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| Re: Holy shit by Bananadine 03/08/2011, 10:41am PST | ||||
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motherfuckerfoodeater wrote: I think it's more lazy than insane. Buried under all the posturing, he says: Spelunky isn't a roguelike because it doesn't need its randomization; it doesn't need randomization because it isn't challenging enough to justifiably force a player to replay it many many times; he knows it isn't challenging because he played it and found it to be unchallenging. And its inclusion of randomness that it doesn't need is bad because randomness has a cost in level design quality: "no stupid algorithm will ever beat a talented human being in level design". Moreover, the controls are bad and the graphics and sound suck. Most of that is sane enough, if the premises are correct. BUT: His central claim that the game isn't challenging is very weak, because he backs it up with very little detail about how the game actually works--and, worse, his biggest piece of evidence that it's not challenging is that you can make it almost as easy as you want by just proceeding very very slowly, since there is (he says) no time limit; and there is in fact a time limit. He doesn't seem to have played the game much. And as for his ranting about the controls and the graphics and sound and the eternal failings of alorithmic level design... hm okay that's kinda crazy. :( |
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