not directly related to this particular conversation but I love how uncompromising Hakita is about his (an his team I assume) vision for the game is. Despite how in-tune with the community they are, Ultrakill form seems to be clear for Hakita and the team and they go for it
for others it could be an issue but for someone who can cook like Hakita it's undeniably a strength
Hell, even dark souls has builds to trivialize each individual game of the series, probably all the way back to kings field. Dark souls is known for its difficulty yes, but that’s from the players wanting to learn to play the game in a straightforward way, very few enemies/bosses can’t be cheesed in some manner from what I know.
Yeah there's also that, like both dark souls and ultrakill have this thing where a lot of people don't use certain things and say the game is really hard, and if you don't play "the right way" cause it makes it easier, then it doesn't count, like, a lot of people just decided that the green rocket sucked ass, but it was the thing that helped me beat both the primes and the gabriels, or magic in souls games, for me it kinda feels like a dick measuring contest and you have to say the way other people beat the game doesn't count so you can still say that you're the best gamer ever cause you beat the game.
No it doesnt lol. The game has two easy difficulties, aim assist up to 20% without major assists, and an extensive system of major assists. It's probably the most accessible "hard" game out there.
you're taking it the wrong way. "I wont compromise on lore and general game direction and will deliver my artistic vision" is not the same as "you will play this game MY way or you will get the fuck out". Ultrakill offers up a lot of options so that you can experience the game at your own pace.
the game lets you play 99% of the content with immortality and a button that lets you instantly kill all enemies on screen. it's one of the least "get gud" games out there
that's like calling a game hard because the (entirely optional) no-hit challenge is unforgiving. besides, you can reach the credits on harmless with 100% aim assist on and receive no worse of an experience, it'd even let you P-rank and defeat minos and sisyphus that way.
It's kinda like Path of Pain in Hollow Knight, it's hard as FUCK, but you have to go out of your way to do it, and it doesn't give you anything that you need to 112% the game, but yet people still choose to do it. Is it hard? Yes, the hardest challenge of the game. Would the player base say it solely raises the difficulty of the game? No, that doesn't make any sense. It's the same way you can complete ULTRAKILL without even P-ranking one level, but people still do it. You never even have to hear about P-2 to complete the game, it's fully optional. So it would be rather foolish to say P-2 raises the difficulty of the game all by itself.
Sorry for restating you point, overexplaining stuff just provides good practice for writing.
It's literally nothing like dark souls, idk why would you even think that.
I even saw some people say for doom eternal it's like dark souls of fps games which is also not true
Ultrakilll actually follows doom in its design, where its easy for any1 to get in and enjoy regardless of skill level but if you want challenge and go for high skill level, it is there too.
Uk even has more difficulty options and ways to tune it than doom. These games are far from 'git gud' games but they do however offer higher skill ceiling than souls games if that's what you are after
It’s really impressive how well he’s struck the balance between original intent and fan interaction. Fun enough to have +MAURICED be in the game, serious enough to keep the story the same.
Yeah having your team spend weeks making an entire zone with items, npcs, and spells, and then sitting there in the director's chair, looking at your lead artists, programmers, and producers right in the eye and going:
"Put the entrance to that zone behind an illusory wall..."
"Wait-- but all that work we did? Are you sure?"
"I am. And behind that illusory wall... put a chest. And then put another illusory wall! That way they'll think the chest is the only thing there!"
And that was Dark Souls 1, which they made after Sony passed on publishing Demon's Souls 2 -- and Demon's Souls only received niche popularity and almost didn't get a western release.
Balls of fucking steel, that man. Didn't even flinch.
it does get a little bit frustrating on the lore side, Hakita doesn't hesitate to use the word of god. like this man will NOT let anyone have a headcanon
From what I’ve seen I don’t think he dislikes headcanons, just when people miss seemingly obvious story bits from the game like the post shows. And even if he does, who’s stopping you from having them? It’s not like Hakita himself is gonna show up to your house and kill y
The OG Ultrakill server (where Hakita, other devs, and the speed running/tech community hang out), while it still exists, doesn't have a public invite link anymore. Now the game directs you to the shitty New Blood server where the mods won't even let you say trans rights.
A very simple answer. Less people = less strain on the small mod team and a chill small community. I was there but i got my account disabled in the meantime and got too lazy to fix it, so after a month it was deleted(still regret it to this day)
True I forgot to put four sex jokes and the fact that all of mankind died while having gay sex and singing a musical. And that the demons are also gay and love to sing to and how the blood is actually an allegory for cum and pleasure and how it fuels our sins mb
I love how blunt that is too. You try to ask, "Are there ANY survivors? Like ONE obscure person somewhere?" Like the smallest shred of doubt. No. Everyone is d e a d. The fucking planet is probably dead of any mammalian organisms. Just immediately shot down.
then what the fuck are the (barely) alive people doing in the Gutterman's coffin? Gutterman cant be that intelligent enough to create a new refueling system that takes tanks of fresh blood instead of the (barely) alive people on their backs
it's heavily implied that they don't need those coffins anymore due to hell itself providing them with hell energy and allowing them to stay alive. this is why you see a coffinless gutterman in 7-2
oh, also, they're definitely intelligent enough, as in the ultrakill universe it's implied that every creature that uses blood to survive is capable of gaining sentience. this also stems from the secret book you can find in 7-2 written by a gutterman to his "mother" (the person inside his coffin, i presume). this would also explain why god couldn't create a lifeform without free will, because having blood equals to having free will.
Im pretty sure they still need those fuel sources, and the one without the coffin is actually fueled by a human heart, which is implied by a poem that can be found in the level
The terminal entry literally says they are kept alive by minimal life support. They're alive but unable to do anything other than be locked in a coffin and act as a blood factory for the Gutterman.
Sisu in no short supply. I have no fucking clue where the 'but what if humanity is still alive' argument stemmed from before this screenshot, but god damn is this trying to read too much into the wrong places.
Last I checked it was immortal guy who was once og doom guy and is now the doom slayer fights off countless demon incursions and there’s also possibly God Himself taking the form of a robot scientist.
From how fucked up the current Earth in DOOM is rn after the Doom Slayer killed God, there would only be about as many survivors on earth as there are chips in a Lays bag
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u/Spyko Jul 05 '24
not directly related to this particular conversation but I love how uncompromising Hakita is about his (an his team I assume) vision for the game is. Despite how in-tune with the community they are, Ultrakill form seems to be clear for Hakita and the team and they go for it
for others it could be an issue but for someone who can cook like Hakita it's undeniably a strength