Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 403: A big one!

Whoosh—

As a crow soared past the chaotic, dark cliffs, the ga finally officially began.

Ayin also breathed a sigh of relief, watching the ga's perspective descend from the sky like in Call of Duty and land upon Gollum.

However!

Before he could fully exhale that breath!

He heard beside his ear, Gollum's (or rather, his own) muttering once again ring out like a cursed sound piercing his ears:

"Gah.... Gollum!"

"Wah—hoo—hungry... hungry... nothing! Nothing at all!"

"Nothing at all! Nothing! Have to go back hungry again..."

"Fucking hell..."

Ayin opened his mouth, that vulgar phrase almost bursting out.

But, thinking this was just the very beginning of the ga, maybe it would get better later on, he forcibly swallowed the words and jumped from beside the rock into the shallow pond ahead.

Splash!

"Hey—this is alright—"

As Ayin entered the water, there was finally a setting that gave him so slight comfort.

At least the lighting details, interactive ripples, and physical feedback presented by this starting small pond were top-tier enough to be called exceptional.

But thinking about it, it made sense.

After all, it was a 3S-level work.

Back in the day, no matter how poorly Torii's story and gaplay were received, in terms of industrial quality, it absolutely crushed the market at that ti.

And CloudPower, as a hegemonic ga group even stronger than Kora, in terms of industrial quality, was still...

"Huh?!"

Before the thoughts in Ayin's heart could settle!

Suddenly, another pond he passed by made him involuntarily stop in his tracks, emitting a sound of confusion.

"Wait a minute?"

Ayin backed out of this small pond.

Then, under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands in the livestream chat, he walked into it again.

With a splashing sound.

The small pond made a noise.

But, the water surface was as if completely still, without the slightest ripple or disturbance, and the entire surface was like a mirror, glossy and reflecting the inexplicable light source shining down from the cave ceiling.

"Is this... a bug?"

Ayin found it hard to believe.

He turned back and walked to the side of the very first pond, stepping into it.

Splash—

The lighting, ripples, wave details, and physical feedback all returned.

"You? Huh???"

Ayin was shocked!

He never expected!

That besides Golden Wind, there was actually another ga company that could make him utter such an unbelievable exclamation!

CloudPower!

Genius!

You're a fucking ultimate genius!

Ayin couldn't even believe his eyes!

He originally thought that in this day and age, water surfaces without ripples or any feedback were already ridiculously outrageous enough!

But what was even more outrageous than that was—the Gollum ga clearly could produce water surface feedback with astonishing industrial quality, but it only fucking made one puddle with high-quality feedback!

Just that starting pond!

"No... what the hell... what does this an?"

At this mont, Ayin wasn't even angry anymore, but utterly bewildered.

In the end, it was the clever barrage viewers who enlightened him—

'That's because this water is the sa water shown on the ga's main nu screen, so the quality needs to be better.'

"Oh—damn, that's detailed! So detailed, CloudPower!"

"Huh???"

'Has the beauty of instant beef noodle packaging?'

'This is even worse than instant beef noodle packaging.'

'No... I can understand cutting corners, but I don't understand why water surfaces that don't move still exist in this era?'

'Hahahahahaha even PC ga water effects are better than this.'

'Brothers, seriously not hating for no reason, even Stardew Valley has water ripples when fishing...'

'No... this ga... damn, sothing's not right...'

...

The opening was just a small cutting-corners shock!

For a mont, many players who originally judged this ga as high-quality hesitated, seemingly starting to doubt themselves.

And Ayin soon arrived beside the first point requiring a jump.

This was a cliff edge.

Clearly, he needed to jump from this side to the other side.

He took two steps back.

Tap tap tap tap tap—whoosh!

Ayin landed on all fours, took a running start and leaped!

For this jump, Ayin used all his strength.

However!

Just as he was about to clear the cliff edge and land steadily on the other side!

Suddenly!

Ayin felt his body lighten, as if losing control in an instant, pulled by a powerful suction force!

Then, with a slap sound!

His hands firmly grabbed the edge of the cliff!

And Gollum's rambling voice sounded again, with heavy panting, muttering curses:

"Close call! Close call, close call! There's a path here... no path! Curse this land! Curse it! Close call, no path..."

Ayin: ?

He clearly could have directly leaped over this cliff!

But the system's automatic snap-to judgnt forcibly pulled him down!

"Must have a close call, is that it?"

Ayin was so angry he laughed:

"Didn't I clearly make it over, but you still had to use that automatic snap-to to adjust into a 'close call' state?"

As he spoke!

Ayin practically rolled his eyes as he climbed up the cliff.

After jumping over two more cliff edges, the cliff ahead was long, requiring him to climb along the edge from the cliff face.

To be honest!

If anyone still compared this level of platforming to It Takes Two at this point, they'd be directly insulting It Takes Two.

Dark, cramped, narrow, monotonous.

The forced all-fours movent, like endlessly crawling in darkness without rest, already made Ayin feel very uncomfortable.

Even more annoying was that his character was so short, requiring him to constantly strain his neck upward just to barely see the situation diagonally above.

Coupled with the experience of Gollum's incessant rambling and muttering sounding like cursed noise piercing his ears.

Ayin felt that in all his years of gaming, he had never been as irritated as he was now.

It wasn't the humiliating frustration from Cat Mario's clever traps.

But a disgust rising from the depths of his heart, gradually developing into a physically nauseating irritation.

If Cat Mario's irritation was like a girlfriend saying to you: "Oh you bad boy, you're so annoying."

Then the experience Gollum brought was like ten flies you can't hit or shoo away, buzzing around you.

What makes you annoyed isn't just the flies.

You'd also wonder if you had shit on your head, attracting so many unshooable flies.

"Hiss—hmm—"

Ayin had already lost count of how many tis he suppressed the fire in his heart.

He barely managed to climb up the cliff through jumping and edge snapping, inching his way to the edge of the cliff.

Next, he needed to make one jump to grab onto another protruding ledge about three body lengths away.

Whoosh!

A sideways jump!

Ayin reached out to grab the protruding edge.

For him, this was completely familiar territory!

Why did he say earlier that comparing Gollum to It Takes Two was an insult to It Takes Two?

Because this so-called 'platforming' gaplay in Gollum was exactly the fucking sa as Sekiro!

Rember when Wolf first woke up and needed to scale walls and run across rooftops through the village to find Kuro?

Yes!

Just that short section!

Was more exciting than Gollum's so-called "flagship platforming gaplay," and better than Gollum by thirty-six thousand Torii's!

Because!

Just as Ayin made a sideways jump, as his fingers were about to grab the protruding cliff edge, preparing to stabilize himself—

Slip!

Ayin watched as his fingers actually passed straight through the protruding ledge.

Then his feet found empty air!

Gollum's scream sounded: "Wah ah ah ah—"

[You died]

After respawning at the platform edge, Ayin remained silent for a long ti!

What did I just see?

Clipping?

That was clipping, right?

What ga is this?

A platforming ga.

A platforming ga actually has such blatant clipping at the key platform positions for jumping?

And!!!

What about the automatic snap-to?

Back at that fucking cliff edge, I clearly jumped over, but you snapped down below.

But now, I clearly grabbed the protruding cliff position, not only do you clip through, but you don't give automatic snap-to either?

So.

What is the standard for automatic snap-to in your ga?

Do it when you rember, don't do it when you forget?

Then replace automatic snap-to with a small clipping shock, increase the ga's difficulty for players, and pretentiously act like Old Thief, watching players rage and break down at your three words [You died]?

In CloudPower's understanding, the reason players break down at "death" is just because of "death" itself.

So, they intentionally created bugs, wanting to "trick" players into falling for them, then falling to their deaths.

This wasn't Ayin's speculation.

Because in his next jump, he deliberately jumped a bit further.

Sure enough, this ti he didn't fall off the cliff.

And at that position that seed like a landing point, there was just an empty art model, with no collision volu at all.

But did you think that was it?

Completely wrong!

Just as Ayin finally moved over from the cliff face and made another sideways jump trying to land on the cliff ground.

Because the back 1/3 of his feet didn't touch the ground, the system directly judged him as slipping off, without even the slightest edge protection!

A platforming ga!

Confused automatic snap-to, intentionally clipping platforms, absolutely no edge protection!

Plus that crazy, aningless, never-ending Gollum muttering, cutting corners to the point of not even wanting to make water ripple lighting effects, dark, cramped, monotonous art style, the uncomfortable control mode of forever crawling on the ground looking up at the sky, and that utterly unoriginal, stagnant, boring jumping level design like from eighty years ago!

The Lord of the Rings!

Hard to imagine!

Such a grand super IP!

Its first derived ga work is actually this pile of aningless pixelated ss!

When Ayin once again saw the screen before him turn into [You died].

The atmosphere on site had dropped to freezing point!

Ayin didn't say a word!

But all the viewers in the livestream chat could clearly feel—

The boss was angry.

Truly angry, not the joking "rage quit get out of my computer" kind.

You should know.

From the start of his streaming until now, Ayin has experienced countless various gas, you could even say he's dabbled in every ga genre on the market.

And!

He used to stream "bad ga reviews" for a long ti before!

Back then, Cat Mario was the standout 'reliance' from that period.

But even when playing those bad gas!

Playing ten or eight gas a day!

Not a single ga could make Ayin truly angry.

Even when encountering gas worth discussing, he would specifically leave comnts below the ga, summarizing the livestream viewers' opinions, politely giving suggestions to the developers.

For so long, Ayin never lost his temper, nor did he give overly negative evaluations to any ga!

But this ti!

Under the gaze of tens of thousands of people!

As a mber of the Shark livestream platform anchor delegation!

After remaining completely silent for half a minute, he lightly sighed and spoke:

"I thought they would deliver sothing amazing, but they dropped a massive turd."

"Incredible, hehe."

"Not joking at all, to be able to make it like this..."

"Truly incredible."