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>>741351423YOUUUUUUUU!
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>>741351423qrd?
>>741351423IT AIN'T NO POINT TO DA THREAD
Oh man, its ya boy Soulja Boy Tell em and they got this game right, for people who smoke or people who drinklike if you drink beer and you get drunk or you smoke weed and you get high anything and you just be gettin fucked upthey got this game right ion know this shit called order of da sinking stah ion know the fuckion know the fuck watch this shitits about these lil guy in um a dress and they push around there aint even got no point to the game you just push shit aroundit look like baba is YUUUU in in the future and this baba in a wizard dress with his hair dyed orange a cape onand he just walk around pushin on shit but the funny part about it is you can do this right here watch thisyeeewwwp aahahahaahaha what you doinhow you do thatnow if you didnt catch that i just teleportedthrough the whole mirror he just be teleportwatch this shit like you gonna push he be like oooohhh shit im boutta push eeeeeaaawowwaaaaoooahhh ahahahahahahahahaaahahahah shit and the ***** just go pull watch this shit watch this shit right hereooaahhh wooaaehhhh yeewwww ehehe aaueuwwwso im sayin like he goin over here right and he push the boulder ooohhh awawaawawoahsucka get yo ass out bitch excuse me oohh aaohaa OOHHAAHHAH UHwatch this shitCOME HERE BITCH AOHHHAAHHooahaha look at this shitnahwaaeeeoeowwowoaa hahhahaaoeoeeowyou see how far i pushed that shit?and then what make it so funny about it you dont never run out of that swap in mirroryou just go swap in mirror forever and you knowthere aint no point to the gameyou just go around like shitah fell off the terrain you know how i dignooooaahahaaahaahahaaaa this shit stupid as hell man woooahahaahaha psychhey i just thought i should show yall on youtube and myspace and shitoeoaoaoehaajeajehhaaewo OH AOHyou fuckin die bitch?OHHAHAHAH AHAHAAAKAH OHH Aalright man im outta thisaye
>>741351423>renowned genius Jonathan Blow>demo is windows only steam onlyyikes
>>741353213Sounds like a game for me!
>>74135142330MILLION DOLLARS
Google's top 3 results tell a story.
>>741351423>be an antivax chud>support capitalism and oligarchy >go brokemany such cases
>>741353412lol classic Polygon headline
>>741351423>no major subreddits post news about his new gameIs he really that much of a right-winger? I don't watch his streams, did he tell the lefties to go kill themselves or is he anti-trans something?
>>741354863worse he's pro trump
The demo's max concurrent is more than 5x what Braid Anniversary got.https://steamdb.info/app/4597250/charts/https://steamdb.info/app/499180/charts/
>>741351423this man is unironically a genius and we need more of himLike Ross scott, he calls shit out and he doesn't eat shit ( like old /v/ used to be about ), he demands change, and when others don't change he makes his own changes in the system/v/ in 2012 was 50% or more of all users still like that. Now it's 0% and why this board is irrelevant and stupidPC masterrace out
>>741354863The game is just not much, man. Why are you constructing these grand narratives of political persecution?Play the demo, and tell me why there should be many threads everywhere about this.
>>741355956He's not a jaded, whiny bitch.
>>741351605lamest most forced doggiest shittiest meme of the decadeinb4 >yuo are johnathan blow hahaI am not john blowjob
>>741355956>this man is unironically a genius and we need more of himHe is a guy who spends 50% of his day complaining that the video game industry is bloated and needs to trimp up and concentrate, and 50% of his day developing a Sokoban clone for over a decade with a multi-million budget.
>>741355154grok, whats five times zero ?
>>741353412Why is the journo mafia so mad at jblow anyway? Is it just the vaxx cult?
>>741351423KING
>>741355956i feel sorry for the developersimagine working for that maniac who smells his own farts and having to develop a game in a retarded langauge that he is the sole knowledge base for, a programming language that you cant even add to your resume.
>>741354863He's very outspoken about his antiwokery and a big twitter chud so naturally he's a persona non grata on reddit circles, not like it matters since it's just a bot site ran by literal glowies.>>741357220Why are you a pisspoor gaslighter?
>>741357721>Why are you a pisspoor gaslighter?Go play the demo, its available right now, for free. Play it and come back and explain why it should be front page news on gaming commnities.His game is just lame, that's why its not talked about. Daniel Vavra's game was discussed and published widely, despite wokies hating him. It had the benefit of being a good game.You are the one gaslighting here, attempting to convince people a nothingburger is a supressed revolutionary game, just because the lead developer has mild-spicy opinions on politics.
>>741354863I remember him, in one of his streams, something something along the lines of "I don't use Rust because I don't want to cut off my peepee".
>>741357890It's not really being suppressed. The demo is doing good numbers for its length. And it's going to get more levels tomorrow.
>>741353412>Shrinking Starlol>>741357396Soulja Boy's review is older than the amount of time you have been on 4chan, newfag.
>>741357890I already played it and I know he's basically banned off any wokester grifter site due to his political views. Who are you even trying to trick with these pisspoor attempts at gaslighting? Everyone's familiar with your modus operandi, which is why the demo is doing well, redditors and resetera faggots have zero influence on anything to begin with.
>>741357502literally just thisIt makes it so anytime he comes up among "polite company" you have to talk about how much you hate him for being a chud
>>741357463>He is a guy who spends 50% of his day complaining that the video game industry BASEDASEDjust like old /v/bring it backI miss old /v/. /v/ is so retarded now that if you make a thread pointing out PC is better than consoles, you get banned for "flame wars" just like a reddit or some internet forum for normies lul
>>741358065its old but it wasnt spammed every two days by some faggot that probably also made this thread
>>741358281>trust fund baby worships another trust fund babysasuga
>>741357596>i feel sorry for the developersI don't think in the entire history of game development did the developers know more clearly what they were signing up for when they joined this project.Don't get me wrong, I loved The Witness. I thought it was a brilliant puzzle game. But you only need to watch any one of Blow's streams or YouTube videos before applying for the job that he is the most fart huffing person ever. I really mean that I don't know anybody in the public space who clearly doesn't understand their own trade. This fucker cites a completely unknown text adventure from the fucking 80s and board games nobody has heard of from the 60s as being some of the most influential games ever made. Andy Warhol tells you to piss on the floor and you piss on the floor - that is a totally stress-free job in service of an artist. God knows what Blow asked these people to do and how many hours of insane bullshit they had to listen to before they could get to it - and they knowingly signed up for it.
>>741353284>windows only steam onlybased, also wish he removes iGPU support for 3rd wolders
>>741357596>programming language that you cant even add to your resume.same with java
>>741358476How does being influenced by obscure stuff mean that he doesn't know his own trade? It shows he at the very least has deep knowledge, which is essential for "understanding a trade".
>>741351605AIN'T NO POINT TO DA GAMEYOU JUST WALK AROUND SHOVING BOXES N' SHIEET
>>741358160The original post: >>741354863>>no major subreddits post news about his new game>Is he really that much of a right-winger?The claim is that coverage of the game is surpressed, because the developer is an extremist.The fact is that coverage of the game is low, because the game is dull, and the developer has the political views of your uncle, and is a generic conservative.You are 0:2 here, and you can stop adding the word "gaslighting" to your gaslighting, it prompts the reader to think about you gaslighting them, and you are thus less able to do it.fag
>>741358937Whatever dumb gaslighting you try to pull won't work no matter how much you try to repeat it. This is not reddit or resetera where you rack up points by reposting the same lies, you have to work for it with actual substance. You aren't fitting it at all by the way, you should go back nigger.
>>741359170bodied that loser
>>741359170>17:33:15>>741359216>17:34:16
>>741358451I had a boss a lot like blow. Obviously tistic and forthcoming that he was tistic. Very high narcissism. Extremely competent at his job and extremely knowledgeable. Unfortunately it was the narcissism that made working with him insufferable.One thing about narcissists is that they love other narcissists. I never understood his love for Trump until that piece clicked. Any intelligent person you know who still is ride or die Trump is more than likely higher in narcissism than they are in intelligence.
>>741359261I was making fun of you, queer.>random post timerslol you're one of the two people involved in this "argument" and one of you thinks I'm samefagging.
>>741359436Yes anon, trust fund babies tend to have huge egos. Plus JBlow's dad worked/works for the American Dept of Defense so in a way, JBlow HAS to have a positive view of <current president> because that keeps his daddy employed.
>>741358476It doesn't sound bad. For what I heard, all he hired were artists, so they had to work with the tools JBlo gave them, and they were probably extra slow at doing it since it's been 10 years, so there's no way to feel sorry for the developers, feel sorry for the ones who took the risk, that's JBlo. that's like the fucker who's made he's been paid $7000 for work on that recent zoomer movie or the Witcher author going to court to get paid more than what he signed up for. You took no risk go fuck yourself.
>>741359634He has specifically said it was a mistake to keep artists hired early on in the game because most of the work just ended up getting thrown out
>YOU'RE NARCISSISM-BOXING ME
I downloaded the demo.>Ai generated voices>horrible optimization>very short
>>741358476>But you only need to watch any one of Blow's streams or YouTube videos before applying for the job that he is the most fart huffing person ever.That was what I thought after watching Indie Game. Years later after watching a variety of interviews and commentary I found my first impression to be way off.>>741359436It's usually the opposite. The reason I hated Blow at first was due to MY narcissism and fragile ego. "How dare he insinuate that I'm not a good programmer or don't have impeccable taste in video games! What an asshole!" That's narcissistic injury.Ultimately Blow is just a blunt, moderately disagreeable guy with standards, and primarily just cares about programming and making videogames. Emotionally-driven people with a weak center and low self-esteem can't handle it. They can't just disagree on some specific point about some specific thing like an adult, they have to go all-out to destroy him, the perceived source of their psychic agony.
There ain't no point to this game, you just pushing blocks and shit
As far as puzzle games go it's pretty boring, like its only real selling point is having a lot of puzzles but I could buy like five puzzle games for $5 each and get the same total number of puzzles with each having much more interesting and varied mechanics.Also Blow apparently didn't even make most of the puzzles, he just collated a bunch of existing games? So all that he really made was a new programming language (which doesn't matter to the player at all) and a bunch of NPC yapping which I don't have any reason to give a fuck about because they're all low detail blob people who exist to push boxes. Stephen's Sausage Roll didn't force me to wait for Stephen to stop monologing about the symbolism of the sausages to start the next puzzle.
>>741351423Yep, i'm thinking Soulja Boy won
>>741351423I remember when people played games for their gameplay, not because they're in a parasocial relationship with their epic chud streamer who's such an extremist big subreddits like /r/games and /r/pcgaming don't cover his games at all
>>741361038What's your opinion on musk?
>>741361495you seem quite obsessed
>>741351423It’s hard to get excited about tile-based puzzle games in 2026.
>>741362271Yeah, this is just cringe after Blue Prince. And Blow spent what, $30M on this??? How the fuck...
>>741360079It gets longer tomorrow.
>>741361203Is there a point to any game, really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2unHTyqmvwkHe's right you know
>>741361495I play for the gameplay. I just know for experience that this particular developer makes good gameplay, so I was really looking forward to this game. Based on the demo, he shall deliver.
>>741351423Karl Pilkington?
>>741364189I fear I might hit a wall where the puzzles get too hard and the flow is gone, but his games are never too hard to begin with so maybe he'll have some self-control.
>>741351423What phenotype is this?
>>741361610(a) most musk haters are mentally ill(b) is a major attention whore and some kind of idiot savant at using X formerly twatter, has been one of the most-followed accounts for years. (c) cringe and socially awkward(d) has a lot of real, practical experience running companies that people don't give him credit for, preferring instead to argue whether he's a technical genius or a clueless retard who knows nothing about tech (neither is correct).(e) I think ambition to put people on Mars is absurd and foolish, but a motivating visionary leader isn't a bad thing for a company like SpaceX, which has proven itself time and again.Compared to Blow specifically, Musk is much less grounded. Musk is a literal trillioniare and in many ways doesn't live in the same world as any of us.If I were sitting in a room with Jon Blow, I think I could have a productive dispute with him about say, Python and its niche in scientific computing. That won't happen as I'm sure he's not interested, but I'm confident if it were to happen, we could establish common ground and make reasonable points and counter-points. With Musk, I have no idea if we'd find any common ground or not.
>>741353319what are you talking about bro??
>>741364416Anglo-Balkan mix
>>741358740>How does being influenced by obscure stuff mean that he doesn't know his own trade?The point isn't that they influenced HIM, it's that he was saying they were just generally influential in the industry. As if his peculiar artistic views were actually more widely supported and mainstream than they really are. Which is sort of Blow in a nutshell. It's not enough for him to have his own particular, and in some cases brilliant, views and opinions. He needs to treat himself as this incredibly genius that other people know about and accept. Unable to disentangle his own perspective from the wider industry. He can't just appreciate something, he has to be appreciating them because they're objectively important.For a reverse example, I once saw an anon who couldn't accept that any N64 game was actually super influential. Because obviously the N64 was a flop of a console so no game on it could have any influence on the industry. Which is, objectively, an insane thing to think since there's not a single 3D game made today that does not owe something to either Mario 64 or OoT.
>>741365467What games was he talking about?N64 games aren't influential btw.
>>741361038Everything you write about in this post only concerns character and not what they make. Blow is gifted on a technical level but many would argue he doesn't have the creative chops to actually make exceptional games. He probably needs a partner like Carmack needed Romero
>>741365467reading this shit is hillarious, jon is just an introvert who is doing his own things. Extroverts literally cannot process someone just doing their own thing and think they must be doing it because they only care about clout and what people think of him. Extroverts are so pathetic.
>>741365906Both Braid and The Witness are exceptional, too early to tell with OotsS since it's early and rough but the hook is there.
>>741366006i didn't care for braid or the witness but I am very much looking forward to the sinking star and really liked the demo
>>741358281>hope it doesn't abruptly go bad>it doesNeed to know his opinion now if you want to be fair to the guy. But it is still a retarded position to take.
>>741364189Now Nintendo will steal it, and make it their next Zelda.
>>741365585kekBut I'd say Mario 64 was very influential, primarily as proof that an analog stick on the gamepad was the future of 3D console gaming.Other N64 games commonly touted as influential are pretty overrated imho.
>>741366050I liked braid, wasn't interested in witness and didn't play it, and like ootss so far
Is this better than The Witness? The Witness' whole gimmick was withholding knowledge. If you know how this symbol acts in a puzzle, you will easily solve every puzzle with it, and if you don't well tough luck fuck off somewhere else and maybe you'll find the tutorial for it. Hate games like this, Tunic was the same shit, no idea why the normies are so fascinated by them. It's just unfair, you're not really solving anything, you're combing the map for knowledge.
>>741368078yes there is nothing withheld at all it's just figuring out a solution that works give the known powers and there are often multiple
>>741368078>Is this better than The Witness?We can't know this until the full release.>If you know how this symbol acts in a puzzle, you will easily solve every puzzle with it, and if you don't well tough luck fuck off somewhere else and maybe you'll find the tutorial for it.While I like games like this a lot, this doesn't seem to be what Order of the Sinking Star is doing.
>>741359436So most of the Blow defenders on this board are likely also narcissists high on their own farts? Seems reasonable
Are these single solution puzzles like braid and the witness or did he finally learn what a video game is
jon needs to dedicate a single artist to fixing the clusterfuck design language of all the symbols in the game.so many fancy stars, clunky arrows, and other shapes that don't read very well
>>741368414>1 solution = not video gameWhy do these threads make some of the most retarded people on the board crawl out of the woodworks?
>>741366006>OotsSPlease don’t ever do this again.
I never got the multi-solution meme.In Portal the unintended ones always felt incredibly jank and borderline exploiting engine/physics bugs
>>741368414Actually, most of the puzzles in the Witness have two solutions
>>741368710Make an acronym that doesn't suck then MR BLOW
>>741354863He's basically a socially centre-left/economically-right dude who thinks San Fran is going down the shitter thanks to anti-business policies, bought an AR15 after BLM riots started and said gamedev twitter is for people who hate those who actually work on games. They were already seething hard when he started questioning the vaxx rethoric (even though he's vaccinated himself) and started wanting him dead around the time he said something mildly positive about Trump's first term.
>>741355956Why did he get stuck on the vines in Hollow Knight
>>741369861It was a puzzle too fiendish for his big, bald brain
>>741369861I don't remember what I got stuck on in HK but it does have lots of annoying gotchas and interactions that just assume you know what you're meant to do and don't even work as intentional puzzles since it's mostly a bad distinction between background and interactive elements, these things don't make for good gameplay.
>>741369861because he barely plays other video games that aren't puzzles or FPSlop
>>741370039Literally nobody got stuck when it came to the vines. People got stuck on the pink mushrooms in Fungals Wastes, but that's because it wasn't immediately obvious you could downslash to bounce on them.
>>741365467Infocom was hugely foundational to the western industry from Zork onwards until they were eclipsed by Sierra and others and iirc crashed their company due to the non-game side being retarded. >>741365585Trinity. Haven't played it but I know those who do tend to gush about it. About the manhattan project and the creation of nukes.By the same guy who made Lucasart's Loom.
>>741370039The vines have the same thick outline as other interactables and are on same plane as the player character. I think you're just a retard, anon.
>>741370214jon.... if you spent 2 seconds using that giant brain to discern the environment, it was obvious what you needed to do.
>>741370174>>741365467>faggot being unaware of Infocom kino and thinking it was even obscure to begin withThey were THE shit back then, the natural language parsing was revolutionary. For me it was Planetfall.
I'll buy it. Normally I don't like basic sokoban but this one looks neat due to the different mechanics and large world.Also I want to see the seethe from the journocunts when it does well but that's more of an extra. I wouldn't buy it just for that alone.
>>741370690I need to play that.People shilled A Mind Forever Voyaging for ages.When I was really young I was guilty of adding it to recs list I made on here without having ever played it.Then I did and it was the biggest pile of shit text game i've ever played.The story is basically "what if Ron*ld Reag*n gets elected" and Meretzky sperging out about how they'll get a fascist state where half the people are mutated due to the nuclear war he'll set off and the pure non-mutated christian kids, apparently kindergarteners are now fascists, will bully them throwing stones and the only way to stop this is by imprisoning Reagan for good and voting Jimmie Carter.And it's a frickin' walking sim without proper puzzles! Explains all the recs right there.The only thing good about it was laughing at how utterly deranged he was.
>>741351423I feel like it was really obvious that the move was NOT to make a sokobanlike there have been plenty of great sokoban variants lately that have done loads of interesting things and each time the ceiling has been not particularly high. Void Stranger, Patrick parabox, Stephen Sausage Roll, Paquerette, Monster Expedition, etc etcEven the extremely high quality ones have not been particularly big hits. this is the kind of genre you work in if you're a solo developer, not someone spending millions of dollars with dozens of people on payroll hoping to make your money back. I dunno this was so unbelievably obvious that it just seems silly to me that it got this farwhy didn't he just make more and different videogames. well whatever he's hardly the first to get bogged down in nonsense like this
>>741351423Point to the game status?
>>741371993da game got this feature right, you be pressin z and suddenly shit get trippy and you start goin backwards like WOOOOOO hahahahahhaha shit funny as hell mane
