Name a worse genre name than metroidbrainia
DOOM clones
>>737497390jrpg
>>737497390it's the best genre though
>>737497390Roguelike deckbuilder, or roguelikes in general, MOBAs, hero shooters
>>737497390Hack and slash.Metroidvania is already a bad name because there are Metroid and Castlevania games that don't fit it, so it isn't even useful like DOOM clone was. This awful name also refers to games that aren't Metroidvanias but people are desperate to weasel them into a conversation about Symphony of the Night or Zero Mission.
>>737497390>metroidbrainiareddit quirk chungus term, thank fuck it never caught on
>>737497390JRPG
>>737497390these are all zeldalikes
What are some Metroid"pain"ias?
>>737498897iwbtg
>>737497390roguelikes, as they are nothing like rogue
>>737497390Good term. It gets across exactly what they are with no misunderstanding. Get over yourself and your worrying about being "cringe" like a fucking valley girl from the 90's>>737499092
>>737497791Shame Reveries input sensitivity is ass.
>>737497390I played Fez and now my brain has expanded beyond a mere human's capacities. Do not try to keep up with my Fish-boosted cerebral activity.
>>737500693Around when Fez came out, I played an indie game obviously ripping off the 2D-3D mechanic from it, except it had things like enemies and bosses that you'd expect in a platformer.
>>737498662The middle one is a zeldalike.
>>737497390Just say that you're a retard
>>737503541where's this rare mulbruk from
>>737497390ffs the genre name is just Discovery or Exploration
>>737503935The second video on the Steam store pagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtAFGes3Xdo
>>737497390Plus the 'genre' is one game, Tunic, it's otherwise just used to describe puzzle games
>>737497390Metroidvania>It's a Castlevania that plays like a Metroid game but we're not calling it a Metroid clone even though Castlevania adds nothing to the mix, except that only maybe half of all Metroid games at most are Metroidvanias at this point with only one new "Metroidvania" entry in over 20 years so the Metroid part is also irrelevant>>737500462It gets across basically nothing as a genre name.It's a paradigm focused search action game.Rocks exist: this is a paradigm, you can throw rocks: this redefines how you perceive the paradigm without any changes to the paradigm.
>>737500462>>737507729You know it's a bad term when people read/hear it and their brain auto-corrects to a different term entirely. metroidBRAINia is quite possibly the worst genre term ever conceived.
>>737497390Worst name, best genre hands DOWN. Name a better genre and I will tell you why you're wrong.
>>737497791How is Chants of Senaar a metroid brainia There is some back tracking But nah
>>737497791Started playing Blue Prince on the 13thI haven't been this engrossed in a game in a very long time
>>737508875>dude walk through hallways and pick up keysI don't get the hype
>>737497390arpg and/or jrpg.at no point can the player roleplay in any game in these genres.
>>737508957cuz ur a metroidbrainlet
>>737508957If you're not the kind of person to write down everything of note in any given room or area, it's not for you, since the puzzles can get extremely schizophrenicMy text document I use for notetaking is currently over 40,000 words, and am pursuing roughly six different puzzle leads on a given run
>>737506558The idea is that the map is similar to what you'd expect from a Metroidvania, except instead of getting an item in one place that opens a path you passed by earlier, you get taught something that could have been used earlier. The Witness is the most obvious example of a bunch of puzzles that you won't know how to solve immediately, so you skip them and come back when you've learned how. There are a few games like that.
I want to make a metroidvania-like game after finishing up and reasling the game I'm currently working on. I was thinking about making it more RPG focused and a lot less platforming focused, because so many Metroidvania games nowadays seem to focus heavily on challenge platforming, but is that just what people prefer? I was thinking of something honestly more like Maplestory where it feels more like an open world RPG with "Platforming" but it's more just a method to get around rather than a constant challenge. You'd still need to unlock abilities like double jump / wall jumping/etc to get around to new areas but there wouldn't be anything like a spike filled hell hallway sections that ask you to use these abilities with extreme precision.Give me some feedback anons, does this sound like an idea that could work? Or is it clear everyone loves platforming challenge focused metroidvanias and not RPG based ones?
>>737508875It is a true masterpiece, mostly pearls before swine with respect to /v/ though.
>mfw pseuds come up with a ""genre"" even worse than immersive sim
>>737499092the fact baldi's basics plus is closer to a roguelike than most other games that call themselves a roguelike
>>737509328Honestly it's more of meta genre like roguelite, you can stack it on top practically everything, even minesweeper styled game could have "second title from bottom on third column will always have a mine"Most of the games in this genre barely share any similarities outside of metroidbrainia elements
>>737497390they're called puzzle games
>>737499092Mindbroken
>>737508875It's good until a bit into the endgame stuff, then it becomes tedious garbage.
>>737509358Depends which RPG mechanics. Nobody likes grinding, but the flipside is people easily getting their stats so high, the game isn't challenging. Better RPGs are based heavily around moves that do something other than damage, like buffs, debuffs and status ailments. It could be fun to play an action game where you want to inflict enemies with a status to make them easier to kill.
>>737508709A lot of games in that list don't really fit. Why is Shadows of Doubt there for example.
>>737497791I quit rain world because I got to an area I was supposed to be able to jump to and no matter how many times I tried to jump to it I wouldn’t get on the cliff
>>737497390Character action is not a genre its just an action gameHack and slash are also just action games
>>737511213https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper
>>737513312beat em ups are also just action gamesfps are also just action gamesfighting games are also just action games
>>737497390easy, metroidvania
>>737511213In a way, yes, you don't know if it's going to be a 2D platformer or first person action game or whatever. Looking for a specific genre like that means a list of Metroidbrainias won't be of much use to you. Still, I think a lot of people are looking specifically for those puzzles with split explanation and execution, and they'll be happy regardless of what genre that's in.
>>737497791All these games have nothing in common
>>737497791Pretentious sloppa
>>737497390How about a hentai sports game subgenre called cock and balls
>>737497390boomer shooter
It should've been named Exploration Puzzles or something. Something less retarded.
