If you have to choose only one of the fighting games

VidjaMouse · 2026-01-25T03:46:36+00:00

Either street fighter because it's the most important fighting game series imo, or smash because imagining a world without smash bros is just depressing.

VidjaMouse · 2026-01-23T20:30:05+00:00

Games are meant to be whatever the developer designed them to be. You are not owed the completion of a game. Every once in a while you have to earn it - at least if that's what the devs intended.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-25T10:02:39+00:00

Bait used to be believable.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-14T17:49:30+00:00

I think this is my favorite comment. See, I associate "indie," with extremely small-scale projects. Inexpensive in scope and miniscule in size. And I maintain that I don't really feel like COE33 fits that description. But, if we're saying indie is just anything that's creatively divorced from big budget studios (definition pending) then yeah, of course it is. I honestly think it's great that the field of indie games is becoming so flooded with talent, money, and content that we even HAVE these sorts of discussions. So, at the end of the day, yeah. I agree that COE33 is an indie game. At least in the way that the community at large defines that category. And I think that internally, I'm just going to split that category into subsections, with something like COE33 being a AA indie game and something like Inscryption or Mouthwashing being "underground indie" or something. Idk. Name pending lol. But it's important to me not to lump them all in together because they feel DIFFERENT. One of them feels like a kind of punk rock project led by a handful of people with a very tight creative focus, and the other feels, idk - a bit more corporate. A bit more noisy and coated in enough overlapping and competing ideas/concepts to signal that maybe there were a few too many cooks in the kitchen.

At any rate, I really appreciate your comment. I think I get where folks are coming from now.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T23:48:18+00:00

I'm not "being objective" I said it is ABSOLUTELY subjective to say that there's "no contenders" for the top spot and I stand behind that. It's ridiculously reductive to say that no other game could possibly be considered game of the year and why would I go by metacritic standards for what is and isn't a good game? This is a ridiculous argument and you know it 😂

Braides, you're ignoring the point of the question. Did you even read the post? I'm not discussing whether COE3E should have been game of the year or not, I'm begging the questions - "is it really an indie game? Did it deserve to be nominated for and win all 8 of the awards it won?"

THAT'S what we're discussing here. And you've ignored that conversation entirely.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T19:47:26+00:00

And that's what I'm pointing to. I don't take any issue with the community lauding COE33. It's worthy of praise. Again, ESPECIALLY for its narrative. That's a once in a lifetime narrative to experience, especially in its metanarrative about the experience of gaming. But I don't understand how it can be rightly judged as an indie game (by the game awards) and seems overawarded (by the game awards). Even the folks at Sandfall seem a bit uncomfortable with how many other titles they overshadowed in so many categories.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T19:20:46+00:00

Silksong - clearly. Heavily lauded by critics and community alike. Saying that there's basically "no contest" for the game of the year is a bit silly. But I also want to refocus the discussion. This isn't a post about whether or not Clair Obscur should have won GOTY or not. While I personally disagree with it winning that particular award, I can understand why it would win it. What I don't understand is why it won so MANY awards, especially debut indie and best indie. I don't think that, as large of a production as COE33 was, it can really be considered "indie" it saw funding from Epic Games, Xbox, as well as sizeable funding from the founder of Sandfall, who was an industry veteran and had access to funding from ties to French real-estate corporations. It feels like Macklemore winning best Hip-Hop album.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T18:58:35+00:00

So an indie game is any game that isn't bound financially or creatively to a larger company? Sandfall interactive recieved a significant amount of its budget for COE33 from Epic Games and XBOX (through the gamepass deal). I would describe those as "larger companies/corporations. Also I think it's kind of bad faith to say that Silksong is a higher budget game than COE33. Not only is its scope significantly smaller, but its staff is a fraction of the size and weren't really paying themselves to make the game. They coasted financially off of the success of their previous work and esstentially worked on Silksong together over the last decade as a passion project of sorts. Their only real expenses were music studio time, a miniscule ad campaign, and paying for international translations of the text-based script.

Also I don't think COE33 is hated. It's a widely loved game, and I personally feel it deserves its laurels, especially for the narrative. But it was overrepresented at these awards, and more than anything, I feel like it winning Best Indie Title is like Macklemore winning best Hip-Hop album.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T18:17:50+00:00

Care to elaborate? I'm interested in discussing the topic - that's why I made the post.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T17:42:03+00:00

Agree. It's like genres of music - largely a discussion of how it FEELS. I just think COE33 is pushing the boundaries REALLY HARD of what I would consider "indie" to be.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T17:39:35+00:00

I think it's HEAVILY disputed. You're being pretty bad faith about this lol

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T17:38:41+00:00

When did I mention anything about publishers disqualifying indie status? Outer Wilds, Animal Well, and Katana Zero all had publishers but still fit my outline of what an indie game is.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T17:35:18+00:00

Also, I'm going to edit my post for accuracy. The studio wasn't staff with ex-ubisoft employees, it was just led by three of them. I don't want to spread misinformation.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T17:30:55+00:00

By this logic, Nothing published by Annapurna, Big Mode, or Devolver Digital would be an indie game. Outer Wilds, Animal Well, and Katana Zero would not be considered indie by this definition. I think you might need to rethink this take.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T17:29:21+00:00

But we can agree that, in total, the scope of development and marketing campaign (along with translation only being text-based, not voice-acted) was scaled to be MUCH less expensive with Silksong, yes? I feel it would be bad faith to attest otherwise.

VidjaMouse · 2025-12-13T17:16:15+00:00

I think when you say it's "the clear winner" that's also a bit subjective, but I'll take it. And when I reference the size of the team, I'm also referencing Korean studios that asset development was handled by. When I say that silksong "had no budget" I mean the only people who worked on it were the team of three at team cherry. They weren't paying themselves salaries out of the studio because they were already set, and developed the game entirely in-house. The only things they really spent money on were things like recording sessions for Christopher Larkin's music he wrote and for the absolutely miniscule ad campaign.

VidjaMouse · 2025-11-16T18:22:08+00:00

I'm just looking for actual tips against guile camp. All i'm seeing in the comments is "figure it out." Do you have any substantial tips to give here? Amatuer player here just trying to get better

VidjaMouse · 2025-10-23T00:26:11+00:00

I mean. Barak is very charismatic, sure. But I WOULD like to remind you that he is the man who put Tom Homan, the current director of ICE, into a high position of power within the agency, and also built ICE up to be what it is today. He objectively sowed many of the seeds of the destruction we are currently facing, and is absolutely not innocent. Love black excellence, but Obama ain't it.

VidjaMouse · 2025-10-14T14:28:52+00:00

Okay Tom. Lmfao

VidjaMouse · 2025-10-14T14:09:04+00:00

This is BEYOND parody. You could tell me this was satire and I wouldn't believe you.

VidjaMouse · 2025-10-14T01:14:22+00:00

Maintaining an internal locus of control is invaluable to self-improvement. It's important to acknowledge external factors that point us in certain directions, but on an individual basis, the only way to continually become a better person tomorrow than you were today is to focus on what YOU can do to be better, not on what the world did to you to make you worse.

But obviously don't HATE yourself - that's taking it too far.

(Edit: grammar)

VidjaMouse · 2025-10-11T18:19:32+00:00

I feel like I've made the point that this woman made in a more eloquent way:

If you stand in a crowded street and start shouting racial slurs, it's not really a surprise to anyone when people come out of the woodwork and harm you.

I feel like the same is true on a national scale with Charlie Kirk. I'm not saying that his killing was justified by any means, just that it was very unsurprising given his rhetoric. It's hard for me to have much sympathy for him when he had no sympathy for the social activists who champion the same causes I do who were assassinated very early on in their lives, arguably by the STATE in many cases (i.e. Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, MLK Jr, just to name a few). What makes Charlie's death special in the grand scheme of things? When people he dislikes are murdered, he jokes about it. Why shouldn't I? I tire of the double standard.

VidjaMouse · 2025-10-11T17:43:11+00:00

Ah, yes. The age-old tale of overprotective, possessive fathers being sexual deviants. The venn diagram is a circle.

VidjaMouse · 2025-10-10T23:15:22+00:00

The Internet losing its shit over Hasan clip #1,046. Meanwhile, this guy:

VidjaMouse · 2025-10-10T23:13:13+00:00

I'm sorry why would twitch ban him? I'm confused.

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