Nah, tighten that opsec, pixelate them and scrub all metadata off the file

They're so bad, I love them. Fable 1 I can max a character out after about an hour of gameplay or try to headshot every enemy in the game. It has such grand promise and live up to like 20% of that promise.

My money is that it's a KPI thing. They're counting views on the embedded 5 second snippet pre-trailer and any extra views they pay for in online ads and claiming they're getting huge views on the tiny version for it's smaller marketing budget to justify spending more on the marketing department.

Any build based game wants you to do that. Part of the fun is the little ah ha moments when you find a synergy and see how far you can push it. And looking up a build guide online won't give you that.

Jank can be when a dev was just too enthusiastic to show you their game and all the polish has gone into design rather than beauty.
It can be when a Rube Goldberg series of mechanics lines up perfectly and you can extend your turn into infinity and kill the final boss without them getting to act.

I just wish shiren 6 was still 2D sprite based. And also that Disgaea was also still 2D sprite based.
Why did my beloved 2D billboard sprite games have such terrible things done to them?

deckstats.net/decks/235211...
I offer you a collection of alt win cards you give to other players to actually give them alt lose conditions that are much easier to meet.
And the commander is still a fairy and it's in theme for fairy trickery.

Had a few months where if I sang the tune to the Bluey intro my 2 year old would shout the appropriate name for each pause (but I'd have to leave a really long pause).

Famicom developers were true wizards of the craft. The insane things they jammed into such tiny memory allocation is always astounding.

I love when we get to use fun words like sidereal (the transformation of stars movement from an apparently stationary viewpoint that vast distance offers)

If you pick her it should just throw a "meanwhile" interlude showing what the unselected heroes are doing and then jump straight to the win screen as is her normal way to win battles: off-screen.

The World Ends With You (DS 2007)
Unbelievable sounds to come out of DS speakers back in the day

Then you're probably making a game about the Portland Polycule. Or one of the many games that are actually just educational tools to explain programming in a fun way.

For sure. It doesn't help when you get a good idea mid-way through a day of non-dev work and have to try and crystallise that idea in your mind to keep it ready to act upon later in the day

Yeah, you're not making a game about programming, classful data structures, or node graphs. To effectively simulate something you love you need deep understanding of it and the desire to share it with others.
You do also need game design skills to translate stuff into abstractions of themself though

I don't remember if Bravely Default did this. Cause I found a class combo that could do solid damage and be invincible 100% of the time, so 2/3rds of my playthrough was slamming fast forward, turning off random encounters and racing to the next cutscene

This was my thought too. SaGa 2 really wants you to make that call when you think a fight is essentially won already and just needs you to spam A to pick 0 cost skills and tank any damage that comes your way.
Gotta save that BP for when you need it.