Developer: here’s a fun little thing people will be excited to find!
Player: I will never trust anyone again
I love it, when Devs anticipate that players might break their levels and reward them for it.
E.g. when I played Supraland, I had it happen several times, that I managed to get to places that were obviously not intended to be reachable - you know the drill: Low poly terrain, low res textures, holes in the terrain, invisible walls everywhere,… You keep exploring that wasteland, carefully managing to not fall of, go around a corner and… There’s a chest there waiting for you.
Or some of the coin stacks in Super Mario Odyssey, that you’ll never really see or collect, until you do some crazy trick jumps or so to get on top of $building.
Super Mario Odyssey is such an amazing game. If the sequel is anywhere near as good, I might get a Switch 2 just for that.
IIRC the team behind SMO is the team that made Donkey Kong Bananza. So… Either another team is responsible for a new 3D Mario, or it will take quite a while before we get another 3D Mario. So far, there’s no announcement for a new 3D Mario (yet).
But Donkey Kong Bananza looks dope. Also I like that Ceave Gaming video where he overanalyzes the Donkey Kong trailer and goes over all the bits that have been revealed so far https://youtu.be/xc_YjHqqTm0
I thought I recall them talking about working on SMO2 like several years ago (before Switch 2 was announced, obv). I’ll see if I can find a link…
But I didn’t know that about the DK game, that’s good to know.
Edit: ok, found what I was thinking about. Apparently, back in like 2019 or something, Nintendo confirmed on Twitter that they were hiring for a new 2D, and a new 3D Mario game (I imagine the 2D game was Super Mario Wonder).
So they never confirmed or denied that the 3D Mario game was SMO2, but it seemed likely at the time.
Maybe they ended up changing course and doing DK instead?
Prehistoric had something on the left
Old school Armored core gamer here. This is me.
Wasting ammo on random sections of wall, or vents, or shipping crates…
not one game at all, it’s pretty much tradition.
And then the movie adaptation of Ready Player One acted like placing something before the starting line is some kind of super-sneaky hiding method.
I look at that less as a plot point and more as a nod to video game design. I really liked that movie.
That movie was a cringe fest start to end.
How dare that person not plant some pies in there every now and then
Aren’t sweets like really bad for dogs?
Edit: Don’t hate me, I was just asking a question. I know nothing about dogs.
Meat pie baby
Yeah it took me like ten seconds of confusions to understand what about a pie was being considered sweet. And then ohhhhh maybe they thought it meant a FRUIT pie?
“A pie” is a meat pie around here
Doesn’t mean they don’t love them!
Same for humans basically…
They’ll mostly just get sick to their stomach and or fat. Dogs don’t process sugar very well, but it’s not that horrible for them usually. Worse for small dogs with bad constitution. Chocolate specifically is poisonous for dogs, but again… bigger dogs can often just tank the damage.
Depends on the pie though, dogs are still somewhat omniverous so something like a berry pie without any sugar but what’s already in the berries shouldn’t be too bad.
a berry pie without any sugar but what’s already in the berries shouldn’t be too bad.
Wolves have been observed to subsist on almost exclusively blueberries during the height of the season in Yellowstone, so I’d say the glyphosate residue in the flour is much more of a risk than whatever fruit is in the middle.
Sweets are really bad for people too, but that doesn’t seem to stop them.
My dog would occasionally get into a bag of Hershey kisses, he lived to be 18 years old
That’s because Hershey’s chocolate isn’t actual chocolate, it’s milk mixed with vomit.
Good to know, I’m cooking chocolate chip cookies this afternoon, I’ll try your homemade substitutes per your suggestion 😁
FYI, the vomit thing is very real: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hersheys-chocolate-tastes-like-vomit_l_60479e5fc5b6af8f98bec0cd
I also had a childhood dog that got into a bag of Hershey’s Kisses and was just fine. I’m nearly certain it’s because the amount of actual cocoa in it is basically negligible.
Oh damn, I thought you were just taking the piss out of Hershey
my wife’s childhood dog - schnauzer mutt - ate an entire basket of chocolates and sweets that was from valentine’s day. like multiple pounds of assorted fancy chocolate. lived for another 10 years (this was the 80s, I don’t think people grokked the choc / dog thing).
Around 2009 a neighbor lost their pyranese (sp? long haired tall dog) when it ate a single chocolate bar (it was dark and high cacao whole foods stuff). It was just dead when they got home from work, apparently ate it the night before.
seems like a bad gamble to make. but holy hell I can’t keep my dogs from eating random biohazards, dead birds, snails & slugs and god knows what, it’s a miracle they survive as long as they do.
frankly, that just tells me about the quality of 80s “fancy” chocolate
In one shitty 3D platformer game I just fell through the ground, lol.
For me it’s waterfalls - have to check behind every single one for a hidden cave.
This has proven to be problematic in real life, like when I visited Niagara…
There are tours that take you behind the falls near the turbines. Or at least used to be.
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to.
Note: Your character is highly unlikely to “Whump” into the left side obstacle. They are more likely to do the Michael Jackson standing walking in place motion while you try probing the left side for openings and weaknesses.
I mean, that’s what being a gamer is. You know the tropes.
You know someone should know them as well. So they surely can and will apply them.
And you sure as fuck ain’t letting another gamer get the upper hand on you, we don’t do that here
As a Wolfenstein 3D player that checks every square centimeter of every wall for secret passages, I feel this pain.
There was some amazing stuff in some of those hidden passages. It was well worth it in that game. Doom/Doom 2 had a lot of that, too.
Lego Star Wars instilled this as well as leaps of faith
Doom ]['s chainsaw.
That level was the Entryway, and the chainsaw is next to an outside area that Doomguy presumably came in from. That means he had to have walked right past the chainsaw on the way in.
How did he even make it to doom ii with such poor observational skills?
Sackboy does this a lot
B^U
Ngl, I’m kinda surprised ol’ B^Uckley is still doing comics
What, like he has other useful skills?
