So why does this game make people mad? I've never posted in threads about it, nor do I know a single thing about the game.
It's mediocre.
Rabid fans act like it's amazing.
They post 5+ threads an hour about how it's amazing.
It's not amazing, it's mediocre.
The end.
The game would be fine if it wasn't for all the asinine amount of praise it receives for being an underwhelming comedy RPG.
>>318243584
>nor do I know a single thing about the game.
You are a blessed man
>>318243584
It's because shitting on tumblr is the new cool thing to do.
>>318243584
Get out of this thread now and play the game.
The fanbase is bad, the haters are even worse. And the rest will spoil your sorry ass on the plot and tell you how to play.
You have one chance to have a great experience with a great game, and that is now. Before you get tainted, one way or another.
>>318243584
It's a good game, one of the best that's come out on the inde scene in a long time. However, the existence of non-irriatating gay relationships and humanoid animals make everyone on /v/ kneejerk themselves into hating it without playing it.
>Good game that requires actually playing and caring about the characters to enjoy and get the most out of it, but doesn't look at all unique or special on the surface
>An annoying fanbase that is obsessed with it and rants and raves about it nonstop, especially on sites /v/ hates like tumblr
>Whole ton of contrarians and shitposters on /v/ that just hate anything that they see too often
It's a recipe for disaster
>>318243794
>The game would be fine if something completely irrelevant to the game wasn't there
>>318243584
It has a decent story, a half the characters are annoying as fuck, and the gameplay is a complete joke. That said, I'd say it's worth $10.
It's popular, therefore /v/ hates it.
It's good but cmon guys the characters are NOT THAT MEMORABLE STOP MAKING AND POSTING CRINGY COMICS I SWEAR TO JESUS ON THE CRUCIFIX I AM ON THE VERGE OF GOUGING MY EYES OUT FROM SEEING SO MANY NON-FUNNY MEME COMICS WITH SKELETONS
wow op what a great idea for a thread maybe you should fucking pirate it and find out you pizza shit
>>318244978
damn
Here's the timeline of /v/ndertale
The demo got great reception here, main reasons were the charm and the subversion that managed to elicit an emotional response, something most games these days can't do
Then the game came out:
Behold, the /v/ cycle!
A game is revered by many /v/ posters and this leads to an abundance of threads on said game, leading to a clusterfuck of people losing their shit over every minute detail in the game and confusion by those uninitiated.
Usually these games stay popular in /v/ only, but because Undertale is a special game, it became popular in 'normie' forums like Reddit and Tumblr, the latter particularly loving the game for its warmth towards LGBTABCDEFGH rights or whatever.
They start raving about it too, and this leads to the fallible fanbase theory: a fanbase that is too big for /v/ is too big to exist.
The addition of a furry stigma to those who like the game alienated more people on /v/, and thus here we are.
I've played it. I'm not going to share my opinion on it because YOU have to be the one to experience it. No amount of shitposting or fanboying will stop this.
>>318243584
Because its popular.
But you know, you couldve posted this in the other thread that has the exact same topic.
>the world up there isn't as nice down here
>there's a lot of Flowey's out there
What
How would he even know
>>318245257
They killed him the first time he showed his face to them.
>>318245257
roots run deep
>>318245257He had a human friend and was murdered on the surface, he'd know some stuff about it
>>318245257
The humans attacked them the instant he arrived at the village. When he says 'lots of Floweys' he means irrational fucks that only believe in black and white thinking.
Examples being every single human he met. Chara wanted to kill everyone. The villagers thought he killed Chara without any second thought and resorted to instinctual "KILL OR BE KILLED"
>>318245093
/thread
tumblr memes.
>>318245257He's been on /v/
>>318245093
Fucking this
>>318243584
The game itself doesn't usually make people mad, it's just the constant threads about it popping up daily.
>>318243584
Tumblr also enjoys it so we have to pretend to despise it or we'll look bad.
Other than that, it's a good game.
Of course, it has many flaws but it's still alright.
>>318244978
Are you okay?
Do you require medical attention?
It's a solid 8/10 but I wish the fanbase didn't fucking explode. Now we'll end up getting a situation like MLP only Toby has thick skin so we won't see it get milked. Hopefully.
tl;dr itt's good but it should've lived as a sleeper hit
Why couldn't Flowey go to the surface? Is it just because he was rooted underground? I feel like I missed a reason.
The 24/7 non stop generals in /v/ some weeks ago with constant retarded crap and annoying forced memes over and over with retards that refused to stay in /vg/ mad me hate this game.
I pirated it and got bored after 1 hour though.
>>318246420
>sleeper hit
*cult hit
>>318246363
tumblr likes it because the game has a progressive view.
>>318245093
This
I was disappointed that sparing monsters didn't give you new party members or the fact that the gameplay didn't evolve at all, so I dropped it after my first playthough.Also I caught a pretty strong Homestuck vibe from it, but I think it was just the dogs and the scientist chick. Then it just blew up out of nowhere.
>>318243584
Because it brought the autistic NEET fanbase over from Homestuck.
>>318246235
>The twist is that people are actually trolling to keep discussion of the game alive
Overgrowth threads on /v/ were a trip.
>>318243584
It's popular on tumblr
>>318243584
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wMQz3iJDzE
It insists upon itself.
>>318243794
Yet when Neptunia does it it's fine
>>318243584
>implying you haven't been starting shitty drama threads over and over all day
>>318245093
You missed the part where for the first few weeks the game game out, everyone here liked it. I've been in a few shitpost-less threads of people just discussing and sharing art. Then came the Tumblr and Reddit fanbase that just blew it out the water, like usual.Everything I just said can also be said for FNAF
>>318246754
They don't pretend the games are goo tho
>>318243584
Toby, like all SJWs, is obsessed with debasing, misrepresenting, and perverting things that are strong. Take, for example, all the knights and kings reduced to farcical faggots in this game, and the celebration of weakness, poverty, and sexual deviancy.
The message is: there is absolutely no value in masculinity--it a laughingstock that any other ethos surpasses--which is a very dangerous lie.
An astute observer would note that this game is parasitic and perversely destructive in its representations. Every archetype that was made renowned by traditional males is mocked or handed over to females, weaklings, and faggots with no credit offered to the genuine article.
So, this is an anti-male game that steals and parasitizes masculinity. That's why Toby is an SJW sex-traitor faggot.
>>318244978
https://mega.nz/#!7JYXARgR!ipOnWS3DtGwQdyPXU_CvWauXOjhwl_9hD06xvMpGKTg
>>318243584
The game shamelessly and blatantly steals from every successful cult game and indie game and then panders to every Internet subculture while hamming itself into a meme frenzy. It also combines Internet memeing with 90s cartoon Sanic catchphrase memeing.
This self-awareness and calculation is ultimately what makes it weaker than Cave Story or LISA. It's not wholly innocent of contemporary popular culture. It panders and is aware of who it's marketing itself to--even smugly so--with its scads of barely tweaked and disguised memes.
Toby's pretty smart and self-congratulatory while affecting something worthy of classic status because "he figured out the formula", and that kind of disingenuousness is offputting. It's calculation marketing itself as otherworldly fantasy rather than otherworldly fantasy itself. It is "the Internet" wearing a mask that says "I am not of the world."
It's ultimately too derivative to endure. It's the Eragon of indie games.
>>318246853
Cool, you served the whole pasta this time.
>>318246830
Then why do they buy it?
>>318247058
They don't unless they're retarded. Welcome to the world of secondaries
>>318246985
Can you even tell me what a meme is
>>318246985
Nice shitpost
>>318247216
If you can't see how Flowey's laugh and psychotic nihilistic personality was inspired by Kefka's laugh and psychotic nihilistic personality, you're a fool.
Same for how Froggit is Pepe.
Same how that lesser doge is Longcat + Doge.
Same how Flowey makes a trollface.
Same with how Burgerpants is actually Spaghettipants (He drops his burgers = He drops his spaghetti! Get it? XD)
Same how the goats are mimigas straight from Cave Story and the name of the game is Under Tale aka Underground Tale aka Cave Story.
Same how the game rips samples straight from Earthbound.
Same with how "anime is real" comes from "Ron Paul will make anime real"
Same with how the game uses stereotypical stock characters and then makes them lesbians so somehow they're original when they'd be tired crap otherwise.
Same how the entire game is cribbed from safe pop culture memes, YouTube animal videos, and safe well-regarded video game nostalgia references slightly rearranged to pander.
>>318247305
>Same for how Froggit is Pepe.
You were pretty close but you started off too strong with this one. I'd suggest either cutting it out or saving it for the end so people will read the whole post first. 7/10
>>318247305
I found a true autist on 4chan!
It's a pretty charming game, with some clever gameplay elements. Reminds me a lot of 90's-era Square RPG's, and as I'm sure it's been mentioned a billion times, Earthbound. It's definitely worth checking out.
As far as why people get "mad" over the game, it's the usual /v/ behavior. Nothing out of the ordinary.
>>318243584
It's a pure work of love. For some reason /v/ finds that offensive. Seems fairly reasonable in the general scheme of things.
>>318247617
Love shouldn't be whored out for money. That's precisely what's so offensive about it.
Toby laughing his way to the bank while putting up a front of caring about his audience that made him a multimillionaire while they remain impoverished.
Standard SJW tactics.
>>318247792
I guess we should just not do anything we enjoy ever if it makes money then?
>>318247792
Sounds like you're bitter about your current job situation.
Would be nice if more people could make money with things they love.
>>318248081
No, the "I am so weak and poor and full of love and blameless, give me money (cough and I am also rich cough)" is a particularly odious kind of manipulation that only SJW and their ilk engage in. Disgusting to see people lap it up.
>>318248158
At the end of the day, there is still always A LOT of unpleasant work to do, and someone has to do it. That's why I'm pro-union.
>>318247792
I'm gonna eat the bait but that just seems really jealous. What exactly is he doing that made him "whore out"? It was developed for almost 3 years, and he did made every single aspect of the game except for some art pieces. How exactly is this whoring out? It's only been a few months, you can't rule out the fact that he's never touching it again. Gamemaker isn't exactly the best or most reliable engine.
>>318248340
You know exactly what I mean. It's really desperately gross--exactly like doing porn for money--except this is emotional porn. It's affecting that you really sincerely give a shit and getting paid for that illusion and putting a price tag on it, which is the ultimate profaning of the last of the sacred.
>>318248619
>Illusion of emotion
4/10, you tried
