oh shit, I talk to randos, but I guess I'll play it more safe

this is why I like non linearity. it gives the player choice of what to engage with.

why only that?

Cute!

ohhhhh I misread. I thought you were saying punish players who skip. lol. I was just concerned because I remember that same "we worked so hard on the story" leading to Monster Hunter World having unskippable cutscenes. That made it so hard to play.

you should always let players skip. I will skip your entire game if I can't skip cutscenes.

And it goes to show that so much of what one gets out of a game is what one puts in. You can play a game and think it's the best thing ever, but if you have that voice in the back of your head saying "this thing sucks," then it feels like it sucks!

This is why I find a bunch of youtube video essayists vile. It gives so much weight to one singular voice, and people have a habit of not second guessing it.

That's conversations about games, in general.

looks cool af

my mom had this book around when I was a kid, I guess the style of it is dated now, but I still hold with it
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Good take. I never understood the complaining. She's still girly, but her IDW and Frontiers appearances are some of my favorites.

Hell yeah.

I think we should use our medium to find people like us, rather than appeal to the widest audience.

That said, quality of life stuff, and listening to your audience can be good. It's about finding balance.

that's awesome.

the green gobbler!