Let's talk about bad game design: spikes

Let's talk about bad game design: spikes

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What's bad about spikes

Spikes are great. Only thing that might make em bad is level design and that's entirely unrelated to spikes.
You see spikes, you don't wanna touch em. Perfect obstacle.

That's precisely what makes spikes so shit. They're dishonest obstacles.

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Spikes are great in this context. They tell the player, "Hey, maybe dont be a fucking retard next time when platforming"

upwards facing spikes are only bad when they're the shitty kinds that hurt you when you walk towards them from the side while on the ground.

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Buster's Hidden Treasure has two types of spikes. Short stubby ones that only hurt you and long needle like ones that kill you in one hit.

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Spikes are the great equalizer.

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you are trolling

>the last level should be easy!
No

Spikes are real! We're living in a video game. It's a kid's dream come true!

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user, you're not supposed to attempt to shove the spikes in your pussy.

>Homeless man walks onto spikes
>UUUUOOOHHHHH MAMA MIA
>Flies into air while holding his ass
>Lands safely 15 feet away
>"I'm feeling tired!"
>Sleeps perfectly flat on a garbage can

kek
this should be in GTA6

YOU KNOW WHAT'S DISHONEST

When devs decide that your character can't swim. What kind of sissy shit is that? Even a 5 year old can swim and you just sink like a rock. Maaan fuck dat shiet

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unfair when you can't stand on them when they are pointed to the side

so you want to bunson burner platforms for Mario to hop on there, op?

holy fuck that pissed me off in that game. they designed the game with the big movement in mind but early on when you don't have it the world feels retarded, you can't cross this thin ass fucking river cuz your useless character can't be in the water for 2 seconds

Fuck off, journo

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>the player character can swim
>but an invincible aquatic monster kills him if he swims too far out

Reminder that the mountain was supposed to be an entire world. Would've been so cool to have an actually fleshed out volcano level. I hate how rushed SMS was.

>knock legendary, feared enemy into water
>invincible sea monster kills the monster like nobody's business