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Accept when the bad guys are attractive. Ahem. Wesker.

Because things that are considered conventionally attractive tend to sell better.

Picked this up on xboxone for $4. Available until the end of July.

Very straight forward and on point, loved it.

It’s brilliant, as it immerses you through anxiety („Am I supposed to go there? Will I end up somewhere where I can’t properly backtrack anymore?“) because games have trained us so much into progressing in pretty clear paths or objectives. This anxiety while pushing forward has provided my with much more tense and memorable gaming experiences than basically following the same route that I know every player goes. Even if the „reward“ is an item that doesn’t suit my build, I am rewarded with an experience and a much better understanding of the connection of space (Volcano Manor was fantastic in this regard as well).

Terrible level design og souls way better

Awesome video, Loved learning about the Story Structure of this game even though its messy as hell at 1:12:56 it seems like you forgot but i'm pretty sure the First Plot Thickener for Abby is her getting kidnapped by the Scars and almost getting killed but then getting saved by Lev/Yara Same thing at 1:38:40 i'm pretty sure Lev's climax is when Abby is about to Kill Dina but then by going against Abby she makes her realize that she needs to stop and move on with her new self and find the light, i'd say that's the climax for Lev pretty much

the classic "yellow paint", sometimes its just too obvious and takes away from the experience imo

Man these videos are so good and valuable, sucks that youtube's algorithm never pushed them

nice. a new video. i have watched all your content

I would seriously LOVE if Nicolas tried to expand it even further. My only criticism to the game is that it sucks when you’ve played everything and you really want more!

How about an Isometric game? Especially a game that has a top-down view?

I think Combat in Scorn is either an afterthought or it clashed with the original design.

Bro why mine is not pulling

This is really streching the definition of "short"

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This is pure gold thanks for making this ❤

I LOVE control. The map's great because you can go wherever you want, but not easily

Survival horror is paragon of this design philosophy, imo. I am playing through RE8 again and it's so impressive to me how much mileage they're able to get out of small areas.

Jippii, saatana.

souls games are like that, I don't know if I would necessarily say that it is absolutely great and a must do, it has good things and bad things, like... as a purely game play design aspect, you want to make levels that have that way of being explored, as it is amazing for creating exploration, but as story and world building wise, the more you exploit it the worse it is on that aspect, it starts to lose realism, and the other way around, if you carefully create the most realistic level, it might be amazing for story and world building, but it might start making the level and the exploration lame simple and boring, I would say you need to find a balance usually, and I would say that souls games make a.... somewhat decent job? not excellent, but clearly decent, better than the average

Sometimes the higher level "tertiary loop" dictates the fun of the game rather than the primary. Case example - turn based strategy game like Civ1, Colonization. Primary loop is just primitive click the unit, click the city; the addictive 1-more-turn fun comes from the higher level loop where you have an URGE to build up resource, expand or conquer the neighbor or waiting for research or race for a World Wonder.

good example of this could be bgmi or pubj because when your in end fight or in last zone player get more focus on game because they do no from were player can attack them . at that time player forget about surrounding for sometimes . you teach game design very good way . I 16 years learning game design from youtube love form india

This video will be useful

I personally hate any kind of "loop" in game design. It's just waste my time until I can see something new.

It is the feeling that makes you feel like you in fact aren't in a video game, but an explorer in a land rather than a player following story beats. You have to consistently engage with it. I'm not going to lie it does sound like you are throwing shade at it when you call it not realistic and videogamey. It is ironic.

2:00 joystick

Too short 😭

5:49 Chris????? Great video by the way, made me think long and hard abt how I would approach enemy movement in the dozens of game ideas I have which will never seen even a second in development! ❤

The way mirrors edge contrast it's obstacles is perfect example of Affordances and Signifiers in my opinion, the red and white with sometimes scratches on key places to go.

so simply saying? diegetic sound is sound effect nondiegetic sound is background music or repetitive midi which i always turn off in games, because i cant tell which is good or bad, so if i allow the back music, this will damage my brain.

This must be one of THE BEST resumes for a gameplay loop explanation i ever seen. ❤❤

Great content, make more videos

I'm on my first playthrough. I'm the kind of person who doesn't wanna miss anything in the game, so I just straight up check every corner in every location ever, but when I saw Mt. Gelmir's map I was like "Holy sh*t" and decided to stop playing for the day, I got online to see at least what path should I take to approach the zone, but didn't want to watch a guide, so I found this video and the way you explained the zone made me realize how it was actually a very simple zone. Took your approach and now it's probably my favorite non-legacy dungeon zone of the game so far, thanks!!!

East of the volcano, there is this big canyon of inclined rocks. We are simply allowed to circle around it. When you look at it on the map, you see it takes a lot of space, a space that is forbidden to explore. I still want to go inside 😢

My first Final Fantasy I ever played was X-2 because my copy of X never worked past the first fight in the intro of the game. But I still fell in love with the series for the music, the party banter, the combat, the world building and story, and the fantastical locations you visit. Since then I've played through FF 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, all of the 13 series, 15, and final 16 and I've felt like every Final Fantasy I've played up until around 15 nailed most of those points. I was mostly okay with playing 15, it didn't do anything to impress me, but I enjoyed it. Come the trailer for 16, and something about it just seemed off and really didn't interest me, but I gave it ago and I honestly think its my least favorite FF game I've played. While I never hoped on the bandwagon of calling it "Not a Final Fantasy", I did find it to be rather weak, and felt like if it was branded as a spin off rather than a mainline title, I would have been fine, but there was a level of quality I was expecting more than just good voice acting and nice visuals. The lack of a true party to journey around the world with, and listen to them talk truly soured the experience. The fact that exploration gave no rewards for venturing off the beat path other than some pick up for 3 Gil. I'm actually in the boat that this music for this game is rather bland. The battle theme and Eikon themes are the highlights, but I cannot remember any other songs, nor even hum a single one aside from those, and even those two themes have faded from my memory. There was all these things and more that were absent in this game that I had come to expect of the Final Fantasy experience that by the end of the game I was jaded and felt like maybe I had expected too much of this game.

All Final Fantasy games are story-driven Wizardry clones in a nutshell. Some just have real-time combat. With the exception of tactics spinoffs, where positioning is important. Drastically different RPG would be Nethack, which relies on hunger and unindentified items mechanics. FF branched into this direction with the Chocobo Dungeon spinoff, except instead of `hunger` they had unkillable monster appearing to drive the player forward. But it is hard to bolt on an arbitrary story onto the tactics or classic rogulike game, therefore Wizardry clones. Good idea would be just ditching the grindy combat completely and turn these games into something like Quest for Glory with several characters.

This is a great video. I'd be interested in you doing a video on FF16's menus and stuff too, if you want to.

Thanks for the great work. I'm discovering programming and I think I'll try making a few games, I'll watch all your content again for inspiration and tips :)

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I’ve been scowering CZcams for a Final Fantasy analysis that both honors all that this franchise has had to offer as well as respectfully point out the developmental turn (for better or worse) its been taking; and I’m so happy to say that you hit the nail right on the head with this video. Its almost a rite of passage that those who hold onto what was cannot be pleased with what *is* in the gaming community. I’ve been a culprit of this, as I hold the original Final Fantasy 7 very near and dear to my heart. Seeing it modernly re-imagined is something I’ve approached holding my breath; but having watched this all the way through, I think I’m finally able to exhale and let the series run its course. Keep up the amazing work, and thank you.

This comment on a two year old video won't get seen by anyone, so I'll just write out my thoughts for myself. The whole moulded jiggle doesn't add to the tension and stakes of the horror. Same deal with the zombies in a game like Alyx. I'm never thinking about conserving ammo because I'm in danger when this happens, I'm rolling my eyes in frustration. It's something like "Oh Jesus Christ this shit AGAIN?" It feels tedious, and there is nothing on earth that obliterates horror quite as well as annoyance and frustration. I have seen people stumble around in a stupor, and the 'zombie jiggle' is far too wild and it takes me out of the world. It's like a drunken seizure that doesn't knock you off your feet and it looks like nothing you'd ever see if you were in the game world. It makes me think of the motion capture actor being told to over act on a blue mat, not a horrific undead monster charging me to claim my life.

Best thing is you can see the almost every endgame area from the "first step" grace how can they put together this big world with such a clear vision from the very start seems like they just took their A team and went all out 😂

Any good resources to learn about this?

Worst fucking game I’ve ever played I wasted 30 bucks on this crap

Everyone loves Huxley.

The thing about Elden Ring's obscure paths design is that it sometimes invokes that senses of when you discovered a place in a game that wasn't intended by the dev, that peculiar feeling that you could only find from out-of-bound stuff. That feeling is especially strong if you were a Souls veteran, when jump wasn't a thing back then.

Honestly one of the biggest let downs for me was the childish dialogue throughout the game, i think its meant for kids? It would have been sooooo much better if they gave it a GTA1 (top down) style story, doing jobs for gangsters, blowing up stuff, having a gun you can shoot etc, police hover cars etc etc

Ran it on my channel. Great quirky fun. Warhammer precursor. All this left over tech, no clue how it was made, you can't replicate it, but your civilization will., and is., collapsing without it.