sub > dub is an elitist’s point of view, and it probably makes your intellectual cock hard when you claim it.

what’s your solution? or are you just blowing smoke on the internet?

the 4th option is to pirate.

This isn’t complicated: available, and i’m willing to pay what they want = less pirate. not available, or too highly priced for my personal tastes = more pirate.

ah yes, the wonderful distillation of a complex argument to its most facile, top-down bullet points.  all without contributing anything!

wow they change one word and your bitch ass is triggered lol

PS If you keep yelling GET OFF MY LAWN, everyone will eventually leave. And then you’ll be lonely, posting your bullshit takes on the internet.

metroidvanias barely even rely on platforming as a difficulty mechanic. Walking up stairs to a temple isn’t platform. Jumping over a river isn’t platforming

so anytime a particular topic is debated by multiple people, it inevitably renders the subject of discussion worthless?

because it sounds like hemorrhoid.  metroidvania sounds infinitely better than castleroid.

no, not in a rough sense. it’s quite precise.  that’s the beauty of the word. it lets you know everything you need to know about the game short of playing it yourself.

enough to convince your editor to pay you for an article about it, apparently.

you, my friend, are full of shit. you might be the only person I know who looks at someone saying the word Metroidvania as some kind of elitist. lol. you need some self confidence, buddy pal.

My personal response: Eh.  Dude got paid to troll people with an easy 10th grader write up.  I know he ain’t rich, but he isn’t stressing his job like I am, where I have standards.  And my arguments and assertions have to make sense....

3d games arent metroidvanias.  just like side scrolling fighting games with large backgrounds aren’t open world games.

rougelite is kinda like pink. rougelike is probably a candy apply red.

this was my response to the article:

no you’re thinking of open world adventure games.  metroidvanias are exclusively side scrollers.

Things wrong with this guy’s article:

your opinion is fucked.  a defining feature of metroidvanias is the 2d.  that’s why NOBODY with a brain cell refers to Zelda as a metroidvania. Doom is not a metroidvania.  I can hear you now, “But i got a key and had to go back.” gtfoh with that bullshit.