There's gotta be a better name for these things other than 'Metroidvania'. I have some suggestions. >Mappy Lappies, cause you got a map and you lap around it>Exploration-Focused Action-Adventure Platformers with Ability-Gated Map Progression, or EFAAPAGMPs for short>Zeldon'ts, because they're kinda like Zelda games but not>Metroid-likes since Metroid did it first and Metroidvania was really just a term used to differentiate between different styles of Castlevania games anyway>Mapformers, because they're platformers with big maps>Rootlikes because actually Below the Root did it first>Roguelites because fuck it, that term doesn't mean anything anymore anyway so let's start accelerating>Wallhuggers cause if you didn't get that teeny tiny corner or the map exposed then you didn't beat the game I guess, fuck you
I think "Shit" is descriptive enough
>>737497614platformer w/ a hub
>>737497614There is. it's called platformer slops.
>>737497614Search action works because it's an action game where you have to figure out where progress is. Your giant acronym was pretty close to that. I would say Purposefully Obtuse Open Platformers.
>>737497614zelda invented metroidvania
>>737497614MapformerSearch actionAction adventure platformerExplore em up
>>737497614>>Exploration-Focused Action-Adventure Platformers with Ability-Gated Map Progression, or EFAAPAGMPs for shortYou got my vote
>>737497614They are SotN-likes because every single one is a shitty copy of SotN.
>>737497614Hollowlikes
>>737497614Mapformer is actually really good. Someone unfamiliar with the genre could get an idea of what the games are like just from the name
>>737497614Action Exploration Platformer.
>>737497614it's called indie slop
I haven't placed this but I appreciate what it inspired
>>737497614Exploration Platformers: explats4A: Action-Adventure explorAtion plAtformer
>>737497614still waiting for the 3D versions of these games
>>737500745Metroid Prime?
>>737499085I do wish more opted to copy some other title in the genre. No one does for a Metroid style design or anything like the DS Castlevanias
>>737497614High-quality and very intellectual post from OP. Then I open the thread and I'm reminded of the children, minorities, and third-worlders constantly bickering at each.
>>737497812Blasphemous is piss at worst.Hollow Liberal is insufferable and ugly though.
>>737501271I loved both of them. Great games with unique imagery.
>/v/edditors still seething about Hollow Knight
>>737501186theres nothing high quality and intellectual about "Mappy Lappies" retard
>>737501186They're like retarded parrots, they just repeat phrases they've heard with no concept of context.
>>737497614I like "wallhugger," but it could also describe those Doom games or dungeon crawlers with a million fake walls.
>>737501423It rhymes so it's poetry.
>>737501349You're replying to someone who never actually played HK, he's only regurgitating what he's heard and seen on /v/
>>737500745Dark Souls 1 has everything except ability-gated progression. The style of exploration and overall design is Metroidvania-like.
>>737501520Fun fact, super metroid has an unused wall type which you can walk through AND impact with your shots, AND it's solid to enemies which will crawl over it, AND the x-ray visor can't expose it. It's highly likely they took it out because it would've been obnoxious as fuck for secrets, but it's available for romhacks to use.
>>737500745Yeah it’s Dark Souls unfortunately.
I love this lil dude
>>737498690HubformerPlubsPlubformers
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