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Sometimes I wonder if it's for the best that Egoraptor never wound up making those other Sequelitis videos. I really like the 2.5 that are up but with the way I've heard him talk about games and his opinions on game theory on GG has made me wonder if maybe he is ill equipped to fully criticize games that are more complicated then Castlevania and Mega Man. I just feel like hearing him just talk about games without preparing his arguments he sounds like he has sort of shallow opinions as to what classifies as "good" and "bad," particularly what classifies as hand-holding.

His piece on how MMX naturally teaches the player the controls through level design is very nice and well organized but at the same time I feel like he is unwilling to accept much less. The Demon's Souls play through is a decent example of this, where he and Jon both complain that the game just flat-out tells you how to buttons. But it's a Souls game! It's not like the game is renowned for hand-holding. Also, I personally feel like the developers couldn't have expected new players to devise the inputs for kicking, rolling, jumping, and other more complicated maneuvers on their own by just putting them in a situation where they have to learn them and nothing else. The ideal behind MMX's first stage is very noble and intrusive but it also only uses 6 buttons with only 1 function to each, and also a charge modifier to the shot which by definition is intuitive (~hold the button~).

It might just be that my perspective on Sequelitis has been poisoned by Ego's later statements. I suppose this might be unfair of me because Sequelitis was Ego at his argumentative peek and in a controlled environment. Prehapse Ego doesn't always say the things he means on GG because he isn't prepared and just saying something spur-of the moment. He does mention he does better scripted. Although looking back there are things that he said in the old videos that also hit me the wrong way (talking down about the Metroidvania Castlevanias, just off the top of my head). I'm fine with people having different opinions from me but I just feel like some of the criticisms Ego offers are superficial, and don't actually get to the root of game design and why games are made the way they are. Of course tutorials shouldn't be unenjoyable but do they need to be completely natural and elegant to achieve that, is brevity alone not enough?

Basically, I wonder if maybe I would have been more disappointed with Sequelitis had it continued and proved to be not as deep as I had wanted it to be then how it is now where Ego just talks about his opinions and I realize how specific his view of game theory are. The two (and a half) videos that are up really strong and I feel like Ego would have eventually provided a shallow episode, so at least it ended on quite a strong note, is I guess what I'm trying to say.

Besides Tywin, Cersei, and Joffrey, the Lannisters are pretty cool.

tywin lannister is the tightest shit in kings landing and if you dont agree ur gay

Chopstix, hold me close... and never let me go... *hot whispering in your ear*

I have no idea what that game is...

thats dumb and ur dumb

if we really wanna shit talk some lannister than we should say fuck Jaime like i have no idea how raping cirsei helps anyone with anything??????

He didn't in the books. I think that's rather important.

that actually is really important because it really didn't advance the plot in any sort of way it just made me uncomfortable

I really don't like Game of Thrones.

Just open Skyrim and play a random video on a porn website every time you start/finish a quest and besure kill an essential NPC and follower every now and then.

I genuinely like 80's hair metal.

So do I, it's fun.

He did actually, but I think it happened before the wedding, not after Joffrey's death.

In the books, he banged her consensually while Joffrey was being mourned.
Goldenhand the Just is awesome.

I think nazi uniforms look fashionable.
Too bad they're nazi uniforms.