I don't do much ponehposting on Lemmy (except when I get commissions of my OCs, or when it's a meme with an incidental ponie like this one) because like... Idk, I generally go to Derpi to look at MLP fandom stuff and I never really felt up to just copying content over from other sites to Lemmy. But hey, we do have an mlp community at !mlp@pawb.social
YES. The "spectacle-" particle should be used for a lot of game subgenres, to be honest.
So ULTRAKILL? Spectacle-Shooter. Sonic the Hedgehog? Spectacle-Platformer
Any title where the point is to be ~stylish~ and get a nice flowing combo going.
"Spectacle Fighter".
In the late aughts, game critic Ben "Yathzee" Croshaw came up with that term to describe games like Bayonetta and Devil May Cry, beat-em-up type games where the point is less "can you get through" and more "how high can you get that combo meter? How COOL can you make yourself look while beating up all these fodder enemies?"
A few years later the industry coalesced on an agreed-upon term for this subgenre -- And called it "Character Action".
Yathzee has just accepted defeat and uses the term everyone uses, he has to, he works in games media.
I refuse. Character Action is a dumb, DUMB term because every action game is a character action game, because there is ACTION and CHARACTERS in all of them.
Whereas "Spectacle Fighter" was perfectly descriptive of just WHAT made those games special. You are FIGHTING, and the objective is to LOOK SPECTACULAR.
Anarkitty
Playing as the Nazis (... And trying to WIN for that matter) is a boring playstyle for boring people
The fun part is to pick a random country that was basically a punching bag throughout the war and see just what you can do with it.
Bat horse
Rats have a lifespan of 2 years, how do you hold a grudge against something that is less durable than a tube of ketchup?
I didn't.
I just said they're weird.
Because, well, allo behaviour is 100% incomprehensible to me.
If asexual people ever gain public visibility, you can get ready for the Worst People Ever™ going online to say "allosexual is a slur"
Hard times
(Happiest days of my life)
Hard times gone by
Ocean world? I hardly know er!
Would be among the first to suggest a reddit-defederation pact to be honest.
Kinda like how peeps on Mastodon/Misskey/etc. have their anti-threads pact.