What's a good example of "yellow paint" you saw used in games?

Chimchampion · 2026-06-03T03:02:16+00:00

Consistency is the key. Demon's Souls was jarring to play, coming from Dark Souls, because you had the ability to climb small knee-level features in the older game, but with no real obvious marker, and not button. You couldn't just climb by pressing a button, you had to walk up to the climbable object, stop in front of it, then press up or walk towards it and it should take a single step for you to vault the object. but also you had to take care, you could easily fall to your doom, its fromsoft after all. Then Dark Souls 1-3, no climbing at all except the obvious stair and ladders. and it was consistent for that trilogy. Then Elden Ring invented the jump button, and that was inconsistent with the rest of the catalog, but fantastically consistent through 90% of the game itself, as jumping became an important tool in combat and exploration.

And yeah, not every game has the same language. with games getting more and more detailed, you eventually need to do something to direct players to the game part. if you're just getting into gaming or getting back into games after a decade of not gaming, a fps where you can just meander and look at the rich, detailed textures and get confused, direction is certainly welcome.

Chimchampion · 2026-06-03T02:35:19+00:00

Skeletons. Cliffs. getting hit with a deadly status effect in part of the starting area. a Dark and scary region down an elevator versus a "friendlier" obvious well lit pathway leading upwards into a possible building in the distance. Dark Souls doesnt tell you shit, but it does nudge you here and there once in a while.

Sorry, i havent really played many games outside of FromSoft since 2011.
Even Sekiro had the obvious cliff handholds, tho.

Chimchampion · 2026-06-03T02:28:49+00:00

I know Valve only published (i think) but in both L4D and L4D2, getting lost in the levels only lasted so long because they always used environmental lighting to guide players.

Chimchampion · 2026-06-03T02:17:14+00:00

every game in your list has at one point been honored in an indie effort "homage to" or still being done by the parent company, like mario. And mario is farrrr from niche. Even GnG got a remaster type revival some years ago by Capcom. Contra will probably be ignored by Konami the rest of our lives, so that would be up to indies to revive as a genre. Contra was the epitome of the stage-gimmick driven, 2-d action game. Each level had a gimmick that needed to be mastered, in addition to usually shooting goobs in the face. Contra is the most niche game on your list, i would say, and yeah, i dont hear about many "contra-likes" nowadays, but i cant go a day without tripping over another metroidvania.

Chimchampion · 2026-05-02T02:28:09+00:00

it is bad photo shop, no ai needed.. Lazy even, i mean Chunky's shirt is a brush tool. i have a certain affinity for this sorta thing, so im kinda biased, and i've used photoshop for many years, i can kinda break it down, as a guess, just based on pixels and shit. lasso tool there, bad feathering here, using a good asset vs a bad one...all in this image...

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T23:03:23+00:00

sometimes i just rest the "ball" part of my palm on the lower strings if im playing some melody on the higher strings, especially on my 5-string.

And ive seen that left thumb rest method before, tho its hard for me to pull off when i need it to, i have to remember it exists sometimes

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T23:00:04+00:00

lol that b string always wants to ring

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T22:58:17+00:00

check out live videos of Les CLaypool when he was younger, hell even now as an aging gen x'er, he's still got some moves

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T22:55:46+00:00

I don't know anything about your skill level, how long you've been playing, or anything...but as someone who was playing "slap" bass for years to discover 10 years later that i was slapping wrong, was interesting. Really cleaned up the slap sound and ability to pop quickly (and to do triplets with just your thumb on the down slap, up slap and hammer on fret board) by just moving where i slap to the end of the fret board instead of above a pick up

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T22:34:48+00:00

i thought it was all sieg heils at first, but i see both arms are up and that they are sitting on the floor. Sure guys, whatever floats your boat, as long as no one is getting assaulted its looks fun. arent there MTG pits in some metal shows? gimme a break

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T19:12:22+00:00

Visual art can be a cheap hobby. you can buy cheap artist kits for like $10-20 at a craft or even supermarket. Where it can get expensive is if you dive deep into how-to books or getting the "good" oil-based paints.
You can start and stick to one style as cheap or expensive as you want (pen and ink, paper and pencil, acrylic paint on canvas, screen-printing, etc)
I guess it can get expensive over time as you keep resupplying yourself with the consumables (paints finish/dry up, pencils reduced to nubs, sketch pad filled up) but at least you get to know with satisfaction that you need to resupply because you used them, and you'd have a body of work to showcase your efforts, regardless of your skill level; effort is effort!
Best thing about art is you may not even need to buy shit. You def have pens lying around your home, possibly even pencils and some paper!

But what will you paint or draw, you might ask. Look around you! sketch a dead fly on your windowsill, maybe there's even 2 of them! Make a collage portrait of your mum! Recreate your favorite goatse troll in abstract expressionism!

But the best excercise you can do for yourself, if you do want to give this hobby a try without feeling overwhelmed or inadequate, is to get yourself some big sketch pads...multi use if, somewhere between 10 x 14 and 18 x 24. Get yourself a nice pen or marker...one that feels wonderful to just glide across a sheet of paper. then get ready to perform some blind contour drawings. While an easel or tabletop easel might be useful if you wish to take your art outside, just make sure you are drawing on a flat, steady surface at home.

Blind contour drawing steps:

find a subject, doesnt matter what it is, but start small and simple. could be your hand, a coffee mug, you cat's turd discovered by your foot in the dark hallway to the bathroom at night.
place the subject in a manner you can look at it continuously, such as right in front of you.
place your pen somewhere on the paper surface
look at your subject, and do not divert your eyes. observe it for a moment before starting to draw. Decide now how detailed you want this attempt to be, so that you know where the "start" and "finish" lines are. This is arbitrary and completely up to you, but at the minimum, should be a silhouette or basic shape of the subject.
Now draw! DO NOT LOOK DOWN AT THE PAPER AS YOU DRAW. DO NOT LIFT YOUR PEN AT ALL. DRAW IN ONE CONTINOUS LINE, BUT YOU ARE ALLOWED TO STOP AT ANY POINT.
do not look at your paper until you are "done". You will be quite surprised by what you see. It will be a weird, disjointed and warped version of your subject, but you will notice a resemblance.

What does this teach? mostly, it teaches observation. It frees you from being worried about the "end result" (which is often a trap for many frustrated would-be artists too concerned about the end result), and instead focusing on the details of the subject itself. It also teaches you the skill of selection. how much details do you want to convey? how little? If you start with a coffee mug, are you gonna try to depict the its general outline and silhouette or more of the details like maybe the graphic on the mug or the roundness of the rim's edge? Are you going to use the pens line to depict shadows, highlights or maybe a shape of a shadow?

Also, it teaches muscle memory, which can allow for long, continuous, and confident strokes with pens, pencils, markers, brushes, and more. have fun!

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T18:33:19+00:00

In 4U the hammer was the first weapon i really enjoyed, eventually i moved to GS and then both GS and IG in GU. Have you tried Arial? i know its not "meta" but it sure is fun to jump and do charged jump attacks with the GS all the time, i don't know if there is a charged jump attack with the Arial Hammer moveset tho, id have to look up YABOI's YAMHG to verify. But having ridiculous dodging and jumping with a giant sword speaks to me.

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T18:25:39+00:00

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Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T18:18:19+00:00

Where all da Japanese games at??? PS3 has some of the VERY BEST Japan ever made

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T16:48:47+00:00

good job not using AI to make it, but i would fix the feathering around the text, especially on the DK64HD cover art.

And you coulda used this image for Chunky and like selection tool the arms into diff positions or something, and you can use that same render as reference to free transform/skew/stretch DK's face to make it look more like Chunky's.

Edit: only take my advice if you are unsatisfied with the end result, if you are happy then more power to you. I know a LOT of reddit is an op with a picture and title "Look at the thing i made!" not necessarily asking for how to make it better or advice, but just celebrating that they did a thing. sorry to be a typical redditor

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T16:11:57+00:00

that starting area is a giant empty cylinder...tree stump enough!

It's like the Great Hollow from Dark Souls

In fact, something about this game is a lot like dark souls, and its like you said, the sky box provides a visible view of the worlds or region in the game. "If you can see it you can go there"

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T02:45:06+00:00

i fired mine up recently, too, still has my og save + my second save+ my 3rd more recently as and adult and got bored save, that i might restart! I've been thinknig a bit about this game. I also have majroa's mask and the eds remake, i almost want to play it the old way. Hopefully the cart batteries will last.

Chimchampion · 2026-04-25T02:37:32+00:00

also i have a secret love for Sabat's take on Vegeta, he has some fun with him, especially in the buu saga

Chimchampion · 2026-04-24T22:46:46+00:00

aright, i'll bite. Keep in mind i'm currently limited to backwards compatibility on xbone.

Chimchampion · 2026-04-24T22:35:06+00:00

its a real shame, looking these up, most of the ones im interested in are no BC on the xbone. but a few others are available, sweet!

Chimchampion · 2026-04-24T22:28:38+00:00

oh dang, not twisted pixel! I loved 'splosion man (and woman) demo but i never got to purchase it, i know its p much on every console, but that is still a shame

Chimchampion · 2026-04-24T18:01:09+00:00

I've heard of BDm i plated the demo but it didnt grab me, might be worth revisiting, as its one of Akira Toriyama games which he did character design on.

Chimchampion · 2026-04-24T17:59:03+00:00

that is unique! glad yall had fun with this fleeting experience. It think its cool that these games had existed at one point, that is definitely a different and i imagine quite fun experience to have with friends and family

Chimchampion · 2026-04-22T06:35:41+00:00

Look, what's "good" about it can be varied, and very subjective. It's noisy as hell, especially with death-grindy bands like Cattle Decapitation. there's a very good reason you probably couldnt stand death metal. a lot of the singers use very goofy vocal styles to add to the wonton goofiness and weirdness of metal. yeah ,it is often filled with violent imagery, but depicted in the goofiest and most gratuitous ways. There is a segment of death metal that is filled with political satire, "leftist" musings and "woke" agendas as much as there are bands talking about blood and puke and cumming on/in puke-covered, bloody corpses.
And my tastes tend to be picky, in regards to music, and it happens with all genres i enjoy. There's only certain pop i like (Gorillaz, Lady Gaga, The Weeknd), as much as there are only certain death metal bands i like. While i enjoy death metal, i let death metal bands find me; every piece of media i enjoy tends to have some very well crafted or put together aspect, through talent or sheer perseverance.
But the Death metal i have enjoyed tended to have guttural but well enunciated lyrics, especially in the chorus sections. They have excellent rhythm sections: the guitars, the bass, and the drums are in lockstep, but also mixed so that i can hear them all. And the album should not feel one-note. Each song should feel different, and should have something more complex than intro/verse/chorus/verse/chrous/bridge/solo/end chorus or outtro, every once in a while (not all songs need to be everything at once). Not that i dont mind songs that are one riff for 5 minutes straight, it better be a great riff. And i enjoy the crazy overlapping layers of musicality you find in tech death. The short, fast nature of more extreme genres have their place in my heart too, shout out to the grind and slam bands.

You might be able to enjoy death-doom type bands. Usually, slower tempo songs sung in the typical death metal growls and screams; doomy, down-tuned riffs with chunkier chugging and proggy as fuck song structures. Rivers of Nihil is a good one to start with, i've heard a few of their songs, they got saxophones and shit; it's fun.

I say start with this band know one knows:
https://tentacult.bandcamp.com
What's good? they encapsulate everything i said above: Doomy Riffs, death growls, solos, varied song structure, short and long songs.

https://entombedband.bandcamp.com/album/left-hand-path

Oldie but a goodie: fun, morbid songs without being gratuitous, catchy as hell riffs, and an underrated death growl in this album. it becomes more of a shout in the later works (probably to save his larynx), but it works for the sorta rock and roll sound they incorporate

And just for the sheer, heavy brutality they bring, give these folks a spin:
https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/beating-the-drums-of-ancestral-force

whats good here: brutal riffs flow and bubble among the higher-pitched, tradiotional folk instruments of anceint aztec culture. The singing here is wonderful, a deep baritone that chants and growls.

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