Undertale - The RPG where you don't have to hurt anyone

[SpongeCraft1212]

I beat the demo as far as I could. It's, okay... Still not worth the hype, though.

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[Renousim]

I did the true pacifist end...

[ThatDarkNinja778]

Honestly I never noticed any bad loops in the ambient songs of the game and I'm a usually a person that hears out for that kind of stuff. The lack of settings is what I would say my true gripe with the game is. No volume settings, resolution settings, and no widescreen support? But even then the lack of settings is a minute problem that doesn't set the game back.

what i dont get is the fact that the game punishes you for killing monsters, when its a RPG game

Simple, that's because monsters in Undertale aren't an infinite exp resource out for cold blood. Just because its an rpg doesn't mean you have to kill everything in sight.

In the same way I don't expect an episode of Seinfeld to be a Shakespeare play.

forgetin exactly, I'm puzzled as to why people don't get this concept. Just because a game gets a 9/10 or 10/10 doesn't mean its the next MGSV. Take this as an example, uh there's this low budget racing game called Ford Racing 3. It's fairly solid given it's standards I would say it's a 7/10 in my book for what it is. It's in the same league as a AAA racing game from the same era like NFSU2 which I would grade similarly.

Undertale is a great smooth experience for what it is. It isn't perfect, but nobody never said it was. No game out there is life changing or ever is going to be.

[Arekan]

It isn't perfect, but nobody never said it was.

It's top on metacritic and basically has the most upvotes a single Steam game has ever seen compared to downvotes.
You sure about that?

[Nymph]

It's top on metacritic and basically has the most upvotes a single Steam game has ever seen compared to downvotes.
You sure about that?

That's because the pros vastly outweigh the cons.

[SquartleTurtle]

undertales community is so bad its considered a con. just look at this image

[dkar093 0]

undertales community is so bad its considered a con. just look at this image

Why is flatflyer there? and the living camera man.
Also squartle, have you seen the other art posted on this topic. Don't take 1 tumblr user as an entire community.

[Doughboy]

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It's top on metacritic and basically has the most upvotes a single Steam game has ever seen compared to downvotes.
You sure about that?

94/100 is not 100/100
your proof goes against you

[ThatDarkNinja778]

It's top on metacritic and basically has the most upvotes a single Steam game has ever seen compared to downvotes.
You sure about that?

A 94 isn't a 100 (or in other words perfect). All a 94 says is that the pros vastly outweigh the cons by a lot.

Why is flatflyer there? and the living camera man.

It's a piece of art Flatflyer made with his friend's characters as Undertale characters. Those friends who are also some of the artists of the forums, Weird Sheep, ChickenMaster, Camera, and Facepalm.

[The Murderous Cop]

[TeeOS]

"boo hoo someone likes a game i dont"
"boo hoo someone doesnt like a game i do"

[Arekan]

"boo hoo someone likes a game i dont"
"boo hoo someone doesnt like a game i do"

Nah, I like the game. I just don't think it should be considered the best game.
People don't think it's a perfect game, don't get me wrong.
But people think it's better than a ton of other great games.

The way people go to defend that is reason enough to prove that people think this game is such a godsend that couldn't possibly have a problem.

[TeeOS]

Nah, I like the game. I just don't think it should be considered the best game.
People don't think it's a perfect game, don't get me wrong.
But people think it's better than a ton of other great games.

The way people go to defend that is reason enough to prove that people think this game is such a godsend that couldn't possibly have a problem.

no game can be perfect by all standards but it can be really good
its all based on the person playing, and i have yet to see anyone actually say its perfect at all

from the looks of it you're just assuming that outcome based on how many good reviews the game has gotten, so i guess everyone thinks bad rats is perfect as well



also dont these contradict each other
they think its not perfect but its a godsend with no flaws at the same time

[Kimon²]

It's top on metacritic and basically has the most upvotes a single Steam game has ever seen compared to downvotes.
You sure about that?

why would you use skyrim as an example skyrim is pretty forgetin stuff compared to undertale

skyrim is good and enjoyable, (even more so with mods) but only as much as a "mindlessly chowing down a bag of chips" or "call of duty" level.

also the fact that most of your criticisms of the game boiled down to needless nitpicking (no footstep sounds? really? might as well have thrown in "too much water" while you were at it) i wouldnt say you're an expert game reviewer yourself.

undertale wasn't exactly an ambitious project. it is actually a pretty simple game at first glance. it used a strict rpg formula and (assumingly) purposely put in some aesthetic 'flaws' to make it reminiscent of classic rpgs (it also probably didn't have an AAA title budget. i cant remember how much money it got from kickstarter but it wasn't really that much). the reason why the story's narration and story is so enchanting to so many people, however, is because it blends in incredibly unorthodox things into the standard, almost 'rpg maker' level of formula. this is also pretty effective for criticizing the usually monotonous rpg formula, which im pretty sure was mentioned before.

the actual gameplay is fundamentally better than most games in the rpg genre for the same reason i listed above. at first even the concept of its basic skill-based bullet hell formula for battles struck me as a unique and interesting take that blended well with the concept of not hurting anyone/having to kill everything the way a traditional rpg would have you do. but stuff like the muffet boss fight, and the god damn SANS boss fight really hammered that in.

maybe it really is people baffled by its unorthodox and unique style that caused it to have better ratings than games like mgs:v (an unfortunately unfinished game, actually). but even then, it kinda makes mgs:v look like a bland formula in comparison. it doesn't bring that much to the table, other than sticking to a formula and being really forgetin good at it. doesn't make it a bad game, just not something that makes people go nuts in the way undertale has. people crave new stuff, and when a game delivers that in large quantities, a lot of people are gonna like it.

[SpongeCraft1212]

"skyrim is stuff compared to undertale"

What.