>makes 2 gimmick games>thinks he's god's gift to video games
I couldn't shrug harder if I tried
>>727788890he rejects goyslop hence he's superior to most devs
>>727788890john blow has more genius in his left pinky then you will ever know!
Honestly it's kind of based that he declared war on tech debt and unoptimized slop, but I sadly don't think he's the guy to revolutionize game development
>>727788890Braid is boring and annoying to play. Storytelling through a bunch of bookreading sucks too. The witness was better but nothing earthshattering its like a 7/10 game maybe
>>727788890>makes 2 gimmick
>>727788890didn't someone make a perfect copy of that line-drawing game of his, in like a few months, in unity? and then he got mad because he had worked on it for yearsdevs who write game engines from scratch to feel superior are braindead
Obligatory:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXofLK5hFQHe never got over this.
>>727788890Can we all admit that most popular indies from the Live Arcade/Wiiware era was kinda shit? Braid, Fez, Bit.Trip series, Limbo, they were all only liked because it was a novelty at the time.
>>727789678Were*And no.
>>727788890https://youtu.be/jIE4fskFjI4
>>727789678Meatboy and Isaac are good
>>727788890>gamedev suckshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X4j8JfibtA
>>727789678Why Bit.Trip though? It was just pure rhythm game gameplay.
>>727788890>thinks he's god's gift to video gamesHe never implied this. You made this assumption yourself because you're desperate to hate him for whatever reason.
>>727788890He's been making games since the 90's and most of them have failed, he's in his mid 50's. His dad is some rich former defense contractor who bankrolled his entire career. The first game he made was Wulfram which nobody remembers.
>people bitch about braid being up it's own ass>when it's perfectly possible to completely ignore the story (it's a single room of books you can run through each chapter) and focus on the gameplay, which the game is basically nothing but>when you get down to it the only actually bad things are during the bonus star stuff with the two hour cloud bit and the one puzzle that can force a full game restart if you finished it too early>but instead everyone complaining about braid complains because they saw what could easily be treated as a puzzle platformer and treated like it was trying to be high art>everyone complaining about braid ultimately are making the same mistake Jon Blow makes
>>727790482>He's been making games since the 90's90's what?>he's in his mid 50's50's what?
>>727789436Did he even see it?
>>727790538>it's good if you ignore this one aspect of the gamealways a retarded defense. games get judged based on the whole game, not just one part of the game.
>>727790748>launches *a game you like*>looks at wall for four hours>"the game sucks because of the part where I didn't do anything but look at a wall for four hours"
>>727789678You are correct. Most of them were glorified Flash games with a price tag.
>>727791015we're not talking about staring at a wall, we're talking about playing the game the way that it was intended to be played
blow it out your ass
>>727789678Fez is still amazing, but yeah the bar was way lower back then.
AINT NO POINT TO DA GAME, YOU JUST RUNNING AROUND JUMPING ON SHIT>whooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP
>>727789369>is realkill me pete
>>727788890Thought he was ok until I watched one of his videos - the one where he "replies" to Hamderson video about Witness. What an arrogant and shallow person. I guess /v/ should love him for that video though.
>>727788890better track record than notch
>>727791230
>>727788890For me it was him being filtered by vines
>>727788890didn't know stephen graham was a game developer
>>727790748The "one part of the game" is 99% of the game.>>727791098Which is still primarily about doing time-manipulation puzzles.
>>727790538>>727791785>why do people say that the music in this game sucks when you can just mute it
>>727790748Reading is not gameplay, no matter how much RPGfags try to pretend otherwise. Story doesn't matter.
Witness was good but not that good.While everyone praised it for incorporating its environment into puzzles it actually was the field where the game failed the most. Only 4 or 5 of all the game's segments relied on this, everything else felt way too detached and artificial. Unironically The Looker was better in this aspect.
>>727791098>intendedit gives you the same freedom to stop and read those books as any FPS gives you to stare at a wall for four hours.
>>727791230Sounds fun. What's the game called?
>>727791964But Braid has good music. And the thing I'm saying can be ignored is literally self-contained to a single room per chapter. So it isn't constantly present in the game like music is.
>>727790538>and the one puzzle that can force a full game restart if you finished it too earlyanyone have more info on this? neither google nor chatgpt yielded anything on the matter
>>727791964Because it plays on it's own and you have to mute it yourself.
>>727790482>most of them have failedyour average game dev would kill to have 2 critically acclaimed games like blow has.
>>727791230>>727791486Never in the history of video games has there been a more damning verbal evisceration
>>727792471If I recall correctly of the stars requires arranging a jigsaw puzzle in the hub world so that a platform in the jigsaw puzzles is in a position to jump on so you can get somewhere.Problem is. If you finish the jigsaw puzzle the game doesn't let you arrange the pieces anymore so you're no longer able to place that piece with the platform on it. Which means if you want to get that star you end up having to do a full restart of the game.
>>727789150>Honestly it's kind of based that he declared war on tech debt and unoptimized slopIt's not that he is wrong about it.It's that he's fucking autistic.Sorry, but your own language won't ever gain the user numbers to produce proper feedback for improvement, let alone an actual engine, and even less a real game.It doesn't fucking matter if he is "right in principle" when his principles can't produce results.Guy seems like a prime Gen-X know-it-all.Very specialized knowledge in his field, yet opinions on fuckin everything.
>>727793316thank you, i appreciate the explanation
>>727789678For me, the modern indie scene started with Legend of Grimrock.Then nothing for like 5 years.Then a bunch of highly involved autism simulators like factorio or terraria.And then friendslop.
>>727791230Soulja Boy was right.Braid was one of those original onions games by artsy onions devs that decided "losing is unfun :(" and too videogamey anyways so they give you unlimited time travel and no lose state.
i cant be the only one that thought braid was just a quirky time-puzzle game? blow's vision aside, the game can't be that deep
>>727793657Not being able to solve the puzzle is a lose state anon.
>>727791405Completely untrue
>>727793791it's technically a state of limbo, which is fitting for tim's predicament
>>727789678Calling it the "Live Arcade/Wiiware era", already suggests you're doing it a disservice by not looking at pc indies.
>>727788890>BTFO'd Matthewmatosis so hard he's giving up gamedev and going back to making videosWhere were (you) when Blow saved video games?
>>727793657It's for people who smoke and drink. You wouldn't get it.
>>727793576Grimrock games are a miracle of the universe. And we're blessed for experiencing it. Demanding more of it is understandable but entitled.
>>727793705the actual game is mario 1 with sands of time/ blinx the time sweeper powersthe story is very pretentious but can mostly be ignored
>>727791367It's actually pretty good desu.
>>727789678Were you struggling to remember XBL titles?Bit. Trip is a solid series and doesn't belong there.You could have replaced it with State Of Decay or Deadlight.
AIN'T GOT NO POINT TO THE GAME
>>727793990was his game even any good, I never bothered playing it cause it seemed very geared towards people like himself that get way into zachtronics stuff and/or factorio which just isn't my vibe at all
>>727789678Bit Trip games were kinoBraid, in all honesty, is a pretty good game if you just ignore how up his own ass Blow is. Frankly the more pretentious shit didn't start hindering his games until the witnessand this is ignoring all the other old school XBLA-era indie games that were just genuine gems like bastion, world of good, plants vs zombies etc.
>>727795134>>727791230the funniest part is that he either does get the story and is just shitposting by pretending he doesn't, or he genuinely doesn't (or more likely doesn't care) and yet somehow managed to succinctly describe it anyway
when the FUCK is sokoban coming out bros
>>727795637Just play Baba is You.
>named jonathan blow>read review on my game>"omfg this games blows!!">mfw
>>727790538Bud Red Head > Braid
I know it's a weeb site but making a sokoban is plain retarded. The game is gonna flop harder than his Braid remake. In this oversaturated market people are craving novelty - something that made Braid and Witness stand out back in their time.
>>727795585>playing Mario from the future for the story
>>727794524>they ditched the blobber for an isometric generic gameWhy
>>727795637he turned into a slav
>>727789012>then you will ever knowMaybe I'd know it if he fucking released something
>>727797029CYKABAN
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP
>>727796957According to them LoG2 wasn't exactly a booming success and they were simply burnt out so they wanted to do something new either way.
>>727788890is this cliffyb
>>727797795Because it didn't get the XBLA signal boosting, but I can't imagine druidstone motivated them at all.
>>727799169Druidstone was pretty much an other team's project which they were merely a part of.
>>727795637never because it's mainly him doing everything and he despises having employees and having to pay people
>>727788890Braid isn't very good but The Witness is the best video game of all time.
>>727800587>Gimmick: the Game is the best video game of all time.
>>727788890He's the prime example of every single troonix/tech elitist.>Erm u can't do it like that ackshually, no I won't teach you rtfm git gud lol>things don't change for the betterWhen you have a bunch of whiny grifter faggots like him who keep complaining about everything in the world instead of teaching you just know it'll keep going downhill more and more, totally deserved.
>>727800587I agree with this, except I would just say 'one' of the best games of all time for the Witness. It is crazy how much of a let down Braid was after I played the Witness.
>>727788890the witness is amazing
>>727789436Got over what? What you think happened only "exists" through the power of editing. He's not even talking about Soulja Boy. The two scenes are unrelated.
>>727789012He's basically broke and nobody plays or remembers his gamesHow much of a genius can he be
