Andrew Allanson (Director of YIIK; Ackk Studios) Believes Games Aren't Art Because Players Can't Understand His Vision; Also a piece of shit
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The funny thing about that is that he actually did do that and he got attacked for doing that as well. I don't have a direct link to it, but he was hosting an AMA or QA session earlier and people got on him for doing that, even though it was largely due to requests from other people in the first place.
The Modern Auteur Theory: "If I'm not an auteur, no one else is, either!"
one of the most popular anime of all time - neon genesis evangelion - has a main character who is generally deemed as unlikeable, or at least from what I've seen and heard from people around me (I personally like him)
this guy is entitled and stupid. and the game looks pretty bad
this guy is entitled and stupid. and the game looks pretty bad
bullshit. As if people havent tried making unlikeable characters with a redemption arc. These kind of things take balance.
This guy failed and blamed everyone for not understanding his vision.
This guy failed and blamed everyone for not understanding his vision.
dang you mean people got on to him about responding calmly about it??? that's messed up.
Well, atleast we know that the dev did a piece of shit character on purpose. By the screenshots of dialogues in this thread, it's clear that the game gets on really sensible subjects in a not very mature way. It's hard to be sure about stuff like this without the complete context tho, which makes me even more curious to play it.
Internet talk will always be full of toxicness and hyperbole, but lots of fair criticism are often treated like "SJW triggering" by bigots (talking in general, dunno about this game specifically), and the way dev seems to react to criticism doesn't paint a good scenario for him at this regard, imo.
I mean, I don't like Shinji, but the giant robots are still cool!
I didn't think I could get turned off even more by this game. The developers released a buggy game and abandoned it for years with an eventual remake/fixed version being delayed.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/259760/Two_Brothers/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/259760/Two_Brothers/
From what I saw, the character is unlikable to almost a parody point, he dosn't just acts like a 'bad person', he acts like one of these villains from teen school dramas. That dialogue about depression and loss, sounds like it was taken from some troll twitter account, rather than some human being would say to another face to face.
Allanson confirmed to be a red-pill shithead
Shinji is a lonely kid with issues related to abandonment, belonging, and general sense of self-worth who at the age of fourteen is asked to repeatedly get in a giant robot and fight for all humanity.
Memes dunking on Shinji gloss over the fact that he's a kid dragged into something that he was never prepared for by any reasonable stretch.
When you try to roast your audience for not getting that you wrote your game with some level of self-awareness... By saying that no one understood your game because the entire medium cannot and will never be art
What does that have to do with this guy's game and the reaction to it
What does that have to do with this guy's game and the reaction to it
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oh god
DNAbro the third ending has been found. Your post in the YIIK OT has turned out to be prophetic:
(and thanks again for all your words on YIIK. they've been very intersting to read.)
yeah, exactly. He's well written and I think accurately depicts a child that would be put in his situation. He may do things that would frustrate the viewer, but its justified and makes for a great narrative
Wh... what?
Guys, this is the REAL thread news. Forget all the rest of it.
Shinji is the deconstruction of the stereotypical mecha anime protagonist (at the time) so I found him refreshing the first time I watched the series.
I can understand why people who watched the show in recent years find him annoying though since we have had more variety in heroes since then and Shinji CAN be a bit too whiny at times.
In some sense, I can understand this guy's case of sour grapes. You put out your aggressively quirky hipster Earthbound RPG that you spent years working on, only to have it savaged on certain corners of the internet. I'm sure that's frustrating. That's about where my sympathy stops though. If you're gonna pull the auteur "I was trying to make basically the video game equivalent of a Chuck Palahniuk novel or a Hiruki Murakami novel" card, then you're going to have to be able to deal with the criticism that comes from trying to make something you consider "challenging." You're also going to have to grapple with the fact that you aren't Chuck Palahniuk or Hiruki Murakami.
WELP. Nevermind. Forget anything I said about having sympathy for this guy.
are you fucking kidding me
I tried my best considering I'm like 1 of 2 people on this site who finished this controversial game. If anyone has any questions I will try to answer them.
I spent a lot of time trying to find the specific Tweet, so I'm gonna post one that I found that I think is relevant to dissuading the idea that Alex being awful wasn't intentional, but the topic is gonna go into the third ending and I'm not properly equipped for THAT convo.
I think it might be more of a direct reference to The Matrix more than the other meaning the term got over the years.
Either way, I'm offended because of how heavy-handed the whole execution is.
You gotta do this for everyone's sake.are you fucking kidding me
I tried my best considering I'm like 1 of 2 people on this site who finished this controversial game. If anyone has any questions I will try to answer them.
If the host of the podcast is the one offering you the red pill, I think the meaning is pretty clear.
"I made a game with an intentionally unlikable main character and people somehow didn't like him! Who could have ever predicted this shocking turn of events!"
So basically "write what you know".
So basically "write what you know".
Also do note, in YIIK, you are literally playing a video game to interact with the world in universe so I could see a more literal "matrix red pill" thing being executed but everyone gets the implications.
Oh god, I found this tweet from February.
That's apparently Dick Masterson, host of that podcast. This third ending might not actually be a joke.
Dick pic for comparison.
Ew.
Ofc he went on the Dick Show, of all places. Needed a good echo chamber to vent, I guess.
I felt bad when this type of stuff happens to games that are niche and hard to market like Where the Water Turns to Wine. Andrew Allanson and YIIK can fuck off.
I felt bad when this type of stuff happens to games that are niche and hard to market like Where the Water Turns to Wine. Andrew Allanson and YIIK can fuck off.
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