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>Stephen Universe or some shit that looks like it.

Fucking OP is a faggot.

>>14927807

Lives are a threat to intellectual equality. Everyone needs to have same amount of chances, and deserve respect no matter how many tries they did to complete the game, or else its ableism.

We can go further - remove health at all. Everyone needs to deserve respect and happiness of completing the game without being frustrated at "dying". Who wants to die anyway? Nobody deserves to die.

Video games are racist, because if colored disabled (insert gender pronounces) plays video games, and game tells (insert gender pronounces) that (insert gender pronounces) died, it might create suicide thoughts and drive people of color insane!

We cannot allow those death threats to continue happening. Stop death now. And not only in video games, in nature too. We need a cure for aids, cancer and death itself, to defy the racist, ableist and sexist nature of the world.

>>14927864

It is Steven Universe, just with Steven repainted to look like a nigger.

>>14927807

>win through nutrition

food generally is OP though a good cooking system makes for the comfiest games.

>>14927904

STEVEN IS A NIGGER

>>14927807

Low quality OP. I bet you actually watch stephen universe you fucking cuckchanner.

>>14927864

>>14927904

>>14927946

Nigger image for a nigger show.

>>14928027

Low quality response, nice projecting new friend.

>>14928055

Anon no excuse don't post CalArts here. Its a waste of bandwidth even in jest.

>>14928068

Its also a waste of broadcasting, but Cartoon Network and Disney don't seem to understand that.

>>14928100

Does CN even broadcast it, last time I looked at the sorry state of western show it was multiple TV guides showing nothing but teen titans go over and over.

>>14928114

I saw it on the schedule for Boomerang, but does it really matter whether or not CN broadcasts Steven Universe when their entire schedule usually consists of Cal Arts shit?

>>14927807

Limited lives are a holdover from Arcades, and were pretty much pointless even back in the NES days. The only reason they were included in home releases was to arbitrarily extend the time it'd take you to see the end of the game. Infinite Continues eased the grief, but really the best alternative was to give the player a choice between limited checkpoints with some sort of penalty or a return to level start with all resources you entered the level with to begin with.

>>14928159

>Totally Spies

I remember my sister liking that show and I'd sit there watching it hiding my boner from the constant crouch shots in skin tight body suits.

Too bad a large majority of the art of them is fucking trash.

>>14928159

Its a similar situation for me, except I was younger than you were back in the 2000's

>Saw most of the good cartoons that were on CN at the time, Spongebob, Danny Phantom, Avatar, My Life As A Teenage Robot, Jimmy Neutron, Chalk Zone, Invader Zim, pretty much all the cartoons that Nickelodeon had aired back then

>None of these cartoons other than Spongebob are on air anymore and you can only catch reruns of some CN cartoons on Boomerang, and the large majority of the shows that's come since then are completely inferior

I dodged a bullet like you, but the kids of today aren't so lucky, poor bastards.

>>14927807

The prominence of checkpoints and autosaves in the industry seems to what really made extra lives less of a thing. Losing all of your lives used to actually mean something, but when your game has a million checkpoints and opportunities to save there's little purpose. Doesn't help with games that still have lives, it's far too easy to obtain them (Donkey Kong Country Returns and Tropical Freeze you get 99 lives in no time). I have no problem with lives myself, but games need to be actually punishing to effectively use them.

>>14928294

You and your countrymen are fucking lucky, getting the best out of the 90's after the 90's already passed, and the best out of this generation too.

>Opinion on the continued use of lives in video games?

they don't work in a lot of games outside of platformers, they mostly got pushed out of use because it was an active punishment for bad playing. It all goes back to people thinking dark souls was the hardest game on earth. The only reason they thought that was because they were punished for fucking up which is a concept you see a lot less these days. You'd probably die more times playing a call of duty game because it's AI will bullshit the player to death if with hitscan/magnetic grenades but it doesn't feel like you're losing because you only get reset back like 15 feet when you die and you're back at full swing

>>14929038

The original game had lives so that one does too. It only exists because the old games did it but kids are too fucking casual to be asked to even go back to the beginning of the fucking world they were on let alone start the whole game over again.

>>14927807

>should my game have continues or not?

It depends on how your game is designed. Look at DMC, in each of those games you get a health bar and it's game over if you lose all your health. However, you get one Gold Orb that you can choose to use now or later when you think you may need it. If you use it, you get penalized for being a bitch. If your game features linear missions that expect the player to fight off foes, avoid traps, and maintain their health, then it's good to offer the player infinite tries from the start of the missions, then offer them a rare item that will allow them to continue while mid mission, but punish them for using it.

On the other hand, Sonic games benefit from having continues because they're typically short levels that feature numerous obstacles and enemies for the player to overcome in a timely manner. Since death can be swift when you're first learning the layout of a map, the continues, coupled with the various checkpoints throughout any given level, give players a quick punishment that will in turn put them right back in the action with very little wait time in between. This is good because it encourages players to be fast but careful and it acts as a form of punishment for sloppy play or taking a misstep.

Speaking of win10 exclusives, AOE4 is one right? Not like I was going to play it either way since its relic whos going to fuck it up, but having it taken hostage by win10 is pretty funny to see

There's nothing inherently wrong with a lives system, and nothing inherently right with it. The arcade games which popularized the idea (and inspired other games which also popularized it) needed a solid way to prevent people from progressing and keep dropping quarters; lives worked for them.

For other style of game, however, I can't say I'm fond of the idea. I don't mind being punished for dying, and the tension of being low on resources and needing to navigate a dangerous area with tonnes of lost progress on your mind is good fun (Hollow Knight did this well). However, the Umihara Kawase games illustrate exactly why lives systems can become unnecessarily frustrating.

The first two games are hard as nails, but mostly due to poor controls and Umihara's sluggish movement/jumping. Every enemy is instant death, and if any enemies don't kill you on contact, then they'll surely knock you into a pit. They also spawn randomly and respawn infinitely, which is awful game design. This kind of all-or-nothing gameplay doesn't mesh with the core gameplay, which is a puzzle platformer. I played each game for several hours before becoming too fed up to go on.

>welp, looks like i died on this puzzle whose solution i realized half an hour ago but which i haven't completed because the bungee physics didn't co-operate

>welp, looks like i died on this "boss" whose strategy apparently involves hanging on the underside of a platform for five minutes and ignoring him

>gotta redo the half-dozen levels to get here for the umpteenth time, since i clearly had problems with them, right?

It turned a charming little game into a merciless grind. The third game did away with the lives system, and simply had the player unlock levels. Bonus lives were replaced with collectibles which unlocked key art, additional characters, and so on. It's certainly a less punishing game, but I had a MUCH better time playing it since it didn't force me to redo pedantic sections in between the crushingly difficult parts. The controls and level design were better, too, but that's icing on the cake.

>>14927864

This.

>not connecting a gun aimed at your head to the game so that if your character dies you get shot

Casuals. The real hardcore mode.

>>14928159

>>14928199

Was there a single episode of TS that didn't have a central plot point point based on a fetish?