Overdetermined Adventure Game Tier List: Intro, Still Life, Beneath a Steel Sky, Myst
here's a supercut of the first four tier list videos! written, recorded, and (mostly) illustrated by me; (mostly) edited by Willow.
(oh also The South Bank of the Rubicon went public this morning.)
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I am so glad to see that you are a fellow Loom enjoyer. Imo, that game is very under rated. Like, yeah, you need to listen to the audio book before playing the game, and hunt around for the FM Towns version for the best experience, and use the manual it came with to record spells, and get around that awful "reverse the song" puzzle. But like, those are all avoidable, if someone explains to you those tips! And like, on the flip side, it practically invented dithering, invented the "no die" adventure game style, it has beautiful art and music. But most importantly, it has great ludo narrative harmony, wherein you get to see the world through Bobbin's eyes, and experience the joy, and terrible tragedy, as he experiments with his growing power with hardly any guidance, due to his society failing him. Also strong female characters? And commentary on how excessive repression brings about excessive rebellion? And a fully original interface which hasn't been replicated, where you learn *verbs* not objects?? Sheesh, there is so much to love about the game.
Fantastic. My only quibble is that I think k it would be good for you to take a moment to state your expected value and base value before the final ranking. I know it’s shown on screen, but it’d be nice to hear it.
I've already been watching on Nebula and I really love this (in spite of not being that much of an adventure game buff - I like them a lot, but I haven't played that many). This brand of very precisely numerically quantifying something inherently subjective is great!
I've been trying to find a metric to explain why I'm currently more willing to watch a film that polarises some people than a film that everyone likes and I think this might be it. That said, I have yet to see if this current mode I'm in will survive contact with Megalopolis.
nothing survives Megalopolis
It's happening!! And the approach!! I love everything about this!!
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO PABLITO
Unrelated but have you noticed the photo someone used for your channel's Wikipedia article (wasn't me lol!)
I had seen that, yeah. I'm guessing it's cuz I released that video under a Creative Commons license so, technically, it's the only image of me they definitely have legal right to.
Exciting run so far, but they're over so quick!
these were originally gonna be YouTube Shorts so I wrote them with the 1-minute limit. now Shorts can be 3 minutes and also we're not doing them as Shorts, but I'm keeping the restriction (with a little wiggle room) cuz I gotta do 50 of these. hopefully they'll feel a *little* less breathless as I get better at them.