hire experts in the field of scamming gay retards out of their money to help make their scam better at scamming money out of gay people obsessed with Bridget from Guilty Gear's cock.

Maybe I'm overthinking this story and getting too ambitious again. It doesn't have to touch on every topic. Just the important ones. I should cut less important ones like the anti smoking message. Smokers wouldn't smoke if they had enough soul to not choose addictive drugs that bring fleeting pleasure over the lasting deep satisfaction of doing the right thing. This game needs horse ass, good writing, authenticity, and several hard mode and easy mode difficulty options. It's enough to write something simple and fun about saving the day from evil. No need to get caught up in all the real life inspired darkness that would make a soycuck piss his pants and flee for his pillow fort crying about edgyness. I'll save darkness for the sequel and make a light story.

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The problem I see with your creative process is that much of it sounds like isolated ideas. Ideas which simply do not consider the "big picture" of the story you want to make.
As some others have pointed out, you tend to lose focus.

As per this specific idea.
>Is it retarded for me to literally invent good minorities and countries that can be our allies in our struggle for survival.
I think a story with this concept, has a greater chance of clicking with the normie than a story without it. And am not just sayin' that out of castizo futurism or some shit.

>>6151
I think you're right. I'm getting distracted by ideas that might be neat, distracted from the big picture. Today I fucked around with videogame numbers and character class ideas while listening to audiobooks on writing. Also got groceries, exercised, ate healthily, did shit that's not worth mentioning when it's so routine. Hard to believe I used to be a fat fucking retard.

I have a vague idea in my head of the big pictures. One light and cheerful story about slaying evil to free a fantasy world. And then another one, a darker and grittier and more ambitious one closer to our reality despite the tactical sword and sorcery action. The first story with its chosen ones and combat schools preparing teens for war and magical weapons only the holy can wield and good noble families... In the sequel it will be revealed to be a fantasy book the hero grew up reading, and this hero is no chosen one destined by prophecy to save everyone, just a dangerous good man with no other option. They messed with his family, corrupted his country, destroyed his home. His world wouldn't be this shit if there were any good noble families like the ones in his favourite book. If they helped stop the realistic problems of his world, "Where were they all this time?" would be on everyone's minds.
I think that's something Arcane fucked up when it asked made Piltover as bad as it was. It's a city of corrupt assholes who put profit and comfort over doing the right thing. Every second the status quo stands for is another second somebody in the undercity is choking on poisonous gasses and pollution from Piltover. Making things better for the Undercity would be as easy as setting limits for how the cops can behave and working to reduce pollution in the city or giving it independence and letting it solve its own problems, Silco or no Silco. Jayce effortlessly finds corruption in his council with a day's effort and then to preserve his power he "has" to give in and embrace the corruption and cut sweetheart deals instead of going to Heimer and getting the corruption he's blind to exorcised. Heimer is eventually removed from power but only once the entire council is behind Jayce- Fuck I'm getting distracted.

I feel like my grimdark low fantasy ideas are too dark for the noblebright high magic fantasy ideas, and vice reversa, so I should split this up and save the bigger creative risks and darker subjects and harder battlefield challenges for the sequel. My first one should focus on fun, without completely abandoning story.
One proofreader said "Like how Advance Wars started off all cartoony and then did a gritty reboot?"
That concept isn't restricted to this series and I don't intend to ever treat war as lightly as the early Advance Wars games. People die, war is bad, people die when they're killed and there will be no Andy VS Eagle "Now that we've won the war against aliens, let's fight for fun and kill 10x the troops we lost in that final battle in the name of our rivalry as best friends!" moment, and no Feroxi Guard "Fight us and kill us all to prove you're who you say you are and get us on your side or whatever, even if some of your troops permanently died nonlethally slaughtering us to the last man" bullshit. If there's ever a story battle where permadeath is supposed to be off I'll change the dialogue and permadeath level appropriately like in FE 3 Houses.

>>6153
Just ask yourself whether something "mixes" well with the rest of the story. It's kinda like cooking. I think...
>In the sequel it will be revealed to be a fantasy book the hero grew up reading
That sounds interesting tbh. I imagine the contrast between the two would make for an interesting marketing campaign.

Modern political discussions feel like I'm arguing about what happened in a book with someone illiterate who only watched the movie remake of the movie adaption of the book.
>>6154
So far the bird and fish people mix really well in my story. Helps my world feel like it's bigger than just "One race and the baddies".

Can't believe there's fucking sonic.exe spooky face bullshit in Touhou Gensokyo Reloaded when you try putting in new characters. "An irregularity has been detected in the game files! oooOOOOooooo reversed music, big grins and blood, how scary!". Thought we as a species grew past this kind of shit when we got too old to find slenderman and doki doki bitch club scary.

Seems the only people whose favourite Beastars character is Haru are horny people who want to fuck her and femoid whores who feel validated when they self insert as the reason a better written protagonist started being a hero.
I think it's because Haru is boring.
A monster who doesn't want to be a monster is interesting. If he sees himself as a monster but shouldn't, that's interesting. A prey creature who doesn't want to be helpless is interesting. When there's tension between two sides of a character, that's interesting. The best written superheroes have alter egos that matter so their human lives as ordinary people can matter and conflict with their hero life. Spiderman would just be another disposable superhero with another animal gimmick if it wasn't for the themes of responsibility and power, and how being Peter matters. Whether the character is a superhero or not, the audience needs something to latch onto.
A man who goes out and acts heroic can get into all sorts of interesting adventures and find all sorts of interesting questions he may struggle to answer.
And Haru is at home, being boring. Or she's whining about Legosi not making the first move often enough or disappearing to go and fight crime or whatever.
Haru feels like a half baked idea. Sometimes she has to verbally remind the audience, "I'm a character! I'm interesting!" But the author wouldn't feel the need to do that if the character had something to do in this story besides being desired by Legosi.
Whether the idea of a woman who has given herself up to countless men just so she can feel in control of something for a change appeals to you or not, she doesn't have anything to do in her story besides get captured sometimes.
Louis has his Louisness, his character arc, the lions, all the wacky adventures he gets into. Juno entered a room when anti carnivore sentiment was at its highest and effortlessly got everyone to get along, and dominated that school festival thing. I'm not in love with her but a carnivore woman who wants to be loved by carnivore and herbivore society is more interesting than Haru the rabbit girl who is... there, I guess.
Juno seems controlled by society's lies sometimes(we were probably supposed to disapprove when she said racial segregation seems pretty based), and a woman who wants to get the man to use him for something is probably a classic female love story trope because that seems like an excellent way to contrast her idea of love and any manipulative games she plays with the lead heroine's innocent true love of the hero and any scenes involving her losing to other women at female mindgames by being too innocent and pure.
Juno seems to be a better written female character in comparison to Haru, or at least a more interesting one.
Maybe I'll eat my words a few chapters later when she starts being interesting. Haven't read it all yet.
But there's no tension with Haru being born a cute little protected rabbit girl and choosing to exist as a cute little protected rabbit girl who's also horny.
When you want to accomplish something and you set out to do it, that's interesting. Especially if it's something you aren't physically or mentally built for. Judy was a small weak bunny who wanted to be a cop and take down criminals. What does Haru want? What is she willing to risk or lose to get it? How does this drive her forward and make her interact with the other characters and the core plot?
Maybe the show would have turned out more interesting if Haru was a wannabe journalist or wannabe cop who helped with the initial devouring case and wanted to close down the black market or take down one of the major crime families in it. She might start out thinking all bad carnivores need to be "brought to justice" and locked away in horrible conditions before growing and coming to realize society and socioeconomic factors are to blame and restorative justice can work better than punitive justice in this setting if the author wants it to. It would add something to this character that feels missing, though I'm sure a million other writers have their own ideas for what could have helped Haru as a character.

Three houses is FUCKING GAY
it has good ideas and fucks up too many of them
There'a a mock battle between the Three Houses: Slytheravenclaw, Griffindor, and Hufflepuff.
Then they fight for real later on, trying to kill each other. The trailer bait shots hype this up. "Once, we fought here as friends! Now, we fight here as enemies!"
But when we get to that scene...
The characters are supposed to be fighting and killing each other for no reason because "It's so foggy we can't tell who is who". And then the map is fucking clear. No fog. No fog of war effect where the map tiles are greyed out and enemies are hidden if they are outside the vision range of your units.
And when two characters fight, they recognize each other and say something like "I wish we didn't have to fight" or "I'll fucking kill you, you little shit, how dare you abandon our side and fight for their fucking side" and then proceed to fight.
They act like ideology or war compels them to fight, they don't act like a mysterious fog is forcing them to be unable to see who is who before or after the fight.
Why not just give Claude an actual motive for wanting to work against Dimitri in this battle?
Perhaps he thinks fucking Dimitri's forces up while they fuck Edelgard's forces up will put his Worcestershire Alliance in the perfect position to be the dominant power on the condiment- I mean continent. Then in the end his dad turns out to be a bastard who wanted to dominate the continent through war, forcing Claude to fight his dad with your help and maybe kill the old fart. It'd make more sense than locking the fight with Nemesis behind this route choice of all fucking route choices.
Edelgard is pretty cool as far as Lelouch Vi Britannia inspired idealists willing to kill for their ideals go.
And the Dimitri shit...
He goes off the fucking deep end and gets the typical japanese psycho character personality. A Joker wannabe only pissed off. Then he feels bad about being cringe and gets all sad.
Dimitri fights for the status quo whether he realizes it or not. You can't denounce revolution for the blood it would spill without ignoring the blood routinely spilled in the name of preserving the status quo. But instead of making him a hypocritical retard like Suzaku or Cornelia from Code Geass they make him a mad dog obsessed with vengeance, yet for some reason he has no respect for Edelgard's need for vengeance against the system that wronged her, her family, and countless others?
Dimitri was motivated to find out who killed his family at Duskull or whatever but then he decided it had to be Edelgard and investigates this no further, and because she never thinks to say "Those Who Slither In The Dark aka the TWISTID did it, I'm working with the underground futuristic mole people who killed our god's mommy and made sick magic weapons from her bones and infused her magic DNA into some people to create Crests aka Holy Blood aka Kekkei Genkai but when we're done with their proxy war on the church I'm turning on them for mutating me with two Kekkei Genkais and killing my family, you can help" they have to kill each other for the sake of tragic emotion bait rather than a logical coherent story.
It feels like this story was rushed. Maybe if it had seven years of development time they could have figured this stuff out.
Then again Arcane had seven years of development time and they still had weird moments in the writing.
That cop guy fucking hated the Undercity. Why did he chloroform and save Vi and say "He'll kill you", only to drag her off to Stillwater Prison so she can be held without due process, beaten regularly, and locked up indefinitely without a crime on her record? She and her friends ran from cops, hurt some cops when fleeing, and accidentally blew up part of a building when breaking into a Piltover penthouse and robbing it. Vi has done crimes that could have been on her record to keep Caitlyn from asking questions about that.
It's as if they knew he had to do this so the plot could happen this way, but they didn't realize him "saving her" and dragging her to a hellish prison didn't make much sense. But if he chloroformed her and said "Gotcha, you little rat... Everything that happened tonight is your fault... And you're going away for a long time" that would have made more sense.
Fundamentally who the hell is that cop guy supposed to be? He's classist for no reason (expected him to say his wife was killed and robbed on a trip to the Undercity, maybe she went down there to help her for bonus irony points) and inconsistently unsure about what kind of person he wants to be. He's easily the show's weakest part.
At least with Jinx reflexively shooting her third dad for trying to kill her sister (he wanted to take away her ability to choose anyone but him, he was a bastard right to the end) you can understand why this mindfucked girl would shoot a rocket at Piltover thinking that's what he wanted when really he just wanted to scare them into giving his land peace, even though all that fear he wanted to cultivate scared them into thinking the Undercity wanted Piltover's destruction.

Everyone loves Blaze from Sonic The Hedgehog.
It's a fanbase defined by its fractured nature and reputation for aggressively arguing with itself, something alien to most consoomers.
If you like the 2D and hate the 3D you'll probably hate when the 3D becomes like bad 2D but in 3D.
Sonic is Mario but furry, fast, and full of safe marketable 90s "attitude" if you want to be needlessly reductive.
Silver Sonic is the obligatory robot fake Sonic and so is Metal Sonic and Mecha Sonic.
Knuckles, Shadow, Jet, Silver, Blaze, all of these rivals take the same template of the edgy rival and do something different with it.
Knuckles starts out tricked into working for Eggman just like Shadow and Jet, before they realize Eggman is the baddie.
But Silver starts out working for hedgehog mephistopheles which is totally different I guess. He's a future trunks ripoff.
Jet is just the typical sports movie smug asshole.
Shadow had his memories fucked with and blah blah blah Space Colony Ark blah blah Maria and Black Doom blah.
But Blaze is unique as far as Sonic rivals go because even though nothing about her is inherently original, and she even rips off Espio's visual gimmick of spinning like a top instead of spinning like a wheel, and even though her backstory is a multiple choice question before the retcon, people like her because she never goes through the generic smug evil rival phase.
When she opposes Sonic it's because she thinks this is her responsibility and hers alone. She changes, not by changing goals, but by realizing she and Sonic had the same goal all along.
It's a shame the entire dimension she comes from is so boring. 90% water and barely anything to do. Her main villain Eggman Nigger is just an Eggman coloured wrong.
Seems the best "heroes of their own story" kind of characters have their own villains to oppose when they aren't showing up in the main character's story.
And who they oppose, how they oppose them, and why can say a lot of interesting things about them.
Would have been cooler if instead of the boring eggman recolour her main villain was some cool unique villain uniquely tied to the unique setting and world she came from. Would have been cooler if her world felt more like its own world and less like Sonic's world only in Encore Mode.

My girl and I have so many cute moments I'm not telling anyone about. These are my memories. Nobody elses. She loves me. It would be wrong for me to give the world live updates on our sex life. Some people rush for a phone the second something happens to them so they can tell their social media stream about it. But I won't even tell people the pet name I gave my darling. You don't need to know how often we do things together or what we have done. There will not be a bingo card full of relationship milestones like first fight and anal intercourse and argument over food. Nobody is gambling over the bingo cards where everyone makes their own bingo cards full of shit they expect to hear about in my relationship and putting down money at the start while picking a charity so the first guy to get bingo has all the money go to his chosen charity. My girl isn't high stakes RWBYngo. I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself and my ancestors and God. Drawing horse thighs for my sword and sorcery anime titty chess game is the kind of thing I should talk about while working on this game. My first game will focus on being a fun game with a fun story and my second game will focus on being a good story with a good game. Gonna draw some big fuckin boobs for this one.

Man, writing something that speaks to the hyperborean aryan spirit through the medium of sword and sorcery chess and big titty monster girls while still being a fun videogame and a good story even if you ignore the politics is hard.
I'm going to go back to work on that Sonic fangame for a while, writing a good Sonic story is so easy Sega employees actually managed to accomplish that about once or twice over thirty years.
I need more experience as a writer before I tackle something this ambitious.
Sonic 06 was killed by its overambition after all. and incompetence and bad decisions and other things.
fucking seriously sonic 06 came out in 2006 and people discovering this for the first time through 20 year old Let's Plays are STILL saying "wait if Mephiles can time travel to wherever he wants whenever he wants AND he can just fucking shoot sonic in the heart from behind to make elise cry to release iblis, but letting elise die on Eggman's ship will also release Iblis, why did he fucking bother getting Silver and Sonic and Shadow involved in this convoluted mess of a plot when he could have just shot everybody in a row at 3AM? Characterization can explain why Eggman feels the need to "Defeat" Sonic instead of simply cheating, but Mephiles lacks any concrete characterization beyond what we infer and make up based on his retarded choices. Guess he was just that big a sadist, I suppose, it's all that can justify his retarded choices. Why didn't they think to make Mephiles a sealed-away spirit who tempts others into making horrible choices until one of those choices eventually frees him and allows him to start doing his evil plan shit himself?"
This was clearly the first draft of a story that desperately needed another revision or twenty.
This writing is below the standards usually set by Sonic games and their dedication to the Fallout standard- I mean the SEGA standard.
bernooli.
fuck, this was cursed from the start.
they only gave themselves two years to make "the biggest best sonic game ever" despite how 3D (and worse, increased demand for prettier graphics) made development slower and more expensive (did I mention they started designing these games before the consoles they were going to be on were even out yet?) because nobody thought to gain a few extra years of development time by having another company make Shadow The Hedgehog, but then halfway through development Masturbation Samurai or whatever his fucking name was quit the company and half the team was pulled away from Sonic 06 to make Sonic and the Secret Rings, a party game with bad temple run gameplay as the single player mode. Also even though Blaze's game Sonic Rush was already out, making her a princess from another dimension, they remake her in this game as a time traveller from the future who sacrifices herself by sealing a fire monster inside herself even though this never comes up again and she already had fire powers.
Sega had playtesters, right? Adult playtesters, and kids for focus-tests, right? Sega should have ran all its dumbest decisions by a small child aged ten or up first, to see if it was blatantly retarded or not.
Sonic 06 ends in everyone collectively agreeing to pretend this never happened, hitting the time reset button. Like an old Greek play getting so fucked up and messy and convoluted, only the Deus Ex Machina of the author coming down on a machine's crane can set things right.
Maybe the franchise would have been better off if 06 never happened.
Or if Unleashed didn't ruin 3D Sonic by trying to combine Mach Speed and Boost gameplay to make the dumbed-down modern boost formula, missing everything that made boost interesting in Rush.
Or if Sonic Colours wasn't praised for being lowest common denominator Sonic without anything ambitious or creative. No wonder the series went on to give us Lost World, Forces, and everyone's favourite racing game Generations.
I am not hyped for Frontiers. I don't care if they have a good writer now, they're probably going to give him retarded mandates. More than ever before. Or ensure he's only allowed to write a few sidequests in a game full of disposable sidequests that fucking feel procedurally generated on the fly.

Old 2D Sonic games were able to make each zone feel fresh and distinct and new using level gimmicks, theme-ing (fuck my spellchecker for not thinking that's a word) and good level layouts.

SEGA doesn't know how to do that in 3D.
So they rely on setpieces instead, and automation, and fucking cutscenes. And alternate playable characters to shake up the stale one note gameplay or hide away bits of sonic lore that should have been in the main story to make it a complete coherent experience.

I bet if you listed every Sonic game, replacing originals with inferior remakes whenever inferior remakes of a game exist, you'll get a list with hardly any good Sonic games. Adventure 1 and 2 have bad ports, the original trilogy and knuckles? bad ports. ...Oh shit, that list has no good sonic games now except Sonic Advance 1 and 3, and Riders 1, and if you're feeling very generous, Generations and daytime Sonic stages in Unleashed. No wonder people think Sonic can't work in 3D. They haven't played the fangames made by amateurs in their bedrooms that do it better than Segay ever could.

Sometimes it feels hopeless. But if I just keep making the games I want to play, I'll get through this.

Maybe I should keep my Fallout Equestria related posting in this thread. Seems every time I mention it my thoughts are just "that part was gay. Kkat is gay" and maybe "Would have been better if x was written that way instead". Feels repetitive. People are probably getting sick of seeing it. Nobody wants to write anything as gay as Fallout Equestria unless they suck penis while writing gay porn to make it gayer. So talking about ways Fallout Equestria could have been improved are pointless. It is exactly what the author wanted it to be, in all his pseudointellectual confused black and white neolibtard communist insanity. It's a nonsense world that exists to enable a violent narcissist's rampage and disguise it as a moral crusade against every ideology that doesn't begin and end with neolibtardist democracy and LP worship. I should just forget about FE.

I'm writing a different FE now. Fire Emblem. Wargaming for the digital age, where the only plastic pieces that move a few inches per turn are the dilators and sounding rods and buttplugs of the gay cheating phoenix mode and grinding fans. I'm making my game for the based challenge enjoyers and based good story enjoyers so there will be no opportunity to grind the challenge out of the game unless I fuck up somewhere and need to patch it out for hard mode. FE is about strategy and risk management. Luck grinding makes things too easy. EXP and Gold grinding makes things too easy. I removed luck from the equation because good equations don't rely on question marks. And having infinite resources and an infinite supply of disposable pawns certainly makes things too easy. Hours of experimentation with Advance Wars and Fire Emblem mechanics taught me many things. It taught me Phalanxing was a genius idea. It also taught me I need to make every building something that can be exhausted like the resources in Age of Empires for PS2 and Command And Conquer's Tiberium.

This encourages fast dangerous exciting play as you battle for control over limited finite resources before your opponent drains them attacking your army and economy. Advance Wars is great but it is also too slow. How many Command and Conquer or Starcraft or Warcraft or even Tooth and Tail games could you play during the average Advance Wars By Web game? Fire Emblem sometimes rewards fast play with thieves that carry sick loot and will escape the map if not killed and villages/villagers/green units to optionally save, and sometimes it punishes slow play with hard time limits like "win in x turns" or soft time limits like "in x turns reinforcements will flood the battlefield and they might be OP" or mandatory objectives like "the things on this map to save must be saved or it is game over". It will suit that series to give finite gold supplies to the buildings you can take over and get gold from each turn to spend on disposable guys, and it will suit Fire Emblem to let players level these guys up with fixed 100% growths. Instead of getting generic units for killing all named units, you get generic units from factories and they're technically all Jagens as you'd rather not waste EXP on disposable puppets from a factory as that EXP could benefit your named characters later on. I want to add a Morale Meter to Advance Wars that will encourage early game aggression and ensure whoever wins the early game advantage and makes their victory 40 minutes to two hours later inevitable will get the game over and done with faster while discouraging infantry/mech spam walls and rewarding smart swift stylish plays. I would also make sea units cheaper, add more sea units, make the game control faster and use a mouse instead of a cursor controlled by the D Pad or arrows, remove luck from the game and rework all characters built around luck, and reduce infantry HP so they can be OHKOd by tanks and anti air but probably not recons.

The digimon cult of "true believers" in digimon magic is more cringe than Hypnoponies and Tulpas but not as cringe as Chris Chan.

In the mind of the normie, "Fascism" is just "Force-ism". The aesthetics of WW2's good guys plus a vague idea of a military dictatorship, but the bad kind. You know, the kind that doesn't dress like the normie's fake heroes. The "force ists" are willing to use force when the normies dont want them to and that's it. Maybe they have strong views on who is and isn't white enough exaggerated into views on who is and isn't human enough to live. The normie's views on right and wrong are exclusively shaped by who holds the monopoly on legal force in the nation and who is the dominant cultural authority. They don't really think at all and they don't really believe anything, they just pretend to believe whatever is convenient in the moment. If a Captain Planet style PSA told them to make white babies and hate Jews and they lived under Nazi rule it would be more effective at changing their mind than a million documentaries about jewish crimes against humanity. These drones support current thing and that's it, lacking the autonomy to question authority even when their programmers try to make the new culture all about rejecting some authority figures(church, "the man", etc) while embracing godless government and corporations and globalism. They have truly outsourced their decision making to others.

Is it just me or was that Helluva Boss episode where Octavia went to see "the stars" really fucking boring?
The jokes had been done before and done better elsewhere, and you could see them coming from a mile away.
Maybe if you knew who the voice actors are you'd laugh at the demon guy being mistaken for someone else?
The octavia stuff was boring and dumb. She's the daughter of a hell baron or whatever, she should know about earth. She didn't lose the book that teleported her to earth upon arriving there so she should have just used the book over and over.
The fireworks at the end seemed to come from nowhere. I probably missed a visual gag somewhere.
I liked the scene where octavia crept into the office, and was spotted by Luna, who didn't give a shit. That joke never gets old.
Luna's backstory turned out to be so over the top it's impossible to take seriously.
This show feels more like family guy with every episode. Random shit to see what sticks, jokes you've heard before, jokes you'll only laugh at if you're a teenager who still laughs at poo and wee, jokes that probably got a small chuckle in the writers room, and sappy melodrama the show hasn't built up towards or earned. That's probably too harsh for me to say. It isn't as bad as Family Guy. But it is becoming closer to Family Guy, and I wish it had more confidence in its premise and characters, I wish it had the confidence to write something deep about these characters and this world without filler episodes like this one.

I was feeling bad about how harshly I critiqued Chatoyance's work when I read it. It's why I felt the urge to praise the accidentally hilarious unintended attack on the Trekkietard's utopian ideal.
I don't feel bad about that any more.
And to be fair, The Conversion Bureau is a fundamentally absurd premise that misses everything valuable that can be learned from FIM and its characters in favor of a typical fantasy where the characters from your favourite product come to save you from earth or what you expect its future to be. Nothing would change about TCB if Pokemon or Digimon or the cast of Jump Force were the ones sent to Earth under these circumstances with a Pokemonification Field or Animeification Field spreading due to the will of Arceus, Godmon, or N. "Prometheus" Glover.
Ready Player One was a pile of shit.
Ready Player One claimed Pop Culture, mankind's new pool of cultural ideas is a worthy replacement for religion.
Have you never seen Godless whores write about Vaporeon, Gardevoir, Ankha, Kirk and Picard, Freddy Fazbear, Slenderman, fucking Youtubers, Vtubers, and more?
Spongebob quotes and Star Wars Prequel quotes are not a worthy replacement for Bible quotes.
But The Conversion Bureau misses all the good thing ponies can teach humanity and help humanity accomplish in favour of literally transforming humans into "inherently superior kinder softer" beings and then dumping in the middle of fucking nowhere so they can chew grass in refugee camps and get along now that humanity is a forgotten idea.
Despite all its pseudointellectual pseudorealism (fucking MUH MALTHUSIAN COLLAPSE, gotta breed less than we die and keep our population counts controllable by our unquestionable rulers for... some reason!) it's got nothing intellectual to do with the concepts of ponies. A liberal able to see why liberalism has failed deserves applause, but Chatty's response to seeing the shallow endgame of the stated end goals leftists lie about having is to decide humanity is too imperfect for liberalism and superior technology, a superior planet, the aid of magic and aliens and a literal goddess or godlike alien being, and a superior human race is necessary to make liberalism finally work for once.
This third rate fanfiction is no smarter than the Harry Potter fanfiction my dead little sister wrote when she was ALMOST TEN about Organization XIII from Kingdom Hearts showing up on her doorstep to whisk her away on a magic adventure in another world.
Except she had the good sense not to pretend this was some kind of hard sci-fi masterpiece.
Jesus, Chatoyance!
Jesus wasn't "Semitic", his murderers were.
The Judeans, killers of Christ, forced the Romans to kill him. And then to add insult to injury they stole Israel and the term Jew.
Is it normal to wish the world actually had an army of Christians out there determined to take over the world, or at least the whitest parts of it, and purge the worst forms of degeneracy from it?
Purging degeneracy is an inherently good thing, which is why the demons who seek to demonize it always depict purgers purging something other than degeneracy in their fantasy propaganda. They have to pretend we want to execute people over mattress tags and parking tickets, because they pardon black/muslim gang rapists (or give them slap-on-the-wrist sentences to get them back on the streets hurting whites as quickly as possible) and execute men for defending their daughters from black/muslim gang rapists.

It barely took a week of TV for someone I knew to go from "eat the rich, fuck the royalty" to "omg im so sad over the queen dying, she worked hard every day and she did more for this country than any of us". Now he's forgotten all about her because it hasnt been tv for a while. Reprogrammable robot. If he went a week without TV he would forget about Ukraine and Russia. Maybe it's the overstimulation of modern life, choice paralysis, and choice fatigue, and demoralization that gives people the memories of goldfish. Or maybe it's the demoralization and brainwashing schools that numb the mind with rote memorization of information useless to our career paths in life. Some people don't use any of the muscles in their body, not even their minds.

I got bored trying to make a good Fire Emblem and took a break to make a simpler one. I'll do my big ambitious game later in life when I am a better writer. For now, time for the more lighthearted adventure of horse girl vs the aliens.

Dumping this here so my wall of text doesn't scare away writing discussion.

What do you dislike most about Ben 10? Analyzing and critiquing stuff is fun, and this overhyped kid's cartoon jumped countless sharks in its lifespan. Someone here has to have something to say about that show.

Personally I think simply having greatness fall into your lap is a gay premise for any hero when compared to working hard to earn it. Even working hard to unlock your potential is better than just having the I Win button on a watch. Peter Parker's struggle to balance adult responsibilities and superhuman responsibilities is always interesting no matter how he is ripped off, but this show fumbles that by making the mundane human world an afterthought. Adult relationships? Your girlfriend discovers your secret identity and is fine with everything, even the lies and lack of trust, and Ben eventually breaks up with her in a fucking family guy cutaway gag flashback.

Also, the watch gets wanked harder than insert cock joke here. The ultimate weapon's greatest weakness will always be its wielder, but the show does nothing interesting with that. Ben goes from bratty kid to boring to unbearable. Once Ultimate Alien sanded off Ben's rough edges too early and made him a generic saintly good boy doing his best the writers had nowhere to take him but downhill. Better writers could have made his attempts to be good and elements of his old nature conflict naturally but hey. Or I could be charitable and blame executive meddling on everything wrong with the show ever.

The Omnitrix is too powerful, too supreme, too absolute. It can turn you into the genetically perfected (or Mega Evolved) fittest version of anything including a God, it can protect you by transforming you without your input, it prevents you from dying period because it can revive you (usually), I could go on but I'm trying not to get distracted by tangents and rants. Once you give your character immortality and godhood the story has nowhere to go unless you introduce more gods to fight but they went beyond that. After too many shark jumps no villains are allowed to present a credible threat to the heroes, not even one bad alternate Ben or bad versions of Ben's aliens or an army of bad alternate Bens or even a wannabe God. Whoever wears the watch is the universe's new double God, able to get put on trial by regular Gods in a joke episode and defeat the greatest gladiator of the omniscient ombipotent god race in trial by combat.

The show's wild tone shifts happen because their attempts to make this kid's show already full of dark moments and dark implications "darker and grittier and more mature" translated to wooden dialogue, backgrounds too dark to see, and scenes where characters stand around and talk, inferior transformation scenes, and fight scenes where characters stand around and use their powers on disposable waves of identical enemies, and a story arc where the guy who didnt want to kill an intergalactic tyrant is immediately ready to kill his friend for going mad. Once you give your protag godhood where can you take this show besides sillyland, realm of the stupid unfunny jokes?

Kevin was pure evil in the original series and it worked. The evil rival without any of the hero's good qualities is a classic trope overused for good reason. Vilgax was nothing but a physical threat and plots any villain could think up. Kevin could have grown into a bigger threat than Vilgax and he was already a more interesting character because of where he could go, what lines he could cross or choose not to cross. Then in Alien Force they decide to introduce a new character, the funniest guy in the entire franchise and easily its best character, but then they decide to name him Kevin and tie this completely different character to the baggage of the old for no discernible reason beyond confused fanservice and a misunderstanding of why anyone would like one of or both of these characters. Kevin doesn't go anywhere interesting with who he used to be, it's just swept under the rug with "Absorbing energy makes his kind crazy, it's why he doesn't do that any more except when he has to, and eventually he is gifted the ability to do that freely because power growth and new gifts equals character development right?". GwenxKevin was a good idea forced too fast, before anyone bought his rushed offscreen redemption they were already rushing this.

>>6223
The writers just don't know where to go when it comes to villains. The show's structure makes one off villains work but Ben jumps too many sharks to make Dark Magical Girl, Doofenshmirtz, Hypno, The Last Bugbender, Knight Stormtroopers, and Circus Freaks a credible threat to the man who beat a godly race's mightiest warrior by being gifted total control over Godhood. They also fuck up the idea of an AU Bad Ben with Eon and the Omniverse meme Bens, but the biggest missed opportunity has to be Albedo. Ben turns into aliens, Albedo is one. The creator of the Omnitrix shares his species, and he can look like Ben at any time- then they fuck that up by making him a pallete swap dumber than the real Ben except when he isn't. Alright, fine, Scourge is a better evil Sonic than Evil Sonic after all, but then they make him a joke character. Even giving him a Prototype Super Ultimate Omnitrix that's FUCKING RED AND BLACK and mega digivolves his aliens by TORTURING THEM IN A SIMULATED WORST CASE SCENARIO EXTINCTION EVENT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS UNTIL THEY EVOLVE he's a loser and Ben swipes his super watch immediately after blowing up his super watch with a voice command because not even stealing Ben's watch can let you beat god-Ben, then Ben starts using his new better watch with no thought to the moral dilemma of simulating torture to make them improve even after an episode where they come to life and his fakeout sacrifice undoes the moral dilemma. What made his Omniverse watch better than the Ultimatrix again? I forget.

And the destiny shit... the whole point of a multiverse is that anything can happen without affecting the status quo. There can be What Ifs and do-overs and bad timelines without affecting the main plot. BenxJulie was boring but serviceable, BenxKai was a joke that barely got laughs once but kept being told. The son of Ben should be the last person ignorant enough about multiversal travel and time travel to think he has to force his parents together for him to exist.

Ben 10 had something special when it was about a small family's adventures as they travel across America and get into all sorts of interesting scenarios in a wacky world where everything interesting exists. Nothing was off the table. Aliens, robots, government conspiracies, magic, even Christmas Elves. It was just fun. No convoluted lore fuckups or later retcons to justify retcons to justify retcons. No pretending this silly fun b movie material is something to take ultra seriously with dull delivery and serious faces in the same few locations over and over and over again. The hero got the watch accidentally because it was meant for his grandfather who happened to be a retired alien fighter. No Doctor Who ripoffs calling this a preordained multiversal constant that caused itself to happen due to its own sheer incredible multiversal importance.

Man, it's going to feel so fucking weird in several decades when I use whatever open source torrent/tor based service replaced Youtube and archived the least awful shit from it for future generations. I'll enjoy a video, and see a youtuber beg for likes and subscribers and a grandson of mine might say "What's a subscriber?" because youtube will be dead and culture shifted hard away from social media because facebook boomers and tiktok kids were that cringe. A dead youtuber might beg for money on patreon, unaware that patreon is also dead. We might not even be using dollars any more in the future. Long dead vtubers might become overnight sensations with a cult following unsure what to do with the money they want to give to her. They might spend it on conventions about her or charity donations for stuff she seemed to care about. They might send money to charities that rescue her favourite animals or charities that try to cure whatever disease or societal problem killed her. Some Vtubers might sell their personas to the highest bidder or give them to their younger friends so the show can go on. AI will help megacorps larger than most countries churn out neverending streams of shit that feels algorithmically generated. And culturally, people will shift away from normieshit soulless enough to feel AI generated and towards weird shit only a live human could have dreamed of.

There is a Satan, made of every Jew. And everything good we do hurts Satan. Such a beautiful motivational thought. More people should see it that way. There is evil in this world, and it can be destroyed. What higher purpose can there be to life other than to do good? I understand what it feels like to live aimlessly and alone. I felt that for a long time. "When I'm with the one I love I feel whole" is such a cliche line. I feel whole all the time now, and I still love my girl.

>>6006
>he was going to "face himself", except instead of joining the 40% of troons he'd fly away like le 51% face,
Jesse what the fuck am I saying

>face himself
Persona reference, in P3 they shoot themselves in the head and symbolically confront death to summon their Stands and fight the forces of death instead of sleepwalking to the end, and in P4 the theme is about facing yourself and your faults and reaching out to the truth and growing
>troon joke
Troons kill themselves
>le 51% face
Landorus the Ground and Flying type pokemon had a 51% pick rate at one point, likely a higher one now, because it is so absurdly OP even in a franchise with 900 monsters going on 1000ish people still pick from the same tiny pool of the best guys if they want to win.

Taught my girl how to play the latest version of my in-progress fighting game. All that accessibility was a good call. I don't care if people were stockholm syndromed into loving the worst fighting game inputs out there. This game will not have bullshit inputs. No pretzel motion. No jewagrams. No GG input. No 720 spins. No just frames or 1 frame links. No specials or supers hidden behind a fucking cheat code and "balanced by the complexity of their input". Rate all the fighting games out there by difficulty of execution and mine will slot neatly in the easier to average end without sacrificing the mindgames, asynchronous balance, and creativity that makes fighting games fun. A stepping stone between overly simple and normal, that's what I am aiming for. I am not making Divekick. Or that other game like divekick with the Dice Panda. I am making a fighting game and I will tell you its title just as soon as I think of another sex joke funnier than Pokemon CBT and Fire Emblem Full Frontal Assault.
Heard some weird news involving someone I have not thought of in a long time. Checked up on someone I knew who went full libtard back in 2016. We haven't spoken since. He's still libtarded. Still writing fanfics worse than the shit he wrote 20 years ago. Glanced at them to see if they still read like smug libtard forum posts. Yep. Still has that unmistakable unfunny writing style that screams "I use too much tvtropes". Guess some things never change. I'm glad I started writing when I was young, so I could get all the garbage shit every young author makes out of the way. After all, the master is a master because he has failed more times than the rookie has tried. And he is a master for other reasons like learning from the failure.

>>6241
>This game will not have bullshit inputs. No pretzel motion. No jewagrams. No GG input. No 720 spins. No just frames or 1 frame links. No specials or supers hidden behind a fucking cheat code and "balanced by the complexity of their input". Rate all the fighting games out there by difficulty of execution and mine will slot neatly in the easier to average end without sacrificing the mindgames, asynchronous balance, and creativity that makes fighting games fun.
That actually sounds petty cool. I like that you're aren't afraid to move away from the mold.

>>6242
Thank you! Smash Bros had the right idea when it decided to standardize and simplify inputs.
Quarter Circle Forwards Punch? No, it's the Side Special.
An attack button and a Special button.
Now every retard can do a fireball. The question "How do I fireball" has an easy answer.
And retards will still lose to smarter people who know WHEN to fireball and WHY to fireball.
Of course smash fucked up in other ways.
Mapping neutral attack, forwards tilt, up tilt, down tilt, smash attack, and dash attack to the same button is retarded.
Want to 6P? There is a chance you will get ftilt or dash attack or forward smash when you wanted one of the others.
Smash should really have a Light, Medium, and Heavy attack button like my game will.

Why have a Z grab button if shield plus A will grab? Some characters get Zair privilege and some just dont.
Why does shield plus B usually do nothing?
And of course there is other shit smash pros have talked about.
Like the retarded things about Ultimates controls.
And the fucking input lag.
Does that jump plus A equals "shorthop aerial" shortcut still nerf the aerial used? Whoever is responsible for that will probably get shat on by onis and kitsunes in asian hell.
Some smash movesets are just a collection of hitboxes... okay, most are. It is rare for a smash character to have a cohesively designed moveset that feels designed by people who werent just giving characters moves at random or, if you are lucky, trying to reference things from the game.

Wasting two buttons on shield and two buttons on jump is retarded. Imagine a world where there is a jump button and short hop button.
If you want to play melee at the highest level you need hardware or software modifications to get around how shit the gamecube controllers and games code are.
Fighting game players sometimes use arcade sticks due to familiarity and convenience.
But a Boxx user and notched gamecube snapback reduction custom gamecube controller guy has clear advantages over anyone with a vintage old gamecube controller. You know, the controller the developers had access to when designing the game for it.
Look at Rivals Of Aether. It fixes so many things wrong with Melee. It adds new interesting design space to the genre by making characters about stage control and ways to put your opponent in disadvantageous states. Clairen the simple swordie inspired by Marth gets a counter that negates stage control and projectiles to help her compete.
And it has fucking Workshop support because GOATals of CHADther respects the incredible creativity of its community. For every dogshit sprite swap with random moves there is a creative new fighter. Someone's fursona with awesome new gimmicks. Hell I'm working on a Rivals character too because I am a scatterbrained workaholic who recovers from being exhausted by work on one project by working on another.

Want to know what my control scheme is in Rivals?
Square to attack, triangle to smash, circle to special, X to jump. L1 to jump. R1 to parry and dodge. L2 to attack. R2 to special. Left stick to move. Dpad to taunt. Right stick to attack with smashes on the ground and aerials in the air. I use a cheap USB controller with no custom modifications.
This just would not be possible in smash bros without modifying the game or putting macros on my controller.
It's fast. Convenient. Ergonomic. Perfect for high APM action. Perfect for a character who can Fly Cancel like it's Marvel 3 on crack and steroids. My character.

The "damage makes characters react differently to taking damage" system makes combos a crapshoot. Some characters have a punish game that consists of hitting you once or maybe twice for a mistake, others can take entire stocks or even gain unfair advantages that make taking more stocks easier. I am convinced Mashpotato Samurai and those working for him dont playtest characters with competent players or high level uncapped-framerate CPU win loss data to simulate the results of thousands of matches. They dont ask "how does he look at the highest level of play? Is he fun to play as AND to fight?" before releasing him. They don't care if super meters that empty if unused after a while make characters like Little Mac make him unfun to fight and easy to camp out. They don't care if comeback mechanics carry retards to victory. They don't care that there are no "five gods" of Brawl or Smash 4 or 5 because the game isnt consistent and skill based enough to separate the strong from the weak. They don't care if pay to win characters like Steve and Kazuya and Sora and Pyssthra or Sephiroth or Smash 4 Bayonetta and Cloud have DLC privilege. If Brawl was released a few years later those fucking jews would have made people pay for Brawl Meta Knight. Platform Fighters are a good idea. Emphasizing movement is good. But Smash is so full of bad design decisions an indie game can outdo it in the character, gameplay, and visuals deparrment. Nintendo is a business and smash fans are masochistic abused spouses who will tolerate anything from papa nintendo as long as they get to play the latest goyslop party fighting game no matter how its game design intentionally makes it inferior to melee.
Project M was a well balanced game. I still have fun with the old version, the new version, versions with over 100 characters. Smash got its "no items fox only final destination" reputation from a cartoon made by an out of touch boomer who doesnt understand why removing RNG elements like luck makes for a fairer and more enjoyable competitive experience. Can you fucking imagine travelling from EU to USA to fight a dude who drove for 9 hours from east coast to west coast all for a prize pool that wont even begin to cover travel expenses or the price of the 3 hotdogs you eat at the venue only for the outcome of the match to be decided by a bobomb randomly spawning atop you killing you instantly?

Fuck I made my rivals character too strong. And nerfing him isn't as easy as toning down one obviously overpowered attribute like that shine laser move. Oh well.

Secretly I'm very insecure. I know I try to seem invincible but I'm a very insecure person. And I've been thinking about how many of that bad writer guy's mistakes I see reflected in my old writing.

Just tossing in shit that sounds cool and then thinking of excuses for it later. That's probably the biggest mistake in my old writing besides trying to write big ambitious ideas with none of the necessary experience.

The story of a bastard rediscovering his niceness with the aid of new friends, after grinding everything away in a cartoonishly awful city "perfecting himself" to reach the top, is definitely not helped by stupid indulgent scenes of wasteful excess and giant fights. If it's wrong for him to define himself by his successes and failures then I shouldn't make him successful at everything. Fucking hoverboard races were never truly important to his story. Hoverboards in general were never important to my story. But they would be if they represented his first good idea as an inventor and tinkerer who makes machines to compensate for his physical disability and the frail constitution he has from his terminal case of dying. He can't be the strongest and fastest and best, that's boring and he should win fights by being clever. If I'm to portray life at the top as miserable, it can't ever be fun. If I'm to portray fighting as a bad thing for him, he can't walk away from his unsafe thrill-seeking adrenaline junkie behaviour without scars or even any scratches. He shouldn't get to be a cunt to others and get away with it. People should find the faggoty "fancy" way he talks as obnoxious as I do now, or hate it even more, if he's supposed to be learning something from the Mane Six and the ponies of Ponyville, these ponies should think he has a lot to learn, and so should he. He can't be right about everything all the time. Backflipping all over the place as an invincible genius everybody immediately loves is cringe.

Sunrise Stardust can't be right about everything all the time. Therefore I should remove Starlight Glimmer from his story, because she serves no valuable purpose in his story. If she's "redeemed" anywhere I take this contradictory nothing-character is speculation about where writers might have taken her. Plus if she ever brings up communism Sunrise is going to argue with her and be right about absolutely everything which gets in the way of his story of growth. Although if I make Glimmer smarter she could make him consider new perspectives. But then she's not being the spaghetti tornado she sometimes is when the writers don't think it would get in the way of her always being the strongest and best in the room. I think she's a deeply flawed character because she wasn't designed to be redeemed, she was designed to be wrong and then change but then they fucked up writing her differently because they never figured out who she is without the rage and confusion and malice and schemes.

Zuko wasn't just a cunt who switched sides one day. Zuko was designed to elevate his show, to do something risky. It had never been done before, probably. When you first meet him and Iroh they quickly establish the old comedy routine we're used to in villain duos. That one with the scar is the skinny angry one, and that old man is the fat soft hungry probably-stupid one. Scratch and Grounder, basically. I know it's not the first cartoon to think of that old cliche but ATLA wisely uses this cliche, this trope, this archetype. They rely on this familiarity, the expectation of these characters, so they can intelligently subvert it. Turns out there's more to the angry fire guy with fire on his face and his silly old man who likes food and games and music and all sorts of other things the typical annoyed guy Zuko isn't supposed to like because comedy.

That part where Zuko and Iroh prove themselves to be more than Zhao by his standards and their own was genius. Very important for getting the audience to view firebending as something more than an evil thing faceless or ugly villains use. The fights in that show fucking meant something. They weren't just mindless shallow spectacles. Or excuses for the author to powerwank. There is just fighting, weapon use, martial arts, bending, and eventually energybending and the avatar state. No fucking uchiha bullshit. No hypno eyes, no gundams, no gundam turning into armour for the biggest strongest demon to wear as it spits nuclear laserblasts that destroy mountains, none of the retarded powercreep naruto resorted to. Chakra was too much of a blank slate with vague rules, it can do anything and what limits/lore established early on never end up grounding the fight with a sense of weight and believability.

There's this bit in One Piece Movie Z where Luffy and some old faggot PUNCH THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER like angry people. And it felt cooler than all the giant magic super punches with fists bigger than boats because it was closer to something real. People don't remember Broly because "his power is maximum, omg I've become so much like Broly it's scary. All I do is scream and rage while getting buffer all the time". People remember Broly because his movie got right what DBZ usually gets wrong.

Some faggot shoots a big laserbeam twice his size and his enemy walks through it unscathed? Damn, feels like a weak laserbeam. Even if the laser also destroys a mountain behind him. Characters fight for a bit and we're told their strength threatens the fabric of spacetime but they look like normal fighters to us because the author lacks imagination and relies on nostalgia future generations just won't fucking have. Nobody will praise Toriyama decades from now unless they feel they have to. But when Broly punches people they stay punched. He leaves the heroes battered and exhausted and desperate. They aren't clutching their arms and commentating, they look fucked. Goku still wins but Broly left an impression. Not just on the environments he fucked up recklessly by fighting like a madman.

>>6248
The Adjutant system in Fire Emblem 3 Houses was designed as an alternative to the horrendously broken Pair Up mechanic from previous games.
Because Pair Up robs units of their individual identities and voices, makes all the work that goes into drawing and voicing and modelling and texturing and animating them go to waste, and basically makes four strength four stam leather belts of the characters, it is retarded...
For a game about waifuing these visual novel characters.
Character appeal matters for that goal and pair up and adjutants reject this.
But
For a game about grinding and managing resources and fucking with numbers to optimize the strategy out of the strategy game portions, it's a good idea for a system.

FE3H is built around using your core set of characters and maybe some others recruited from other houses or the church you serve until you don't. Maps aren't balanced for armies of 30. It's why they restrict your deployment slots so harshly. They expect you to have 10 or so units, some more favoured than others, and grind the difficulty out of unbalanced difficulty modes that expect you to use DLC and amiibos and online features to get stronger.

The game needs something for your potential optional extra characters to do so it makes Adjutants. You pair them with a chosen main unit and they slightly help. Defence classes make for OP adjutants compared to healers and damage dealers.

This system needs a rework. You're basically making them a second Batallion slot minus the Gambits.

The game wants you to use a small elite team. Extra units can compete with your main set of characters for deployment slots or fill one of a few limited Stat Booster slots.

My Phalanxing Bonus system is a good alternative to the stat bonuses from pair ups. It makes positioning on the map more important. It might even be worth giving up spots you can use for attacking enemies just so your allies can boost the stats of your best attackers to make attacking safer and deadlier.

Adjutants in my game... perhaps they will exclusively give their phalanxing bonuses to the unit they are paired with? Perhaps I will rework the system so they will still seem to have a presence on the battlefield despite technically lacking it. Perhaps you could only adjutant two units of the same class, to give your 2/3/6 near identical cavaliers something to do besides compete for top spot and get replaced if they are no longer necessary? Your "cavalier squad" could become quite powerful when all the colour coded horsefags in the world join forces. Your adjutant unit could be displayed as one of the characters in their batallion if they have one. 3 Houses wasn't built for permadeath like other FE games were. Those games loved giving you redundant characters to potentialy replace those who fell in battle or fell off in usefulness due to bad RNG dependent stat gains. Either way they needed a replacement and the game was happy to provide it. Turning the adjutant system into a reward for keeping all units alive even the shit ones could further disincentivize playing through deaths but fuck it, Iron Man runs are fun. Also fuck it I'm giving my guys Chao.

90s sonic: Eggman built the Death Star and called it the Death Egg because of course he fucking did. Sonic must run through zones and eventually get to space to smash it up and send that Death Egg crashing down to earth. Knuckles mistakes it for a Dragon egg when talking to Eggman who tricks Knuckles into fighting Sonic for a bit and getting in his way with devious tricks and traps.

2000s sonic: Eggman read his grandfather Gerald's diary and got as far as "maria is the password for the Prison Island base where GUN has my super powerful-" before dropping everything and rushing in guns blazing. He rescued what turned out to be a Hedgehog who's 50 and rides motorcycles and shoots guns and says "damn" around children. Gerald's daughter Maria had space AIDS so he built a space colony to house the world's best and brightest and their families, so the scientists could research treatments for space AIDS, eventually making a deal with the most demonic satanic looking alien possible named Black Doom to get Black Arms DNA to use in the creation of Shadow The Hedgehog, ultimate life form, whose blood probably cures space AIDS. Before making Shadow, Gerald created the Biolizard. Both were inspired by old Angel Island murals where Super Sonic fights Perfect Chaos and the mech Eggman used in Sonic And Knuckles 3. There was also some bullshit with the Gizoids from a fighting game where Tails lives in a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon style house shaped like his own head? Were the Gizoids a product of Knuckles' people, who killed Chao trying to steal the power of the Master Emerald which pissed Chaos off, or the Nocturnus Clan who were retconned in later to be the "worse Echidnas" who were exiled into the Phantom Zone- I mean Shadow Realm- I mean Null Void- I mean Twilight Cage? Anyway Sonic is framed for the theft of a Chaos Emerald by the military and sent to Prison Island without trial by GUN, who's the UN but even more American and jewed because they killed absolutely everybody aboard the Space Colony ARK because they were afraid of Gerald, the Biolizard, and Shadow The Hedgehog. Shadow's pissed and wants revenge because GUN tampered with his memories and failed to accomplish anything with that because Gerald tampered with Shadow's memories to remove Shadow's memories of Maria's desire for him to protect the earth and its people, only leaving behind his rage at the humans for killing her. Rouge's presence in the story allows for a moment where Shadow saves her despite the mission but Knuckles doesn't really do anything in this story up until the end. Sonic and friends eventually go to space and defeat Eggman and Shadow, stopping the Space Colony Ark's Eclipse Cannon from firing on humanity. Whether Eggman's plan to destroy the entire planet was a bluff or not is never revealed. Whether Sonic was going to be visited by GUN in prison and offered the job to save the earth during this incident secretly or not is never revealed. And Gerald built the planetbusting laser into his space colony because he planned on betraying Black Doom, who wanted to return to earth in 50 years to devour humanity with the power of his Black Commet, which Gerald would shoot.

2010s sonic: Eggman drained Super Sonic and used his power to smash earth into pieces to unleash the dark half of Gaia but you fix it and basically show the spirit of the planet all the beauty on the earth worth fighting for. also Werewolf Sonic happened for a bit, they ripped off God Of War without playing it but these were good ideas.
Eggman makes a space amusement park powered by enslaved aliens. No story.
Generations had no story.
Lost World. No story. What the fuck was Lost World? If the Lost Hex was a hellish dimension it would suit the "baby's first demons" look of the Zeti's Deadly Six (are they the only Zeti? the only ones left? Why are they based on six of the seven sins? what happened to the missing one?) but nothing else fits this Mario 3D Land looking shitsthetic.
Forces was Generations 2 with less story. All the old baddies team up under Eggman and beat Sonic, who escapes jail with the aid of Customizable Avatar, they go back to earth and fix everything easily. Some villains aren't even fought ingame also Classic Sonic shows up because sega would only approve Mania if they forced it to advertise this atrocity. Somehow Eggman conquered the entire world with Sonic beaten, even though most sonic characters are as fast as him and usually stronger too just like Customizable Avatar and all of the infinite shit Eggman can produce turned out to be useless in the finale anyway. Eggman got infinite resources and an edgy illusions guy because someone at SEGA saw the Spider-Man movie/cartoon episode with Mysterio and said "ah, he uses virtual reality to create real things. I understand everything now." but didn't actually understand anything at all. Still nobody in japan can disagree with elderly japanese boomers if you want to keep working for them, so sega kept on... being sega. It will probably take even more generational turnover before the sonic franchise can get its shit together and make a good game.

And now, 2020 sonic:

BOTW reinvigorated the open-world ubisoft towers formula by revisiting Zelda 1 and making optional content truly optional. it made money so Sonic does what Nintendoes but worse. God I hope it isn't shit. And I hope it doesn't do anything I was planning on doing in the Sonic Adventure 3 plot I'm writing into my fighting game.

When I started wondering how to edit Lag Talagonis so instead of talking heads and text boxes you get the custom art and walls of text you'd see in visual novels like Tsukihime, and found myself more interested in the story and characters than the gameplay mechanics and map design, it started to dawn on me that this story of a wolf man and the horse girl he saved in a world ruled by Goblins would be better off as a book than a strategic role playing game.

You know what those jews at hollywood could have done to make new star wars good?
Cast the old fucks as the Star Wars characters we all know and love
Say they did decades of exciting adventures to later make tv shows or movies about
Luke met Ahsoka and they boned, old and prequel trilogy fans coom together in celebration
Give Luke and Ahsoka, Han and Leia many kids, the older kids matter to the plot and the younger kids are babies who play with star wars toys
This is a subtle advertisement for star wars toys. The heroes generations grew up on now have kids of their own, happy healthy families, and they raise their kids on star wars toys because if you've ever felt the urge to subconsciously or consciously emulate these characters now you want to buy these toys for you or your kids
And
Depict at least one museum where Old Luke and friends admire the museum exhibits including a screen showing CGI Luke and friends on epic adventures
This is a subtle advertisement for the upcoming Star Wars Clone Wars style tv show featuring Luke and Leia and Han and all the other Star Wars characters.
Old actors too old for most stunts? No problem! Just use CGI and voice actors or soundalikes, nobody will care that much about soy wars.
Star Wars could have been such a successful little mind worm convincing generations to keep consuming the brand. But no. Their woke indoctrination had to come first. Before the money. They didn't care how many new outfits they could make Luke wear even though each new outfit is a new Funko Pop. Just ask spiderman aka Iron Man Jr and that scene where he wore his suit inside out for the sake of a new Funko Pop. CGI Luke could have worn many new outfits. Sold many toys. Wielded a new lightsaber each episode with the excuse that he's testing new lightsaber models for a cute female yoda chick. The internet would have gone mad for that. Especially if she looked nothing like yoda. You know how the horny artists draw those little blue and purple elf midget bitches from League of Legends with their fat fuckin asses? Not my type (giantess mommy milf master race for life) but it's got its fans. Dress her like a fucking nerd with big glasses and a sweater and a pink lightsaber. The amount of coom flooding the streets and evaporating over time into our world's atmosphere would give a whole new meaning to the phrase 'cloud seeeing'. And every toy would be another piece of plastic for the disney corporation to sell to babies of any age. It's a good thing plastic doesn't release poisonous fumes when it melts or the world would probably be uninhabitable by now.

I'm certain that if love had a physical form, it would look like my girlfriend.

When you ask racists why the revolting niggers are having another chimp out

Sonic Frontiers is the best Sonic has been in decades and it's also a disappointing rushed shitshow full of jank physics and bad level design and fundamentally broken gameplay and fucking awful combat and bosses that WISH they had what MGR/Bayonetta had.

This franchise is personally disappointing to me. I used to have so much hope for the future of this character. Now... I feel it's stupid for me to feel personally invested in whether there are ever any good Sonic games again or not.

It's not Ian Flynn's fault, he did the best with the fucking retarded restrictions he was given.
And I can only assume this dumb shit is Sega's fault because I want to give people the benefit of the doubt and we all know how bad Sega is at everything. Balan Blunderworld sucked too, I blame the higher ups.
Sonic does everything while his friends stand around? Again? Better invent an excuse for that and make Sonic's goal saving them.
He did the best he could with that restriction.
But it shouldn't be a restriction forced onto him in the first place.
People resent "sonic's shitty friends" and want "muh solo sonica" because so few games get it right.
Look at Sonic GT and Utopia and even less good 3D games like Sonic World DX. 3D sonic can work without automation that fights for your controller like an impatient kid brother who sends you off a cliff. Sonic 3D has worked before. Multiple characters in a 3D Sonic game can work. People got sick of Sonic's friends because they hated being forced to play completely different inferior gameplay styles like treasure hunting and mech shooting to unlock optional Super Sonic or worse, more main story Sonic gameplay.
Nintendo hire this man is a meme.
People said Sega "hired this man" when we saw how bland and soulless and seemingly AI Generated Frontiers originally looked.
But last time Sega "hired this man" we got Sonic Mania.
That's the difference. Passion.
Nobody truly loves Mario like a Sonic fan loves Sonic. Even Sonic haters love Sonic.
And thanks to Mania, Sonic was cool again for a bit and so were his friends, because Sonic's friends were optional, not skippable or mandatory, optional.
People wished Amy was in it.
You could earn the Chaos Emeralds and Super Sonic without needing to redo old content as Knuckles or Gamma or Big The Cat.
Good gameplay made Ray fun and Mighty... inoffensive. He probably has his fans. I rate him bottom tier because all the other characters are better. But I don't hate him. Feels good to say.
I wish Vector was in Mania, air dashes are awesome and he's unusual for a Sonic character because instead of starting with Sonic as a base and then adding animal traits they designed an anthropomorphic amimal to suit the Sonic art style.

Sonic's games are so disappointing. I'm going to go replay my game to revitalize my passion for gaming. That always brightens my mood.

Smash bros is so "well designed and balanced" top tiers can carry players who dont even own their own copy of the game and the console to play it on for home practice.
Characters like Meta Knight, smash 4 Cloud and Bayo, Smash 5 Steve and Kazuya and Rob and Pyssra are so braindead easy it hurts.
There is a parallel universe where this game wasn't designed by elderly japanese boomers and/or committee and the smash franchise wanted to evolve instead ot stagnating and relying on cameos and nostalgia.
A universe where this game has enough high skill mechanics to allow for player expression, where tournaments can separate the best players from the worst through competition.
If you took a smash ultimate top tier and ported him directly into Rivals Of Aether he would be a broken top tier banned from most tournamente despite typically lacking any kind of intellectual big brain gameplan involving setplay, stage control, projectile manipulation, careful spacing, state manipulation, meter management, or status effects.

I was thinking about Code Geass because it's a story about a rebellion and I'm writing one of those. But Code Geass did a lot wrong and I want to avoid making those mistakes in my work.

I don't know how much of it you're familiar with but basically Lelouch Vi Britannia is an exiled Britannian (british-controlled america, brits moved there when they lost britain to france, the EU are tards and Britannia has conquered over a third of the world) prince who faked his death and started pretending to be a "normal" teen genius named Lelouch Lamperouge at a boarding school for the rich in Japan, now renamed Area 11 because Britannia conquered Japan for the Sakuradite, a mineral that makes a lot of energy and is perfect for powering giant robots. Suzaku's a student there and a soldier for the Britannian army. Lelouch finds a can of gas that turns out to be full of ass, it contains the prisoner C2's who's an immortal hot babe with green hair and the power to give people Geass, a personality-based psychic superpower that manifests as an ironic wish fulfilled. Lelouch's dad hated lies and viewed strength as the only true and right thing that matters, so he gains the power to make strength irrelevant and force people to believe lies by fucking with their memories. Lelouch who loves freedom gets the power to mind-control people once per person, and he unites Japanese rebel groups under himself as the mysterious masked "Zero".

Suzaku serves the empire that's oppressing his people because he's a fucking moron.

That's it, that's what my post was building towards.

I'm sorry, I have to say it.

This might take a while.

>>6260
There is no coherent ideological basis for this whiny hypocrite to act the way he does, nor does anyone ever call him out on it. He doesn't work as a good rival for the hero who challenges him physically, mentally, and morally, because Suzaku is bullshit. He's a super strong naive moron with plot armour and a superior super mech better than everyone else's. He doesn't work with an elite team and hold them back from committing atrocities by making himself their moral compass. He wasn't tempted by the devil's easy road to power and corrupted on his road to a better world, he just serves the current regime because he somehow got convinced it's better to loyally serve a regime exploiting and oppressing his own people despite his low chance of upward mobility (zero chance if not for Lelouch killing pretty much everyone in Suzaku's way) instead of openly rebelling against the regime.

I think the writing was harmed by Suzaku's hypocrisy. It's like he only believes it's wrong to break laws when he or the ruling powers aren't the ones breaking them. And he never fucks his evil allies over for acting immorally, because he doesn't take his own morality seriously enough despite being unbearably self-righteous about it when it comes to Lelouch. Suzaku would have died early on at the hands of the empire he serves at least twice over if not for Lelouch breaking laws and killing to save Suzaku, yet he stubbornly refused to join Lelouch.

There wasn't a coherent ideological difference between the heroes. It's not like when Light viewed himself as a condemned man who wrote more names in the Death Note than anyone else before expecting to be killed, only to end up not killed, deciding he's come too far to do anything besides keep going and keep doing what "only he" could do, meanwhile for L this is all just another case and Light is just another asshole and he'll break any and all laws to see Light arrested because "He's probably Kira, I just have to prove it for some reason even though laws don't apply to me". Okay, fine, Death Note wasn't smart either. But it tried harder with its rival than Code Geass did when it wrote Suzaku.

Suzaku just decided he wanted to serve an empire he had no good reason to serve. He talks like he's a naive idealist when he babbles about how "rebellion costs lives and breaking laws is wrong and bloodshed is bad" yet he serves the bloodiest empire on the planet and plans to become its top enforcer all so that one country, his one, can be freed on the condition that he keeps serving as "The Knight Of One" once every other numbered Knight is dead or out of his way. He never even considers how many innocent lives would be lost in his quest to take away the freedom of others to "earn" his freedom from those who took it away in the first place. He serves the evil empire as hard as he can, even though it tries to throw him under the bus and kill him early on and only Lelouch's intervention saves him, time and time again. Suzaku wants to be King Charles's top dog, The Knight Of One, so he can be rewarded with total control over Japan so he can free it. But he had no hope in hell of getting that job before Lelouch got involved and started killing his bosses with the kind of open rebellion that inspires others to join in and stand up and fight. Suzaku keeps talking like Lelouch betrayed him and their ideals, but none of it ever goes anywhere interesting. Suzaku doesn't feel real. He doesn't feel like a real person with a real ideology, or even a fictional one, with any kind of consistent logic. He feels like a hackneyed plot device that exists to contrive problems for Lelouch, just like so many other elements of this story.

Maybe if they introduced Euphemia's plan (making Area 11 a "Special Administrative Zone" where the colonized Britannians get most of their rights back- wait, no, her plan was to make ONE such zone in Area 11 and eventually make more, I'd change that to make her want all of Japan fully freed) earlier on... Or maybe if they made Suzaku and Euphemia part of a group of Britannians who wanted to install Euphemia as the new Empress with an internal coup, it could have given Suzaku a reason to think there's anything salvageable about the empire and any reason to fight for it. He could tell himself a coup isolated to killing the worst leaders and putting nicer people in charge of the world is better than open rebellion and all the dead soldiers it costs. The idea that any corrupt kingdom or aristocracy or empire would be fine as long as the "correct" person in charge is a common delusion, after all. I personally believe authority should come from the consent of the governed, not the threat of force. People should have the freedom to live their own lives as they see fit, rule themselves and choose who leads them. I know we're all supposed to say nazi stuff here like "I hate niggers!" but after a racist regime frees white people from jew+nigger+mudslime slavery I would love to see the regime transition into one that reduces taxes, ends the fed, and allows people to protect their freedoms while rejecting centralized power. People who disagree with me on what rights I should have as a moral free individual can either take it up with the business end of my 3D Printer or fuck right off and govern the dystopian nightmare of their dreams elsewhere as long as it's only governing consenting people who actually want to live that way. Whether the King is nice or evil doesn't change the fact that nobody should be forced into a life of eternal serfdom for any kingdom, or forced into an arranged marriage for any kingdom, or drafted and forced into wars for any kingdom, whether this kingdom is called an empire or union or something else entirely. The natural rights of people should be respected. What rights do people have if they don't have those rights? What good is a ruler if he won't protect and respect those rights, and allow his people to protect themselves?

>>6260
>>6261
Giving Suzaku an arc where he starts as the "Empire is fine as long as my girlfriend rules it" guy and grows into "Lelouch is right, he's not just blinded by vengeance, this empire really does need to be dismantled" would make him an interesting character. What is it with Japanese media and rejecting this basic story arc in favor of "oooo who's right and who's wrong? omg I'm 14 and this is DEEP! Chaos or Order? Rebellion or Regime? I have no strong feelings one way or the other but please buy merch where these characters are opposed!"?

Taking Suzaku from a naive idealist who rejects Lelouch to a smart idealist who understands the complicated reality of rebellion against overwhelming military force and the society that enables it would have been an interesting arc for Suzaku, and it would have made him a lot more believable.

The arc that I would want to see from him would be him coming to realize what really matters is the people, not the will of those in charge or the laws they write to benefit themselves or the systems they create to keep themselves in charge. A story about going from the type of guy who decries rebellion for its human cost to understanding the human cost of not rebelling against tyranny. When the only voice given is that of the monarchy, aristocracy, empire, or any other kind of inherently unjust nonconsensual heirarchy, people who want to be free have to free themselves. It would be a story about freeing the people so that they can speak for themselves. Sure, that might get in the way of all the contrived moments in Code Geass that exist for the spectacle of characters laughing like madmen and pulling deus ex machinas and diablous ex machinas out of theiir asses, but it would make the story smarter.

If it were me writing that story, I would make Euphemia a good person being manipulated and controlled by Britannians who present themselves as "the good ones" but seek to increase their own power over the empire and would naturally reject any attempt on Euphemia's part to reduce that power. The Britannians who helped her get on the throne would want to use her as a puppet for their own agenda, like how Long Feng and the Dai Li from Avatar used the Earth King. When Euphemia takes the throne and tries to do good, her advisors who hold the real power refuse to let her, and threaten to replace or kill her should she stray from their plans or tell Suzaku who holds the real power in this empire. If she were to become empress she would have to realize there is more to an organization than its head, realize that the system is inherently unjust and unfair, so she would become a force for positive change by growing up and putting away her childish notions of being the beloved nice good empress. And it would be during this process that Suzaku would start to realize that in order to be a force of good you cannot submit to the corrupt system, you must rebel against it. This would be a great story about how good people can be used by bad systems if they are misguided. And really, with Britannian culture so obsessed with dominance, right after a coup to kill their Emperor and install his puppet neice, how many Britannians would aid a second coup that seeks to abolish all checks and balances holding the monarchy back just so that the ruling monarch can end monarchy and the lineage of noble bloodlines, and free the Areas Britannia controls, depriving countless poliiticians and royal family members of their jobs and their power in the process while "Making the sacrifices of soldiers meaningless" as the politicians would put it when they try to weaponize the families left behind by soldiers they drafted and happily sacrificed in great numbers? Euphemia would have to grow up, and so would Suzaku.

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I would have Suzaku start out as a reluctant partner in order to ensure the safety of Euphemia. He's her guard, not a Britannian dog who can be ordered about and told who to kill. And over time he could come to see the injustices present in the system and realize that the only way to free people from the oppression of a ruling class is to dissolve that class and bring down its systems, structures and organizations so that the people will be free to rule themselves. That it's okay and necessary to bring the walls of a corrupt structure down even if that structure brings riches and power to you personally. That a world free of those walls will be better than a world with the walls, even if you personally are powerful within those walls. He would hate the compromises the system forces himself and Euphemia to make, and eventually come to understand Lelouch was right. I think after Lelouch successfully kills King Charles Zi Britannia, when these two naive idealists Suzaku and Euphemia get a first-hand demonstration of the control that Britannia exert over them and see how their actions are not able to change the way the empire is run, even if she is the emperor, they would be able to see first-hand that Britannia is a society with a rigid structure that cannot be changed by a simple change in command, and that to truly change the empire they would have to remove the structure that creates it and replace it with something better, with something that prioritizes the freedom and agency of the individual rather than elite breeding and noble houses and conquest that makes your rulers richer and absolute slavish obedience to hierarchy.

I think a major turning point in their arc could be the realization that to change things you have to take action. Even if it means giving up blackmail power by airing all the Empire's dirty secrets and spreading the truth about their world. Even if it's action that you would be punished for if you got caught. That you can't hide behind the excuse that it's the wrong thing to do, that you have to be willing to make sacrifices and do the difficult thing to make a real change. And when this arc comes to an end they could make a conscious decision to rebel and take down the empire in spite of the risks it poses to themselves because they are willing to sacrifice everything in the pursuit of a better world. It might be a good time for Suzaku to confront his own hypocrisy. His own refusal to break the rules and to submit to his higher ups. It is only in confronting Suzaku's inner hypocrisy that he would realize that he has been fighting for a system that does not allow him to be free. He comes to see that his ideals for a better world cannot be realized by a system that demands conformity and obedience at all costs, and that a better world can only come from rebellion and destruction of the system of oppression that denies individuals the right to decide if they wish to submit themselves to a power structure or choose freedom.

Suzaku and Euphemia would realize that Britannia has fundamental flaws in its structure, and that their values and beliefs are incompatible with it. It would be a choice between choosing to bring the system down to build a better one (rebellion) or supporting the system for the perks it gives them as useful puppets/attack dogs respectively (royalty). It would be a great story about how good people can be misguided by systems. But also how good people can reject a system that is incompatible with their values and beliefs and choose a path of rebellion for the sake of love. And that would lead directly into Lelouch and Suzaku's arc, where Lelouch gets over his personal anger and all the flaws holding him back through great effort, and they realize that the true rebellion is a rebellion against power itself, a rebellion against systems and structures and traditions that define what people must be and what they are allowed to do based on their family or social class. That their society as it is is fundamentally designed to keep people in their place, and is resistant to change. To break these systems down and create something new from them is what true rebellion looks like. Evolving your Geass into a Code to give up the Corrupted Wish Superpower and gain immortality, it should represent mental evolution, spiritual growth, personal fulfillment, an awakening to the truth of the world and a vow to rebel the right way. Their story had so much potential, but it was squandered so Code Geass could do the most shocking and dramatic things the author could think of, not the smartest things I could think of with the benefit of hindsight.

And that's everything. What do you think?

Also I can't fucking believe the new Fire Emblem seems to be doing "Evil Marth with red hair".

My videos for my fangame Fire Emblem: Full Frontal Assault used Eirika and a red-haired evil Eirika because that was literally the easiest option for a villain you can talk to besides a default generic enemy without a unique portrait.

Forget calling it, I did it first. Evil Eirika, Anti-Eirika, Akirie, whatever I called her. Pallete swap.

I did this as a joke because it was easy and I wasn't taking the game's plot seriously at all as I'm saving all my effort for the deep rebellion story.

They could have made Civilization Beyond Earth better if instead of tying technologies to ideological affinity points, making every game linear and repetitive because of the technologies you are forced to research in specific orders, they added Affinity Choices to these technologies where you can decide how these technologies are applied by your people upon their discovery.
For example, develop a food growth lab. You can decide whether you want
>more food for everyone (Purity)
>superior high energy food for the elites at the cost of reducing food quality for everyone else (Supremacy)
>inferior food with reduced environmental harm (Harmony)

Rediscover nukes?
>nuclear power plants (purity)
>nuclear weapons (supremacy
>anti nuclear airborne bacteria canister launchers (harmony)

Discover brain-computer link technology?
>develop video games and online hubs for communication like what Earth used to have (Purity)
>forbid all VR media that does not advance this high tech cyborg state's goals (Supremacy)
>brainwash "deviants" into loving harmony through traumatic VR experiences with intense biases (harmony)

Still funny how it only took one Sonic game to go from "Movie Boost Aura is an optional cosmetic!" to "That's just how his boost looks now. No you can't turn it off. No I don't know what The Flash is."