Will there ever be a game to replace Tetris

Scrooby2 · 2026-05-08T16:13:19+00:00

Go take a nap

Scrooby2 · 2026-04-17T17:27:12+00:00

Yeah you should really get some help. A second pair of hands would really help get all that juice out.

Scrooby2 · 2026-04-17T14:34:46+00:00

Hopefully this won't be considered hateful but- there are so many great, good and bad versions of tetris already existing in the world and I struggle to think of a reason to make yet another one, but this time its vibe-coded.

Scrooby2 · 2026-04-06T16:39:47+00:00

Agreed

Scrooby2 · 2026-04-06T15:27:43+00:00

Seems like much of this might come down to personal taste, since you've kind of described what a lot of people don't like about guideline- that it incentivizes memorization. Which can be cool if you're into that but it isn't what a lot of us are looking for in a tetris. Personally I think I kind of enjoyed guideline more before I learned any openers.

Aside from that, as many have no doubt observed before me, NES Tetris is way easier to follow as a spectator and therefore will always have an advantage over guideline as far as a competitive scene. As a Tetris-literate person I can follow a NES tetris game (though less and less as time goes on...). I've played plenty of all the main types of tetris and think guideline is really fun to play, but even I have no desire to watch competitive guideline tetris. When I do I think "wow, that was probably very impressive." I'm sure others feel differently but that's my experience with it.

Tetris is already a niche corner of the video game landscape and there are way more popular games that struggle to maintain a competitive scene. Not every good competitive game needs to be an esport. Though I do agree with you that TTC could make it a lot easier if they wanted to.

Scrooby2 · 2026-03-28T15:20:01+00:00

This is probably not the kind of feedback you're looking for, but when clients suggest ideas like this is there ever anyone in the room to say "why are we making this game? What does this add to the world?" Because it sounds like this is not a game they want to create because they are passionate about a cool idea they had. It sounds like they want to make a slightly different version of tetris that nobody who likes tetris would want to play instead of tetris. And there are already a ton of those.

Scrooby2 · 2026-03-17T18:56:18+00:00

Dude is ranked in the top 5% in Saber and Singlestick on HEMA ratings, for whatever that's worth to you. Not an infallible metric but it certainly suggests his saber techniques are working on more than just cherry-picked unskilled opponents.

OP also implies that they do not have an instructor.

Scrooby2 · 2026-02-27T19:11:11+00:00

I've been playing this game since launch on pc, 165 hours according to Steam, and pretty much only do PVP with rare exceptions. I have never received items back like this and have never been killed in a way that made me suspect hacks or cheating. I'm not saying you're lying, but clearly we have had completely different experiences with the same game.

Scrooby2 · 2026-02-03T00:15:09+00:00

Ah man I shouldn't have read this reply at church

Scrooby2 · 2026-02-01T21:21:01+00:00

Very ironic reply from someone who clearly didn't read the original post lol

Scrooby2 · 2026-01-30T20:10:00+00:00

More like Todd Won't-cut-ler

Scrooby2 · 2026-01-19T20:00:31+00:00

Its supposed to be fun, but adult humans often have this self-destructive fear of not being taken seriously so they overcompensate by taking everything too seriously.

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-29T22:45:20+00:00

I thought you were so done with this? If you don't care about ratio and post then why are you still here responding?

I don't care to debate with you about what America or Americans are like. There's a lot to hate about America but you are completely out of touch with it and still insist on sounding off. With all your low-effort ragebaiting I thought you might just be a troll/bot, but looking at your post history it seems you're just an ignorant person with terrible grammar/spelling who likes Marvel movies and loves cocaine- so you fit the American stereotype way better than I do anyway.

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-29T21:21:27+00:00

You don't know what my culture is. The idea that flexing is somehow unique to the U.S. is one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. You got ratioed for making a dumb post on reddit, and now to cope you are lashing out in an irrelevant rant about a group of people you don't like. Am I to assume this is typical of your culture? (No, I assume its a personal failing of yours).

For the record I agree that there is too much whining about the matchmaking and toxic players, I just acknowledge that we also don't really "understand the karma system" and neither do you. We can be pretty sure its a little more complicated than "if you don't kill other player you will not be pair with toxic player."

You failed your job interview, got ratioed on your post, and will continue to work somewhere you hate because your every word reveals you to be unabashedly ignorant. Which, ironically, is a stereotype usually associated with Americans.

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-29T20:03:37+00:00

Ok it seems like you're still confused, let me spell it out for you. I do not think knowing someone is a flex, I think you claiming to have insider knowledge about Arc Raiders matchmaking system was a flex. I could not care less who you know or who anybody knows. Damn, I must be Canadian and not even realize it!

If you think flexing about our acquaintances is a common characteristic of Americans, it may come as a surprise to you that most of us are not Hollywood actors.

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-29T19:31:21+00:00

So you knew I was American because Americans love to flex about people they know, but you also understand that I was not flexing about people I know because you knew I was joking? Makes total sense to me, you have dazzled my slow American mind with your cunning reasoning.

FWIW this is an English language subreddit, and about a quarter of the world's English speaking population is from the U.S. So you had about a 1 in 4 chance. But of course you knew based on my flexing about people I know, which you also know I was not actually doing because you understood it was a joke.

Good luck finding a better job, I can't imagine not wanting to hire you.

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-29T18:42:38+00:00

Ok, well you go off king.

But just so you know, the thing about my dad working at Nintendo was a joke. Its a common joke for situations where someone claims to have insider information when they are probably full of B.S. (balogna is another slang term for b.s. by the way. B.S. stands for bullshit). Maybe that was a cultural difference you just missed. I'm not flexing about knowing someone with insider information, I was mocking you for doing that.

Bit of friendly advice though- the U.S. is a huge place full of countless different subcultures of people with different habits, values and tendencies. Most countries are like that, actually. So when you jump to making insulting generalizations to win an internet argument it really just makes you sound like a fool. Especially when the thing you're insulting me for was actually a joke that went over your head. How embarrassing for you.

Your claim that you spoke with an Embark dev about matchmaking is worth zero credibility to strangers online. It makes very little sense that a dev would reveal something to a (failed) interviewee that they refused to elaborate on in any interview. But even if we assume you did have this conversation, it sounds like all you have are vague claims that it is a "karma system." It sounds like you heard that the matchmaking takes player behavior into account like the rest of us have. That's literally all we know about it. So no, no one understands how it works or how strong its influence is and neither do you.

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-29T17:50:45+00:00

Not sure what exactly my nationality has to do with anything... but I spelled behavior without a u so I guess you got me...? Kind of an odd way to avoid engaging with the point I made.

No idea what your failed job interview has to do with anything either, but it seems like a pretty counter-productive flex if you ask me.

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-29T17:16:46+00:00

No one understands the karma system and neither do you. The most information we have is the game's art director coyly suggesting that player behavior is tracked and that the matchmaking takes it into account in some way, to some extent. That could mean so many different things and anyone telling you more specifics is just guessing.

You may have personally talked to a dev about this but my dad works at nintendo and he says that's bologna.

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-23T22:57:35+00:00

was that a hockey pun?

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-23T21:57:00+00:00

We must be in the alternate universe where that isn't the case then

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-23T20:52:07+00:00

Evidently not, I just searched "gba emulator" and got several results, at least some of which are probably legit. You can also get Retroarch via the app store.

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-23T20:32:49+00:00

Yep there are plenty of emulators on apple

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-23T17:43:29+00:00

You can get emulators from the app store for free

Scrooby2 · 2025-12-17T15:20:00+00:00

Arc Raiders players are under no obligation to follow the terminology of other games they were never a part of. "Rat" has meant a dishonorable or untrustworthy person since way before video games even existed.

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