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[The Dear Leader]

Dan Ryckert is a shit lord and will not break Patrick Klepek.

#TeamPat

 

[stump sock]

I'm torn because I appreciate the triumph of human will, but I also appreciate being a total monster to other people in video games.

so as the tiebreaker, I like Dan's charity more so, suck it Kelptok

 

[| Praxis |]

Patches! Well, I'm team Patrick now.

 

[DamnBoxes]

#TeamRyckert #GetFuckedChicago

I want to see Patrick crumble.

#TeamRyckert

 

[Heimbeck]

Ugh, day 1 patches.
Dan is no better than Ubisoft.

 

[repeater]

#TeamKlepek all the way on this one

A question about Mario Maker: why does the player have to manually restart the level through the pause menu when they die? In light of how many trollishly difficult levels people seem to be creating, I feel like the game should just auto-restart you instantly at the beginning of the level, Meat Boy style.

 

[| Praxis |]

I feel like Patrick is going the wrong way already.

 

[Nero18]

#TeamKlepek all the way on this one

A question about Mario Maker: why does the player have to manually restart the level through the pause menu when they die? In light of how many trollishly difficult levels people seem to be creating, I feel like the game should just auto-restart you instantly at the beginning of the level, Meat Boy style.

Think it does, its just faster to manually do it.

 

[Archaix]

#TeamKlepek all the way on this one

A question about Mario Maker: why does the player have to manually restart the level through the pause menu when they die? In light of how many trollishly difficult levels people seem to be creating, I feel like the game should just auto-restart you instantly at the beginning of the level, Meat Boy style.

It does, you just have to wait for the death jingle and it takes longer than restarting manually.

 

[stump sock]

#TeamKlepek all the way on this one

A question about Mario Maker: why does the player have to manually restart the level through the pause menu when they die? In light of how many trollishly difficult levels people seem to be creating, I feel like the game should just auto-restart you instantly at the beginning of the level, Meat Boy style.

it will restart, but people don't like waiting

 

[CypherSignal]

I feel like Patrick is going the wrong way already.

No, he's going the correct way. Going through the level will involve going back and forth along its length a couple times.

Spoiler

Did you notice the POW block in the top left, among the spikes?

 

[repeater]

Think it does, its just faster to manually do it.

It does, you just have to wait for the death jingle and it takes longer than restarting manually.

it will restart, but people don't like waiting

That seems like a misguided design decision, but maybe that's because I've basically only been watching people playing Dan's hell levels rather than anything sane, where a 2-second jingle before restart wouldn't be as maddening.

 

[| Praxis |]

No, he's going the correct way. Going through the level will involve going back and forth along its length a couple times.

Spoiler

Did you notice the POW block in the top left, among the spikes?

I didn't, well at least he's on the right path.

 

[Archaix]

Don't worry, he'll start going down the wrong path soon enough.

 

[stump sock]

so I'm guessing that because of the way the coins are laid out at the bottom, and the locations of the feather and star, there's a p-block somewhere that will change those into a runway where you fly up and to the left?

 

[| Praxis |]

Don't worry, he'll start going down the wrong path soon enough.

Ha, he's already having a hard time. Did Dan upload a video of himself completing it?

 

[Lijik]

this one specific jump is already demolishing patrick

 

[Archaix]

Ha, he's already having a hard time. Did Dan upload a video of himself completing it?

No, somebody posted a video of a player who worked his way backwards after downloading the level. To get to the finish he just ignored most of what happens and followed a specific path.

edit:

For example:

Spoiler

That pipe with the ice blocks (which you can destroy) covering it? Entirely irrelevant to the level...as is the entire sub world he's in now

Dan's in chat mostly laughing at Patrick doing the wrong thing. He says he spent close to 20 hours making this level.

 

[Nero18]

That seems like a misguided design decision, but maybe that's because I've basically only been watching people playing Dan's hell levels rather than anything sane, where a 2-second jingle before restart wouldn't be as maddening.

Think most people feel the same way, at the very least there should some sort of option in the menus.

 

[Jimmyfenix]

Dan Ryckert is a shit lord and will not break Patrick Klepek.

#TeamPat

 

[stump sock]

"I don't like where Dan's pipes go."

 

[| Praxis |]

"I don't like where Dan's pipes go."

They all lead back to Taco Bell.

 

[Heimbeck]

I can't decide if Dan is the best or the worst.

 

[stump sock]

it just now occured to me how weird it is that you can't "hold" a powerup in the SMW levels

 

[repeater]

Think most people feel the same way, at the very least there should some sort of option in the menus.

Yeah, or maybe they could allow you to instantly skip the jingle by pressing X during the death animation or something.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Dan's in chat mostly laughing at Patrick doing the wrong thing. He says he spent close to 20 hours making this level.

He's not the monster we need.

But the one we deserve.

 

[Felix Lighter]

I'm glad the level doesn't appear to have any enemy spam, especially enemy spam on trampolines.

 

[AngryMoth]

Parts of the platforming in this level are actually quite well designed.

 

[stump sock]

dude, patrick, spinjump

christ

 

[Heimbeck]

Patrick's failed jumps are the best deaths.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

dude, patrick, spinjump

christ

He still doesn't know how to use the cape properly. I wouldn't hold my breath that he's going to solve this until he actually bothers to learn the powerup.

 

[stump sock]

I'm starting to see the underlying logic in this level, and if it plays out the way I think it does, it's pretty clever. and patrick's coin collection is going to be his undoing.

e: dude, you can totally fly on all these platforms he doesn't think he can fly off of. git gud

 

[GavinGT]

Have they talked about whether they'll play chapter 2 of MGSV?

 

[mattp]

yeah, there's no chance in hell patrick finishes this stage

 

[DamnBoxes]

Patrick on music blocks

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

yeah, there's no chance in hell patrick finishes this stage

I don't think so either. It's not difficult in a cleverly-engineered-puzzle kind of way, it's just illogical and obfuscated. It's a great example of bad game design.

 

[Heimbeck]

I don't think so either. It's not difficult in a cleverly-engineered-puzzle kind of way, it's just illogical and obfuscated. It's a great example of bad game design.

I doubt Dan cares as long as he wins.
He's already a demon.

 

[Kelas]

Also pat is messing up every minor thing.

 

[Noray]

DanRyckert in chat: Yeah Patrick get that star!

lol

 

[MadLaughter]

I don't think so either. It's not difficult in a cleverly-engineered-puzzle kind of way, it's just illogical and obfuscated. It's a great example of bad game design.

Since he was going for obfuscated instead of clever, sounds like Dan nailed it.

 

[Antiwhippy]

I don't think so either. It's not difficult in a cleverly-engineered-puzzle kind of way, it's just illogical and obfuscated. It's a great example of bad game design.

To be fair he did call it a bad level.

 

[mattp]

I don't think so either. It's not difficult in a cleverly-engineered-puzzle kind of way, it's just illogical and obfuscated. It's a great example of bad game design.

yup
which is the exact thing dan was going for
he knew what he was doing
and he did it masterfully

sorry, patrick. you're fucked

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Will Patrick ever realize he shouldn't be getting all these coins? He's not even close to the point where it will matter, though.

 

[mattp]

he's playing this like its a "regular" level
i feel like if dan could give him a "hint" after he flounders for 2 days and just tell him every powerup in this stage is placed there for a reason and not to just pick shit up until he knows what its used for

even with that, he'll never figure it out, though lol

 

[Noray]

Will Patrick ever realize he shouldn't be getting all these coins? He's not even close to the point where it will matter, though.

Yeah he's still hours off from even getting to that point. He keeps grabbing the star too. I wouldn't hold out much hope for him figuring this out without going into the editor.

 

[stump sock]

is there a youtube video of someone beating this? (no twitch archive, work computer doesn't have flash)

 

[Antiwhippy]

is there a youtube video of someone beating this? (no twitch archive, work computer doesn't have flash)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VovI469bA1k&feature=youtu.be

 

[repeater]

he's playing this like its a "regular" level
i feel like if dan could give him a "hint" after he flounders for 2 days and just tell him every powerup in this stage is placed there for a reason and not to just pick shit up until he knows what its used for

even with that, he'll never figure it out, though lol

I don't think it's exactly fair to blame him for not realising that. Both Dan's previous Giant Bomb levels have been shock full of powerups that were just misdirection and/or there for the sake of trolling. Patrick has no good reason whatsoever at this point to suspect that the same wouldn't go for this level too.

 

[Bacon]

I really feel like there is absolutely no chance Patrick can finish this without outside help. Like literally 0% chance

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

I enjoy watching this, but I really prefer watching playthroughs of well-designed levels as opposed to Dan's sort of "lol random" schtick. It's the same sort of gimmicky stuff he said he wasn't interested in.

It's all good fun, though.

Yeah he's still hours off from even getting to that point. He keeps grabbing the star too. I wouldn't hold out much hope for him figuring this out without going into the editor.

Ooh yeah, I forgot that's needed later. I'm glad I watched the video of it being completed.