Comment on What is the Shortest Possible Ride in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2?
Dremor@lemmy.world 1 week agoWhich is why I did not delete the post and commented instead. Technically it is against the rules, but interesting nonetheless, so I’d like OP to defend his post it order to promote a conversation on said topic, instead of doing a post&run.
silverchase@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I genuinely believe this is a post that would be appreciated in this community. I don’t see what’s meme-ish about the video other than that it’s entertaining in addition to being generally interesting, even to those outside the RCT niche. I’ve licked boot before and reported posts here for rule 4 violations, but this seems in line with other non-“gaming news” videos here:
My personal motivations to post to !games@lemmy.world are to share things that are interesting with at least some level of intellectual stimulation, to contribute my original effort in magazine-like content from time to time (as Atticus, PerfectDark, and CobySev also do), and to share news that gaming news sites don’t cover. From my own perspective, I think I’ve demonstrated appropriate discretion in posting things here; I don’t bring in every headline and video I see pop up that has something to do with games. This channel has plenty of videos about RCT but I chose to share this one because it’s not so deep that it would belong in a game-specific community and not so shallow that it’s gaming lifestyle/humour content, but it is in a range where the topic is reasonably appreciable by a general core gaming audience.
r/games is so uptight that it’s pretty much a gaming news RSS feed with a comment section and the “gaming” communities are upvote farms with only marginal connections to games themselves. I like here because I like the mix of high-profile news, low-profile news, and original discussion. If you don’t think videos like this belong here, I’m okay with that, but rule 4 will probably need a revision to better match what you want here to be. I thought this post was adequately within the spirit of that rule, as were those other videos I cited.
Anyway, let’s discuss this video.
Marcel Vos makes a lot of deep, technical videos about RollerCoaster Tycoon. This is actually a follow-up to his previous video where he goes into how he updated the longest ride ever to be even longer. That video was pretty deep and it’s also a mind-numbing 41 minutes long. Compared to his usual fare, this demonstration of very short rides is much more accessible! And short!
In my opinion, what makes this not meme-ish is that he doesn’t add humorous music or other embellishments to his demos, and he shares (AFAIK) his own knowledge and work in figuring out how to make very short rides, including some creative and contrived ways to reduce the length of a ride. It’s not a mere clip compilation or just reading from a wiki or subreddit, so there is an informative, intellectual element. I find it really fascinating to see people optimize the hell out of a game purely out of curiosity and appreciation of it, especially when the game is long past its trendy phase.